BILLBOARD #1 HITS: #666: ‘ROLL WITH IT’- STEVE WINWOOD -JULY 30, 1988

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Billboard #1 Hits: #666: ‘Roll With It’- Steve Winwood. July 30, 1988. #1 for 4 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

  • Single: ‘Roll With It’- Steve Winwood
  • Record Company- Virgin
  • Genre: Pop
  • Written by Steve Winwood, Will Jennings and Holland-Dozier-Holland
  • Time: 4:30
  • B-side: ‘The Morning Side’
  • Album- Roll With It
  • Grade: A-
  • Peaked at #1 4 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

Steve Winwood’s second and final #1 hit- his first was ‘Higher Love’ in 1986- it was from his highest charting album- Roll With It- which reached #4 on the album charts. Overall Winwood as a solo artists had 10 Top 40 hits. Winwood gained his first fame not as a solo artist but as a member of bands- The Spencer Davis Band, Traffic and Blind Faith. The song writing credits on this song- Holland-Dozier-Holland the famous Motown songwriting team added on for the songs resemblance to Junior Walker’s ‘I’m A Roadrunner.’ I can certainly hear that.