In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. For as long as ...

Although he doesn’t exploit it, when Joe bumps up the tempo, he jumps leaps and bounds over his contemporaries (even if, when push comes to shove he would rather sing ballads until the cows came home) ...