“Sea of Love" was written by John Phillip Baptiste (aka Phil Phillips) and George Khoury. Phillips' 1959 recording peaked at #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Phillips claims that he has only ever received $6,800 for recording it. It was the first and only Top 40 song for Phillips, who never recorded another hit.AlexBrowne said:
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"Beyond The Sea" was Bobby Darin's follow-up to his only #1 hit, "Mack The Knife"; although it didn't have the chart success of "Mack," "Beyond The Sea," which is based on the French song "La Mer" and was originally introduced by Benny Goodman, has been popular for decades in movies and commercials, and was the title of the 2004 Darin biopic which starred Kevin Spacey (who recorded his own version of "Beyond The Sea" for it).
“Jingle Bell Rock” was first released by Bobby Helms in 1957 and has received frequent airplay during every Christmas season since then. Helms' version of the song was performed in the crossover style known as Rockabilly and sounds a lot more "Country" than it does "Rock and Roll". It has gone on to sell 100 million copies. Bobby Helms original version on Decca 9-30513 (1957) was re-recorded by him on Kapp K-719 in 1965 and again in 1967 on Little Darlin' LD-0038.AlexBrowne said:"Beyond The Sea" was Bobby Darin's follow-up to his only #1 hit, "Mack The Knife"; although it didn't have the chart success of "Mack," "Beyond The Sea," which is based on the French song "La Mer" and was originally introduced by Benny Goodman, has been popular for decades in movies and commercials, and was the title of the 2004 Darin biopic which starred Kevin Spacey (who recorded his own version of "Beyond The Sea" for it).
The Beatles' 1965 hit "Day Tripper," the B-side to "We Can Work It Out" (both on the album Yesterday...And Today) opens with one of the most recognizable guitar riffs and includes the first overt drug reference on any of the group's singles (reportedly John Lennon was teasing Paul McCartney about Paul's reluctance to experiment with acid); "Day Tripper" also charted for The Vontastics (an R&B version), Ramsey Lewis (an instrumental version), and Anne Murray (a Canadian's version!).
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Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 recorded some Beatles tunes, including "Day Tripper" and "Fool On The Hill."
Scottish-born Marie Lawrie, known to music fans as Lulu, took the U.S. by storm with her singing of the title song to the movie "To Sir With Love," which held onto the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1967; her second biggest hit in the 1960s was the charming "Oh Me Oh My I'm A Fool For You Baby," from 1969, which was covered by Aretha Franklin in 1972.
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I Rock Em Roll Em All Night Long
I'm The Sixty Minute Man...
And then there's "Can't Do Sixty No More," which starts with:
Hey it's the sixty minute man!
We have some girls we want you to meet Dan,
But Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmm.
Listen here girls my name is Dan,
As I told you once before,
please excuse my blown out fuse,
Because I can't do sixty no more!
Then there's "Don't Stop Dan" by The Checkers...both of which are answer songs to the original 1951 tune from Billy Ward & The Dominoes.
I'm The Sixty Minute Man...
And then there's "Can't Do Sixty No More," which starts with:
Hey it's the sixty minute man!
We have some girls we want you to meet Dan,
But Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmm.
Listen here girls my name is Dan,
As I told you once before,
please excuse my blown out fuse,
Because I can't do sixty no more!
Then there's "Don't Stop Dan" by The Checkers...both of which are answer songs to the original 1951 tune from Billy Ward & The Dominoes.
Hey, you guys, did you know there are a surprising number of "hey" songs that topped the charts at #1, including "Hey! Baby" by Bruce Channel (1962), "Hey Jude" by The Beatles (1968), "Hey Paula" by Paul & Paula (1963), "Hey There" by Rosemary Clooney (1954), and "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B. J. Thomas (1975)... and we'll give honorable mention to:
"Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You" by Jimmy Castor (1966 - just for fun!)
"Hey There Lonely Girl" by Eddie Holman (1969 - in tribute to that high note that only Eddie could reach)
"Get Off Of My Cloud" by The Rolling Stones (1965 - where would the song title be without "Hey you"?)
"Hey, Good Lookin'" by Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys (1951 - "whatcha got cookin'?" - the iconic country song), and
"(Theme From) The Monkees" by The Monkees (more recognizable as: "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees!")
"Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You" by Jimmy Castor (1966 - just for fun!)
"Hey There Lonely Girl" by Eddie Holman (1969 - in tribute to that high note that only Eddie could reach)
"Get Off Of My Cloud" by The Rolling Stones (1965 - where would the song title be without "Hey you"?)
"Hey, Good Lookin'" by Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys (1951 - "whatcha got cookin'?" - the iconic country song), and
"(Theme From) The Monkees" by The Monkees (more recognizable as: "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees!")
Leroy Van dyke was catapulted into country music recording fame in 1956 by his own composition "Auctioneer". He wrote the song about the life of his cousin, National Auctioneers Association Hall of Famer Ray Sims. His recording of "Walk On By" (1961) was named by Billboard Magazine in 1994 as the biggest country single of all time, based on sales, plays and weeks in the charts. It stayed at number one for nineteen weeks, and in all, charted for 42 weeks, selling approximately three million records.AlexBrowne said:Hey, you guys, did you know there are a surprising number of "hey" songs that topped the charts at #1, including "Hey! Baby" by Bruce Channel (1962), "Hey Jude" by The Beatles (1968), "Hey Paula" by Paul & Paula (1963), "Hey There" by Rosemary Clooney (1954), and "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B. J. Thomas (1975)... and we'll give honorable mention to:
"Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You" by Jimmy Castor (1966 - just for fun!)
"Hey There Lonely Girl" by Eddie Holman (1969 - in tribute to that high note that only Eddie could reach)
"Get Off Of My Cloud" by The Rolling Stones (1965 - where would the song title be without "Hey you"?)
"Hey, Good Lookin'" by Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys (1951 - "whatcha got cookin'?" - the iconic country song), and
"(Theme From) The Monkees" by The Monkees (more recognizable as: "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees!")
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Although Dionne Warwick's recording of "Walk On By" was first recorded in December 1963, Isaac Hayes released a 12 minute "funk" version of that song in 1969 on his album "Hot Buttered Soul."
In early 1955, one of the first #1 hits of the the rock era was "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" by Bill Hayes, all about the "king of the wild frontier" who was "born on a mountaintop in Tennessee"; the song was quickly covered by (and charted for) "Tennessee" Ernie Ford, Fess Parker (whose version was used on Davy Crockett segments on ABC-TV's Disneyland series), and The Voices of Walter Schumann, as "Crockett-mania" swept the land, and every young boy (incuding me) had to have a coonskin cap!
The early part of Pat Boone's career focused on covering R&B songs by black artists for a white market. Six of Boone's hit singles were R&B covers of tunes by Fats Domino, Little Richard, the El Dorados, Ivory Joe Hunter and Big Joe Turner. By 1957, Boone was concentrating on middle-of-the-road ballads, and recorded hits such as "Love Letters in the Sand", "April Love" (theme song for the movie of the same name), "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)", and "Don't Forbid Me". “April Love” topped the charts for six weeks in 1957 and was nominated for an Academy Award. Pat Boone's well-groomed, clean-cut, boyish image won him a long-term product endorsement contract from General Motors during the late 1950s, lasting through the 60s.amfmsw said:"Early In The Morning" was a pop hit for Vanity Fair on Page One Records.
Tab Hunter, born Arthur Andrew Kelm, was a teen idol who had some success in both movies and music, with film roles in Island of Desire, Battle Cry, Damn Yankees, Ride The Wild Surf, and Lust In The Dust; impressed with his first single on Dot records, a cover of Sonny James' "Young Love" which was #1 on the pop charts for six weeks in 1957, Warner Brothers, which had Hunter under a film contract, set up its own record division for his later singles and LPs, but those recordings, mostly remakes of old songs, were disappointments.
Fats Domino, at the piano with his trademark jewelry, was once asked if it bothered him that Pat Boone had such a big hit with a caucasion persuasion remake of "Ain't That A Shame".
Fats lifted his hand, wiggled his ring bejeweled fingers, and said "No! How do you think I paid for all of these", referring to his composer royalties on over a million copies sold by Boone's version.
Fats lifted his hand, wiggled his ring bejeweled fingers, and said "No! How do you think I paid for all of these", referring to his composer royalties on over a million copies sold by Boone's version.
Clarence "Frogman" Henry earned his nickname after his 1956 debut hit "Ain't Got No Home," in which he “sings like a boy, sings like a girl and with his trademark croak sings like a frog.” "You Always Hurt the One You Love" and "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do", both from 1961, were his other big hits. Henry continues to draw huge tourist crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.amfmsw said:Fats Domino, at the piano with his trademark jewelry, was once asked if it bothered him that Pat Boone had such a big hit with a caucasion persuasion remake of "Ain't That A Shame".
Fats lifted his hand, wiggled his ring bejeweled fingers, and said "No! How do you think I paid for all of these", referring to his composer royalties on over a million copies sold by Boone's version.
"One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" by Amos Milburn and His Aladdin Chickenshackers, with music and lyrics by Rudolph Toombs, peaked at #2 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and is considered among the root records of rock 'n' roll; Milburn played boogie piano in Houston and was best known for his "Chicken Shack Boogie" in 1948, but in 1950 his "Bad, Bad Whiskey" did well, and he followed it up with a string of booze-related blues recordings -- which he said were autobiographical -- leading to "One Scotch..."
Matty "Humdiner" Singer was a promoter for ABC Dunhill in the '70's. He pushed and pushed a new talent so hard, that the PD of WIBG Philadelphia finally gave in to shut him up, and scheduled the new artist for 7p-12m play. It went onto sell millions od "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown" and a wonderful but painfully short career for the legendary Jim Croce.
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