Fantastic Oldies Game!

[Mayberry]

Let's not forget DON and Juan with the musical question: What's Your Name?

 

[hammondo]

Ah yes - "Shoo be doop bop ba dah!" is the closing line to "What's Your Name?"

"My name is Sue, HOW DO YOU DO?" was a great line from A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash.

 

[Those RRRRs]

Hopefully I don't have to remind anyone who gave us "Runaround Sue," but you may have forgotten the answer song by Linda Laurie in which she sings, "I'm just a little old Stay At Home Sue," btw, that song is not to be confused with another answer song to "Runaround Sue" called "I'm No Runaround" by Ginger & The Chiffons, which is not to be confused with The Chiffons who gave us "He's So Fine," etc.

Wow. Did you get all that?

 

[hammondo]

It was Sue Thompson who sang, "NORMAN, o-o-o-o-o-o, and Sad Movies Always make me Cry.

 

[Mayberry]

and Garnett Mims and the Enchanters with CRY, CRY Baby, "welcome back home.... I spent so many nights just waitin' for you to walk thru that door."

 

[Those RRRRs]

"Any Day Now" may have been Chuck Jackson's biggest solo hit, but who could forget his '61 hit record which barely made the Top 40 called "I Don't Want To Cry (No Darling, No More)."

 

[Mayberry]

MORE by Kai Winding was also the Theme From Mondo Cane, back in the early 60's. Great instrumental in my book.

 

[AlexBrowne]

A title song from another movie, "The Theme From 'A Summer Place'," recorded by Percy Faith and his Orchestra, was the top hit of the year in 1960, the #1 song for nine weeks.

 

[Mayberry]

PERCY Sledge stills can get plays everywhere with When A Man Loves A Woman, the Muscle Shoals Alabama sound that even Mike "look at that hair" Bolton had to cover.

 

[Those RRRRs]

Johnny Maestro and The Crests may have been known for "The Angels Listened In," but mercy mercy, Mr. Percy Sledge had a great version of that tune!

 

[Mayberry]

The TUNE Weavers gave us Happy Happy Birthday Baby, a great doo wop tune that still gets plays, even on the "safe 200" oldie stations.

 

[AlexBrowne]

Singer/songwriter Pete Seeger, who wrote such Top 40 classics as "If I Had A Hammer," "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone," formed the seminal folk group The Weavers, with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman, in 1948.

 

[Mayberry]

Talk about a great rock a billy tune, RONNIE Hawkins nailed it when he did Mary Lou.

 

[hammondo]

Ronnie is the title of a GREAT top 10 song from 1964 by the Four Seasons.

 

[Those RRRRs]

In addition to Ronnie, The Seasons Four gave us at least three other Girls Names Records, including Marlena, Sherry, and Dawn.

 

[Mayberry]

and who can remember The Pixies THREE and 442 Glenwood Avenue? Sounded a lot like Angels, and othe girl groups the era.

 

[Those RRRRs]

Yes, good stuff!

How about a record called "Elaine," recorded by The Glenwoods on Jubilee Records in 1960?

 

[hammondo]

The Pixies Three recorded Birthday Party that hit #40. The Mercury record promoter in Chicago must have helped make it go that far, as it was played on both WLS and WYNR in 1963.

Mayberry, Never heard of the song you reported here, 442 Glenwood Avenue. It's NOT in Whitburn, either. Must have not charted.

 

[Mayberry]

CHICAGO, barely made it in the 60's to get recognition here, but Question 67 & 68 charted in 1969.

Hammondo: Well it depends on which Whitburn you're looking at. The original Record Research (yellow cover) book TOP POP RECORDS 1955-1972 lists it on page 187, Birthday Party made #40 in 1963 and Glenwood Avenue made # 56 in early 1964. There are many, many Whitburn books.

 

[hammondo]

Thanks, Mayberry. Re; Chicago, Bob Lamm and Danny Seraphine were buds of mine growing up in the city. I also went to high schoo with Denny Tufano of the Buskinghams.