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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Connie Francis' career was launched with Who's Sorry Now, and I wonder if she was thinking of that song when serious boyfriend Bobby Darin married and divorced Sandra Dee.
 
Anyacat said:
Connie Francis' career was launched with Who's Sorry Now, and I wonder if she was thinking of that song when serious boyfriend Bobby Darin married and divorced Sandra Dee.
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Those two were an item? Wow. Never knew that. Bobby Darin was a class act.
One of his biggest rockers was Queen of The Hop.
He also mixed the relatively new rock and roll fad with a bath tub adventure in one of his biggest hits, Splish Splash.
 
Bobby Darin wrote and recorded Splish Splash with DJ Murray the K based on a bet that Darin could not write a song that started out with the words, "Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath", as suggested by Murray's mother (they shared writing credit with her). I think he followed Splish Splash with Queen of the Hop.


(According to Connie Francis, Bobby wanted to elope but she wanted to tell her parents and then her father ran Bobby off and used a gun to make his point. They definitely dated, but who knows if the rest of the story is true.)
 
Some other great Bobby Darin tunes:
-Mack The Knife (of course, his biggest and most-remembered song)
-Beyond the Sea
-Lazy River
-Early In The Morniing
-If A Man Answers
-Things
-You're The Reason I'm Living
-18 Yellow Roses
-If I Were A Carpenter
 
Bobby also recorded Queen of the Hop, Plain Jane, Dream Lover and Clementine.
 
hammondo said:
Bobby also recorded Queen of the Hop, Plain Jane, Dream Lover and Clementine.
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I mentioned Queen of The Hop earlier.
I did miss Dream Lover. What a gem. I knew I was forgeting one song. (I didn't look up his hits online. Was going on my memory from oldies shows I heard in the late 80s and reading the Billboard Top 40 books.)
 
Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels did some good work reviving and combining old hits on "Jenny Take A Ride!" from '65 and "Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly" from '66; on the latter we learned that from the early, early mornin' 'til the early, early nights, you could see Miss Molly rockin' in the House of Blue Lights!
 
In 1967 Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels also did "Sock it to Me Baby" that hit #6 in Billboard, and was later a catch phrase on Laugh-in.
 
hammondo said:
In 1967 Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels also did "Sock it to Me Baby" that hit #6 in Billboard, and was later a catch phrase on Laugh-in.
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This is an easy one to follow up on.

You've got Wheels, that great instrumental from the String-A-Longs.

Then there's Detroit, by Bobby Bare.

Baby has so many songs to mention, including B-A-B-Y.

With Me, there's these goodies from Elvis:
-Love Me
-Love Me Tender

-For Catch, there' Catch Us If You Can, by the Dave Clark Five.
-Donovan had Catch The Wind

-For Laugh, there's Beau Brummels' Laugh Laugh.

-As Bill Haley & The Comets said, See You Later Alligator.
 
The Five Satins recorded one of the most recognized oldies of all time, "In The Still Of The Nite," with Fred Parris as the lead, but he was stationed with the Army in Japan when it charted in 1956, so the quintet regrouped with a new lead singer, Bill Baker, for its second hit, "To The Aisle," in 1957; Parris rejoined the group, replacing Baker, in 1958.
 
Night is a great operatic-style ballad.
The Shirelle's had a great hit called Tonight's The Night.
 
"Eyes" was a great song by Larry Chance and The Earls, the great group who gave us "Remember Then," b/w another catchy tune called "Never."
 
"My Love" was the original flip of "Here In My Heart" by The Timetones.
 
MY LOVE was also done by Pet Clark, probably a different tune altogether.
My intro to her song: The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener: He has a large septic tank I guess....
 
A great stereo 45 is Mercy's recording of Love Can Make You Happy.
 
The biggest hits for two great soul duos, one black and one white, had soulful titles: "Soul Man" by Sam & Dave, and "(You're My) Soul And Inspiration" by The Righteous Brothers.
 
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