Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Jesse Belvin

Belvin was apparently quite the songwriter, and he was behind the scenes a lot in the music industry, but he only ever had 2 songs on the top 100, one was called Guess Who, and one was called Funny. I don’t have either one. But he is best remembered for Goodnight My Love, which I got from Echoes Of A Rock Era. He was 28 when he died in 1960.






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Goodnight My Love – Probably the greatest end-of-date record ever. And what a great slow dance. Amazingly, the record did not make Billboard top 100, though it reached #23 on Cashbox (how did that discrepancy happen?), and a contemporary cover by The McGuire Sisters reached the top 40. Paul Anka did it again a decade later. But nobody could capture a tenth of the original; everything about this record was magic.

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