Boys, Herbie and Hal. I can’t imagine where Three O’Clock Thrill comes from, it wasn’t a hit or anything. I can’t remember where the other one comes from either, but at least it makes sense here.The Kalin Twins:
• When – Timing is everything. It’s a love song, and a typical one, but the lesson is to pay attention to the key points, those moments, those instances when things happen, and then the question, when? From the summer of 1958.
• Three O’Clock Thrill – Jill, that’s his 3 o’clock thrill. That’s when they meet. Kind of an Afternoon Delight for the 50s.
Jody Reynolds, who was male, popped into the top 100 twice in 1958, his first record reaching number 5, his second reaching number 66. Then he disappeared forever…
Sheb Wooley had quite the career as an actor and comedian, besides 4 top 100 hits between 1955 and 1962, and besides 5 more top 100 singles as Ben Colder between 1962 and 1966. All I’ve ever known of him, though, was his one big success, the “one eyed one-horned flying purple people eater,” which I used hear on the radio periodically as an oldie. I got it myself from a K-Tel album called Goofy Greats.
Bobby Freeman, who wrote and recorded Do You Want To Dance, did more for rock and roll dancing than all the Chubby Checker records combined. He put 9 hits into the top 100 between 1958 and 1964. I have 3, one of which came from the American Graffiti soundtrack, one of which came right off the single, and one of which came from a K-Tel LP.
His big moment in the sun was not the 2 hits he snuck into the charts in 1958; it was his appearance as co-writer and producer of Let’s Get It On By Marvin Gaye.
The original Sonny & Cher? Well, they were married, and to each other to boot. They only ever had one hit, and I got it straight from the single.
He made straight comedy records under his real name, Ross Bagdasarian, but as David Seville he created the nexus between rock and roll and cartoons, and he did it with speed.
Her entire top 40 collection is here. Besides that she had 2 more hits on the top 100.
Here is the truth. Jack Scott, whom most people have never heard of, is noted in Whitburn’s Top Pop Artists & Singles 1955 – 1978 as “one of Pop music’s all-time most popular singers.” (The capitalization of “pop” is his, not mine.) I don’t know what qualifies him for the distinction, given that, as I say, few people know who he is.
Originally by Sons Of The Pioneers, also done by Marty Robbins.
I didn’t take piano lessons. My sisters did; I didn’t. I took guitar lessons, but I didn’t get very far. But piano, I wonder. I wonder how difficult it is to do what Floyd Cramer does. The songs, one could learn. The style, not hardly likely…
I grew up with I Can’t Stop Loving You by Ray Charles as a fact of life. Oh Lonesome Me entered my life when I heard Neil Young sing it on the radio in 1970, and Sea Of Heartbreak came about 8 years later, when I picked up a collection by The Searchers. And I discovered Sweet Dreams when I discovered Patsy Cline.
Odd that a group would call itself The Monotones, and a harmony group to boot. They were not, though, monotone. Of course they weren’t. They had one hit, and that makes them a one hit wonder, and I found that one hit, like so many others, on Echoes Of A Rock Era. Who knows where my life would be if I hadn’t found those 2 obscure volumes.
Lou Monte was a comedian. That’s what he was, a comedian. And comedians make records. Most comedians made LPs with jokes and routines on them. Bill Cosby did that. Bob Newhart did that. Ross Bagdasarian did that.
Dippy looking kid.
This takes me back to about 1983, when I discovered Pyramid Records, and they still carried a very limited selection of new LPs, imports generally, some Rhino, and some Charly, including this LP, called Rock ‘N’ Roll Rumble, a collection of tracks by Link Wray & The Raymen. It was called Rumble on the record label. I suppose now you could order something like this on Amazon, and that, of course, takes all the fun out of it.
This collection is a mess. I’m ashamed of it. What have I done here that’s so bad? Well what I’ve done is this. I’ve mixed up what should be two separate entries – one by Dion & The Belmonts, one by Dion.
I didn’t know The Shirelles much, if at all, before picking up an album called 16 Greatest Hits in that magic section of Country Music Centre which was labeled “50s and 60s.” The LP actually had 13 hits on it, plus a remake of I Met Him On A Sunday (the original was on Decca, the reissues were all from Scepter), plus Boys, plus What Is Love. A few years later I picked up Juke Box Giants, the Shirelles edition, and I filled in some more songs, and Sha La La came from somewhere else, and so did the Decca tracks, which are the first 2 here.
• Blue Holiday – Like other things in life, holidays happen, and they are not always good, even though they are meant to be.
I had 2 Duane Eddy albums and a few singles. Some of the singles came from Sound Exchange. Pepe, Peter Gunn, Yep! all came from 45s. One of the albums was $1,000,000 Worth Of Twang, an old collection on Jamie, and I got an old copy, an old beat up copy, picked it up at Pyramid Records like so many others.
winter of 1959.
Frankie Avalon was one of the Bobbies: Bobby Vee, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Curtola, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Sherman. His name wasn’t Bobby, but he was one of the Bobbies nonetheless.
Somebody created a 
e cover, I do remember that. I picked more songs though, many on old scratchy 45s, most, if not all, at Pyramid Records, of which I’ve written previously, and from The Very Best Of Connie Francis, which had 11 that were not on that first LP that I had, the one with the ugly cover. That’s it. The story of Connie Francis.
everything together, even the breakup. From the summer of 1961.
