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"Image of a Girl" is a song written by Richard Clasky and Marvin Rosenberg and performed by The Safaris featuring The Phantom's Band. It reached #6 on the U.S. pop chart in 1960. [1] The song ranked #62 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1960. [2]
The Safaris were an American pop group of the early 1960s from Los Angeles, California. The Safaris formed in 1959, and the following year released their debut single, " Image of a Girl ". The song was a hit in the United States, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [ 1 ]
His first single, "Image of a Girl", a cover version of a US top ten hit by The Safaris, reached No. 37 on the UK Singles Chart in 1960, but was outsold by Mark Wynter's rival version of the same song. [1]
Soon after, with Chuck Vehle also on guitar, they changed their name to The Surfaris, which was a word play between "surf" and "The Safaris", a music group well known at the time [4] for their hit "Image of a Girl". [3] The Danville Battle of the Bands gave the group a lot of exposure and more jobs. They started playing in the Ventura/Oxnard area.
"Image of a Girl" The Safaris: 6 August 1 5 "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" Hank Locklin: 8 August 1 3 August 1 "It's Now or Never" Elvis Presley 1 August 15 11 August 8 "Walk, Don't Run" The Ventures: 2 August 29 9 "Walkin' to New Orleans" Fats Domino: 6 August 15 2 August 15 "Finger Poppin' Time" Hank Ballard & The Midnighters: 7 August 15 4 ...
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The Dick Clark Show (also known as Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show) was an American musical variety show broadcast weekly in the United States on the ABC television network 7:30-8 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Saturdays from February 15, 1958, through September 10, 1960, sponsored (except for the first two shows) by Beechnut Gum.