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"Those Oldies but Goodies (Remind Me of You)" is a song written by Nick Curinga and Paul Politi and performed by Little Caesar & the Romans. It reached #9 on the U.S. pop chart and #28 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1961. [1] The song ranked #69 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1961. [2]
Kenny Vance (born Kenneth Rosenberg, December 9, 1943) [1] is an American singer, songwriter, and music producer who was a founding member of Jay and the Americans.His career spans from the 1950s to today, with projects ranging from starting doo-wop groups to music supervising to creating solo albums.
The first few "Oldies But Goodies" LPs were hugely successful (Volume 1 reached #12 on the Billboard Album charts and stayed on the chart for 183 weeks). Their success influenced other labels to put out compilations of their hits and near-hits, as well as helped validate the standing of songs like The Five Satins ' "In the Still of the Night ...
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
Chubby Checker had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top Hot 100 songs of 1961 . [ 1 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the edition of Billboard dated January 6, 1962, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January through November 1961.
I hear the song “Cholo” for the first time, hear the song “Menudo” for the first time, hear the song “Poquito Soul” for the first time, “Qué Pasa” and his popular “Se Me Paró.”
Gray was a dynamic performer on stage, who could be gritty or suave as the song dictated. [3] He was the first singer (of many) to praise a sound system on record, with his "On the Beach" celebrating Clement Dodd 's Sir Coxsone Downbeat system in 1959, one of the first releases on Dodd's Studio One label.
A Collection of Beatles Oldies (subtitled But Goldies!) is a compilation album by the English rock band the Beatles.Released in the United Kingdom in December 1966, it features hit singles and other songs issued by the group between 1963 and 1966.