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Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith was the number one song of 1960. Bobby Rydell had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Brenda Lee had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Connie Francis had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. The Everly Brothers had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 ...
Paul Evans (born March 5, 1938) [1] is an American rock and roll singer and songwriter, who was most prominent in the 1950s and 1960s.As a performer, he had hits with the songs "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat" (his biggest hit, recorded with The Curls), reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959), "Midnight Special" and "Happy-Go-Lucky Me".
The first four original Fanny albums are available on Real Gone records, with updated liner notes, pictures, and new mixes. [40] In 2016, Brie Howard joined a live performance by the Millington sisters. This inspired the formation of a new band called Fanny Walked the Earth. [41] An album also titled Fanny Walked the Earth was released in March ...
"Fannie Mae" is a 1959 song, written and performed by the American blues and R&B singer, Buster Brown. [1] The track made it into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, and to number one on the US Billboard R&B chart in April 1960. [2] AllMusic's Vladimir Bogdanov called the song "one of the most undiluted blues records to ever make the Top 40." [3]
Brown was born in Cordele, Georgia. [1] In the 1930s and 1940s he played harmonica at local clubs and made a few non-commercial recordings.These included "War Song" and "I'm Gonna Make You Happy" (1943), which were recorded when he played at the folk festival at Fort Valley (Georgia) State Teachers College, for the Library of Congress' Folk Music Archive.
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1960.. That year, 12 acts achieved their first number ones, such as Marty Robbins, Johnny Preston, Mark Dinning, Connie Francis, The Hollywood Argyles, Brenda Lee, Brian Hyland, Chubby Checker, Larry Verne, The Drifters, Ray Charles, and Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs.
In 1963, Joey Dee recorded an album entitled Dance, Dance, Dance, with the Ronettes as his backup group. During spring of that year, Roulette released the track "Hot Pastrami with Mashed Potatoes", from the previously issued live album, as a two-part single; the record made the U.S. Top Forty. Roulette later released "Ya Ya" and "Fannie Mae ...
Williams made a comeback in the mid-1960s with a funky soul band that included Johnny "Guitar" Watson, which paired him musically with Little Richard who had been lured back into secular music. He produced two of Little Richard's albums for Okeh Records in 1966 and 1967, which returned Little Richard to the Billboard album chart for the first ...