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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".
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 ...
"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]
Here's Larry Williams is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Larry Williams, released by Specialty Records in 1959. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The album includes two of Williams's hit singles, " Short Fat Fannie " and " Bony Moronie ", and also features the song " Dizzy, Miss Lizzy ", which would later be covered by the Beatles .
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.
Just four songs – five, if one counts "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, which spent five of its seven weeks at No. 1 in 1960 – ascend to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Hot C&W Sides chart. Those songs – listed below – would spend 14, 14, 12 and 10 weeks at No. 1, compared to 10 No. 1 songs in 1959 and eight for all of 1961.
In February 2015, the Italian singer Nek won with his cover of "Se telefonando" the award for "Best Cover" during the Sanremo Music Festival 2015. [9] [10] Nek's version of the song sold over 50,000 copies in Italy. [11] On November of the same year, Franco Battiato also inserted his own cover of the song in the album Anthology – Le nostre anime.
A reported 20 million viewers watched the special presentation of The Philadelphia Story. [6] With the single already on the market, and promotional copies in the hands of radio stations, it was only a matter of time before the popular theme started to sell; "Tracy's Theme" entered the Billboard Hot 100 on January 4, 1960 [7] and reached a peak of #13 on February 22. [8]