Doo Wop On The Porch Saturday 9-21-2924
1. Birthdays this week include two immortals in their respective genres of
music:
September 16th, 1925/2015 – B.B. King
September 17th, 1923/1953 – Hank Williams
September 19th, 1940- Frankie Avalon (84 years old)
2. Significant happenings in the world of music this week:
September 15th, 1962- Sherry by The Four Seasons began a 5 week run
as the #1 song in the country
September 17th, 1969 -The rumor “Paul is dead” was first heard
beginning a period of studying Beatles lyrics and album covers, playing
Beatles songs at slower and faster speeds and deep diving into anything
“Beatles” looking for clues about Paul’s demise in a car crash on
November 9th, 1966.
September 20th, 1957 – Buddy Holly released Peggy Sue as a solo artist.
The song was originally titled Cindy Lou but was changed to Peggy Sue
in honor or Crickets drummer Jerry Allison’s drummer.
3. There were two recent deaths in the world of Doo Wop/Oldies music
recently:
“Screamin'” Scott Simon who was the pianist with Sha Na Na from 1970
until the group disbanded in 2022 and passed away on September 5th at the
age of 75
Jimmy Gilmer lead singer of The Fireballs took the song Sugar
Shack to #1 for five weeks in October and November 1963 and had a Top
Ten hit in 1968 with Bottle Of Wine passed away on September 7th eight
days before his 84th birthday.
4. Looking back at the week of September 21st 1958, these records were
among the Billboard Top 100 songs of the week:
#88 –To Know Him Is To Love Him – Teddy Bears; the first week on the
chart, it eventually went to #1
#75 – Betty Lou Got A New Pair Of Shoes – Bobby Freeman
#71 – Splish Splash – Bobby Darin; made the Top Ten
#58 – One Summer Night – Danleers
#49 – The End – Earl Grant
#46 – Ten Commandments Of Love – Harvey & The Moonglows
#42 – Willie & The Hand Jive – Johnny Otis Show
#34 – Chantilly Lace – Big Bopper; made the Top Ten
#31 – You Cheated-Shields, The Slades version was #86
#22 – Down The Aisle Of Love – Quintones
#19 – Poor Little Fool – Ricky Nelson;, made it to #1
#17 – Stupid Cupid – Connie Francis
#11 – Summertime Blues-Eddie Cochran; peaked at #8
#10 – Devoted To You – Everly Brothers; flip side of Bird Dog
#9 – Born Too Late – Pony Tails
#7 – Tears On My Pillow – Little Anthony & The Imperials; peaked at #4
#6 – Just A Dream – Jimmy Clanton
#5 – Rockin’ Robin – Bobby Day
#4 – Little Star – Elegants
#3 – It’s All In The Game – Tommy Edwards
#2 – Bird Dog-Everly Brothers
#1 –  Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu (Volare) – Domenico Modugno