A Little Music !!!

WELCOME !!
Here are a  few trivia notes about one of my favorite subjects, pop
music !!



LIKE A RHINESTONE COWBOY !!
Though best know for his own hits, Glen Campbell also left his mark
as a guitarist during his years as a session musician.   He played on
albums that ran the gamut from Pat Boone to Jefferson Airplane.  
Here are my top seven songs that Glen played guitar on.

............Strangers in The Night.....................Frank Sinatra
............You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling......Righteous Brothers
............I'm A Believer..................................The Monkees
............Viva Las Vegas.................................Elvis Presley
............Good Vibrations................................Beach Boys
............Surf City............................................Jan & Dean
............The Sounds Of Silence...................Simon & Garfunkle



THE LOCOMOTION
The above song, written by the husband and wife team of Gerry
Goffin and Carol King, is the only song in the History of the
Billboard charts to make it into the top five by three different
artists. Little Eva in 1962(#1), Grand Funk Railroad 1974(#1) and
by Kylie Minogue(#3) in 1988,  It became only the 2nd song to
make it to number one by two different artists.  The first one was 
"Go Away Little Girl" which made it to the top of the charts in
1962 by Steve Lawrence then peaked at number one again in 1971
by Donny Osmond.  Strangely enough that was also written by
Gerry Goffin and Carole King.




DOWN MEMORY LANE
In recent pop music history the "gospel" of the popularity of a song
was its position on Billboard Magazines Hot 100 charts.  They began
this list in 1958 and have been keeping it since.  After each year
they arrive at the "Song Of The Year" by using a method of  "chart
performance" which uses a combination of how many weeks it was
on the chart and its average weekly position.  Here are the results
of the first 15 years.

1958.......Volare(Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu).....(Domenic Modugno)
1959.......The Battle Of New Orleans.....(Johnny Horton)
1960.....Theme From A Sumnmer Place.....(Percy Faith)
1961.....Tossin' & Turnin'......(Bobby Lewis)
1962.....Stranger On The Shore.....(Mr Acker Bilk)
1963.....Sugar Shack....(Jimmy Gilmer)
1964......I Wanna Hold Your Hand...(The Beatles)
1965......Wooly Bully...(San The Sham and the Pharoes)
1966......The Ballad Of The Green Berets....(Sgt Barry Sadler)
1967......To Sir With Love....(Lulu)
1968......Hey Jude....(The Beatles)
1969......Sugar Sugar....(The Archies)
1970......Bridge Over Trouble Waters...(Simon & Garfunkel)
1971......Joy To The World...(Three Dog Night)
1972......The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face...(Roberta Flack)



THE KINGSTON TRIO
The great drinking song "Scotch & Soda" was discovered by the
Trio through the parents of baseball Hall Of Famer Tom Seaver
who had heard the song on their honeymoon in a piano lounge in
Phoenix, Arizona in 1932.   They liked it so much that the piano
player wrote down the lyrics for them which they kept over the 
 years.  One member of the trio (Dave Guard) was dating their
daughter (Tom's sister) Katie and heard the song while visiting
the Seaver home and recorded it.   Although the song is credited
to Dave Guard they never discovered the real songwriters name
although they tried to find him for years.  Guard also said that the
moneys from the song went to the Seavers.