Phonostalgia 240 - 13.05.2008.

Playlist:
17.03.1991 Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart - US 5 - 14
12.02.1983 Musical Youth - Never Gonna Give You Up - UK 6 -
07.05.1983 Dario Baldan Bembo & Caterina Caselli - Amico e' - IT 6 -
07.05.1983 Hot Chocolate - What Kinda Boy You Looking For Girl - UK 10 -
27.02.1983 Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy - US 2 - 14
14.04.1973 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday - UK 3 -
14.04.1973 Don McLean - Everyday - UK 38 -
05.05.1973 Detroit Emeralds - You Want It You Got It - UK 12 -
03.06.1973 Bette Midler - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - US 8 - 11
17.03.1966 Val Doonican - Elusive Butterfly - UK 5 -
24.03.1966 Seekers - Someday One Day - UK 11 -
24.03.1966 Cliff Richard - Blue Turns To Grey - UK 15 -
24.04.1966 Young Rascals - Good Lovin' - US 1 - 1
10.04.1954 Perry Como - Wanted - US 1 - 8
13.02.1954 Frank Sinatra - Young At Heart - US 2(1) - 22
27.02.1954 Patti Page - Cross Over The Bridge - US 2 (4) - 21
13.03.1954 Jo Stafford - Make Love To Me - US 1 - 4
05.03.1949 Russ Morgan - Cruising Down The River - US 1 (7) - 22

17.03.1991 ROD STEWART - RHYTHM OF MY HEART - US 5 – 14
Za sebe će reći da je škotski rock pjevač, Rod Stewart, tijekom karijere u Britaniji imao je 62 singla na top ljestvicama, od toga 24 u Top10, i šest na #1. Ukupno je u kraijeri prodao 250 milijuna nosača zvuka,
Roderick David Stewart, r 10.01.1945. London; bio folk pjevač ranih 60-ih. Nastupa s Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket i Shotgun Express; bio s Jeff Beck Group od 1967-1969; s Faces od 1969–1975; u prosincu 1975 napušta Faces i potpuno se posvećuje već otprije započetoj solo karijeri; dobitnik Grammya Living Legend 1989, R’N’R Hall 1994; u braku s glumicom Alanom Hamilton 1979-84 (bivšom suprugom Georgea Hamiltona IV); sa supermodelom Rachel Hunter od 15.12.1990. do siječnja 1999.

33. UKTop40; Rhythm of My Heart (UK3, US5); Album (16): Vagabond Heart, 26.03.1991.

Rhythm of My Heart, autori: Mark T. Jordan i John Capek, najavni singl 16. studijskog albuma Roda Stewarta.

Vagabond Heart is the 16th studio album album by the singer-songwriter Rod Stewart, released in 1991. The album reached #10 in the US, and reached #2 in the UK. The album featured five singles, among them a cover for Robbie Robertson's song "Broken Arrow" (#20 in the U.S.) and Van Morrison's song "Have I Told You Lately" which would turn out to be Rod Stewart's last Top Five solo hit in the US and the UK. The two biggest hits from the album were "Rhythm of My Heart" (#5 in the U.S.) and "The Motown Song" (#10 in the U.S.).

12.02.1983 MUSICAL YOUTH - NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP - UK 6
Musical Youth, britansko-jamajkanska pop/reggae skupina, osnovana 1979. u Birminghamu, England, a činili su je dva para braće, Kelvin i Michael Grant, te Junior i Patrick Waite (čiji je otac Frederick Waite bio članom jamajkanske skupine The Techniques. Najpozantiji po Grammyjem nominiranom hitu "Pass the Dutchie" 1982.

3/6 Top40; Never Gonna Give You Up; Album (1): The Youth of Today, listopad 1982.

The Youth of Today is the first album from the musical group Musical Youth. The album includes the # 1 UK hit "Pass the Dutchie" which also hit number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts. Other singles from the album include "Youth of Today" and "Rockers".
This album is sometimes confused with the single album for "Youth of Today." The title of the single differs by omitting the initial "The".
The catchy follow-up, "Youth Of Today", reached number 13 in the UK singles chart, and early in 1983, "Never Gonna Give You Up", climbed to UK Number 6.

Track listing:

1. "Pass the Dutchie" (Freddie Waite) - 3:25
2. "Children of Zion" (Musical Youth/Freddie Waite) - 3:03
3. "Rockers" (Musical Youth) - 3:28
4. "Youth of Today" (Musical Youth/Freddie Waite) - 2:55
5. "Young Generation" (Musical Youth) - 3:18
6. "Mirror Mirror" (Freddie Waite) - 2:37
7. "Heartbreaker" (Freddie Waite) - 3:55
8. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Musical Youth/Freddie Waite) - 3:06
9. "Schoolgirl" (Musical Youth) - 3:26

07.05.1983 DARIO BALDAN BEMBO & CATERINA CASELLI - AMICO E' - IT 6
Talijanski glazbenik Dario Baldan Bembo (Milano, r 15.03.1948), pjevač i pijanist.
Talijanska glazbenica i glimica Caterina Caselli (r 10.04.1946. Sassuolo), bivša pjevačica i glazbena producentica. Debitirala je 1965. na San Remu, s najvećim i jedinim kasnije talijanskim #1 hitom Nessuno mi può giudicare (12.02.1966 - IT 1-11)

10/13 IT; 1/1 IT#1; Dario Baldan; 2/2 Caterina Caselli (12.02.1966 Nessuno mi puo` giudicare - IT 1-11)

07.05.1983 HOT CHOCOLATE - WHAT KINDA BOY YOU LOOKING FOR GIRL - UK 10
Hot Chocolate, birtanski pop bend osnovan 1970. u Lonodnu; popularan tijekom 1960'ih, 1970'ih i 1980'ih, osnivač Errol Brown. Prvi puni naziv benda bio je The Hot Chocolate Band, autor imena je Mavis Smith iz izdavačke kuće Beatlesa Apple, za koju su snimili i prve pjesme.

23. UK Top40; What Kinda Boy You Looking For (Girl) (UK 10)

27.02.1983 GREG KIHN BAND - JEOPARDY - US 2 – 14
The Greg Kihn Band is an American band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright (not the stand-up comedian with the same name). Their hits include "The Break-up Song" (Billboard Hot 100 #15) and "Jeopardy" (#2). In 2005 Greg's son Ry joined the band.
The band's starting lineup also included Robbie Dunbar on lead guitar and Larry Lynch on drums. Greg & Steve have been the only two permanent members since the band started in the 1970s. The band still performs about twice yearly at Kihn's "Kihncerts" & at the Free Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk concert stage.
The band's most recent high-profile activity was "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time." Although the band lost the competition, they raised awareness, and subsequently money, for Operation Care and Comfort. They also added their cover of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" to their regular set.

Greg Kihn (r 10.07.1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
Kihn has also written four novels, Horrow Show, Shade of Pale, Mojo Hand, and Big Rock Beat, and released a collection of short stories by himself and other well known rock musicians, named Carved In Rock: Short Stories By Musicians. Contributors include Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Pete Townshend of The Who, Joan Jett, and Ray Davies of The Kinks.
Greg Kihn in 2007 was inducted into the San Jose Hall of Fame.

6. ukup.singl; 3. Top40; Jeopardy; Album (8): Kihnspiracy, US15, 1983.

"Jeopardy" is a hit song released in 1983 by The Greg Kihn Band on their album Kihnspiracy. It is the band's first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #2 in March 1983.

14.04.1973 DAVID BOWIE - DRIVE-IN SATURDAY - UK 3

David Bowie (r David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s.

5. UK Top40; Drive-In Saturday / Round and Round (06.04.1973.); Album (6): Aladdin Sane, 13.04.1973. (1. UK1 album; US 17)

"Drive-In Saturday" is a song by David Bowie from his 1973 album Aladdin Sane. It was released as a single a week before the album and, like its predecessor "The Jean Genie", became a Top 5 UK hit.
Heavily influenced by 1950s doo-wop, "Drive-In Saturday" describes how the inhabitants of a post-apocalyptic world have forgotten how to reproduce, and need to watch old porn films to see how it's done.[1] The narrative has been cited as an example of Bowie's "futuristic nostalgia",[2] where the story is told from the perspective of an inhabitant of the future looking back in time.
Its composition was inspired by strange lights amidst the barren landscape between Seattle, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona, as seen from a train at night on Bowie's 1972 US tour.[1] The music featured Bowie's synthesizer and saxophone, while the lyrics name-checked Mick Jagger ("When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored"), the model Twiggy ("She'd sigh like Twig the wonder kid"), and Carl Jung ("Jung the foreman prayed at work").

Aladdin Sane is a 1973 album by David Bowie. The follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it was the first album Bowie wrote and released as a bona fide pop star. While many critics agree that it contains some of his best material, opinion as to its overall quality has often been divided. NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray called the album "oddly unsatisfying, considerably less than the sum of the parts",[1] while Bowie encyclopedist Nicholas Pegg describes it as "one of the most urgent, compelling and essential" of his releases.[2] It was one of six Bowie entries in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time (at #277) and ranked #77 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s.

14.04.1973 DON MCLEAN - EVERYDAY - UK 38
Glazbenik, pisac poeta, r 02.10.1945. New Rochelle, N.Y.
Donald McLean (r 02.10.1945 New Rochelle, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent"

3/5 UK Top40; Everyday, Album (4): Playin' Favorites, 1973.

05.05.1973 DETROIT EMERALDS - YOU WANT IT YOU GOT IT - UK 12
The Detroit Emeralds were an American R&B vocal group, best known in the early 1970s.
The Emeralds formed as a vocal harmony group in Little Rock, Arkansas, and originally comprised four brothers, Ivory (born 14 September 1941), Abrim (born Abe Tilmon, 12 January 1945 - 6 July 1982), Cleophus and Raymond Tilmon. After Cleophus and Raymond left, the remaining Tilmon brothers were joined by childhood friend, James Mitchell. Moving to Detroit, Michigan and expanding their name to the Detroit Emeralds, the then trio had their first R&B chart success on Ric-Tic Records, with "Show Time" in 1968.
In 1970, they joined the Westbound record label. When touring in Memphis, Tennessee, they recorded some demo tracks at the Hi recording studios, run by producer Willie Mitchell, to which they then added vocals and strings back in Detroit. This approach worked and brought them another hit, "If I Lose Your Love", which was followed by a run of successes, including "Do Me Right", "You Want It, You Got It" and "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)" which all made the R&B top 10 chart while the latter also reached #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in 1972.
The song for which they are now best remembered, "Feel The Need In Me", reached #22 R&B in 1973 and a new, much longer version four years later also charted. The original track made the top five in the UK Singles Chart in 1973 and the later production also made the UK chart in 1977 (#12). "You Want It" was re-released in the UK as a follow-up to the initial Feel The Need, also reaching the UK Top 20 in 1973. Abe Tilmon wrote all of their hits while also arranging and producing the tracks.
By 1974, the group was falling apart, and at one point there were two outfits using the name. Abe Tilmon formed one new group with the Detroit Emeralds' name, while James Mitchell formed another group, The Floaters. Both Emeralds groups stayed active on the oldies and cabaret circuit for some years.
On 6 July 1982 Abrim Tilmon died, at the age of 37, in his Southfield, Michigan home of a heart attack. It is said a re-union of the group was being planned at the time. He was survived by his wife Janyce, son Steve, and daughter Cathy.

2/4 UK Top40; You Want It, You Got It, Album (2): You Want It, You Got It, 1972. (US 78)

03.06.1973 BETTE MIDLER - BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY - US 8 – 11

Bette Davis Midler (r 01.12.1945. Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known to her fans as The Divine Miss M. She is named after the actress Bette Davis although Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. She is currently performing a new concert show, The Showgirl Must Go On, live five nights a week as a headliner at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the daughter of Ruth (née Schindel), a seamstress and housewife, and Fred Midler, a house painter who worked at a Navy base in Hawaii. Her parents were from Paterson, New Jersey and moved to Honolulu shortly before Midler was born. Midler's family was one of the few Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood.

2 ukup. i 2. Top40; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; Album (1): The Divine Miss M, 07.11.1972. (US9, platinum)
drugi singl s albuma (prvi je bio Do You Want to Dance? – US 17)

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", a wartime radio song about a virtuoso trumpet player, was a major hit for the Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune.
The song was written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince, and was recorded at Decca's Hollywood studios on January 2, 1941, nearly a year before the United States entered World War II but after the start of a peacetime draft to expand the armed forces in anticipation of American involvement. The flipside was "Bounce Me Brother With a Solid Four". The Andrews Sisters introduced the song in the 1941 Abbott and Costello film Buck Privates, which was in production when they made the record. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.
The song is closely based on an earlier Raye-Prince hit, "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar," which is about a virtuoso boogie-woogie piano player.
In an interview broadcast July 3, 2006 on CNN, World War II veteran Bill Arter said he often played in jam sessions with the black unit in Company C, who gave him the nickname Bugle Boy from Company B. Arter was a medic who landed during D-day. There is no evidence that he was the inspiration for the song, however, since it was written before the U.S. entered the war. He may have been dubbed the Bugle Boy from Company B in reference to the song, not the other way around.

In 1973, Bette Midler recorded her version of the song, a close copy of the original, which peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and introduced it to a new generation of pop music fans. The track was also a #1 single on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
Recently Christina Aguilera released a song called "Candyman" which used the same melody harmonies and background music as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" but she modernised the words.
The song is referenced in the animated short Disney musical film, A Symposium on Popular Songs in the song, "The Boogie Woogie Bakery Man" written by Robert & Richard Sherman.
Christina Aguilera wrote new lyrics to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" for her track "Candyman" (released as a single in 2007) from her hit album Back to Basics. The song was co-written by Linda Perry in addition to the original composers.

The Divine Miss M is the debut album by American female vocalist Bette Midler, released in 1972 on the Atlantic Records label. The title of the album refers to Midler's famous stage persona.
The Divine Miss M album, co-produced by Barry Manilow, includes several songs that since have become repertoire standards, such as "Do You Want To Dance", "Chapel of Love", "Hello In There", "Friends" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy".
The Divine Miss M reached #9 on the U.S. albums chart and was later awarded a Platinum Disc by the RIAA.
In 1973 the album won Midler a Grammy for Best Newcomer. "Do You Want To Dance," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Friends" were all Top 40 hit singles from the album, with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" climbing to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.

Side A

1. "Do You Want to Dance?" (Bobby Freeman) - 2:44
2. "Chapel of Love" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) - 2:55
3. "Superstar" (Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell) - 5:11
4. "Daytime Hustler" (Jeff Kent) - 3:34
5. "Am I Blue" (Jarry Akst, Grant Clark) - 5:25

Side B

1. "Friends" (Mark Klingman, Buzzy Linhart) - 2:50
2. "Hello In There" (John Prine) - 4:17
3. "Leader of the Pack" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, George Morton) - 3:30
4. "Delta Dawn" (Larry Collins, Alex Harvey) - 5:18
5. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (Don Raye, Hughie Prince) - 2:25
6. "Friends" (Reprise) (Mark Klingman, Buzzy Linhart) - 2:54
17.03.1966 VAL DOONICAN - ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY - UK 5
Val Doonican (Michael Valentine Doonican, r 03.02.1927, in Waterford, Irish Free State)[1] is an Irish singer and performer. From 1964 to 1986 he was a regular fixture on the BBC's television schedule with The Val Doonican Show, which featured his own singing performances and a variety of guest artists.
Doonican was the youngest of eight children and when a teenager, his father died; it was necessary for him to leave De La Salle College, Waterford and get jobs in factories fabricating steel and making orange boxes.

He was from a musical family and started performing in his home town and in a summer season at Courtown Harbour. He was then featured on Irish Radio and appeared in the first ever television broadcast from Waterford. He then joined a band which toured Ireland playing the drums. In 1951 he moved to England to join another group, The Four Ramblers, who toured and performed on BBC Radio shows broadcast from factories.
He eventually went solo and had a radio show as well as performing concerts and cabaret. In 1963 he was booked to appear on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. As a result of this performance, he was offered his own show on BBC television, lasting for over twenty years and moving to Saturday as its popularity grew. It featured his relaxed crooner style performance sitting in a rocking chair, as well as a number of comic Irish songs, notably "Paddy McGinty's Goat", "Delaney's Donkey", and "O'Rafferty's Motor Car", on which he accompanied himself on acoustic guitar. He often wore cardigans, which together with the rocking chairs he often sat in became his trade mark, and was sometimes compared to American singer Perry Como though Doonican has claimed his main influence was Bing Crosby. As a variety show, there were a number of other acts featured and performers such as Dave Allen had early exposure on the show.
The Palladium performance also kick-started his recording career. Between 1964 and 1973 he was rarely out of the UK Singles Chart, his greatest successes including the singles "Walk Tall", "The Special Years", "What Would I Be", "If The Whole World Stopped Loving", and "Morning"; and the albums 13 Lucky Shades of Val Doonican, and Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently. He also sang the theme song to the film Ring of Bright Water.

Doonican still performs but now enjoys spending a lot of free time in Spain, where he has a second home, and is a keen golfer.

4/12 UK Top40; Elusive Butterfly;
Na američkoj top ljestvici 06.02.1966 Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly - Us 5 – 9
Bob Lind - folk rock pjevač, r 25.11.44. u Baltimoru. Jednini Top40 singl.
(elusiv-lukav, neuhvatiljiv)

24.03.1966 SEEKERS - SOMEDAY ONE DAY - UK 11
Pop folk kvartet iz Australije; vokal Judith Durham; gitarist Keith Potger je osnovao New Seekers 1970.
The Seekers were a group of Australian folk-influenced popular musicians which was formed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve significant chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Their most famous configuration was:Judith Durham: lead vocals; Athol Guy: double bass, vocals; Keith Potger: twelve string guitar, banjo, vocals; Bruce Woodley: guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals
They had nine hits in Britain and Australia in the 1960s: "I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", "The Carnival Is Over" (which The Seekers have sung at various closing ceremonies in Australia, including Expo '88 and the Paralympics), "Someday One Day", "Walk With Me", "Morningtown Ride", "Georgy Girl" (the title song of the film of the same name), "When Will the Good Apples Fall" and "Emerald City".
4/8 UK Top40 (Seekers, kasnije još 13 UKTop40 kao New Seekers); Someday One Day;

Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton's "I Am Australian", which has been recorded by The Seekers, and by singer Judith Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.

24.03.1966 CLIFF RICHARD - BLUE TURNS TO GREY - UK 15
Sir Cliff Richard, pravim imenom Harry Rodger Webb, r 14.10.1940. Lucknow, India; glumac, pjevač i gitarist. S obitelji preselio u Englesku ’48; Cliff Richard je u kolovozu 1958. prilikom potpisivanja ugovora s kućom EMI, predstavljen kao 18-godišnji «britanski odgovor» na Elvisa Presleya; Nastupao s The Drifters (promjenili ime u Shadows), koji su se razišli ’69; Velika britanska zvijezda s više od 80 hitova na ljesticama; od čega 10 UK#1; glumio u britanskim filmovima Express Bongo, The Young Ones; Summer Holiday; Wonderful Life. 2003. godine svečano je proslavio 50 godina rada.
Tijekom karijere u šest desetljeća, prema podacima s njegove web stranice, prodao je više od 250 milijuna ploča, a u Top20 je imao više od 120 ulaza, što singlica (oko 80), što albuma, i EP-a.

38/116 UK Top40 (solo, 121 s duetima); Blue Turns to Grey;
Prvi singl koji je Cliff Richard objavio te 1966.
"Blue Turns to Grey" is a song that was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The song first appeared in February 1965 when both Dick and Dee Dee and The Mighty Avengers released versions of it. Another version was released shortly thereafter by Tracey Dey on Amy Records. It was released by The Rolling Stones on their 1965 album December's Children (And Everybody's) later that year.
It became a hit in the UK when remade by Cliff Richard and the Shadows in 1966 (b/w "Somebody Loses" (Tepper/Bennett), released 18 March 1966).
Don and the Goodtimes also recorded a version of this song, as did The Epics on Pye Records.

Dick and Dee Dee were well-known American musical entertainers. Dick St. John (born Richard St. John Gosting, 1940 - died December 27, 2003), was the male half of the duo, and Dee Dee Sperling (real name Mary) was the female half. First working together in school, the duo were not romantically linked.
They teamed up in the 1950s, but their first major hit was the rock and roll song "The Mountain's High" (1961). It reached the number two spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks in runner-up position, held out of number one by Bobby Vee's "Take Good Care of My Baby."
Their recordings were created with four voice tracks. Each of them sang two separate harmony lines. Dick sang the highest and lowest parts including the falsetto, and Dee Dee sang in the middle notes. It was a unique and popular sound.
The duo recorded three Rolling Stones tracks in 1964 including "Blue Turns to Grey" and Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. In an interview with the BBC, recorded in 2006, Dee Dee Sperling revealed that their singing was overdubbed onto backing tracks recorded by the Stones, with Mick Jagger's vocals removed.
Their other hits included "Turn Around", "Tell Me", "Thou Shalt Not Steal" (their second-biggest hit, reaching #13 in 1965), and "Young and in Love".
By 1969, both singers had married other people and the duo disbanded.
Dick St. John died in 2003 after falling from the roof of his home.[2] In 2006, Dee Dee Sperling published a book about her experiences as half of Dick and Dee Dee, entitled Vinyl Highway.

24.04.1966 YOUNG RASCALS - GOOD LOVIN' - US 1 – 1
The Rascals (previously The Young Rascals) were an American soul and rock group of the 1960s.

1. Top40; Good Lovin' / Mustang Sally (21.02.1966.); Album (1): The Young Rascals, 28.03.1966. (US10)

"Good Lovin' " is a song written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick that was a number one hit single for The Young Rascals in 1966.
The song was first recorded in 1965 by R&B/novelty artists The Olympics, but was only a minor hit at best, reaching number 81 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. The tale is told that Rascal Felix Cavaliere heard it on a New York City radio station and the group added it to their concert repertoire. Co-producer Tom Dowd captured this live feel on the recording, even though the group did not think the performance held together well.
Divining a mixture of garage rock and white soul, the Rascal's "Good Lovin'" jumped out of radios with a "One - Two - Three -" count-in, high-energy instrumentation, and insistent call-and-response vocals from Cavaliere and the band:
These were followed by an organ break from Cavaliere, and a full stop false ending that was suddenly popular at the time (cf. "Paperback Writer" and "Monday, Monday") — all in two and a half minutes. "Good Lovin'" rose to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the spring of 1966 and represented The Young Rascal's first real hit.

"Good Lovin'" is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and was ranked number 325 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Writer Dave Marsh placed it at number 108 in his 1989 book The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, saying it is "the greatest example ever of a remake surpassing the quality of an original without changing a thing about the arrangement," and that "'Good Lovin'' all by itself is enough to dispel the idiotic notion that rock and roll is nothing more than white boys stealing from blacks."
The song has since been performed and recorded by a number of artists, including Bobby McFerrin, Herbie Mann and The Who. The Grateful Dead made it a workhorse of their concert rotation, sung in their early years by Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and then later sung by Bob Weir. The Weir rendition was recorded for the group's 1978 Shakedown Street album and came in for a good amount of criticism: Rolling Stone said it "feature[d] aimless ensemble work and vocals that Bob Weir should never have attempted"

Album: The Young Rascals is the debut album by rock band The Young Rascals. The album was released on March 28, 1966 and rose to #10 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.

10.04.1954 PERRY COMO - WANTED - US 1 - 8
Pierino Como, 18.12.1912 Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; jedan od najpopularnijih izvođača 40-tih, 50-tih godina, ujedno i velika televizijska zvijezda s vlastitim emisijama nagrađenih s 5 Emmya;
Napustio posao u brijačnici svog rodnog grada, kako bi pjevao u lokalnom bendu Freddiea Carlonea; nakon 4 godine dobiva poziv teda Weemsa, čiji se bend raspada ’42, Perry odlazi na lokalnu CBS radio postaju čime počinje njegov nezaustavljiv uspjeh.
11/14 US#1; ukupno 94. hit na US ljestvicama; na B strani pjesma Look Out The Window (and see how I’m standing in the rain)

bilo:
13.02.1954 FRANK SINATRA - YOUNG AT HEART - US 2(1) - 22
96. US hit; Young at Heart, povratnički hit Franka Sinatre nakon nekoliko sušnih godina, čijoj popularnosti svjedoči i da je po njoj i film dobio naziv.
Jedan od najboljih Sinatrinih filmova, Young at Heart, 1954. ujedno i prvi od pet koje će s njim u glavnoj ulozi režirati Gordon Douglas. Točnije, riječ je o remakeu filma Four Daughters iz 1938., a u glavnim ulogma uz Sinatru pojavljuje se Doris Day, zatim Ethel Barrymore i dr.

27.02.1954 PATTI PAGE - CROSS OVER THE BRIDGE - US 2 (4) - 21
Clara Ann Fowler, r 08.11.1927. (77g.) Muskogee, Oklahoma; ukupno ih je bilo 11-tero braće i sestara odrasli u Tulsi; kao Ann Fowler nastupala s Al Klauser & His Oklahomas kasnih 40-tih na radiju KTUL; druga pjevačica koja je pjevala na istoj postaji nosila je ime Patti Page i nastpala u emisiji pod pokroviteljstvom Page Milk Company, a nakon što je odustala od nastupa u toj emisiji njezino mjesto i ime preuzima Ann. ’47 nastupa s Jimmy Boy bendom i pjeva na radiju u Chicagu. Ona od ’47 na svojim snimkama koristi multi voice efekte. Pojavljuje se u filmu Elmer Gantry ’60.
36/>42 US hit; Cross Over The Bridge / B: My Restless Lover;

13.03.1954 JO STAFFORD - MAKE LOVE TO ME - US 1 – 4
Jedna od najpopularnijih pjevačica 40s i 50s, studirala ozbiljnu glazbu i namjeravala započeti karijeru sopranistice ali nakon 5 godina napornog rada pridružila se svojim dvjema sestrama country, kasnije se pridružuje Tommyu Dorseyu, a 1942 i započinje samostalnu karijeru za Capitol R., s velikim hitovima "Candy" (s Johnny Mercer), "That's For Me", "Serenade Of The Bells", "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Tennessee Waltz". 1950 prelazi u Columbia R, nastavljajući s uspjesima singlovima "Make Love To Me", "Shrimp Boats", "Keep It A Secret", "Jambalaya" i najprodavanijim "You Belong To Me". Vrlo je bitno da je te uspjehe producirao i aranžirao njezin suprug, proslavljeni Paul Weston.
72. Top40; Četvrti US#1; Pjesma je nastala na jazz instrumentalu Tin Roof Blues iz 1923.

05.03.1949 RUSS MORGAN - CRUISING DOWN THE RIVER - US 1 (7) – 22
Trombonist, pijanist, pjevač, bandleader; r 29.04.1904. u Scranton; umro 08.08.69.u 65.g.; radio aranžmane za Fletcher Hendersona, Dorsey Bros. i dr. Bio je vrlo uspješan skladatelj (Somebody else taking my place; You’re nobody till somebody loves you; So tired,..)
Njegov najveći hit je #1 iz 1949. “Cruising down the river”, ujedno treći US#1 singl; zanimljivo da se na B strani singla nalazila pjesma Sunflower, koja je postala himnom Kansasa, a sudski je dokazano da se pjesma Hello Dolly iz 1964. bazirala upravo na toj pjesmi.