Who had a hit single in 1961 with Don't Jump Off The Roof, Dad?
"their version of ""Sweet Violets"", which charted for Dinah Shore and Jane Turzy in 1951. Coben wrote ""Nobody's Child"" with Mel Foree; Hank Snow recorded it in 1949. Lonnie Donegan later brought it to the United Kingdom, and the Beatles recorded it during their early days playing in Hamburg, Germany. Coben wrote many novelty songs; one of his biggest novelty hits was ""The Old Piano Roll Blues"" (1950). He also wrote for Homer and Jethro - ""The Billboard Song"" became a much-recorded favorite, and ""Don't Jump Off the Roof, Dad"" was later a hit for British comedian Tommy Cooper. Coben"
"Up on the Roof (song) ""Up on the Roof"" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and recorded in 1962 by The Drifters. Released late that year, the disc became a major hit in early 1963, reaching number 5 on the U.S. pop singles chart and number 4 on the U.S. R&B singles chart. In the UK it was a top ten success for singer Kenny Lynch, whose version was also released in 1962. In addition to the hit appeal of the ""second Drifters"" lineup, ""Up on the Roof"" epitomized the urban romantic dream as presented by"
"Don't Hang Up (song) ""Don't Hang Up"" is a 1962 hit single produced by Cameo-Parkway Records and performed by the American R&B music group The Orlons. The song is also credited under the Ariola Records label. The song was a number-four hit on the ""Billboard"" Pop chart and reached number three on its R&B chart. One of the group's biggest songs during their career, the song achieved notoriety again in the 1990s, when it was included in the 1993 family comedy film ""Dennis the Menace"". ""Don't Hang Up"" remains an icon of the early 1960s era of popular music and"
"Len Barry as the lead singer, released ""Bristol Stomp"", which reached #2 in late 1961, followed by ""Bristol Twistin' Annie,"" ""(Do The New) Continental,"" ""Hully Gully Baby"" and other dance-related songs in 1962 and 1963. ""You Can't Sit Down,"" a vocal version of the Phil Upchurch instrumental hit, was #35 in Cash Box magazine's year end-survey for 1963. The R&B quartet the Orlons released ""The Wah-Watusi"", which hit #2 in the summer of 1962. They had a few more top 20 hits, including ""Don't Hang Up"", ""South Street"", ""Not Me"" and ""Crossfire!"". Fifteen-year-old Dee Dee Sharp had done a duet"
"Robin Clark (pop singer) Robin Clark (born Sharon Ilo Hershiser on September 21, 1949 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American pop singer who released four singles on Capitol Records in 1961 and 1962, and was at one time the youngest artist signed to a major record label in the United States. Clark's best known recording was her debut single, the novelty song ""Daddy, Daddy (Gotta Get A Phone In My Room)"", which was released on January 9, 1961, reached #1 on radio station WHYN in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 4, 1961, before it ""bubbled under"" at #120 on the ""Billboard"""
"Up the Ladder to the Roof ""Up the Ladder to the Roof"" is a 1970 hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the first Supremes single to feature new lead singer Jean Terrell in place of Diana Ross, who officially left the group for a solo career two weeks before the recording of this song in January 1970. This song also marks a number of other firsts: it is the first Supremes single since ""The Happening"" in 1967 to be released under the name ""The Supremes"" instead of ""Diana Ross & the Supremes"", the first"
"1999. Del Shannon was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005. Del Shannon Del Shannon (born Charles Weedon Westover; December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll and country musician and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 ""Billboard"" hit ""Runaway"". Westover was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in nearby Coopersville. He learned to play the ukulele and guitar and listened to country-and-western music, by artists such as Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954, and while"
"stereo. The song was ranked No. 68 on ""Billboard""s end of year ""Hot 100 for 1961 - Top Sides of the Year"" and No. 35 on ""Cash Box""s ""Top 100 Chart Hits of 1961"". Hats Off to Larry ""Hats Off to Larry"" is a song written and sung by Del Shannon, which he released as a single in 1961. The song spent 13 weeks on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 5, while reaching No. 1 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, No. 2 on New Zealand's ""Lever Hit Parade"", No. 2 in Australia, No. 6 on the UK's"
"(No. 27, 1960); ""Calendar Girl"" (No. 4, 1961; also reached No. 1 on the Japanese and Canadian pop charts); ""Little Devil"" (No. 11, 1961); ""Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen"" (No. 6, 1961); his signature song, ""Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"" (No. 1, two weeks: August 11 and 18, 1962); and ""Next Door to an Angel"" (No. 5, 1962). Singles not making the Top 30 during this period included ""Sweet Little You"" (No. 59, 1961) and ""King of Clowns"" (No. 45, 1962). RCA Victor issued four LPs of his works in the United States and Great Britain during this period, and"
"Del Shannon Del Shannon (born Charles Weedon Westover; December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll and country musician and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 ""Billboard"" hit ""Runaway"". Westover was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in nearby Coopersville. He learned to play the ukulele and guitar and listened to country-and-western music, by artists such as Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954, and while in Germany played guitar in a band called ""The Cool Flames"". When his service ended, he returned"
"Philadelphia native Chubby Checker followed in 1960. His single became a smash hit, reaching No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and started a national dance craze. Also in 1960, Jack Scott had his final top 10 hits with ""What In The World's Come Over You"" and ""Burning Bridges"". The following year, rocker Del Shannon had his own No. 1 hit in March 1961 with the song ""Runaway"". This was followed by the top 10 hits ""Hats Off to Larry"" in June 1961 and ""Little Town Flirt"" in 1962. In 1964, Detroit's one-hit wonders The Reflections had their own Top"
"Century' poll conducted by the Recording Industry Association of America. In late 1962, The Drifters returned to the charts, fronted by new lead vocalist Rudy Lewis, performing hits recorded with Ben E. King on stage and TV. ""Up On The Roof"", co-written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, was another major crossover hit making the Top 5 on both the pop and R&B charts, and Mann, Weil, Leiber, and Stoller's ""On Broadway"" made the Top 10 on both charts. It has since been covered by many artists. The Drifters' last hit, ""Under The Boardwalk"" (1964), was produced by Bert Berns"
"Baby Jump ""Baby Jump"" is a popular song, released as a single in 1971 by Mungo Jerry. Written by the group's lead vocalist and guitarist Ray Dorset and produced by Barry Murray, it was the band's second No. 1 single, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in March 1971. The song originally entered at No. 32 and dropped out of the chart due to lack of sales data because of a national postal strike, but re-entered two weeks later at No. 14. The song also reached No. 5 in the Irish Singles Chart. Like the"
"They appeared performing both songs in the Chubby Checker movie ""Don't Knock The Twist"" in 1961. They released a series of singles over the next few years. These included ""You Can't Sit Down"", a top hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1963. Len left at the end of 1963 for a solo career under the name Len Barry. The high point of his solo career was the Top 5 smash ""1-2-3"" in 1965, and the follow up hit ""Like a Baby"". The Dovells released ""If You Wanna Be Happy"" on the album ""You Can't Sit Down"" in 1963. The"
"""Daddy, Daddy"" was #1 on radio station WHYN in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 4, 1961, and also charted locally in Worcester (#2 on WORC); Syracuse (#5 on WOLF); Boston (#5 on WHIL); Hartford (#8 on WDRC); and Louisville (#13 on WKLO). After Clark appeared on both the Bob Clayton and Ray Doey shows on Boston's WHDH-TV channel 5 to promote ""Daddy, Daddy"" in early March 1961, ""Daddy, Daddy"" ""bubbled under"" at #120 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on March 13, 1961. On May 4, 1961, Clark recorded her second session for Capitol Records in Nashville. By June 5, 1961, Clark"
"Daddy's Home (song) ""Daddy's Home"" is a famous song by American doo-wop group Shep and the Limelites. The song was written by the three members of the band, James ""Shep"" Sheppard (1935–1970), Clarence Bassett (1936–2005) and Charles Baskerville. The group recorded the original version of ""Daddy's Home"" on February 1, 1961, and it was released on Hull Records in March 1961 with the B-side being ""This I Know"". ""Daddy's Home"" reached no. 2 on the ""Billboard"" popular music chart in May 1961. It was kept from No.1 by Travelin' Man by Ricky Nelson. Later songs by the band were not"
"in July 1961 and reached No. 1 on the United States ""Cashbox"" chart for a week on October 7, 1961. On the rival ""Billboard"" Hot 100and peaked at No. 2, where Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles and his Orchestra kept it from No.1. Despite not reaching the summit in the latter publication, ""Billboard"" ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1961. In 1987, Orbison rerecorded the song as a duet with k.d. lang as part of the soundtrack for the motion picture ""Hiding Out"". Their collaboration won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals."
"using footage of the original BBC live recording. Daddy's Home (song) ""Daddy's Home"" is a famous song by American doo-wop group Shep and the Limelites. The song was written by the three members of the band, James ""Shep"" Sheppard (1935–1970), Clarence Bassett (1936–2005) and Charles Baskerville. The group recorded the original version of ""Daddy's Home"" on February 1, 1961, and it was released on Hull Records in March 1961 with the B-side being ""This I Know"". ""Daddy's Home"" reached no. 2 on the ""Billboard"" popular music chart in May 1961. It was kept from No.1 by Travelin' Man by Ricky"
"single on the Era Label, ""The Ghost of Billy Malloo""/""Red Roses"" (Era 3025) was released on August 29, 1960 but unlike its predecessors, it failed to enter the charts. His final release for the Era label that year was ""This Hotel""/""The River And The Mountain"" (Era 3033), which was released on November 7, 1960, but it also failed to become a hit. In 1961, he had two single releases on Era Records, ""Hard Rock Mine""/""(It's No) Sin"" (Era 3041), released February 27, 1961 and ""Great Shakin' Fever""/""That's Me Without You"" (Era 3045) released April 24, 1961. These singles failed to"
"Don't Worry, Be Happy ""Don't Worry, Be Happy"" is a popular worldwide hit song by musician Bobby McFerrin. Released in September 1988, it became the first ""a cappella"" song to reach number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894–1969) often used the expression ""Don't worry, be happy"" when cabling his followers in the West. In the 1960s, the expression was printed up on inspirational cards and posters of the era. In 1988, McFerrin noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz duo Tuck"
"""Who Put the Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)"" (1961) became a minor hit in the UK Singles Chart. Their cover of ""Short'nin' Bread"" (1960) also had some earlier success. Mills wrote some songs, with his first ""I'll Never Get Over You"", recorded by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, reaching No. 4 in the UK in 1963. In the space of a year he wrote three more hits ""Hungry For Love"", ""Jealous Girl"" and ""Three Little Words"". ""I'm The Lonely One"" gave Cliff Richard and The Shadows a Top 10 success in 1964. At a party given by singer Terry"
"reaching No. 11 on ""Billboard""s Hot R&B Sides, and No. 14 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade. The song was ranked No. 50 on ""Billboard""s end of year ""Hot 100 for 1961 - Top Sides of the Year"" and No. 51 on ""Cash Box""s ""Top 100 Chart Hits of 1961"". There's a Moon Out Tonight ""There's a Moon Out Tonight"" is a song originally released in 1958 by The Capris. The initial release on the Planet label saw very limited sales, and the Capris disbanded. In 1960, after a disk jockey played the song on air, the public interest in the"
"Richard's remaining live dates and also recorded with his backing band, the Upsetters. Over the next four years he landed several moderate hits, two of which (""Just Keep It Up"" and ""Hey Little Girl"") reached the top 20 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100). His records for Abner and Vee-Jay were orchestrated by Riley Hampton. His biggest single, ""Raindrops,"" a power ballad augmented by heavy rain and thunder sound effects and Clark's swooping falsetto, was released in the spring of 1961 and became his biggest hit, soaring to number two on the pop chart and number three on the R&B charts."
"Child."" You Don't Know (Helen Shapiro song) ""You Don't Know "" is a 1961 single by Helen Shapiro. It was written by John Schroeder and Mike Hawker and released on the Columbia (EMI) label in the United Kingdom on 29 June 1961. ""You Don't Know"" topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks beginning on 10 August. The single sold over a million copies and earned Shapiro a gold disc. In Japan, where Shapiro's version also became popular in 1962, the song was covered in Japanese by Mieko Hirota, who had also covered Shapiro's earlier hit ""Don't Treat Me Like"
"The Window Up Above ""The Window Up Above"" is a 1960 single written and originally recorded by George Jones. The version recorded by Jones peaked at number #2 on the country charts and spent a total of 34 weeks on the chart. It became a #1 smash for Mickey Gilley in 1975. ""The Window Up Above"" is widely praised by many critics – and George Jones himself – as his greatest composition. In ""The Devil in George Jones"", an article which appeared in the July 1994 ""Texas Monthly"", the singer told Nick Tosches that he wrote it one morning while"
"Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' ""Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'"" is a song written by Joe Greene and released in 1946 by Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five. Jordan's version reached No. 3 in ""Billboard""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s chart of ""Most-Played Juke Box Race Records"". The song was recorded by Ray Charles, and appeared in his 1959's album The Genius of Ray Charles. Charles's version reached No. 17 on ""Billboard""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ""Hot R&B Sides"" and No. 95 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It was also recorded by Jackie DeShannon on her 1965 album ""This is Jackie De Shannon"", Paul McCartney"
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? ""Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"" was a 1965 single by American rock artist Bob Dylan. The single, released in December of that year, reached #58 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and #17 on the UK chart in January 1966. Dylan is accompanied on the song by the musical group then known as the Hawks, who would back the singer on his 1966 world tour and subsequently go on to fame in their own right as The Band: Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ),"
"Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) ""Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)"" was a folk music single, the debut recording by the Serendipity Singers in 1964. The song was based on the English nursery rhyme ""There Was a Crooked Man"". The song was first recorded as ""Crooked Little House"" by Jimmie Rodgers in 1960, on his album ""At Home with Jimmie Rodgers - An Evening of Folk Songs"", on which the songwriting was credited to Ersel Hickey and Ed E. Miller. In 1964, it was recorded by the Serendipity Singers in a calypso music"
"song to reach #1. Greenberg started a second record company, Wand Records, in 1961. Dixon wrote and produced many songs for the Wand and Scepter labels, including the 1961 Chuck Jackson single ""I Don't Want to Cry"", co-written by Jackson himself, which reached #36. Jimmy Reed's 1961 hit ""Big Boss Man"" was written by Dixon and Al Smith. This song was listed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 ""Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll"". With these successes, Dixon was approached by Capitol Records to set up his own record label, Ludix Records, but"
"His 1961 song ""Ue wo Muite Arukō"" (""Let's Look Up and Walk""), known in other parts of the world as ""Sukiyaki"", was released to the United States in 1963. It was the first Japanese song to reach the Number One position in the United States, spending four weeks in ""Cash Box"" and three weeks in ""Billboard"". It also received a gold record for selling one million copies. During this period, female duo The Peanuts also became popular, singing a song in the movie ""Mothra"". Their songs, such as ""Furimukanaide"" (""Don't Turn Around"") were later covered by Candies on their album"
"major hit internationally as well, reaching No. 1 in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The song was ranked No. 12 on ""Billboard""s ""Hot 100 for 1961 - Top Sides of the Year"" and No. 23 on ""Cash Box""s ""Top 100 Chart Hits of 1961"". The song was the lead track on Bobby Vee's album, ""Take Good Care of My Baby"", which was released in 1962. Vee re-recorded the song as a ballad in 1972. He released under his real name, Robert Thomas Velline, on his 1972 album ""Ain't Nothing Like a Sunny Day"", and as a single in"
"Don't Ever Change (song) ""Don't Ever Change"" is a 1961 popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It is one of their lesser-known songs, although a version by The Crickets reached the top 5 in the United Kingdom(Jerry Naylor lead vocal). The Beatles performed the song on their BBC radio show ""Pop Go the Beatles"", which was later released on their 1994 compilation ""Live at the BBC"". It was taped on August 1, 1963, had its first broadcast on August 27, 1963, was produced by Terry Henebery and was a rare harmony duet between Paul McCartney and George"
"Big Girls Don't Cry (The Four Seasons song) ""Big Girls Don't Cry"" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by The Four Seasons. It hit number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on November 17, 1962, and, like its predecessor ""Sherry,"" spent five weeks in the top position but never ranked in the Billboard year-end charts of 1962 or 1963. The song also made it to number one, for three weeks, on ""Billboard""'s Rhythm and Blues survey. According to Gaudio, he was dozing off while watching the John Payne/Rhonda Fleming/Ronald Reagan movie ""Tennessee's Partner"""