Ken Dodd's first top ten hit in 1960 was his signature tune. Name that tune?
"variety show. His final performance was on 28 December 2017 at the ""Echo Arena Auditorium"" in Liverpool. He said the secret of his success was simply, ""I love what I do"". Dodd had many hit records, charting on 18 occasions in the UK Top 40, including his first single ""Love Is Like a Violin"" (1960), produced on Decca Records by Alex Wharton, which charted at number 8 (UK). His version of Bill Anderson's song ""Happiness"" charted in 1964 and became Dodd's signature song. Dodd's recording of ""Tears"" on the Columbia label topped the UK singles chart for five weeks in"
"from 1877. Although best known as a comedian, Ken Dodd was a prolific recording artist throughout the 1960s and most of his music recordings were serious, not comic. His debut single ""Love is like a Violin"" reached No. 8 in 1960. Between that and ""Tears"" he released nine further singles, several of which charted (though none of them made the top 20). The single spent 24 weeks in total on the chart, with five of those at number 1. It sold over a million copies in the UK, becoming one of the biggest-selling singles in 1965, and was the third-biggest"
"1965, becoming the biggest hit single in Britain that year and selling over a million copies in the UK alone. The recording is the third best selling song of the 1960s in Britain; at the time it was the UK's biggest selling single by a solo artist, and remains one of the biggest selling singles of all time. Dodd was selected to perform the song on ""A Jubilee of Music"" on BBC One on 31 December 1976, a celebration of the key pop successes of the Queen's first 25 years as Britain's monarch. Dodd had two further UK top ten"
"Shanklin gave the duo the song ""Chanson D'Amour"": ""Wayne Shanklin stopped us one day and said, 'I've got a great song for you.'"" Shanklin produced a demo of Art and Dotty Todd singing ""Chanson D'Amour"" which was shopped to Era Records who released the demo track as a single. According to Art Todd: ""The airplay was just sensational. This was just at the beginning of rock 'n' roll and the old-time DJs hated rock 'n' roll and they jumped on our song."" Art and Dotty Todd's ""Chanson D'Amour"" was a Top Ten hit and reached #6 in April 1958. The"
"as a single. According to Art Todd: ""The airplay was just sensational. This was just at the beginning of rock 'n' roll and the old-time DJs hated rock 'n' roll and they jumped on our song."" Their version of ""Chanson D'Amour"" reached #6 in April 1958 in the US, selling over one million copies, attaining gold disc status. Art and Dotty Todd continued to record for Era and then for Dart Records but were unable to overcome the increasing dominance of rock 'n' roll, remaining one-hit wonders. With ""Chanson D'Amour"" making the Melody Maker top 20 in the UK, a"
"records: ""The River (Le Colline Sono In Fioro)"", written by Renato Angiolini with lyrics by Mort Shuman (number 3, 1965); and ""Promises"", written by Norman Newell and Tom Springfield (number 6, 1966). As well as his successful chart career as a ballad singer, Dodd occasionally released comedy novelty records, including the 1965 EP ""Doddy and the Diddy Men"", featuring the song ""Where's Me Shirt?"" which Dodd co-wrote. In the 1960s, his fame in the UK was such that he rivalled the Beatles as a household name, and his records have sold millions worldwide. In 1989, Dodd was charged with tax"
"for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, initially in the R&B style, having a hit in 1960 with ""Muriel"" (from Dodd's first commercially oriented recording session at Federal studios), a song Ellis had written while working as a labourer on a building site. This initial success was followed by the release of ""My Heaven"", which like ""Muriel"" was a slow R&B ballad with the instrumental triplets and vocal harmonizing common to the ballads of that period. Further releases in the R&B style followed: ""Lullabye Angel"", ""I Know It All"", ""I'm Never Gonna Cry"" and ""Yours"". The duo also recorded R&B tracks"
"with 1959's ""That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome,"" and he had his first top ten entry with 1960's ""Tip of My Fingers."" Early hits like ""Po' Folks"" (1961), ""Mama Sang a Song"" (his first No. 1, from 1962), and ""8 X 10"" (No. 2, 1963) still remain among his best-known. Anderson recorded his biggest hit and signature song, the partly spoken ballad ""Still,"" in 1963, and it not only topped the country charts, but crossed over as well. The song climbed to No. 8 on the pop chart, as well as No. 3 on the adult contemporary chart. He"
"number 4 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1959. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Subsequently, he signed with the Imperial record label, and pounded out two more Top 40 hits, ""Let There Be Drums"", which went to number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and ""Drums Are My Beat"". In December 1961, the British music magazine, ""NME"", reported that ""Let There Be Drums"" had gone Top 10 in both the United Kingdom and United States. All three were instrumentals (a feat rarely repeated). Guitar playing on these hits was by co-writer Richard"
"U.S. Top Ten and number one on the U.K. charts. After leaving the Kalins, in 1958, he wrote ""Ev'ry Hour, Ev'ry Day of My Life,"" a hit for Malcolm Vaughan, and Frankie Avalon's Top-Ten hit ""Gingerbread."" Ballard's own recording career was less successful. In addition to recording several singles under his own name without much success, in 1960 he adopted the alias Buddy Clinton to cut a two-sided single featuring the songs ""Take Me to Your Ladder (I'll See Your Leader Later)"" and ""Joanie's Forever,"" both co-written by then-unknown composer Burt Bacharach with his writing-partner Bob Hilliard. Ballard wrote one"
"versions-- for example, ""Dinah"" had nine Top Ten covers over the years, and fifteen versions of ""St. Louis Blues"" charted between 1916 and 1953-- according to its co-composer Ray Evans, ""To Each His Own"" is the only song to take up half the slots on the Top Ten at the same time. Eddy Howard reached number one after debuting on the chart with his version of the song on July 11, 1946. Released by Majestic Records as catalog number 7188 and 1070, the single lasted nineteen weeks on the chart, reaching the top spot on August 10 for three weeks"
"was exciting but because he didn't have a record being played on the radio, that may have been his only Legion appearance that year. Encouraged by friends Dorsey and Johnny Burnette, he persevered in the music business and in late 1959, he made his first recording using the name Donnie Brooks. Called ""Li'l Sweetheart,"" it received a lukewarm reception, but his March 1960 hit single, ""Mission Bell"" on Era Records demonstrated a quality voice in an upbeat song that peaked at No. 7 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. His follow-up, ""Doll House""/""Round Robin"" (a double-sided hit single with a"
"""Toad"". The band's biggest hits were ""I Feel Free"" (UK number 11), ""Sunshine of Your Love"" (US number 5), ""White Room"" (US number 6), ""Crossroads"" (US number 28), and ""Badge"" (UK number 18). The band made a significant impact on the popular music of the time, and, along with Jimi Hendrix and other notable guitarists and bands, popularised the use of the wah-wah pedal. They provided a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed and influenced the emergence of British bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. They"
"Mr. Dodd Takes the Air Mr. Dodd Takes the Air is a 1937 American musical comedy film. Composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin were nominated at the 10th Academy Awards in the category of Best Song for ""Remember Me"". A small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York. When he was asked to sing for a local radio program. Where he gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and the woman he loves. After suffering from bronchitis he uses another voice to still be on the air but then everyone calls him a"
"1957, they recorded their signature song 'Mathilda' for Judd Records. After initial struggles to get the song recorded they were able to use KAOK's studio. The record rose to #47 on the Billboard pop chart in early 1959, and is regarded as the unofficial anthem of the swamp pop genre. They followed up with a number of highly regarded but less commercially successful singles in the early 1960s, including ""Belinda"", ""Betty and Dupree"", and ""Got You on My Mind""; the latter reached the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1963. They would also record for Khourys Records. In August 1965, Thierry"
"to prominence in 1959 with their fourth single, ""Shout"", written by the three brothers. Initially a modest charted single, the song eventually sold over a million copies. Afterwards the group recorded for a variety of labels, including the top 20 single, ""Twist and Shout"" and the Motown single, ""This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)"" before recording and issuing the Grammy Award-winning hit, ""It's Your Thing"" on their own label, T-Neck Records. Influenced by gospel and doo-wop music, the group began experimenting with different musical styles incorporating elements of rock and funk music as well as pop balladry."
"His stay with the label was short-lived, and he was signed by Joe Meek to Decca in 1961. He was renamed Don Charles to avoid potential confusion with Tony Bennett, and released his biggest seller ""Walk With Me My Angel"" in January 1962. Written by Geoff Goddard, and produced by Meek, the single just made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. Not that he knew it at the time, but lack of further chart activity, would leave Charles with the one-hit wonder tag. He appeared on several teen based television programmes, and released a cover version of Ben"
"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"
"met Paul McCartney. Donegan went on to successes such as ""Cumberland Gap"" and ""Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)"", his biggest hit in the U.S., on Dot. He turned to music hall style with ""My Old Man's a Dustman"" which was not well received by skiffle fans and unsuccessful in America on Atlantic in 1960. But it reached number one in the UK. Donegan's group had a flexible line-up, but was generally Denny Wright or Les Bennetts (of Les Hobeaux and Days of Skiffle, led by singer Dave George), playing lead guitar and singing harmony,"
"whole song. ""Handy Man"" reached No. 3 on the R&B charts and No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1960, becoming a million seller. On Leap Day 1960, ""Handy Man"" became the first of five consecutive Hot 100 runners-up that Percy Faith's ""Theme from A Summer Place"" kept out of the top spot, the others being Jim Reeves' ""He'll Have to Go"", Bobby Rydell's ""Wild One"", Paul Anka's ""Puppy Love"", The Brothers Four's ""Green Fields"". The song was a hit, again, in 1964, reaching No. 22, for Del Shannon, and again for James Taylor, whose slow version was a"
"Nick Todd Cecil Altman Boone (born June 1, 1935, Jacksonville, Florida), known as Nick Todd, is an American pop singer. He is the younger brother of pop singer Pat Boone. He had two hit records called ""Plaything"" and ""At The Hop"", which reached #41 and #21, respectively, on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. ""Plaything"" debuted in October 1957 and ""At The Hop"" debuted in December 1957, the same month Danny & the Juniors' version reached #1 on the chart. The president of Dot Records, Randy Wood, did not want him using the same last name as his brother, so he"
"Dot recording of ""Stars Fell On Alabama"". Kathy was especially fond of Connie Francis, evident in her solo recording of ""Malaguena"", which showcased her impressive vocal range. The sisters made no secret that they were huge fans of the innovative, intricate musical stylings of both The Andrews Sisters and The Mills Brothers. Their first hit, ""Tonight, You Belong to Me"" reached #15 on the charts in 1956. In 1961, the single, ""Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)"", (Dot 16255), turned out to be their highest-charting record. It was the only number #1 single of their career, reaching the top of the"
"with Alzheimer's disease. Art Todd died on 10 October 2007 of congestive heart failure in Honolulu at the age of 93. Art and Dotty Todd Art and Dotty Todd were an American husband and wife singing duo who reached the Top Ten in the UK and the US with the hits ""Broken Wings"" (1953) and ""Chanson D'Amour"" (1958). Dotty Todd was born Doris Dabb in Elizabeth, New Jersey on 22 June 1913. She studied the piano from an early age, giving a piano recital at Carnegie Hall at the age of 13. She was performing at the Providence Biltmore Hotel"
"1950s and early 1960s including Ray Price. Paycheck, along with Willie Nelson, worked in Price's band the Cherokee Cowboys. He is featured as a tenor singer on recordings by Faron Young, Roger Miller, and Skeets McDonald. In 1960, he reached Top 35 status in ""Cashbox"" magazine's country charts as Donny Young with the tune ""Miracle Of Love"". From the early to mid-1960s, he also enjoyed some success as a songwriter for others, with his biggest songwriting hit being ""Apartment No. 9"", which served as Tammy Wynette's first chart hit in December 1966. In 1964, he changed his name legally to"
"the early 1950s. He first recorded for Kingston businessman and sound system operator Stanley Motta, and later recorded with a backing band that included Theophilus Beckford and Ernest Ranglin. His early hits included ""Blues Have Got Me Down"" (1960) for producer Emil Shallit. He switched to ska in the early 1960s, and was a founding member of the Skatalites, singing with the band on tracks such as ""Come Down"" and ""I'm In The Mood For Ska"". He recorded for Clement Dodd, Duke Reid, and Lindon Pottinger in the 1960s, and had hits with adapted folk songs such as ""Iron Bar"""
"session with Sonny Til, of the Orioles. In 1960, he recorded an unsuccessful solo single for Epic Records, ""Wa Ding Dung Doo"" / ""Stand By Me"". In the early 1960s, he formed a new quartet, the Halos, with singers Al Showell, Doc Wheeler, and Doris Troy, and co-wrote the song ""Just One Look"" with Troy. He produced a demo record with Troy, which was rejected by Sue Records before being heard by Jerry Wexler of Atlantic, who released the version as originally recorded. The song became an international hit, with Doris Troy's version reaching no.10 in the US, and a"
"peaked at #9 on the pop charts. It is sometimes considered to be the first doo-wop or rock 'n' roll record to reach the top ten on the pop charts (as opposed to the R&B charts). This version was ranked #215 on ""Rolling Stone""'s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is the group's only song on the list. A more traditional version was made by a Canadian group, the Crew-Cuts (with the David Carroll Orchestra), for Mercury Records and was #1 on the ""Billboard"" charts for nine weeks during August and September 1954. The single first"
"was performed on the ""Art Linkletter's House Party"" TV show and was issued on Gold Star Records under the name Geri Pace. The president of Crystalette Records, Carl Burns, happened to see her in a local show called ""Strictly Informal."" He gave her the name Dodie Stevens and the song ""Pink Shoe Laces"". Although Stevens did not initially like her new name or the song, she recorded ""Pink Shoe Laces"" in 1959 for the Crystalette label (which was picked up by Dot for National distribution). The song reached #3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It sold more than one"
"her name in the song. Gerry Goffin – King's husband – took the tune, and wrote the playful response ""Oh! Neil"", which King recorded and released as an unsuccessful single the same year. Thus, this was the only time the melody of the song was used by a popular artist and a future sensation around the same time. After establishing himself in 1958, Sedaka kept churning out new hits from 1960 to 1962. His flow of Top 30 hits during this period included: ""Stairway to Heaven"" (No. 9, 1960); ""You Mean Everything to Me"" (No. 17, 1960); ""Run, Samson, Run"""
"which they took pride. In 1964, the group were asked to provide a new theme tune for the ITV pop music television programme ""Ready Steady Go!"". They responded with ""5-4-3-2-1"" which, with the help of weekly television exposure, rose to No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart. Shortly after ""5-4-3-2-1"" was recorded, Richmond left the band, though he would record with them occasionally later. He was replaced by Jones' friend Tom McGuinness—the first of many changes. After a further self-penned hit, ""Hubble Bubble (Toil And Trouble)"", the band struck gold with ""Do Wah Diddy Diddy"", a cover version of the"
"number 5, and remaining on the album charts for 82 weeks. On his fourth album, 'Songs of Our Heritage' (1960), each track featured him playing acoustic guitar or banjo. Eddy's biggest hit came with the theme of the movie ""Because They're Young"" in 1960, which featured a string arrangement, and reached a chart peak of number 4 in America and number 2 in the UK in September 1960. It became his second million-selling disc. Eddy's records were equally successful in the UK and in 1960, readers of the UK's ""NME"" voted him ""World's Number One Musical Personality"", ousting Elvis Presley."
"Trio's subsequent recordings and live performances. The album ""The Kingston Trio"" was released in June 1958 at the same time that the group was beginning a long engagement at San Francisco's more prominent Hungry i night club. The album included the number that became Shane's signature song, ""Scotch and Soda,"" powerful and rhythmic guitar work from Shane throughout, and an obscure North Carolina murder ballad, ""Tom Dooley"" on which Shane sang the lead. In the summer of 1958 while Shane and the Trio were performing at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, disc jockey Paul Colburn in Salt Lake City,"
"August 1960 it was also released on the Del-Fi label. On August 15, 1960, ""Lonely Guy"" bubbled under the ""Hot 100"" at number 111, reached number four on ""Cashbox"", and spent ten weeks at number one on Los Angeles's KFWB Fabulous Forty. By the time of the Gallahads' next release, Smith and Dixon had departed, and were replaced by Leo Robinson, Ray Robinson, and Charles Wright, who would later go on to lead the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band. The new line-up was featured weekly on the ""Wink Martindale Show"" for a few months, and appeared on ""American Bandstand"". In"