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  • A Fool Such As I

    - 11 Jan 2014
    Composed in 1952 this tune topped the country charts in 1953. "The Singing Ranger" Hank (Clarence) Snow's "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such As I" (Bill Trader) was just one of his 85 charted singles. Hank used Elvis Presley as his opening act and it

  • Betcha By Golly, Wow

    - 11 Jan 2014
    You may know her as "Cricket Blake" from "Hawaiian Eye" or an actress that dated Elvis! Connie Stevens (Concetta Ingoglia) took her father's stage name of (Teddy) "Stevens" and joined the group "The Fourmost" and shortly after when she left the quartet,

  • Honey, Come Back

    - 11 Jan 2014
    He is a member of the Apollo Theatre's Hall of Fame, "It's Not Unusual" was written with him in mind, he is a permanent member of New York City's Friar's Club. He is blues singer Chuck Jackson who hit the top fifty on the R&B charts in 1969 with a

  • It Was a Very Good Year

    - 11 Jan 2014
    After having written lyrics for standards like "Tico, Tico", I Believe", "Al, Di La", "Quando, Quando" and "Perdido", in 1961 Ervin Druckman composed "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) specifically for Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio and it appears