We’re Number 98

Over the weekend, we started looking at the 20 records that peaked at Number 98 on the Hot 100 between 1955 and 1986. In this installment covering the last 10, we pick up in 1967.
“Walkin’ Proud”/Pete Klint Quintet (10/21/67). This group, from Mason City, Iowa, packed ‘em in around the Midwest in the 1960s, and [...]

Life Goes On

(Edited to add WNEW.com link.)
When I was a kid, I didn’t miss a lot of school days because of illness, but I remember the slightly disorienting feeling of coming back after being gone. It was clear that the world had continued operating normally without me—and I was always a little surprised. Now that I’m older [...]

Don’t Ever Wanna Lose Ya

(This is the 900th published post in the history of this blog. If you have read them all, you deserve some kind of award. Or to put it another way: Why?)

We have noted here before that for the first eight or nine months of 1979, disco ruled the Top 40 airwaves, but some of the [...]

Lifted a Bit Too Far

Last week, we pointed out that Edward Bear should be one of the classic one-hit wonders of all time, but they aren’t. The 1973 hit “Last Song” was a Number-Three smash, but the group scored two other hit singles in the States, one of which, “Close Your Eyes,” squeaked into the Top 40. And so [...]

Not the First, Not the Last

There’s a handful of acts that are often considered one-hit wonders but really aren’t. And we’re not talking about artists with one big hit and another that spent a couple of weeks in the lower reaches of the Hot 100—we’re talking about artists who hit the Top 40 more than once, but whose other entry [...]

On and On and On and On

In my e-mail interview with John Picard, better known as Mister Zero of the Kings, we covered a lot of topics. (Scroll down  to see ‘em.) Like any writer would, I tried to cut the material down to the best stuff. And like most writers will at one time or another, I looked at the [...]