Lorne,
thank you for answer. I also found this recording with a length of 3:37.
But I'd like to hear the version that's on Discogs. It says on the single "short version, 3:12".
https://www.discogs.com/release/5600471-Led-Zeppelin-Whole-Lotta-Love/image/SW1hZ2U6MTE5NDMxMTE=
Or is the time 3:12 just a "commercial deception"?

Lorne wrote:

The article isn't behind a paywall, but you can try accessing it via Clear This Page to see if that works instead.
https://clearthis.page/?u=https://www.wideopencountry.com/how-marty-robbins-accidentally-pioneered-guitar-fuzz-effects/

Thanks Lorne, it works. I see that "The Fuzz" I mentioned is listed there...

I'm not entirely convinced that compiling such information makes sense.
Sixty or fifty years ago, releasing singles was governed by different business and other rules.
It cannot be compared.
Sorry, my English is poor, I can't express myself exactly. But I hope it is clear what I mean,
what I want to say.
And the fact that it is counted only from 1958 is of course a disadvantage for Elvis.

Lorne wrote:

If you haven't done so already, I'd suggest that you could try sending a message about this to the email address provided on his official website, info@jjcale.com. Also, I think that you're actually asking about the album Stay Around.

I wrote to that address but did not receive a reply.
 

Lorne wrote:

If you haven't done so already, I'd suggest that you could try sending a message about this to the email address provided on his official website, info@jjcale.com. Also, I think that you're actually asking about the album Stay Around.

Yes, "Stay Around". I'm sorry, I've fixed it.  And thank you for the advice on who to contact with my query.
 

Can you help? Is it possible to find somewhere which year the individual songs are from?

Little Rich wrote:

As I always say at the close-out to my show every week:
"Too many great songs and not enough time..."
 

I can subscribe to that idea.
 

Little Rich wrote:

You "pressed my button" mroldies:  The Monarchs cover of Look Homeward Angel in 1964 is in Little Rich's Top 25 songs of all time.  Johnny Ray may have charted 36 and The Monarchs only 47, The Monarchs, by far, had more soul in the music, with great harmony - super cover by them.  The week that they peaked on the chart, the Top 5 songs were Beatles and 15 of the Hot 100 were Beatles, so, I don't feel bad about The Monarchs only peaking at 47.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAOUrxfzG9s
 

Little Rich, I'm glad someone has the same taste in music as me.
I also like blues, R&B and other genres…
 

I'm doing a one-hour radio show on the hits of late October 1968. I found the song "Look Homeward Angel"
on the AC Billboard chart. by Ray Conniff & The Singers. I didn't know it before, I hear it's a beautiful tune.
And understandable lyrics for a Central European. I wonder why more singers haven't sung this pretty song
and why it hasn't been more successful in the charts. (Best Johnnie Ray, No. 36 in 1957.)
There are probably more tunes like this that didn't do better. This one, "beautifully sad," intrigued me greatly.
Maybe it's also that as I get older, I get more sensitive and sentimental...

Lorne,
I know the history of the HOT 100 on Wikipedia. And I also have Whitburn's book "Billboard Pop Charts 1955-1959".
Unfortunately, that Wikipedia article doesn't mention the methodology of how the HOT 100 was compiled in the 1950s and 1960s. I believe it was the same or very similar to the TOP 100 methodology.

I wasn't there, but I dare to write that TOP 100 was "early HOT 100", and that in August 1958 it was just a name change to make it more attractive.
If you have other information or a different opinion, I'd be happy to read it. It's quite distant history, about many things we can probably only speculate today.

Lorne,
This information is an impulse for me to additionally buy Ron Smith's book in electronic version.
I have also been compiling a music calendar for many years.
I wonder how much information Ron has gathered and how much I have.

I would like to try the vibraslap.
I'm already asking the local conservatory, the theater orchestra and the symphony orchestra if they have this instrument.

Lorne,

Thanks for the nice explanation. Until now I only knew the ratchet (cog rattle).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(instrument) 
I had no idea about the güiro.
Today, perhaps such a sound would be created electronically for a recording...

Lorne wrote:

I'm glad that you found this info, but I have felt the same way about many other songs that you've asked about before ... I've wondered how they became known in Czechoslovakia when they've been quite obscure here. 

This is a Czechoslovak TV show in which the Czech version of the song was used. It was broadcast in the years 1983-1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjO4rdY08r8
Always at the end of the show, here at 1:03.48 - 1:06:18

American show "Cinderella At The Palace" was later also broadcast on British and Dutch television.
And it is possible that the cultural department of the American Embassy in Prague also had the videotape.
This department probably also lent audio and video media to potential interested parties.
That's probably how the original recording got to our country.
 

I put the problem here and searched further. And "Uncle Google" and "Aunt youtube" helped me.
It is originally the opening and closing song of the American 1978 TV special "Cinderella At The Palace".
But I couldn't find any written confirmation that Ray Charles really composed the music. 
Can you help me find it on the internet?