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THE INTRUDERS
1968 #6 Cowboys To Girls
1968 #26 (Love Is Like A) Baseball Game
1973 #36 I'll Always Love My Mama (Part 1)
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Lulu
To Sir With Love - #1 in 1967
Best of Both Worlds - #32 in 1968
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) - #22 in 1969
I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do) - #18 in 1981
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Interestingly enough, The Queen of Soul, Ms. Aretha Franklin herself recorded Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby) just two years after Lulu charted #22 and only charted #73. Not to take away from Ms. Franklin's awesome talent.
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Little Rich wrote:
Interestingly enough, The Queen of Soul, Ms. Aretha Franklin herself recorded Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby) just two years after Lulu charted #22 and only charted #73. Not to take away from Ms. Franklin's awesome talent.
I didn't know that she had done that song, so I did find that interesting. But it also reminds me of how by 1971, I had wondered about how advisable it was for her to be doing so many songs that had previously been a hit for another artist within the past couple of years. She was certainly great at reinterpreting songs in her own style, with "Respect" being the ultimate example of how that could work out very well for her. However, because it can be such an uphill battle for an artist to try to have a hit again with a song that's been a recent hit, I thought at the time that it might have been better for her if she hadn't been doing so many songs like that.
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Lulu
To Sir With Love - #1 in 1967
Best of Both Worlds - #32 in 1968
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) - #22 in 1969
I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do) - #18 in 1981
The other song by Lulu that I remember is 'The Boat That I Row'. It was a pretty big single on Toronto's Chum Chart, which became even bigger when they flipped it over and started playing 'To Sir With Love'.
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I had thought of "The Boat That I Row" as well, and so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It only "bubbled under" the Hot 100, peaking at #115, whereas it reached #1 nationally in Canada and #6 in the UK.
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It is interesting how certain songs are a hit in Canada but not in the U.S., and vice versa.
For example, I was thinking about the Cascades as meeting the criteria for this topic, but based on the U.S. charts, they do not. While Rhythm of the Rain was a huge hit (#3), they had no other top 40 hits.
However, if we were using the Canadian charts, the Cascades would quality for this topic, as ROTR went to #1 in Canada; but they also had two other top 40s in Canada - Shy Girl got to #11 (only #91 in the U.S.) and Maybe The Rain Will Fall reached #39 (only #61 in the U.S.)
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Linda Scott
I've Told Every Little Star - #3 in 1961
Don't Bet Money, Honey - #9 in 1961
I Don't Know Why - #12 in 1961
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FONTELLA BASS
1965 #33 Don't Mess Up A Good Thing (with Bobby McClure)
1965 #4 Rescue Me
1966 #37 Recovery
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ISAAC HAYES
1969 #37 By The Time I Get To Phoenix
1969 #30 Walk On By
1971 #22 Never Can Say Goodbye
1971 #1 Theme From Shaft
1972 #30 Do Your Thing
1972 #38 Theme From The Men
1974 #30 Joy Pt. 1
1979 #18 Don't Let Go
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The Angels
Til - #14 in 1961
Cry Baby Cry - #38 in 1962
My Boyfriend's Back - #1 in 1963
I Adore Him - #25 in 1963
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THE OUTSIDERS
1966 #5 Time Won't Let Me
1966 #21 Girl In Love
1966 #15 Respectable
1966 #37 Help Me Girl
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The Strangeloves
I Want Candy - #11 in 1965
Cara-Lin - #39 in 1965
Night Time - #30 in 1965
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