When I was growing up in the 1960s (which was before I had my own radio), I mostly listened to the two stations that my mother listened to: CHUM and CFRB. That gave me a lot of exposure to what was popular on pop/rock radio via CHUM, and on what was known at the time as middle of the road (MOR) radio via CFRB. But while artists who were primarily MOR such as Conniff would occasionally cross over onto the pop charts when they did something that had wider appeal, I would characterize "Look Homeward Angel" as being very MOR and not having enough of a pop sound to do that.

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
 

Last edited by Little Rich (July 28, 2023 2:15 pm)

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

Checked out The Monarchs' version, and I think that it did quite well on Billboard considering that a song like that was definitely swimming against the tide because of the British Invasion. And to my surprise, I also found that it spent 7 weeks on the CHUM Chart and reached a very respectable #28 ... I'm sure that it would have done appreciably better on the charts if it had been out a year earlier, especially since I'm sure it was a struggle to even get stations to play a song like that in 1964.