Jessica 6 in 1959 - 6 March 2012

Jessica 6 in 1959

6 March 2012

Teach Me Tiger – April Stevens

#86 Billboard Hot 100 in 1959

Imperial Records

White Lightning – George Jones

Written by JP ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson

#1 Billboard Hot C&W Sides; #73 Billboard Hot 100

Featured on fifth album, George Jones Sings White Lightning and Other Favourites

Mercury Records

Raining In My Heart – Buddy Holly

#88 Billboard Hot 100; #1 UK singles chart (as B-side of It Doesn’t Matter Anymore)

Featured on posthumously released compilation album, The Buddy Holly Story

#11 Billboard 200; #2 UK album chart

Coral Records

That’s My Little Suzie – Ritchie Valens

#55 Billboard Hot 100

Featured on posthumously-released debut album, Ritchie Valens

#23 Billboard Hot 200

Del-Fi Records

It Won’t Cool Off – Dean Martin (with orchestra conducted by Gus Levene)

Featured on fifth album, A Winter Romance

Capitol Records

Drifting And Dreaming – Leo Addeo & His Orchestra

Featured on debut album, Hawaii in Hi-Fi

RCA Camden

Shooting Stars from ‘This Island Earth’ – Dick Jacobs & His Orchestra

Featured on album, Themes From Horror Movies

Coral Records

Sea Of Love – Phil Phillips

#1 Billboard R&B; #2 Billboard Hot 100 (Gold)

Mercury Records

Mr Blue – The Fleetwoods

#1 Billboard Hot 100; #3 Billboard R&B chart

Dolton Records

I Only Have Eyes For You – The Flamingos

#11 Billboard Hot 100

Decca Records

There Goes My Baby – The Drifters

#1 Billboard R&B chart; #2 Billboard Hot 100

Atlantic Records

Crackin’ Up – Bo Diddley

#14 Billboard R&B chart; #62 Billboard Hot 100

Featured on second album, Go Bo Diddley

What’d I Say (Parts I & II) – Ray Charles

#1 Billboard R&B chart; #6 Billboard Hot 100

From sixth album, What’d I Say

First Gold record, #20 Billboard Pop Albums (1962)

Atlantic Records

Love Potion #9 – The Clovers

#23 Billboard Hot 100

United Artists

Poison Ivy – The Coasters

#1 Billboard R&B chart; #7 Billboard Hot 100; #15 UK singles chart

Atco Records

Saturday Night On Sunset Strip – Edd Byrnes with the Big Sound of Don Ralke

Featured on album, Kookie

Warner Brothers Records

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Jessica 6 in 1957

Jessica 6 in 1957

2 August 2011

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

7” single (RCA Victor), released on 24 September 1957

#1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in November for 6 weeks

#1 on the UK Singles Chart (1958)

Buddy Holly - Words Of Love

7” single (Coral Records), released on 20 June 1957

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

7” single (Sun Records), released in May 1957

#3 on the US Billboard Pop Chart and #1 on the US Billboard R&B and Country charts

#8 on the UK Singles Chart

#61 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest songs of all time

Ray Charles - I Got A Woman

From the album Ray Charles (Atlantic Records)

#235 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest songs of all time

Robert Mitchum - From A Logical Point Of View

From the album Calypso - is like so (Capitol Records)

Nat King Cole And His Trio - Just You, Just Me

From the album After Midnight: The Complete Session (Capitol Records)

#13 on the US Billboard Pop Albums Chart

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Summertime (from Porgy & Bess)

From the album Porgy and Bess (Verve)

The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001 (for recordings of ‘qualitative or historical significance’)

Walter Scharf - Patricia

From the album Dreams by the Dozen - for men only (Jubilee Records)

Patricia is ‘Unfettered, direct, natural, eager. Generous, fearless, a major-leaguer’

Paul Anka - Diana

7” single (ABC Records), released in May 1957

#1 on the US, UK, Australian and Canadian Singles Charts

Little Richard - Lucille

7” single (Speciality records), released in February 1957

#21 on the US Pop Chart

#10 on the UK Singles Chart

Also featured on the Little Richard album (1958)

Mohammed El-Bakkar And His Oriental Ensemble - Ah Ya Zain

From the album Port Said: Music of the Middle East (Audio Fidelity Records)

Martin Denny - Stone God

From the album Exotica (Liberty Records)

The King Sisters with Music by Alvino Rey - My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii

From the album Aloha (Capitol Records)

Harold Hill (Robert Preston) and Townspeople - (Ya Got) Trouble

From the Broadway version of The Music Man

#1 on the US Billboard Album Chart (1958)

1958 Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album