Forgotten Single for 1pm
(Now And Then There's) A FOOL SUCH AS I. UK#1(5) from 15 May and US#2 with 15 weeks in Top 100 from 23 March 1959. Written in 1952, it had been a favourite of Elvis' since 1953 when the song became a #4 Country hit for Hank Snow who at one time had been managed by Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis' manager. (also US#16 chart for Jo Stafford in 1953) For Elvis it became his 23rd million-seller (selling 2 million) and became his first No. 1 (UK) ballad hit.
Forgotten Single for 2pm
ROCK-A-BILLY, UK#1 17 May 1957 for one week HUGE HIT Mitch Miller's 15th UK No. 1 production was also Guy Mitchell's 4th - and final - No. 1 in Britain, and it was a near as Mitch Miller would ever get to acknowledging the existence of rock and roll, skiffle or the blues.
Forgotten Single for 3pm
Girlie, NZ#1, 14 May 1970, 12 weeks in Top 20 from April and UK#34. The Peddlers formed in Manchester in 1964, as a trio of Trevor Morais (born 10 October 1944, Liverpool), Tab Martin (born Alan Raymond Brearley, 24 December 1944, Newcastle upon Tyne) and Roy Phillips (born 5 May 1941, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset).
The trio’s third and final CBS album, Birthday, from 1969, brought two UK Top 40 singles in "Girlie" and "Birth". After the Peddlers, Morais joined Quantum Jump. Roy Phillips moved to live in Christchurch, New Zealand and performs live shows around the country. Martin lives in Portugal
A Peddler's reunion gig is scheduled for 25 May at Skycity in Auckland, New Zealand.
A new Roy Phillips CD “Dancing With The Shadows” was released in September 2007 and contained a “stunning” new version of ‘Girlie’.
Tease for 4pm
US#1(2) from 18 May 1959 with 16 weeks in Top 100. Also NZ#1 in September 1959. The sole million-seller for this artist had been written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952, originally called "K.C. Lovin'" Moderate Hit in N.Z.
Tease for 5pm
US#1(2) from 18 May 1963 with 14 weeks in Top 100, UK#39 and it sold a million for this boy preacher at age 7 who got his name from the church elders who whispered 'He's got soul' whenever he preached. A member of various local gospel groups before he then discovered his forte in singing pop tunes and rock'n'roll. He auditioned with a rock'n'roll combination for a group that had its one week engagement extended into several months. Jimmy then formed his own group and after 'Twisting Matilda' in 1962, came his million seller.
And the songs;
4pm, Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City
5pm, Jimmy Soul – If You Want To Be Happy
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