Billboard Notes: 2024-02-16
Feb. 16th, 2024 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dwvanstoneThis week we have two versions of "Fast Car" in the Billboard Hot 100. The recent cover from Luke Combs is back in the top 10 in its 46th week on the charts, but the original Tracy Chapman version just popped up at #42. I'm seeing other chart bumps from the Grammy Awards but this one made me smile the most.
I don't recall any time in the recent years where a song and its cover charted at the same time. However, back in the chart of June 6, 1960 (which I'm currently listening to) there were lots of versions of the same song.
Ray Bryant started the dance craze called The Madison with his song "The Madison Time" (peaked at #30), but the version by Al Brown's Tunetoppers reached its peak of #23 that same week.
There's "Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me)" written and performed by Little Willie John up to #79 in its second week...but a new cover by Jon Thomas just entered at #93.
There are two instrumental covers of Augusto Alguero's Spanish song "La Montana (If She Should Come To You)", one by Frank DeVol and His Rainbow Strings (!!) and one by Roger Williams.
But, best of all, there are three versions of "Alley-Oop", a song about the comic strip of the same name. The original (video) was by the Hollywood Argyles -- this version eventually hit #1. The other two copycats were by The Dyna-Sores and by Dante and the Evergreens.
I'm curious how artists were able to record songs so quickly and get them released.
I don't recall any time in the recent years where a song and its cover charted at the same time. However, back in the chart of June 6, 1960 (which I'm currently listening to) there were lots of versions of the same song.
Ray Bryant started the dance craze called The Madison with his song "The Madison Time" (peaked at #30), but the version by Al Brown's Tunetoppers reached its peak of #23 that same week.
There's "Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me)" written and performed by Little Willie John up to #79 in its second week...but a new cover by Jon Thomas just entered at #93.
There are two instrumental covers of Augusto Alguero's Spanish song "La Montana (If She Should Come To You)", one by Frank DeVol and His Rainbow Strings (!!) and one by Roger Williams.
But, best of all, there are three versions of "Alley-Oop", a song about the comic strip of the same name. The original (video) was by the Hollywood Argyles -- this version eventually hit #1. The other two copycats were by The Dyna-Sores and by Dante and the Evergreens.
I'm curious how artists were able to record songs so quickly and get them released.
