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Date Posted:Mon May 05, 2008 23:39:09 In reply to:
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's message, "Was "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" destined to be another flop?" on Mon May 05, 2008 09:17:41
I've posted before that "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" was not even a hit in Los Angeles after the plane crash. It didn't even receive airplay. I should know because I was confined to either a hospital bed or convalescence at home during most of early 1959, and had a lot of time to listen to the radio as I was immobile and couldn't do much else.
The major reason was that Ritchie Valens was the local boy made good and got most of the attention. "Donna" stayed on the KFWB Fabulous Forty Survey probably two months longer that it would have had the tragedy not occurred. "That's My Little Suzie" also charted, peaking at #25.
To show what intense regional variation there was then, a fellow I used to know told me that "Raining In My Heart" was so popular in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area that it was played constantly, almost to the point of being too much.
The only way I knew about the existence of "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" was that I read the lyrics in a Carlton publication and assumed it must be a Paul Anka "B" side.
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