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Date Posted:Fri February 08, 2008 01:05:14 In reply to:
Mike C
's message, "Re: British Singers" on Thu February 07, 2008 01:14:15
"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?" was a fluke hit in the U.S. Sometime in the late Spring or early Summer of 1961, Boston's most popular Top 40 deejay, Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg on WMEX (no relation to the Jan Berry parner before Dean Torrence) featured it on his show as "the worst record of the week", a regular gimmick he utilized. Instead the record caught on big time, going to the Top 5 nationally half a decade after "Rock Island Line" had gone Top 10 in 1956. After this huge success, "Rock Island Line" was rereleased as the followup and was not successful this time around. I don't know if it was a rerecording or not. Novelty records were fairly big that year, though "Does your..." lost out in the longest title competition to Ray Stevens' "Jeremiah Peabody's etc. etc. etc."
It struck me funny that an Englishman with an Irish name would score with hits citing American institutions such as the White House and the Rock Island Line.
p.s. Two years later "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen was another former "worst record of the week" that made the big time and became the most covered garage band opus ever, breaking out first in Beantown.
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