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Eugene Church · 04-01-2023, 10:00 PM

MY LIFE IN 1960
EC's Life's Not So Nifty in '60

Time for us to get an update on the World of Music... 10 songs reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Country chart in 1959... in 1960 the top of the chart was dominated by just 5 songs... "El Paso" by Marty Robbins for the 5 weeks of the year... "He'll Have To Go" by Jim Reeves for 14 weeks... "Please Help Me I'm Falling" by Hank Lochlin for 14 weeks... "Alabam" by Cowboy Copas for 12 weeks and "Wings of a Dove" by Ferlin Husky for 8 weeks.

In the merry month of June the buckaroos and little darlin's were spooning to this #1 song by Hank Lochlin... here's "Please Help Me I'm Falling"... please note the great piano playing of Floyd Cramer on this song... he had a way of "bending a note" to give him a distinctive style and sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACtnEn_9Os

This song also crossed over to the Billboard pop chart and reached the #8 spot... Hank Lochlin's song was so popular, RCA wrote an answer song to it, made popular by Skeeter Davis of "The End of the World" fame.

Here's Skeeter Davis for all you buckaroos and little darlin's, too, with her answer song "I'm Falling, Too"... Floyd Cramer is playing some great piano licks on this song, too... and the great Chet Atkins is strumming on the guitar strings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfW314kbBQ

04-01-2023, 10:00 PM	#1282
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,911	MY LIFE IN 1960 EC's Life's Not So Nifty in '60 Time for us to get an update on the World of Music... 10 songs reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Country chart in 1959... in 1960 the top of the chart was dominated by just 5 songs... "El Paso" by Marty Robbins for the 5 weeks of the year... "He'll Have To Go" by Jim Reeves for 14 weeks... "Please Help Me I'm Falling" by Hank Lochlin for 14 weeks... "Alabam" by Cowboy Copas for 12 weeks and "Wings of a Dove" by Ferlin Husky for 8 weeks. In the merry month of June the buckaroos and little darlin's were spooning to this #1 song by Hank Lochlin... here's "Please Help Me I'm Falling"... please note the great piano playing of Floyd Cramer on this song... he had a way of "bending a note" to give him a distinctive style and sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACtnEn_9Os This song also crossed over to the Billboard pop chart and reached the #8 spot... Hank Lochlin's song was so popular, RCA wrote an answer song to it, made popular by Skeeter Davis of "The End of the World" fame. Here's Skeeter Davis for all you buckaroos and little darlin's, too, with her answer song "I'm Falling, Too"... Floyd Cramer is playing some great piano licks on this song, too... and the great Chet Atkins is strumming on the guitar strings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfW314kbBQ Last edited by Eugene Church; 05-01-2023 at 12:37 PM.