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I like Michael Savage, and I like the music of Larry Chance and The Earls! [As I type this, I'm listening to The Savage Nation radio show ... and just four nights ago, I saw Larry & The Earls perform in person]

This is a New York City group headed by lead singer Jackie Rue. This release was from the year 1960.

@angelofbebop -- This was actually from 1959.

@deborahflory -- Lead singer was Dennis Tufano.

The Tokens provide backup vocals on this one.

The Dick Jurgens Orchestra was one of the most underrated in the Big Band era. They had so many good records, including the instrumental "Elmer's Tune" (co-written by Jurgens) and many other tunes sung by great vocalists such as Harry Cool, Buddy Moreno and Eddy Howard.

It seems to me that this follow-up to "Boy From New York City" by this New Jersey quitet should have spent more than one week on the Billboard pop charts -- at No. 100, no less.

Bill Smith was a member of The Rock-A-Teens, a Virginia teenage group who were a one-hit wonder with "Woo-Hoo" (which went to No. 16 on Billboard in late 1959).

This is the group that had a huge hit with "Silhouettes" in late 1957 (on the Cameo and XYZ labels). This one was recorded earlier in the year on Chess, but it wasn't released until the Chess label attempted to cash in on the group's success with "Silhouettes."

@cenotosa1 Glenn Miller recorded this one on Nov. 24, 1941, not in 1944. [Besides, Ray Eberle is on vocals here, and he was fired by Miller in mid-1942].

Why does this jerk keep getting elected? The sheeple of West Virginia need to wake up!!!

This is an L.A. garage group (headed by Baker Knight) that had a sound similar to the Sir Douglas Quintet. This was on the Diamond label in 1967.

@nialldcrowley I definitely "jumped the gun" on my comment (which I rarely do, but I did this time). This was actually from 1966, and I am more than well aware that there were at least three groups called The Falcons, which can definitely be cause for confusion. And upon research, the members of ...

This was the group's only single on the Monogram label, and it didn't get enough nationwide airplay to make the Billboard Hot 100. This recording was released in late 1962, about two years after their No. 3 Billboard hit ("A Thousand Stars").

This New York City family trio had a No. 20 song with "Alone" in the autumn of 1957, but this was their only other charter on the Billboard Hot 100, even though it only reached No. 94 in the spring of 1963. [It was on my "play list" as a part-time DJ on WKDA in Nashville, and I always enjoyed pla...

This quartet from Santa Rosa, Calif., had many great recordings but not much success on the charts, except for "Sacred" and "So This Is Love." This song received a lot of airplay on a number of California stations (including KFWB in L.A. and KCBQ in San Diego) in autumn of 1962, but it failed to ...

This was written (and originally sung) by Don Schroeder, a former disc jockey at WKDA Radio in Nashville (and other stations) and a record producer in Memphis (producing such artists as James & Bobby Purify with Bell Records).

I can't locate it anywhere, but Shirley Abicare did a fantastic rendition (in 1966) of "Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall" -- a song written by Paul Simon and recorded (more famously) by Simon & Garfunkel.

@aretiredfed They definitely did record for Mercury Records.

I forgot that The Cascades also sang this (in 1967) ... and I already mentioned that Boyce & Hart sang it, and so did Gary Lewis & the Playboys (although Gary now says that he hasn't sung it for 35 years and doesn't even remember the words).

@scubawrestler ... but apparently, it only got decent attention in the Rocky Mountain area. As I said, I know it got a lot of airplay on the Top 40 stations in Colorado and Wyoming, too.

A great song from the summer of 1966 from a Denver group that formed in the early '60s as a surf-type group. It was a pretty big hit on such Rocky Mountain stations as KIMN and KDAB in Denver, KRAE in Cheyenne and KATI in Casper, Wyo., but it didn't get much airplay elsewhere. The group evolved i...