P's & R's - I struck out and how!

[Lelia Ellen Raley <leliar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Joey for demonstrating my INEPTITUDE so clearly!!!
;-}

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Joseph Beretta wrote:
"Perfidia"
> Jimmy Dorsey debuted 3-22-41, reached #9, instrumental
> Benny Goodman debuted 3-29-41, reached #11, vocal by Helen Forrest

Helen O'Connell sang with Dorsey, right?  So I guess I mixed my Helens
up.
(37 Helens agree.....)

> >> >Riders In The Sky (Ramrods+Dick Dale+Trashmen)
> >And was one of these by The Sons of the Pioneers?  I would have thought
> >they were first.

So it was a bomb!  I have their recording and it SEEMS like a hit version!
Duh again.

> Bing Crosby debuted 5-14-49, reached #14

This is hard to audiovisualize, and as you say:

> Peggy Lee debuted 5-28-49, reached #2
> (I can't imagine Peggy Lee singing that song)

THIS is impossible!
> 
> All information from Joel Whitburn's _Pop Memories 1890-1954_, based on the
> Billboard charts.

My information obviously from nowhere!

Actual thanks, Joey, for the usual wealth of CORRECT information.

That semi-educated guesser,

Lola