I'll Never Smile Again

Album: No One Cares (1940)
Charted: 1
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Ruth Lowe
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 24, 1961, the Platters were guests on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the quintet's covered version of "I'll Never Smile Again" was at #34 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, three weeks later it would peak at #25 {for 1 week} and it spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #17 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1955 and 1967 the Los Angeles-based quintet had thirty-nine Top 100 records; seven* made the Top 10 with four reaching #1, "The Great Pretender" for 2 weeks in 1956, "My Prayer" for 5 weeks in 1956, "Twilight Time" for 1 week in 1958, and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" for 3 weeks in 1959...
    Sadly, all five original members of the group have passed away; the last being bassist Herb Reed on June 4th, 2012 at the age of 83...
    May they all R.I.P.
    *They just missed having nine Top 10 records when both "You'll Never Never Know" {1956} and "I'm Sorry" {1957} peaked at #11 on the Top 100.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 23rd 1940, Frank Sinatra with the Pied Pipers* and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra recorded "I'll Never Smile Again"...
    Two months and four days later on July 27th, 1940 it became the first #1 record on Billboard's National List of Best Selling Retail Records chart...
    It remained at #1 for 12 weeks and was replaced at the top spot by "Only Forever" by Bing Crosby...
    * Jo Stafford was a member of the Pied Pipers; and between 1944 and 1957 she , as a solo artist, had eighty-four records make the Top 100 with four reaching #1.
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