Catch A Falling Star

Album: Greatest Hits (1958)
Charted: 9 1
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Lee Julien Pockriss, Paul J. Vance

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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 13, 1965, Linda Scott performed "Catch A Falling Star" on the Dick Clark produced ABC-TV network weekday-afternoon program ' Where The Action Is'...
    Her covered version of the song did not make Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; but she did have three charted records with 'star' in their title; "I've Told Every Little Star" {#3 in 1961}, "Starlight, Starbright" {#44 in 1961}, and "Count Every Star" {#41 in 1962}....
    Between March 1961 and January 1964 she had eleven records on the Hot Top 100; two made the Top 10; besides "I've Told Every Little Star", her other Top 10 record was "Don't Bet Money, Honey", it reached #9 {for 2 weeks} on August 28th, 1961...
    Ms. Scott, born Linda Joy Sampson, celebrated her 72nd birthday last month on June 1st, 2017.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 3rd 1957, at the RCA Victor Studio 'A' in New York City, Perry Como recorded the Hal David and Burt Bacharach composition, "Magic Moments"...
    At the time Marty Robbins' "The Story of My Life" was at #40 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, and it was the first David/Bacharach composition to make the national charts, eventually it would peak at #15...
    And on January 5th, 1958 "Magic Moments"* would enter the Top 100 at #78; eventually it would peak at #4...
    * The flip-side of "Magic Moments" was "Catch A Falling Star", it would peak at #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys chart on March 18th, 1958.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyThe 1958 Grammy Awards were the first year of these awards!!!
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