What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Album: single release (1949)
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  • Maybe it's much too early in the game
    Oh, but I thought I'd ask you just the same
    What are you doing New Year's
    New Year's Eve?

    Wonder whose arms are holding you so tight
    When it's exactly twelve o'clock at night
    Welcoming in the New Year
    New Year's Eve

    Maybe I'm crazy to suppose
    I'd ever be the one you chose
    Out of a thousand invitations
    You received

    Well, but just in case I stand one little chance
    Here comes the jackpot question in advance
    What are you doing New Year's
    New Year's Eve?

    Maybe I'm crazy to suppose
    I'd ever be the one that you chose
    Out of a thousand invitations
    You received

    Well, but just in case I stand one little chance
    Here comes the jackpot question in advance
    What are you doing New Year's
    New Year's Eve? Writer/s: Frank Loesser
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 12, 1960, Dante and the Evergreens performed "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    The following month on January 2nd, 1961 the song peaked at #107 on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Top 100 chart...
    Earlier in 1960 the group charted twice with their only Top 100 records, their covered version of "Alley Oop" peaked at #15* {for two weeks} on July 4th and "Time Machine" reached #73 {for 1 week} on September 26th...
    * The week their version of "Alley Oop" peaked at #15, the original version by the Hollywood Argyles was at #2, and the following week it would peak at #1 {for 1 week} on the Top 100 chart.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 3, 1949, the Orioles' "Tell Me So" peaked at #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Best-Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records in Stores chart; it replaced "Trouble Blues" by the Charles Brown Trio as the #1 record, "Trouble Blues" had been in the top spot for 15 consecutive weeks...
    Sadly, Orioles' lead singer Sonny Til passed away at the young age of 56 on December 9th, 1981...
    May he R.I.P.
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