Yesterday at The Box we featured adolescent love with Jan & Dean, Baby Talk. Well continue the theme today of young love, with the song Young Love. Well give you two different versions, both hit records, then, you decide which you like best. The tune was written by Ric Cartey & Carole Joyner in 1956, and originally released by Carteys band, Ric Cartey & The Jiva-Tones. However, the original version never charted. The first cover of the tune, by Sonny James, hit the charts January 5th, 1957 ... it reached #1 on the Most Played by Disc Jockey chart ... #2 on the Best Seller in Stores chart ... on the Most Played in Juke Boxes, it reached #4 ... on the composite charts, totally all the pop surveys, it reached #2. On the Billboard Country charts, it spent nine weeks at #1, becoming the longest #1 charting tune of Sonny James 23 number-one hit records. Two weeks after the James cover, Tab Hunter released his version, which was even bigger ... reaching #1 on the Disc Jockey, Best Seller, and Juke Box charts ... on the composite chart, it totaled out peaking at #1 and remaining there for six weeks. A week after the Hunter version came out, a cover by The Crew-Cuts hit the charts, reaching #24 on the composite charts. First, well give you the bigger version, by Tab Hunter, then, the Sonny James version. Which do you like better. -- Well be back Monday morning with another Music Box tune. This time the King Of Rock n Roll will heat it up.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:22:03 +0000