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- 1 Song on Your Birthday
What about your 12th birthday song? Find the number one song...
- 1 Song on Your Birthday
"Mr. Blue" is a popular song written by DeWayne Blackwell [2] that was a hit for the Fleetwoods, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1959, [3] giving the group its second chart-topping hit of the year.
Mr. Blue (D. Blackwell) by The FleetwoodsThis million-selling #1 record by Gary, Gretchen, and Barbara spent 11 weeks in the national top 10.THE 1959 HITS AR...
In 1959, they were noticed by producer and Dolton Records founder Bob Reisdorff, and together they recorded their self-written first hit, "Come Softly to Me," which shot to #1 in Billboard and was also covered by others.
That's how we learned that the first song we'd written and recorded was the No. 1 song in the nation. And so it remained, for an astonishing four weeks in April and May, 1959. Gary was in the Naval Reserves.
In April of 1959, a singing group from the Pacific Northwest named the Fleetwoods rose briefly to the top of the pop music scene with a No. 1 hit titled, “Come Softly To Me.” The Fleetwoods were high school kids from Olympia, Washington – Gretchen Christopher, Barbara Ellis, and Gary Troxel.
Audiences share her musical journey, from the 1959 Gold #1 Record and Best Selling Sheet Music "COME SOFTLY TO ME" ('n doo be doo, Dom dom) and Top 40 Hit "GRADUATION'S HERE" (both of which she co-wrote and sang lead on, with The Fleetwoods) to the inspiring and soul-bared lyrics, dynamic and haunting tunes she's writing today, worthy of Broadway.
