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The Fleetwoods were an American vocal group from Olympia, Washington, whose members were Gary Troxel (born November 28, 1939), Gretchen Christopher (born February 29, 1940), and Barbara Ellis (born February 20, 1940).
Cherish your own CD, Mr. BLUE, by the first group in the world to have two Number One Records top Billboard's Hot 100 in a single year (1959), and the only group to achieve this in the first seven years of Rock & Roll history!
The Fleetwoods charted on The Billboard "Hot 100" for 110 weeks, 1959 -1963, and according to The Billboard Book of #1 Records were the only group in the first seven years of Rock 'n' Roll history to have two #1 Records top The Billboard "Hot 100" in a single year.
13 lut 2018 · Here’s how quickly pop music was moving in the late ’50s and early ’60s: The Fleetwoods were the first group ever to score multiple #1 singles on the Hot 100, and yet they still managed to ...
" 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. Roy Lanham played guitar on the track, and Si Zentner played the trombone. Chart positions. Other versions.
#1 Pop Hits, THE FLEETWOODS . were the first group (of any size or gender) to have TWO #1 Records top the Billboard Hot 100 in a single year! The year was 1959. The two #1 Hits: "Come Softly To Me" & "Mr. Blue" THE FLEETWOODS . were one of the few white vocal groups in the '50s and '60s to enjoy success on both the Pop and R&B charts.
Today, The Fleetwoods remain the first group in the world to have two #1 Records top Billboard's Hot 100 in a single year. An accomplishment held exclusively by The Fleetwoods for the first seven years of Rock & Roll history, according to author(ities) Fred Bronson's THE BILLBOARD BOOK OF NUMBER ONE HITS,
