Sunday, 10 March 2024

MV HIT RECORDS 1959-1963

non-Billboard (all charts); non-Breakout Hits; non-Gavin Report, non-CB (incl. LA)

no re-entries and re-issues
744 singles  70% of all singles that entered Hit Records 1959-1963*

Please help me to reduce this list.

Many entries of Hit Records 101-150 are single edits of album (jazz and/or live) tracks, many others are spoken. Therefore, Hit Records seems to be much less attractive, to Collectors, than Obscure Artists (instrumental, rock, teen or R&B) – Discogs Marketplace prices confirm this assumption. Both sets are overlapping marginally.

* Hit Records chart started on February 23, 1959, 15 weeks prior ro Billboard Bubbling Under chart. .

4 comments:

WiMa said...

Two missing songs:

Buddy Smith - Overnight - 1959 Hanover 4533
Earl Grant - Don't Point Your Finger At Somebody Else - 1959 Decca 30908

https://workupload.com/file/NUhzMD5XWeF

PS: I still haven't got the pass list for the Obscure American Artists lists, please let me know
this list.

Professor RnR said...

Many thanks WiMa.
Buddy Smith label time 1:43 must be wrong, should be 2:43. I verified your version with poor YouTube copy showing rotating original 45 and it is the same copy (YouTube copy is speeded up a little bit).
I just sent to your e-mail guidelines regarding the sheet with passes.

WiMa said...

Missing MV HIT RECORDS 1959-1963 A
01 - Amanda Ambrose - Crawdad Song - 1963 RCA 47-8167
02 - Amanda Ambrose - This Little Light Of Mine - 1963 RCA 47-8167
03 - The Ames Brothers - Love Is An Ocean - 1962 Epic 9530
04 - The Ames Brothers - Love Me With All Your Heart - 1962 Epic 9530
05 - The Andrews Sisters - Mr. Bass Man - 1963 Dot 16497
06 - Ann Margaret - Jim Dandy - 1962 RCA 47-8061
07 - The Astronauts - Every One But Me - 1963 RCA 47-8224
08 - The Astronauts - Hot-Doggin' - 1963 RCA 47-8224
09 - Ernestine Anderson - I Heard You Cry Last Night - 1959 Mercury 71500
10 - Gene Ammons - Anna - 1962 Prestige 7257 & Starlite 097
11 - Steve Alaimo - Cry Myself To Sleep - 1962 Checker 1024
12 - Steve Alaimo - One Good Reason - 1962 Checker 1024
13 - Steve Alaimo - It's A Long, Long Way To Happiness - 1963 Checker 1042
14 - Steve Alaimo - Lifetime Of Loneliness - 1963 Checker 1042
15 - Toni Arden - Anna (El Negro Zumbon) - 1959 Decca 30986
16 - Tony Amaro - Heart And Soul - 1960 Stacy 920
17 - Tony Amaro - Please Stay With Me (I Confess) - 1960 Stacy 920

https://workupload.com/file/7tS6T4gWLWF

Professor RnR said...

Many thanks WiMa, I have all these tracks, probably present on the first issue of missing. This list is constantly updated, today only 5 missing + some that I'm expecting to get. To check the last update, click on Missing at MV HIT RECORDS post