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CONNIE FRANCIS – "Who's Sorry Now?"
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Popular: #71, 16th May 1958
— 22 January 2004 Tom 6 comments

At first I thought it ran out of steam early – 90 seconds in, she’d made her point, why did she have to reprise it in high-kicking swing-vamp style? I was completely wrong of course – the last 45 seconds of “Who’s Sorry […]

THE JOHNSTON BROTHERS – "Hernando's Hideaway"
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Popular: #38, 11th November 1955
— 7 October 2003 Tom 13 comments

“All you see are silhouettes / And all you hear are castanets / And no-one cares how late it gets / Not at Hernando’s Hideaway” – late night Spanish-themed drinking dens are romanticised by the Johnstons. Perhaps some of the s[…]

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  8. I wonder if Noel spent the 00s stockpiling his best songs for his eventual solo album? Most of the songs…