The Top 5 biggest #2 Records released between 1955 and 1989 is heavy with late '50's tunes.
We just heard The Coasters doing "Charlie Brown" last hour ... and now comes ANOTHER #2 Hit from 1959 ...
"Personality" by Lloyd Price.
Lloyd's career dates back to the pre-rock era ... he had already been scoring hits on the R&B Charts for several years before Rock And Roll Music broke the scene wide open in 1955 and 1956. (In fact, he even rereleased a couple of those tunes to cash in on the new craze ... and watched his records go right up the pop charts, too!)
Price hit #1 earlier in 1959 with his classic reading of a tune that dates back to the 1920's ... Lloyd's version of "Stagger Lee" is considered by most to be definitive version.
Less than six months later, he'd be holding down the #2 spot with this hour's featured hit, "Personality" ...
And before the year was over, he earned aother #2 hit with "I'm Gonna Get Married." (This record didn't qualify for our special countdown because it peaked at #3 in both Billboard and Music Vendor.) In between all of this, Price scored three more Top 20 with "Where Were You On Our Wedding Day," #15, "Come Into My Heart," #16 and "Wont'cha Come Home," #15, all released in 1959! (If you're keeping score, that's SIX Top 20 Hits in the same year!) Not a bad year for Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Lloyd Price!)
"Personality" spent a total of TWELVE collective weeks at #2, earning 120 points in the process ... and was held out of the #1 spot by Johnny Horton's monster hit, "The Battle Of New Orleans," one of the biggest records of the year.
