Whatever
your plans are for celebrating New Year’s Eve, going out, staying home or a
combination of both …
( By the Way, nobody ever told me that 20-20 was going to be a Trifecta! )
I hope you and your baby have a Memorable Celebration as we bring in another go of it with 20-23!!
So, for every Forgotten Hitter who’s hoping for a better year, here’s my Special “Chuck Buell ‘My Baby’ New Year’s Eve Minute Medley - the 'Extended Director’s Cut'" to kick off my New Year’s Eve Extravaganza!
Starring ~~~ Chicagoan, Ken Nordine! And his original composition about going out with his Special Someone, ‘My Baby!’
With opening acts, The Ronettes! Be ‘My Baby!’
The Tremeloes! Here Comes ‘My Baby!’
The Drifters! There Goes ‘My Baby!’
Buddy Holly! Maybe ‘(My) Baby!’
And Tommy James and the Shondells! ‘My Baby’ Does the Hanky Panky!'
Happy New Year!
CB ( which stands for “Celebration ‘Baby!’”
So although the clock on the wall tells us that in a matter of just a few hours, 2022 is about to turn into 2023, I cannot help but ask myself ...
WAIT A SECOND ...
WHAT YEAR IS IT AGAIN?!?!
Part of that confusion may come from glancing at this week's Billboard Top 40 Pop Music Chart ...
Thanks to the way the charts are compiled and configured these days, this week's Top 40 contains songs by:
ANDY WILLIAMS - Happy Holiday / The Holiday Season (#40) and It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (#6)
JOHN LENNON - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) #38
CHUCK BERRY - Run Rudolph Run (#34)
THE JACKSON FIVE - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (#33)
PAUL McCARTNEY - Wonderful Christmastime (#32)
THE BEACH BOYS - Little Saint Nick (#30)
GENE AUTRY - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (#28) and Here Comes Santa Claus (#25)
ELVIS PRESLEY - Blue Christmas (#27)
PERRY COMO - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (#24)
FRANK SINATRA - Jingle Bells (#22)
BING CROSBY - White Christmas (#18)
DEAN MARTIN - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (#17)
NAT "KING" COLE - Deck The Halls (#16) and The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) #11
DARLENE LOVE - Christmas Baby (Please Come Home) #15
THE RONETTES - Sleigh Ride (#13)
JOSE FELICIANO - Feliz Navidad (#8)
WHAM! - Last Christmas (#5)
BURL IVES - A Holly Jolly Christmas (#4)
BOBBY HELMS - Jingle Bell Rock (#3)
BRENDA LEE - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (#2)
and MARIAH CAREY - All I Want For Christmas Is You (#1)
That's right, folks ...
21 Vintage Artists ... singing 24 different Christmas songs (!) ... have taken over The Top 40 this week!!! (That accounts for 60% of the entire chart!!!)
And there are more ...
The Eagles, Eartha Kitt, Donny Hathaway and The Vince Guaraldi Trio account for four of the next ten songs on the countdown ...
An unprecedented take-over of the charts!
(If somebody had posed the trivia question: In what year did Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Jose Feliciano, The Beach Boys, Brenda Lee, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Chuck Berry ALL have Top 40 Hits during the same week, nobody could have EVER predicted that the answer to that question would be 2022!!! And just watch ... this could very well BE a music trivia question a few decades from now!!!)
Pretty Amazing!!! But true!!!
https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/
"Still listening to the hits of the '50's, '60's and '70's"???
You betcha! (kk)
