[78-L] two hits - same song

[Cary Ginell]

"Autumn Leaves" charted by six artists during 1955, led by Roger Williams' #1 version. 

Cary 

> On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:24 PM, "Rodger J. Holtin" <rjh334578 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Looking over the Whitburn digest of top ten hits from the Billboard charts
> (the verifiable years, ignore that guesswork stuff from the early years) it
> does appear that on numerous occasions during the big band days that the
> same song could be a charted hit simultaneously by two - or more
> - different artists.  This seems to be more a function of the Great
> American Songbook than the big bands - they were just the lucky
> beneficiaries, I guess.  The last one I found was Third Man Theme as
> charted by Anton Karas and Guy Lombardo.  There may be others.
> 
> Be that as it may, the question for The Panel this evening is whether this
> phenomenon was ever repeated in the post big band days of the
> crooner/croonettes and on into the rock n roll days up to today.  Can
> anybody cite any such example since 1950?
> 
> -- 
> Rodger
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