[78-L] two hits - same song

[David Lennick]

Even in the 70s there were multiple versions of some songs, like Mamy Blue. Pop 
Tops, Roger Whittaker, Oak Island Treasury Department (Canada), others..all 
languishing below the top 30 because the publisher licensed it to anyone and 
everyone.

dl

On 4/24/2014 12:23 AM, Rodger J. Holtin 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?
>