Fool No. 1

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"Fool #1"
Single by Brenda Lee
from the album Brenda, That's All
B-side "Anybody But Me"
Released October 1961
Recorded30 August 1961
Genre Pop
Length2:25
Label Decca 31309
Songwriter(s) Kathryn R. Fulton
Producer(s) Owen Bradley
Brenda Lee singles chronology
"Dum Dum"
(1961)
"Fool #1"
(1961)
"Break It to Me Gently"
(1962)

"Fool #1" is a song written by Kathryn R. Fulton and performed by Brenda Lee. [1] The song was featured on Lee's 1962 album, Brenda, That's All . [2]

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Chart performance

The song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.38 in the UK (where it was entitled "Fool No.1", because the # symbol was not synonymous with the word 'number' for British audiences) in 1961. [3] The song also reached No. 23 in Australia.

The single's B-Side, "Anybody But Me", reached No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. [4]

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