Forget Him (Bobby Rydell song)

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"Forget Him"
Forget Him - Bobby Rydell.jpg
Single by Bobby Rydell
from the album Forget Him
B-side "Love, Love Go Away"
ReleasedOctober 1963 [1]
RecordedFebruary 1963, Pye Studios, London, England
Genre Pop
Length2:08
Label Cameo-Parkway Records
Songwriter(s) Tony Hatch (as Mark Anthony) [2]
Producer(s) Tony Hatch [3]
Bobby Rydell singles chronology
"Let's Make Love Tonight"
(1963)
"Forget Him"
(1963)
"Little Girl You've Had a Busy Day"
(1964)

"Forget Him" is a song written by Tony Hatch and released in 1963 by Bobby Rydell. The song spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 4 on January 18, 1964, [4] while it spent 14 weeks on the United Kingdom's Record Retailer chart, reaching No. 13. [5] The song also reached No. 3 on Billboard 's Middle-Road Singles chart, [6] [7] No. 3 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, [8] No. 8 on the Irish Singles Chart, [9] and No. 2 in Hong Kong. [10]

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The song first charted in the United Kingdom on May 29, 1963. [11] It received significant airplay, began to rise in the charts and was noticed by Paul McCartney. In 2000, McCartney said the initial idea for "She Loves You" came from a Bobby Rydell hit that was popular at the time (mid-1963). [12] Lennon and McCartney started composing "She Loves You" on June 26, 1963 (about four weeks after the release of "Forget Him" in the UK). "She Loves You" was completed the following day. [12]

"Forget Him" peaked in the United States in early 1964 and was ranked No. 20 on Cash Box 's "Top 100 Chart Hits of 1964". [13]

Chart performance

Chart (1963-1964)Peak
position
Canada (CHUM Hit Parade) [8] 3
Hong Kong [10] 2
Ireland (IRMA) [9] 8
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade) [14] 4
UK Record Retailer [5] 13
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 4
US Billboard Middle-Road Singles [7] 3
US Cash Box Top 100 [15] 5

Cover versions

English rock and roll singer Billy Fury covered "Forget Him" as a non-album single in 1983. It became a hit in the United Kingdom, reaching #59.

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References

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  3. Cameo Parkway: 1957-1967, 4 CD Box Set, ABKCo Music & Records Inc., New York, 2005, liner notes
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  7. 1 2 "Middle-Road Singles", Billboard , January 18, 1964. p. 58. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  8. 1 2 "1050 CHUM - CHUM Charts". CHUM. Archived from the original on July 15, 2006. Retrieved March 31, 2018. Chart No. 354, December 23, 1963.
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  12. 1 2 The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. London: Cassell & Co., page 96
  13. "Top 100 Chart Hits of 1964", Cash Box , December 26, 1964. p. 12. Accessed July 28, 2016.
  14. Flavour of New Zealand, 23 January 1964
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