Little Star (The Elegants song)

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"Little Star"
Single by The Elegants
B-side "Getting Dizzy"
Released 1958
Genre
Length2:42
Label Apt
Songwriter(s) Vito Picone, Arthur Venosa

"Little Star" is a song recorded by The Elegants. Members Vito Picone and Arthur Venosa co-wrote the lyrics. The music was adapted from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". [3] In 1958, the single topped both the R&B Best Sellers list and the Billboard Hot 100. [4] It was their only song to ever chart. Phil Spector reviewed it as an "awful good record". [3] The band Randy & the Rainbows covered the song in 1963.

Contents

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1958)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [5] 1
Chart (1958–2018)Position
US Billboard Hot 100 [6] 595

See also

References

  1. ↑ Marsh, Dave (1989). The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. Plume. p. 100. ISBN   0-452-26305-0.
  2. 1 2 Breihan, Tom (January 18, 2018). "The Number Ones: The Elegants' "Little Star"". Stereogum . Retrieved June 3, 2023. It's also not especially well-suited to becoming a pop song. But the Elegants built on its familiarity...There are plenty of better doo-wop songs, but there are plenty of worse ones, too.
  3. 1 2 Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 14 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Phil Spector & Frank Zappa review the '50s" (audio). Pop Chronicles . University of North Texas Libraries.
  4. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 184.
  5. ↑ "Weekly Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Songs from the First 50 Years". Billboard . Archived from the original on 16 January 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved January 28, 2019.



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