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Let Me Go, Lover!

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Weber was pregnant when she recorded the song. A result of the program was to illustrate how efficiently a song could be promoted by introducing it to the public via radio or a TV production. The recording was released by
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on November 15, 1954, and caught the fancy of the public. The episode was a murder mystery that revolved around a hit record and a disc jockey. Producer Felix Jackson asked
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stocked national record stores the week before the program and because of its availability the record sold over 100,000 in the first week of its release.
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charts on December 18, 1954. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at No. 8; on the Best Seller chart, at No. 24; on the Juke Box chart, at No. 12.
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charts (the Disk Jockey chart, the Best Seller chart, and the Juke Box chart). The song reached No. 16 in the
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Best-Selling Records chart, all the versions were combined, and the song was also a No. 1 hit on that chart.
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had the song released as a single in 1955, reaching No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.
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Sunny Gale recorded a version in January 1955 that reached No. 17 on the
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and The Lancers, was recorded on November 18, 1954, and released by
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on December 4, 1954. By January 1955, it had hit No. 1 on all the
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also released the song in 1954, reaching No. 26. On the
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for a recording to use in the show, and Miller provided
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reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart with her version.
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Many Tears Ago: The Life and Times of Jenny Lou Carson
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Index

Let Me Go Lover
Single
Joan Weber
B-side
Genre
Label
Columbia
Composer(s)
Jenny Lou Carson
Fred Wise
Producer(s)
Mitch Miller
popular
song
Jenny Lou Carson
pen name
Fred Wise
Kathleen Twomey
Ben Weisman
Let Me Go, Devil
alcoholism
television
Studio One
Columbia Records
Mitch Miller
Joan Weber
Columbia Records
Mitch Miller
Billboard magazine charts
Billboard

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