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370:, had a #75 hit with the song on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. Tennant had initially recorded and released the song on his own Velvet label (co-owned with Ray Curran) in April, 1963 (Velvet 201-63), using the same name Mullins was using, Jimmy Velvit. That same issue was briefly re-issued in August, 1963 on the Cortland label's Witch Records subsidiary (#115) in an effort to take the Velvet Records release to a national level. Tennant used another song from the session, "I'm Gonna Try" as the flip side of both releases, the same song the earlier Jimmy Velvit (Jimmy Mullins) had used on his 1962 Cub version. That song had been written by Mullins. The hit release (as by Jimmy Velvet) on ABC-Paramount 10488 used "History Of Love" (recorded at the same April session) as the flip side, which was first issued by November, 1963. 22: 131: 39: 742: 572: 355:
area. It was issued in January, 1962 on M-G-M's Cub Records label (K9105). It attracted a lot of attention and air-play and became the #1 song on the Dallas
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and can be found on several of his albums. It is also featured in a scene from the 1987 hit film about Valens,
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released a remake on the Laurie label, Laurie 3080, in 1961, after they had split with
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Robert & Johnny
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Genre
Rhythm and blues
Label
Old Town
Songwriter(s)
Robert & Johnny
American
rhythm and blues
hit
Robert & Johnny
Hy Weiss
Billboard Hot 100
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The Fleetwoods

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