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During this week in 1952 Hank Thompson topped all three Billboard country charts for a third consecutive week. “The Wild Side Of Life” continued as the best-selling record and it was the most played country song on radio stations and jukeboxes. By mid-June that single had already spent three months on the charts and Capitol released a new Hank Thompson single. “Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart” was co-written by Hank and was recorded at the December 11, 1951 session when he recorded “The Wild Side Of Life.” Capitol miscalculated the staying power of “Wild Side” because for most of its chart run “Lobby” competed with Hank’s still very popular smash hit.
In 1962 Mercury Records continued to release George Jones singles though he had officially left that label for United Artists. In late March just as George’s first U.A. single “She Thinks I Still Care” was about to begin it’s chart run “Aching, Breaking Heart” on Mercury peaked at #5. In mid-June Mercury charted a George Jones/Margie Singleton duet. Their first coupling “Did I Ever Tell You” had received a lukewarm reception the previous fall when it stalled at #15. “Waltz Of The Angels” performed marginally better peaking at #11 in late July 1962. That version outperformed Wynn Stewart’s 1956 single that had only managed to climb to #14. Mercury released seven more George Jones singles during the next two years briefly charting only two.
Donna Fargo’s road to success began with recordings made for the tiny Ramco record label based in Phoenix. Three 1967 singles never charted nationally though they did receive substantial West Coast airplay as did two other singles for the Challenge label in 1968. Those recordings raised Donna’s regional profile and resulted in her nomination as the Academy Of Country Music’s Most Promising Female Vocalist for both 1968 and 1969. After a 1970 release for the Country Heart label was similarly unsuccessful, Donna and her husband/producer Stan Silver personally financed a Nashville recording session that included the song “The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.” Dot Records picked up the master. Dot heavily promoted the single and distributed it nationally bringing Donna her first national hit record on both the country and pop charts.
Curb Records artists the Bellamy Brothers had been affiliated with the Warner Brothers label since 1975. Their first single for that label “Let Your Love Flow” earned them a #1 pop hit in 1976. It also peaked at #21 on the country survey. Their country music breakthrough finally occurred in 1979 when “If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold In Against Me” hit #1. During the next three years Howard & David scored three more #1 hits and 3 top tens. In 1982 the duo switched their affiliation to Elektra Records where producer Jimmy Bowen sanctioned recording sessions for a new album at the Bellamy’s Florida home. The tracks were later mixed at the Sound Stage studio in Nashville utilizing brand new digital technology. The first single selected from those Florida sessions was “For All The Wrong Reasons.” Written by David it became the Bellamy Brothers fifth number one single this week in 1982.