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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: birthday songs |
| Date | Tue, 01 Jul 2003 01:53:09 -0500 |
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:28:53 -0500
> From: Brian Curtis <brioohs@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: birthday songs
> Message-ID: <BB2550E3.4CC0%brioohs@sbcglobal.net>
>
> Dunno about Billboard, but Cash Box sez "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" by
> Connie Francis on my birthday - July 1, 1960. Chances are Billboard may
> say
> "Alley Oop" or "Cathy's Clown." What does the book say, Greg?
>
"Cathy's Clown". Not bad, Brian.
After consulting the link to the Menziesera webpage that contains
the British and Aussie #1's as well as the top hits stateside, I discovered
that my UK birthday song was "Well, I Ask You" by Eden Kane, and my birthday
song Down Under was "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door" by Eddie Hodges.
Knowing nothing about either singer, much less the songs in
question, I did a little web research. Turns out that Eden Kane (real name
Richard Sarstedt) was an early-sixties British teen idol in the Cliff
Richard mold who later became a cabaret singer in Vegas and now lives in
L.A., where his sister-in-law is American TV actress Stefanie Powers and his
next-door neighbor is Smokey Robinson. He's apparently had a few walk-on
American TV roles, including *Dynasty* and one of the *Star Trek* series,
but at this point he's still basically unknown to the American public.
Eddie Hodges, it turns out, was an American child actor of some
renown in the sixties. He appeared in some movies that I've actually seen,
including *Advise and Consent*, *A Hole In the Head*, the Elvis Presley
vehicle *Live a Little, Love a Little*, and the Michael Curtiz version of
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, as well as such TV shows as *The Lucy
Show*, *Gunsmoke*, *The Dick Van Dyke Show*, and *Family Affair*. He had
four singles that charted in the U.S. between 1961 and 1965, of which "I'm
Gonna Knock On Your Door" was the highest at #12. Apparently, his music went
over bigger in Australia. Like a lot of child actors from earlier eras, he
vanished from the public eye completely after 1968 or so.
Now that that's cleared up, I'd like to hear the songs themselves.
Gregory Sager
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