The track, which spent five weeks at No. 1, became the second song to top the weekly Hot 100, after Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool.” Also in the 1958 year-end issue, Billboard continued ...
By Glenn Peoples Normally, there’s little room near the top of the charts for decades-old recordings. Most of the year, the Billboard Hot 100 is dominated by new songs by artists in their 20s ...