The Chordettes
The Chordettes | |
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The Chordettes (clockwise: Carol Buschmann, Dorothy "Dottie" Schwartz, Jinny Osborn, and Janet Ertel) | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1946–1963 |
| Labels | |
| Past member(s) | Jinny Lockard (previously Osborn) Carol Buschmann Lynn Evans Janet Ertel (aka Bleyer) Margie Latzko Dorothy “Dottie” (Hummitzsch) Schwartz Nancy Overton Alice Mae Spielvogel (previously Buschmann) Joyce Weston |
| Website | The Chordettes' page on the Primarily A Cappella site |
The Chordettes were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella. Their songs were mainly traditional popular music. They are best known for their hit songs "Mr. Sandman" and "Lollipop".[1]
Singles
| Year | Single (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated |
Chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. [2] |
U.S. R&B |
U.S. AC |
UK[3] | |||
| 1954 | "Mr. Sandman" b/w "I Don't Wanna See You Cryin'" (Non-album track) |
1[4] | 3 | 11 | The Chordettes | |
| 1955 | "Lonely Lips" b/w "The Dudelsack Song" (Non-album track) |
7 | All the Very Best of the Chordettes | |||
| "Humming Bird" b/w "I Told a Lie" (Non-album track) |
9 | The Chordettes | ||||
| 1956 | "The Wedding" b/w "I Don't Know, I Don't Care" (Non-album track) |
91[5] | 5 | All the Very Best of the Chordettes | ||
| "Eddie My Love" b/w "Whistlin' Willie" (Non-album track) |
14 | 3 | The Chordettes | |||
| "Born to Be with You" b/w "Love Never Changes" |
5 | 4 | 8 | |||
| "Lay Down Your Arms" / | 16[6] | 2 | ||||
| "Teen Age Goodnight" | 45 | 8 | ||||
| 1957 | "Come Home to My Arms" b/w "(Fifi's) Walkin' the Poodle" (Non-album track) |
7 | ||||
| "Echo of Love" b/w "Like a Baby" (from The Chordettes) |
56 | Non-album track | ||||
| "Just Between You and Me" / | 8 | 8 | The Chordettes | |||
| "Soft Sands" | 73 | 1 | ||||
| "Baby of Mine" b/w "Photographs" |
3 | Non-album tracks | ||||
| 1958 | "Lollipop" b/w "Baby, Come-a Back-a" (Non-album track) |
2 | 3 | 6 | All the Very Best of the Chordettes | |
| "Zorro" b/w "Love Is a Two-Way Street" (Non-album track) |
17 | 5 | ||||
| 1959 | "No Other Arms, No Other Lips" b/w "We Should Be Together" (Non-album track) |
27 | 6 | |||
| "A Girl's Work Is Never Done" b/w "No Wheels" (Non-album track) |
89 | 0 | ||||
| 1960 | "A Broken Vow" b/w "All My Sorrows" |
—[A] | 4 | Non-album tracks | ||
| 1961 | "Never on Sunday" / | 13 | 2 | 4 | Never on Sunday | |
| "Faraway Star" | 90 | 5 | All the Very Best of the Chordettes | |||
| "The Exodus Song" b/w "Theme from 'Goodbye Again'" |
6 | Never on Sunday | ||||
| 1962 | "The White Rose of Athens" b/w "Adios" |
5 | Non-album tracks | |||
| "In the Deep Blue Sea" b/w "All My Sorrows" |
1 | |||||
| 1963 | "True Love Goes On and On" b/w "All My Sorrows" |
8 | ||||
References
- ↑ PogieJoe (January 14, 2015). "MRS. SANDMAN: A Chat with The Chordettes' Lynn Evans". YouTube. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
- ↑ The Chordettes at AllMusic
- ↑ Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete (1976): Chart Log of American/British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974. In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (ed.): Rock File 4. Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, p. 113f
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1973): Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, p. 13
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1994): Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., p. 112
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2005): The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits. 7. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, New York City, New York: Billboard Books, p. 129
- ↑ "Bubbling Under Hot 100". Top40Weekly. 2019. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
Notes: The Chordettes originally started off as a quartet but multiple people come and go thruout the bands lifetime
- ↑ "A Broken Vow" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at #2 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.[7]
Other websites
- Picture and names of The Chordettes
- "'The Chordettes' Vocal Group Hall of Fame Page". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
- The Chordettes at AllMusic
- The Chordettes' page on the Primarily A Cappella site
- Chordette Lynn Evans harmonizes in classroom while a teacher
- "The Chordettes : Official Covers Discography". Archived from the original on 2014-10-23.
- Chordettes sing "Lollipop" and "Mr. Sandman" on the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, February 22, 1958
- Carol Buschmann Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2010)
- Dorothy Schwartz Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2010)
