"Red Rubber Ball" #2 7/9/1966

Gonna double up on our posts over the next few weeks. Lots of good chart stuff this week, then we'll be on vacation soon afterward. The Cyrkle started out as a frat party band called the Rhondells at Lafayette College in Easton, PA and were brought to the attention of Brian Epstein. He agreed to manage them, and John Lennon drew a circle and gave the group the stylized spelling of their new name - kind of the way "Beatles" was a play on beetles, as in Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Paul Simon co-wrote this along with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers. Their lead singers, Tom Dawes and Don Dannemann, later became ad jingle writers. Tom created "plop plop fizz fizz" for Alka-Seltzer and Don wrote the original Uncola jingle for 7-Up in the 70's.

Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball