Thursday, March 30, 2017
"Stay" #1 11/26/1960
Back to 1960 and the shortest #1 record ever on the rock charts, from Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs. Maurice wrote it in 1953 at age 15 after trying to convince his date not to go home. The Hollies (in the UK) and the Four Seasons also had hits with this as did Jackson Browne, who put it on his 1978 live album "Running On Empty." This was also on the soundtrack of "Dirty Dancing."
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This is the best version.
AND the biggest hit version as well.
Oddly enough, the other familiar Maurice Williams-penned songs---LITTLE DARLIN' and MAY I---didn't make the mainstream top-40 for Williams and his groups.
It was the cover versions of those songs that charted (The Diamonds and Bill Deal & The Rhondells.
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