“Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” (Lenny Welch) #34 2/21/1970

Bruce Springsteen wasn’t the first music star to hail from Asbury Park, NJ. Lenny Welch preceded the Boss by a decade or so. Lenny had a huge hit at the end of 1963 with “Since I Fell For You” but other than the followup, a version of “Ebb Tide,” he’d hit a dry spell until returning to the Top 40 here. This slower take came along several years before Neil Sedaka’s slow remake of his own 1962 classic.