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Thread #58406   Message #924803
Posted By: GUEST,Dale
02-Apr-03 - 05:42 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Rusty Draper (1923-2003)
Subject: RE: Obit: Rusty Draper
Copy and paste from this site. Click the link if you want the whole list. I am not sure if it is an indictment of me or the music of today that I know virtually every song on the list, but none that might be popular today.

CASH BOX TOP 50 BEST-SELLING SINGLES
                   Week ending September 12, 1953

12 GAMBLER'S GUITAR
                   Rusty Draper-Mercury 70167

20 LIGHTHOUSE
                   Rusty Draper-Mercury 70188

We had a 78 of Lighthouse, and I sure do remember that ~~ one of my favorite songs of that era.   I think we had another Rusty Draper record too, but that was the one that still sticks in my mind over the last almost 50 years. (How did that happen?   Seems hardly a day past 40)