Ricky Nelson was a fixture on the bed room partitions and file gamers of tens of millions of American followers from his seventeenth birthday onwards. Already a radio and TV superstar, he then burst into the hit parade in Could 1957 with “A Teenager’s Romance.” It took just a little longer for his reputation to journey the Atlantic, with British followers giving him his first actually huge hit there with “Poor Little Fool” in the summertime of 1958.
After opening that door, Nelson grew to become a UK chart common. “Poor Little Fool” was adopted by Prime 10 success for “Someday” and “It’s Late” and two different Prime 20 hits, earlier than the brand new chart for September 11, 1959 confirmed Ricky with a brand new entry for “Just A Little Too Much.”
As ever, the only appeared on London within the UK, and Imperial again dwelling, the place the Johnny Burnette track had just lately reached No.9. Nelson was nonetheless solely 19, and it was already his tenth Prime 10 hit within the US. Essentially the most exceptional factor about that statistic was that his eleventh got here with the opposite aspect of the exact same single.
Two hits for the worth of 1
It was fairly commonplace for the 2 sides of a forty five to earn separate chart positions within the US, the place “Sweeter Than You” hit the Scorching 100 every week later and in addition reached No.9. Not the primary time, two Nelson songs had been racing one another, with each taking the lead at completely different phases. It supplied the reply to the chart trivia query of which artist had two completely different No.9 hits within the US inside two weeks of one another in August 1959.
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Such chart exercise was far more uncommon within the British market, which had “Just A Little Too Much” because the nominal UK B-side of “Sweeter Than You.” The latter track entered the chart there every week earlier and received as excessive as No.19. However “Sweeter Than You” was solely ranked in its personal proper for 3 weeks, overtaken by the recognition of “Too Much.”
Quickly, either side could be showing on his album Songs By Ricky, which reached No.22 within the States. Like all of his albums, it did not make the UK bestsellers, however at 45 revolutions per minute, Ricky Nelson was a veritable hit machine.
Purchase or stream “Just A Little Too Much” on the album Songs By Ricky.
