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Cotton Candy is an album by Al Hirt that was released in 1964 by RCA Victor. The album features the Anita Kerr Singers. [3] The title track hit No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart and No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. [4] "Walkin'" was released as the B-Side to "Cotton Candy" and reached No. 103 on the Billboard 100. [5]
Sugar Lips is an album by Al Hirt released in 1964 by RCA Victor. [2] The single, "Sugar Lips", reached No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart and No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. The single, "Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)", hit No. 85 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. [3]
"Sugar Lips" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Buddy Killen and recorded by Al Hirt for his 1964 album, Sugar Lips. [1] The song reached No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart in 1964. [2] The song was featured on Hirt's greatest hits album, The Best of Al Hirt. [3]
Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, [1] the son of a police officer. At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. He played in the Junior Police Band with friend Roy Fernandez, the son of Alcide Nunez; by the age of 16, Hirt was playing professionally, often with his friend Pete Fountain, while attending Jesuit High School.
In 1963, trumpet player Al Hirt recorded the instrumental, and the track was the first single from his album Honey in the Horn. It was Hirt's first and biggest hit on the US pop charts, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 29, 1964 [2] and spending four weeks at #1 on the easy listening chart in early 1964. [3]
Al Hirt's "Java" won the award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra at the 1964 ceremony, [8] and the following year "Hello, Dolly!" won the award for Song of the Year and "The Girl from Ipanema" by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto was named Record of the Year. [9]
Al Hirt: 4 February 29 6 "What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)" The Tams: 9 February 22 2 February 22 "Dawn (Go Away)" The Four Seasons: 3 February 22 6 "California Sun" The Rivieras: 5 February 29 4 "Navy Blue" Diane Renay: 6 March 14 5 February 29 "Please Please Me" The Beatles 3 March 14 7 "Stop and Think It Over" Dale & Grace: 8 March 7 2 ...
The Best of Al Hirt; Greatest hits album by . Al Hirt. Released: 1965: Genre: Jazz: Length: 39: 02: Label: RCA Victor: Al Hirt chronology; Cotton Candy (1964) The ...