who sang i want to be bobbys girl
Marcie Blane
title: Bobby's Girl (song) text: Bobby's Girl (song) "Bobby's Girl" is a song and single written by Gary Klein and Henry Hoffman and performed by American teenage singer, Marcie Blane. It was first released in 1962 in America. It has a spoken introduction and a backing refrain of ""You're not a kid anymore"" and was popular with the American teenage audience. It entered the charts in October and made the Top 10 within a month reaching 3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 by December, where it stayed for four weeks only to be kept from the top of the charts by The Four Seasons' "Big title: Bobby's Girl (song) text: 45 in West Germany. Bobby's Girl (song) "Bobby's Girl" is a song and single written by Gary Klein and Henry Hoffman and performed by American teenage singer, Marcie Blane. It was first released in 1962 in America. It has a spoken introduction and a backing refrain of ""You're not a kid anymore"" and was popular with the American teenage audience. It entered the charts in October and made the Top 10 within a month reaching 3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 by December, where it stayed for four weeks only to be kept from the top of the charts by title: Susan Maughan text: Susan Maughan Susan Maughan (born Marian Maughan, 1 July 1938,) is an English singer who released successful singles in the 1960s. Her most famous and successful song, "Bobby's Girl" (a cover of the Marcie Blane single), reached number three in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas time in 1962. It also reached number six in the Norwegian chart in that year. Maughan was born in Consett, County Durham. The sleeve notes on her 1963 album, written by John Franz, stated that "Susan's family moved to Birmingham (in 1953) when Susan was 15. She started work there as a shorthand typist, title: Marcie Blane text: Marcie Blane Marcia Blank better known as Marcie Blane, is an American pop singer. Blane was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a favor to a friend, Marcie recorded a demo for Seville Records. The song was "Bobby's Girl". Released in the fall of 1962, "Bobby's Girl" made #2 on the "Cash Box" chart and #3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and was later recorded for the German market in their language. It sold over one million copies by 1963, and was awarded a gold disc. In the United Kingdom the song was covered by Susan Maughan who had the title: Bobby's Girl (song) text: Girls Don't Cry" and Elvis Presley's "Return to Sender". It reached 2 on the "Cash Box" chart staying on the charts for nineteen weeks and made Blane the top selling female singer in the US. The Susan Maughan cover version was also released in 1962, in the UK. It featured Wally Stott and his orchestra and chorus. Maughan's version spent nineteen weeks on the UK's "Record Retailer" chart, peaking at No. 3. In 1983, Tracey Ullman released a version of "Bobby's Girl" on the album "You Broke My Heart in 17 Places" and as a single. Ullman's version reached No.