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n). Nor is there room for the author's personal
> .. favorite, "I Remember Elvis Presley (The King Is
> .. Dead)", by Danny Mirror (1977).
>
> .. (#18) "Release Me", Engelbert Humperdinck, 1967. Flying
> .. in the teeth of drugs, peace, and psychedelia, the
> .. biggest chart name of 1967 belonged to a crooner with
> .. matinée idol looks and several yards of sideburn. He
> .. was born Gerry Dorsey in Madras, India, and a singing
> .. career which had trundled along without event for several
> .. years took a sharp turn when he found himself sharing the
> .. same management as Tom Jones and the same name as a dead
> .. German composer. His swaggering vocal style and low regard
> .. for taking big fashion risks quickly established him as
> .. the darling of the more mature audience. His version of
> .. the aged country ballad "Release Me" topped the U.K. charts
> .. for six weeks and paved the way for a dozen big hits from
> .. 1967 to 1976."
>
> << Karl Shaw, "The Mammoth Book of Tasteless
> .. Lists", Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998, p. 171 >>
>


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