Marcie Blane - Bobby’s Girl (1962)

I always thought that “Johnny Angel“ by Shelley Fabares was the top single in 1962 by an American female singer. Apparently not. Instead it was this late-in-the-year entry by US teenage singer Marcie Blane, “Bobby’s Girl.“ A favorite of mine to play on oldies night or in oldies sets, it entered the charts in October 1962 and made the Top 10 within a month reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 1, 1962, where it stayed for four weeks only to be kept from the top of the charts by The Four Seasons’ “Big Girls Don’t Cry“ and Elvis Presley’s “Return to Sender“. It reached #2 on the Cash Box Top 100 chart on December 29, 1962, staying on the charts for nineteen weeks and made Blane the top selling female singer in the US.