Steve Alaimo - Anthology
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Artist: Steve AlaimoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-08-05
Music Label: Hot Productions
Soundtracks:
- Love's Gonna Live Here
- I Don't Know
- Happy
- Everybody Knows But Her
- Real Live Girl
- Cast Your Fate To The Wind
- Mais Qui
- Lady Of The House
- Blowin' In The WInd
- So Much Love
- Pardon Me (It's My First Day Alone)
- You Don't Know Like I Know
- Ooh, Poo, Pah, Doo
- New Orleans
- Denver
- Watching The Trains Go By
- Thank You For The Sunshine
- I'm Thankful
- After The Smoke Is Gone
- Cry Myself To Sleep
- Every Day I Have To Cry
- A Lifetime Of Loneliness
- Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
- Can't You See
- Wild Side Of Life
- When My Little Girl Is Smiling
- Nobody's Fool
- Amerikan Music
- Sand In My Pocket
- She's My Baby
- Bright Lights
Free Music Notes for Anthology
Free Music Review: As An Anthology This Leaves Much To Be Desired
Hit: 3 Stars
Other reviews allude to the notion that Steve Alaimo, born in Rochester, N.Y. on December 6, 1939, was a One-Hit Wonder, that being Every Day I Have To Cry which hit # 46 on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 in early 1963 for the Checker label. To most of those who put out multi-artist compilations of One-Hit Wonders, he wouldn't even make their list as they tend to regard anything that failed to make the Top 40 - or even the Top 30 - as a non-hit.
However, when you consider that, for every song that made it into the Top/Hot 100 in any given year there were upwards of four that did not, and that Billboard created, in late 1959, a special "Bubbling Under" chart to chronicle those that hit # 101 to # 125, then Steve Alaimo, in fact, had nine hit singles from 1962 to 1972 for four different labels. The problem with this so-called anthology is that they only give you six and just two of the B-sides.
And that's too bad, especially when you consider that he holds a record of sorts, albeit one that he would likely rather not own. In the annals of Billboard Pop Hot 100 history he has the most Pop hits without even one making it into the Top 40, although two did do reasonably well on the Adult Contemporary (Easy Listening) charts, introduced by Billboard in late 1961. Cast Your Fate To The Wind, which peaked at # 89 Hot 100 in June 1965 for ABC-Paramount, and When My Little Girl Is Smiling, a # 72 Hot 100 in July 1971 for Entrance, topped out at # 22 and 27 AC respectively.
His initial hit, in March 1962, was a cover of Nat Kendrick's Mashed Potatoes with Part 1 reaching # 81 Hot 100 b/w Part 2. Neither is included here. Then came the above-mentioned Every Day I Have To Cry, followed in October 1963 by a cover of The Highwaymen smash, Michael, which saw Part 1 go to # 100 b/w Part 2. Again, neither side is included, nor is the B-side to his best hit, Little Girl (Please Take A Chance With Me). All of these were released on the Checker label.
In late November, he had Gotta Lotta Love peak at # 74 Hot 100 for Imperial Records b/w Happy Pappy, and once again both sides are left out of this "anthology." Early in 1965 he re-surfaced with ABC-Paramount where he had Real Live Girl, from the Broadway musical Little Me, top out at # 77 Hot 100 b/w Need You (another omission). Then came the above-mentioned Cast Your Fate To The Wind, a cover of the 1963 instrumental hit for The Vince Guaraldi Trio (# 22), and a # 10 instrumental smash again in 1965 for Sounds Orchestral. Even a vocal cover by Shelby Flint would do better than Steve's # 89 as hers hit # 61 in 1966. They do include his B-side here, Mais Oui (not Mais Qui as indicated above).
His last of three ABC-Paramount hits then came in May 1966 when So Much Love staggered to a # 92 Hot 100 b/w Truer Than True (not here). The star of TV's Where The Action Is in 1965-1966 then popped back into the lower regions of the charts in October 1966 when he teamed up with Mark Lindsay and Keith Allison, both formerly with Paul Revere & The Raiders, and took Melody For An Unknown Girl to # 74 Hot 100 on the Parrot label billed as The Unknowns. The flip of that was Keith's Song. Neither side is here.
It would then be almost five long years before he returned to the singles charts, this time with Entrance Records, with When My Little Girl Is Smiling, which ran out of steam at # 72 Hot 100 in July 1971 b/w Gemini (again, not included). Both sides of his last hit are here however, as the novelty tune Amerikan Music (pronounced Am-er-ee-can) finished at # 79 Hot 100 b/w Nobody's Fool.
And that would be it for the man who would become President of Vision Records in 1987. A cousin, Jimmy Alaimo, would own family bragging rights as one of three hits he had while a member of The Mojo Men, Sit Down, I Think I Love You, did crack the Top 40 at # 36 in early 1967 for Frank Sinatra's Reprise label.
What we need is a proper anthology from the likes of Eric Records or Ace of London with all 9 hits and their B-sides. Meanwhile, this is the closest you'll find, although the sound quality could have been much improved.
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