# Repeat top 10 hit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090 "2003-12-15T08:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/1 "2003-12-15T08:30:08Z")
What song, covered by various artists, has repeated as a top 10 hit the most times? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/2 "2003-12-15T12:33:10Z")
“The Loco-Motion” hit the Top Ten three times: Little Eva (#1) Grand Funk (#1) Kylie Minogue (#3) ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/3 "2003-12-15T17:34:47Z")
I am going to be the pendant here, do you need the different artists versions to be in the Top-10 or just that different artists have recorded it? If you allow the latter then Bing’s “White Christmas” wins hands down. It hit Number 1 alone three times! Oct 3, 1942: #1 for 11 weeks 1943: #6 1944: #5 1945: #1 again Jan 1947: #1 a third time! According to [http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/whitxmas.htm](http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/whitxmas.htm) Bing’s recording hit the Top-30 pop charts 17 times in all. At least one other artist has recorded a version [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001NFHH/102-9347982-5457765?v=glance#product-details](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001NFHH/102-9347982-5457765?v=glance#product-details) anyone? OK never heard of her - but surely it has hit the Top-10 with another artist too. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/4 "2003-12-15T18:35:55Z")
According to _The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits_, my now ancient 1992 edition, there are several others with three in the Top Ten: “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” Bill Hayes #1 “Tennessee” Ernie Ford #5 Fess Parker #5 “Let Me Go, Lover!” Joan Weber #1 Teresa Brewer #6 Patti Page #8 “Melody of Love” Billy Vaughn #2 Four Aces #3 David Carroll #8 “Raunchy” Bill Justis #2 Ernie Freeman #4 Billy Vaughn #10 “Silhouettes” Rays #3 Diamonds #10 Herman’s Hermits #5 “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers #6 Gale Storm #9 Diana Ross #7 “You Keep Me Hanging On” Supremes #1 Vanilla Fudge #6 Kim Wilde #1 But the winner is a tie! “Only You” Platters #5 Hilltoppers #8 Franck Pourcel’s French Fiddles #9 Ringo Starr #6 “Unchained Melody” Les Baxter #1 Al Hibber #3 Roy Hamilton #6 Righteous Brothers #4 Honorable Mention to “Mack the Knife” with seven entries into the Top 40, but only two in the Top Ten. P.S. **notquitekarpov** , you’ll never become a **pedant** with spelling like that. For that matter, I don’t think it means what you think it does. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/5 "2003-12-15T19:03:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notquitekarpov \* > \*\*I am going to be the pendant here, do you need the different artists versions to be in the Top-10 or just that different artists have recorded it? > > If you allow the latter then Bing’s “White Christmas” wins hands down. It hit Number 1 alone three times! \*\* (In this new category …) I was thinking of Elvis - Return to Sender. I think it was in and out of the top 10 several times. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/6 "2003-12-15T19:24:26Z")
“Return to Sender” may have gone in and out of the top 10 during its 14 weeks on the charts, but it was never back in the Top 40 as a resissue. Lots of Christmas songs made the charts year after year. “White Christmas” hit the Top 40 an additional five times between 1955 and 1962. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/7 "2003-12-16T01:07:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\*“Return to Sender” may have gone in and out of the top 10 during its 14 weeks on the charts, but it was never back in the Top 40 as a resissue. \*\* That’s weird. I swear sometime in the early 70’s / late 60’s Return to Sender made a mild comeback. It could have just been a regional thing though, the station I listened to must have had some E freaks onboard. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/8 "2003-12-16T02:05:50Z")
I agree that seasonal songs should be excluded. I believe **Benny Mardones** had a hit in 1980 with the song “ **Into The Night** ” and also in the late 1980’s. (Sorry, I don’t know the chart positions of either). ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/9 "2003-12-16T02:38:01Z")
Not really fulfilling the criteria, but… Didn’t the original recording of “Stand By Me” make a comeback to number one after it was reissued on the movie soundtrack? (1986, perhaps?) ---
**Author:** ![665\_aka\_The\_Semi-Christ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/2bfe46/32.png) [@665\_aka\_The\_Semi-Christ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/665_aka_The_Semi-Christ)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/10 "2003-12-16T04:48:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by J String \* > \*\*Not really fulfilling the criteria, but… Didn’t the original recording of “Stand By Me” make a comeback to number one after it was reissued on the movie soundtrack? (1986, perhaps?) \*\* Considering that it never hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 to begin with, the answer is no. It did hit #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and was in the Top 5 of the Hot 100 back in 1961 and when it was re-released in conjucntion with the Rob Reiner directed movie of the same name in 1986, it made it back into the Top 10, but never hit #1 on the Hot 100 or the Pop Charts. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/11 "2003-12-16T06:32:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 665 aka The Semi-Christ \* > \*\*Considering that it never hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 to begin with, the answer is no. \*\* We’re not worried about #1 hits, just top 10, and ANY chart is OK, pop, country, R&B, etc. Saying that, it seems like a lot of pop tunes got covered in the country zone and made top 10. Maybe: Islands in the Stream? I Will Always Love You? I thought about Stand By Me too. John Lennon did a cover that reached the charts, I don’t think it made top 10 though. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/12 "2003-12-16T06:53:11Z")
“Hooked on a Feeling” made the top forty, and then a couple of years later it was covered with that “OOGA CHAKA OOGAH OOGAH” chorus, and I’m pretty sure it made the top 10. ---
**Author:** ![Fang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@Fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fang)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/13 "2003-12-16T07:06:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notquitekarpov \* > \*\*I am going to be the pendant here \*\* I’m just going to be the **pedant** here and tell you that the word is **pedant**. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/14 "2003-12-16T07:28:53Z")
Look, it was a frigging typo already. OK a funny typo but I know how to spell it - and very well what it means thank you very much, \*\* Exapno Mapcase\*\*. I was being pedantic therefore I was…using it correctly I think. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/15 "2003-12-16T07:39:07Z")
Chuck Berry - Roll over Beethoven: The Sonics Status Quo John Blair Johnny Hallyday The Flamin’ Groovies The Beatles I don’t know how far each got in the charts though. They missed one, ELO covered this song in the early '70s, I’d say it was top 10 too. (I think this site is a work-in-progress) [http://slicks.ulyssis.org/coverdb/song/715.html](http://slicks.ulyssis.org/coverdb/song/715.html) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/16 "2003-12-16T16:30:29Z")
**ccwaterback** , if you’re going to give up on chart appearances and just go count covers, remember that “Yesterday” has been covered about 2000 times. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/17 "2003-12-16T17:16:09Z")
I once heard that _Bohemian Rhapsody_ has hit #1 twice. When it first came out it hit number one and it hit number one again when _Waynes World_ came out. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/18 "2003-12-16T17:19:22Z")
I can’t find a list of the groups that have done it, but I remember reading somewhere that the song _I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You_ hit the top 10 more than any other ever. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/19 "2003-12-16T17:39:47Z")
As of 1992, just once. Anybody have a newer printing of the book? ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090/20 "2003-12-16T18:20:42Z")
Aside from Xmas songs,the only #1 to LEAVE the top 100 & become a #1 again is the “Twist” by Chubby Checker.(1960 & 61) Had a different flip side the 2nd time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeat-top-10-hit/219090.md?page=2)