Your Hit collection is not complete without these significant releases. So keep checking those Goodwill and Thift Shops.

• 1- Hit 72 MEMPHIS by The Music City Five with special insert card only sold in the Memphis area.
• 2- Hit 99 JOHN KENNEDY (SPECIAL RELEASE) Comment: issued NOV 63 A 7 inch, 45 rpm Memorial Album issued with special picture sleeve. The record contained the complete Inaugural Address and an excerpt from his final speech on November 22, 1963 at Fort Worth, Texas. Both sides run approximately 8 minutes each. Total Time approximately 16 minutes. Written By David Cobb and Bill Beasley, Narrated By David Cobb. These are actually excerpts from a Modern Sound album MS-519 titled John Fitzgerald Kennedy A Memorial Album.
• 3- Hit 15 SNAP YOUR FINGERS by Benny Lattimore Comment: First commerical recording by soul artist Lattimore
• 4- Hit 20 SPEEDY GONZALES by Tom Walls Comment: Features Mexican voice by Nashville funnyman Ray Stevens
• 5 - Hit 63 REV MR BLACK by Bobby Russell Comment: Rare Hit label credit for Nashville songwriter (1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero) who performed lead vocal on the most Hit sound-a-likes.
• 6- Hit 76 WIPE OUT by Music City Five Comment: Highly acclaimed recording in various collectors magazines of the surf instrumental
• 7- Hit 125 NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO by Sammie Moore. Comment:Sammie Moore was Sam of "Sam And Dave" fame.
• 8- Hit 187 I'M SURE GOING TO MISS HER by The Chellows Comment: Not a sound-a-like.This is the original demo recording of the Gary Lewis and the Playboys hit, issued almost a year before the Gary Lewis version.
• 9- Hit 221 I GOT YOU BABE by Wayne and Dee Comment: Sounds like two guys singing the Sonny and Cher hit. This is back in the days when "gay" was not acceptable.
• 10- Hit 229 KEEP ON DANCIN' by The Gentrys Comment: Due to a mixup in the office staff, label miscredited to the original group, The Gentrys.
• 11- Hit 253 RHAPSODY IN THE RAIN by Fred York Comment: Used the original "banned" lyric. MGM withdrew the original Lou Christie version and removed the references to "making out", Hit continued to sell the original. Spike requested I prepare a 10 ten "Most Collectable" Hit Record list. I fudged a little because Number 1 is actually a cardboard insert, not a record.

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I am still looking for the following so if you run across any of them please let me know.

• 1- Cardboard Insert for the Memphis 45.
• 2- Original Hit Records Jukebox title strip
• 3- 1964 "Trip to a Hit records Session" Contest entry form

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