Kay Starr – ‘Comes A-Long A-Love’
23rd January 1953 (1 week)
Kay Starr became the third recording artist to have a UK number 1 single with her version of Comes A-Long A-Love.
The song marks a more uptempo number than the previous two, but still very much in the same 'jazz-pop-big band' stylings of the pre-rock n roll 1950s and very much captures the zeitgeist of what was then modern chart music (which doesn't always reflect popular culture of the era - after all, this is a trip through the charts, rather than a trip through defining genres of music).
This song was not as popular as one of Kay Starr's previous hits, 'Wheel of Fortune' - but again, further proof that nothing in pop music is new: there are countless similar examples of artists throughout the past 50 years whose songs considered their 'biggest' today weren't necessarily their most immediately commercial success stories.
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