Eddie Fisher - I'm Walking Behind You

Eddie Fisher - 'I'm Walking Behind You'

26th June, 1953 (1 week)

The first song to break Frankie Laine's run at Number 1 was the second entry for the future Mr Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher. As his first number 1 was 'Outside Of Heaven' on the 30th January in the same year, Eddie Fisher became the first act to score 2 Number 1 singles.

Considering the amount of time 'I Believe' would have otherwise spent at number 1, I feel a bit cheated out of that milestone by this utter snoozefest of a song. Below par, Eddie Fisher. Below par. Try harder next time.

Except there won't be a next time for the man who divorced his wife to marry his best friend's widow. At least, not another chance at number 1. By 1959, Fisher would see his television show - and his main source of publicity - cancelled due to a large amount of acrimonious press coverage following his divorce from Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor.

Outside Of Heaven

Eddie Fisher – ‘Outside Of Heaven’

30^th January 1953 (1 week).

For what was only the 4th single to top the UK charts it is the turn of another American, Eddie Fisher, one of Elizabeth Taylor's seven husbands (though that would be a further 7 years in to the future), with 'Outside Of Heaven'.

Musically, the Pleasantville Soundtrack continues. Of course, this was always going to be the case, I mentioned in my previous post, the charts don't always represent the reality of what's happening in popular music and the majority of the world won't be ready for rock n roll until Bill Haley & his Comets blast along in 1955. Even if it does seem to start a trend for grammatically incorrect pop song titles...

Not that those fact renders this music unlistenable. Far from it, in fact. Simon Cowell could do a lot worse than looking this far back when selecting songs for the next X Factor Big Band week.