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Lloyd Price scores his first Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart hit in the USA, when Just Because enters the chart, where it will peak at No29 during a run of six weeks on the chart. The song's melody is inspired by A Little Word (1956) recorded by fellow New Orleans-based performers, Shirley And Lee. Looking further back, the melody of A Little Word is clearly derived from the aria Caro Nome in the 1851 opera Rigoletto by Verdi
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