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Fact #176935

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Short story:

Charmaine, the first Decca Records single by The Bachelors, enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No6.

Full article:

Dick Rowe (A + R Man, Decca Records] : They all played harmonicas and sang folk songs. They weren't an act you could sign to a pop record company. We went backstage afterwards and there were these three boys who looked at me as if I'd come from heaven and was going to open the door for them to walk in. I said, 'God be with me at this moment', and I meant it.

Shel Talmy (record producer) : Decca gave me The Bachelors, who when I got them were three nice Irish guys who played harmonica and did not sing - I rehearsed them in my apartment for six weeks, teaching them how to sing harmonies - I almost got tossed out of the apartment. Charmaine, which was the first hit I had, I absolutely hated. It took me fifteen minutes to do it.

I hated it because it was pseudo-country and western, simply because they couldn't do authentic country and western. I finished the record, and Decca said, "We love it! It's great, and it's a hit!" And they were right! Nobody picked up the phones those days to find out if you were bullshitting or not, they wrote letters, a couple of which went to people [in the USA] that knew me. And so they wrote back, saying, yes, of course he had done all these things.
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