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Is there some particular reason this re-charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 a year after it hit #1 in 1967? I doubt the reason was because of Jose Feliciano's cover of it being popular.
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PopArchivist wrote:
I doubt the reason was because of Jose Feliciano's cover of it being popular.
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It's my understanding that's EXACTLY the reason. Jose's version was a pretty big hit in its own
right.
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I was under the impression it was done to see
how it would do against the remake, to see if
any interest in the original could be stirred
up again. After all, "The Twist" was #1 in two
separate runs over a year apart, so maybe
Elektra Records was hoping for that kind of
situation with "Light My Fire".
And then years later in 1976, you had the
original 1967 version of "Ode To Billy Joe"
re-charting alongside a newly recorded version
by Bobbie Gentry. Don't know if that was done
for competitive purposes, but I guess some
people might see it that way.
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