DON’T HANG UP
“Don’t Hang Up” is a 1962 hit single produced by Cameo-Parkway Records and performed by the American R&B music group The Orlons. The song was a number-four hit on the Billboard Pop chart and reached number three on its R&B chart. One of the group’s biggest songs during their career, the song achieved notoriety again in the 1990’s, when it was included in the 1993 family comedy film Dennis the Menace. “Don’t Hang Up” remains an icon of the early 1960s era of popular music. (More from Wikipedia)
One of my favorite “girl groups” of the early 1960’s was the Orlons; to me, their hit songs “The Wah-Watusi”, “Don’t Hang Up” and “South Street” – all three million-selling hits that made the Top 5 – sound every bit as fresh today as they did 50 years ago.
(July 2012)
