You Saw Me Standing Alone

In February, 1961, disc-jockey Murry "The K" Kaufman, successor to Alan Freed at the New York station WINS, got his hands on a tape of a group named after a popular hairstyle of the period, The Marcels.

In short, the marcel hairstyle consisted of deep regular waves made by a heated curling iron.

Without informing the record label, Kaufman played The Marcels' doo-wop rendition of the Rodgers' and Hart ballad, Blue Moon, repeatedly. According to legend, as many as twenty-six times in one show.

The label rush released an album and within a month Blue Moon had topped the charts, where it would remain for 14 consecutive weeks.

Not quite a one-hit-wonder (Heartaches made number seven later in 1961), The Marcels were never able to sucessfully follow-up on the momentum of Blue Moon.