Channelzine

I Believe by Frankie Laine

This isn’t the only time that this song is going to appear on this rundown, so I’ll deal with the song itself now.  It was recorded to give the British public hope when fighting broke out in Korea in ’52, designed to let people know that war wasn’t going to happen again – and if it did, at least we had babies, and leaves.  The message itself is lovely (and perhaps why it’s now quite the religious standard), and the delivery is as you’d want, or expect: a voice, some gentle instrumentation, some faint choral backing.  But, amazingly, this still holds the record for the longest number of weeks at number one in the UK chart.  How?  Ask me again in a couple of days…