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Answer Me by Frankie Laine

What a cheeky bugger.  “Oh, is somebody having a hit record?  Is it me?  Well, quickly, I’ll record their song as well and release it!” Frankie makes yet another appearance – it really was his year, eh? – by releasing a song that was already Number 1, which seems terribly lazy.  For what its worth, I prefer his version, but, really, it’s still a song about God, and still got itself banned.  Interesting fact: on the week of December 11^th 1953, both versions of Answer Me ‘Shared’ the number 1 slot. How that worked I have no idea. Answers on a postcard etc.