DU Trivia CHALLENGE: One hit wonders who were also actors

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5. The only ones who come to mind are Shelley Fabares who had the No. 1 single on billboard

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"Johnny Angel". It sold more than one million copies and became a gold record; not bad for a debut single. Fabares was an actress more than a singer and played Donna Reed's daughter on the Donna Reed Show, had a recurring role on the sitcom Coach, and did three films with Elvis Presley. She recorded more singles after Johnny Angel but nothing came close to that monster hit. Paul Peterson who played her brother on Donna Reed and had other gigs on later shows also recorded singles and had a hit that rose to No. 6 on billboard, "My dad". I also thought Connie Stevens might have been another, with her many TV appearances on shows like Maverick and Hawaiian Eye and with her hit "Kookie Lend Me Your Comb", but it turns out she had other top hits besides.

By the way, what really gives Johnny Angel its special sound are the absolutely incredible and angelic sounding background vocals. The background voices and their beautiful and precise harmonies were done in the studio by the legendary Motown group Darlene Love and the Blossoms who were managed by Phil Spector and who did background for some of the greatest names in pop music like Elvis Presley, Johnny Rivers, Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, the Beach Boys, Tom Jones, Sonny and Cher, John Phillips, and others. Supposedly when Shelley Fabares cut the record she was so intimidated by the beautiful voices of her background singers that she wanted to back out of doing the record.