![]() ![]() But March, singing the lyrics written by the veteran songwriter Norman Gimbel, stripped the song away from its source material, turning it into a charged-up hymn to teenage devotion. The Beatles 39 Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There) (1967) HD 0815007 Clara0815007 40 The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction John Doe 41 Cherry Cherry- The Essential Neil Diamond Gilbertrdproductions. But the rehearsals were hard on the band, and they ended up giving up the idea. And then they finished putting the album, retitled Let It Be, together. ![]() Petula Clark had recorded a version with French lyrics soon after. The Number Ones: The Beatles 'Let It Be' They ransacked our land and left it looking completely different. Three years later, when she graduated high school, March learned that her manager had blown all of the money she’d earned from the song.) “I Will Follow Him” started out its life as “ Chariot,” an instrumental pop song that the French composer Frank Pourcel released in 1961. ![]() Little Peggy March was 13 when she was discovered singing at a cousin’s wedding, and she was 14 when she hit #1 with “I Will Follow Him.” (She’s still the youngest female artist ever to hit #1. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. ![]()
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