[smalltownslick]

Dickey Lee, great singer/songwriter. And very funny cutie pie. Had a big hit record in 1962 - Patches - not the same one I posted from Clarence Carter. But at the same time Patches was a hit, (which he didn’t write - that was Barry Mann - a song he had written, She Thinks I Still Care, was a giant hit by George Jones.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Ma-QJBioo

I’ve loved him since I was a teenager, and revel in the fact that most of the world thinks he’s a one hit wonder, but he’s in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. (All those one hit wonders had to eat, you know.)

[Fiji Hill]

Had a big hit record in 1962 - Patches

That's one of my least favorite songs of all time because the protagonist is a coward with a third-rate mind. I fail to understand the song's appeal, yet it went to number six on the Hot 100 at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This disc concerns a similar theme, but the protagonist, unlike the one in "Patches," is determined to prevail and pursue the American dream.

Midnight Mary--Joey Powers (1964)

[Fiji Hill]

I’ve loved him since I was a teenager, and revel in the fact that most of the world thinks he’s a one hit wonder

He had a few other hits--or at least they got airplay in Southern California. I haven't followed this up to see if it's true, but a DJ in a 1963 broadcast said that the Linda in this song became his wife.

I Saw Linda Yesterday--Dickey Lee (1963)