Posted by Gunther Anderson on 12/07/06 03:14

Harold Groot wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:35:20 +1100, "Bob" <bob_carr5@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Hello all
>>I am researching a rather obscure point and am hoping there is some
>>collective knowledge that can help me.
>>I want to know if there are any musicians who had their first hit after the
>>age of 50. I would prefer to know about ones who then went on to achieve
>>more rather than to be one hit wonders.
>>Can anyone help? If you respond, please remove the underscore in my hotmail
>>address.
>>Thanks in advance
>>Bob
>
> Charles Randolph Grean (Sounde), born 1913, had his only appearance on
> the Billboard Top-40 at #13 in 1969 with "Quentin's Theme" (from the
> vampiric soap opera "Dark Shadows").

Interesting - he wrote the Billboard Song ("Smoke Coca-Cola cigarettes,
chew Wrigley's spearmint beer...") with Cy Coben, and I suspect it
charted, if ever, well before 1963, though it would have been recorded
by someone else. Any record of it actually charting, or was it merely a
hit in thousands of summer camps?

Gunther Anderson

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