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Andy Griffith's "What It Was, Was Football" was a Top 40 hit, but just before the dawn of the rock era. In January 1954 it got as high as #22 on Cash Box, but according to Billboard, which routinely counted different versions of the same song as separate chart positions instead of together as one entry (the latter of which was commonplace at that time, like on the TV show "Your Hit Parade"), Andy's uniquely comedic monologue did much better, cracking the top 10 and peaking at #9 nationwide, and I think it eventually became a million-seller. I have a copy of that record (the original 78) and used to listen to it about 20 years ago when I was doing a lot of personal research on records that were popular before 1955. Jeff
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Posted By: Jeff on: 04/18/2007 12:12:39 EDT