101 # 1 Song of the Day

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The 101 number one song of the day was written in a schoolyard, the instruments used to back up the writing process were cardboard boxes and it went on to be the biggest hit of one rock’s early icons.
 

His career got its start when he and members of his neighborhood gang (the Fordham Baldies) recorded for songs as a Valentine’s present for his mother.  His proud mom played the songs for friends and one of them knew someone who worked for a small label called Mohawk Records.  Although they never got together, the experience led to interest in him elsewhere and when he and friends formed a group and named themselves after a street near their homes, it led to a string of hits.  Fast forward now to 1961 – by this time today’s featured singer had ventured out on his own but hadn’t left his neighborhood in the Bronx.  It was there, while banging on cardboard boxes, that today’s 101 number one song of the day was born.  It arrived at the top on October 23^rd, 1961 for the former Belmont – Dion “Runaround Sue”