1960 Top Ten Songs: Let the Little Girl Dance (#10)

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It’s top ten time! Yes, I’m 65 and so are these songs. Let’s get into my ten favorite songs that came out in 1960. No, not all of them originated in 1960, but these versions all came out then. So here we go with a one-hit wonder! #10: Let the Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland No, not Bobby “Blue” Bland. Not even related. Billy Bland’s sole big hit was this 1960 gem. It even charted higher in pop than it did on the R&B chart. Three years later, Bland had enough of the music biz and quit. This wasn’t the only thing that he recorded that you’ve heard of, however. In 1954, he and his group, the Four Bees, recorded a song that Dave Bartholomew wrote called “Little Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling.” You probably know it better by the name Chuck Berry used when he recorded it: “My Ding-a-Ling.” When Bland left music, he left it for good. I can’t find any indication that he joined the “oldies” circuit in the 80s. In fact, he was running a soul food restaurant in the 80s (shades of The Blues Brothers!). He was 84 when he died in 2017. Now, for the embarrassment: we had this song when I was a kid. No, not this VERSION. Of all people, Ernest Tubb covered this song and released it as the B-side of another “country classic,” “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.” Yeah, let’s stick with the original. Let the Little Girl Dance Written by Dr. Henry Glover and Carl Spencer Recorded by Billy Bland Released as a single, 1960 She’s been a little wallflower: