All the Billboard #1s Ever: "Let Me Go Lover" by Joan Weber

Oh man, this is bad. Really really, really bad. Histronics are one of my least favorite things in music...and the way that Joan Weber lays on the word "lover" at the end is just brutal. The male backing vocals are not needed. Pretty much everything about this song is the reason rock music happened.



Much more interesting is the back story behind this song and the artist. The song was the 1955 equivalent of a viral hit, going to #1 off the strength of it's performance on a TV show called Studio One. it was a million seller, going gold shortly after release.

It was also Joan Weber's only chart hit due to, according to her Wikipedia page, a husband who wanted her to be wife and mother. Weber actually went missing in action pretty much up until her death in the early 80s, to the point where even her royalty checks were being sent back.

If we were grading on back story, this may warrant a 4 or 5. But we are not, so this gets a big fat 1.

Grade: 1