Thursday, May 19, 2011

Original vs Remake #14

This week our original was a big Motown single from 1966.

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted   by Jimmy Ruffin was a #7 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and was his biggest success on the Pop charts.  However it did get a second life in 1992 on the Adult Contemporary charts, topping that chart for 1 week in Feb of 1992.



The biggest success for a cover version was in 1996 when UK act Robson and Jerome hit the top of the UK Top 40  for 2 weeks.
Robson and Jerome were a duo that was in a UK television series called Soldier Soldier.





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