Montel thought to put Houston and Broussard together. There, Sam Montel, Houston’s label boss, introduced him to Grace Broussard, a Louisiana native who was also singing in area bars. Houston was a rocker from Mississippi whose career was going nowhere and who, after writing a few singles, found himself singing at a Louisiana bar. It took a few twists of fate for Dale Houston and Grace Broussard to be out on that corner that morning. Dale, Grace, and all the other Caravan Of Stars kids didn’t find out about the assassination until hours later. Then, a few minutes later, Kennedy was dead. They were in Dallas to perform that night, but they were out on the corner that day because President Kennedy was riding by in a parade. And so were Dale & Grace, the two Southern kids who had suddenly risen from obscurity and who, that very moment, had the #1 record in the country. So was Brian Hyland, the “ Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” guy.
One morning in November of 1963, the acts from Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars tour stood out on a street corner in Dallas. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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