Tuesday, April 1, 2025

April Fools Day With Bob Dylan

 Mike Riccio, the moderator of the Oldies Message Board compiled a list of the Top 20 "Fool" songs based on the weekly Billboard  Hot 100 lists through 1990:

1. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," Connie Francis (1960)
2. "Poor Little Fool," Ricky Nelson (1958)
3. "What a Fool Believes," Doobie Brothers (1979)
4. "Foolish Beat," Debbie Gibson (1988)
5. "Chain of Fools," Aretha Franklin (1968)
6. "Fooled Around and Fell in Love," Elvin Bishop (1976)
7. "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," the Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon (1956)
8. "Fool #1," Brenda Lee (1961)
9. "(Now and Then) There's a Fool Such as I," Elvis Presley (1959)
10. "Everybody Plays the Fool," Main Ingredient (1972)
11. "The Fool," Sanford Clark (1956)
12. "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," Diana Ross (1981)
13. "Foolish Little Girl," the Shirelles (1963)
14. "She's a Fool," Lesley Gore (1963)
15. "The Fool on the Hill," Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (1968)
16. "(Fool) If You Think It's Over," Chris Rea (1978)
17. "Nobody's Fool," Kenny Loggins (1988)
18. "Kissing a Fool," George Michael (1988)
19. "What Kind of Fool," Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb (1981)
20. "Fools Rush In," Rick Nelson (1963)

Bob Dylan covered Elvis Presly's (Now and Then) There's a Fool Such as I on the Basement Tapes.


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