I'm getting lots of messages about the songs written (or not) by the late Sid Jacobson. He's listed in some sources as having been the writer (or one of the writers) of "Put a Ring On Her Finger" as recorded by Les Paul but this may be an error…or it may be a confusion involving two songs with the same name. Among other songs I could/should have listed for him were…
- Earl Grant — "The End"
- Dion and the Belmonts — "Don't Pity Me"
- Frankie Avalon — "A Boy Without a Girl"
- Gene Pitney — "Oh Annie Oh"
- Clarence "Bad Boy" Palmer and The Jive Bombers — "You Took My Love"
It all makes for an impressive list. I sure wish one of the songs I'd written had been recorded by Clarence "Bad Boy" Palmer and The Jive Bombers. Hell, Stephen Sondheim probably wished one of his songs had been recorded by Clarence "Bad Boy" Palmer and The Jive Bombers. I'd like to thank Roger Green and Mike Kazaleh for info and also Devin Thompson.
In 1972 when Apollo 16 landed on that Moon of ours, the call sign for one of the lunar modules was named for Casper, that friendliest of ghosts. Devin tells me that Sid wrote this to mark the occasion…
That's almost as impressive as having a song you wrote recorded by Clarence "Bad Boy" Palmer and The Jive Bombers.