Peak
73
Weeks
4
Score
214
Chart Year
1959
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position73
Peak DateApr 27, 1959
Weeks at Peak1
Weeks Charted4
Weeks in Top 400
Weeks in Top 100
Weeks at #20
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc28
Weekly Calc186
Total Score214
Rankings
Year Ranking#421
Decade Ranking#1,746
Billboard Year#414
Top 5000#25,055
Details
- Album
- Annette
- Label
- Buena Vista Records
- Genre
- Teen Pop
- Media Type
- 45
- Duration
- 2:02
- Composer(s)
- Bob Roberts;Richard Sherman;Robert Sherman
- Entered Chart
- Apr 13, 1959
- Peak Date
- Apr 27, 1959
- Released
- March 1959
- Recorded
- Unknown
- Catalog #
- uena Vista Records -F-336
- B-Side
- Love Me Forever
Music Video
Notes
"Jo Jo the Dog Faced Boy" was a novelty song made popular by Disney Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello. The song was written by Bob and Dick Sherman in collaboration with Los Angeles based songwriter Bob Roberts. The song reached #73 on Billboards's Hot 100 in 1959. "Jo Jo" was a follow-up to Annette's hit song "Tall Paul," which was the first rock and roll single by a female singer to reach the top ten. The Sherman Brothers went on to write the majority of Annette's early 1960s songs as well as winning two Oscars for Mary Poppins several years later. The song references Fedor Jeftichew, a sideshow entertainer best known as "Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Man", who suffered from hypertrichosis. In the lyrics, homage is made to the popular song from the previous year, "Beep Beep" with the line, "Where in the world was the little Nash Rambler?". In Canada the song reached #33 on the CHUM Charts
Chart History (4 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apr 13, 1959 | 90 | 36 |
| 2 | Apr 20, 1959 | 80 | 46 |
| 3 | Apr 27, 1959 | 73 | 53 |
| 4 | May 4, 1959 | 75 | 51 |