It's Friday so we need something to dance around the kitchen table to.
There........ is what? There is. There just is!
I love the large gap in the title on this printing of the label. There were, it seems, at least four different labels for this release, this one being the most emphatic. Not only that, there were two different incarnations of Cadet 5574, The A side O-O I Love You being backed initially by There Is, and then subsequently by The Change We Go Thru (For Love). Why did that happen? Well, O-O I Love You entered the Hot 100 in November 1967 and stayed for 10 weeks, peeking at#61. However there was undoubtedly much love for its original B side (I suspect the radio DJs had flipped it) because There Is got its own release as an A side (Cadet 5590) in December of '67, and that also made the Hot 100 on January 20th 1968, and it stayed in the charts for 11 weeks, peeking at #20. So, including life as a B side, we can easily say There Is spent a total of at least 16 weeks in the Billboard Top 100.
So, there is no dispute, here is track worthy of another spin 53 years later.
The Dells – There Is 1967
PS: while The Dells (Cadet 5574) were sparring with the likes of The Impressions and Al Green(e) – his very first hit – in the lower reaches of the Hot 100, The Monkees, The Beatles, and Lulu were among the big hitters at the top. However, by February 1968 when There Is (Cadet 5590) peaked at #20, the Top 10 was somewhat bereft of big rock/pop names – Paul Mauriat (Love Is Blue) was at #1 having just knocked The Lemon Pipers (Green Tambourine) off the top spot, and The Temptations (I Wish It Would Rain) and Otis (Dock of The Bay) were both in the Top 10.
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