#38: Chiquita Mia by Clu Gulager
City: Hull, QC
Radio Station: CKCH
Peak Month: April 1961
Peak Position in Hull ~ #6
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart
YouTube: “Chiquita Mia”
Lyrics: N/A
William Martin Gulager was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, in 1928. He was a from the Cherokee tribe. His Cherokee nickname was given to him by his father for the clu-clu birds (known in English as martins, like his middle name) that were nesting at the Gulager home at the time of his birth. From the age of 16, from 1946 to 1948, Gulager served in the United States Army at Camp Pendleton near San Diego. He later studied acting in Paris, France, before returning to America in 1952. On September 26, 1956, Gulager appeared in The United States Steel Hour about the friendship between two baseball players. In the fall of 1957, he took a part in a Civil War-themed episode of The Alcoa Hour. In 1958 he appeared as Roy Carter in the episode “The Return of Roy Carter” in the TV show Have Gun Will Travel. In the spring of 1959, he appeared in an episode of The Lawless Years, about the Roaring Twenties. That fall Gulager appeared in an episode in the Cold War-themed TV show Five Fingers. As well, he appeared in episodes of Wagon Train, Riverboat, Back Saddle, Playhouse 90, Laramie, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.