#57: My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut by Donna Lynn
City: Saskatoon, SK
Radio Station: CKOM
Peak Month: March 1964
Peak Position in Saskatoon ~ #6
Peak Position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #83
YouTube: “My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut”
Lyrics:
Camille Donna Albano was born in 1950. In April 1964, The Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had an article about the 14-year-old pop singer Donna Lynn. The paper wrote of “The short dark-haired Maureen O’Hara in Christine, and Anna Marie Alberghetti in Carnival. She has played Helen Keller as a child, in a summer stock production of The Miracle Worker. In Pittsburgh today to promote her new release, “Java Jones,” backed by “The Things that I Feel,” Donna expressed a strong desire to continue her professional career. She hopes to eventually end up back on Broadway or in the movies.” The article described Donna Lynn as “a 14-year-old who belts out rock ‘n roll for Capitol records,” and who “also knows her way around.” A subtitled in the article exclaimed “DONNA LYNN: Broadway her goal.” The Pittsburgh Press contrasted “Lynn, the recording artist” with “Camille Albano, the girl from around the corner.” Reflecting on her anonymity as a girl from around the corner, Donna Lynn told reporter Barbara Holsopple, “…there is a little jealousy. I guess that’s the price you have to pay for being a public figure.”