#2: The Day The Rains Came by Raymond Lefevre
City: London, ON
Radio Station: CKSL
Peak Month: October 1958
Peak Position in London ~ #1
Peak position in Vancouver ~ #4
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #30
YouTube: “The Day The Rains Came”
Raymond Lefèvre was born in 1929 in Calais, France. He was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when he was 17 years old. During the early 1950s he played the piano for the Frank Pourcel Orchestra. In 1953 Lefèvre played the piano at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. He started his musical career in 1956 on the Barclay label and recorded his debut album that year. In the 1950s he worked on the French television program Musicorama. and Palmarés des Chansons (1965, 1966, 1967) On these TV programs, he accompanied French recording artists Dalida, Claude François, Richard Anthony, and others, with his own orchestra.