Show and Tell (song)

"Show And Tell"
Single by Al Wilson
from the album Show and Tell
B-side "Listen to Me"
Released October 1973
Format 45 RPM
Recorded 1973
Genre Soul, pop
Length 3:28
Label Rocky Road
Songwriter(s) Jerry Fuller
Al Wilson singles chronology
"Lodi"
(1969)		 "Show And Tell"
(1973)		 "Touch And Go"
(1974)

"Lodi"
(1969)		 "Show And Tell"
(1973)		 "Touch And Go"
(1974)

"Show and Tell" is a popular song written by Jerry Fuller and first recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1972. This original version made it to #36 on the Easy Listening chart. [1]

Al Wilson version

  • A 1973 recording of the song by Al Wilson reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week on January 19, 1974; it sold over two million copies and was named a Cash Box Number One Single of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the No. 15 song for 1974.[2] Wilson's version also made No. 10 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

Charts

Chart (1973-74) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 3
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 10
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1974) Position
Canada[4] 58
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 15
U.S. Cash Box[5] 1

Other cover versions

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 161.
  2. ↑ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1974
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  4. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  6. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 90.


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