The Ran-Dells
Overview
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musical ensemble
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
from Villas, New Jersey
Villas, New Jersey
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. In 1963 their song "Martian Hop
Martian Hop
"Martian Hop" is a song written by the Ran-Dells which was released in 1963. It has been described as a one-hit wonder novelty song and it reached #27 on the black singles chart and #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was later covered by Rocky Sharpe and the Replays.-Cultural...
" peaked at #27 on the US
United States
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Billboard
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black
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
singles
Single (music)
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chart
Record chart
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, and at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. Despite releasing two follow-ups, lack of further chart entries made them one-hit wonders.
- Robert Rappaport
- Steven Rappaport
- John Spirt
The trio were signed to Don Kirshner's (The Midnight Special TV show) fledgling Chairman record label.
Quotations
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
F. Lee Bailey, Newsweek, 17 April 1967.