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‘Poor Little Fool’: Ricky Nelson Rules The First-Ever Hot 100

Summary by uDiscover Music
The publication of the first-ever Billboard Hot 100 is an occasion well known to devotees of Ricky Nelson. When the magazine published that historic first list for August 4, 1958, the pop idol, still only 18, stood proudly at No.1 with “Poor Little Fool.” Click to load video Despite his youth, the star from Teaneck, New Jersey had already had five previous chart singles, which had yielded nine separate titles on the bestsellers with their double…
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uDiscover Music broke the news in on Monday, August 4, 2025.
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