![]() By the time Darin’s earlier take entered the magazine’s final Top 100 Sides list, he was in the Top 5 with “Splish Splash.” So now, naturally, Atco changed the credit on the other 45 to “Bobby Darin and the Rinky Dinks.” Climbing in tandemīriefly, the Darin and Holly versions climbed the new Hot 100 in tandem, both entering the Top 40 on the August 11 chart. It entered the bestsellers a week after the Rinky Dinks’ recording, in early August, on Billboard’s very first Hot 100 chart. On July 5, 1958, Holly’s version of “Early In The Morning” was released on Coral. It even had the same B-side, with Holly covering another Darin composition, “You’re The One.” But Decca owned not only the Brunswick label but also Coral, for whom Holly recorded, and then rushed Buddy into the studio to produce a carbon-copy of the Darin/Ding Dongs/Rinky Dinks release.īuddy’s version of the song used the same studio, the same musicians, arrangement, producer and the same gospel-style backing vocals of the Helen Way Singers. ![]() A second pseudonymīefore it was clear that “Splish Splash” would make the grade as a hit, Atco released Darin’s same “reclaimed” recording of “Early In The Morning” themselves, now under another pseudonym, the Rinky Dinks. Atco then released “Splish Splash,” which entered the charts in June to become his debut smash and led to his contract renewal – but meanwhile, an even more tangled story was developing. Unsurprisingly, of course, Atco soon recognized “the Ding Dongs” by Darin’s distinctive vocal tones, and forced Brunswick to turn the master tape of the song over to them.
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