A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that only nine songs have made it to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by two different artists. Over the next nine weekdays I’ll reveal those titles, rolling them out chronologically based on the release date of the second single.

The first song to achieve this impressive feat is one I’d never heard before today. Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, ‘Go Away Little Girl’ is a rather creepy song about a guy in a relationship telling the titular little girl to leave him alone lest he be tempted to cheat.

A version of the song was released by Bobby Vee in March of 1962, but was not released as a single. In November of that year, Steve Lawrence recorded his version, which claimed the #1 spot for two weeks.

The same year, English singer Mark Wynter had a top ten hit with the song in the UK. That’s three very similar versions released in the same year!

It was nine years later, in 1971, that ‘Go Away Little Girl’ became the first song to ever reach #1 by two different artists. The young man responsible? Donny Osmond.

Osmond was just 13 when his saccharine version spent three weeks on top of the Hot 100.

I’m not sure what’s more cringeworthy: the three twenty-something men crooning to a “little girl” or the 13-year-old already contemplating infidelity.