Throwing back to the week of March 21, 1956, we find a host of repeats atop the Billboard singles chart — five songs I’ve already covered during Throwback Weekends and won’t bother listing now.

That brings us to #6, where Pat Boone’s ‘I’ll Be Home’ sat on its way to a peak at #5 the following week. Boone released this song a year after it was written by Ferdinand Washington and Stan Lewis, and a few months after doo-wop band The Flamingos dropped their own version.

The Flamingos made it to #5 on the R&B chart but didn’t sniff the Top 40 Singles, in another example of the all-too-common relegation of Black artists to specialty charts while whites found bigger success with the same songs.

As for Boone, this was one of 16 top ten hits he had in the 1950s alone.