If any of you remember the film Porky's (the highest grossing Canadian film of all time), one of the first tunes you hear in the movie is a song called Mokin' Bird Hill.

tra la la la
twiddlee dee dee
it gives me a thrill
to wake up in the morning
to the Mokin' Birds trill

Well, it turns out in 1951 this was a pretty popular tune. So popular in fact that two seperate artists had a billboard top 30 hit with the same song.

Both Patti Page and Les Paul & Mary Ford managed to score a hit with the ditty. But, for the folks trying to compile a Porky's soundtrack, you are looking for the Patti Page version.

But, if that isn't strange enough, the song (It's No) Sin was also featured in the top 30 - twice - with two other artists. (Eddy Howard and The Four Aces)

And since Patti Page, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Tony Bennet and others had multiple hits, music trivia nuts you can mark 1951 as the year with a top 30 chart with fewer than 30 artist and fewer than 30 songs.

As a side note, that same year Les Paul & Mary Ford also made the top 30 with the songs How Hight the Moon and The World is Waiting - well worth a listen if you like like to venture into a limbo world where you can't decide if something is cheesy or just plain good.

andre