Wide World Hits Explained

World Wide Hits
Type:	album
Artist:	The String-A-Longs
Cover:	String-A-LongsWideWorldHits.jpg
Released:	1968
Genre:	Easy listening, pop
Label:	Atco Records
Producer:	Norman Petty

Wide World Hits is the title of a recording by the instrumental group the String-A-Longs, released on Atco SD 33-241. (According to the aforewikilinked article, the album is actually performed by the Fireballs.)

Critical response

Wayne Harada of the Honolulu Advertiser called it "a plucky good time."^[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "More" (Riz Ortolani/Nino Oliviero/Norman Newell/M. Ciorciolini)– 2:32
2. "Places I Remember" (Norman Petty)– 2:10
3. "Love Is Blue" (Andre Popp/Pierre Cour)– 2:20
4. "La Pobracita (Poor Little One)"^[2] (George Tomsco)– 1:48
5. "Silence Is Golden" (Bob Gaudio/Bob Crewe)– 3:06
6. "Black Grass" (Ken Jordan/Ken Davis)– 2:20

Side two

1. "There Is a Mountain" (Donovan Leitch)– 2:12
2. "I'll Be There" (George Tomsco/Barbara Tomsco)– 3:10
3. "Blue Guitar" (Johnny Duncan)– 2:08
4. "Groovin'" (Felix Cavaliere/Eddie Brigati)– 2:33
5. "Black Is Black" (Tony Hayes/Steve Wadey/M. Grainger)– 2:58
6. "Someone Stronger" (George Tomsco/Barbara Tomsco)– 2:40

Notes

1. News: Harada . Wayne . September 19, 1968 . On the Record . Honolulu Advertiser . B-10 . newspapers.com.
2. Note that pobracita is a misspelling of the correct Spanish spelling pobrecita (feminine of 'poor little one').