Little Star (The Elegants song)

"Little Star" is a song recorded by The Elegants. Members Vito Picone and Arthur Venosa co-wrote the lyrics. The music was adapted from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".^[3] In 1958, the single topped both the R&B Best Sellers list and the Billboard Hot 100.^[4] It was their only song to ever chart. Phil Spector reviewed it as an "awful good record".^[3]

Charts

Chart (1958)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100^[5]	1

Chart (1958–2018)	Position
US Billboard Hot 100^[6]	595

^ Marsh, Dave (1989). The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. Plume. p. 100. ISBN 0-452-26305-0.
^ ^a ^b Breihan, Tom (January 18, 2018). "The Number Ones: The Elegants' "Little Star"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 3, 2023. It's also not especially well-suited to becoming a pop song. But the Elegants built on its familiarity...There are plenty of better doo-wop songs, but there are plenty of worse ones, too.
^ ^a ^b Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 14 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Phil Spector & Frank Zappa review the '50s" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 184.
^ "Weekly Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Songs from the First 50 Years". Billboard. Archived from the original on 16 January 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

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