"Let the Little Girl Dance" is a song written by Carl Spencer and

Henry Glover Henry Bernard Glover (May 21, 1921 – April 7, 1991) was an American songwriter, arranger, record producer and trumpet player. In the music industry of the time, Glover was one of the most successful and influential black executives. He gai ...

and performed by

Billy Bland Billy Bland (April 5, 1932 – March 22, 2017) was an American R&B singer and songwriter. Life and career Bland, the youngest of 19 children, first sang professionally in 1947 in New York City, and sang with a group called The Bees in the 1950 ...

. It reached #7 on the U.S. pop chart, #11 on the U.S. R&B chart, and #15 on the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

in 1960. The song ranked #51 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Top 100 singles of 1960.

Other versions

Ernest Tubb Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), m ...

, as the

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to his 1960 single "

Everybody's Somebody's Fool "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" is a song written by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield that was a No. 1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960. A polka-style version in German, "Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel", was the first German single recorded and ...

". *

Toni Williams Henry Anthony Williams (28 May 1939 – 1 October 2016), known professionally as Toni Williams or Antoni Williams, was a Cook Islands, Cook Island-born New Zealand pop singer, who began singing at the Gandhi Hall in Auckland City where he bec ...

, featuring The Tremellos, as a single in 1960 in

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. It did not chart. *Grantley Dee, as a single in 1966 in

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; it charted #2 Melbourne #3 Brisbane and #1 Perth. *

Hopeton Lewis Hopeton Lewis (3 October 1947 – 4 September 2014) was a Jamaican born singer of rocksteady and reggae, an arranger, and radio music presenter. Biography Lewis was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He sang in church from an early age, and start ...

, as a single in 1967 in the UK, but it did not chart. *A rendering by

Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line ...

was released on the 1998 compilation album ''Get on Up!: Joe Gibbs Rocksteady''.

References

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