#91 If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry – Jerry Wallace
Wallace may not have taken the genre by storm, but he still got a number one song. It was, unfortunately, the only one in his career, but that did not stop this song from getting the success it deserved. It topped the charts in 1972 and successfully kept its place for several weeks.
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The success of the composition even led to it being used in episodes of Night Gallery: “The Tune in Dan’s Cafe.” It was made under Decca Records and was written by Hal Mooney and Gerald Sanford. With such a team, everybody thought that Wallace’s career would skyrocket. Sadly it did not.