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• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 7, 1961, Earl Grant performed "Ebb Tide" on the CBS-TV variety program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'*...
  The song track one of side two on his 1961 debut album, 'Earl Grant - Ebb Time and Other Instrumental Favorites', and the album peaked at #7 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
  Mr. Grant passed away at the young age of 39 on June 10th, 1970 {auto accident}...
  May he R.I.P.
  * Also on this episode of the 'Sullivan' show, Mr. Sullivan interviewed my all-time favorite baseball player, Willie Mays, and a week earlier the 'Say-Hey KId' became the 9th Major League player to hit four home runs in one game.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 2nd, 1966 "Ebb Tide" by the Righteous Brothers peaked at #5 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on November 28th, 1965 and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100...
  Prior to the brother's version it charted a number of times; the earliest charted version was by Vic Damone, he peaked at #10 in 1953...
  The following year in February of 1954 Frank Chacksfield reached #9 in the U.K. and #2 in the U.S.A. with it...
  Also in 1954 Roy Hamilton made it to #5 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
  And in 1958 Frank Sinatra included it on his album 'Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely'; and on October 18th, 1958 the album peaked at #1 (for 5 weeks) on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
  The last time it charted in the 1950s was 1959 by Bobby Freeman, he stayed on Top 100 for one week, at position #93...
  In 1960 the Platters hit #56, while in 1964 Lenny Welch took it to #25...
  In 1962 Billy Rose's "The Stripper" peaked at #1, the B-side of the record was "Ebb Tide", when the record was originally released the record label, M-G-M Records, intended "Ebb Tide" to be the A-side.
• Peter from Wellington, New ZealandFirst version I ever heard was the Platters version & it remains my favourite.
• Mac from Evanston, IlI love this song. It's about sex, pure and simple. Most likely, the coital act between a woman and a man. I love the RB version best, but they're all good.
• Randy from San Jacinto, CaEbbe Tide is among my favorite songs.
• George from Belleville, NjI would like to give my opinion on Ebb Tide.I believe this is one of the most dramatic songs ever written.This song stirs all kinds of feelings and emotions when listening to it.The best version belongs to Frank Sinatra.Who but Sinatra could interpret the lyric the way he does it.And the arrangement was by the great Nelson Riddle.Riddle's arrangement is so powerful that when listening to it,it sounds like a movie unfolding with it's dramatic effect,the peaks and valleys,the climax,the soothing effect of the quiet stillness of the ending.It is like an experience.This is music on the level of art.

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