After a week of "Tom Dooly" the public went back to making believe with Conway Twitty for another week and then decided to go back to positive love ballads. A school fire killed 93 students and 3 teachers in Chicago and People needed somthing soft to pacify with.
This weeks #1 Hit was The Teddy Bears "To Know Him, Is To Love Him"
Musician and Producer, Phil Spector wrote "To Know Him, Is To Love Him" just out of high school and wanted to find a group to perform his song because he felt it was going to be a hit, given the right personnel. Phil recruited Marshall Leib, Harvey Goldstein and Annette Kleinbard. Together they were known as The Teddy Bears. Phil then set up a studio session to record his song at Gold Star Studios. They got drum tracks laid down by Sandy Nelson at the studio and released the track August of 1958 on the ERA Dore Label. A few months later they began to get airplay and "To Know Him, Is To Love Him" quickly rose to number one.
The song tells a story from a females perspective of how just being around this fellow makes her life complete and one day, hopes to be in a relationship with him. But, Boys are stupid and he has yet to realize her feelings. This relationship probably never worked out because she was too shy to reveal her own feelings and if anything perspired it was only a one night stand after a drunkin frat party. Or should I say "It's Only Make Believe". The bands success certainly was. The hit landed them a full record that failed to chart so Phil disbanded the group and that was the end of The Teddy Bears.