The Chordettes

**The Chordettes** were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella. Their songs were mainly traditional popular music. They are best known for their hit songs "Mr. Sandman" and "Lollipop".

## Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year|rowspan="2"|Single (A-side, B-side) <small>Both sides from same album except where indicated</small>|colspan="4"|Chart positions|rowspan="2"|Album|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1954|style="text-align:left;"|"Mr. Sandman" <small>b/w "I Don't Wanna See You Cryin'" (Non-album track)</small>|1|3||11|style="text-align:left;"|_The Chordettes_||
|rowspan="2"|1955|style="text-align:left;"|"Lonely Lips" <small>b/w "The Dudelsack Song" (Non-album track)</small>||7|||style="text-align:left;"|_All the Very Best of the Chordettes_|
|style="text-align:left;"|"Humming Bird" <small>b/w "I Told a Lie" (Non-album track)</small>||9|||style="text-align:left;"|_The Chordettes_|||
|rowspan="5"|1956|style="text-align:left;"|"The Wedding" <small>b/w "I Don't Know, I Don't Care" (Non-album track)</small>|91|5|||style="text-align:left;"|_All the Very Best of the Chordettes_|
|style="text-align:left;"|"Eddie My Love" <small>b/w "Whistlin' Willie" (Non-album track)</small>|14|3|||style="text-align:left;" rowspan="5"|_The Chordettes_|||
|style="text-align:left;"|"Born to Be with You" <small>b/w "Love Never Changes"</small>|5|4||8|||||
|style="text-align:left;"|"Lay Down Your Arms" /|16|2|||||||
|style="text-align:left;"|"Teen Age Goodnight"|45|8|||||||
|rowspan="5"|1957|style="text-align:left;"|"Come Home to My Arms" <small>b/w "(Fifi's) Walkin' the Poodle" (Non-album track)</small>||7|||||
|style="text-align:left;"|"Echo of Love" <small>b/w "Like a Baby" (from _The Chordettes_)</small>||56|||style="text-align:left;"|Non-album track|||
|style="text-align:left;"|"Just Between You and Me" /|8|8|||style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|_The Chordettes_|||
|style="text-align:left;"|"Soft Sands"|73|1|||||||
|style="text-align:left;"|"Baby of Mine" <small>b/w "Photographs"</small>||3|||style="text-align:left;"|Non-album tracks|||
|rowspan="2"|1958|style="text-align:left;"|"Lollipop" <small>b/w "Baby, Come-a Back-a" (Non-album track)</small>|2|3||6|style="text-align:left;" rowspan="4"|_All the Very Best of the Chordettes_|
|style="text-align:left;"|"Zorro" <small>b/w "Love Is a Two-Way Street" (Non-album track)</small>|17|5|||||||
|rowspan="2"|1959|style="text-align:left;"|"No Other Arms, No Other Lips" <small>b/w "We Should Be Together" (Non-album track)</small>|27|6|||||
|style="text-align:left;"|"A Girl's Work Is Never Done" <small>b/w "No Wheels" (Non-album track)</small>|89|0|||||||
|1960|style="text-align:left;"|"A Broken Vow" <small>b/w "All My Sorrows"</small>|—|4|||style="text-align:left;"|Non-album tracks||
|rowspan="3"|1961|style="text-align:left;"|"Never on Sunday" /|13|2|4||style="text-align:left;"|_Never on Sunday_|
|style="text-align:left;"|"Faraway Star"|90|5|||style="text-align:left;"|_All the Very Best of the Chordettes_|||
|style="text-align:left;"|"The Exodus Song" <small>b/w "Theme from 'Goodbye Again'"</small>||6|||style="text-align:left;"|_Never on Sunday_|||
|rowspan="2"|1962|style="text-align:left;"|"The White Rose of Athens" <small>b/w "Adios"</small>||5|||style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3"|Non-album tracks|
|style="text-align:left;"|"In the Deep Blue Sea" <small>b/w "All My Sorrows"</small>||1|||||||
|1963|style="text-align:left;"|"True Love Goes On and On" <small>b/w "All My Sorrows"</small>||8||||||

## Other websites

- Picture and names of The Chordettes
- The Chordettes' page on the Primarily A Cappella site
- Chordette Lynn Evans harmonizes in classroom while a teacher
- Chordettes sing "Lollipop" and "Mr. Sandman" on the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, February 22, 1958
- Carol Buschmann Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2010)
- Dorothy Schwartz Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2010)

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: The Chordettes
- **background**: group_or_band
- **image**: The Chordettes.JPG
- **caption**: The Chordettes
(clockwise: Carol Buschmann, Dorothy "Dottie" Schwartz, Jinny Osborn, and Janet Ertel)
- **origin**: Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S.
- **years active**: 1946–1963
- **website**: [http://www.singers.com/jazz/vintage/chordettes.html The Chordettes' page on the _Primarily A Cappella_ site]
- **past members**: Jinny Osborn, Jinny Lockard (previously Osborn)
Carol Buschmann
Lynn Evans
Janet Ertel (aka Bleyer)
Margie Latzko
Dorothy “Dottie” (Hummitzsch) Schwartz
Nancy Overton
Alice Mae Spielvogel (previously Buschmann)
Joyce Weston