Delfan1961 13th Mar 2018
| | "When A Girl Gives Her Heart To A Boy" was "the biggest territorial hit, in the history of Baltimore radio", according to longtime area Deejay, Jack Edwards.
The record hit #1 on all three of the city's Pop stations...WCAO, WWIN & WITH, and also reached #6, on Washington, DC's WPGC.
The singer was in her mid-teens, from the Washington, DC suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland. Her then 13 year old sister, Loretta Ward had penned the song.
The record even cracked Cash Box's "Looking Ahead" national charts (positions 101-150). Despite the stupendous local success, which must have accounted for sales in the tens of thousands, no follow-up record was issued, and Janice Ward vanished from the spotlight.
Earlier in 1961, the young singer had waxed a different version of the song, for "Florentine Records", a local operation, associated with the Wray clan (Vernon Wray, aka "Ray Vernon" and Link Wray and family). Apparently, Monument Records acquired the rights from the Wrays.
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