After a few years of mediocre success, Trini Lopez was discovered by Frank Sinatra, and Ol’ Blue Eyes signed Lopez to a contract at his own label, Reprise Records. His first number one hit, cover of “If I Had a Hammer,” when Gold off of his debut live album, and in the decade that followed he recorded a number of hits including “Lemon Tree,” “I’m Comin’ Home, Cindy,” and “Sally Was a Good Old Girl.”
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