"A Story Untold" is a song, originally written as a doo-wop

Doo-wop

The name Doo-wop is given to a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that developed in African American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and...

 song by Leroy Griffin, but adapted to the pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 genre in 1955

1955 in music

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The original recording was by Griffin's group, The Nutmegs

The Nutmegs

The Nutmegs were a 1950s American doo wop vocal group from New Haven, Connecticut. They are best known for their songs "Story Untold" and "Ship of Love," released in 1955 and 1956, respectively. The quintet was led by tenor Leroy Griffin and was signed to Herald Records.-External links:*...

. The recording peaked at #2 on the R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 chart.

The most popular recording was by The Crew-Cuts

The Crew-Cuts

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. This recording was released by Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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 as catalog number

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 70634. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts

Billboard charts

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on June 25, 1955, and spent a total of 7 weeks there. It peaked at #16 on the Best Seller chart.