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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 6, 2015 16:43:11 GMT 1
I have decided to make retro-charts for the period 1960 up until the end of 1976 when my actual chart started. I'm not doing a chart a week or that would take 17 years. So I plan to compile several charts per week. It will work as follows:
- The chart will always be dated Saturday and in 1960 the first chart will thus be 2nd January. This is based on what I have as the top 20 in the UK and USA. I am omitting a couple of seasonal songs (the UK chart I have is the same as the last one of 1959). I also have two versions of "Seven Little Girls" to choose between and have gone for the Paul Evans version even though the Avons had the bigger hit with it. One song not on Spotify from the US top 20, and one overlap (yes just 1, Connie Francis). All in all though I will be compiling my first retro chart from this playlist:
Duane Eddy – Some Kind-A Earthquake Cliff Richard – Travellin' Light Brook Benton – So Many Ways Paul Anka – It's Time To Cry Jimmy Clanton – Go Jimmy Go Frankie Laine – Rawhide Sandy Nelson – Teen Beat Connie Francis – Among My Souvenirs Johnny & The Hurricanes – Red River Rock Frankie Avalon – Why Marty Wilde – Bad Boy michael holliday – Starry Eyed Johnny Preston – Running Bear Fabian – This Friendly World Neil Sedaka – Oh Carol Harry Simeone Chorale – The Little Drummer Boy Steve Lawrence – Pretty Blue Eyes Russ Conway – More And More Party Pops (Part 1) The Nutty Squirrels – Uh Oh (Part 2) Larry Hall – Sandy Adam Faith – What Do You Want Johnny & The Hurricanes – Reveille Rock The Browns – Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) Guy Mitchell – Heartaches By The Number Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife Freddie Cannon – Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Fats Domino – Be My Guest Russ Conway – Snow Coach Bobby Rydell – We Got Love Marty Robbins – El Paso Elmer Bernstein – Staccato's Theme Tommy Steele – Little White Bull Miss Toni Fisher – The Big Hurt Fabian – Hound Dog Man Paul Evans – Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat Emile Ford – What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes At Me for?
It will be a top 20. Subsequently I will use songs that enter the top 20 in either chart, unless they have already entered within this period or it is another version of the same song at a time when songs were being recorded by a lot of people. I will probably drop the US chart at some point but I think in 1960 it is essential. (The rule means Anthony Newley's version of "Why" which shortly enters the UK chart is unlikely to get included, as Frankie Avalon's version is in this list, in fact it was US #1).
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 6, 2015 16:44:38 GMT 1
The plan is that my playlist will grow to up to 36 songs, however many weeks it takes for that, and then I compile charts for that many weeks. No retro charts will be compiled during the 3 weeks nor the 3 catch-up weeks after it.
I will still compile current charts but may do something drastic to spend less time on it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 8, 2015 13:13:02 GMT 1
I have to pick 20 out of that lot. "Little Drummer Boy" has been dropped. Would probably never have charted anyway, it's totally boring and monotonous and no wonder David Bowie insisted on adding that "Peace On Earth" part to it. It desperately needs it. Russ Conway's little medley also chopped, Snow Coach remains on the list but might not make the cut. The Nutty Squirrels is just crazy.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 11, 2015 1:13:24 GMT 1
And here we have it - the first NM retro chart, 2nd January 1960:
1 ( -- ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka 2 ( -- ) Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin 3 ( -- ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine 4 ( -- ) What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? - Emile Ford 5 ( -- ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele 6 ( -- ) Running Bear - Johnny Preston 7 ( -- ) Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat - Paul Evans 8 ( -- ) What Do You Want - Adam Faith 9 ( -- ) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddie Cannon 10 ( -- ) Heartaches By The Number - Guy Mitchell
11 ( -- ) Be My Guest - Fats Domino 12 ( -- ) El Paso - Marty Robbins 13 ( -- ) Travellin' Light - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 14 ( -- ) Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes 15 ( -- ) Bad Boy - Marty Wilde 16 ( -- ) Some Kind-A Earthquake - Duane Eddy 17 ( -- ) Snow Coach - Russ Conway 18 ( -- ) Go Jimmy Go - Jimmy Clanton 19 ( -- ) Why - Frankie Avalon 20 ( -- ) Hound Dog Man - Fabian
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Firstly, I was a bit surprised first how good the list was, secondly how many songs on it I actually knew, which was a lot. The ones I didn't know were mostly ones from the US chart that didn't make it into the UK chart.
For the number one I'm probably a bit biased of course... Yeah, a nice song but it's had more of a special meaning since 2000. In this respect I was a more successful Neil than Mr Sedaka.. I won my Carol's love, he didn't win his. The song was supposedly written about Carole King.
I was also noting that quite a few on this list are still alive.
For Guy Mitchell this will definitely be his only hit. Very successful during the 50s but his hits dried up at this point. Frankie Laine of course dominated 1953. Something of a change from "I Believe", "Rawhide" is a country-western song. His only remaining UK hit is "Gunslinger" which took the bottom spot and I don't know if I'm going to source songs that low or whether my UK chart source will only go down as far as 40. I'm also not sure whether Gunslinger or any other song did better in the US to get on my playlist that way.
This chart does actually have one full member of the UK 50 club. Jimmy Clanton's only UK chart placing was one week at #50 with "Another Sleepless Night". In January the UK chart wasn't as long as that so in reality "Go Jimmy Go" might have been a hit in a bigger chart.
Several of these songs get covered later. And I mean a lot later... "What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For" was already 42 years old at the time, and was later also covered by Shakin' Stevens. His cover was half decent unlike Donny Osmond's attempt at "Why" and Timmy Mallett murderering "Seven Little Girls..". Mack The Knife was also a lot older than 1959-60 being originally from The Threepenny Opera in 1928, and "Red River Rock" was originally Red River Valley, and several years older.
Noticeable that Cliff Richard appears in the "first chart". He's never had an NM #1 in the post-1977 chart but he'll make several attempts at it now and may actually succeed, especially around the early part of 1963.
No females in this chart: there were 2 on the playlist (Connie Francis and Miss Toni Fisher) but they both missed out. Toni Fisher was closer than Connie. 3 instrumentals (Johnny & The Hurricanes, Duane Eddy and Russ Conway). Sandy Nelson was the next on the list (came in 21st) with his drum kit. There are female vocalists of course on Paul Evans's hit but they are not credited. Paul Evans might not have to wait 19 years for his next hit. He already has a song out on my next playlist group. Aside from him and Cliff (and The Shadows) the only other artist on that list to have reached the chart in the regular NM chart era is Duane Eddy. Of course, Marty Wilde's daughter has done so many times and he did co-write her debut one.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 11, 2015 2:13:59 GMT 1
I have my next playlist of 36 songs that covers 8 weeks. I was hoping for more new songs per week as ideally I would prefer about only half of my playlist to actually chart (so it is selective and not just charting everything). It will pick up later though as the UK chart source becomes a top 40.
I need to also compile a 5th March chart that is not the same as the UK chart of 10th March, which will be equivalent to my 12th March chart.
In the list I compiled of new releases, there are 9 on 6th February and none of 13th February. So I will keep "bubblers" from that week to be able to chart the following week. I may do that for all the charts to come.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 11, 2015 23:54:55 GMT 1
There will be at least one in the next group of charts. There are about 4 on the list and the one that's likely to do best is one I'd never heard of. About 17 at the time. However died at the age of 70 so no longer with us.
With regards to Frankie Laine, I looked him up. Gunslinger doesn't appear to have reached the US chart at all. Nor did Rawhide, actually. He did have some later hits but none of them reached the US top 20. One peaked at about #24 I think. So if I limit the US entries to a top 20, "Rawhide" will be his only hit.
I'm going to work out some "movement" for the songs in the first chart based on how long they have been around. The longer they have been around the more likely they are to fall in the next chart. Those who have just arrived are more likely to climb.
I also looked up whether "Another Sleepless Night" was potentially going to reach my chart. US peak of #22 so not quite top 20. That compares to a #5 US peak for "Go Jimmy Go", the one I have charted. He'll be battling for rights with Mark Wynter in 1962 for "Venus In Blue Jeans".
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 12, 2015 9:22:56 GMT 1
This is a topic about music from 1960 (obviously the first chart contains songs from the end of 1959 in it). I will also talk about the artists in the chart and may refer to their music in other years.
The one key difference of course in compiling a retro chart is that you know what is coming later from these artists. You also know, when a song enters the chart, how well it is going to perform. (You knew too of course between 1995 and 2005 when singles virtually never climbed).
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Post by rubcale on Feb 12, 2015 20:03:19 GMT 1
I presume Travellin' Light is a "left-over" from 1959. I always preferred it to Living Doll.
Who were the big female singers of the era? I could have guessed Connie Francis and perhaps Shirley Bassey and Alma Cogan?
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 12, 2015 20:30:33 GMT 1
This is a chart dated 2nd January which for the UK one is a repeated chart anyway so yes, Travellin' Light was 1959 like all the others. It reached #1 but seems to be less well known than some of the others.
He has "A Voice In The Wilderness" on my newest playlist from that year which actually covers up to the end of February.
Connie Francis had a song in my first playlist "Among My Souvenirs". She will appear on my playlist a few more times and I'm sure she'll chart again. She has more US #1s to come but her two UK #1s were 1957 and 1958.
There will definitely be an entry in my chart but a solo female vocalist on the chart of 16th January, and possibly one on 9th January.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 13:15:08 GMT 1
Who were the big female singers of the era? I could have guessed Connie Francis and perhaps Shirley Bassey and Alma Cogan? Obviously Brenda Lee. She had two # 1 in 1960 and 47 US chart top 100 songs during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley, Beatles and Ray Charles. Before singers, which started their career before 1963-1964 years I also can add Anita Bryant in your list. She wasn't huge star, but well-known for fans of 60s female singers. "Paper Roses" (Marie Osmond did a good cover version in 1973) was her main hit, # 5 in US (1960).
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 13, 2015 14:35:59 GMT 1
Brenda Lee will have two US #1s during 1960 and "I'm Sorry" will be the first to come up. "Let's Jump The Broomstick" was 1959 in the USA but 1961 in the UK. Obviously a song I know because there was a hit cover version in 1981. I'm too late for "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree". Probably just as well as it will be nowhere near Christmas most of the time when I hit that period.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 16:54:16 GMT 1
I'm too late for "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree". Probably just as well as it will be nowhere near Christmas most of the time when I hit that period. Although Decca released the single in both 1958 and again in 1959, it did not sell well until Lee became a popular star in 1960. That Christmas holiday season, Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" peaked at No.14 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. From database of US charts, which I have : December 12. 1960 was a debut date for "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" in Hot 100. Chart run : 64-26-14-18
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 14, 2015 19:49:34 GMT 1
I've looked ahead. The Saturdays are 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st. It is #26 on 24th and #14 on 31st. Which means just after Christmas according to the way I do it now. My source is: www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1960-12-24Noticed that Brook Benton is falling having peaked at #24. That song is a #50 peak in the UK. Brook Benton failed with the song at the top of the list but will be charting very shortly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 8:21:27 GMT 1
Official free source ? That's news for me. I use "Billboard Pop ME" list, which was available in web some years ago.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 15, 2015 14:05:42 GMT 1
Official free source ? That's news for me. I use "Billboard Pop ME" list, which was available in web some years ago. I use Ultimate Music Database www.umdmusic.com/Anyway, I'm going to jump on Earl Purple's bandwagon and compile my own Retro Rewind Charts from 1960 imagining a world if the internet existed back then, and the current rules of mining albums for tracks to count in my chart which should make it interesting from the mid 1960s through to the late 1970s.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 15, 2015 19:57:44 GMT 1
So at the moment I am compiling a top 25 but only the top 20 is published. Also for the first chart, I applied some formula dependent on how long the song had been around to create some movement for the 2nd chart. That meant Cliff Richard and Johnny & The Hurricanes, which had both been around a long time, got heavily penalised and drop out this week. You can think of it like they were both at the end of long chart runs. Mack The Knife similarly but that being #2 only falls to #4 rather than falling out.
Thus the chart 9th January 1960
1 ( 1 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka 2 ( 3 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine 3 ( 6 ) Running Bear - Johnny Preston 4 ( 2 ) Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin (#2) 5 ( 5 ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele 6 ( 7 ) Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat - Paul Evans 7 ( 4 ) What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? - Emile Ford (#4) 8 ( 9 ) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddie Cannon 9 ( 8 ) What Do You Want - Adam Faith (#8) 10 ( 12 ) El Paso - Marty Robbins
11 ( 11 ) Be My Guest - Fats Domino 12 ( 10 ) Heartaches By The Number - Guy Mitchell (#10) 13 ( 15 ) Bad Boy - Marty Wilde 14 ( 16 ) Some Kind-A Earthquake - Duane Eddy 15 ( 18 ) Go Jimmy Go - Jimmy Clanton 16 ( 19 ) Why - Frankie Avalon 17 ( 20 ) Hound Dog Man - Fabian 18 ( -- ) Smokie Part 2 - Bill Black's Combo 19 ( 17 ) Snow Coach - Russ Conway (#17) 20 ( -- ) Reveille Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes
Only 2 entries as it wasn't a particularly strong week. I actually moved "Starry Eyed" into this week's releases but it still failed to chart. (It entered at #24 so there's a small chance it will climb in).
El Paso and Running Bear are both on their way up to being US #1 hits. Running Bear was also a UK #1 later in the year, and was written by the Big Bopper who also does some backing vocals on it (some of the Indian chants). Both those songs feature deaths as does "Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning which is along shortly and we'll see whether or not it charts.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 15, 2015 20:22:11 GMT 1
There are a bunch of these all being compiled from one playlist. I will post another one now, and I'll probably post 2 each day at the moment, during which time I'll be listening to the next playlist.
In any case, 16th January 1960 sees a bit of action on the new entry side, albeit not many entries:
1 ( 1 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka < 3rd week at #1> 2 ( 2 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine 3 ( 3 ) Running Bear - Johnny Preston 4 ( -- ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson 5 ( -- ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello 6 ( 5 ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele (#5) 7 ( 6 ) Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat - Paul Evans (#6) 8 ( 4 ) Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin (#2) 9 ( 8 ) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddie Cannon (#8) 10 ( 10 ) El Paso - Marty Robbins
11 ( 7 ) What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? - Emile Ford (#4) 12 ( 9 ) What Do You Want - Adam Faith (#8) 13 ( 11 ) Be My Guest - Fats Domino (#11) 14 ( 18 ) Smokie Part 2 - Bill Black's Combo 15 ( 13 ) Bad Boy - Marty Wilde (#13) 16 ( 14 ) Some Kind-A Earthquake - Duane Eddy (#14) 17 ( 15 ) Go Jimmy Go - Jimmy Clanton (#15) 18 ( 16 ) Why - Frankie Avalon (#16) 19 ( 12 ) Heartaches By The Number - Guy Mitchell (#10) 20 ( 17 ) Hound Dog Man - Fabian (#17) __________________________
-- ( 20 ) Reveille Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes (#20) -- ( 19 ) Snow Coach - Russ Conway (#17) ___________________________________
So Johnny & The Hurricanes became the first act to have 2 entries in my chart but has lost both of them now. Reveille Rock was on the "bubblers" list from the previous week and sneaked in for one week at #20.
"You Got What It Takes" looks like it could officially be a #1 song twice, once in 1960 and again in 1977 when Showaddywaddy cover it. We sort-of expected this one to do well.
Meanwhile I had never heard of Annette Funicello. The song was actually credted on billboard to "Annette With The Afterbeats" but the artist name "Annette Funicello" came up when searching it on Spotify and so I kept it at that name. She becomes the first female solo artist to enter my chart and in January 1960 she was just 17 years old. Sadly she is no longer with us, she died in 2013 at the age of 70 but she did have a good career in acting as well as singing. "First Name Initial" only just got on the playlist too, peaking at #20 in the US Billboard Chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 16, 2015 22:16:11 GMT 1
Chart of 23rd January 1960 sees our first change at #1
1 ( 4 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson <1st #1> 2 ( 5 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello 3 ( 1 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka (#1[3]) 4 ( 2 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine (#2[2]) 5 ( 3 ) Running Bear - Johnny Preston (#3) 6 ( 6 ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele (#5) 7 ( 7 ) Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat - Paul Evans & The Curls (#6) 8 ( 10 ) El Paso - Marty Robbins 9 ( 9 ) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddie Cannon (#8) 10 ( -- ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk
11 ( 14 ) Smokie Part 2 - Bill Black's Combo 12 ( 8 ) Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin (#2) 13 ( -- ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 14 ( -- ) Down By The Station - Four Preps 15 ( 12 ) What Do You Want - Adam Faith (#8) 16 ( 11 ) What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? - Emile Ford (#4) 17 ( 13 ) Be My Guest - Fats Domino (#11) 18 ( 15 ) Bad Boy - Marty Wilde (#13) 19 ( -- ) In The Mood - Ernie Fields 20 ( 16 ) Some Kind-A Earthquake - Duane Eddy (#14) ________________________________________________
-- ( 17 ) Go Jimmy Go - Jimmy Clanton (#15) -- ( 18 ) Why - Frankie Avalon (#16) -- ( 19 ) Heartaches By The Number - Guy Mitchell (#10) -- ( 20 ) Hound Dog Man - Fabian (#17) _____________________________________________
Having appeared in the first chart with Travellin' Light, a song that had been a UK #1 in 1959 and was still hanging around, Cliff Richard gets his first new hit of the 1960s. Of his hits from this year "Please Don't Tease" is obviously the most likely contender for honours. "A Voice In The Wilderness" really is helped by the advantage of my playlist in the early part of the year being quite thin. It has increased now to UK top 40, US top 30.
There is more to Acker Bilk than just Stranger On The Shore. If it seems bad timing to have "Summer Set" in January, there is another huge instrumental hit with the word "summer" in the title about to enter soon.
In the USA I noticed the female group with Paul Evans are actually credited, as The Curls, so I've added them in now.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 16, 2015 23:10:52 GMT 1
One more today. The lack of movement elsewhere has caused Acker Blik to climb to #3. Jimmy Jones actually got a far better score than Acker Bilk did last week but enters lower than that one did. They are fairly tightly placed in between. There is some selection at the moment but I suppose it shows the general weakness all around that Jim Reeves managed to enter. Jimmy Jones will have "Good Timin'" a bit later on in the year which was a UK #1.
Next week has a lot of new ones, the week after none at all.
30 January 1960:
1 ( 1 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello 3 ( 10 ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk 4 ( 3 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka (#1[3]) 5 ( 4 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine (#2[2]) 6 ( 6 ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele (#5) 7 ( 13 ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard 8 ( 8 ) El Paso - Marty Robbins 9 ( 7 ) Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat - Paul Evans (#6) 10 ( 5 ) Running Bear - Johnny Preston (#3)
11 ( 14 ) Down By The Station - Four Preps 12 ( -- ) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 13 ( 11 ) Smokie Part 2 - Bill Black's Combo (#11) 14 ( 9 ) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddie Cannon (#8) 15 ( 19 ) In The Mood - Ernie Fields 16 ( 12 ) Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin (#2) 17 ( -- ) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 18 ( 15 ) What Do You Want - Adam Faith (#8) 19 ( 17 ) Be My Guest - Fats Domino (#11) 20 ( 16 ) What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? - Emile Ford (#4) ________________________________________
-- ( 18 ) Bad Boy - Marty Wilde (#13) -- ( 20 ) Some Kind-A Earthquake - Duane Eddy (#14)
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 17, 2015 21:23:25 GMT 1
Onto 6th February, 6 new entries, with 2 of them entering high.
1 ( 1 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello 3 ( 3 ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk 4 ( 7 ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 5 ( -- ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin 6 ( -- ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith 7 ( 12 ) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 8 ( 4 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka (#1[3]) 9 ( 5 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine (#2[2]) 10 ( 6 ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele (#5)
11 ( 8 ) El Paso - Marty Robbins (#8) 12 ( -- ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 13 ( 11 ) Down By The Station - Four Preps (#11) 14 ( 17 ) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 15 ( -- ) Poor Me - Adam Faith 16 ( 10 ) Running Bear - Johnny Preston (#3) 17 ( -- ) Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers 18 ( 9 ) Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat - Paul Evans (#6) 19 ( -- ) Tracy's Theme - Spencer Ross 20 ( 15 ) In The Mood - Ernie Fields (#15) _________________________________________________
-- ( 13 ) Smokie Part 2 - Bill Black's Combo (#11) -- ( 14 ) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddie Cannon (#8) -- ( 16 ) Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin (#2) -- ( 18 ) What Do You Want - Adam Faith (#8) -- ( 19 ) Be My Guest - Fats Domino (#11) -- ( 20 ) What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? - Emile Ford (#4) _______________________________________________
Interestingly 3 artists replace themselves in the chart this week, Bobby Darin, Adam Faith and Emile Ford. Bobby Darin was #2 on the first chart, and would probably have had #1s in 1959. He may well get one in 1960 now. Meanwhile we get the Everly Brothers charting here for the first time. Their big hit of 1960 was "Cathy's Clown". That will come up later in the year and we'll see how it does.
"Theme From A Summer Place" is a very well known instrumental track and was US #1 for several weeks and peaked at #2 in the UK chart.
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