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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 27, 2015 0:59:10 GMT 1
First chart of 1961 has a new number one but only one new entry.
7 January 1961:
1 ( 2 ) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan 3 ( 1 ) Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (#1[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher (#1[2]) 5 ( 4 ) Buona Sera - Mr Acker Bilk (#2[1]) 6 ( 5 ) Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Brook Benton (#4) 7 ( 8 ) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee 8 ( 6 ) Portrait Of My Love - Matt Monro (#5) 9 ( 19 ) Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine 10 ( 13 ) Blue Tango - Bill Black's Combo
11 ( 16 ) Little Girl - Marty Wilde 12 ( 10 ) You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette (#1[2]) 13 ( 20 ) Strawberry Blonde - Frank D'Rone 14 ( 14 ) Deep Feeling - Mike Sagar & The Cresters (#13) 15 ( 17 ) Donald Where's Your Troosers - Andy Stewart 16 ( 12 ) Counting Teardrops - Emile Ford & The Checkmates (#7) 17 ( 15 ) Black Stockings - John Barry Seven (#14) 18 ( 9 ) Little Donkey - Nina And Frederick (#9) 19 ( 23 ) Corinna Corinna - Ray Peterson 20 ( 24 ) Blue-Eyed Boy - Al Saxon
21 ( 11 ) Lonely Pup (In A Christmas Shop) - Adam Faith (#8) 22 ( 22 ) Why Why Bye Bye - Bob Luman 23 ( 21 ) Lonely Teenager - Dion (#20) 24 ( -- ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk 25 ( 18 ) Goodness Gracious Me - Peter Sellers And Sophia Loren (#2[2]) 26 ( 26 ) I Gotta Know - Elvis Presley (#20) 27 ( 29 ) Ruby Duby Du - Tobin Mathews & Co (#18) 28 ( 30 ) Gurney Slade - Max Harris (#15) 29 ( 25 ) Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley (#3) 30 ( 27 ) I Love You - Cliff Richard (#9)
-- ( 28 ) Wonderland By Night - Bert Kaempfert (#6)
-- ( -- ) Wings Of A Dove - Ferlin Husky -- ( -- ) Baby Oh Baby - Shells -- ( -- ) Till - Tony Bennett -- ( -- ) Ruby - Ray Charles
Christmas is over, Brenda Lee has gone down and we have the first number one for a while that has climbed to that position. The Shirelles take their classic to the top, and with Sarah Vaughan climbing to #2 it's an all female top 3.
The only new entry is an instrumental from Lawrence Welk that reached #1 in the USA. Interestingly Tony Jasper's top 20 book lists this as a UK #19 hit in Record Mirror but according to the Official Charts Company i.e. Record Retailer it didn't even reach the top 50.
The chart is about to explode again next week, so we will see how long the Shirelles can hold the top spot. (Of course Sarah Vaughan may even replace them next week).
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 27, 2015 7:09:28 GMT 1
Welk didn't make any of the other charts either. Weird blip. But possibly genuine on Record Mirror's chart as I can't see anyone being interested in hyping up someone whose American show was old-fashioned even by 1961 standards.
Welk didn't like "Oh! Calcutta" and his orchestra knocked it off in one take.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 28, 2015 22:45:47 GMT 1
14 January 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan 3 ( -- ) Pepe - Duane Eddy 4 ( 9 ) Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine 5 ( -- ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren 6 ( 4 ) Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher (#1[2]) 7 ( 3 ) Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (#1[2]) 8 ( -- ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka 9 ( 5 ) Buona Sera - Mr Acker Bilk (#2[1]) 10 ( 7 ) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee (#7)
11 ( 6 ) Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Brook Benton (#4) 12 ( 11 ) Little Girl - Marty Wilde (#11) 13 ( 10 ) Blue Tango - Bill Black's Combo (#10) 14 ( 13 ) Strawberry Blonde - Frank D'Rone (#13) 15 ( 8 ) Portrait Of My Love - Matt Monro (#5) 16 ( -- ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart 17 ( 15 ) Donald Where's Your Troosers - Andy Stewart (#15) 18 ( 14 ) Deep Feeling - Mike Sagar & The Cresters (#13) 19 ( 24 ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk 20 ( 12 ) You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette (#1[2])
21 ( 19 ) Corinna Corinna - Ray Peterson (#19) 22 ( -- ) Shop Around - Miracles 23 ( 20 ) Blue-Eyed Boy - Al Saxon (#20) 24 ( 17 ) Black Stockings - John Barry Seven (#14) 25 ( -- ) I Count The Tears - Drifters 26 ( 16 ) Counting Teardrops - Emile Ford & The Checkmates (#7) 27 ( -- ) Doll House - King Brothers 28 ( 22 ) Why Why Bye Bye - Bob Luman (#22) 29 ( 27 ) Ruby Duby Du - Tobin Mathews & Co (#18) 30 ( 23 ) Lonely Teenager - Dion (#20)
-- ( 18 ) Little Donkey - Nina And Frederick (#9) -- ( 21 ) Lonely Pup (In A Christmas Shop) - Adam Faith (#8) -- ( 25 ) Goodness Gracious Me - Peter Sellers And Sophia Loren (#2[2]) -- ( 26 ) I Gotta Know - Elvis Presley (#20) -- ( 28 ) Gurney Slade - Max Harris (#15) -- ( 29 ) Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley (#3) -- ( 30 ) I Love You - Cliff Richard (#9)
-- ( -- ) Piltdown Rides Again - Piltdown Men -- ( -- ) I'm Hurtin' - Roy Orbison -- ( -- ) Chariot - Rhet Stoller -- ( -- ) Can't You Hear My Heart - Danny Rivers -- ( -- ) You Are The Only One - Ricky Nelson
After a relatively quiet couple of weeks the year bursts into life with what was not only the week on the playlist with the most hits but also the one with the biggest hits.
Flying in at #3 is Duane Eddy's twangy version of a theme from a film in which the vocal version of the tune is sung by Shirley Jones. She is likely to make her way into this chart in the 1970s as part of the Partridge Family. She married David Cassidy's dad too.
Goodness Gracious, we throught we'd get rid of them... but no they're back for more. This time arguing about the menu, he starts off with a cockney accent this time but later they have a bit of fun and put on silly accents. I think they're trying to immitate each other. I really think if she doesn't make him what he wants he needs to learn to cook for himself...
Long before Stevie Wonder ran through the months of the year saying something about each of them, we had this from Neil Sedaka. And given my fascination with calendars I thought it had a good chance of #1.
Andy Stewart doesn't mess around, another hit already. A Scottish Soldier didn't peak that high but spent almost the entire year of 1961 in the top 50. We know this is common now but for 1961 this was a rather long run.
Welcome to the Miracles who "introduced" Smokey Robinson. The Drifters are saying goodbye to Ben E King but he's still lead vocalist on this song. He has a solo one coming up very soon and another one following that not long after. Not "that" one yet..
And more swing from the King Brothers. Also have another one on the new playlist. Pretty much over for them, and so far "Mais Oui" has been their biggest hit.
On another week they might have charted but the Piltdown Men's interpretation of the William Tell Overture, and the latest Roy Orbison offering fall by the wayside together with the others listed there.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 28, 2015 23:18:29 GMT 1
It's only eight years since Piltdown Man was exposed as a hoax, but members of The Four Preps decided to put together a sax-led studio group with some palaeolithic song titles. Bruce Belland of the Preps was the father of Melissa and Tracy from Voice Of The Beehive.
It's interesting to note just how many instrumental acts were successful in the lull between rock & roll and beat groups.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 29, 2015 15:31:59 GMT 1
The hoax was exposed in 2003 so actually 12 years now, but still that's a long time after 1961.
For others who don't understand (and haven't looked up what Piltdown was), it was a "scientific" discovery of fossils showing an ancient humanoid species, only it was discovered in 2003 to be a big hoax.
Voice of the Beehive that you mentioned covered "I Think I Love You" which was of course previously a song by Shirley Jones and the Partridge Family. So 2 links to Shirley Jones...
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 29, 2015 16:21:14 GMT 1
The hoax was exposed in 1953, what I meant was it was 8 years before the Piltdown Men. People still argue about who the hoaxer was though. Essentially someone put a human skull together with an orangutan jaw.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 30, 2015 0:27:54 GMT 1
21 January 1961:1 ( 2 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan < 1st week at #1 >2 ( 1 ) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy 4 ( 5 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren 5 ( 4 ) Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine (#4) 6 ( 8 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka 7 ( 16 ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart 8 ( 6 ) Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher (#1[2]) 9 ( 22 ) Shop Around - Miracles 10 ( -- ) Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee 11 ( 10 ) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee (#7) 12 ( 9 ) Buona Sera - Mr Acker Bilk (#2[1]) 13 ( 12 ) Little Girl - Marty Wilde (#11) 14 ( 19 ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk 15 ( 14 ) Strawberry Blonde - Frank D'Rone (#13) 16 ( 25 ) I Count The Tears - Drifters 17 ( 13 ) Blue Tango - Bill Black's Combo (#10) 18 ( 11 ) Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Brook Benton (#4) 19 ( 7 ) Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (#1[2]) 20 ( 27 ) Doll House - King Brothers 21 ( 17 ) Donald Where's Your Troosers - Andy Stewart (#15) 22 ( -- ) Emotions - Brenda Lee 23 ( 18 ) Deep Feeling - Mike Sagar & The Cresters (#13) 24 ( 15 ) Portrait Of My Love - Matt Monro (#5) 25 ( 21 ) Corinna Corinna - Ray Peterson (#19) 26 ( -- ) My Empty Arms - Jackie Wilson 27 ( -- ) Piltdown Rides Again - Piltdown Men 28 ( 23 ) Blue-Eyed Boy - Al Saxon (#20) 29 ( 20 ) You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette (#1[2]) 30 ( 24 ) Black Stockings - John Barry Seven (#14)
-- ( 26 ) Counting Teardrops - Emile Ford & The Checkmates (#7) -- ( 28 ) Why Why Bye Bye - Bob Luman (#22) -- ( 29 ) Ruby Duby Du - Tobin Mathews & Co (#18) -- ( 30 ) Lonely Teenager - Dion (#20)
-- ( -- ) Once In Awhile - Chimes -- ( -- ) I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Olympics -- ( -- ) Gee Whiz - Innocents
If it's a bit of a surprise to you that Duane Eddy didn't climb to #1 this week it is really that last week it entered at #3 almost by default, with the top 2 way ahead of everything else. And the top 2 were pretty close last week and this week Sarah Vaughan does bypass the Shirelles to take the top position. "Serenata" is a bit of a lost gem, I think. But Pepe might still get to #1. It was the top tune from its playlist. By the way, do you think it bears any resemblance to this: soundcloud.com/neil-morgenstern/grimbitch-jangledemoringtoneBrenda Lee hasn't quite left the chart yet with her Christmas hit although it's starting to tumble. But she has already prepared not one follow-up but two. She manages to get both the highest two entries this week. She has just turned 16 and is ready to "jump the broomstick" and essentially run to Nevada or wherever it is they go and get married. Well only in the song anyway. The "well" intro does make you think she's going to sing "you know you make me wanna shout" although it isn't quite as long a "well" as Lulu's. "Emotions" on the other hand is just laid-back. Reminds me a bit of "Crazy" by Patsy Cline. (That song will appear much later this year). And yet another Jackie Wilson song. In 1960-61 he's more of a balladeer than his famous UK hits suggest. Finally, with the Piltdown Men just missing out last week and really needing a 4th entry I put it in this week anyway. And now we know the band history too thanks to Vas. The track is essentially a slowed down version of Rossini's "William Tell Overture".
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 30, 2015 10:30:35 GMT 1
With regards to instrumental groups and their success, one has to look at this era and actually say it was the primary style of the time, therefore there was an era between Rock N Roll and Beat Groups.
Yes, there were lots of other styles around too and Elvis and the Everly Brothers were hugely successful but given how many UK #1s the Shadows had you can hardly argue against them being the main band of their era, and the Americans also had lots of instrumental acts.
As someone who is an instrumentalist myself, when I came to composing the two tunes I did in 1983, I went back to this era for a structure and style.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 1, 2015 17:05:45 GMT 1
28 January 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy 3 ( 4 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren 4 ( 2 ) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles (#1[2]) 5 ( 6 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka 6 ( 9 ) Shop Around - Miracles 7 ( 10 ) Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee 8 ( 7 ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart (#7) 9 ( 5 ) Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine (#4) 10 ( -- ) Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad
11 ( 8 ) Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher (#1[2]) 12 ( 16 ) I Count The Tears - Drifters 13 ( 14 ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk 14 ( 11 ) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee (#7) 15 ( 22 ) Emotions - Brenda Lee 16 ( 13 ) Little Girl - Marty Wilde (#11) 17 ( 20 ) Doll House - King Brothers 18 ( -- ) Shine - Joe Brown 19 ( 12 ) Buona Sera - Mr Acker Bilk (#2[1]) 20 ( 15 ) Strawberry Blonde - Frank D'Rone (#13)
21 ( 26 ) My Empty Arms - Jackie Wilson 22 ( -- ) What To Do - Buddy Holly 23 ( 27 ) Piltdown Rides Again - Piltdown Men 24 ( 17 ) Blue Tango - Bill Black's Combo (#10) 25 ( -- ) Mean Mean Man - Wanda Jackson 26 ( -- ) Lovey Dovey - Buddy Knox 27 ( 21 ) Donald Where's Your Troosers - Andy Stewart (#15) 28 ( 18 ) Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Brook Benton (#4) 29 ( 23 ) Deep Feeling - Mike Sagar & The Cresters (#13) 30 ( -- ) The Hoochi Coochi Coo - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters
-- ( 19 ) Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (#1[2]) -- ( 24 ) Portrait Of My Love - Matt Monro (#5) -- ( 25 ) Corinna Corinna - Ray Peterson (#19) -- ( 28 ) Blue-Eyed Boy - Al Saxon (#20) -- ( 29 ) You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette (#1[2]) -- ( 30 ) Black Stockings - John Barry Seven (#14)
-- ( -- ) My Last Date (With You) - Skeeter Davis
Sarah Vaughan remains on top a second week with a vocal version of a song that was written as an instrumental (in 1947). Whilst just behind her is Duane Eddy with an instrumental version of a song that was written with vocals (fairly recently, with Shirley Jones as mentioned previously).
The highest entry comes from an English vocalist who has recorded some dodgy music especially the one about a pullover, but this is a bit Elvis-ish. Actually it reminds me a bit of Good Luck Charm, a song that hadn't surfaced yet.
"You're the cutest thing that I ever did see, I really love your peaches want to shake your tree, lovey dovey lovey dovey all the time...". Where do those lyrics come from? You might say "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band but actually he ripped them off the song "Lovey Dovey" that enters the chart this week. (Buddy Knox isn't the original version of the song).
Taking an old song and putting it in a new style, Joe Brown covers a swing song called "Shine" and makes it more modern-sounding. Changes the lyrics a bit too, the original is "That's why they call me shine", he instead sings "I'll make the whole world shine". Louis Armstrong is among those who have recorded it in its original "swing" style.
Also charting is yet another song from the Buddy Holly back-catalogue, and Wanda Jackson's follow-up to "Let's Have A Party". Hank Ballard did the original of "The Twist" but Chubby Checker had the big hit version.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 3, 2015 3:13:15 GMT 1
4 February 1961:
1 ( 2 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren 4 ( 5 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka 5 ( 10 ) Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad 6 ( 7 ) Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee 7 ( 8 ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart 8 ( 6 ) Shop Around - Miracles (#6) 9 ( 4 ) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles (#1[2]) 10 ( -- ) Ginchy - Bert Weedon
11 ( 18 ) Shine - Joe Brown 12 ( 12 ) I Count The Tears - Drifters 13 ( -- ) Wheels - String-A-Longs 14 ( 15 ) Emotions - Brenda Lee 15 ( -- ) First Taste Of Love - Ben E King 16 ( 13 ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk (#13) 17 ( 22 ) What To Do - Buddy Holly 18 ( 9 ) Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine (#4) 19 ( -- ) Where The Boys Are - Connie Francis 20 ( 11 ) Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher (#1[2])
21 ( 17 ) Doll House - King Brothers (#17) 22 ( 25 ) Mean Mean Man - Wanda Jackson 23 ( 26 ) Lovey Dovey - Buddy Knox 24 ( 21 ) My Empty Arms - Jackie Wilson (#21) 25 ( 14 ) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee (#7) 26 ( -- ) C'est Si Bon - Conway Twitty 27 ( 16 ) Little Girl - Marty Wilde (#11) 28 ( 23 ) Piltdown Rides Again - Piltdown Men (#23) 29 ( 30 ) The Hoochi Coochi Coo - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters 30 ( 20 ) Strawberry Blonde - Frank D'Rone (#13)
-- ( 19 ) Buona Sera - Mr Acker Bilk (#2[1]) -- ( 24 ) Blue Tango - Bill Black's Combo (#10) -- ( 27 ) Donald Where's Your Troosers - Andy Stewart (#15) -- ( 28 ) Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Brook Benton (#4) -- ( 29 ) Deep Feeling - Mike Sagar & The Cresters (#13)
-- ( -- ) The World In My Arms - Nat King Cole -- ( -- ) There She Goes - Jerry Wallace -- ( -- ) There's A Moon Out Tonight - Capris -- ( -- ) Jimmy's Girl - Johnny Tillotson
Comparing this chart week to the UK chart of that week: This is the week Pepe reaches #2 in the UK chart and does so in its 4th chart week. Aside from "Rubber Ball" which has almost dropped out now, none of the rest of the UK top 10 of this week are still in my chart, although all but one of them have reached my chart and several of them did better in my chart. Some of those even were not US hits first. (Buona Sera has just exited my chart with a peak of #2. In the UK it is #10 this week and will peak at #7 two weeks later).
I have to say that instrumentals are "the" sound of these years. The Shadows, Duane Eddy, the Ventures, Johnny & The Hurricanes etc. The highest two entries are both instrumentals. Bert Weedon taught many other musicians of this generation how to play guitar and gets an entry with the wonderful "Ginchy". The tune "Wheels" was the main tune sampled to produce the biggest hit of 2004, Akira The Don's Drinking Song. That topped the NM chart for 5 weeks.
The "late" Ben E King gets his first taste of solo success. The song does sound rather similar to "Save The Last Dance For Me" though, a song on which he also sang lead vocals. That got to #3 on this chart last year. Connie Francis gets another hit - she's done badly previously with her slower ones so does quite well to enter in the top 20.
And finally an entry for Conway Twitty. He had a few out in 1960 but I recall they all flopped. I knew this song first from the Allan Sherman parody "I See Bones"...
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Post by Earl Purple on May 3, 2015 11:58:57 GMT 1
Regarding what I posted for the most recent chart, this is the UK top 10 singles chart dated 2 February 1961 according to the OCC website, and I will state how each one did in my chart.
*1(1) Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley (peaked at NM #3) 2(5) Pepe - Duane Eddy (NM #1 from 4 Feb 61) *3(2) Poetry In Motion - Johnny Tillotson (NM #1 for 3 weeks, 6-20 November 1960) 4(18) Sailor - Petula Clark (did not chart, Lolita's German original peaked at NM#18) 5(3) Portrait Of My Love - Matt Monro (NM #5) *6(10) You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette (NM #1 for 2 weeks, 27 Nov - 3 Dec 1960) 7(4) Counting Teardrops - Emile Ford & The Checkmates (NM #7) 8(6) I Love You - Cliff Richard (NM #9) *9(24) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee (NM #7) 10(9) Buona Sera - Acker Bilk (NM #2)
* means it entered my chart from its US entry.. Note that is only 4 of them.
The Billboard US top 10 of 4th February 1961:
1(4) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles (NM #1 for 2 weeks, 7-14 January 1961) 2(3) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk (NM#13) 3(2) Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher (NM #1 for 2 weeks, 10-17 December 1960) 4(1) Wonderland by Night - Bert Kaempfert (NM #6) 5(7) Shop Around - Miracles (ft Bill Smokey Robinson) (NM #6) 6(5) Angel Baby - Rosie & The Originals (flopped) 7(8) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka (NM #4, still climbing on 4 Feb but unlikely to progress) 8(13) Emotions - Brenda Lee (NM #14 also still climbing but likely to have topped out) 9(9) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee (NM #7 as above) 10(6) Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley (NM #3 as above)
Only one song from each top 10 failed to reach my chart, one that charted in a different version and one that failed to chart at all.,
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Post by vastar iner on May 3, 2015 12:24:44 GMT 1
Funny thing is that of those 20 positions I reckon the best one is "Angel Baby"...written by Rosie Hamlin as a 14 year old, as an answer to "Earth Angel". But as was usual in those days they didn't list her as songwriter so she had to sue to get her songwriting rights. There's a purity and innocence about it, mixed with a brooding backing, it's a precursor to The Shangri-Las in that you get the feeling it's all going to end very very badly...
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Post by Earl Purple on May 3, 2015 12:50:13 GMT 1
I didn't comment on the chart just now that Johnny Tillotson remains a one-hit wonder for now as his follow-up to "Poetry In Motion" fails to chart.
Not the worst ever follow-up to an NM #1. That honour still belongs to Whitman with "Taco's like e'ryday" (follow-up to "Light It Up") in 2010.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 4, 2015 11:07:27 GMT 1
We move on to the next week now,
11 February 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren 3 ( 10 ) Ginchy - Bert Weedon 4 ( 5 ) Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad 5 ( 2 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan (#1[2]) 6 ( 4 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka (#4) 7 ( -- ) Walk Right Back - Everly Brothers 8 ( 13 ) Wheels - String-A-Longs 9 ( -- ) Spanish Harlem - Ben E King 10 ( 6 ) Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee (#6)
11 ( 7 ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart (#7) 12 ( 15 ) First Taste Of Love - Ben E King 13 ( 11 ) Shine - Joe Brown (#11) 14 ( -- ) FBI - Shadows 15 ( 19 ) Where The Boys Are - Connie Francis 16 ( -- ) Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles 17 ( 8 ) Shop Around - Miracles (#6) 18 ( -- ) Who Am I - Adam Faith 19 ( 12 ) I Count The Tears - Drifters (#12) 20 ( 14 ) Emotions - Brenda Lee (#14)
21 ( 17 ) What To Do - Buddy Holly (#17) 22 ( 9 ) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles (#1[2]) 23 ( 26 ) C'est Si Bon - Conway Twitty 24 ( 16 ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk (#13) 25 ( 22 ) Mean Mean Man - Wanda Jackson (#22) 26 ( 23 ) Lovey Dovey - Buddy Knox (#23) 27 ( -- ) Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers 28 ( 21 ) Doll House - King Brothers (#17) 29 ( 18 ) Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine (#4) 30 ( 24 ) My Empty Arms - Jackie Wilson (#21)
-- ( 20 ) Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher (#1[2]) -- ( 25 ) Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee (#7) -- ( 27 ) Little Girl - Marty Wilde (#11) -- ( 28 ) Piltdown Rides Again - Piltdown Men (#23) -- ( 29 ) The Hoochi Coochi Coo - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters -- ( 30 ) Strawberry Blonde - Frank D'Rone (#13)
-- ( -- ) This Is It - Adam Faith -- ( -- ) Baby Sittin' Boogie - Buzz Clifford -- ( -- ) The Story Of My Love - Paul Anka -- ( -- ) Pony Time Chubby Checker -- ( -- ) All In My Mind Maxine Brown -- ( -- ) If I Didn't Care Platters
Duane Eddy remains at #1 as Bert Weedon climbs to #3 thus two twangly guitar instrumentals in the top 3. If either that or the Everly Brothers go to #1 next week it will mean six consecutive number ones staying on top for 2 weeks. That happened in the UK singles chart 1985-86. As with this chart it happened across two years and one of the number ones was a Christmas song. However it hasn't happened yet and Duane Eddy might get a 3rd week on top. (Note that in mine the Christmas song was the 3rd number one, in the UK chart case it was the 4th).
My general policy with double A-sides and charting songs together or separately: if it's a UK-only entry and was a double A-side I will consider both songs then usually chart the preferred one. If it's a US single where they were charting separately at the time I will chart them separately. In the case that an artist happens to enter the UK top 50 and US top 30 on the same week with different songs, they are totally different singles and will definitely be considered separately (as happened with Brenda Lee a few chart weeks ago and happened with Elvis Presley "It's Now Or Never" and "A Mess Of Blues" in 1960).
Last year I did chart two Bobby Rydell songs as a double A-side and didn't split them. I think it was a US release so would normally have been considered separate but joined them anyway.
In any case the two Adam Faith songs here were a UK double A-side and I preferred "Who Am I". "This Is It" might have scraped into the lower end, it was ranked just above "Baby Sittin' Boogie" on the list but that one didn't chart.
Although "Walk Right Back" and "Ebony Eyes" was also a double A-side, they charted separately in the USA. "Ebony Eyes" was the intended A-side but in the UK, with their aversion to death-songs they preferred "Walk Right Back". I prefer it because it's the better song. It was written by Sonny Curtis of the Crickets but he had the Everly Brothers in mind. He hadn't completed it when he gave them the demo with just one verse and before he had the chance to write the second verse, they already recorded it. So they repeat the one verse twice. He did write the second verse but they decided not to re-record it. There are other versions about that do have the second verse.
Ben E King now also vocalises on 3 songs in the chart as he is still lead singer on the Drifters song. After leaving them he remained with them as a "session" singer until they found a replacement and did sing on "I Count The Tears". Spanish Harlem enters above "First Taste Of Love" which is still climbing.
"FBI" is sampled on one of the Hidden Indie Treasures tracks..
"Dedicated To The One I Love" wasn't a UK hit for the Shirelles but did get to #2 when the Mamas & Papas covered it 6 years later.
Had it charted "Baby Sittin' Boogie" may have featured the youngest vocalist, with the songwriter's son providing the "baby" sounds. I have no idea how old he actually was. He's cute but it isn't a particularly good song, so misses out. Stevie Wonder's version of "Isn't She Lovely" was never a single so that doesn't have the chance of holding that record either.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 6, 2015 21:14:16 GMT 1
18 February 1961
1 ( 1 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Ginchy - Bert Weedon 3 ( 2 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren (#2[1]) 4 ( 7 ) Walk Right Back - Everly Brothers 5 ( 9 ) Spanish Harlem - Ben E King 6 ( 4 ) Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad (#4) 7 ( 8 ) Wheels - String-A-Longs 8 ( 14 ) FBI - Shadows 9 ( 16 ) Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles 10 ( 6 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka (#4)
11 ( 5 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan (#1[2]) 12 ( 18 ) Who Am I - Adam Faith 13 ( 12 ) First Taste Of Love - Ben E King (#12) 14 ( 15 ) Where The Boys Are - Connie Francis 15 ( 10 ) Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee (#6) 16 ( 11 ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart (#7) 17 ( 13 ) Shine - Joe Brown (#11) 18 ( 27 ) Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers 19 ( 23 ) C'est Si Bon - Conway Twitty 20 ( -- ) Black Bear - Frank Cordell & His Orchestra
21 ( 21 ) What To Do - Buddy Holly (#17) 22 ( -- ) Good Time Baby - Bobby Rydell 23 ( 20 ) Emotions - Brenda Lee (#14) 24 ( 19 ) I Count The Tears - Drifters (#12) 25 ( 17 ) Shop Around - Miracles (#6) 26 ( 25 ) Mean Mean Man - Wanda Jackson (#22) 27 ( 26 ) Lovey Dovey - Buddy Knox (#23) 28 ( -- ) Hey Good Looking - Tommy Zang 29 ( 24 ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk (#13) 30 ( 28 ) Doll House - King Brothers (#17)
-- ( 22 ) Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles (#1[2]) -- ( 29 ) Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine (#4) -- ( 30 ) My Empty Arms - Jackie Wilson (#21)
-- ( -- ) What A Price - Fats Domino -- ( -- ) Gather In The Mushrooms - Benny Hill -- ( -- ) Don't Worry - Marty Robbins
The instrumental guitar hits have the top 2 positions. Bert Weedon is credited as writer of Ginchy and the Ventures covered it and also credited Weedon but someone on youtube has said it is based heavily on a Russian folk tune which was out of copyright. I haven't been able to get any further info and if so what folk tune it was based on.
"Black Bear" is another instrumental. Bobby Rydell gets another vocal hit. He reached #1 around this time last year. "Hey Good Looking" is a song that was used in the early 1980s for an electricity ad.
Among those not charting is Benny Hill's "Gather In The Mushrooms", the most striking thing about it being that it contains a pun about bathing in pasteurised milk, a pun he will recycle in a number of years time.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 8, 2015 0:35:30 GMT 1
25 February 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Walk Right Back - Everly Brothers 3 ( 2 ) Ginchy - Bert Weedon (#2[1]) 4 ( 5 ) Spanish Harlem - Ben E King 5 ( 3 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren (#2[1]) 6 ( 8 ) FBI - Shadows 7 ( 9 ) Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles 8 ( -- ) Surrender - Elvis Presley 9 ( 7 ) Wheels - String-A-Longs (#7) 10 ( 12 ) Who Am I - Adam Faith
11 ( 6 ) Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad (#4) 12 ( 20 ) Black Bear - Frank Cordell & His Orchestra 13 ( -- ) Samantha - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 14 ( 18 ) Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers 15 ( 22 ) Good Time Baby - Bobby Rydell 16 ( 14 ) Where The Boys Are - Connie Francis (#14) 17 ( 10 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka (#4) 18 ( 13 ) First Taste Of Love - Ben E King (#12) 19 ( -- ) Man From Madrid - Tony Osborne Sound 20 ( 19 ) C'est Si Bon - Conway Twitty (#19)
21 ( -- ) African Waltz - Johnny Dankworth 22 ( 11 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan (#1[2]) 23 ( -- ) Are You Sure - Allisons 24 ( 28 ) Hey Good Looking - Tommy Zang 25 ( 15 ) Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee (#6) 26 ( -- ) Little Boy Sad - Johnny Burnette 27 ( 21 ) What To Do - Buddy Holly (#17) 28 ( 17 ) Shine - Joe Brown (#11) 29 ( 16 ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart (#7) 30 ( -- ) (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - Ramrods
-- ( 23 ) Emotions - Brenda Lee (#14) -- ( 24 ) I Count The Tears - Drifters (#12) -- ( 25 ) Shop Around - Miracles (#6) -- ( 26 ) Mean Mean Man - Wanda Jackson (#22) -- ( 27 ) Lovey Dovey - Buddy Knox (#23) -- ( 29 ) Calcutta - Lawrence Welk (#13) -- ( 30 ) Doll House - King Brothers (#17)
-- ( -- ) Gypsy Beat - Packabeats -- ( -- ) Angel On My Shoulder - Shelby Flint
A 4th week at #1 for Duane Eddy now, keeping the Everly Brothers at bay whilst Elvis Presley gets another new entry based on a classical tune. Kenny Ball enters with Samantha, a song I saw him perform live in 2010.
Two instrumentals next. Tony Osborne Sound is yet another of those #50 peaks. He remained a "least successful chart act" for 11 years then came back with a #46 hit in 1972. Between that he was writing and producing songs for others.
We recently had Cleo Laine in the chart and now we have Johnny Dankworth. They were married for a long time before he died in 2010.
A UK Eurovision entry and the follow-up to "You're Sixteen", not to be confused with "Little Boy Lost" that peaked at #2 on this chart last year.
Finally we get a tune that was originally a country song with lyrics in 1949 being one of the USA's biggest sellers that year. The band currently at #6 recorded a similar version to the one at #30 in 1980, and the Ramrods even "sample" a bit of Apache at the end of the tune.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 10, 2015 0:40:22 GMT 1
4 March 1961:
1 ( 2 ) Walk Right Back - Everly Brothers < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy (#1[4]) 3 ( 8 ) Surrender - Elvis Presley 4 ( 4 ) Spanish Harlem - Ben E King 5 ( 3 ) Ginchy - Bert Weedon (#2[1]) 6 ( 6 ) FBI - Shadows 7 ( 13 ) Samantha - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 8 ( 7 ) Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles (#7) 9 ( 5 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren (#2[1]) 10 ( 12 ) Black Bear - Frank Cordell & His Orchestra
11 ( 10 ) Who Am I - Adam Faith (#10) 12 ( -- ) The Magnificent Seven - John Barry 13 ( 19 ) Man From Madrid - Tony Osborne Sound 14 ( 15 ) Good Time Baby - Bobby Rydell 15 ( 14 ) Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers (#14) 16 ( 9 ) Wheels - String-A-Longs (#7) 17 ( 21 ) African Waltz - Johnny Dankworth 18 ( -- ) 76 Trombones - King Brothers 19 ( 23 ) Are You Sure - Allisons 20 ( -- ) Theme For A Dream - Cliff Richard
21 ( 11 ) Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad (#4) 22 ( 26 ) Little Boy Sad - Johnny Burnette 23 ( 16 ) Where The Boys Are - Connie Francis (#14) 24 ( -- ) Ja-Da - Johnny & The Hurricanes 25 ( 24 ) Hey Good Looking - Tommy Zang (#24) 26 ( 20 ) C'est Si Bon - Conway Twitty (#19) 27 ( 30 ) (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - Ramrods 28 ( -- ) What Am I Gonna Do - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 29 ( 18 ) First Taste Of Love - Ben E King (#12) 30 ( 17 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka (#4)
-- ( 22 ) Serenata - Sarah Vaughan (#1[2]) -- ( 25 ) Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee (#6) -- ( 27 ) What To Do - Buddy Holly (#17) -- ( 28 ) Shine - Joe Brown (#11) -- ( 29 ) A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart (#7)
-- ( -- ) Think Twice - Brook Benton -- ( -- ) You Can Have Her - Roy Hamilton -- ( -- ) Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes) - Carla Thomas
After 4 weeks of Duane Eddy we get the Everly Brothers finally climbing to #1, their second chart topper after Cathy's Clown last year. Of course we have missed out on their earlier music.
John Barry's classic "Magnificent Seven" is the highest entry, yet another instrumental, with Johnny & The Hurricanes also getting an instrumental hit with an old tune. The King Brothers "76 Trombones" is also an old tune as they go from jive-swing to marching band music.
Cliff Richard gets another hit and Emile Ford gets in whilst among those missing out are Brook Benton who has been fairly successful in this chart. (This song is slow but isn't the same as the Celine Dion song of course). Cliff Richard will have a "Gee Whiz" song of his own soon and hopes to do better than the other two as neither of them have charted but they are all different songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 10, 2015 16:10:08 GMT 1
11 March 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Walk Right Back - Everly Brothers < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Surrender - Elvis Presley 3 ( 2 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy (#1[4]) 4 ( -- ) My Kind Of Girl - Matt Monro 5 ( 7 ) Samantha - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 6 ( 4 ) Spanish Harlem - Ben E King (#4) 7 ( 12 ) The Magnificent Seven - John Barry 8 ( 6 ) FBI - Shadows (#6) 9 ( 5 ) Ginchy - Bert Weedon (#2[1]) 10 ( 10 ) Black Bear - Frank Cordell & His Orchestra
11 ( 18 ) 76 Trombones - King Brothers 12 ( 13 ) Man From Madrid - Tony Osborne Sound 13 ( 8 ) Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles (#7) 14 ( 20 ) Theme For A Dream - Cliff Richard 15 ( -- ) Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley 16 ( 11 ) Who Am I - Adam Faith (#10) 17 ( 9 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren (#2[1]) 18 ( 14 ) Good Time Baby - Bobby Rydell (#14) 19 ( 17 ) African Waltz - Johnny Dankworth (#17) 20 ( 24 ) Ja-Da - Johnny &The Hurricanes
21 ( 19 ) Are You Sure - Allisons (#19) 22 ( 15 ) Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers (#14) 23 ( -- ) Marry Me - Mike Preston 24 ( 22 ) Little Boy Sad - Johnny Burnette (#22) 25 ( 28 ) What Am I Gonna Do - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 26 ( 16 ) Wheels - String-A-Longs (#7) 27 ( -- ) Hearts Of Stone - Bill Black's Combo 28 ( 27 ) (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - Ramrods (#27) 29 ( -- ) Ram-Bunk-Shush - Ventures 30 ( 25 ) Hey Good Looking - Tommy Zang (#24)
-- ( 21 ) Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad (#4) -- ( 23 ) Where The Boys Are - Connie Francis (#14) -- ( 26 ) C'est Si Bon - Conway Twitty (#19) -- ( 29 ) First Taste Of Love - Ben E King (#12) -- ( 30 ) Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka (#4)
-- ( -- ) Goodnight Mrs Flintstone - Piltdown Men -- ( -- ) Dream Girl - Mark Wynter -- ( -- ) Trambone - Krew Kats -- ( -- ) Utopia - Frank Gari
The Everly Brothers hold on for a second week. British swing singer Matt Monro gets a high entry at #4 and will obviously be challenging for the top next week.
Elvis Presley is at #2 with Surrender and gets another entry. A bit off track for him. Done with rock n roll and classical music he goes for German "folk". Remember he had been in Germany so may have taken a liking to this. He even sings some of it in German (partly the original lyrics, partly a translation of Wooden Heart).
Mike Preston is way ahead of his time, advocating for gay weddings when it was still taboo. Well maybe not but the song does start "let's have a gay time" and is called "marry me". And nowhere in the song does he suggest he's singing to a woman. This is his 2nd hit having charted last year with the Oliver song "I'll Do Anything".
More instrumental stuff for Bill Black's Combo and the Ventures charting and the Piltdown Men not charting and this time around I don't think it will be given a second chance. It's their tribute to Tottenham Hotspur's wonderful football season they're having - I'll come to sporting achievements of 1961 a bit later on, but this is the tune originally called "Goodnight Ladies" and also therefore the tune of "Nice One Cyril". Growing up when I did I always thought of this song as "Nice One Cyril" and is one of the better football songs too.
Utopia wasn't on Spotify but was on Deezer. It didn't make it in though.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 12, 2015 22:22:54 GMT 1
18 March 1961
1 ( 4 ) My Kind Of Girl - Matt Monro < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Walk Right Back - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Surrender - Elvis Presley (#2[1]) 4 ( 5 ) Samantha - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 5 ( 3 ) Pepe - Duane Eddy (#1[4]) 6 ( 7 ) The Magnificent Seven - John Barry 7 ( 11 ) 76 Trombones - King Brothers 8 ( 15 ) Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley 9 ( 6 ) Spanish Harlem - Ben E King (#4) 10 ( 14 ) Theme For A Dream - Cliff Richard
11 ( 10 ) Black Bear - Frank Cordell & His Orchestra 12 ( 8 ) FBI - Shadows (#6) 13 ( 12 ) Man From Madrid - Tony Osborne Sound 14 ( -- ) On The Rebound - Floyd Cramer 15 ( 9 ) Ginchy - Bert Weedon (#2[1]) 16 ( 23 ) Marry Me - Mike Preston 17 ( 20 ) Ja-Da - Johnny & The Hurricanes 18 ( 27 ) Hearts Of Stone - Bill Black's Combo 19 ( 13 ) Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles (#7) 20 ( 29 ) Ram-Bunk-Shush - Ventures
21 ( -- ) Lazy River - Bobby Darin 22 ( 16 ) Who Am I - Adam Faith (#10) 23 ( 19 ) African Waltz - Johnny Dankworth (#17) 24 ( 18 ) Good Time Baby - Bobby Rydell (#14) 25 ( 25 ) What Am I Gonna Do - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 26 ( 21 ) Are You Sure - Allisons (#19) 27 ( 17 ) Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren (#2[1]) 28 ( 24 ) Little Boy Sad - Johnny Burnette (#22) 29 ( -- ) And The Heavens Cried - Anthony Newley 30 ( 22 ) Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers (#14)
-- ( 26 ) Wheels - String-A-Longs (#7) -- ( 28 ) (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - Ramrods (#27) -- ( 30 ) Hey Good Looking - Tommy Zang (#24)
-- ( -- ) Please Love Me Forever - Cathy Jean & The Roommates -- ( -- ) Whispering Hope - Jim Reeves
Easy listening music for dads and grandads? Maybe but there's an enormous charm to "My Kind Of Girl" and Matt Monro claims poll position. We'll see how he'll get on around 1964-65 when he starts recording Bond themes and Eurovision songs but is in competition with the music of that era.
Floyd Cramer's piano instrumental gets the highest entry. The "official" chart has it listed as a #1 but none of the other charts around that time do. Bobby Darin's "Lazy River" also has a strange chart run where it climbs to #2 then falls immediately out of the top 10. He's back to doing old classic swing songs. I do predict at least one big new hit for him within a year or so. Anthony Newley scrapes in in what was a relatively poor week.
The run of UK #50 peak songs all charting is over. Jim Reeves's extremely poor song didn't have a whispering hope of making it..
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Post by vastar iner on May 13, 2015 8:01:13 GMT 1
I much, much prefer this version of "And The Heavens Cried" to Newley's...
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