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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 12, 2016 22:41:18 GMT 1
7 September 1963:
1 ( 1 ) She Loves You - Beatles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals 3 ( 4 ) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas 4 ( 2 ) Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman (#1[2]) 5 ( 3 ) Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas (#2[1]) 6 ( 8 ) I (Who Have Nothing) - Ben E King 7 ( 10 ) I Want To Stay Here - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme 8 ( 6 ) Just Like Eddie - Heinz (#4) 9 ( 7 ) My Boyfriend's Back - Angels (#6) 10 ( 13 ) Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
11 ( 16 ) Two Silhouettes - Del Shannon 12 ( 20 ) Searchin' - Hollies 13 ( 9 ) You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - Caravelles (#5) 14 ( 14 ) The Monkey Time - Major Lance 15 ( 24 ) Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love 16 ( 17 ) Be My Girl - Dennisons 17 ( -- ) Applejack - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan 18 ( 22 ) Acapulco 1922 - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 19 ( 12 ) I'm Telling You Now - Freddie & The Dreamers (#7) 20 ( -- ) Martian Hop - Ran-Dells
21 ( 27 ) Your Baby's Gone Surfin' - Duane Eddy 22 ( 11 ) Blowin' In The Wind - Peter Paul & Mary (#1[3]) 23 ( -- ) Sally Go Round The Roses - Jaynetts 24 ( -- ) Mickey's Monkey - Miracles 25 ( 15 ) Denise - Randy & The Rainbows (#4) 26 ( -- ) The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget - Raindrops 27 ( 18 ) In Summer - Billy Fury (#7) 28 ( 21 ) My Whole World Is Falling Down - Brenda Lee (#13) 29 ( -- ) Wonderful! Wonderful! - Tymes 30 ( 19 ) I'll Never Get Over You - Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (#2[2])
-- ( 23 ) Green Green - New Christy Minstrels (#14) -- ( 25 ) Danke Schoen - Wayne Newton (#21) -- ( 26 ) More - Kai Winding (#9) -- ( 28 ) Surfer Girl - Beach Boys (#26) -- ( 29 ) Blue Girl - Bruisers (#22) -- ( 30 ) Mockingbird - Inez & Charles Foxx (#16)
-- ( -- ) Wishing - Buddy Holly
This is a relatively quiet week for new hits, which gives the chart a week to settle down again. However next week's chart awaits...
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2016 4:19:16 GMT 1
14 September 1963:
1 ( 1 ) She Loves You - Beatles < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals 3 ( -- ) Be My Baby - Ronettes 4 ( 3 ) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas (#3) 5 ( -- ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex 6 ( 6 ) I (Who Have Nothing) - Ben E King 7 ( 7 ) I Want To Stay Here - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme 8 ( 4 ) Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman (#1[2]) 9 ( 5 ) Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas (#2[1]) 10 ( 12 ) Searchin' - Hollies
11 ( 11 ) Two Silhouettes - Del Shannon 12 ( 10 ) Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton (#10) 13 ( 17 ) Applejack - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan 14 ( 15 ) Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love 15 ( 8 ) Just Like Eddie - Heinz (#4) 16 ( -- ) Hello Little Girl - Fourmost 17 ( 20 ) Martian Hop - Ran-Dells 18 ( 9 ) My Boyfriend's Back - Angels (#6) 19 ( -- ) Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys 20 ( -- ) Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters
21 ( 23 ) Sally Go Round The Roses - Jaynetts 22 ( 14 ) The Monkey Time - Major Lance (#14) 23 ( 24 ) Mickey's Monkey - Miracles 24 ( 18 ) Acapulco 1922 - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#18) 25 ( -- ) It's Love That Really Counts - Merseybeats 26 ( 16 ) Be My Girl - Dennisons (#16) 27 ( 21 ) Your Baby's Gone Surfin' - Duane Eddy (#21) 28 ( 26 ) The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget - Raindrops (#26) 29 ( 13 ) You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - Caravelles (#5) 30 ( 29 ) Wonderful! Wonderful! - Tymes (#29)
-- ( 19 ) I'm Telling You Now - Freddie & The Dreamers (#7) -- ( 22 ) Blowin' In The Wind - Peter Paul & Mary (#1[3]) -- ( 25 ) Denise - Randy & The Rainbows (#4) -- ( 27 ) In Summer - Billy Fury (#7) -- ( 28 ) My Whole World Is Falling Down - Brenda Lee (#13) -- ( 30 ) I'll Never Get Over You - Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (#2[2])
-- ( -- ) Hello Heartache Goodbye Love - Little Peggy March
"She Loves You" remains at #1 with now two Phil Spector productions behind it, and with "Be My Baby" entering at #3, perhaps it will take over next week.
A number of British artists do enter this week, but the 2nd highest entry is also by an American group. The song was not a UK hit in this version, but 11 years later as a cover version by Limmie & The Family Cooking, getting to the top 10 in 1974 for them. There is another song on this playlist (to come) that was also a UK top 10 hit in 1974 as a cover version.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 15, 2016 4:19:26 GMT 1
21 September 1963:
1 ( 3 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) She Loves You - Beatles (#1[3]) 3 ( 5 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex 4 ( 2 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals (#2) 5 ( -- ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics 6 ( 4 ) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas (#3) 7 ( 6 ) I (Who Have Nothing) - Ben E King (#6) 8 ( -- ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison 9 ( 16 ) Hello Little Girl - Fourmost 10 ( 7 ) I Want To Stay Here - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (#7)
11 ( -- ) Shindig - Shadows 12 ( -- ) Busted - Ray Charles 13 ( 10 ) Searchin' - Hollies (#10) 14 ( 19 ) Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys 15 ( 13 ) Applejack - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (#13) 16 ( 20 ) Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters 17 ( 11 ) Two Silhouettes - Del Shannon (#11) 18 ( 8 ) Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman (#1[2]) 19 ( 9 ) Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas (#2[1]) 20 ( 14 ) Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love (#14)
21 ( 12 ) Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton (#10) 22 ( 17 ) Martian Hop - Ran-Dells (#17) 23 ( -- ) The First Time - Adam Faith 24 ( 25 ) It's Love That Really Counts - Merseybeats 25 ( 21 ) Sally Go Round The Roses - Jaynetts (#21) 26 ( -- ) Honolulu Lulu - Jan & Dean 27 ( 15 ) Just Like Eddie - Heinz (#4) 28 ( 23 ) Mickey's Monkey - Miracles (#23) 29 ( 18 ) My Boyfriend's Back - Angels (#6) 30 ( 24 ) Acapulco 1922 - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#18)
-- ( 22 ) The Monkey Time - Major Lance (#14) -- ( 26 ) Be My Girl - Dennisons (#16) -- ( 27 ) Your Baby's Gone Surfin' - Duane Eddy (#21) -- ( 28 ) The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget - Raindrops (#26) -- ( 29 ) You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - Caravelles (#5) -- ( 30 ) Wonderful! Wonderful! - Tymes (#29)
-- ( -- ) Mean Woman Blues - Roy Orbison -- ( -- ) Part Time Love - Little Johnny Taylor
Girl-fronted pop attacking the Beatles from all sides, and they cave in to the Ronettes who take over at #1. The second of the "big hit cover version in 1974" hits gets this week's entry. Eddie Holman changed it to "Hey There Lonely Girl" and when I come around to 1974 I'll have to decide what to do with them. I think Eddie Holman has far more chance than Limmie & The Family Cookin' as he's also changed the arrangement a little.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 15, 2016 14:53:23 GMT 1
28 September 1963:
1 ( 1 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex 3 ( 5 ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics 4 ( 2 ) She Loves You - Beatles (#1[3]) 5 ( 8 ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison 6 ( 4 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals (#2[2]) 7 ( 11 ) Shindig - Shadows 8 ( 12 ) Busted - Ray Charles 9 ( 9 ) Hello Little Girl - Fourmost 10 ( 6 ) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas (#3)
11 ( 7 ) I (Who Have Nothing) - Ben E King (#6) 12 ( 14 ) Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys 13 ( 16 ) Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters 14 ( 10 ) I Want To Stay Here - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (#7) 15 ( 23 ) The First Time - Adam Faith 16 ( -- ) Sally Ann - Joe Brown 17 ( 13 ) Searchin' - Hollies (#10) 18 ( 26 ) Honolulu Lulu - Jan & Dean 19 ( 15 ) Applejack - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (#13) 20 ( -- ) Only In America - Jay & The Americans
21 ( 17 ) Two Silhouettes - Del Shannon (#11) 22 ( 24 ) It's Love That Really Counts - Merseybeats 23 ( -- ) Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs 24 ( -- ) Wham! - Lonnie Mack 25 ( -- ) Everybody - Tommy Roe 26 ( 20 ) Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love (#14) 27 ( 22 ) Martian Hop - Ran-Dells (#17) 28 ( 18 ) Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman (#1[2]) 29 ( 19 ) Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas (#2[1]) 30 ( -- ) Bust Out - Busters
-- ( 21 ) Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton (#10) -- ( 25 ) Sally Go Round The Roses - Jaynetts (#21) -- ( 27 ) Just Like Eddie - Heinz (#4) -- ( 28 ) Mickey's Monkey - Miracles (#23) -- ( 29 ) My Boyfriend's Back - Angels (#6) -- ( 30 ) Acapulco 1922 - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#18)
-- ( -- ) I Can't Stay Mad At You - Skeeter Davis -- ( -- ) Always The Lonely One - Alan Drew
After a song called "Busted" entered the chart last week we now have a song called "Wham!". Did anyone back in 1963 ever consider that these might become band names? Well maybe not Busted at the time but there is a Busters, who also enter this week.
Skeeter Davis's failure to chart is primarily because the song sounds just a bit too similar to "Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do" by Neil Sedaka. With regards to Alan Drew, it is the first occasion I have not been able to find a song that reached the UK top 50 or US top 30 anywhere, not even on youtube.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 17, 2016 13:15:41 GMT 1
5 October 1963:
1 ( 1 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex 3 ( 3 ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics 4 ( 5 ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison 5 ( -- ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary 6 ( 7 ) Shindig - Shadows 7 ( 8 ) Busted - Ray Charles 8 ( 4 ) She Loves You - Beatles (#1[3]) 9 ( 16 ) Sally Ann - Joe Brown 10 ( 6 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals (#2[2])
11 ( 9 ) Hello Little Girl - Fourmost (#9) 12 ( -- ) If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe 13 ( 15 ) The First Time - Adam Faith 14 ( 12 ) Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys (#12) 15 ( 20 ) Only In America - Jay & The Americans 16 ( 13 ) Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters (#13) 17 ( 18 ) Honolulu Lulu - Jan & Dean 18 ( 23 ) Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs 19 ( 10 ) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas (#3) 20 ( 24 ) Wham! - Lonnie Mack
21 ( 11 ) I (Who Have Nothing) - Ben E King (#6) 22 ( 25 ) Everybody - Tommy Roe 23 ( 14 ) I Want To Stay Here - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (#7) 24 ( 22 ) It's Love That Really Counts - Merseybeats (#22) 25 ( 17 ) Searchin' - Hollies (#10) 26 ( 30 ) Bust Out - Busters 27 ( 19 ) Applejack - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (#13) 28 ( 21 ) Two Silhouettes - Del Shannon (#11) 29 ( -- ) Somebody's Else's Girl - Billy Fury 30 ( 27 ) Martian Hop - Ran-Dells (#17)
-- ( 26 ) Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love (#14) -- ( 28 ) Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman (#1[2]) -- ( 29 ) Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas (#2[1])
-- ( -- ) That Sunday That Summer - Nat King Cole -- ( -- ) Donna The Prima Donna - Dion -- ( -- ) Talk To Me - Sunny & The Sunglows
As the Ronettes remain at #1, the question is whether Peter Paul & Mary can sort-of surprisingly manage 3 consecutive number ones in 1963, something the Beatles could still do and that Gerry & The Pacemakers cannot ("I Like It" stalled at #2). This would not be #1 with their first 3 hits, as "If I Had A Hammer" only managed a #23 placing for them in 1962 (but is still keeping Trini Lopez from charting his version now).
Harry Secombe was one of the Goons with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. Sellers had a couple of #2 hits on this chart with Sophia Loren, but Secombe is clearly the better singer. This song came from a musical based on a Charles Dickens novel "Pickwick" (based on Pickwick Papers). Of course, Oliver was also based on a Charles Dickens novel, and in the film version Harry Secombe got to play the part of Mr Bumble (thus singing the songs "Oliver Oliver!" and "One Boy For Sale")
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 19, 2016 23:52:02 GMT 1
12 October 1963
1 ( 1 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex 3 ( 5 ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary 4 ( -- ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers 5 ( 3 ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics (#3) 6 ( 4 ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison (#4) 7 ( -- ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry 8 ( 12 ) If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe 9 ( 9 ) Sally Ann - Joe Brown 10 ( 6 ) Shindig - Shadows (#6)
11 ( 7 ) Busted - Ray Charles (#7) 12 ( -- ) Washington Square - Village Stompers 13 ( -- ) Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens 14 ( 15 ) Only In America - Jay & The Americans 15 ( 13 ) The First Time - Adam Faith (#13) 16 ( 8 ) She Loves You - Beatles (#1[3]) 17 ( 11 ) Hello Little Girl - Fourmost (#9) 18 ( -- ) I'll Take You Home - Drifters 19 ( 10 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals (#2[2]) 20 ( 18 ) Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs (#18)
21 ( 17 ) Honolulu Lulu - Jan & Dean (#17) 22 ( 14 ) Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys (#12) 23 ( 20 ) Wham! - Lonnie Mack (#20) 24 ( -- ) Dragonfly - Tornados 25 ( 16 ) Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters (#13) 26 ( 22 ) Everybody - Tommy Roe (#22) 27 ( 29 ) Somebody's Else's Girl - Billy Fury 28 ( 26 ) Bust Out - Busters (#26) 29 ( -- ) Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley 30 ( 24 ) It's Love That Really Counts - Merseybeats (#22)
-- ( 19 ) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas (#3) -- ( 21 ) I (Who Have Nothing) - Ben E King (#6) -- ( 23 ) I Want To Stay Here - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (#7) -- ( 25 ) Searchin' - Hollies (#10) -- ( 27 ) Applejack - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (#13) -- ( 28 ) Two Silhouettes - Del Shannon (#11) -- ( 30 ) Martian Hop - Ran-Dells (#17)
-- ( -- ) Let It Rock - Chuck Berry -- ( -- ) Miss You - Jimmy Young
Ooh, all these classics... A new entry for perhaps the most definitive of the Gerry & The Pacemakers songs, although for this one they go back a number of years to pick a song from Carousel, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Maybe not the king of rock 'n' roll, more a pioneer of it, Chuck Berry's classic Memphis Tennessee gets my vote, so Let It Rock isn't in the chart. I could have let him chart that and left Memphis Tennessee to his unrelated English namesake Dave but elected to go for the original version of my preferred track.
Another old song revived: Deep Purple goes back to about the 30s. Richie Blackmore's grandmother liked the song, thus inspiring the name of his rock band. The song was covered by a couple of Osmond siblings in 1976, and we will soon come across another song they covered.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 21, 2016 3:08:56 GMT 1
19 October 1963:
1 ( 1 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes <5th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers 3 ( 3 ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary 4 ( 7 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry 5 ( 2 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex (#2[3]) 6 ( 12 ) Washington Square - Village Stompers 7 ( 13 ) Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens 8 ( 8 ) If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe 9 ( 5 ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics (#3) 10 ( 6 ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison (#4)
11 ( 18 ) I'll Take You Home - Drifters 12 ( 9 ) Sally Ann - Joe Brown (#9) 13 ( -- ) Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black 14 ( 14 ) Only In America - Jay & The Americans 15 ( 10 ) Shindig - Shadows (#6) 16 ( 24 ) Dragonfly - Tornados 17 ( 11 ) Busted - Ray Charles (#7) 18 ( -- ) Cross Fire - Orlons 19 ( 15 ) The First Time - Adam Faith (#13) 20 ( 29 ) Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley
21 ( 20 ) Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs (#18) 22 ( 17 ) Hello Little Girl - Fourmost (#9) 23 ( 16 ) She Loves You - Beatles (#1[3]) 24 ( 21 ) Honolulu Lulu - Jan & Dean (#17) 25 ( 27 ) Somebody's Else's Girl - Billy Fury 26 ( -- ) Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras 27 ( 23 ) Wham! - Lonnie Mack (#20) 28 ( -- ) Girl Sang The Blues - Everly Brothers 29 ( 19 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals (#2[2]) 30 ( -- ) Mule Train - Frank Ifield
-- ( 22 ) Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys (#12) -- ( 25 ) Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters (#13) -- ( 26 ) Everybody - Tommy Roe (#22) -- ( 28 ) Bust Out - Busters (#26) -- ( 30 ) It's Love That Really Counts - Merseybeats (#22)
-- ( -- ) The Grass Is Greener - Brenda Lee -- ( -- ) It's All Right - Impressions -- ( -- ) Guilty - Jim Reeves
The chart of the week my older sister was born. Perhaps surprisingly the Ronettes hold on for a 5th week making Gerry & The Pacemakers wait at least one more. "Be My Baby" is the 2nd hit to manage 5 weeks at #1 in 1963, after Bobby Rydell's "Forget Him" earlier in the year.
Another singer from Liverpool singing a song written by the Beatles - this time a woman. Cilla Black's real name is, surprise surprise, Priscilla White.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2016 3:47:29 GMT 1
26 October 1963:
1 ( 2 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes (#1[5]) 3 ( 4 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry 4 ( 6 ) Washington Square - Village Stompers 5 ( 3 ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary (#3) 6 ( 7 ) Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens 7 ( 13 ) Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black 8 ( -- ) (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles 9 ( 11 ) I'll Take You Home - Drifters 10 ( 8 ) If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe (#8)
11 ( 5 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex (#2[3]) 12 ( 18 ) Cross Fire - Orlons 13 ( -- ) I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace 14 ( 16 ) Dragonfly - Tornados 15 ( 9 ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics (#3) 16 ( 20 ) Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley 17 ( 14 ) Only In America - Jay & The Americans (#14) 18 ( 10 ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison (#4) 19 ( -- ) Sugar And Spice - Searchers 20 ( 12 ) Sally Ann - Joe Brown (#9)
21 ( 26 ) Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras 22 ( 28 ) Girl Sang The Blues - Everly Brothers 23 ( -- ) Bossa Nova Baby - Elvis Presley 24 ( 15 ) Shindig - Shadows (#6) 25 ( -- ) Look Who It Is - Helen Shapiro 26 ( 30 ) Mule Train - Frank Ifield 27 ( -- ) You Lost The Sweetest Boy - Mary Wells 28 ( 21 ) Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs (#18) 29 ( 19 ) The First Time - Adam Faith (#13) 30 ( 17 ) Busted - Ray Charles (#7)
-- ( 22 ) Hello Little Girl - Fourmost (#9) -- ( 23 ) She Loves You - Beatles (#1[3]) -- ( 24 ) Honolulu Lulu - Jan & Dean (#17) -- ( 25 ) Somebody's Else's Girl - Billy Fury -- ( 27 ) Wham! - Lonnie Mack (#20) -- ( 29 ) Then He Kissed Me - Crystals (#2[2])
-- ( -- ) Sue's Gonna Be Mine - Del Shannon -- ( -- ) She's A Fool - Lesley Gore
They didn't make it 3 in a row but two #1s and a #2 isn't bad going for Gerry & The Pacemakers. The Beatles have also managed two #1s and a #2 in 1963, and Peter Paul & Mary two #1s and a #3.
Songs from this period becoming UK top 10 hits in 1974: We already had "A Walkin' Miracle" and "Hey There Lonely Boy(Girl)" . Now "I'm Leaving It Up To You" was covered by Donny & Marie Osmond and peaked at #2 behind the whole family. Yes, like the Beatles will do in a few weeks here (and also in 1967 for a couple of weeks) and John Lennon as a soloist in 1981 (and of course Madonna in 1985 and Justin Bieber in 2015), some Osmonds managed the top 2 in the same week in 1974 in the UK chart.
"She Loves You" did reach #1 but stayed only 8 weeks in my chart and has now left. Its run was 1-1-1-2-4-8-16-23
The Searchers came close to having #1s with 4 early hits (not quite their first 4, they sneaked in the lower-end of the chart with a Brenda Lee cover, a song thus ignored here). The one that missed "Sugar And Spice" enters here. (Sweets For My Sweet also got ignored here, having been a hit here for the Drifters).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2016 15:33:28 GMT 1
2 November 1963:
1 ( 1 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry 3 ( 8 ) (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles 4 ( 4 ) Washington Square - Village Stompers 5 ( 2 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes (#1[5]) 6 ( 7 ) Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black 7 ( 13 ) I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace 8 ( 6 ) Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens (#6) 9 ( 5 ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary (#3) 10 ( 9 ) I'll Take You Home - Drifters (#9)
11 ( -- ) Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas 12 ( 12 ) Cross Fire - Orlons 13 ( 19 ) Sugar And Spice - Searchers 14 ( 10 ) If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe (#8) 15 ( 14 ) Dragonfly - Tornados (#14) 16 ( -- ) Sweet Impossible You - Brenda Lee 17 ( 16 ) Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley (#16) 18 ( 23 ) Bossa Nova Baby - Elvis Presley 19 ( 25 ) Look Who It Is - Helen Shapiro 20 ( -- ) What Do Ya Say - Chubby Checker
21 ( 21 ) Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras 22 ( 11 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex (#2[3]) 23 ( 22 ) Girl Sang The Blues - Everly Brothers (#22) 24 ( 27 ) You Lost The Sweetest Boy - Mary Wells 25 ( 17 ) Only In America - Jay & The Americans (#14) 26 ( 15 ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics (#3) 27 ( 26 ) Mule Train - Frank Ifield (#26) 28 ( 18 ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison (#4) 29 ( -- ) Red Sails In The Sunset - Fats Domino 30 ( 20 ) Sally Ann - Joe Brown (#9)
-- ( 24 ) Shindig - Shadows (#6) -- ( 28 ) Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs (#18) -- ( 29 ) The First Time - Adam Faith (#13) -- ( 30 ) Busted - Ray Charles (#7)
-- ( -- ) 500 Miles Away From Home - Bobby Bare
We are in November 1963. We all know what is shortly to happen, and I will probably write more on that 3 charts from now.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 25, 2016 23:39:21 GMT 1
9 November 1963:
1 ( 1 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry 3 ( 3 ) (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles 4 ( 11 ) Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas 5 ( 7 ) I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace 6 ( 4 ) Washington Square - Village Stompers (#4) 7 ( 6 ) Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black (#6) 8 ( -- ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers 9 ( 16 ) Sweet Impossible You - Brenda Lee 10 ( -- ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard
11 ( 5 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes (#1[5]) 12 ( 13 ) Sugar And Spice - Searchers 13 ( 8 ) Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens (#6) 14 ( 20 ) What Do Ya Say - Chubby Checker 15 ( 10 ) I'll Take You Home - Drifters (#9) 16 ( 12 ) Cross Fire - Orlons (#12) 17 ( 9 ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary (#3) 18 ( 18 ) Bossa Nova Baby - Elvis Presley 19 ( 19 ) Look Who It Is - Helen Shapiro 20 ( 15 ) Dragonfly - Tornados (#14)
21 ( -- ) Secret Love - Kathy Kirby 22 ( 14 ) If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe (#8) 23 ( 17 ) Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley (#16) 24 ( -- ) Cry To Me - Betty Harris 25 ( -- ) Hey Little Girl - Major Lance 26 ( 29 ) Red Sails In The Sunset - Fats Domino 27 ( 21 ) Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras (#21) 28 ( 24 ) You Lost The Sweetest Boy - Mary Wells (#24) 29 ( -- ) I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas 30 ( 23 ) Girl Sang The Blues - Everly Brothers (#22)
-- ( 22 ) A Walkin' Miracle - Essex (#2[3]) -- ( 25 ) Only In America - Jay & The Americans (#14) -- ( 26 ) Hey There Lonely Boy - Ruby & The Romantics (#3) -- ( 27 ) Mule Train - Frank Ifield (#26) -- ( 28 ) Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison (#4) -- ( 30 ) Sally Ann - Joe Brown (#9)
-- ( -- ) Walking Proud - Steve Lawrence
The top 3 are unmoved, which may therefore soon allow some new ones to break in, and this is the start of a new playlist. Freddie & The Dreamers' jolly little song gets the highest entry.
Cliff Richard is back, after I wouldn't allow "It's All In The Game" to chart. He's had two #1s within the last year and should get another big hit now.
Kathy Kirby does get in with her cover of a Doris Day song. It is 10 years since the original. However, whilst Kathy Kirby has now passed on, Doris Day is still around to sing this...
A couple of American soulful vocalists get in, Betty Davis with a big diva-style voice. Billy J Kramer meanwhile got to #2 with "Bad To Me" but this time only just scrapes into the chart.
I am currently doing just 4 a week until we reach the end of the year. I'll go back to 5 a week once we hit 1964, if the playlists are not too large.
I'm not sure if I'm ready to expand the chart to a top 40 yet. I think it's more the fact that great songs are appearing all the time. This is really the moment I'd been waiting for, although I did enjoy doing 1960, 61 and 62 too.
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 26, 2016 0:00:25 GMT 1
I bet you are finding in the past few months of this chart, that the quality of music is improving, and it will only get better for the next few years ....
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 27, 2016 3:28:36 GMT 1
I think the UK charts improved once they got over their obsession for Frank Ifield. The Lennon-McCartney songwriting team are good, and there are a lot of their songs in the chart. However for a real improvement in chart quality I'd like a bit more variety, with more bands writing their own songs and adopting a different style. We've still got a lot of good songs from the USA, which seem to continue to do well in my chart right now, even if the UK charts of 1963 only saw 1 week at #1 by any artist from the USA (Devil In Disguise by Elvis).
16 November 1963:
1 ( 1 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas 3 ( 8 ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers 4 ( 2 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry (#2[2]) 5 ( 10 ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard 6 ( 3 ) (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles (#3) 7 ( 5 ) I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace (#5) 8 ( -- ) Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney 9 ( 9 ) Sweet Impossible You - Brenda Lee 10 ( 6 ) Washington Square - Village Stompers (#4)
11 ( 7 ) Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black (#6) 12 ( -- ) From Russia With Love - Matt Monro 13 ( 14 ) What Do Ya Say - Chubby Checker 14 ( -- ) I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones 15 ( 12 ) Sugar And Spice - Searchers (#12) 16 ( 21 ) Secret Love - Kathy Kirby 17 ( -- ) Dominique - Soeur Sourire 18 ( 24 ) Cry To Me - Betty Harris 19 ( -- ) Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke 20 ( 25 ) Hey Little Girl - Major Lance
21 ( 11 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes (#1[5]) 22 ( 18 ) Bossa Nova Baby - Elvis Presley (#18) 23 ( 13 ) Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens (#6) 24 ( 19 ) Look Who It Is - Helen Shapiro (#19) 25 ( 29 ) I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas 26 ( 16 ) Cross Fire - Orlons (#12) 27 ( 15 ) I'll Take You Home - Drifters (#9) 28 ( 26 ) Red Sails In The Sunset - Fats Domino (#26) 29 ( 20 ) Dragonfly - Tornados (#14) 30 ( 17 ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary (#3)
-- ( 22 ) If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe (#8) -- ( 23 ) Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley (#16) -- ( 27 ) Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras (#21) -- ( 28 ) You Lost The Sweetest Boy - Mary Wells (#24) -- ( 30 ) Girl Sang The Blues - Everly Brothers (#22)
-- ( -- ) Your Other Love - Connie Francis -- ( -- ) It's Almost Tomorrow - Mark Wynter
so about 3 years ago, we had an explosive December 1960 and Bobby Vee had a hit called "Rubber Ball". That song was co-written by Gene Pitney, who has later been charting with songs written by others. "A World Without Pity" was one such song. "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" was written by the Bacherach-David partnership and tells a story of a man driving home, stopping the night at a motel and meeting another woman there, so at the end he decides he cannot go home after all.
Around the same time in 1960, Matt Monro made his debut with "Portrait Of My Love" and then had a lovely swing #1 hit "My Kind Of Girl" which was also a hit in the USA, but his easy-listening style hasn't provided him much success since, in spite of his lovely voice. Now he's singing a James Bond theme and whilst John Barry also has an instrumental version of this out, I went for the vocal version, so Matt Monro gets another significant hit, entering just outside the top 10 and likely to break in it next week.
The Rolling Stones enter with a Lennon-McCartney song, but they do definitely put a rocky-edge to it. Look however 2 new entries below, and we know that next year the Rolling Stones won't be having a hit with Little Red Rooster. That song got to #1 in the UK and on the week that it dropped from #1, Sam Cooke was shot.
In between those entries there is Soeur Sourire, also referred to as The Singing Nun, who had this surprise hit especially in the USA where it got to #1. She is from Belgium and she co-wrote the song and sung it in French. The sad tale is that she later "came out" as a lesbian and left the convent to live with her partner. The Belgian authorities then started chasing her for taxes but she said that all the money from the song had gone to the convent so they were responsible. They wouldn't help her out and she ended up committing suicide.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 27, 2016 23:32:07 GMT 1
And now the week that made 1963 famous, or possibly infamous:
23 November 1963:
1 ( 3 ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers < 1st #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney 3 ( 1 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers (#1[4]) 4 ( 2 ) Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas 5 ( -- ) I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield 6 ( 5 ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard 7 ( -- ) Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five 8 ( 12 ) From Russia With Love - Matt Monro 9 ( 14 ) I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones 10 ( 4 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry (#2[2])
11 ( -- ) Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva 12 ( 17 ) Dominique - Soeur Sourire 13 ( 9 ) Sweet Impossible You - Brenda Lee 14 ( 7 ) I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace (#5) 15 ( 6 ) (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles (#3) 16 ( 19 ) Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke 17 ( 13 ) What Do Ya Say - Chubby Checker 18 ( 16 ) Secret Love - Kathy Kirby 19 ( 18 ) Cry To Me - Betty Harris 20 ( 10 ) Washington Square - Village Stompers (#4)
21 ( 11 ) Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black (#6) 22 ( 20 ) Hey Little Girl - Major Lance 23 ( 15 ) Sugar And Spice - Searchers (#12) 24 ( -- ) Loddy Lo - Chubby Checker 25 ( 25 ) I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas 26 ( -- ) I Adore Him - Angels 27 ( 22 ) Bossa Nova Baby - Elvis Presley (#18) 28 ( 24 ) Look Who It Is - Helen Shapiro (#19) 29 ( -- ) I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry & The Tamerlanes 30 ( 28 ) Red Sails In The Sunset - Fats Domino (#26)
-- ( 21 ) Be My Baby - Ronettes (#1[5]) -- ( 23 ) Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens (#6) -- ( 26 ) Cross Fire - Orlons (#12) -- ( 27 ) I'll Take You Home - Drifters (#9) -- ( 29 ) Dragonfly - Tornados (#14) -- ( 30 ) Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Peter Paul & Mary (#3)
-- ( -- ) Living A Lie - Al Martino -- ( -- ) Wonderful Summer - Robin Ward -- ( -- ) Be True To Your School - Beach Boys -- ( -- ) Since I Fell For You - Lenny Welch
The weekend that "rocked" America. First the music: and what a great week it is all around, Freddie & The Dreamers and Gene Pitney prove too much to let Gerry & The Pacemakers get a 5th week on top, although in a sense you must also blame the Ronettes for holding out that 5th week themselves that made Gerry & The Pacemakers wait.
And two classic entries: Leaving behind the Springfields to go solo, Dusty storms into the chart with a classic. Meanwhile Tottenham band (and they supported the local team, not some tinpot club who took this song as their anthem) bring the "beat group" sound down south with their sing-a-long pop-rock anthem. This latter song will eventually top the UK chart but it takes a while, as it was number one after "I Want To Hold Your Hand" which hasn't appeared yet.
An old swing song, recorded by Bing Crosby in 1944: - and now this is what I call a great cover version, as it isn't exactly like the original. Big Dee Irwin is an unfamiliar name but he performs the main vocals. However the charm of the "comments" by Little Eva, a girl who is known to us, of course, adds a lot to making this great. This song peaked at #7 in the UK chart, only #38 in the USA, and we will not hear from either of them again. We'll see how high this song can go here.
Chubby Checker does get another hit and the B-side will be listed separately in 1964. After that he will get just one more shot at this chart before his career fades too. He was the leading light really of early 1962 when everyone was "twist" crazy.
The Angels show they are not just one-hit wonders as they manage a second entry.
And now, let's mention the events of the weekend. Friday 22 November, in Dallas, Texas, the American President, John F Kennedy, was shot dead. If you recall (thanks to the song by Jimmy Dean), JFK had been a war hero, bravely saving his crew on the PT109 from the Japanese after the boat had been hit.
The person accused of shooting him, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested. 2 days later (Sunday 24 November), whilst he was being transported to his van, Jack Ruby shot him in the abdomen, killing him. Jack Ruby was himself arrested and later convicted of murder, appealed, and died whilst awaiting a retrial.
I don't know the detail of the conditions of this "transfer", and don't really have any conspiracies over the death of JFK himself, but somehow I feel, hearing that story, that somebody in authority must have "let" Jack Ruby in to shoot Oswald.
I'll try to trace some US events as we go through this: we'll have the Vietnam war, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mohammad Ali etc. And in the UK, we will of course have the summer of 1966. If I go very fast, I will possibly reach the summer of 1966 here exactly 50 years after the event, but it is unlikely I will get there in time.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 28, 2016 23:41:58 GMT 1
30 November 1963:
1 ( 1 ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney 3 ( 5 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield 4 ( 7 ) Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five 5 ( 11 ) Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva 6 ( 6 ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard (#5) 7 ( 3 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers (#1[4]) 8 ( 8 ) From Russia With Love - Matt Monro 9 ( 9 ) I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones 10 ( 4 ) Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas (#2[1])
11 ( 12 ) Dominique - Soeur Sourire 12 ( -- ) Louie Louie - Kingsmen 13 ( 16 ) Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke 14 ( -- ) Can I Get A Witness - Marvin Gaye 15 ( 24 ) Loddy Lo - Chubby Checker 16 ( 10 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry (#2[2]) 17 ( 26 ) I Adore Him - Angels 18 ( 13 ) Sweet Impossible You - Brenda Lee (#9) 19 ( -- ) Hungry For Love - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates 20 ( 29 ) I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry & The Tamerlanes
21 ( 19 ) Cry To Me - Betty Harris (#18) 22 ( 18 ) Secret Love - Kathy Kirby (#16) 23 ( 17 ) What Do Ya Say - Chubby Checker (#13) 24 ( 14 ) I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace (#5) 25 ( -- ) Yesterday's Gone - Chad & Jeremy 26 ( 15 ) (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles (#3) 27 ( 22 ) Hey Little Girl - Major Lance (#20) 28 ( -- ) Country Boy - Heinz 29 ( 25 ) I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas (#25) 30 ( -- ) Drip Drop - Dion Di Muci
-- ( 20 ) Washington Square - Village Stompers (#4) -- ( 21 ) Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black (#6) -- ( 23 ) Sugar And Spice - Searchers (#12) -- ( 27 ) Bossa Nova Baby - Elvis Presley (#18) -- ( 28 ) Look Who It Is - Helen Shapiro (#19) -- ( 30 ) Red Sails In The Sunset - Fats Domino (#26)
-- ( -- ) Saturday Night - New Christy Minstrels -- ( -- ) I Can Dance - Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
This is really a golden chart, in spite of not having any Beatles hits in it (that they are singing on, but they did write the songs at #9 and #29).
The Kingsmen's song is famous for the organ riff, albeit it is a tad repetitive. In the USA it peaked at #2. Good or bad? What kept it off #1? The song immediately above it in the chart here.
Marvin Gaye gets the 2nd highest entry with what really is one of his classic songs - or maybe a northern soul classic "Can I get to Widnes"?
The first one just missing the chart is a song I first knew from Wally Whyton's version when I was a child. The New Christy Minstrels just sing it in several languages with fake accents.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 31, 2016 14:36:12 GMT 1
7 December 1963:
1 ( 3 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney (#2[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five 5 ( 5 ) Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva 6 ( -- ) I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles 7 ( 12 ) Louie Louie - Kingsmen 8 ( 6 ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard (#5) 9 ( 14 ) Can I Get A Witness - Marvin Gaye 10 ( 8 ) From Russia With Love - Matt Monro (#8)
11 ( 9 ) I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones (#9) 12 ( 15 ) Loddy Lo - Chubby Checker 13 ( 19 ) Hungry For Love - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates 14 ( 11 ) Dominique - Soeur Sourire (#11) 15 ( 13 ) Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke (#13) 16 ( 7 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers (#1[4]) 17 ( 17 ) I Adore Him - Angels 18 ( -- ) Geronimo - Shadows 19 ( 20 ) I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry & The Tamerlanes 20 ( -- ) Talk Back Trembling Lips - Johnny Tillotson
21 ( 25 ) Yesterday's Gone - Chad & Jeremy 22 ( 10 ) Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas (#2[1]) 23 ( 28 ) Country Boy - Heinz 24 ( 30 ) Drip Drop - Dion Di Muci 25 ( 16 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry (#2[2]) 26 ( 18 ) Sweet Impossible You - Brenda Lee (#9) 27 ( 21 ) Cry To Me - Betty Harris (#18) 28 ( -- ) In My Room - Beach Boys 29 ( 22 ) Secret Love - Kathy Kirby (#16) 30 ( 23 ) What Do Ya Say - Chubby Checker (#13)
-- ( 24 ) I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace (#5) -- ( 26 ) (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles (#3) -- ( 27 ) Hey Little Girl - Major Lance (#20) -- ( 29 ) I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas (#25)
-- ( -- ) All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle - Dora Bryan -- ( -- ) There! I've Said It Again - Bobby Vinton -- ( -- ) Have You Heard - Duprees & Joey Vann
We are in the final month of 1963 and within a week I will have completed it, which was my target, as I started doing this in February last year and planned to complete 4 years within one year.
I will therefore be on my first 1964 playlist this week, i.e. the playlist of songs that entered the UK top 50 or US top 30 chart in a week in 1964 and I know that the Beatles are shortly to invade the US chart and take the whole top 5 at one point.
Anyway, Dusty Springfield's classic gets to the top just in time as the Beatles storm in at #6. The silly Christmas song about them though fails to break in.
The Shadows, who in the first few weeks of this year were totally dominant in the UK chart, get the next entry, and Johnny Tillotson, who stormed to #1 in the chart 3 years ago but has struggled to have any kind of big hit since, gets a decent entry just inside the top 20.
In 1963, the Beach Boys have been mostly in the shadow of Jan & Dean but something tells me the table will soon turn...
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2016 1:16:58 GMT 1
14 December 1963:
1 ( 1 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles 3 ( 2 ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers (#1[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five 5 ( 3 ) Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney (#2[2]) 6 ( 7 ) Louie Louie - Kingsmen 7 ( 5 ) Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva (#5) 8 ( -- ) Popsicles And Icicles - Murmaids 9 ( 9 ) Can I Get A Witness - Marvin Gaye 10 ( 18 ) Geronimo - Shadows
11 ( 13 ) Hungry For Love - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates 12 ( -- ) Wives And Lovers - Jack Jones 13 ( 12 ) Loddy Lo - Chubby Checker (#12) 14 ( 8 ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard (#5) 15 ( -- ) Hippy Hippy Shake - Swinging Blue Jeans 16 ( 20 ) Talk Back Trembling Lips - Johnny Tillotson 17 ( 10 ) From Russia With Love - Matt Monro (#8) 18 ( -- ) Quicksand - Martha & The Vandellas 19 ( 11 ) I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones (#9) 20 ( -- ) Walking Alone - Richard Anthony
21 ( 17 ) I Adore Him - Angels (#17) 22 ( 14 ) Dominique - Soeur Sourire (#11) 23 ( 15 ) Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke (#13) 24 ( 21 ) Yesterday's Gone - Chad & Jeremy (#21) 25 ( 19 ) I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry & The Tamerlanes (#19) 26 ( -- ) Not Too Little Not Too Much - Chris Sandford 27 ( 28 ) In My Room - Beach Boys 28 ( 23 ) Country Boy - Heinz (#23) 29 ( 24 ) Drip Drop - Dion Di Muci (#24) 30 ( -- ) Kansas City - Trini Lopez
-- ( 16 ) You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers (#1[4]) -- ( 22 ) Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas (#2[1]) -- ( 25 ) Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry (#2[2]) -- ( 26 ) Sweet Impossible You - Brenda Lee (#9) -- ( 27 ) Cry To Me - Betty Harris (#18) -- ( 29 ) Secret Love - Kathy Kirby (#16) -- ( 30 ) What Do Ya Say - Chubby Checker (#13)
-- ( -- ) We Are In Love - Adam Faith -- ( -- ) Midnight Mary - Joey Powers -- ( -- ) The Nitty Gritty - Shirley Ellis
We are 2 weeks before the last chart of the year, one week before the Christmas chart, and the Beatles rise to #2 to challenge Dusty Springfield for the title. These two songs were also notably both in the chart as covers in January 1980 with Dollar's cover of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" joining the Tourists' cover of "I Only Want To Be With You". And it was the latter song whose cover proved more successful, repeating Dusty's UK peak of #4 while Dollar peaked at #9.
Pretty girl-pop getting the highest entry. The song you might be more familiar with is "Hippy Hippy Shake", a song written by a teenage Australian, Chan Romero, in 1959.
Between those we have Jack Jones with a Bacherach-David composition with a very nice jazzy feel. This joins Gene Pitney on his way down doing a Bacherach-David song. So far they have composed one NM #1, Jerry Butler singing "Make It Easy On Yourself".
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 3, 2016 3:22:57 GMT 1
21 December 1963:
1 ( 2 ) I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield (#1[2]) 3 ( 4 ) Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five 4 ( 8 ) Popsicles And Icicles - Murmaids 5 ( 3 ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers (#1[2]) 6 ( 12 ) Wives And Lovers - Jack Jones 7 ( 6 ) Louie Louie - Kingsmen (#6) 8 ( 10 ) Geronimo - Shadows 9 ( 15 ) Hippy Hippy Shake - Swinging Blue Jeans 10 ( -- ) Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry
11 ( 5 ) Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney (#2[2]) 12 ( 18 ) Quicksand - Martha & The Vandellas 13 ( 9 ) Can I Get A Witness - Marvin Gaye (#9) 14 ( 7 ) Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva (#5) 15 ( 11 ) Hungry For Love - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#11) 16 ( 20 ) Walking Alone - Richard Anthony 17 ( 16 ) Talk Back Trembling Lips - Johnny Tillotson (#16) 18 ( 13 ) Loddy Lo - Chubby Checker (#12) 19 ( -- ) The Boy Next Door - Secrets 20 ( 26 ) Not Too Little Not Too Much - Chris Sandford
21 ( 14 ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard (#5) 22 ( -- ) Baby Don't You Weep - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters 23 ( 30 ) Kansas City - Trini Lopez 24 ( 17 ) From Russia With Love - Matt Monro (#8) 25 ( 21 ) I Adore Him - Angels (#17) 26 ( 27 ) In My Room - Beach Boys 27 ( 19 ) I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones (#9) 28 ( 24 ) Yesterday's Gone - Chad & Jeremy (#21) 29 ( -- ) Kiss Me Quick - Elvis Presley 30 ( 22 ) Dominique - Soeur Sourire (#11)
-- ( 23 ) Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke (#13) -- ( 25 ) I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry & The Tamerlanes (#19) -- ( 28 ) Country Boy - Heinz (#23) -- ( 29 ) Drip Drop - Dion Di Muci (#24)
This week is the Christmas chart of 1963, and we have the Beatles hitting #1. How often do you think we will see this? Chuck Berry's Christmas song enters as the highest entry at #10 and may climb next week but will then start to tumble.
Only 4 songs on the list this week compared to 10 last week and Elvis actually had a lower score than Shirley Ellis who was bottom of the last pile but still scraped in. Just lucky, I guess, however it's clear he's lost his mojo compared to a year ago.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 3, 2016 23:32:44 GMT 1
The final chart of 1963:
28 December 1963:
1 ( 1 ) I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield (#1[2]) 3 ( 4 ) Popsicles And Icicles - Murmaids 4 ( 3 ) Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five (#3) 5 ( 10 ) Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry 6 ( 6 ) Wives And Lovers - Jack Jones 7 ( -- ) As Usual - Brenda Lee 8 ( 9 ) Hippy Hippy Shake - Swinging Blue Jeans 9 ( 8 ) Geronimo - Shadows (#8) 10 ( 5 ) You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers (#1[2])
11 ( -- ) I'm In Love - Fourmost 12 ( 12 ) Quicksand - Martha & The Vandellas 13 ( 7 ) Louie Louie - Kingsmen (#6) 14 ( 19 ) The Boy Next Door - Secrets 15 ( 22 ) Baby Don't You Weep - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters 16 ( 16 ) Walking Alone - Richard Anthony 17 ( 20 ) Not Too Little Not Too Much - Chris Sandford 18 ( 13 ) Can I Get A Witness - Marvin Gaye (#9) 19 ( 11 ) Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney (#2[2]) 20 ( -- ) Drag City - Jan & Dean
21 ( 23 ) Kansas City - Trini Lopez 22 ( 17 ) Talk Back Trembling Lips - Johnny Tillotson (#16) 23 ( 15 ) Hungry For Love - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#11) 24 ( 29 ) Kiss Me Quick - Elvis Presley 25 ( 14 ) Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva (#5) 26 ( 18 ) Loddy Lo - Chubby Checker (#12) 27 ( -- ) Surfin' Bird - Trashmen 28 ( 26 ) In My Room - Beach Boys (#26) 29 ( 21 ) Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard (#5) 30 ( -- ) Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison
-- ( 24 ) From Russia With Love - Matt Monro (#8) -- ( 25 ) I Adore Him - Angels (#17) -- ( 27 ) I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones (#9) -- ( 28 ) Yesterday's Gone - Chad & Jeremy (#21) -- ( 30 ) Dominique - Soeur Sourire (#11)
-- ( -- ) Turn Around - Dick & DeeDee
No change in the top 2 and the Murmaids scrape ahead of Dave Clark Five as they swap places.
Patsy Cline died in the year 1963, but Brenda Lee seems to have now taken over her role with "As Usual", a sad country-style ballad that is somewhat gripping in the way she performs it. In the UK this will be her last big hit.
The big songwriters or songwriting partnerships of the year: well we had all the Shadows stuff at the start, then we have Barry/Greenwich (with Spector) and Bacherach/David. We have Mitch Murray writing some big hits. And then we have Lennon/McCartney, only many of the other songwriting partnerships, they are also in a band where they sing many of them themselves.
"I'm In Love" by the Fourmost is one of those. Their first hit was a #9 hit "Hello Little Girl" (#9 peak in both the UK and NM chart) written by John Lennon when he was about 16. Their new song is also credited to Lennon-McCartney but written mostly by Lennon, and if you hadn't been told it was the Fourmost you might have thought it was also the Beatles performing on it, as it sounds so much like them. This song only reached #17 in the UK but has already done better on this chart and will probably supercede the previous one.
We also still have "surf" music. Jan & Dean get another hit, and then there's the Trashmen with a song/tune that the UK took about 46 more years to recognise.
Roy Orbison not at his best but expect something better in 1964.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 4, 2016 22:18:43 GMT 1
30 hits from the chart of the year:
100 Some Kinda Fun - Chris Montez 99 More - Kai Winding 98 My Way - Eddie Cochran 97 Welcome To My World - Jim Reeves 96 Not Me - Orlons 95 Queen For Tonight - Helen Shapiro 94 The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis 93 Busted - Ray Charles 92 From Russia With Love - Matt Monro 91 Easier Said Than Done - Essex 90 Lucky Lips - Cliff Richard 89 If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe 88 Don't Make Me Over - Dionne Warwick *87 Dance On! - Shadows **86 Louie Louie - Kingsmen 85 My Boyfriend's Back - Angels 84 Don't You Think It's Time - Mike Berry & The Outlaws 83 Just One Look - Doris Troy 82 Shindig - Shadows 81 He's So Fine - Chiffons 80 Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens 79 You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - Caravelles 78 Fireball - Don Spencer 77 He's The One - Billie Davis 76 I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace 75 Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black 74 That's What Love Will Do - Joe Brown 73 In Summer - Billy Fury **72 Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva 71 I Want To Stay Here - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
*Dance On! peaked at #2 at the end of 1962, and would be #23 of 1962 or #25 of 1963.
** These two are still in the chart at the end of the year, although Swinging On A Star will probably not be in the first chart of 1964, having now fallen to #25.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 5, 2016 14:14:10 GMT 1
25 more:
70 On Broadway - Drifters 69 A Taste Of Honey - Mr Acker Bilk 68 It's My Party - Lesley Gore 67 Scarlett O'Hara - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan 66 It's Too Late Now - Swinging Blue Jeans 65 Surfin' U.S.A - Beach Boys 64 Losing You - Brenda Lee 63 By The Way - Big Three *62 Tell Him - Exciters 61 Don't Set Me Free - Ray Charles 60 Diamonds - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan 59 I (Who Have Nothing) - Ben E King 58 Walk Right In - Rooftop Singers 57 (Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles 56 Just Like Eddie - Heinz 55 Denise - Randy & The Rainbows 54 Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison 53 Mr Bass Man - Johnny Cymbal 52 Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley 51 If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul **50 Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard 49 Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas 48 Wildwood Days - Bobby Rydell 47 Do You Want To Know A Secret - Billy J Kramer 46 Washington Square - Village Stompers
* Moves up to #38 if you add in the 2 weeks from 1962
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