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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 19, 2016 22:49:34 GMT 1
12 December 1964:
1 ( 5 ) I Feel Fine - Beatles < 6th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Downtown - Petula Clark (#1[3]) 3 ( 3 ) Twinkle - Terry 4 ( 2 ) March Of The Mods - Joe Loss Orchestra (#2[2]) 5 ( 9 ) Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley 6 ( 6 ) Saturday Night At The Movies - Drifters 7 ( 7 ) Walking In The Rain - Ronettes 8 ( -- ) Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw 9 ( 4 ) I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney (#3) 10 ( -- ) She's A Woman - Beatles
11 ( 17 ) Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - Shadows 12 ( 11 ) Come See About Me - Supremes (#11) 13 ( -- ) Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day - Brenda Lee 14 ( 12 ) Baby I Need Your Loving - Fourmost (#12) 15 ( -- ) How Sweet It Is - Marvin Gaye 16 ( 20 ) Gone Gone Gone - Everly Brothers 17 ( -- ) I Easily Could Fall - Cliff Richard 18 ( 8 ) Time Is On My Side - Rolling Stones (#5) 19 ( -- ) Oh No Not My Baby - Maxine Brown 20 ( -- ) Go Now - Moody Blues
21 ( 19 ) Goin' Out Of My Head - Little Anthony & The Imperials (#19) 22 ( 10 ) Leader Of The Pack - Shangri-Las (#1[3]) 23 ( 15 ) Everything's Alright - Newbeats (#12) 24 ( 13 ) Ringo - Lorne Greene (#8) 25 ( 28 ) What Have They Done To The Rain - Searchers 26 ( 16 ) Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Yardbirds (#13) 27 ( -- ) Somewhere - PJ Proby 28 ( 23 ) So Much In Love - Mighty Avengers (#23) 29 ( 14 ) All Day And All Of The Night - Kinks (#2[2]) 30 ( -- ) Like A Child - Julie Rogers
-- ( 18 ) Google Eye - Nashville Teens (#6) -- ( 21 ) I Can't Stand It - Spencer Davis Group (#12) -- ( 22 ) Show Me Girl - Herman's Hermits (#19) -- ( 24 ) Dance Dance Dance - Beach Boys (#22) -- ( 25 ) Mr Lonely - Bobby Vinton (#19) -- ( 26 ) Don't Bring Me Down - Pretty Things (#11) -- ( 27 ) Big Man In Town - Four Seasons (#25) -- ( 29 ) Sha La La - Manfred Mann (#3) -- ( 30 ) Whatcha Gonna Do About It - Doris Troy (#28)
In a week of 9 new entries, we have the Beatles getting their 6th #1. This puts them level with Elvis Presley, who himself climbs to #5 this week. Elvis would of course have had more #1s but for the fact I didn't start the retro charts until 1960. The Everly Brothers, whose career has faded a bit but are currently in the chart, and Roy Orbison, who has had an incredible year, have both had 3 #1s, as has Cliff Richard, who enters this week.
Sandie Shaw had a #1 with her first hit, and will hope to do the same with the follow-up. The Beatles get another hit thanks to the US chart and Brenda Lee falls somewhat short of her efforts of 4 years previously, but does manage another hit. Classics from Marvin Gaye, Maxine Brown and the Moody Blues all enter inside the top 20. Although the last of those was a #1 in the UK, I'm expecting them to do much better later on in their career.
The big news item of this weekend was the tragic death of the singer Sam Cooke. His single "Shake" will be eligible to chart on 23 January 1965. If I expand the entry in the US hits down a bit then "A Change Is Gonna Come" will also be eligible about a month later.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 20, 2016 21:19:53 GMT 1
19 December 1964:
1 ( 1 ) I Feel Fine - Beatles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw 3 ( -- ) Ferry Across The Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers 4 ( 5 ) Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley 5 ( 10 ) She's A Woman - Beatles 6 ( 3 ) Twinkle - Terry (#3) 7 ( 2 ) Downtown - Petula Clark (#1[3]) 8 ( -- ) Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame 9 ( 13 ) Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day - Brenda Lee 10 ( 6 ) Saturday Night At The Movies - Drifters (#6)
11 ( 4 ) March Of The Mods - Joe Loss Orchestra (#2[2]) 12 ( 15 ) How Sweet It Is - Marvin Gaye 13 ( 7 ) Walking In The Rain - Ronettes (#7) 14 ( 11 ) Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - Shadows (#11) 15 ( 17 ) I Easily Could Fall - Cliff Richard 16 ( 19 ) Oh No Not My Baby - Maxine Brown 17 ( 20 ) Go Now - Moody Blues 18 ( -- ) Love Potion No.9 - Searchers 19 ( 16 ) Gone Gone Gone - Everly Brothers (#16) 20 ( 12 ) Come See About Me - Supremes (#11)
21 ( 9 ) I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney (#3) 22 ( 14 ) Baby I Need Your Loving - Fourmost (#12) 23 ( 27 ) Somewhere - PJ Proby 24 ( 30 ) Like A Child - Julie Rogers 25 ( 25 ) What Have They Done To The Rain - Searchers 26 ( -- ) Too Many Fish In The Sea - Marvelettes 27 ( 21 ) Goin' Out Of My Head - Little Anthony & The Imperials (#19) 28 ( -- ) Willow Weep For Me - Chad & Jeremy 29 ( 18 ) Time Is On My Side - Rolling Stones (#5) 30 ( 23 ) Everything's Alright - Newbeats (#12)
-- ( 22 ) Leader Of The Pack - Shangri-Las (#1[3]) -- ( 24 ) Ringo - Lorne Greene (#8) -- ( 26 ) Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Yardbirds (#13) -- ( 28 ) So Much In Love - Mighty Avengers (#23) -- ( 29 ) All Day And All Of The Night - Kinks (#2[2])
1964 is going out with a "bang" too. Whether or not the Christmas chart is this one (the last one before 25th December) or next week's (the week that has Christmas and most of the week up to it in it), we'll have to see first whether one of the challengers knocks the Beatles off the top.
Of course "Ferry Across The Mersey" was eventually a UK #1 and Paul McCartney performed on that too (although I Feel Fine is a Lennon song and I'm not sure how much McCartney actually performs on it).
Georgie Fame's UK #1 gets a top 10 debut here. In the UK chart, he's only reached the top 10 when he got to #1. As this song is in the top 10 here he'll have to get to #1 with it to match that record.
(In my chart that feat, three #1s and no other hits reaching the top 10, was something achieved at one point by Akira The Don but then he got a #3 hit in 2014).
The "crush" near the top has seen many of last week's entries make little progress too.
In any case, it's set up for a great year that will be 1965, and of course I'll be doing the chart of the year soon.
My retro-playlist has currently been put on hold due to the Pesach festival coming up. I do have 2 charts into 1965 I can do on the current one.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 21, 2016 18:40:43 GMT 1
26 December 1964:
1 ( 3 ) Ferry Across The Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) I Feel Fine - Beatles (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley 5 ( 8 ) Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame 6 ( 5 ) She's A Woman - Beatles (#5) 7 ( 9 ) Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day - Brenda Lee 8 ( 18 ) Love Potion No.9 - Searchers 9 ( 6 ) Twinkle - Terry (#3) 10 ( 12 ) How Sweet It Is - Marvin Gaye
11 ( 7 ) Downtown - Petula Clark (#1[3]) 12 ( 15 ) I Easily Could Fall - Cliff Richard 13 ( 16 ) Oh No Not My Baby - Maxine Brown 14 ( 10 ) Saturday Night At The Movies - Drifters (#6) 15 ( 17 ) Go Now - Moody Blues 16 ( -- ) Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun) - Del Shannon 17 ( 26 ) Too Many Fish In The Sea - Marvelettes 18 ( 14 ) Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - Shadows (#11) 19 ( 11 ) March Of The Mods - Joe Loss Orchestra (#2[2]) 20 ( 28 ) Willow Weep For Me - Chad & Jeremy
21 ( 13 ) Walking In The Rain - Ronettes (#7) 22 ( 24 ) Like A Child - Julie Rogers 23 ( 23 ) Somewhere - PJ Proby 24 ( 19 ) Gone Gone Gone - Everly Brothers (#16) 25 ( 25 ) What Have They Done To The Rain - Searchers 26 ( -- ) Choc Ice - Long And The Short 27 ( 20 ) Come See About Me - Supremes (#11) 28 ( 22 ) Baby I Need Your Loving - Fourmost (#12) 29 ( 27 ) Goin' Out Of My Head - Little Anthony & The Imperials (#19) 30 ( 21 ) I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney (#3)
-- ( 29 ) Time Is On My Side - Rolling Stones (#5) -- ( 30 ) Everything's Alright - Newbeats (#12)
The final chart of 1964, and shortly will follow the chart of the year. Not a good week for the Beatles as both their hits drop a place.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 22, 2016 18:03:17 GMT 1
The first 30 from the chart of the year:
100 The Crying Game - Dave Berry 99 Bread And Butter - Newbeats 98 Hubble Bubble (Toil And Trouble) - Manfred Mann 97 Three Window Coupe - Rip Chords 96 When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes - Supremes 95 A Million Drums - Tony Sheveton 94 Hi-Heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker 93 Don't Bring Me Down - Pretty Things 92 Wild Side Of Life - Tommy Quickly & The Remo Four 91 It's Gonna Be Alright - Gerry & The Pacemakers
90 I Think Of You - Merseybeats 89 P.S. I Love You - Beatles **88 Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw *87 I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield 86 Hold Me - PJ Proby 85 Sweet William - Millie 84 Boys Cry - Eden Kane **83 Saturday Night At The Movies - Drifters 82 The Times They Are A-Changin' - Peter Paul & Mary 81 Fun Fun Fun - Beach Boys
80 Tobacco Road - Nashville Teens 79 Just For You - Freddie & The Dreamers 78 On The Beach - Cliff Richard 77 Baby Let Me Take You Home - Animals 76 Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes **75 Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley 74 You'll Never Get To Heaven - Dionne Warwick 73 Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) - Serendipity Singers 72 I'm Into Something Good - Herman's Hermits 71 Save It For Me - Four Seasons
* A combined total would move Dusty Springfield to 6th in 1963 (where she actually finished 14th) and all the way to 3rd in 1964.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 19:14:23 GMT 1
My # 1s (Based ONLY on UK Singles Chart) : 11.01 : Brenda Lee - As Usual (1 week) 18.01 : Nino Tempo and April Stevens - Whispering (3 weeks) 08.02 : Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart (3 weeks) 29.02 : Maureen Evans - I Love How You Love Me (5 weeks) 04.04 : Kathy Kirby - Let Me Go Lover (4 weeks) 02.05 : Doris Day - Move Over Darling (5 weeks) 09.05 : Cilla Black - You're My World (7 weeks) 25.07 : Dusty Springfield - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (2 weeks) 08.08 : Cilla Black - It's For You (1 week) 15.08 : Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By (2 weeks) 29.08 : Julie Rogers - The Wedding (4 weeks) 26.09 : Lesley Gore - Maybe I Know (5 weeks) 31.10 : Sandie Shaw - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me (4 weeks) 28.11 : Twinkle - Terry (4 weeks) 26.12 : Petula Clark - Downtown (3 weeks)
Almost all my # 1s were represented in your chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 26, 2016 22:24:07 GMT 1
Next 25:
70 Nobody I Know - Peter And Gordon 69 Diane - Bachelors 68 Sugar Lips - Al Hirt 67 Ain't She Sweet - Beatles *66 I'm In Love - Fourmost
65 Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) - Temptations 64 World Without Love - Peter And Gordon 63 Time Is On My Side - Rolling Stones 62 Walk Tall - Val Doonican 61 Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean
60 Maybe I Know - Lesley Gore 59 A Hard Day's Night - Beatles 58 I'm Crying - Animals 57 Green Fields - Unit Four Plus Two 56 Always And Ever - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
*55 I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles 54 Google Eye - Nashville Teens 53 No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry **52 Twinkle - Terry 51 I'm The One - Gerry & The Pacemakers
50 Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley 49 I'm The Lonely One - Cliff Richard 48 For You - Rick Nelson 47 The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto 46 I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney
Two Lennon-McCartney songs in the chart at the turn of the year. The Fourmost "I'm In Love" had one week at #11 in 1963 and would rise to #53.
I Want To Hold Your Hand: #42 of 1963, #55 of this year but combined #7 in 1963 and #6 in 1964.
Spare a thought also for the Murmaids. Popsicles And Icicles was the #106 in both 1963 and 1964 so doesn't feature in either year's top 100. Combined would be #37 in 1963 and #38 in 1964.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 27, 2016 23:54:39 GMT 1
Next 20:
45 Baby I Need Your Loving - Four Tops 44 When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) - Beach Boys 43 As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithfull 42 Shout - Lulu & The Luvvers 41 I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - Dusty Springfield 40 When You Walk In The Room - Searchers **39 I Feel Fine - Beatles 38 Once Upon A Time - Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells 37 I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles 36 Baby Love - Supremes 35 Can't Buy Me Love - Beatles *34 As Usual - Brenda Lee 33 All Day And All Of The Night - Kinks 32 Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry & The Pacemakers 31 Move Over Darling - Doris Day 30 I Get Around - Beach Boys 29 You Really Got Me - Kinks 28 Sha La La - Manfred Mann 27 Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann 26 Rag Doll - Four Seasons
Brenda Lee - As Usual had one week at #7 on the last chart of 1963. That lifts her up to #28 (between the two Manfred Mann hits).
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Post by Earl Purple on May 4, 2016 0:19:50 GMT 1
Positions 25 up to 11:
25 Hello Dolly - Louis Armstrong 24 Needles And Pins - Searchers 23 Anyone Who Had A Heart - Dionne Warwick 22 Walk On By - Dionne Warwick 21 A Little Loving - Fourmost 20 She's Not There - Zombies 19 My Guy - Mary Wells **18 March Of The Mods - Joe Loss Orchestra 17 Have I The Right - Honeycombs 16 You're My World - Cilla Black 15 You're No Good - Swinging Blue Jeans 14 (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - Sandie Shaw **13 Downtown - Petula Clark 12 Dancing In The Street - Martha & The Vandellas 11 Leader Of The Pack - Shangri-Las
There are no crossovers left from 1963. Dancing In The Street spent 4 weeks in the #2 position but it isn't the highest-placed non-#1, there is one higher.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 4, 2016 22:11:41 GMT 1
The top 10 hits of 1964:
10 Under The Boardwalk - Drifters 9 House Of The Rising Sun - Animals 8 5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann 7 Tell Me When - Applejacks 6 And I Love Her - Beatles 5 Baby I Love You - Ronettes 4 Java - Al Hirt 3 My Boy Lollipop - Millie 2 Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison 1 It's Over - Roy Orbison
Two number ones, 11 weeks between them and Roy Orbison has both of the top 2 of the year of 1964. Obviously that means he wins the award for the best 2nd placed track..
The highest placed British act are of course the Beatles, but only at #6 in a year when supposedly the British "invaded". Their highest placed track was only a single release in the USA where it only peaked at #12.
Manfred Mann had a good year but didn't get a #1. They do however get the highest placed single that did not top the chart.
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Post by raliverpool on May 4, 2016 23:06:29 GMT 1
Interesting that we only share two of our respective 1964 Retro Rewind Year End Top 10's ...
For comparison purposes this is my Top 40 of 1964
01 Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman (1) 02 Animals - House Of The Rising Sun (1) 03 Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (1) 04 Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (1) 05 Mary Wells - My Guy (1) 06 Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street (1) 07 Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over (1) 08 Kinks - You Really Got Me (1) 09 Petula Clark - Downtown (1) 10 Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (1)
11 Honeycombs - Have I The Right (1) 12 Shangri-Las - The Leader Of The Pack (1) 13 Gerry & The Pacemakers - Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (1) 14 Beatles - I Feel Fine (1) 15 Supremes - Baby Love (2) 16 Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love (1) 17 Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy (1) 18 Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me (1) 19 Dionne Warwick - Walk On By (2) 20 Beach Boys - I Get Around (1)
21 Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now (2) 22 Millie - My Boy Lollipop (1) 23 Sandie Shaw - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me (1) 24 Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart (1) 25 Lulu & The Luvvers - Shout (2) 26 Roy Orbison - It's Over (3) 27 Beatles - And I Love Her (3) 28 Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle (3) 29 Zombies - She's Not There (4) 30 Shangri-Las - Remember (Walking in the Sand) (2)
31 Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) (1) 32 Jackie DeShannon - When You Walk In The Room (2) 33 Searchers - When You Walk In The Room (2) 34 Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly (2) 35 Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go (1) 36 Gene Pitney - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa (3) 37 Ronettes - Baby I Love You (3) 38 Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night (1) 39 Rolling Stones - Time Is On My Side (2) 40 Lesley Gore - Maybe I Know (2)
I'm charting a track in only one year end countdown rather than straddling across two .... For the 1970's year end chart I plan to prep my Y/E top 125's after each year, but not post them until I've completed the last weekly chart of 1979.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 5, 2016 11:15:32 GMT 1
I compile the chart based on points from the first chart of the year to the last. If I wanted to make it "fairer" I would assign a song to the year in which it scored highest and chart based on its complete run. That would have helped "I Want To Hold Your Hand" which was approximately evenly split between 1963 and 1964 (Glad All Over was also slightly split but for me mostly in 1963) and would have been in the top 10 of either year combined but failed to show anywhere near it in either year. (And the poor Murmaids who were #106 of both years).
So Downtown probably would end up in the top 10 of mine too for 1964.
I generally stick with one version only of any song unless they are completely different and prefer to go with the original. A case of two versions being different and both charting: I had an old version of "Shout" that charted but still charted Lulu's version.
Tonight I hope to post the first chart of 1965.
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