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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2017 13:30:39 GMT 1
I prefer Vicky's song over the Eurovision winner.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 20, 2017 15:01:50 GMT 1
Unfortunately my chart rules won't allow me to include that, but there is a cover of that song. It wouldn't be competing for #1 but then nor is Sandie Shaw, so it would be a simple battle of which got higher.
1 April 1967:
1 ( 6 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles (#1[3]) 3 ( 8 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience 4 ( 2 ) Penny Lane - Beatles (#2) 5 ( 4 ) Touch Me Touch Me - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#4) 6 ( 5 ) Bernadette - Four Tops (#5) 7 ( 3 ) Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear - Alan Price Set (#3) 8 ( 13 ) A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You - Monkees 9 ( -- ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann 10 ( 5 ) Happy Together - Turtles (#4)
11 ( 9 ) Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw (#9) 12 ( -- ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd 13 ( 12 ) Beggin' - Four Seasons (#12) 14 ( 14 ) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre 15 ( 18 ) Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas 16 ( 11 ) I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells (#9) 17 ( 10 ) I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman - Whistling Jack Smith (#7) 18 ( -- ) I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun - Cat Stevens 19 ( 15 ) My Friend Jack - Smoke (#15) 20 ( -- ) Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
21 ( 29 ) Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra 22 ( 25 ) Tell Me To My Face - Keith 23 ( -- ) Seven Drunken Nights - Dubliners 24 ( 32 ) Because I Love You - Georgie Fame 25 ( -- ) Travelin' Man - Stevie Wonder 26 ( 28 ) Western Union - Five Americans 27 ( 21 ) Ups And Downs - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#20) 28 ( -- ) At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel 29 ( 38 ) With This Ring - Platters 30 ( 26 ) Return Of The Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen (#26)
31 ( 22 ) Epistle To Dippy - Donovan (#17) 32 ( 19 ) Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Wilson Pickett (#8) 33 ( 17 ) There's A Kind Of Hush - Herman's Hermits (#2[1]) 34 ( 16 ) Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones (#1[3]) 35 ( 20 ) For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield (#4) 36 ( 24 ) Al Capone - Prince Buster (#11) 37 ( 23 ) On A Carousel - Hollies (#5) 38 ( 30 ) Pucker Up Buttercup - Jr Walker & The All Stars (#28) 39 ( 27 ) I'll Try Anything - Dusty Springfield (#15) 40 ( 34 ) Is This What I Get For Loving You? - Marianne Faithfull (#31)
-- ( 31 ) The Dis-Advantages Of You - Brass Ring ft Phil Bodner (#23) -- ( 33 ) Darling Be Home Soon - Lovin' Spoonful (#18) -- ( 35 ) Cold Light Of Day - Gene Pitney (#19) -- ( 36 ) The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (#33) -- ( 37 ) Keep It Out Of Sight - Paul And Barry Ryan (#29) -- ( 39 ) Give It To Me - Troggs (#12) -- ( 40 ) So Good - Roy Orbison (#27)
The Beatles lose their strangehold on the top 2, Jeff Beck's party song hits the top and we have a debut this week for Pink Floyd led by Syd Barrett.
Manfred Mann with Mike D'Abo on vocals actually get the highest entry. Cat Stevens song has an instrumental part that makes me want to go "let the music shake your stuff, the rebel's here and he's street tuff", and I know that song sampled a Maytals tune but that tune they sampled is one year later than we are now, and if Tony Tribe covered Neil Diamond, did the Maytals borrow a riff from Cat Stevens?
Arthur Conley meanwhile borrowed a lot from Sam Cooke on his hit (Yeah Man) and a bit of the Magnificent Seven and also a bit of Otis Redding's "Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song)". Sam Cooke and Otis Redding are credited as co-writers although according to wikipedia etc. it took Sam Cooke's partner to sue them before that happened, which sounds rather strange as when you take so much from a song you normally get permission first and agree terms. Conley's primary songwriting role here seems to be simply from changing it to a song about dances to one about singers, and mentioning some of their hits.
The Dubliners only sing 5 of the 7 Drunken Nights. The last two are lewd, and actually I heard a version with all 7 at a beer festival. Now this is an old folk song, and the version I heard at the beer festival was far more uptempo. Skinny Lister's "40 Pound Wedding" appears to borrow the tune heavily from this (but it being out of copyright they can't be sued for it) and actually the version I heard in the beer festival was very similar sounding in arrangement to "40 Pound Wedding" and over a year earlier....
Simon & Garfunkel get one of their own hits entering, but lower than many of their hits and it might not even get as high as the #14 position that Harpers Bizarre have with a cover version of one of their other songs. Stevie Wonder also gets an entry this week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 24, 2017 23:06:25 GMT 1
8 April 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience 3 ( 9 ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann 4 ( 2 ) Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles (#1[3]) 5 ( 12 ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd 6 ( 8 ) A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You - Monkees 7 ( 5 ) Touch Me Touch Me - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#4) 8 ( 4 ) Penny Lane - Beatles (#2) 9 ( 18 ) I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun - Cat Stevens 10 ( 6 ) Bernadette - Four Tops (#5)
11 ( 20 ) Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley 12 ( 23 ) Seven Drunken Nights - Dubliners 13 ( 7 ) Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear - Alan Price Set (#3) 14 ( 25 ) Travelin' Man - Stevie Wonder 15 ( 15 ) Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas 16 ( 11 ) Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw (#9) 17 ( 14 ) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre (#14) 18 ( 13 ) Beggin' - Four Seasons (#12) 19 ( -- ) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Move 20 ( 10 ) Happy Together - Turtles (#4)
21 ( 28 ) At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel 22 ( 21 ) Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra (#21) 23 ( 24 ) Because I Love You - Georgie Fame 24 ( 22 ) Tell Me To My Face - Keith (#22) 25 ( 16 ) I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells (#9) 26 ( 29 ) With This Ring - Platters 27 ( -- ) Show Me - Joe Tex 28 ( 19 ) My Friend Jack - Smoke (#15) 29 ( 17 ) I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman - Whistling Jack Smith (#7) 30 ( 26 ) Western Union - Five Americans (#26)
31 ( -- ) Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got - Jimmy Ruffin 32 ( -- ) What A Woman In Love Won't Do - Sandy Posey 33 ( 27 ) Ups And Downs - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#20) 34 ( 30 ) Return Of The Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen (#26) 35 ( -- ) Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now - Trini Lopez 36 ( -- ) Don't You Care - Buckinghams 37 ( 31 ) Epistle To Dippy - Donovan (#17) 38 ( -- ) Love Eyes - Nancy Sinatra 39 ( -- ) Oh How I Miss You - Bachelors 40 ( 32 ) Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Wilson Pickett (#8)
-- ( 33 ) There's A Kind Of Hush - Herman's Hermits (#2[1]) -- ( 34 ) Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones (#1[3]) -- ( 35 ) For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield (#4) -- ( 36 ) Al Capone - Prince Buster (#11) -- ( 37 ) On A Carousel - Hollies (#5) -- ( 38 ) Pucker Up Buttercup - Jr Walker & The All Stars (#28) -- ( 39 ) I'll Try Anything - Dusty Springfield (#15) -- ( 40 ) Is This What I Get For Loving You? - Marianne Faithfull (#31)
As we're getting in the mood for a party, we have a second week of Jeff Beck at #1. The highest new entry has a nice innocent title about hearing grass growing. Or maybe not if "grass" is something you smoke.. A relatively quiet week though on the new entry side although there are a lot of them and even the Bachelors somehow get in, despite being the lowest placed song on my list that wasn't cut altogether.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 26, 2017 0:15:13 GMT 1
15 April 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience 3 ( 3 ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann 4 ( 5 ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd 5 ( -- ) The Happening - Supremes 6 ( 9 ) I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun - Cat Stevens 7 ( 6 ) A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You - Monkees (#6) 8 ( 4 ) Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles (#1[3]) 9 ( 11 ) Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley 10 ( 12 ) Seven Drunken Nights - Dubliners
11 ( 19 ) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Move 12 ( 14 ) Travelin' Man - Stevie Wonder 13 ( 7 ) Touch Me Touch Me - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#4) 14 ( -- ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu 15 ( 8 ) Penny Lane - Beatles (#2) 16 ( 10 ) Bernadette - Four Tops (#5) 17 ( 27 ) Show Me - Joe Tex 18 ( 15 ) Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas (#15) 19 ( 21 ) At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel 20 ( 31 ) Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got - Jimmy Ruffin
21 ( 13 ) Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear - Alan Price Set (#3) 22 ( -- ) Sunday For Tea - Peter And Gordon 23 ( 32 ) What A Woman In Love Won't Do - Sandy Posey 24 ( 17 ) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre (#14) 25 ( 16 ) Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw (#9) 26 ( 23 ) Because I Love You - Georgie Fame (#23) 27 ( 35 ) Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now - Trini Lopez 28 ( 18 ) Beggin' - Four Seasons (#12) 29 ( 22 ) Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra (#21) 30 ( 26 ) With This Ring - Platters (#26)
31 ( 36 ) Don't You Care - Buckinghams 32 ( -- ) Maroc 7 - Shadows 33 ( 38 ) Love Eyes - Nancy Sinatra 34 ( 24 ) Tell Me To My Face - Keith (#22) 35 ( 20 ) Happy Together - Turtles (#4) 36 ( -- ) The Girl I Knew Somewhere - Monkees 37 ( -- ) Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings - Tom Jones 38 ( 25 ) I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells (#9) 39 ( -- ) Close Your Eyes - Peaches & Herb 40 ( 30 ) Western Union - Five Americans (#26)
-- ( 28 ) My Friend Jack - Smoke (#15) -- ( 29 ) I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman - Whistling Jack Smith (#7) -- ( 33 ) Ups And Downs - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#20) -- ( 34 ) Return Of The Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen (#26) -- ( 37 ) Epistle To Dippy - Donovan (#17) -- ( 39 ) Oh How I Miss You - Bachelors (#39) -- ( 40 ) Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Wilson Pickett (#8)
As Jeff Beck keeps out Jimi Hendrix for a second week, the Supremes may finally get a #1 as they get the highest new entry at #5. Not only though will they have to beat the 4 above them, there is a particular new entry coming in next week... so even if they get there their time may be limited. Still "The Happening" is one of my favourite Supremes songs and I always felt it might get them their #1 if the timing for it was right.
Lulu gets a big entry. Tom Jones much further down though is struggling a bit with his ballad, and yet another song by the Monkees enters just a bit higher. Peter And Gordon perhaps more surprisingly get the 3rd highest entry, and the Shadows are back to making instrumentals and get the 4th highest entry.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 27, 2017 0:51:19 GMT 1
22 April 1967:
1 ( 5 ) The Happening - Supremes < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (#1[3]) 3 ( -- ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol 4 ( 2 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#2[2]) 5 ( 3 ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann (#3) 6 ( 4 ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd (#4) 7 ( 6 ) I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun - Cat Stevens (#6) 8 ( 14 ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu 9 ( 11 ) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Move 10 ( 9 ) Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley (#9)
11 ( 7 ) A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You - Monkees (#6) 12 ( 10 ) Seven Drunken Nights - Dubliners (#10) 13 ( 22 ) Sunday For Tea - Peter And Gordon 14 ( 12 ) Travelin' Man - Stevie Wonder (#12) 15 ( 17 ) Show Me - Joe Tex 16 ( -- ) Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams 17 ( 8 ) Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles (#1[3]) 18 ( 20 ) Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got - Jimmy Ruffin 19 ( 23 ) What A Woman In Love Won't Do - Sandy Posey 20 ( 19 ) At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel (#19)
21 ( -- ) Guns Of Navarone - Skatalites 22 ( 13 ) Touch Me Touch Me - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#4) 23 ( 32 ) Maroc 7 - Shadows 24 ( -- ) Get Me To The World On Time - Electric Prunes 25 ( 27 ) Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now - Trini Lopez 26 ( -- ) When I Was Young - Eric Burdon & The Animals 27 ( 18 ) Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas (#15) 28 ( 16 ) Bernadette - Four Tops (#5) 29 ( 15 ) Penny Lane - Beatles (#2[2]) 30 ( 36 ) The Girl I Knew Somewhere - Monkees
31 ( 37 ) Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings - Tom Jones 32 ( 31 ) Don't You Care - Buckinghams (#31) 33 ( 39 ) Close Your Eyes - Peaches & Herb 34 ( 33 ) Love Eyes - Nancy Sinatra (#33) 35 ( 21 ) Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear - Alan Price Set (#3) 36 ( 26 ) Because I Love You - Georgie Fame (#23) 37 ( 24 ) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre (#14) 38 ( 25 ) Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw (#9) 39 ( 30 ) With This Ring - Platters (#26) 40 ( 29 ) Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra (#21)
-- ( 28 ) Beggin' - Four Seasons (#12) -- ( 34 ) Tell Me To My Face - Keith (#22) -- ( 35 ) Happy Together - Turtles (#4) -- ( 38 ) I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells (#9) -- ( 40 ) Western Union - Five Americans (#26)
-- ( -- ) I Found A Love - Part 1 - Wilson Pickett
The Supremes finally get a #1, but are immediately being hunted down. The Happening came from a film soundtrack of the same name, and was written by Frank De Vol, who wrote the soundtrack to the film, as well as Holland-Dozier-Holland who wrote most of the Supremes hit. I think they added all the lyrics and De Vol wrote the music.
And then we have the highest new entry, from the musical Fiddler On The Roof, which was on stage in 1967 with Topol playing the role of Tevya, and later he would play the same part in the film. With regards Tevya, the country he comes from and the year 1967, there is of course a lot of significance and I will bring that up when we reach that week.
I don't often chart two different versions of a song, but the vocal version of Music To Watch Girls By gets a high entry in spite of Bob Crewe's instrumental version making the chart earlier in the year.
We have had Prince Buster, but now the Skatelites take the "ska" a bit further, and the Specials, having sampled "Al Capone", then covered "Guns Of Navarone" on their live EP that got to #1 (the one that had Too Much Too Young as the lead track).
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Post by rubcale on Jan 27, 2017 12:15:25 GMT 1
Although it was a US #1 and charted high in the UK The Happening is very much a forgotten Supreme's single. A lot of fans hate it.
I quite like it - it's certainly different for them.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 28, 2017 21:35:36 GMT 1
29 April 1967:
1 ( 3 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) The Happening - Supremes (#1[1]) 3 ( 2 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (#1[3]) 4 ( 8 ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu 5 ( -- ) Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes 6 ( 16 ) Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams 7 ( 4 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#2[2]) 8 ( 5 ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann (#3) 9 ( -- ) New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees 10 ( 9 ) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Move (#9)
11 ( -- ) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond 12 ( 13 ) Sunday For Tea - Peter And Gordon 13 ( 6 ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd (#4) 14 ( 7 ) I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun - Cat Stevens (#6) 15 ( 21 ) Guns Of Navarone - Skatalites 16 ( 10 ) Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley (#9) 17 ( 24 ) Get Me To The World On Time - Electric Prunes 18 ( -- ) Casino Royale - Herb Alpert 19 ( 15 ) Show Me - Joe Tex (#15) 20 ( 26 ) When I Was Young - Eric Burdon & The Animals
21 ( -- ) My Back Pages - Byrds 22 ( 12 ) Seven Drunken Nights - Dubliners (#10) 23 ( 11 ) A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You - Monkees (#6) 24 ( 19 ) What A Woman In Love Won't Do - Sandy Posey (#19) 25 ( 18 ) Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got - Jimmy Ruffin (#18) 26 ( 14 ) Travelin' Man - Stevie Wonder (#12) 27 ( 23 ) Maroc 7 - Shadows (#23) 28 ( -- ) Pictures Of Lily - Who 29 ( 20 ) At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel (#19) 30 ( 25 ) Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now - Trini Lopez (#25)
31 ( -- ) Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon 32 ( 30 ) The Girl I Knew Somewhere - Monkees (#30) 33 ( 31 ) Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings - Tom Jones (#31) 34 ( 17 ) Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles (#1[3]) 35 ( 33 ) Close Your Eyes - Peaches & Herb (#33) 36 ( 22 ) Touch Me Touch Me - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#4) 37 ( 32 ) Don't You Care - Buckinghams (#31) 38 ( 34 ) Love Eyes - Nancy Sinatra (#33) 39 ( -- ) I Got Rhythm - Happenings 40 ( 27 ) Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas (#15)
-- ( 28 ) Bernadette - Four Tops (#5) -- ( 29 ) Penny Lane - Beatles (#2[2]) -- ( 35 ) Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear - Alan Price Set (#3) -- ( 36 ) Because I Love You - Georgie Fame (#23) -- ( 37 ) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre (#14) -- ( 38 ) Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw (#9) -- ( 39 ) With This Ring - Platters (#26) -- ( 40 ) Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra (#21)
Topol gets to #. The Tremeloes get a high entry with a cover of a Four Seasons song.
The debut hit for the Bee Gees who were mistaken in the US for the Beatles. Both names begin with B - that's good enough reason.
Neil Diamond's song will get covered a few times, and Urge Overkill's version even reached my chart in 1994, when the song was used in Pulp Fiction.
Herb Alpert with an instrumental written by Burt Bacherach for a James Bond based movie that wasn't officially part of the series and had David Niven rather than Sean Connery play the part of James Bond. (You Only Live Twice will be released soon).
The Byrds go back to recording Bob Dylan songs. This has the catchy line "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now".
The Who with a tale of falling in love with a woman (Lily) in posters on his wall, only for his dad to tell him she had been dead since 1929.
Yellow Balloon is a weird little pop song you won't find on Spotify, and the Happenings take on Gershwin in an unusual manner, and of course have nothing to do with the song that was #1 last week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 29, 2017 12:12:25 GMT 1
6 May 1967:
1 ( 1 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) The Happening - Supremes (#1[1]) 3 ( 5 ) Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes 4 ( 9 ) New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees 5 ( 4 ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu (#4) 6 ( 6 ) Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams 7 ( 11 ) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond 8 ( -- ) Respect - Aretha Franklin 9 ( 3 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (#1[3]) 10 ( -- ) Groovin' - Young Rascals
11 ( 18 ) Casino Royale - Herb Alpert 12 ( -- ) Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be - Paul Revere & The Raiders 13 ( 21 ) My Back Pages - Byrds 14 ( -- ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold 15 ( 7 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#2[2]) 16 ( 15 ) Guns Of Navarone - Skatalites (#15) 17 ( 8 ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann (#3) 18 ( 12 ) Sunday For Tea - Peter And Gordon (#12) 19 ( 10 ) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Move (#9) 20 ( 17 ) Get Me To The World On Time - Electric Prunes (#17)
21 ( 28 ) Pictures Of Lily - Who 22 ( 20 ) When I Was Young - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#20) 23 ( -- ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 24 ( 31 ) Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon 25 ( 13 ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd (#4) 26 ( 14 ) I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun - Cat Stevens (#6) 27 ( 16 ) Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley (#9) 28 ( 19 ) Show Me - Joe Tex (#15) 29 ( -- ) Sunshine Girl - Parade 30 ( -- ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Roger Miller
31 ( 39 ) I Got Rhythm - Happenings 32 ( -- ) Mirage - Tommy James & The Shondells 33 ( 24 ) What A Woman In Love Won't Do - Sandy Posey (#19) 34 ( -- ) Birds And Bees - Warm Sounds 35 ( -- ) Dead End Street - Lou Rawls 36 ( 27 ) Maroc 7 - Shadows (#23) 37 ( 25 ) Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got - Jimmy Ruffin (#18) 38 ( 22 ) Seven Drunken Nights - Dubliners (#10) 39 ( 32 ) The Girl I Knew Somewhere - Monkees (#30) 40 ( 23 ) A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You - Monkees (#6)
-- ( 26 ) Travelin' Man - Stevie Wonder (#12) -- ( 29 ) At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel (#19) -- ( 30 ) Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now - Trini Lopez (#25) -- ( 33 ) Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings - Tom Jones (#31) -- ( 34 ) Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles (#1[3]) -- ( 35 ) Close Your Eyes - Peaches & Herb (#33) -- ( 36 ) Touch Me Touch Me - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#4) -- ( 37 ) Don't You Care - Buckinghams (#31) -- ( 38 ) Love Eyes - Nancy Sinatra (#33) -- ( 40 ) Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas (#15)
-- ( -- ) Let Me Come On Home - Otis Redding -- ( -- ) Making Memories - Frankie Laine
Last week when Topol reached #1 it was still Pesach, which was very late in 1967, the first day being Tuesday 25 April, so on the night of 24th April he would have had a seder and would have been eating Matzo during the week. Matzo is referred to sometimes as "poor man's bread" - lechem oni, and everyone eats it no matter how rich or poor they are, as a reminder of the slavery in Egypt, and also a reminder of the redemption, when we baked matzo very fast in our escape.
"Respect" was originally recorded by Otis Redding, who wrote the song, but this cover version is superior. "Groovin'" is the Young Rascals most famous song and reached #1 in the USA.
"Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be" - that song was also covered and I am very familiar with the cover version. It was a B-side on the Wedding Present's single "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah". (Well one of the CD single tracks, not actually a B-side).
And of course "The First Cut Is The Deepest" - this version is already a cover as Cat Stevens wrote and recorded it, but it was also covered by Rod Stewart, and famously kept the Sex Pistols off #1. For Cat Stevens it is his only #1 as a songwriter, having also written two UK#2s, both <Blank> and Son, and one of them reaching #2 twice.
Of the others, some familiar titles but different songs. "Dead End Street" by Lou Rawls for example is not a Kinks cover, and "Walkin' In The Sunshine" is a country song and was never covered by Bad Manners (whose song of that title was actually original in spite of them doing a lot of cover versions around that time). We had a Miracles song with the word "Mirage" in the title but it isn't the same song as the one in the chart (nor was Jellybean's song a cover of either, although like the Miracles it had "just a mirage" in the title). And of course "Somebody To Love" has no relation to a Queen song but then you knew it didn 't.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 1, 2017 0:46:55 GMT 1
13 May 1967:
1 ( 1 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Respect - Aretha Franklin 3 ( -- ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks 4 ( 2 ) The Happening - Supremes (#1[1]) 5 ( 3 ) Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes (#3) 6 ( 4 ) New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees (#4) 7 ( 10 ) Groovin' - Young Rascals 8 ( -- ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band 9 ( 12 ) Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be - Paul Revere & The Raiders 10 ( 14 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold
11 ( 7 ) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond (#7) 12 ( 6 ) Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams (#6) 13 ( 5 ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu (#4) 14 ( 11 ) Casino Royale - Herb Alpert (#11) 15 ( 13 ) My Back Pages - Byrds (#13) 16 ( -- ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience 17 ( 23 ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 18 ( -- ) Creeque Alley - Mamas & The Papas 19 ( 9 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (#1[3]) 20 ( 21 ) Pictures Of Lily - Who
21 ( 29 ) Sunshine Girl - Parade 22 ( 16 ) Guns Of Navarone - Skatalites (#15) 23 ( 30 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Roger Miller 24 ( 24 ) Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon 25 ( -- ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels 26 ( 32 ) Mirage - Tommy James & The Shondells 27 ( 34 ) Birds And Bees - Warm Sounds 28 ( -- ) Shake A Tail Feather - James & Bobby Purify 29 ( 35 ) Dead End Street - Lou Rawls 30 ( 15 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#2[2])
31 ( 20 ) Get Me To The World On Time - Electric Prunes (#17) 32 ( 18 ) Sunday For Tea - Peter And Gordon (#12) 33 ( 22 ) When I Was Young - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#20) 34 ( -- ) You Gotta Stop / Love Machine - Elvis Presley 35 ( 31 ) I Got Rhythm - Happenings (#31) 36 ( 17 ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann (#3) 37 ( 19 ) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Move (#9) 38 ( 28 ) Show Me - Joe Tex (#15) 39 ( 25 ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd (#4) 40 ( -- ) All I Need - Temptations
-- ( 26 ) I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun - Cat Stevens (#6) -- ( 27 ) Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley (#9) -- ( 33 ) What A Woman In Love Won't Do - Sandy Posey (#19) -- ( 36 ) Maroc 7 - Shadows (#23) -- ( 37 ) Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got - Jimmy Ruffin (#18) -- ( 38 ) Seven Drunken Nights - Dubliners (#10) -- ( 39 ) The Girl I Knew Somewhere - Monkees (#30) -- ( 40 ) A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You - Monkees (#6)
Topol gets a 3rd week on top and whilst several have managed that many, nobody has yet managed 4 weeks in 1967. That Topol might be the first looks in doubt as the Kinks get a very high entry at #3.
The top 2 entries are both about railway stations on the London Underground, with Waterloo also a mainline station, and both are on the Northern Line. "Waterloo Sunset" was of course written by Ray Davies who lived in London. "Finchley Central" was written by Geoff Stephens and Alan Klein, the latter being the new lead singer of the New Vaudeville Band and nicknamed the 7th Earl of Cricklewood.
A bit further away from home, we have another hit by Jimi Hendrix, and an autobiography by the Mamas And The Papas which also mentions McQuinn (The Byrds) and McGuire (Barry, who had a hit with Eve Of Destruction in 1965) and also members of the Lovin' Spoonful.
The two Elvis Presley songs are credited together rather than separately as it was a double A-side in the UK and neither side reached the US top 40. I have a preference of "You Gotta Stop" over "Love Machine".
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2017 0:24:06 GMT 1
20 May 1967:
1 ( 3 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol (#1[3]) 3 ( 2 ) Respect - Aretha Franklin (#2[1]) 4 ( 8 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band 5 ( 7 ) Groovin' - Young Rascals 6 ( 16 ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience 7 ( -- ) Okay! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich 8 ( 4 ) The Happening - Supremes (#1[1]) 9 ( 9 ) Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be - Paul Revere & The Raiders 10 ( 18 ) Creeque Alley - Mamas & The Papas
11 ( 5 ) Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes (#3) 12 ( 10 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold (#10) 13 ( 6 ) New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees (#4) 14 ( 25 ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels 15 ( 17 ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 16 ( 11 ) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond (#7) 17 ( 28 ) Shake A Tail Feather - James & Bobby Purify 18 ( 21 ) Sunshine Girl - Parade 19 ( 14 ) Casino Royale - Herb Alpert (#11) 20 ( 15 ) My Back Pages - Byrds (#13)
21 ( 23 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Roger Miller 22 ( -- ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes 23 ( 12 ) Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams (#6) 24 ( 20 ) Pictures Of Lily - Who (#20) 25 ( 13 ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu (#4) 26 ( 26 ) Mirage - Tommy James & The Shondells 27 ( 34 ) You Gotta Stop / Love Machine - Elvis Presley 28 ( 27 ) Birds And Bees - Warm Sounds (#27) 29 ( 24 ) Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon (#24) 30 ( 29 ) Dead End Street - Lou Rawls (#29)
31 ( 22 ) Guns Of Navarone - Skatalites (#15) 32 ( 40 ) All I Need - Temptations 33 ( 19 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (#1[3]) 34 ( -- ) Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG's 35 ( -- ) Six O'Clock - Lovin' Spoonful 36 ( 35 ) I Got Rhythm - Happenings (#31) 37 ( 31 ) Get Me To The World On Time - Electric Prunes (#17) 38 ( 33 ) When I Was Young - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#20) 39 ( 30 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#2[2]) 40 ( 32 ) Sunday For Tea - Peter And Gordon (#12)
-- ( 36 ) Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann (#3) -- ( 37 ) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Move (#9) -- ( 38 ) Show Me - Joe Tex (#15) -- ( 39 ) Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd (#4)
The Kinks get their 2nd #1 and Topol holds on at least to #2 causing Aretha to fall. On the new entry side another catchy pop song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich gets the highest entry, and so far they've had just one #1 but maybe another one will come soon, maybe even with Okay!, we will see...
Next up, a classic by the Marvelettes that was covered in 1984 by the Flying Pickets (and a better cover for them than their other one in my opinion), then lower down two artists who have had #1s, Booker T & The MGs getting rid of their "one hit wonder" status nearly 5 years later.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 8:31:14 GMT 1
These retrospective charts fills the holes in my knowledge of pop music history.
Cathy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" was my # 1 in 1997. Didn't know that it's cover, same about "The Bhoys Are Back In Town"
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2017 13:35:13 GMT 1
I don't know of a song "The Bhoys Are Back In Town", only "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy, an original song for them that Phil Lynott wrote.
I'm surprised you didn't know Waterloo Sunset was a Kinks song though. A big hit for them, but kept out of #1 by "Silence Is Golden" (which itself is a cover of a Four Seasons song).
I didn't know until recently though that the Four Tops' "Walk Away Renee" was a cover (of the Left Banke, the version I charted).
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Post by rubcale on Feb 2, 2017 14:13:00 GMT 1
Seems like Dave Dee, Dozy etc were a fun group.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 14:19:45 GMT 1
I don't know of a song "The Bhoys Are Back In Town", only "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy, an original song for them that Phil Lynott wrote. Yes, it's that song with a changed lyrics. "Bhoys" is the name of FC Celtic fans and Dance To Tipperary recorded this single, when Celtic qualified for the UEFA Cup Final in 2003. Also was # 1 in my weekly chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2017 22:55:22 GMT 1
27 May 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band 3 ( 7 ) Okay! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich 4 ( 6 ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience 5 ( 3 ) Respect - Aretha Franklin (#2[1]) 6 ( 2 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol (#1[3]) 7 ( 5 ) Groovin' - Young Rascals (#5) 8 ( -- ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 9 ( 10 ) Creeque Alley - Mamas & The Papas 10 ( -- ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles
11 ( 14 ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels 12 ( 9 ) Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#9) 13 ( 22 ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes 14 ( 17 ) Shake A Tail Feather - James & Bobby Purify 15 ( 8 ) The Happening - Supremes (#1[1]) 16 ( 15 ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane (#15) 17 ( 12 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold (#10) 18 ( -- ) Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion 19 ( 18 ) Sunshine Girl - Parade (#18) 20 ( 11 ) Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes (#3)
21 ( 21 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Roger Miller 22 ( 13 ) New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees (#4) 23 ( -- ) Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark 24 ( 16 ) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond (#7) 25 ( 34 ) Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG's 26 ( 27 ) You Gotta Stop / Love Machine - Elvis Presley 27 ( 35 ) Six O'Clock - Lovin' Spoonful 28 ( 19 ) Casino Royale - Herb Alpert (#11) 29 ( 20 ) My Back Pages - Byrds (#13) 30 ( 32 ) All I Need - Temptations
31 ( 26 ) Mirage - Tommy James & The Shondells (#26) 32 ( 24 ) Pictures Of Lily - Who (#20) 33 ( 28 ) Birds And Bees - Warm Sounds (#27) 34 ( -- ) Two Streets - Val Doonican 35 ( 30 ) Dead End Street - Lou Rawls (#29) 36 ( 29 ) Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon (#24) 37 ( 23 ) Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams (#6) 38 ( 25 ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu (#4) 39 ( 36 ) I Got Rhythm - Happenings (#31) 40 ( -- ) There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck
-- ( 31 ) Guns Of Navarone - Skatalites (#15) -- ( 33 ) Hi-Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (#1[3]) -- ( 37 ) Get Me To The World On Time - Electric Prunes (#17) -- ( 38 ) When I Was Young - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#20) -- ( 39 ) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#2[2]) -- ( 40 ) Sunday For Tea - Peter And Gordon (#12)
-- ( -- ) Come On Down To My Boat - Every Mother's Son -- ( -- ) Do It Again A Little Bit Slower - Jon & Robin And The In Crowd -- ( -- ) Give Me Time - Dusty Springfield
As the songs about tube stations now hold the top 2, we have the highest entry by Procol Harum that would top the UK chart for 6 weeks, keeping out the song that enters at #40 this week by an artist who had also topped the UK chart for 6 weeks earlier in the year.
In the UK chart "She'd Rather Be With Me" was a bigger hit than "Happy Together" - at least it peaked higher going into the top 10.
The Music Explosion hit reached #2 in the USA. We also have a new hit by Petula Clark and an uptempo song by Val Doonican.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 5, 2017 2:09:56 GMT 1
3 June 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band 3 ( 3 ) Okay! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich 4 ( 8 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 5 ( 10 ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles 6 ( 4 ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#4) 7 ( 18 ) Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion 8 ( 5 ) Respect - Aretha Franklin (#2[1]) 9 ( 13 ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes 10 ( 9 ) Creeque Alley - Mamas & The Papas (#9)
11 ( -- ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 12 ( 11 ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#11) 13 ( 7 ) Groovin' - Young Rascals (#5) 14 ( 6 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol (#1[3]) 15 ( 23 ) Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark 16 ( 14 ) Shake A Tail Feather - James & Bobby Purify (#14) 17 ( -- ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies 18 ( -- ) Windy - Association 19 ( 12 ) Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#9) 20 ( -- ) Paper Sun - Traffic
21 ( 16 ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane (#15) 22 ( 25 ) Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG's 23 ( 19 ) Sunshine Girl - Parade (#18) 24 ( 27 ) Six O'Clock - Lovin' Spoonful 25 ( 21 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Roger Miller (#21) 26 ( 34 ) Two Streets - Val Doonican 27 ( 17 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold (#10) 28 ( 15 ) The Happening - Supremes (#1[1]) 29 ( -- ) Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas 30 ( 26 ) You Gotta Stop / Love Machine - Elvis Presley (#26)
31 ( -- ) It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile) - Vikki Carr 32 ( 30 ) All I Need - Temptations (#30) 33 ( 40 ) There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck 34 ( -- ) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 35 ( 20 ) Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes (#3) 36 ( 22 ) New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees (#4) 37 ( -- ) Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang 38 ( 24 ) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond (#7) 39 ( -- ) Night Of The Long Grass - Troggs 40 ( -- ) Let's Live For Today - Grass Roots
-- ( 28 ) Casino Royale - Herb Alpert (#11) -- ( 29 ) My Back Pages - Byrds (#13) -- ( 31 ) Mirage - Tommy James & The Shondells (#26) -- ( 32 ) Pictures Of Lily - Who (#20) -- ( 33 ) Birds And Bees - Warm Sounds (#27) -- ( 35 ) Dead End Street - Lou Rawls (#29) -- ( 36 ) Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon (#24) -- ( 37 ) Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams (#6) -- ( 38 ) The Boat That I Row - Lulu (#4) -- ( 39 ) I Got Rhythm - Happenings (#31)
-- ( -- ) 7 Rooms Of Gloom - Four Tops
No change in the top 3, and some of last week's entries make some progress. Procol Harum are former members of the Paramounts and led by Gary Brooker. This song is based on Bach's "Air on a G-string" or more formally the Air from the Orchestra Suite number 3 in D major.
Frankie Valli has not left the Four Seasons, and Bob Gaudio wrote this song. It just doesn't sound like a Four Seasons song so it was credited to Frankie solo.
Quite a decent set of new entries: another catchy Hollies hit, the Association hit that reached #1 in the USA, Steve Winwood's new psychedelic group, Otis Redding pairing up with Carla Thomas, the latter charted with B-A-B-Y recently and is the daughter of Rufus Thomas who had a #2 in this chart too, and Marvin Gaye partnering a different woman again, he's already charted with Mary Wells and Kim Weston - this song was written by Ashford & Simpson.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 6, 2017 11:46:44 GMT 1
I should be crediting songs to "Jimi Hendrix Experience" and not simply to "Jimi Hendrix". I will try to do that from now on but it's an effort to go around editing. It's easier to put in "Jimi Hendrix" when I search on Spotify as I think they are credited that way there but will have to check again.
Vikki Carr's hit with the French didn't come up but I found it by just typing "It Must Be Him". In any case it was a French song originally with new lyrics in English. Quite a few hits have come about that way, including of course a famous Elvis hit in 1960, Dusty Springfield's only UK #1 and a ver famous future Frank Sinatra hit.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 8, 2017 0:04:51 GMT 1
10 June 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band 3 ( 4 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 4 ( 5 ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles 5 ( 3 ) Okay! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#3) 6 ( 11 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 7 ( 7 ) Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion 8 ( 17 ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies 9 ( 9 ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes 10 ( 18 ) Windy - Association
11 ( -- ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie 12 ( 6 ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#4) 13 ( -- ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces 14 ( 20 ) Paper Sun - Traffic 15 ( 15 ) Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark 16 ( -- ) Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight And The Pips 17 ( 8 ) Respect - Aretha Franklin (#2[1]) 18 ( 10 ) Creeque Alley - Mamas & The Papas (#9) 19 ( 12 ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#11) 20 ( 29 ) Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
21 ( -- ) Strange Brew - Cream 22 ( 31 ) It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile) - Vikki Carr 23 ( 16 ) Shake A Tail Feather - James & Bobby Purify (#14) 24 ( 13 ) Groovin' - Young Rascals (#5) 25 ( 22 ) Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG's (#22) 26 ( 26 ) Two Streets - Val Doonican 27 ( 24 ) Six O'Clock - Lovin' Spoonful (#24) 28 ( 34 ) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 29 ( 14 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol (#1[3]) 30 ( 37 ) Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang
31 ( 21 ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane (#15) 32 ( 19 ) Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#9) 33 ( 23 ) Sunshine Girl - Parade (#18) 34 ( 39 ) Night Of The Long Grass - Troggs 35 ( 33 ) There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck (#33) 36 ( 40 ) Let's Live For Today - Grass Roots 37 ( -- ) What Good Am I - Cilla Black 38 ( 25 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Roger Miller (#21) 39 ( 32 ) All I Need - Temptations (#30) 40 ( 30 ) You Gotta Stop / Love Machine - Elvis Presley (#26)
-- ( 27 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold (#10) -- ( 28 ) The Happening - Supremes (#1[1]) -- ( 35 ) Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes (#3) -- ( 36 ) New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees (#4) -- ( 38 ) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond (#7)
-- ( -- ) I'll Come Running - Cliff Richard -- ( -- ) Girls In Love - Gary Lewis & The Playboys -- ( -- ) Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead - Fifth Estate -- ( -- ) Here We Go Again - Ray Charles
On the music side this week: no change in the top 2 whilst the rest of the top 5 reshuffle. Scott McKenzie wants you to wear flowers in your hair if you go to San Francisco. Lots of people did. Strange how people follow what you tell them to do in songs. Better than putting beans in your ears though or jumping off a bridge (we'll come to that one a bit later).
Now the news side. You all knew this was coming (I mentioned it when Topol got to #1) but in any case, on this particular week there was a certain war, which lasted just 6 days. It was Israel vs a combination of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Egypt wanted to conquer some of Israel and had the rest out to the others as a star prize if they joined in, only it didn't turn out that way and Israel conquered the Suez Canal, the Sinai Desert and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria. Note that there was no such country as "Palestine" from which they conquered anything.
But most significantly, they conquered Jerusalem on 7th June 1967 and so Jews could happily go and pray at the Western Wall.
So my video isn't off the chart but is this:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 7:06:49 GMT 1
50 years ago FC Celtic won the European Cup and they did it before any English football club.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 8, 2017 8:23:44 GMT 1
sporting events are put in at the end of June.
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