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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 5, 2021 17:39:09 GMT 1
14 May 1960
1 ( 1 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 3 ( 5 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson 4 ( 8 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 5 ( -- ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 6 ( 4 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#4) 7 ( 3 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) 8 ( 6 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#6) 9 ( 15 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich 10 ( -- ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran
11 ( 7 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (#7) 12 ( 17 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly 13 ( 11 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson (#11) 14 ( 9 ) Step By Step - Crests (#9) 15 ( 16 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy 16 ( 12 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers (#12) 17 ( 10 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[2]) 18 ( 25 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers 19 ( 20 ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas 20 ( 27 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune
21 ( 22 ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini 22 ( 14 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra (#9) 23 ( 13 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (#3) 24 ( -- ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets 25 ( 18 ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston (#17) 26 ( -- ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant 27 ( 24 ) Tom Pillibi - Jacqueline Boyer (#24) 28 ( 23 ) Night - Jackie Wilson (#23) 29 ( -- ) Milord - Edith Piaf 30 ( 21 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland (#15)
-- ( 19 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson (#4) -- ( 26 ) Clementine - Bobby Darin (#10) -- ( 28 ) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence (#14) -- ( 29 ) Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be - Max Bygraves (#1[3]) -- ( 30 ) Valentino - Connie Francis (#3)
-- ( -- ) Dream Talk - Alma Cogan -- ( -- ) Mountain Of Love - Harold Dorman -- ( -- ) Love You So - Ron Holden with The Thunderbirds -- ( -- ) He'll Have To Stay - Jeanne Black -- ( -- ) Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
The Everly Brothers were the first act ever to have their first 3 charted singles peak at #1 in my chart. Frankie Goes To Hollywood were the second and they got their first 4 to the top. However they never managed a 5th.
Whereas the Everly Brothers had to wait a while for their fourth, which is Cathy's Clown, but will have 2 further number ones with "Walk Right Back" and "Crying In The Rain". Their first 3 were "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie" and "All I Have To Do Is Dream". So their total is 6. "Til I Kissed Her" was #2 for several weeks in 1959 behind Frank Sinatra's "High Hopes".
Eddie Cochran enters 4 weeks after his death but this one won't be a #1 for him on this chart. He did get to #1 with "Summertime Blues" in 1958 and #2 with both "C'mon Everybody" and "Something Else" (the two songs the Sex Pistols covered). "Three Steps To Heaven" was also covered by Showaddywaddy. In addition to those hits, his debut hit "Sittin' In The Balcony" reached #5, and with a few more posthumous hits to come, "Weekend" gives him a 3rd #2 but there are no further number ones.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 6, 2021 15:12:21 GMT 1
21 May 1960
1 ( 5 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson 4 ( 10 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 5 ( 4 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#4) 6 ( 2 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 7 ( 9 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich 8 ( -- ) Robot Man - Connie Francis 9 ( 6 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#4) 10 ( 12 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly
11 ( 8 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#6) 12 ( 7 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) 13 ( 18 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers 14 ( 15 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy 15 ( -- ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson 16 ( 24 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets 17 ( 20 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune 18 ( 11 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (#7) 19 ( 13 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson (#11) 20 ( -- ) Barbara - Temptations
21 ( 26 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant 22 ( 19 ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas (#19) 23 ( 14 ) Step By Step - Crests (#9) 24 ( 29 ) Milord - Edith Piaf 25 ( 16 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers (#12) 26 ( 21 ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini (#21) 27 ( -- ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon 28 ( 17 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[2]) 29 ( -- ) Young Emotions - Ricky Nelson 30 ( 22 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra (#9)
-- ( 23 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (#3) -- ( 25 ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston (#17) -- ( 27 ) Tom Pillibi - Jacqueline Boyer (#24) -- ( 28 ) Night - Jackie Wilson (#23) -- ( 30 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland (#15)
-- ( -- ) Lucky Five - Russ Conway -- ( -- ) The Fight - Marty Wilde -- ( -- ) Green Jeans - Flee-Rekkers
Jimmy Jones's timing is perfect to get a #1. In 4 weeks (18 June) the chart will become the same as what was compiled on 18 March 2015 and this section of retro-chart will come to an end. I will potentially post all the rest of the charts in here anyway simply so I have one complete topic showing all my 1960 charts.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 7, 2021 11:38:30 GMT 1
28 May 1960
1 ( 1 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( -- ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly 3 ( 4 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 4 ( 8 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis 5 ( 3 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#3) 6 ( 2 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 7 ( -- ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke 8 ( 7 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich (#7) 9 ( 5 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#4) 10 ( 15 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson
11 ( -- ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell 12 ( 10 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (#10) 13 ( -- ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers 14 ( 13 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers (#13) 15 ( -- ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis 16 ( 6 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 17 ( 20 ) Barbara - Temptations 18 ( 16 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#16) 19 ( -- ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates 20 ( 9 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#4)
21 ( 14 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy (#14) 22 ( 11 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#6) 23 ( 17 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune (#17) 24 ( -- ) That's You - Nat King Cole 25 ( 21 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant (#21) 26 ( 12 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) 27 ( -- ) Got A Girl - Four Preps 28 ( 27 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon (#27) 29 ( 24 ) Milord - Edith Piaf (#24) 30 ( -- ) Mustapha - Bob Azzam
-- ( 18 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (#7) -- ( 19 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson (#11) -- ( 22 ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas (#19) -- ( 23 ) Step By Step - Crests (#9) -- ( 25 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers (#12) -- ( 26 ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini (#21) -- ( 28 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[2]) -- ( 29 ) Young Emotions - Ricky Nelson (#29) -- ( 30 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra (#9)
-- ( -- ) Baby My Heart - Crickets -- ( -- ) Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Jessie Hill -- ( -- ) I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan -- ( -- ) When You Wish Upon A Star - Dion & The Belmonts
At number 11 I see the first instance of a charting double A-side. By 1960 more songs were coming from the UK chart, even if by US artists, and most of the time I would pick the song I favoured and chart that alone, unless there's a separate US run for the other song. I think if the two songs were similar in standard I listed them together, but I see Swingin' School as the playlisted song. This will still be in the chart when I pick up the old charts so I will keep it as it is.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 8, 2021 16:16:05 GMT 1
4 June 1960
1 ( 2 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly < 4th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (#1[2]) 3 ( 7 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke 4 ( 4 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis 5 ( 3 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#3) 6 ( 11 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell 7 ( 13 ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers 8 ( 15 ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis 9 ( 10 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson 10 ( 5 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#3)
11 ( 8 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich (#7) 12 ( 19 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates 13 ( 6 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 14 ( -- ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans 15 ( 9 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#4) 16 ( 12 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (#10) 17 ( 24 ) That's You - Nat King Cole 18 ( 17 ) Barbara - Temptations (#17) 19 ( 14 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers (#13) 20 ( 27 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps
21 ( 18 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#16) 22 ( 30 ) Mustapha Bob Azzam 23 ( 16 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 24 ( -- ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan 25 ( 21 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy (#14) 26 ( 23 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune (#17) 27 ( 28 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon (#27) 28 ( 25 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant (#21) 29 ( -- ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos 30 ( 20 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#4)
-- ( 22 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#6) -- ( 26 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) -- ( 29 ) Milord - Edith Piaf (#24)
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 9, 2021 22:46:47 GMT 1
11 June 1960
1 ( 1 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke 3 ( 2 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (#1[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis 5 ( 6 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell 6 ( -- ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 7 ( 7 ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers 8 ( 8 ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis 9 ( 14 ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans 10 ( 5 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#3)
11 ( 12 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates 12 ( 9 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#9) 13 ( 17 ) That's You - Nat King Cole 14 ( 11 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich (#7) 15 ( 24 ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan 16 ( 21 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#16) 17 ( 20 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps 18 ( 10 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#3) 19 ( -- ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk 20 ( 22 ) Mustapha Bob Azzam
21 ( 18 ) Barbara - Temptations (#17) 22 ( 29 ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos 23 ( 16 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (#10) 24 ( 13 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 25 ( -- ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters 26 ( 15 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#4) 27 ( -- ) Little Christine - Dick Jordan 28 ( 19 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers (#13) 29 ( -- ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy 30 ( 27 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon (#27)
-- ( 23 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) -- ( 25 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy (#14) -- ( 26 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune (#17) -- ( 28 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant (#21) -- ( 30 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#4)
-- ( -- ) Baby Baby Bye Bye - Jerry Lee Lewis -- ( -- ) Jealous Of You - Connie Francis -- ( -- ) Twelfth Street Rag - Bert Weedon
This chart had to closely match what I did last time as from 18th the chart will be exactly the same, and the biggest discrepency I saw was the Crickets song because that had peaked at #12 previously and was still as high as #13 and then is going to drop to #19 last week. So I moved it back up to #16 this week. They gained earlier in the year though when "When You Talk About Love" was a #1 for them. Two songs that were big hit singles in covers in 1980...
The highest entry this week was also a big hit when covered in the 1980s.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 10, 2021 18:06:05 GMT 1
18 June 1960
1 ( 1 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke 3 ( 6 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 4 ( -- ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates 5 ( 4 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#4) 6 ( 3 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (#1[2]) 7 ( 5 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell (#5) 8 ( -- ) Happy To Make Your Acquaintance - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae 9 ( 9 ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans 10 ( 19 ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk
11 ( 7 ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers (#7) 12 ( 8 ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis (#8) 13 ( 11 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates (#11) 14 ( 13 ) That's You - Nat King Cole (#13) 15 ( 17 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps 16 ( -- ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles 17 ( 25 ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters 18 ( 12 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#9) 19 ( 16 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#16) 20 ( 15 ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan (#15)
21 ( 10 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#3) 22 ( 27 ) Little Christine - Dick Jordan 23 ( -- ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 24 ( 20 ) Mustapha Bob Azzam (#20) 25 ( -- ) River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 26 ( 29 ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy 27 ( -- ) Jump Over - Freddy Cannon 28 ( 22 ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos (#22) 29 ( 18 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#3) 30 ( -- ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton
-- ( 14 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich (#7) -- ( 21 ) Barbara - Temptations (#17) -- ( 23 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (#10) -- ( 24 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) -- ( 26 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#4) -- ( 28 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers (#13) -- ( 30 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon (#27)
-- ( -- ) Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent -- ( -- ) Down Yonder - Johnny & The Hurricanes -- ( -- ) My Home Town - Paul Anka -- ( -- ) Mule Skinner Blues - Fendermen
At this point the chart merges in with what I compiled first time around, and whilst I had noticed the Crickets run, it had escaped my attention the longer run this time around for Charlie Rich, who duly falls out from #14. Last time that single peaked at #9 but actually dropped out last week.
All these "strange" movements are happening lower down, the upper end I already was taking care in the last few chart weeks to match closely what had originally been compiled.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 11, 2021 17:49:26 GMT 1
25 June 1960
1 ( 4 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (#1[3]) 3 ( 3 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 4 ( 8 ) Happy To Make Your Acquaintance - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae 5 ( 2 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke (#2[2]) 6 ( -- ) How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer 7 ( 5 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#4) 8 ( 10 ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk 9 ( 16 ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles 10 ( -- ) What A Mouth - Tommy Steele
11 ( 7 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell (#5) 12 ( 6 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (#1[2]) 13 ( 9 ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans (#9) 14 ( -- ) Train Of Love - Annette Funicello 15 ( 17 ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters 16 ( 23 ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 17 ( 14 ) That's You - Nat King Cole (#13) 18 ( 13 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates (#11) 19 ( 15 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps (#15) 20 ( 11 ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers (#7)
21 ( 25 ) River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 22 ( 12 ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis (#8) 23 ( 27 ) Jump Over - Freddy Cannon 24 ( 22 ) Little Christine - Dick Jordan (#22) 25 ( 20 ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan (#15) 26 ( 30 ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton 27 ( 26 ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy (#26) 28 ( 19 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#16) 29 ( 18 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#9) 30 ( -- ) You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else - Jerry Wallace
-- ( 21 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#3) -- ( 24 ) Mustapha - Bob Azzam (#20) -- ( 28 ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos (#22) -- ( 29 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#3)
-- ( -- ) I Really Don't Want To Know - Tommy Edwards -- ( -- ) Walking The Floor Over You - Pat Boone
Copied directly but had to modify the peak positions of some of the songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 13, 2021 20:38:56 GMT 1
copied from my old one, the sporting winners: As a slight aside, let's have a quick look at 1960 in sport. In the UK football league, the 1959-60 season was a close encounter between 3 clubs. Tottenham Hotspur were leading the way for much of the season, but in April suffered two defeats, at home to Chelsea and Manchester City. (Those were bad defeats at the time, those clubs were not like they are now!). That left the door open for Wolves but Tottenham did then go and beat them away and after the last game of the season for most clubs, Burnley had an away fixture at Manchester City. If they could win, they would win the league. They did win it 2-1 so Burnley were the football league champions. It was the 2nd victory for Burnley and they have not won it since. Wolves compensated a bit by winning the FA Cup, and Spurs fans, don't worry, you know your moment is coming. In Scotland, Heart of Midlothian won the championship, the last time to date they have done this. They were close to repeating it in both 1965 and 1986 but both times lost it on the last day of the season. 1960 was the first year for European international championships and it was held in France as a straight knock-out between four qualifiers. Sport and politics should never mix but there were issues with Spain about the USSR competing. The USSR won the contest. They also had all the leading chess players of the day. The world title was competed by Mikhail Tal, the challenger and Mikhail Botvinnik, the holder. Tal won 12.5 - 8.5 Given I follow the USA music-wise, let's mention their sports too. And it was a good year for the state of Philadelphia. In the superbowl, the Philadephia Eagles beat the Green Bay Packers 17-13 (not sure how that was possible, there wasn't yet a superbowl in 1960) Their baseball world series was a close run contest between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Yankees. Although the New York Yankees scored more runs overall, in games it was 4-3 to the Pirates.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jan 13, 2021 20:59:31 GMT 1
Last Soviet Euro 1960 winner Viktor Ponedelnik (he was the author of winning goal) died in 2020 year.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 13, 2021 21:35:26 GMT 1
2 July 1960
1 ( 1 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 3 ( 2 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (#1[3]) 4 ( 6 ) How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer 5 ( 4 ) Happy To Make Your Acquaintance - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae (#4) 6 ( 10 ) What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 7 ( 9 ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles 8 ( 14 ) Train Of Love - Annette Funicello 9 ( 8 ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) 10 ( -- ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison
11 ( -- ) Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 12 ( 5 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke (#2[2]) 13 ( 7 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#4) 14 ( 16 ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 15 ( 15 ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters 16 ( -- ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin 17 ( 11 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell (#5) 18 ( 13 ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans (#9) 19 ( -- ) Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 20 ( 21 ) River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra
21 ( 12 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (#1[2]) 22 ( 23 ) Jump Over - Freddy Cannon 23 ( 17 ) That's You - Nat King Cole (#13) 24 ( 30 ) You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else - Jerry Wallace 25 ( 26 ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton 26 ( 19 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps (#15) 27 ( 18 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates (#11) 28 ( 24 ) Little Christine - Dick Jordan (#22) 29 ( 27 ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy (#26) 30 ( -- ) That's All You Gotta Do - Brenda Lee
-- ( 20 ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers (#7) -- ( 22 ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis (#8) -- ( 25 ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan (#15) -- ( 28 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#16) -- ( 29 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#9)
-- ( -- ) Please Help Me I'm Falling - Hank Locklin -- ( -- ) Runaround - Fleetwoods
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 15, 2021 0:42:31 GMT 1
9 July 1960
1 ( 1 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 3 ( 4 ) How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer 4 ( 10 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison 5 ( 11 ) Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 6 ( 6 ) What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 7 ( 3 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (#1[3]) 8 ( 8 ) Train Of Love - Annette Funicello 9 ( 7 ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles (#7) 10 ( 5 ) Happy To Make Your Acquaintance - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae (#4)
11 ( 16 ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin 12 ( -- ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners 13 ( 19 ) Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 14 ( 9 ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) 15 ( -- ) When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers 16 ( 14 ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee (#14) 17 ( -- ) We're Only Young Once - Avons 18 ( 15 ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters (#15) 19 ( 13 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#3) 20 ( 12 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke (#2[2])
21 ( 20 ) River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra (#20) 22 ( 24 ) You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else - Jerry Wallace 23 ( -- ) Look For A Star - Gary Mills 24 ( 22 ) Jump Over - Freddy Cannon (#22) 25 ( 30 ) That's All You Gotta Do - Brenda Lee 26 ( 18 ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans (#9) 27 ( 17 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell (#5) 28 ( 25 ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton (#25) 29 ( -- ) The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco 30 ( 23 ) That's You - Nat King Cole (#13)
-- ( 21 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (#1[2]) -- ( 26 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps (#15) -- ( 27 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates (#11) -- ( 28 ) Little Christine - Dick Jordan (#22) -- ( 29 ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy (#26)
-- ( -- ) Theme From The Unforgiven - Don Costa -- ( -- ) Tell Laura I Love Her - Ray Peterson -- ( -- ) Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland -- ( -- ) Love Is Like A Violin - Ken Dodd
This is what I decided back in March 2015, I didn't chart either Ray Peterson or Brian Hyland. Now I'd probably chart them both. The plan was to change them only until the point they merged and that's now happened.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 15, 2021 14:30:37 GMT 1
16 July 1960
1 ( 1 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison 3 ( 2 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#2[2]) 4 ( 3 ) How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer (#3) 5 ( 5 ) Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 6 ( 12 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners 7 ( 6 ) What A Mouth - Tommy Steele (#6) 8 ( 15 ) When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers 9 ( 11 ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin 10 ( 17 ) We're Only Young Once - Avons
11 ( 8 ) Train Of Love - Annette Funicello (#8) 12 ( 13 ) Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 13 ( 9 ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles (#7) 14 ( 7 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (#1[3]) 15 ( 23 ) Look For A Star - Gary Mills 16 ( 10 ) Happy To Make Your Acquaintance - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae (#4) 17 ( -- ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo 18 ( 16 ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee (#14) 19 ( -- ) Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino 20 ( 14 ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk (#8)
21 ( 29 ) The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco 22 ( 22 ) You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else - Jerry Wallace 23 ( 25 ) That's All You Gotta Do - Brenda Lee 24 ( 18 ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters (#15) 25 ( -- ) If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley 26 ( 21 ) River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra (#20) 27 ( 19 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#3) 28 ( 24 ) Jump Over - Freddy Cannon (#22) 29 ( 20 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke (#2[2]) 30 ( 28 ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton (#25)
-- ( 26 ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans (#9) -- ( 27 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell (#5) -- ( 30 ) That's You - Nat King Cole (#13)
-- ( -- ) Image Of A Girl - Safaris -- ( -- ) Never Let Go - John Barry & His Orchestra
That's the last one I need to even change the peak positions on.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 17, 2021 12:45:34 GMT 1
I may just post the rest pretty much in one go now. I'm not compiling these anymore, just re-listing them.
23 July 1960
1 ( 1 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison 3 ( -- ) Apache - Shadows 4 ( 6 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners 5 ( -- ) Banjo Boy - George Formby 6 ( 3 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#2[2]) 7 ( 8 ) When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers 8 ( 5 ) Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard (#5) 9 ( 4 ) How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer (#3) 10 ( 10 ) We're Only Young Once - Avons
11 ( 9 ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin (#9) 12 ( 17 ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo 13 ( 7 ) What A Mouth - Tommy Steele (#6) 14 ( 19 ) Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino 15 ( 15 ) Look For A Star - Gary Mills 16 ( 12 ) Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith (#12) 17 ( 11 ) Train Of Love - Annette Funicello (#8) 18 ( 21 ) The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco 19 ( 25 ) If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley 20 ( -- ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests
21 ( 13 ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles (#7) 22 ( -- ) Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters 23 ( 18 ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee (#14) 24 ( 14 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (#1[3]) 25 ( 23 ) That's All You Gotta Do - Brenda Lee (#23) 26 ( 16 ) Happy To Make Your Acquaintance - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae (#4) 27 ( 22 ) You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else - Jerry Wallace (#22) 28 ( 20 ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) 29 ( -- ) Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks 30 ( -- ) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris
-- ( 24 ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters (#15) -- ( 26 ) River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra (#20) -- ( 27 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#3) -- ( 28 ) Jump Over - Freddy Cannon (#22) -- ( 29 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke (#2[2]) -- ( 30 ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton (#25)[/div]
-- ( -- ) Romantica - Jane Morgan -- ( -- ) Is A Blue Bird Blue - Conway Twitty
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 17, 2021 12:46:36 GMT 1
30 July 1960
1 ( 3 ) Apache - Shadows < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#1[5]) 3 ( 5 ) Banjo Boy - George Formby 4 ( -- ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley 5 ( 2 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison (#2[2]) 6 ( 4 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners (#4) 7 ( -- ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves 8 ( 7 ) When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers (#7) 9 ( -- ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston 10 ( 12 ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo
11 ( 6 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#2[2]) 12 ( 10 ) We're Only Young Once - Avons (#10) 13 ( -- ) A Mess Of Blues - Elvis Presley 14 ( 14 ) Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino 15 ( 20 ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests 16 ( 8 ) Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard (#5) 17 ( 22 ) Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters 18 ( 11 ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin (#9) 19 ( -- ) Mais Oui - King Brothers 20 ( 9 ) How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer (#3)
21 ( 19 ) If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley (#19) 22 ( 15 ) Look For A Star - Gary Mills (#15) 23 ( 18 ) The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco (#18) 24 ( -- ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan 25 ( 13 ) What A Mouth - Tommy Steele (#6) 26 ( 29 ) Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks 27 ( 16 ) Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith (#12) 28 ( 30 ) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris 29 ( -- ) Question - Lloyd Price 30 ( 17 ) Train Of Love - Annette Funicello (#8)
-- ( 21 ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles (#7) -- ( 23 ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee (#14) -- ( 24 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (#1[3]) -- ( 25 ) That's All You Gotta Do - Brenda Lee (#23) -- ( 26 ) Happy To Make Your Acquaintance - Sammy Davis Jr & Carmen McRae (#4) -- ( 27 ) You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else - Jerry Wallace (#22) -- ( 28 ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk (#8)
-- ( -- ) I'm Starting To Go Steady - Johnny Preston -- ( -- ) Don't Come Knockin' Fats Domino -- ( -- ) This Bitter Earth Dinah Washington
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 17, 2021 12:47:19 GMT 1
6 August 1960
1 ( 1 ) Apache - Shadows < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley 3 ( 7 ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves 4 ( 3 ) Banjo Boy - George Formby (#3) 5 ( 9 ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston 6 ( 2 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#1[5]) 7 ( 13 ) A Mess Of Blues - Elvis Presley 8 ( -- ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures 9 ( 6 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners (#4) 10 ( 5 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison (#2[2])
11 ( 10 ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo (#10) 12 ( 8 ) When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers (#7) 13 ( 19 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers 14 ( 15 ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests 15 ( -- ) As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey 16 ( 17 ) Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters 17 ( 14 ) Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino (#14) 18 ( 24 ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan 19 ( 12 ) We're Only Young Once - Avons (#10) 20 ( 11 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#2[2])
21 ( 29 ) Question - Lloyd Price 22 ( 21 ) If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley (#19) 23 ( 26 ) Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks 24 ( -- ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson 25 ( 16 ) Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard (#5) 26 ( 18 ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin (#9) 27 ( -- ) The Old Oaken Bucket - Tommy Sands 28 ( 28 ) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris 29 ( 23 ) The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco (#18) 30 ( 22 ) Look For A Star - Gary Mills (#15)
-- ( 20 ) How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer (#3) -- ( 25 ) What A Mouth - Tommy Steele (#6) -- ( 27 ) Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith (#12) -- ( 30 ) Train Of Love - Annette Funicello (#8)
-- ( -- ) Volare - Bobby Rydell
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 17, 2021 12:48:15 GMT 1
13 August 1960
1 ( 2 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Apache - Shadows (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves 4 ( 8 ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures 5 ( 5 ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston 6 ( 7 ) A Mess Of Blues - Elvis Presley 7 ( 4 ) Banjo Boy - George Formby (#3) 8 ( 13 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers 9 ( 15 ) As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey 10 ( -- ) The Twist - Chubby Checker
11 ( 6 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#1[5]) 12 ( 9 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners (#4) 13 ( 11 ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo (#10) 14 ( 14 ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests 15 ( 18 ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan 16 ( 24 ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson 17 ( 10 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison (#2[2]) 18 ( 16 ) Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters (#16) 19 ( 21 ) Question - Lloyd Price 20 ( 12 ) When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers (#7)
21 ( 27 ) The Old Oaken Bucket - Tommy Sands 22 ( 17 ) Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino (#14) 23 ( 23 ) Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks 24 ( 22 ) If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley (#19) 25 ( -- ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson 26 ( 19 ) We're Only Young Once - Avons (#10) 27 ( 28 ) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris 28 ( 20 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#2[2]) 29 ( -- ) A Woman A Lover A Friend - Jackie Wilson 30 ( 26 ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin (#9)
-- ( 25 ) Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard (#5) -- ( 29 ) The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco (#18) -- ( 30 ) Look For A Star - Gary Mills (#15)
-- ( -- ) In My Little Corner Of The World - Anita Bryant -- ( -- ) Oh What A Day - Craig Douglas
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2021 16:55:16 GMT 1
20 August 1960:
1 ( 1 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Apache - Shadows (#1[2]) 3 ( 4 ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures 4 ( 10 ) The Twist - Chubby Checker 5 ( 3 ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves (#3) 6 ( -- ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette 7 ( 8 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers 8 ( 5 ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston (#5) 9 ( 6 ) A Mess Of Blues - Elvis Presley (#6) 10 ( 9 ) As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey (#9)
11 ( -- ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk 12 ( -- ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence 13 ( 7 ) Banjo Boy - George Formby (#3) 14 ( 16 ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson 15 ( 15 ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan 16 ( 14 ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests (#14) 17 ( 12 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners (#4) 18 ( 13 ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo (#10) 19 ( 25 ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson 20 ( 11 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#1[5])
21 ( 21 ) The Old Oaken Bucket - Tommy Sands 22 ( 19 ) Question - Lloyd Price (#19) 23 ( 29 ) A Woman A Lover A Friend - Jackie Wilson 24 ( 18 ) Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters (#16) 25 ( -- ) Theme From The Apartment - Ferrante & Teicher 26 ( 23 ) Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks (#23) 27 ( 17 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison (#2[2]) 28 ( 27 ) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris (#27) 29 ( 24 ) If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley (#19) 30 ( 22 ) Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino (#14)
-- ( 20 ) When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers (#7) -- ( 26 ) We're Only Young Once - Avons (#10) -- ( 28 ) A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#2[2]) -- ( 30 ) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - Bobby Darin (#9)
-- ( -- ) Listen Little Girl - Keith Kelly
Elvis remains at #1 a second week. Johnny Burnette gets a new entry with a song that goes "Dreamin', I'm only dreamin'..". Although I discarded a number of covers of classic songs / tunes I kept Mr Acker Bilk's "White Cliffs Of Dover" partly based on the fact that given a swing version of that song was #1 in my chart for the Jive Aces in 2005, I ought to play (and probably chart) Mr Acker Bilk's version too (although the Jive Aces version was based on Louis Prima's 1945 version).
Long before the Beautiful South and Lou Bega made hits by listing girls names, Steve Lawrence was at it. Meanwhile "The Apartment" was a 1960 film starting Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine and Ferrante & Teicher's music is based on piano and orchestra. We'll meet that duo again later.
Incidentally, most of the late September - early October list is awful.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2021 16:55:40 GMT 1
27th August 1960:
1 ( 1 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette 3 ( 4 ) The Twist - Chubby Checker 4 ( 2 ) Apache - Shadows (#1[2]) 5 ( 3 ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures (#3) 6 ( 11 ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk 7 ( 12 ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence 8 ( 7 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers (#7) 9 ( 5 ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves (#3) 10 ( 8 ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston (#5)
11 ( 10 ) As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey (#9) 12 ( 9 ) A Mess Of Blues - Elvis Presley (#6) 13 ( 14 ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson 14 ( -- ) Going Back To My Home Town - Hal Paige & The Whalers 15 ( 19 ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson 16 ( 15 ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan (#15) 17 ( -- ) Lorelei - Lonnie Donegan 18 ( 25 ) Theme From The Apartment - Ferrante & Teicher 19 ( -- ) I'd Do Anything - Mike Preston 20 ( 23 ) A Woman A Lover A Friend - Jackie Wilson
21 ( 16 ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests (#14) 22 ( 13 ) Banjo Boy - George Formby (#3) 23 ( 21 ) The Old Oaken Bucket - Tommy Sands (#21) 24 ( 17 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners (#4) 25 ( 18 ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo (#10) 26 ( 22 ) Question - Lloyd Price (#19) 27 ( 20 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#1[5]) 28 ( 28 ) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris (#27) 29 ( 26 ) Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks (#23) 30 ( 24 ) Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters (#16)
-- ( 27 ) Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison (#2[2]) -- ( 29 ) If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley (#19) -- ( 30 ) Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino (#14)
-- ( -- ) Ta Ta - Clyde McPhatter
Elvis stays at #1 but I think the more exciting news for me is the entry of Hal Paige & The Whalers at #14. I remember when I first got my British Hit Singles book and used to just scan through it and came across this as a "least successful act" of the period before the chart was extended to a top 75, and just the name of the band conjures up interest.
It was in 2001 with music sharing via Audiogalaxy that I finally managed to get it on download to hear what it sounded like.
At one point during the 1980s I compiled a list of every song that had peaked at #50 between 1960 and 1978 staying in the chart just one week. (I found about 3 that peaked at #50 but had more than one week, including a song that managed 3 weeks in that position and was covered for a UK #1). I also compiled with this list - their biggest UK hit - their biggest US hit and how this song had done in the USA if any. "Hal Paige & The Whalers" were one artist who, although American, had no listed US chart success.
There are actually quite a lot of UK #50 hits around this time and there are 2 others in the chart right now. In fact so far every UK #50 hit has reached my chart and "Consider Yourself" is the highest peaking so far, reaching #3. (And I did mention a 3rd song from Oliver was on its way and there it is, entering for Mike Preston, with Lonnie Donegan getting the other entry). The run will definitely be broken later in the year as Chaquito have no chance whatsoever of entering.
Our one flop act this week is Clyde McPhatter, who was also once in the Drifters. They're coming up soon.. Ben E King will be leaving them too.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2021 16:55:56 GMT 1
3 September 1960:
1 ( 1 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette 3 ( 3 ) The Twist - Chubby Checker 4 ( 6 ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk 5 ( 7 ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence 6 ( 14 ) Going Back To My Home Town - Hal Paige & The Whalers 7 ( 4 ) Apache - Shadows (#1[2]) 8 ( -- ) Little Boy Lost - Michael Holliday 9 ( 5 ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures (#3) 10 ( 17 ) Lorelei - Lonnie Donegan
11 ( 8 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers (#7) 12 ( 19 ) I'd Do Anything - Mike Preston 13 ( -- ) Never On Sunday - Don Costa And His Orchestra And Chorus 14 ( 15 ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson 15 ( 10 ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston (#5) 16 ( 13 ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson (#13) 17 ( 11 ) As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey (#9) 18 ( 18 ) Theme From The Apartment - Ferrante & Teicher 19 ( 9 ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves (#3) 20 ( -- ) Kiddio - Brook Benton
21 ( 12 ) A Mess Of Blues - Elvis Presley (#6) 22 ( 16 ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan (#15) 23 ( 20 ) A Woman A Lover A Friend - Jackie Wilson (#20) 24 ( -- ) Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson 25 ( -- ) Yogi - Ivy Three 26 ( -- ) Hello Young Lovers - Paul Anka 27 ( -- ) Them There Eyes - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 28 ( 23 ) The Old Oaken Bucket - Tommy Sands (#21) 29 ( 21 ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests (#14) 30 ( -- ) My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own - Connie Francis
-- ( 22 ) Banjo Boy - George Formby (#3) -- ( 24 ) Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners (#4) -- ( 25 ) Josephine - Bill Black's Combo (#10) -- ( 26 ) Question - Lloyd Price (#19) -- ( 27 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (#1[5]) -- ( 28 ) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris (#27) -- ( 29 ) Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks (#23) -- ( 30 ) Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard And The Midnighters (#16)
-- ( -- ) You Mean Everything To Me - Neil Sedaka -- ( -- ) Hot Rod Lincoln - Johnny Bond
More new entries this week. Michael Holliday had two UK #1s, one earlier this year with "Starry Eyed", a song that peaked only at #23 in my chart. His career then went downhill fast. The follow up reached #43 and this one, "Little Boy Lost" was one week at #50. Subsequent to this Michael Holliday released more singles over the next 2-3 years but they all flopped. In 1963 he died of a suspected drug overdose. "Little Boy Lost" was written by Johnny Ashcroft who had the hit version in Australia where it was far more popular.
I mentioned that so far all the UK #50 peaks have reached this chart and that Chaquito definitely wouldn't. There were loads of different versions of "Never On Sunday", originally a vocal song done in Greek and also there's an English version. Had there not been quite so many versions it might have peaked higher in the UK but Don Costa's version reached #27. And Chaquto's #50. However as with others I pick one version and go with it. (Maybe if another one sounded completely different but that hasn't happened yet).
Many other entries but Neil Sedaka falls short this week. Maybe he can get back to form with his ode to Samson and Delilah.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2021 16:56:13 GMT 1
10th September 1960:
1 ( 1 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Little Boy Lost - Michael Holliday 3 ( 2 ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette (#2[2]) 4 ( 6 ) Going Back To My Home Town - Hal Paige & The Whalers 5 ( 4 ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk (#4) 6 ( 3 ) The Twist - Chubby Checker (#3) 7 ( 5 ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence (#5) 8 ( -- ) Let's Think About Living - Bob Luman 9 ( 13 ) Never On Sunday - Don Costa And His Orchestra And Chorus 10 ( 10 ) Lorelei - Lonnie Donegan
11 ( 12 ) I'd Do Anything - Mike Preston 12 ( 7 ) Apache - Shadows (#1[2]) 13 ( 20 ) Kiddio - Brook Benton 14 ( -- ) Chain Gang - Sam Cooke 15 ( 9 ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures (#3) 16 ( 14 ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson (#14) 17 ( 11 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers (#7) 18 ( 24 ) Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson 19 ( 25 ) Yogi - Ivy Three 20 ( 26 ) Hello Young Lovers - Paul Anka
21 ( -- ) Nice 'N' Easy - Frank Sinatra 22 ( 27 ) Them There Eyes - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 23 ( 18 ) Theme From The Apartment - Ferrante & Teicher (#18) 24 ( 16 ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson (#13) 25 ( 15 ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston (#5) 26 ( 30 ) My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own - Connie Francis 27 ( 17 ) As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey (#9) 28 ( 23 ) A Woman A Lover A Friend - Jackie Wilson (#20) 29 ( 22 ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan (#15) 30 ( 19 ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves (#3)
-- ( 21 ) A Mess Of Blues - Elvis Presley (#6) -- ( 28 ) The Old Oaken Bucket - Tommy Sands (#21) -- ( 29 ) Trouble In Paradise - Crests (#14)
-- ( -- ) Broken Doll - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers -- ( -- ) Mr. Custer - Larry Verne -- ( -- ) I Just Go For You - Jimmy Jones -- ( -- ) The Same One - Brook Benton -- ( -- ) A Million To One - Jimmy Charles And The Revelletts
Elvis Presley's "It's Now Or Never" becomes the 2nd hit of the year to manage a 5th week on top. The end part of this period is better than the earlier part in general, and so we are getting proper challengers. We did have a lot of singles on the list for this week but only 3 made it into the chart.
Perhaps surprising that Jimmy Jones didn't make it, given that "Good Timin'" got to #1.
Bob Luiman crossed over from country to do an "answer" song to all those death hits we've had this year and it seemed to work.
There are two UK #50 hits in my top 4 this week.
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