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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 17, 2015 21:44:02 GMT 1
In the 2nd chart I publish today there are 3 entries into the top 20, although I actually compile a top 25 and there's no change in that at all as there were no eligible releases for me this week. The only new entries into the US top 20 or UK top 20 which were my source were songs that had already been in the other chart.
13 February 1960:
1 ( 1 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin 3 ( 6 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith 4 ( 2 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello (#2[3]) 5 ( 7 ) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 6 ( 12 ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford 7 ( 3 ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk (#3) 8 ( 4 ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard (#4) 9 ( 15 ) Poor Me - Adam Faith 10 ( 17 ) Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers
11 ( 19 ) Tracy's Theme - Spencer Ross 12 ( 14 ) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 13 ( 8 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka (#1[3]) 14 ( 9 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine (#2[2]) 15 ( -- ) Misty - Johnny Mathis 16 ( 11 ) El Paso - Marty Robbins (#8) 17 ( 10 ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele (#5) 18 ( 13 ) Down By The Station - Four Preps (#11) 19 ( -- ) Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty 20 ( -- ) What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott
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-- ( 16 ) Running Bear - Johnny Preston (#3) -- ( 20 ) In The Mood - Ernie Fields (#15) -- ( 18 ) Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat - Paul Evans (#6)
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So Bobby Darin climbs to #2 and is hopeful of a #1. In actual fact, I will say that in my ranking of the 34 songs that survived over these weeks, Marv Johnson did come first, Bobby Darin only 4th, Annette Funicello came 3rd and the one that came 2nd has not yet appeared so will be a hopeful to the throne. Percy Faith came 5th and Acker Bilk only 13th but took advantage of the very slow start to the year.
Right now I'm listening to another bunch of songs which span only 4 new charts, those of March. There are 2 more from this list to come, including that expected new entry, the clue being that it is by a singer who was in the initial playlist and failed to get in.
The March playlist will see a lot more "selectiveness" over what gets in. There is another Annette Funicello song on it -my favourite new discovery so far (the singer in general and "First Name Initial" that is).
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 19, 2015 0:02:51 GMT 1
Thankfully some new songs breaking this week , which represents the song from this week 55 years ago
20th February 1960:
1 ( 2 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin <1st week at #1> 2 ( 1 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (#1[4]) 3 ( 3 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith 4 ( 6 ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 5 ( 5 ) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 6 ( 9 ) Poor Me - Adam Faith 7 ( 10 ) Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers 8 ( 4 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello (#2[3]) 9 ( -- ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune 10 ( 11 ) Tracy's Theme - Spencer Ross
11 ( -- ) Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 12 ( 12 ) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 13 ( 15 ) Misty - Johnny Mathis 14 ( 7 ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk (#3) 15 ( 8 ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard & The Shadows (#4) 16 ( -- ) Bonnie Come Back - Duane Eddy 17 ( 19 ) Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty 18 ( 13 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka (#1[3]) 19 ( 20 ) What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott 20 ( 14 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine (#2[2])
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-- ( 16 ) El Paso - Marty Robbins (#8) -- ( 17 ) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele (#5) -- ( 18 ) Down By The Station - Four Preps (#11)
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Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" was #2 on the first chart, his first new hit of the 1960s goes to #1. In the UK chart, Adam Faith's "Poor Me" has moved to #1. The highest new entry sounds a lot like Adam Faith and if someone played that to you and you didn't know better you'd probably guess that's who it is singing.
Not to be confused with the single just displaced from #1, a soul duo, rather classic perhaps, by Brook Benton and Dinah Washington (or credited the other order as they are here). They will have another chart duo later in the year which you'd probably be more familiar with as it was successfully covered in the 1980s in the UK. Dinah Washington died young in 1963 (drugs) and during her short life managed to get married 8 times. Brook Benton died in the 1980s, aged just 56.
"Bonnie Come Back" is a twangy rendition of the famous folk tune "My Bonnie".
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 19, 2015 0:15:53 GMT 1
The chart of 27th Februrary which is the last of the series of this particular playlist.
1 ( 1 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin <2nd week at #1> 2 ( 3 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith 3 ( -- ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell 4 ( 4 ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford 5 ( 9 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune 6 ( 2 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (#1[4]) 7 ( 6 ) Poor Me - Adam Faith (#6) 8 ( 11 ) Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 9 ( 7 ) Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers (#7) 10 ( 5 ) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones (#5)
11 ( -- ) Delaware - Perry Como 12 ( 16 ) Bonnie Come Back - Duane Eddy 13 ( 10 ) Tracy's Theme - Spencer Ross (#10) 14 ( 13 ) Misty - Johnny Mathis (#13) 15 ( 8 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello (#2[3]) 16 ( 12 ) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves (#12) 17 ( -- ) Happy Anniversary - Joan Regan 18 ( 17 ) Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty (#17) 19 ( -- ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price 20 ( -- ) Who Could Be Bluer - Jerry Lordan ________________________________________________
-- ( 14 ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk (#3) -- ( 15 ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard (#4) -- ( 18 ) Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka (#1[3]) -- ( 19 ) What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott (#19) -- ( 20 ) Rawhide - Frankie Laine (#2[2]) ________________________________________________
I said there was a big one to come and, yes, it's Bobby Rydell. His previous song "We Got Love" just missed the first cut but he came 2nd on the playlist on which Marv Johnson came first, and crashes in at #3 looking likely to take over at the top.
The second entry is a rather fun song by Perry Como that goes through a number of the states of the USA with puns. Yes it's that song that goes "What did Dela-ware boy, what did dela-ware"? There's more humour coming in the next section too....
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 21, 2015 20:48:43 GMT 1
I am going to increase this now to a top 30 publishing the top 25 and may subsequently make it a published top 30.
The number of entries is increasing as the UK chart size has expanded and the OCC now publishing the full top 50 on their website is allowing me to include all of that. From the US I will continue to draw the top 30 in for now.
I have 34 songs on 4 March playlists. Pretty tough having to filter it so much.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 21, 2015 23:09:23 GMT 1
Actually as I'm compiling a top 30 I'll just simply things by showing it. This week you'll also see what was in the rest of my top 25 last week
This is the chart for 5th March 1960. The first Record Retailer chart which is 10th March will correspond in mine to 12th March so not this week.
I'm also posting the ones that were on my playlist but missed out
1 ( 3 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith (#2[1]) 4 ( 5 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune 5 ( 11 ) Delaware - Perry Como 6 ( 4 ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford (#4) 7 ( 8 ) Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton 8 ( -- ) Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith 9 ( 7 ) Poor Me - Adam Faith (#6) 10 ( 12 ) Bonnie Come Back - Duane Eddy
11 ( 19 ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price 12 ( 6 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (#1[4]) 13 ( 20 ) Who Could Be Bluer - Jerry Lordan 14 ( -- ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 15 ( 9 ) Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers (#7) 16 ( 21 ) Royal Event - Russ Conway 17 ( 17 ) Happy Anniversary - Joan Regan 18 ( 23 ) Midnite Special - Paul Evans 19 ( 10 ) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones (#5) 20 ( 14 ) Misty - Johnny Mathis (#13)
21 ( 13 ) Tracy's Theme - Spencer Ross (#10) 22 ( 18 ) Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty (#17) 23 ( -- ) Country Boy - Fats Domino 24 ( 16 ) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves (#12) 25 ( 15 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello (#2[3]) 26 ( 22 ) What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott (#19) 27 ( -- ) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven 28 ( 24 ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk (#3) 29 ( -- ) California Here I Come - Freddie Cannon 30 ( 25 ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard (#4)
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-- ( -- ) Little Bitty Girl - Bobby Rydell -- ( -- ) Bulldog - Fireballs -- ( -- ) Beatnik Fly - Johnny & The Hurricanes
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So Bobby Rydell has had flop (actually #23 on the first chart), #1, flop.. For Johnny & The Hurricanes it was just one old classic song done too many for me. Take any old classic and put it to the same formula and release it...
Ray Smith: simple rock n roll song but another singer I had never heard of before. He fails to show up on the OCC search so he never made it in the UK. Rockin' Little Angel actually borrows too from a classic song called Buffalo Gals. Ray Smith's one goes "Rockin' Little Angel come down from the sky, down from the sky, down from the sky..".
Buffalo Gals originally goes "Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight, come out tonight come out tonight, Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight, and dance by the light of the moon". Of course Malcolm McLaren used the same rhythm and title but changed the lyrics to "Buffalo gals go round the outside.." and turned it into a "house" hit.
Ray Smith took his own life in 1979, aged 45. He was 25 at the time of this hit.
A little further down, Brenda Lee makes her NM chart debut. Fats Domino enters at #23, and will probably climb into the top 20. This song was certainly good enough to be listed as a chart hit. The standard has been pretty high in the March playlists but it's the corny fun stuff that has won the day as you'll see next week.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 22, 2015 14:33:03 GMT 1
I'll see how things go but I plan for my chart to stick to a Top 30, until the beginning of 1964 when I'll increase it to a Top 40.
You definitely seem to prefer more gimmicky stuff to me, personally I thought "Delaware" was cringe-worthy.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 22, 2015 18:45:11 GMT 1
I started getting into the old music in 1983 and between then and early 1986 I was getting accustomed to all the oldies. Whilst there are also here songs I don't recall from that period, anything that stuck on me back then is considered to be worthy of some kind of "classic" status.
The chart really is a mixed bag back then. A lot of the artists back then were also performers / cabaret acts. I guess they needed that to make a living in music and a fair amount of that stuff got into the charts.
12th March 1960:
1 ( 1 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Delaware - Perry Como 3 ( 8 ) Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith 4 ( 2 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin (#1[2]) 5 ( 4 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune (#4) 6 ( -- ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves 7 ( 3 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith (#2[1]) 8 ( -- ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson 9 ( 14 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 10 ( 7 ) Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#7)
11 ( 11 ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price 12 ( 6 ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford (#4) 13 ( 10 ) Bonnie Come Back - Duane Eddy (#10) 14 ( 13 ) Who Could Be Bluer - Jerry Lordan (#13) 15 ( 9 ) Poor Me - Adam Faith (#6) 16 ( 16 ) Royal Event - Russ Conway 17 ( 23 ) Country Boy - Fats Domino 18 ( 18 ) Midnite Special - Paul Evans 19 ( -- ) O Dio Mio - Annette Funicello 20 ( 17 ) Happy Anniversary - Joan Regan (#17)
21 ( 27 ) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven 22 ( 12 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (#1[4]) 23 ( -- ) Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon 24 ( 29 ) California Here I Come - Freddie Cannon 25 ( 15 ) Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers (#7) 26 ( -- ) Collette - Billy Fury 27 ( -- ) Dance With Me - Drifters 28 ( -- ) Puppy Love - Paul Anka 29 ( 22 ) Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty (#17) 30 ( 20 ) Misty - Johnny Mathis (#13) ________________________________________
-- ( 19 ) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones (#5) -- ( 21 ) Tracy's Theme - Spencer Ross (#10) -- ( 24 ) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves (#12) -- ( 25 ) First Name Initial - Annette Funicello (#2[3]) -- ( 26 ) What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott (#19) -- ( 28 ) Summer Set - Acker Bilk (#3) -- ( 30 ) A Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard (#4) __________________________________________________
-- ( -- ) Johnny Rocco - Marty Wilde -- ( -- ) Wild Cat - Gene Vincent -- ( -- ) Lucky Devil - Frank Ifield ____________________________________________
This chart reflects the first UK top 50 and therefore more of the playlist came from there than the US chart which remained a top 30 for purpose of feeding my chart. Only the top 40 from the UK was used to feed but that increased from a top 20 the previous week.
This explains perhaps the large British presence here. Max Bygraves we have caught near the end of his career. The song was written by Lionel Bart. Bryan Johnson was the UK entry to Eurovision that year. It came 2nd in the middle of 3 years of finishing in that position. Bert Weedon is British guitarist, Billy Fury is also from the UK of course and from those that didn't make it, Marty Wilde and Frank Ifield. We'll here more from the latter of those in 1962 of course.
Meanwhile, Annette Funicello replaces herself in the chart and is partly responsible for 2 entries as "Puppy Love" was written about her. Paul Anka wrote the song and Donny Osmond destroyed it. I didn't expect I would like any version of it but Paul Anka's version was far more listenable.
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Post by rubcale on Feb 22, 2015 19:20:39 GMT 1
There used to be a radio show which played requests for children and Delaware got played a lot - can't say I really liked it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 22, 2015 19:36:09 GMT 1
The US Billboard chart would often chart both sides of a double-A side separately. Part of the chart has always been comprised of airplay, and so obviously both sides didn't necessarily get the same amount of airplay so one may chart higher.
Bobby Rydell's "Wild One" and "Little Bitty Girl" were two sides to a double-A. Wild One peaked at #2 in the USA, and Little Bitty Girl #19. I think they may even have noted down which song someone asked for when they went to buy it. Back then you didn't take it off the shelf then to the counter but asked for it.
I have two Drifters songs in consecutive weeks and 2 Connie Francis songs on the same week due to different songs being UK and US releases at the time. The second Drifters song and both Connie Francis ones are on the playlist for next week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 23, 2015 22:33:07 GMT 1
Chart of 19th March 1960:
1 ( 1 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves 3 ( 2 ) Delaware - Perry Como (#2[1]) 4 ( 3 ) Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith (#3) 5 ( 8 ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson 6 ( 9 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 7 ( 5 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune (#4) 8 ( 4 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin (#1[2]) 9 ( 19 ) O Dio Mio - Annette Funicello 10 ( -- ) Valentino - Connie Francis
11 ( 7 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith (#2[1]) 12 ( 11 ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price (#11) 13 ( -- ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton 14 ( 17 ) Country Boy - Fats Domino 15 ( 10 ) Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#7) 16 ( 23 ) Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon 17 ( -- ) Darktown Strutter's Ball - Joe Brown 18 ( 14 ) Who Could Be Bluer - Jerry Lordan (#13) 19 ( 16 ) Royal Event - Russ Conway (#16) 20 ( 13 ) Bonnie Come Back - Duane Eddy (#10)
21 ( 21 ) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven 22 ( 26 ) Collette - Billy Fury 23 ( 27 ) Dance With Me - Drifters 24 ( 12 ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford (#4) 25 ( 18 ) Midnite Special - Paul Evans (#18) 26 ( 28 ) Puppy Love - Paul Anka 27 ( 24 ) California Here I Come - Freddie Cannon (#24) 28 ( 15 ) Poor Me - Adam Faith (#6) 29 ( 20 ) Happy Anniversary - Joan Regan (#17) 30 ( 22 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (#1[4]) __________________________________________________
-- ( 25 ) Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers (#7) -- ( 29 ) Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty (#17) -- ( 30 ) Misty - Johnny Mathis (#13) __________________________________________________
-- ( -- ) My Heart - Gene Vincent -- ( -- ) This Magic Moment - Drifters __________________________________________________
As yesterday I compiled my next playlist, i.e. April, I noticed that it slows down about and that March was a busy month. There are some very good songs in April but the quantity is lower. My playlist covers 5 weeks instead of 4, with rather a few too many big singer ballads. The competition in March was much tougher so it's a shame Gene Vincent didn't quite make it. Only 3 new entries did this week, and the Drifters didn't quite make it with "This Magic Moment" having charted last with with "Dance With Me". They still had Ben E King as their lead singer at this point. They were separate UK and US releases.
Also having separate UK and US releases was Connie Francis who this week has the highest new entry iwth the uptempo "Valentino" whilst flopping with the slow ballad "Mama". Normally my chart rules do restrict an artist to one entry per week. It would have made no difference anyway, "Mama" was never going to chart.
Johnny Horton previously sang about a battle that the British had lost in "The Battle Of New Orleans". Now he turns the tables with British success at sea in World War II. The Bismarck was the name of a German battleship. There was also once a very strong BrewDog beer called "Sink the Bismarck". Johnny Horton will have just one more hit. He died in a car accident whilst that song was in the chart.
Joe Brown gets the final new entry. His daughter Sam Brown charted with "Stop" in 1989.
At the top, Bobby Rydell holds on for a 3rd week. In the USA this single peaked at #2 behind Percy Faith who held the top position for 7 weeks. Max Bygraves moves up to #2. There's another comedy one along to challenge it for honours. Some of the lyrics though of "Fings Ain't What They Used To Be" are interesting to hear in retrospect given that we're now another 55 years on from all these complaints about "change". The song namechecks a particular famous pop star we haven't yet seen on the chart but who will be along shortly.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 25, 2015 23:09:46 GMT 1
chart, 26 March 1960
1 ( 2 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (#1[3]) 3 ( -- ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan 4 ( 10 ) Valentino - Connie Francis 5 ( 5 ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson 6 ( 6 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 7 ( 3 ) Delaware - Perry Como (#2[1]) 8 ( 9 ) O Dio Mio - Annette Funicello 9 ( 13 ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton 10 ( 4 ) Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith (#3)
11 ( -- ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong 12 ( 17 ) Darktown Strutter's Ball - Joe Brown 13 ( 7 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune (#4) 14 ( 16 ) Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon 15 ( 14 ) Country Boy - Fats Domino (#14) 16 ( 8 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin (#1[2]) 17 ( 12 ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price (#11) 18 ( 11 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith (#2[1]) 19 ( -- ) White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo 20 ( 22 ) Collette - Billy Fury
21 ( 23 ) Dance With Me - Drifters 22 ( 15 ) Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#7) 23 ( 21 ) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven (#21) 24 ( 18 ) Who Could Be Bluer - Jerry Lordan (#13) 25 ( 19 ) Royal Event - Russ Conway (#16) 26 ( 26 ) Puppy Love - Paul Anka 27 ( -- ) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley 28 ( 20 ) Bonnie Come Back - Duane Eddy (#10) 29 ( -- ) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 30 ( 27 ) California Here I Come - Freddie Cannon (#24)
-- ( 24 ) Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford (#4) -- ( 25 ) Midnite Special - Paul Evans (#18) -- ( 28 ) Poor Me - Adam Faith (#6) -- ( 29 ) Happy Anniversary - Joan Regan (#17) -- ( 30 ) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (#1[4])
-- ( -- ) Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens -- ( -- ) Am I That Easy To Forget - Debbie Reynolds -- ( -- ) Mean To Me - Shaye Cogan
26th March 1960: when I was at university I briefly "dated" a woman born on that date. Thus she was 5 years old than me. She came from Colombia. And that woman's 40th birthday was the date I met Carol. The song called "Happy Anniversary" though falls out this week.
So two of the top 3 are "fun" songs. For both it's near the end of their hit singles career. Max Bygraves continued singing and entertaining for a long time but hit singles pretty much dried up. He'd always done fun sing-a-long stuff, whilst for Lonnie Donegan this was a change of direction from his more tradition "skiffle". Lonnie was born in Scotland but moved to the East End at the age of 2 which is why it's sung in a very cockney accent. It actually was a live recording, and he tells a number of jokes. Which of course stop sounding funny after you've heard it a few times. "Delaware" falls from 3 to 7 this week.
Of the other new entries, "Money (That's What I Want)" was co-written by Berry Gordy, who also co-wrote what is this year's biggest hit so far, "You Got What It Takes". The song will chart again, in 1979 for the Flying Lizards. But this will be the last we hear of Barrett Strong. The Beatles also recorded a version of this.
Lots of colours at #19: The artist is Bill Black and the track White Silver Sands. It's the second hit for Bill Black's Combo, and is a jazzy instrumental track. In the UK this track will be one of those #50 for 1 week singles but he had a bigger hit later with "Don't Be Cruel", a song he originally played bass-guitar on for Elvis Presley.... "Elvis P" is namechecked on the #1 this week, but has yet to show himself.. His debut isn't that far away though...
Meanwhile Cliff Richard is already on his 3rd hit. Anthony Newley only his first though as I chose Frankie Avalon's version of "Why" over his.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 26, 2015 19:07:02 GMT 1
You definitely seem to like early 1960s "fun" tracks more than me; and early 1960s R&B/soul less than me.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 26, 2015 23:36:11 GMT 1
First time I've seen Doonican described as "fun".
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 27, 2015 12:03:40 GMT 1
I've gone less for the crooner ballads that were still present in 1960. A new style of music never totally pushes away the old style. And just when you thought the Beatles and their lot had pushed away the crooners, there turns up Engelbert Humperdinck to break the run of Beatles #1s...
So yeah, Connie Francis gets her only hit so far in my chart with some minor UK hit that peaked at #27.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 27, 2015 12:04:24 GMT 1
First time I've seen Doonican described as "fun". Val Doonican hasn't turned up in my chart yet. Are you confusing him with Max Bygraves? I would be expecting "Walk Tall" to reach my chart. Not sure about anything else he did.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 27, 2015 14:58:56 GMT 1
Yeah, Max not Val. Same thing really though.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 1, 2015 18:40:25 GMT 1
For April, one playlist covered 5 weeks 35 songs. Not as competitive as March by a long way, but still 7 songs per week on average.
Chart of 2nd April 1960:
1 ( 3 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves (#1[1]) 3 ( 4 ) Valentino - Connie Francis 4 ( 2 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (#1[3]) 5 ( 11 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong 6 ( 5 ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson (#5) 7 ( 6 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (#6) 8 ( 9 ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton 9 ( 8 ) O Dio Mio - Annette Funicello (#8) 10 ( 12 ) Darktown Strutter's Ball - Joe Brown
11 ( -- ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson 12 ( 19 ) White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo 13 ( 7 ) Delaware - Perry Como (#2[1]) 14 ( -- ) Lucky Devil - Carl Dobkins Jr 15 ( 14 ) Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon (#14) 16 ( -- ) Clementine - Bobby Darin 17 ( 10 ) Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith (#3) 18 ( 15 ) Country Boy - Fats Domino (#14) 19 ( 27 ) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley 20 ( 20 ) Collette - Billy Fury
21 ( -- ) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence 22 ( 13 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune (#4) 23 ( 21 ) Dance With Me - Drifters (#21) 24 ( 29 ) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 25 ( 17 ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price (#11) 26 ( -- ) Teardrop - Santo And Johnny 27 ( 16 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin (#1[2]) 28 ( 18 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith (#2[1]) 29 ( 23 ) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven (#21) 30 ( 26 ) Puppy Love - Paul Anka (#26)
-- ( 22 ) Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton (#7) -- ( 24 ) Who Could Be Bluer - Jerry Lordan (#13) -- ( 25 ) Royal Event - Russ Conway (#16) -- ( 28 ) Bonnie Come Back - Duane Eddy (#10) -- ( 30 ) California Here I Come - Freddie Cannon (#24)
-- ( -- ) Summertime - Al Martino -- ( -- ) Teddy - Connie Francis -- ( -- ) Starbright - Johnny Mathis -- ( -- ) With These Hands - Shirley Bassey
The comedy rules at the top with Lonnie Donegan displacing Max Bygraves after just one week. Connie Francis climbs to #3 with her minor UK #27 hit whilst yet another of her songs fails to enter.
Barrett Strong climbs into the top 5 whilst Marv Johnson, who has had the biggest hit of the year so far, claims the highest entry at #11, the same position Barrett Strong entered last week. Berry Gordy Jnr was co-writer on both these songs as well as "You Got What It Takes".
Carl Dobkins Jr gets the second highest entry with "Lucky Devil", a song that sounds like it might be done by Elvis. Perhaps that's because it was written by Schroeder & Gold who did indeed write a few of Elvis's hits. The man himself remains absent.
Bobby Darin now charts with Clementine. In 1959 his big hit "Dream Lover" was one he wrote himself, but Mack The Knife and Beyond The Sea were reworks of old songs (the latter originally in French and called La Mer). Clementine is a rework of "Oh My Darling Clementine" with changed lyrics. A bit of fun maybe or a "laughing gnome / frog song" moment for him, I'm not sure. In any case it charts but looks set to do far worse than his others so far.
Steve Lawrence has one of the versions of "Footsteps" about. And Santo & Johnny chart with "Teardrop". This reached #50 in the UK chart. Their bigger hit was "Sleepwalk" but that was 1959 so I've missed it. Both are instrumentals and influenced Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross". (Peter Green admits it being influenced by Sleepwalk).
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Post by rubcale on Mar 1, 2015 19:41:12 GMT 1
I'd be cringing if Dustman was #1 today!
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 1, 2015 21:40:58 GMT 1
I know that technically "Dustman" is just too silly. "Fings Ain't What They Used To Be" is technically a far superior song to it. Lyrically satirical, but you'd expect that from Lionel Bart.
But I've always liked "My Old Man's A Dustman".. The charts are going to get a lot less silly too. A certain man is about to enter the building.
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 2, 2015 19:43:53 GMT 1
I know that technically "Dustman" is just too silly. "Fings Ain't What They Used To Be" is technically a far superior song to it. Lyrically satirical, but you'd expect that from Lionel Bart. But I've always liked "My Old Man's A Dustman".. The charts are going to get a lot less silly too. A certain man is about to enter the building. I love many of Lonnie's 1950s hits from "Rock Island Line" onwards; but by 1960 his output took a sharp downwards turn (a la Madonna post Confessions On A Dancefloor era) in quality with the occasional good song shining through. Having said that I wonder what Madonna will be like aged 68 compared to this: As for silly, I've just listened to a song with an exotic fruit in its title.... but will it chart in August 1960.
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