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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 2, 2015 22:19:51 GMT 1
So far this is the craziest thing I have come across:
and wtf, this was 1960 and someone already understand the concept of manufactured pop!.
but really that's a comedy sketch. wtf is it doing in the charts? I can't remember which chart it came up on...
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 2, 2015 23:13:04 GMT 1
Stan Freberg topped the US charts with "St George & The Dragonet" - another comedy sketch, basically a re-telling of the St George story in the Dragnet style. Co-written with Daws Butler, whom you will know from his voice artistry; amongst his many, many immortal vocal creations are Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss and half of the Wacky Racers. The US charts were always far more friendly to comedy records (Bob Newhart, Allan Sherman and Vaughn Meader all topped various charts in the fifties and sixties).
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 3, 2015 0:19:41 GMT 1
Stan Freberg topped the US charts with "St George & The Dragonet" - another comedy sketch, basically a re-telling of the St George story in the Dragnet style. Co-written with Daws Butler, whom you will know from his voice artistry; amongst his many, many immortal vocal creations are Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss and half of the Wacky Racers. The US charts were always far more friendly to comedy records (Bob Newhart, Allan Sherman and Vaughn Meader all topped various charts in the fifties and sixties). I very nearly charted it! Believe me there are a couple of horrid big USA novelty singles in the next few months to come that make Brian Hyland's song about a girl with a small bikini look about as unusual as an earnest Sam Smith ballad.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 4, 2015 0:32:35 GMT 1
Chart of 9th April 1960, and finally...
1 ( 1 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) Valentino - Connie Francis 4 ( 5 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong 5 ( 11 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson 6 ( -- ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley 7 ( 14 ) Lucky Devil - Carl Dobkins Jr 8 ( 4 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (#1[3]) 9 ( 8 ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton (#8) 10 ( 6 ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson (#5)
11 ( 12 ) White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo 12 ( 16 ) Clementine - Bobby Darin 13 ( 7 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (#6) 14 ( 10 ) Darktown Strutter's Ball - Joe Brown (#10) 15 ( 9 ) O Dio Mio - Annette Funicello (#8) 16 ( 21 ) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence 17 ( -- ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra 18 ( 19 ) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley 19 ( 15 ) Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon (#14) 20 ( 26 ) Teardrop - Santo And Johnny
21 ( -- ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 22 ( 13 ) Delaware - Perry Como (#2[1]) 23 ( 24 ) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 24 ( 20 ) Collette - Billy Fury (#20) 25 ( -- ) The Old Lamplighter - Browns 26 ( 18 ) Country Boy - Fats Domino (#14) 27 ( 17 ) Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith (#3) 28 ( 23 ) Dance With Me - Drifters (#21) 29 ( 22 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune (#4) 30 ( 25 ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price (#11)
-- ( 27 ) Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin (#1[2]) -- ( 28 ) Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith (#2[1]) -- ( 29 ) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven (#21) -- ( 30 ) Puppy Love - Paul Anka (#26)
-- ( -- ) Don't Throw Away All Those Teardrops - Frankie Avalon
Whilst the top end of the chart is held by comedy, the highest two entries this week, both debutants (but obviously neither would be if I had backdated further into the 1950s), are both "King" of their genre of music. Elvis Presley is labelled the king of rock 'n' roll. 1977 is still a long way off. He's lived long compared to some of the other rock 'n' rollers, in particular Buddy Holly, and Eddie Cochran about to die soon (he died on 17th April so one week on).
And we may have Bobby Darin but the king of swing is definitely good ol' Frank Sinatra.
The other new entries are provided by Billy Bland's doo-wop and one of the few slower songs to make it, an ode to the lamp-lighter by the Browns.
By the way, there are so many classic songs within the next few weeks, there's no way they can all get to #1. Two of those by names I mentioned above, both therefore dead by this point. One by a singer who will live 4 more years and the other by a singer who made it all the way to 2012.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 4, 2015 21:58:27 GMT 1
16th April 1960:
1 ( 1 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley 3 ( 2 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves (#1[1]) 4 ( 5 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson 5 ( -- ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers 6 ( 3 ) Valentino - Connie Francis (#3) 7 ( 4 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (#4) 8 ( 7 ) Lucky Devil - Carl Dobkins Jr (#7) 9 ( -- ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 10 ( -- ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki
11 ( 17 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra 12 ( 12 ) Clementine - Bobby Darin 13 ( 11 ) White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo (#11) 14 ( 9 ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton (#8) 15 ( -- ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith 16 ( 21 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 17 ( 8 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (#1[3]) 18 ( 16 ) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence (#16) 19 ( 10 ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson (#5) 20 ( 20 ) Teardrop - Santo And Johnny
21 ( 25 ) The Old Lamplighter - Browns 22 ( -- ) Step By Step - Crests 23 ( 18 ) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley (#18) 24 ( 14 ) Darktown Strutter's Ball - Joe Brown (#10) 25 ( 13 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (#6) 26 ( -- ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers 27 ( 15 ) O Dio Mio - Annette Funicello (#8) 28 ( 23 ) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard & The Shadows (#23) 29 ( 19 ) Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon (#14) 30 ( -- ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston
-- ( 22 ) Delaware - Perry Como (#2[1]) -- ( 24 ) Collette - Billy Fury (#20) -- ( 26 ) Country Boy - Fats Domino (#14) -- ( 27 ) Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith (#3) -- ( 28 ) Dance With Me - Drifters (#21) -- ( 29 ) Be Mine - Lance Fortune (#4) -- ( 30 ) Lady Luck - Lloyd Price (#11)
-- ( -- ) Night - Jackie Wilson -- ( -- ) Skylark - Michael Holliday
A 3rd week on top for Lonnie Donegan with Elvis now trying to take the seat on his throne as king of rock 'n' roll. Trying to deny him from doing so are the Everly Brothers who crash in at #5 with "Cathy's Clown". Neil Sedaka's "Stairway To Heaven" is the follow up to the #1 of "Oh Carol". The Led Zeppelin song of the same title is still 11 years away. Meanwhile, Neil Sedaka has still not yet climbed that ladder as of 2015, remaining on this planet.
Pat Suzuki sings a song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Adam Faith scores yet another hit. The Crests are a doo-wop style rock n roll band. The King Brothers hit had a strange run in the official UK chart. One week only in the top 10 but that at #4. Johnny Preston follows up his classic "Running Bear" with a bit of a silly song that mentions a few nursery rhymes.
Missing out is Jackie Wilson's "Night" but it's part of an A-side / B-side pair with the superior "Doggin' Around" out next week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 5, 2015 22:15:10 GMT 1
I noticed that I usually only allow the first version of a song I come across but Frank Ifield's version of "Lucky Devil" appeared first and flopped whilst Carl Dobkins Jr then had a big hit with it. Either familiarity helped it in the second time, or the competition it was up against or my mood at the time or it was simply a far superior version.
Listening to the 2 versions, Carl Dobkins Jr is fairly "Elvis" soundalike, Frank Ifield is more doo-wop with his version.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 6, 2015 0:17:32 GMT 1
Anyway, on to what was one very quiet week for entries:
23 April 1960
1 ( 2 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers 3 ( 1 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[3]) 4 ( 9 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 5 ( 10 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki 6 ( 4 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson (#4) 7 ( 3 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves (#1[1]) 8 ( 15 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith 9 ( 11 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra 10 ( -- ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins
11 ( 6 ) Valentino - Connie Francis (#3) 12 ( 8 ) Lucky Devil - Carl Dobkins Jr (#7) 13 ( 7 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (#4) 14 ( 12 ) Clementine - Bobby Darin (#12) 15 ( 16 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 16 ( 22 ) Step By Step - Crests 17 ( 13 ) White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo (#11) 18 ( 26 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers 19 ( 21 ) The Old Lamplighter - Browns 20 ( 14 ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton (#8)
21 ( 20 ) Teardrop - Santo And Johnny (#20) 22 ( 18 ) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence (#16) 23 ( 30 ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 24 ( -- ) Just One Time - Don Gibson 25 ( 17 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (#1[3]) 26 ( 23 ) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley (#18) 27 ( 19 ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson (#5) 28 ( 28 ) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard & The Shadows (#23) 29 ( 24 ) Darktown Strutter's Ball - Joe Brown (#10) 30 ( 25 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (#6)
-- ( 27 ) O Dio Mio - Annette Funicello (#8) -- ( 29 ) Big Beat Boogie - Bert Weedon (#14)
First hit for Elvis Presley in the retro-chart and he already has a number one. It was a relatively close battle though and his reign may be limited to just a single week. The Everly Brothers were also a major act around this time and had several UK #1s. Cathy's Clown is listed in my book as the #1 of the year for 1960.
After "El Paso", Marty Robbins has another song that features Russian Roulette, but this time it's between a bandit his potential hitman. You'll have to listen to the song to find out which one won.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 8, 2015 10:53:25 GMT 1
30th April 1960
1 ( 1 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers 3 ( 4 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 4 ( 5 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki 5 ( 10 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins 6 ( 8 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith 7 ( 3 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[3]) 8 ( -- ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly 9 ( 9 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra 10 ( 6 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson (#4)
11 ( 7 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves (#1[1]) 12 ( 16 ) Step By Step - Crests 13 ( 18 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers 14 ( -- ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson 15 ( 15 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 16 ( 24 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson 17 ( -- ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 18 ( 12 ) Lucky Devil - Carl Dobkins Jr (#7) 19 ( 11 ) Valentino - Connie Francis (#3) 20 ( 14 ) Clementine - Bobby Darin (#12)
21 ( 19 ) The Old Lamplighter - Browns (#19) 22 ( 23 ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 23 ( 13 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (#4) 24 ( 17 ) White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo (#11) 25 ( -- ) Shazam - Duane Eddy 26 ( 21 ) Teardrop - Santo And Johnny (#20) 27 ( -- ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas 28 ( 22 ) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence (#16) 29 ( 20 ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton (#8) 30 ( -- ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini
-- ( 25 ) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (#1[3]) -- ( 26 ) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley (#18) -- ( 27 ) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson (#5) -- ( 28 ) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard & The Shadows (#23) -- ( 29 ) Darktown Strutter's Ball - Joe Brown (#10) -- ( 30 ) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (#6)
-- ( -- ) Tom Pillibi - Jaccqueline Boyer -- ( -- ) Beat For Beatniks - John Barry Orchestra -- ( -- ) The Lonely Man - Cliff Adams Orchestra -- ( -- ) Fame And Fortune - Elvis Presley
6 new entries this week. Whilst the king retains his throne, many feel Buddy Holly might have challenged the title of king of rock 'n' roll had he not died so young. That doesn't mean you can't like both singers of course, and Elvis himself admired Buddy Holly. Buddy also wrote many of his own songs, although he didn't write Heartbeat (Montgomery / Petty). The US charts didn't seem to go much for the posthumous hits, with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" being the only one, released just after his death. In the UK they released a few singles after his death and re-released some. "Heartbeat" entered the chart just before his death in January 1959 spending one week at #30 in a top 30. In 1960 it was re-released with the chart a top 50. It peaked at #30 a second time.
Jackie Wilson is best known for "Reet Petite" and also "I Get The Sweetest Feeling" and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher" but had many other hits too. Doggin' Around is "original-style" R&B.
Johnny Ferguson steals the bragging rights for Angela Jones on this chart. Whilst Duane Eddy and Henry Mancini chart with instrumentals.
Jacqueline Boyer may have beaten Bryan Johnson in Eurovision but narrowly fails to chart here where Bryan Johnson had peaked at #5. He falls out this week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 11, 2015 1:43:46 GMT 1
7th May 1960
1 ( 2 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 3 ( 8 ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly 4 ( 3 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) 5 ( 5 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins 6 ( 4 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#4) 7 ( 6 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (#6) 8 ( 14 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson 9 ( 17 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 10 ( 12 ) Step By Step - Crests
11 ( 9 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra (#9) 12 ( 13 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers 13 ( 16 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson 14 ( -- ) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes 15 ( 7 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[3]) 16 ( -- ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich 17 ( 10 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson (#4) 18 ( -- ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly 19 ( 15 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland (#15) 20 ( 11 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves (#1[1])
21 ( 25 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy 22 ( 27 ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas 23 ( 22 ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston (#22) 24 ( 30 ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini 25 ( -- ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers 26 ( 21 ) The Old Lamplighter - Browns (#19) 27 ( -- ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune 28 ( 18 ) Lucky Devil - Carl Dobkins Jr (#7) 29 ( 20 ) Clementine - Bobby Darin (#12) 30 ( 19 ) Valentino - Connie Francis (#3)
-- ( 23 ) Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (#4) -- ( 24 ) White Silver Sands - Bill Black's Combo (#11) -- ( 26 ) Teardrop - Santo And Johnny (#20) -- ( 28 ) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence (#16) -- ( 29 ) Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton (#8)
-- ( -- ) What Am I Living For - Conway Twitty -- ( -- ) Cherry Pie - Skip And Flip
The Everly Brothers move to #1. This single was also a UK #1, the 2nd such single to achieve #1 in both, and the first to be #1 in the US Billboard Chart too. This is also the first time that I have not had a solo male vocalist at #1. Instead I have 2 male vocalists.. Annette Funicello narrowly missed out earlier in the year and is as yet the only female singer to have breached the top 2. Connie Francis peaked at #3 with "Velentino" and has a lot more songs to come.
Another Connie, Ms Stevens, narrowly failed to chart with her "Sixteen Reasons" (A song with a very strange yo-yoing UK chart run) but does get a hit dueit with Edd Byrnes on the novelty "Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Come). It's one of the few male-female duets about that is almost a conversation. Male-female duets have been ruling the way in the recent NM chart so maybe one of them will top the 1960 one.
Actulaly a comparison with the 1960 chart of the week published and the 2015 chart (not the same calendar week) is that both of them have Cathy in the title of the #1. For the currently published 1983 chart the closest would be "Cath" by the Bluebells. It wasn't however even in the last posted chart and won't be getting to #1.
Charlie Rich may have had a ballad hit in the 1970s with "The Most Beautiful Girl" and that's the song for which I knew him, but this one isn't a ballad, it's more rock-a-billy.
Keith Kelly is a singer I don't know anything about. "Tease Me" peaked at #27 in the UK chart, he had one smaller hit and that's all, and it didn't chart in the USA.
There were 2 versions of The Madison about. And Lance Fortune charts again, not sounding quite so much like Adam Faith this time.
One version of "Cherry Pie" has failed to enter but Jess Conrad's version is not being added.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 12, 2015 13:31:30 GMT 1
I intended to post one of these last night but fell asleep immediately after the football and didn't get round to it. But I'm not any further behind on these. The dates they get posted up and their compilation are totally separate.
It's one playlist a week and has remained that way. I have scored up 4 for May and the above chart is 7th May. I need to ensure I put the dates next to the charts.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 12, 2015 18:19:09 GMT 1
Flip of Skip & Flip was Gary Paxton, who ended up a big wheel for a time; he ran the Garpax label which scored a chart-topper Stateside with "Monster Mash" (which he produced), and had a performer no. 1 credit as a Hollywood Argyle.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 13, 2015 0:43:19 GMT 1
Thank you for the information. The Hollywood Argyles are due to chart soon with "Alley Oop". Monster Mash first appears in the US chart in 1962 I think. So it will appear here when I do that year.
Now for 14th May 1960:
1 ( 1 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly 3 ( 2 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 4 ( 8 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson 5 ( -- ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 6 ( 9 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 7 ( 5 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#5) 8 ( 4 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) 9 ( 14 ) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes 10 ( -- ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran
11 ( 16 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich 12 ( 6 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#4) 13 ( 7 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (#6) 14 ( 10 ) Step By Step - Crests (#10) 15 ( 18 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly 16 ( 13 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson (#13) 17 ( 12 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers (#12) 18 ( 11 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra (#9) 19 ( 25 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers 20 ( 21 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy
21 ( 27 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune 22 ( 22 ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas 23 ( 24 ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini 24 ( -- ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets 25 ( -- ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant 26 ( 19 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland (#15) 27 ( 15 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[3]) 28 ( 17 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson (#4) 29 ( 23 ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston (#22) 30 ( -- ) Milord - Edith Piaf
-- ( 20 ) Fings Ain't What They Used To Be - Max Bygraves (#1[1]) -- ( 26 ) The Old Lamplighter - Browns (#19) -- ( 28 ) Lucky Devil - Carl Dobkins Jr (#7) -- ( 29 ) Clementine - Bobby Darin (#12) -- ( 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
How frequent will be the turnover of my #1s? There are a lot of good songs to fit in and they seem to be averaging just about 2 weeks each since the first two spent 3 and 4 weeks respectively.
Two UK #1 hits bag the highest two entries. Jimmy Jones may well have "Good Timing" if he can get to #1 next week. Rather sad that Eddie Cochran found another route to heaven other than the one he was singing about. There was always something I disliked about this song though - that he thinks it's very simple yet I found step 2 (she falls in love with you) anything but simple... Plus I grew up on Showaddywaddy's version. And then the Sex Pistols covers of two of his other songs. "Summertime Blues" is actually my favourite Eddie Cochran song, and I have considered whether I started this retro list too late, and whether I've missed out on so many classic rock 'n' roll songs just before many of the key players passed away. (Summertime Blues is summer of 1958).
That also means I missed out the Crickets during their Buddy Holly period. This song and "When You Ask About Love" were both successfully covered in 1980 within a few months, producing a #2 and #4 hit in their cover versions. Bobby Vee will also cover "More Than I Can Say" within a couple of years.
We've had the original of "Puppy Love" by Paul Anka. Now another song covered by an Osmond - Paper Roses was covered by Marie. Finally the French diva whose song "La Vie En Rose" was covered in the 1980s by Grace Jones and is the song of hers with which I am most familiar. Her "Milord" scrapes in at #30.
Just missing out is Alma Cogan who were mainly successful in the 1950s. This song only got to #48 in the UK chart so I guess her it's not up to her usual standard. I'm not sure if she was actually known personally to any of my family. She is buried in the same cemetery as some of my relatives. She will get 2 more attempts at charting.
Of the others that failed to get in "He'll Have To Stay" is an "answer" song to Jim Reeves's "He'll Have To Go". I don't mind answer songs if the tune differs a bit. This one is just exactly the same. Not that original really, which is why it failed to chart. My chart history does contain one answer song that reached #1.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 13, 2015 18:05:46 GMT 1
21 May 1960
1 ( 5 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson 5 ( 10 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 6 ( 6 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 7 ( 3 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 8 ( -- ) Robot Man - Connie Francis 9 ( 9 ) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes 10 ( 11 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich
11 ( 7 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#5) 12 ( 8 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) 13 ( 15 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly 14 ( 24 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets 15 ( 19 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers 16 ( -- ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson 17 ( 25 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant 18 ( 21 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune 19 ( -- ) Barbara - Temptations 20 ( 14 ) Step By Step - Crests (#10)
21 ( 12 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#4) 22 ( 16 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson (#13) 23 ( 13 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (#6) 24 ( 20 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy (#20) 25 ( 30 ) Milord - Edith Piaf 26 ( 17 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers (#12) 27 ( 22 ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas (#22) 28 ( 23 ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini (#23) 29 ( -- ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon 30 ( 18 ) It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Frank Sinatra (#9)
-- ( 26 ) Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland (#15) -- ( 27 ) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (#1[3]) -- ( 28 ) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson (#4) -- ( 29 ) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston (#22)
-- ( -- ) Young Emotions - Ricky Nelson -- ( -- ) Lucky Five - Russ Conway -- ( -- ) The Fight - Marty Wilde -- ( -- ) Green Jeans - Flee-Rekkers
As I mentioned the turnover of #1s seems to be happening on average every 2 weeks and that has happened again. Jimmy Jones's UK #1 "Good Timin'" tops the chart here too. 3 of the 4 last NM #1s were also UK #1s. Elvis being the odd one out, he had a lot of UK #1s but "Stuck On You" wasn't one of them.
Connie Francis had a double A-side of "Mama" and "Robot Man". I'd already rejected "Mama" but "Robot Man" crashes in the chart as the highest entry. Unlikely however to get her to be the first female to break the top in this chart.
Dave Sampson gets the next entry. He's an English singer.
A very early hit for the Temptations. One of the acts who has also appeared in the later era, and not just with that re-release of "My Girl" in 1992 but original music too. (Treat Her Like A Lady in 1984).
If you've watched TOTP from 1980 recently you heard "Buzz Buzz A Diddle It" by Matchbox. That's originally a Freddy Cannon song. He gets an entry this week with "The Urge".
No luck this time for Russ Conway, I'm afraid. 5 wasn't his lucky number. The Flee-Rekkers was one of Joe Meek's productions. The track is really Greensleeves done in a rock style. We get quite a few of this sort of thing.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 15, 2015 13:01:06 GMT 1
28th May 1960
1 ( 1 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( -- ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly 3 ( 8 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis 4 ( 5 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 5 ( 2 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 6 ( -- ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke 7 ( 4 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#4) 8 ( 3 ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly (#2[1]) 9 ( 6 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#6) 10 ( 16 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson
11 ( -- ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell 12 ( 14 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets 13 ( -- ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers 14 ( 9 ) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes (#9) 15 ( 10 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich (#10) 16 ( 19 ) Barbara - Temptations 17 ( -- ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis 18 ( 7 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 19 ( 13 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (#13) 20 ( 17 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant (#17)
21 ( 15 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers (#15) 22 ( -- ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates 23 ( 11 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#5) 24 ( 18 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune (#18) 25 ( 12 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) 26 ( -- ) That's You - Nat King Cole 27 ( -- ) Got A Girl - Four Preps 28 ( 29 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon 29 ( 25 ) Milord - Edith Piaf (#25) 30 ( -- ) Mustapha - Bob Azzam
-- ( 20 ) Step By Step - Crests (#10) -- ( 21 ) I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki (#4) -- ( 22 ) Just One Time - Don Gibson (#13) -- ( 23 ) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (#6) -- ( 24 ) Shazam - Duane Eddy (#20) -- ( 26 ) Standing On The Corner - King Brothers (#12) -- ( 27 ) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas (#22) -- ( 28 ) Mr Lucky - Henry Mancini (#23) -- ( 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
Wow, 9 new entries! Once again it looks like the #1 may be confined to just 2 weeks as Buddy Holly's classic "True Love Ways" enters at #2, behind Jimmy Jones's "Good Timin'". Connie Francis gets her second #3 hit and also another new entry.
Another "classic" song enters the same week for Sam Cooke at #6. Bobby Rydell had a double A-side and I'm crediting both tracks together this time. Tommy Bruce enters with a song written and previously recorded by Fats Waller around 1929. Of the other entries, the one at #30 is another foreign-language song. Sounds like partly French and partly Arabic but not sure.
Among the four missing out is Lonnie Donegan doing "I Wanna Go Home" which is the same song as "Sloop John B" but the presence of this version of the song reminded me of the fact that Lonnie Donegan actually did reach my chart with it in the February 2000, together with Chris Barber and Van Morrison peaking at #33. The chart was a top 40 at the time and it entered at #40 then climbed to #33 then dropped out.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 17, 2015 2:10:58 GMT 1
4th June 1960:
1 ( 2 ) True Love Ways - Buddy Holly < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (#1[2]) 3 ( 6 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke 4 ( 3 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#3) 5 ( 4 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#4) 6 ( 11 ) Swingin' School / Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell 7 ( 13 ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers 8 ( 10 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson 9 ( 17 ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis 10 ( 5 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2])
11 ( 7 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#4) 12 ( 12 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets 13 ( -- ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans 14 ( 9 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#6) 15 ( 22 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates 16 ( 8 ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly (#2[1]) 17 ( 16 ) Barbara - Temptations (#16) 18 ( 26 ) That's You - Nat King Cole 19 ( 27 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps 20 ( 14 ) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes (#9)
21 ( 15 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich (#10) 22 ( 30 ) Mustapha - Bob Azzam 23 ( 20 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant (#17) 24 ( 19 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (#13) 25 ( 21 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers (#15) 26 ( 28 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon 27 ( -- ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan 28 ( 18 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) 29 ( 24 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune (#18) 30 ( -- ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos
-- ( 23 ) Big Iron - Marty Robbins (#5) -- ( 25 ) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (#3) -- ( 29 ) Milord - Edith Piaf (#25)
Following a week of 12 songs we have a week of just 3, all of which chart, one of them reasonably high, the other two just scraping in.
Unlike "Heartbeat", True Love Ways is a song co-written by Buddy Holly and was a single for the first time in 1960. His version only peaked at #25 in the UK chart. Peter And Gordon's version will reach #2 in 1965 and Cliff Richard will get to #8 in 1983, so we may meet this version soon in the topic relating to that year. Cliff's remake of "Living Doll" with the Young Ones will eventually keep Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World " off #1 in the UK chart. In the current chart here Sam Cooke climbs to #3. Connie Francis is a bit unlucky to go down with Robot Man, which gets squeezed out. Her song "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", which would get to #1 in the USA, climbs into the top 10. In volume of hits she is the most successful female singer so far in 1960 on this chart, although Annette Funicello has had the biggest hit so far by a female singer.
No female singers entering this week. Paul Evans gets a 3rd hit with a song he co-wrote and will be covered by that ukulele man George Formby. As a result I won't be charting that version but George Formby had a double A-side with "Banjo Man" and although there's also a competing version of that song out (in July), his got the nod. July will see some very corny music, in addition to a few more classics.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 18, 2015 1:38:49 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 (#3) 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 ( 9 ) Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis 9 ( 13 ) Happy-Go-Lucky Me - Paul Evans 10 ( 5 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#4)
11 ( 8 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#8) 12 ( 15 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates 13 ( 12 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#12) 14 ( 18 ) That's You - Nat King Cole 15 ( 19 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps 16 ( -- ) Goodnight Sweet Prince - Mr Acker Bilk 17 ( 11 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#4) 18 ( 10 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) 19 ( 22 ) Mustapha - Bob Azzam 20 ( 27 ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan
21 ( 17 ) Barbara - Temptations (#16) 22 ( 14 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#6) 23 ( -- ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters 24 ( 30 ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos 25 ( -- ) Little Christine - Dick Jordan 26 ( 16 ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly (#2[1]) 27 ( 26 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon (#26) 28 ( -- ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy 29 ( 20 ) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes (#9) 30 ( 23 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant (#17)
-- ( 21 ) Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich (#10) -- ( 24 ) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (#13) -- ( 25 ) The Madison - Al Brown's Tunestoppers (#15) -- ( 28 ) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (#1[2]) -- ( 29 ) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune (#18)
-- ( -- ) Baby Baby Bye Bye - Jerry Lee Lewis -- ( -- ) Jealous Of You - Connie Francis -- ( -- ) Twelfth Street Rag - Bert Weedon
The highest new entry is the original version of A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around), a song that was a UK hit for Shaky & Bonnie in 1984. Brook Benton and Dinah Washington do seem to add a lot more "charm" to the song than they did.
Mr Acker Bilk gets another entry with a song that spent one week in the UK chart at #50. So far it's been a good run for UK #50 peaks in my chart. There is one more in the June playlist, one in July and in August we'lll have the pleasure of Hal Paige & The Whalers. There are some big names who had #50 for 1 week hits... Bobby Darin, Roy Orbison and later on Marvin Gaye will have singles peak there. Scott McKenzie and Hugo Montenegro too, both of those keeping those artists off being official One Hit Wonders in the UK.
Among my other entries is Duane Eddy with what was his biggest US hit. Connie Francis's "Jealous Of You" was the B-side to Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and is partly sang in Italian (with a subtitle Tango Della Gelosia). Burt Weedon fails to enter with what is yet another version of "Twelfth Street Rag", a jazzy instrumental played mostly on piano and Russ Conway and Winifred Atwell both recorded it. Probably sold a lot of sheet music. Pee Wee Hunt's version is credited as a UK #1 in 1949 by the British Hit Singles book, topping the chart for 5 weeks. And yeah, Jerry Lee Lewis released other music aside from Great Balls Of Fire.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 18, 2015 23:03:07 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 (#3) 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 ( 16 ) 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 ( 12 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates (#12) 14 ( 14 ) That's You - Nat King Cole 15 ( 15 ) Got A Girl - Four Preps 16 ( -- ) Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles 17 ( 23 ) Rockin' Red Wing - Sammy Masters 18 ( 11 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#8) 19 ( 13 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#12) 20 ( 20 ) Sing Like An Angel - Jerry Lordan
21 ( 10 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#4) 22 ( 25 ) Little Christine - Dick Jordan 23 ( -- ) I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 24 ( 19 ) Mustapha - Bob Azzam (#19) 25 ( -- ) River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 26 ( 28 ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy 27 ( -- ) Jump Over - Freddy Cannon 28 ( 24 ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos (#24) 29 ( 17 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#4) 30 ( -- ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton
-- ( 18 ) Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (#1[2]) -- ( 21 ) Barbara - Temptations (#16) -- ( 22 ) Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson (#6) -- ( 26 ) Heartbeat - Buddy Holly (#2[1]) -- ( 27 ) The Urge - Freddy Cannon (#26) -- ( 29 ) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Connie Stevens & Edd Byrnes (#9) -- ( 30 ) Paper Roses - Anita Bryant (#17)
-- ( -- ) Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent -- ( -- ) Down Yonder - Johnny & The Hurricanes -- ( -- ) My Home Town - Paul Anka -- ( -- ) Mule Skinner Blues - Fendermen
Buddy Holly gets a 3rd week at #1, the first song to stay that long at the top since Lonnie Donegan's "My Old Man's A Dustman". So far only "You Got What I Takes" by Marv Johnson has managed a 4th week at #1.
Attempting to prevent that, entering at #4, the classic "Shakin' All Over" by British rock & roll group Johnny Kidd & The Pirates. Next up from the entries, a song from a musical "The Happy Fella" that was written by Frank Loesser and had just hit London having previous been around in the USA. This song only reached #46 in the UK chart.
Hollywood Argyles and Brenda Lee are both on their way up to US #1 and both enter this week. Frank Sinatra and Freddy Cannon get further hits, and Jimmy Clanton takes another UK #50 hit into the NM chart. He's a proper 50-club member having had no other UK hits, although he did have others in the US chart and his song "Go Jimmy Go" peaked at #15 on the NM chart.
Not making it are Gene Vincent with a song originally from 1943, yet another Johnny & The Hurricanes instrumental, Paul Anka who charted here with "Puppy Love" earlier in the year and the Fendermen's country song which is also a lot older than 1960, having been around in the 1930s.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 20, 2015 1:48:01 GMT 1
Meanwhile back in 1960:
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 (#3) 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 (#14) 18 ( 13 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford And The Checkmates (#12) 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 (#20) 26 ( 30 ) Another Sleepless Night - Jimmy Clanton 27 ( 26 ) Because They're Young - Duane Eddy (#26) 28 ( 19 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#12) 29 ( 18 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#8) 30 ( -- ) You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else - Jerry Wallace
-- ( 21 ) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran (#4) -- ( 24 ) Mustapha - Bob Azzam (#19) -- ( 28 ) Nobody Loves Me Like You - Flamingos (#24) -- ( 29 ) Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (#4)
-- ( -- ) I Really Don't Want To Know - Tommy Edwards -- ( -- ) Walking The Floor Over You - Pat Boone
Halfway through my first retro year. And we're shakin' all over. I always knew (from before I started the retro-chart) that that song would make it to the top.
The highest new entry comes from Teresa Brewer. The OCC chart has her highest ever peak at #2 but that's because it only goes back to 1952. However the British Hit Singles book says that in 1950 she had a single top the chart for 12 weeks. Yes, TWELVE weeks at #2 for "Music! Music! Music!".
Just in case you thought we'd done it with the humour, Tommy Steele pops up: what a mouth, what a mouth, what a north and south! A bit of cockney rhyming slang there..
"Train Of Love" shouldn't really have been eligible as a hit for Annette Funicello but would have put a strange twist in as Alma Cogan's cover reached the UK top 30 and would have been picked ahead of the original just on a technicality. Both women's lives ended in a sad manner but Alma will depart the earth a lot sooner. She'll have one last chance to reach my chart, but we'll just say had I started my chart in the 1950s she'd have had a lot more opportunities. This is Annette's 3rd hit of the year but she gets also only one more before her acting career superceded her her music career and there are no more from her past the next one along soon.
Jerry Wallace scrapes in the final entry. Two male crooners failed to get in. For one of them, Tommy Edwards it's again a case of "Oh, he did other songs..." Actually his recording career goes back way earlier than 1958. In fact even that song is listed in British Hit Singles as charting in early 1952. This was his only chance to get in the NM chart. I do far prefer his version of "It's All In The Game" to Cliff's so we'll see if I bother charting that.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 22, 2015 11:27:46 GMT 1
2 July 1960
1 ( 1 ) Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates < 2nd 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 & The Shadows 12 ( 5 ) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke (#2[2]) 13 ( 7 ) Robot Man - Connie Francis (#3) 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 (#14) 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 (#12) 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 (#20) -- ( 28 ) More Than I Can Say - Crickets (#12) -- ( 29 ) Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson (#8)
-- ( -- ) Please Help Me I'm Falling - Hank Locklin -- ( -- ) Runaround - Fleetwoods
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates remain at #1 and last week's breakers don't show any sign of disturbing it so it looks like at least a 3rd week for this one too unless either Roy Orbison or Cliff Richard make a huge leap.
Both the highest new entries were UK #1s. Roy Orbison is charting now from its US entry which is why they both chart together. The fact so many classic songs are out at the same time does mean they can't all reach #1.
Bobby Darin continues with his formula or reworking old songs rather than write his own (he wrote "Dream Lover"). We're getting diminishing returns. Although this is a fair bit better than Clementine it still only enters at #16. This song was dated from 1902. The comedian who calls himself Bill Bailey wasn't born yet, even in 1960 (and his real name is Mark Bailey anyway, but maybe he used "Bill" due to this song).
That song therefore probably even pre-dates "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" which was a World War I song. "Made You" was a double-A-side with it and the less-played song but is slightly my preference. Dropkick Murphys also did an adaptation of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (And they also played it last night..)
Brenda Lee's "That's All You Gotta Do" is the up-tempo official B-side of "I'm Sorry" which, like many other US releases, charted in its own right.
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 22, 2015 11:59:32 GMT 1
Your Retro chart definitely seems to have a faster turnover of chart toppers than mine. So far I've had 22 Number Ones in 15 months, 8 of which have spent 4 weeks or more at the top.
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