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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 22, 2015 20:22:44 GMT 1
I have noticed too that songs tend to make slow climbs to #1 in yours. In mine they usually reach #1 by their 2nd or 3rd week. Only the Everly Brothers were slow and reached #1 on their 4th after waiting 2 weeks behind Elvis.
My normal turnover has always been about 17 number ones a year, so on average really 3 weeks at #1, and I think my highest turnover was 1987 which had 22 if I recall. There are always going to be songs that I thought would be #1 but won't because they end up competing with something else, and especially now as I have both UK and US entries and songs will appear in the US chart earlier than in the UK chart so earlier than I was expecting them to be charting.
The reason my #1s enter so high is that I score up a whole month then give them numbers that reflect their first week entry position in the "scoring" for that week. The lower the number, the higher it is likely to enter. "True Love Ways" has actually received the best "score" so far but still only managed 3 weeks at #1. "You Got What It Takes" was in a playlist that spanned a lot more weeks and its main competitors entered the same week and 6 weeks later, however Bobby Darin got lucky and disposed it after 4.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 24, 2015 21:49:41 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 (#14)
-- ( 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 (#12) -- ( 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
There are no signs of anything disturbing the top, so it's looking more likely that Shakin' All Over will become only the 2nd single this week to manage a 4th week on top, with "You Got What It Takes" by Marv Johnson being the only other, in January-February.
Pennies From Heaven was originally recorded by Bing Crosby in a 1936 film and wasn't a swing song, but it has been recorded as one by many people. However Skyliners had the only hit version, reaching the US top 40. "Lady Is A Tramp", which enters lower down is also a much-recorded swing song. I always thought Frank Sinatra had had a hit with that song but can't find any chart placing for his version. Buddy Greco did however take it to #26 in the UK chart.
In between we have a much recorded song called "Look For A Star". And Buzz Cason confused everybody by recording it under the name of "Garry Miles". The song was written by a Brit, Tony Hatch, so is assumed that Gary Mills's version is the intended original. This version also reached the US chart and may have got higher without its competitors.
Between those the Everly Brothers follow the #1 "Cathy's Clown" and the Avons don't have any competitors this time so get their song in the chart.
Failing to chart are two songs for which cover versions reached #1. Timmy Mallett didn't really ruin "itsy bitsy teeny weeny" because it was already a crap song. It still has a bit more charm maybe than Ken Dodd, who really should have stuck only with entertaining. Death songs were a theme of 1960 - and there's an answer song to all of them coming up in a few weeks but I've just always found "Tell Laura I Love Her" rather too annoying.
Don Costa will get another chance to chart with "Never On Sunday" coming up on the playlist I'm currently listening to.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 25, 2015 23:09:21 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 (#14)
-- ( -- ) Image Of A Girl - Safaris -- ( -- ) Never Let Go - John Barry & His Orchestra
A 4th week for Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and now the only serious challenger from within the chart is Roy Orbison who climbs a further two places to #2. Bill Black's Combo get the highest new entry but that's only one of 3 and only in at #17. From a double A-side, Fats Domino gets the official A-side into the chart this week. The B-side follows later but is lower quality and probably won't make it. Anthony Newley gets another hit.
The two artists not quite making it as the Safaris and John Barry. The former were doo-wop band and should not be confused with the Surfaris who came later and did "Wipe Out". But just in case anyone did get confused, what exactly is the story behind this?
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 26, 2015 22:28:12 GMT 1
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)
-- ( -- ) Romantica - Jane Morgan -- ( -- ) Is A Blue Bird Blue - Conway Twitty
A 5th week for Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, but the new entries this week throws up a likely challenger and the Shadows may well deny them a 6th week if their classic "Apache" can make it. With Elvis's classic due to chart next week it may an issue of "now or never" next week. The following week may be too late..
George Formby is famous for ukulele although it was a banjolele he actually played. He gets in my chart with his last hit. He dies about a year later. In September we'll actually have a hit that mentions ukulele...
Finger Boppin' Time sounds a lot like "The Twist". And a bit later in the year they record that too, but Chubby's version will get the nod over theirs.
Rolf Harris scrapes in at #30. I didn't expect to be charting it actually when I saw it was on the list, but hey, it is one of his better ones. Sun Arise may have a chance too in a couple of years time. Not sure about any of the others.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 27, 2015 18:50:40 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
In brief, the Shadows climb to #1 with their classic Apache, whilst Elvis Presley bids to remove them with a very high entry with a classic of his own, and also has an entry lower down which entered the UK chart the same week but in the US was relegated to being the B-side of his other hit here.
Lionel Bart's Oliver is in the theatre now, and Max Bygraves, having had a hit with a Lionel Bart song earlier in the year (NM #1 too) is the first to have a go at releasing one as a single. There are 2 more to come but this one didn't go down too well with the record-buying public who only gave it one week at #50. Maybe he was a bit too old to be the Artful Dodger at 38? The role in the theatre was actually played by a young Davy Jones, later one of the Monkees, and Phil Collins would also get a go at it.
Johnny Preston charts with one and flops with the other. Fats Domino also fails with a B-side.
New entries also for the King Brothers - a swing group, Joan Regan and Lloyd Price. (A different song called Question is expected to be a far bigger hit 10 years on..)
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 29, 2015 1:10:18 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
The Shadows hold on to their #1 for another week, holding out the mighty Elvs for at least one week and with twangly guitar instrumental music now in, the Ventures get the highest entry too with "Walk Don't Run".
Meanwhile as Max Bygraves climbs to #3, another Oliver-based song finally gets Shirley Bassey into the chart. In the UK, this was a much bigger success too, peaking at #3. I mentioned Max Bygraves being 38 at the time. Back in 1960, Shirley Bassey was only 23, possibly close to Nancy's age although wikipedia suggests she's supposed to be only 17. Shani Wallis was 35 when she played Nancy in the film.
From this week's chart, The Shadows, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Shirley Bassey, Jackie Wilson and Cliff Richard have all had hits in the post-1977 era, i.e. my regular chart. Elvis Presley's "It's Now Or Never" peaked at NM #2 in 2005, and if it can't get past the Shadows here it will go down as unlucky in peaking there twice. Roy Orbison peaked at #2 with "Only The Lonely" here and his biggest NM hit "She's A Mystery To Me" also peaked at #2 (The song was given the honour of best single of 1989 not to reach #1 and really it should have been one but wasn't). Rolf Harris from the chart above released a cover of Stairway To Heaven in 1993 but it didn't chart. Thus so far "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" is his only registered chart entry.
Jackie Wilson has charted only (post-1977) with re-issues of old songs. (He died in 1984 but was comatised since 1975 so unable really to record anything new past that point. He was only 49 when he died). "(You Were Made For) All My Love" was one of his few UK chart entries during this era.
The other entry comes from Tommy Sands.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 29, 2015 7:49:30 GMT 1
The two artists not quite making it as the Safaris and John Barry. The former were doo-wop band and should not be confused with the Surfaris who came later and did "Wipe Out". But just in case anyone did get confused, what exactly is the story behind this? The doo-wop Surfaris were on Eldo Records (started by Johnny Otis, incidentally), and "Kick Out" was an Eldo-Gallese production. My guess is that someone at Eldo might have noticed confusion between Safaris and Surfaris, so decided to cash in by making a soundalike, to try to fool the audience into thinking that "Kick Out" was a follow-up to "Wipe Out". Bloody great cut though.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 29, 2015 17:09:16 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
There is no stopping Elvis this week as he becomes the first artist to get a second NM #1 in the retro era.
We've felt the vibe already with "Finger Poppin' Time". Now Chubby Checker enters with "The Twist". The song reached #1 in the USA but wasn't as popular in the UK as "Let's Twist Again" which reaches #2. However "The Twist" did also get to UK #2 in the 1988 version with the Fat Boys. That version however failed to reach my chart and Chubby Checker doesn't have any hits in the later era.
Marv Johnson started the year with one of the biggest hits. His latest song is yet another of those UK #50 hits and Jackie Wilson will be having one a bit later on. "A Woman, A Lover, A Friend" was the B-side to "(You Were Made For) All My Love" and peaked at #15 in the USA compared to #12 for the A-side.
The two that didn't make the cut were Anita Bryant's follow-up to "Paper Roses" and Craig Douglas who had a string of top 10 hits, a lot of which peaked at #9. However on this occasion the British public agreed with me. Only UK #43.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 30, 2015 21:44:02 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 Mar 31, 2015 11:49:11 GMT 1
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.
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 Earl Purple on Mar 31, 2015 21:08:55 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 Apr 2, 2015 2:32:56 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 Apr 3, 2015 1:27:57 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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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 3, 2015 14:38:12 GMT 1
17 September 1960:
1 ( 8 ) Let's Think About Living - Bob Luman < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Little Boy Lost - Michael Holliday 3 ( -- ) Pineapple Princess - Annette Funicello 4 ( 1 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley (#1[5]) 5 ( 4 ) Going Back To My Home Town - Hal Paige & The Whalers (#4) 6 ( 3 ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette (#2[2]) 7 ( 14 ) Chain Gang - Sam Cooke 8 ( -- ) Caribbean Honeymoon - Frank Weir 9 ( 5 ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk (#4) 10 ( 9 ) Never On Sunday - Don Costa And His Orchestra And Chorus (#9)
11 ( 13 ) Kiddio - Brook Benton 12 ( 7 ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence (#5) 13 ( 6 ) The Twist - Chubby Checker (#3) 14 ( 10 ) Lorelei - Lonnie Donegan (#10) 15 ( 11 ) I'd Do Anything - Mike Preston (#11) 16 ( 21 ) Nice 'N' Easy - Frank Sinatra 17 ( 18 ) Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson 18 ( 19 ) Yogi - Ivy Three 19 ( 20 ) Hello Young Lovers - Paul Anka 20 ( 12 ) Apache - Shadows (#1[2])
21 ( 22 ) Them There Eyes - Emile Ford & The Checkmates 22 ( 16 ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson (#14) 23 ( 15 ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures (#3) 24 ( 26 ) My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own - Connie Francis 25 ( 17 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers (#7) 26 ( -- ) So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - Everly Brothers 27 ( -- ) How About That - Adam Faith 28 ( -- ) Devil Or Angel - Bobby Vee 29 ( 23 ) Theme From The Apartment - Ferrante & Teicher (#18) 30 ( 24 ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson (#13)
-- ( 25 ) Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston (#5) -- ( 27 ) As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey (#9) -- ( 28 ) A Woman A Lover A Friend - Jackie Wilson (#20) -- ( 29 ) Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan (#15) -- ( 30 ) Consider Yourself - Max Bygraves (#3)
The chart I was waiting for as I foresaw this coming from the playlist I had and what week the best songs on it got released. In any case it makes sense that Bob Luman should grab #1 being 2nd on the playlist, compared to Michael Holliday (4th). Johnny Burnette was 3rd and the highest entry this week from Annette Funicello was way out in front the whole time. And it's such a silly song too. Possibly should have entered this week at #1 but I'm not sure when new entries at #1 will become a regular feature on this chart. This is now her 4th top 10 hit and was previously unlucky to peak at #2 with "First Name Initial" and surely will go to #1 next week. It will however sadly be her last ever hit on this chart. Although her acting career went from strength to strength, the hits dried up.
Frank Weir's entry is instrumental. He's better known in the USA for his version of that German tune that in English is called The Happy Wanderer with a chorus that goes Val-de-ri, val-de-ra... and was a hit in the UK for the Obernkirchen Children's Choir (sung in German, peaked at #2) and for the Stargazers (sung in English).
In any case with regards to the locations being sung about, our top 10 is brought to you from Australia (Little Boy Lost), Hawaii (Pineapple Princess), Caribbean (Frank Weir) and Dover, England (Acker Bilk). And with "Never On Sunday" being Greek, we get the true holiday flavour. Except for Hal Paige. that is, who wants to go back home again..
Bobby Vee charts for the first time. There will be a lot more to come from him.
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whilst you're waiting for the next chart, enjoy a live performance (from 1965) of the song currently residing at #1.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 5, 2015 12:21:30 GMT 1
Bob Luman's backing band was called The Shadows. Good job he wasn't any more than a novelty one-hit wonder otherwise Marvin et al would have had to have another re-think.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 5, 2015 21:53:15 GMT 1
Let's Think About Living is what they called a "crossover" hit. He was a successful country singer but this one crossed over to get airplay from regular radio stations and thus became a hit in the Hot 100 too.
He does have one other minor hit "Why Why Bye Bye" which is on the playlist for December. It is easily outscored by a lot of the others on that list but may scrape an entry lower down to not be a proper "one hit wonder".
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 6, 2015 12:12:09 GMT 1
So never mind about Bob Luman's backing band, Cliff's backing band is in a chart battle this week with the more famous US band that had their original name...
1 ( 3 ) Pineapple Princess - Annette Funicello < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Let's Think About Living - Bob Luman (#1[1]) 3 ( 8 ) Caribbean Honeymoon - Frank Weir 4 ( 2 ) Little Boy Lost - Michael Holliday (#2[2]) 5 ( 7 ) Chain Gang - Sam Cooke 6 ( 10 ) Never On Sunday - Don Costa And His Orchestra And Chorus 7 ( 5 ) Going Back To My Home Town - Hal Paige & The Whalers (#4) 8 ( -- ) Wondrous Place - Billy Fury 9 ( -- ) Save The Last Dance For Me - Drifters 10 ( 4 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley (#1[5])
11 ( -- ) Nine Times Out Of Ten - Cliff Richard 12 ( 6 ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette (#2[2]) 13 ( 11 ) Kiddio - Brook Benton (#11) 14 ( 16 ) Nice 'N' Easy - Frank Sinatra 15 ( 9 ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk (#4) 16 ( 17 ) Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson 17 ( 26 ) So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - Everly Brothers 18 ( -- ) Kookie Little Paradise - Frankie Vaughan 19 ( 12 ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence (#5) 20 ( 18 ) Yogi - Ivy Three (#18)
21 ( 27 ) How About That - Adam Faith 22 ( 14 ) Lorelei - Lonnie Donegan (#10) 23 ( 19 ) Hello Young Lovers - Paul Anka (#19) 24 ( 28 ) Devil Or Angel - Bobby Vee 25 ( 15 ) I'd Do Anything - Mike Preston (#11) 26 ( 13 ) The Twist - Chubby Checker (#3) 27 ( 21 ) Them There Eyes - Emile Ford & The Checkmates (#21) 28 ( -- ) Three Nights A Week - Fats Domino 29 ( 24 ) My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own - Connie Francis (#24) 30 ( 22 ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson (#14)
-- ( 20 ) Apache - Shadows (#1[2]) -- ( 23 ) Walk Don't Run - Ventures (#3) -- ( 25 ) Mais Oui - King Brothers (#7) -- ( 29 ) Theme From The Apartment - Ferrante & Teicher (#18) -- ( 30 ) (You Were Made For) All My Love - Jackie Wilson (#13)
-- ( -- ) Lucille - Everly Brothers
So here we go, she came close back in February but now there's no stopping her and Annette Funicello hits the top with the wonderfully catchy "Pineapple Princess". This, as well as "First Name Initial" and "O Dio Mio" were all written by the Sherman Brothers, who also wrote the jungle book songs (I Wanna Be Like You / Bear Necessities etc). Her other hit "Train Of Love" was composed by Paul Anka. In doing so she becomes the first female singer to reach NM #1. No female singers topped the UK chart during 1960, nor during 1962 or 1963 other than Wendy Richard's featured vocal on "Come Outside". However 3 different female vocalists did so in 1961 with 4 #1s between them. In the USA, both Brenda Lee and Connie Francis has #1s in 1960 and a girl-group had a chart topper either the end of 1960 or start of 1961.. Connie Francis came closest in the UK - "Mama / Robot Man" peaking at #2.
My playlist ran from 24th September to 22nd October inclusively so 5 weeks. Most of the top hits were either this week or the final one. Thus some crowding of high new entries in this chart.
Billy Fury's was re-issued recently (or promoted or whatever) after featuring in a TV ad. The Drifters song is well known. Cliff's "Nine Times Out Of Ten" is more rock-a-billy than usual, his first really uptempo hit since his first "Move It". And whilst Merseyside isn't dominating yet, there are 2 singers from that area entering as Frankie Vaughan gets a new hit.
Left out in the cold are the Everly Brothers but Lucille (a cover of Little Richard) was really coupled with So Sad and was only considered separately as that song was already in the chart.
Anyway, back to the number one. This is the first NM #1 not to have reached the UK chart at all. It peaked at #11 in the US Billboard Chart. There also happens to be a proper video for it. In colour too...
And there you go. Wasn't life much better in 1960? Summer, Hawaii and everything. And not a single pair of sandals or flip-flops in site in that video..
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 8, 2015 0:22:18 GMT 1
1 October 1960:
1 ( 1 ) Pineapple Princess - Annette Funicello < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Let's Think About Living - Bob Luman (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) Caribbean Honeymoon - Frank Weir 4 ( 8 ) Wondrous Place - Billy Fury 5 ( 9 ) Save The Last Dance For Me - Drifters 6 ( 11 ) Nine Times Out Of Ten - Cliff Richard 7 ( 4 ) Little Boy Lost - Michael Holliday (#2[2]) 8 ( 5 ) Chain Gang - Sam Cooke (#5) 9 ( 6 ) Never On Sunday - Don Costa And His Orchestra And Chorus (#6) 10 ( 18 ) Kookie Little Paradise - Frankie Vaughan
11 ( 7 ) Going Back To My Home Town - Hal Paige & The Whalers (#4) 12 ( -- ) Rocking Goose - Johnny & The Hurricanes 13 ( 17 ) So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - Everly Brothers 14 ( 14 ) Nice 'N' Easy - Frank Sinatra 15 ( -- ) Passing Breeze - Russ Conway 16 ( 16 ) Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson 17 ( 13 ) Kiddio - Brook Benton (#11) 18 ( 10 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley (#1[5]) 19 ( 21 ) How About That - Adam Faith 20 ( 12 ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette (#2[2])
21 ( 28 ) Three Nights A Week - Fats Domino 22 ( 24 ) Devil Or Angel - Bobby Vee 23 ( 15 ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk (#4) 24 ( 20 ) Yogi - Ivy Three (#18) 25 ( 19 ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence (#5) 26 ( 23 ) Hello Young Lovers - Paul Anka (#19) 27 ( -- ) Gotta Get A Date - Frank Ifield 28 ( 22 ) Lorelei - Lonnie Donegan (#10) 29 ( -- ) I'm Not Afraid - Ricky Nelson 30 ( 27 ) Them There Eyes - Emile Ford & The Checkmates (#21)
-- ( 25 ) I'd Do Anything - Mike Preston (#11) -- ( 26 ) The Twist - Chubby Checker (#3) -- ( 29 ) My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own - Connie Francis (#24) -- ( 30 ) Ain't Gonna Be That Way - Marv Johnson (#14)
-- ( -- ) I Want To Be Wanted - Brenda Lee -- ( -- ) Honest I Do - Innocents
As the first female singer to top the NM (retro) charts remains there a 2nd week, we have the two highest entries coming from instrumentals. I don't know how original the music behind Rocking Goose is but as far as I know it's original here, which may be part of the attraction. There's a weird sound-effect which I've always assumed is supposed to be the goose. Russ Conway gets the other.
Frank Ifield finally does enter and Ricky Nelson also scrapes in.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 8, 2015 23:16:32 GMT 1
Annette Funicello would be the sort of mom's apple pie side of beach culture in Disneyesque films with Frankie Avalon, which seem to make up that video clips. The tune of "Pineapple Princess" reminds me somewhat of "It's A Small World After All". Which makes sense; both were written by the Sherman Brothers, who soundtracked a load of Disney films and won Oscars and Grammys for Mary Poppins..
Paul Anka wrote "Puppy Love" in her honour. She was the first Mouseketeer to have chart success. Sadly, not the last. Even more sadly she died of MS complications a couple of years ago.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 8, 2015 23:22:57 GMT 1
8th October 1960
1 ( 1 ) Pineapple Princess - Annette Funicello < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Wondrous Place - Billy Fury 3 ( 2 ) Let's Think About Living - Bob Luman (#1[1]) 4 ( 5 ) Save The Last Dance For Me - Drifters 5 ( 3 ) Caribbean Honeymoon - Frank Weir 6 ( 6 ) Nine Times Out Of Ten - Cliff Richard 7 ( 12 ) Rocking Goose - Johnny & The Hurricanes 8 ( 10 ) Kookie Little Paradise - Frankie Vaughan 9 ( 15 ) Passing Breeze - Russ Conway 10 ( 13 ) So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - Everly Brothers
11 ( 7 ) Little Boy Lost - Michael Holliday (#2[2]) 12 ( 8 ) Chain Gang - Sam Cooke (#5) 13 ( 9 ) Never On Sunday - Don Costa And His Orchestra And Chorus (#6) 14 ( 14 ) Nice 'N' Easy - Frank Sinatra 15 ( 11 ) Going Back To My Home Town - Hal Paige & The Whalers (#4) 16 ( 21 ) Three Nights A Week - Fats Domino 17 ( 16 ) Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson 18 ( 19 ) How About That - Adam Faith 19 ( 27 ) Gotta Get A Date - Frank Ifield 20 ( 29 ) I'm Not Afraid - Ricky Nelson
21 ( 22 ) Devil Or Angel - Bobby Vee 22 ( 17 ) Kiddio - Brook Benton (#11) 23 ( -- ) Restless - Johnny Kidd And The Pirates 24 ( -- ) Sweetie Pie - Eddie Cochran 25 ( 18 ) It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley (#1[5]) 26 ( -- ) How High The Moon - Ella Fitzgerald 27 ( 20 ) Dreamin' - Johnny Burnette (#2[2]) 28 ( -- ) Don't Be Cruel - Bill Black's Combo 29 ( 24 ) Yogi - Ivy Three (#18) 30 ( 26 ) Hello Young Lovers - Paul Anka (#19)
-- ( 23 ) White Cliffs Of Dover - Mr Acker Bilk (#4) -- ( 25 ) Girls Girls Girls - Steve Lawrence (#5) -- ( 28 ) Lorelei - Lonnie Donegan (#10) -- ( 30 ) Them There Eyes - Emile Ford & The Checkmates (#21)
-- ( -- ) My Love For You - Johnny Mathis -- ( -- ) Diamonds And Pearls - Paradons
A second week in a row without any significantly high entries. Today (8th April) is the anniversary of Annette's death and in 2 charts time here it will be her 18th birthday. Will she "celebrate" it with a #1?
Too many of our singers here have met early or horrible deaths. Bob Luman, recently #1, died in 1978 aged just 41. He may have been thinking about living but it didn't stop him dying young. Billy Fury, #2 this week, died fairly young too and Michael Holliday, recently #2, died just 3 years later.
Johnny Kidd, who had a #1 earlier this year with "Shakin' All Over" for 5 weeks gets the highest entry this week but it enters much lower. He will also die young, in a car crash in 1966. Eddie Cochran had already met his end that way.
Bill Black played bass guitar on Elvis Presley's version of "Don't Be Cruel" and scores an instrumental hit of his own with it. This would be his biggest UK hit but in my chart "Josephine" has performed the best for him so far. He will die from a brain tumour in 1965, aged just 39. There are more singles to come from him and he actually released about 20 albums.
Ella Fitzgerald is already 43 by 1960. She did live to the age of 79 although her last few years suffered ill health. I'm hopeful we'll get more from her.
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