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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 2, 2015 21:35:27 GMT 1
1 July 1961
1 ( 2 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Stand By Me - Ben E King (#1[4]) 3 ( 4 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran 4 ( 3 ) You Always Hurt The One You Love - "Clarence ""Frogman"" Henry" (#2[1]) 5 ( 5 ) Well I Ask You - Eden Kane (#4) 6 ( 7 ) Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell 7 ( 15 ) A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard 8 ( 10 ) Quarter To Three - US Bonds 9 ( 12 ) Bee Bom - Anthony Newley 10 ( 6 ) Halfway To Paradise - Billy Fury (#1[2])
11 ( -- ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon 12 ( 16 ) Temptation - Everly Brothers 13 ( 9 ) Barbara-Ann - Regents (#7) 14 ( 8 ) Pablo - Russ Conway (#4) 15 ( 11 ) Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton (#11) 16 ( 13 ) Ambush - Outlaws (#13) 17 ( 19 ) Exclusively Yours - Mark Wynter 18 ( 25 ) Ring Of Fire - Duane Eddy 19 ( 17 ) She She Little Sheila - Gene Vincent (#17) 20 ( 14 ) Transistor Radio - Benny Hill (#10)
21 ( -- ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro 22 ( -- ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets 23 ( 29 ) Tell Me Why - Belmonts 24 ( 24 ) Tossin' And Turnin' - Bobby Lewis 25 ( -- ) Time - Craig Douglas 26 ( 21 ) Raindrops - Dee Clark (#18) 27 ( 20 ) That Old Black Magic - Bobby Rydell (#12) 28 ( 18 ) Running Scared - Roy Orbison (#2[3]) 29 ( 23 ) Moody River - Pat Boone (#21) 30 ( -- ) It Keeps Rainin' - Fats Domino
-- ( 22 ) Hello Mary Lou - Ricky Nelson (#3) -- ( 26 ) Little Devil - Neil Sedaka (#11) -- ( 27 ) Gunslinger - Frankie Laine (#4) -- ( 28 ) Frightened City - Shadows (#6) -- ( 30 ) Bells Of Avignon - Max Bygraves (#25)
-- ( -- ) San Antonio Rose - Floyd Cramer -- ( -- ) Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad - Tommy Cooper
There was no stopping them, the Temperance Seven get their jazz-swing 20s revival song to #1. It's produced by George Martin. And it has 2 false endings.
The highest new entry is the follow-up to "Runaway", an ode to Larry for dumping his ex. Helen Shapiro's first UK #1 enters in a decent position but is clearly no challenge for the top. The Velvets get their second uptempo doo-wop hit that is yet another UK #50 for one week song. All but one so far have reached my chart. (All but 2 but Chaquito was simply due to being an alternative version of a hit that had already reached my chart). A very pleasant song by Craig Douglas and the Fats Domino song that Bitty McLean covered in 1993.
Missing out is the next instrumental piano tune from Floyd Cramer and a rather silly comic song by Tommy Cooper.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 4, 2015 0:08:28 GMT 1
8 July 1961
1 ( 1 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran 3 ( 2 ) Stand By Me - Ben E King (#1[4]) 4 ( 7 ) A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard 5 ( 11 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon 6 ( 5 ) Well I Ask You - Eden Kane (#4) 7 ( 4 ) You Always Hurt The One You Love - "Clarence ""Frogman"" Henry" (#2[1]) 8 ( 6 ) Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell (#6) 9 ( 8 ) Quarter To Three - US Bonds (#8) 10 ( 9 ) Bee Bom - Anthony Newley (#9)
11 ( 12 ) Temptation - Everly Brothers 12 ( -- ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly 13 ( 21 ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro 14 ( 22 ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets 15 ( 18 ) Ring Of Fire - Duane Eddy 16 ( -- ) I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson 17 ( 10 ) Halfway To Paradise - Billy Fury (#1[2]) 18 ( 17 ) Exclusively Yours - Mark Wynter (#17) 19 ( 25 ) Time - Craig Douglas 20 ( 13 ) Barbara-Ann - Regents (#7)
21 ( -- ) I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy - Bob Wallis 22 ( 23 ) Tell Me Why - Belmonts 23 ( 16 ) Ambush - Outlaws (#13) 24 ( 15 ) Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton (#11) 25 ( 14 ) Pablo - Russ Conway (#4) 26 ( 30 ) It Keeps Rainin' - Fats Domino 27 ( 19 ) She She Little Sheila - Gene Vincent (#17) 28 ( -- ) I Like It Like That Part 1 - Chris Kenner 29 ( 24 ) Tossin' And Turnin' - Bobby Lewis (#24) 30 ( 20 ) Transistor Radio - Benny Hill (#10)
-- ( 26 ) Raindrops - Dee Clark (#18) -- ( 27 ) That Old Black Magic - Bobby Rydell (#12) -- ( 28 ) Running Scared - Roy Orbison (#2[3]) -- ( 29 ) Moody River - Pat Boone (#21)
-- ( -- ) The Miracle Of You - Danny Williams -- ( -- ) You Can't Sit Down Part 2 - Phil Upchurch Combo -- ( -- ) High Voltage - Johnny & The Hurricanes -- ( -- ) Ole Buttermilk Sky - Bill Black's Combo -- ( -- ) Dum Dum - Brenda Lee -- ( -- ) Please Stay - Drifters -- ( -- ) Nature Boy - Bobby Darin -- ( -- ) Valley Of Tears - Buddy Holly
The chart is up to 8th July so just past halfway through the year. My current chart policy i.e. for 2015, is always to find new music even if it fits an old style, but in 1961 there is a lot of old music about and I'm not giving precedence necessarily to original material.
Thus the Temperence Seven remain at #1 with an old jazz song that Al Jolson recorded around 1923 and that isn't the oldest jazz song in the chart anymore as Bob Wallis's "I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy" outdates it by about 12 years. The other songs that enter are all fairly original albeit that Buddy Holly died 2 years earlier but it was an original for him and Jackie Wilson with a more uptempo song than the last few and a soulful song for Chris Kenner that peaked at #2 in the USA and isn't related at all to the Phil Upchurch Combo one that missed out other than they both have part numbers and both entered the US top 30 on the same week.
Buddy Holly's "Valley Of Tears" only appears on the "miss" list because it was a UK double A-side release so I only charted one of the songs on it. Other than Phil Upchurch the rest of that miss list are all acts we've met before, several of them have had big hits and two of them (not counting Holly) have had a #1. Bobby Darin's "Nature Boy" was recorded previously by Nat King Cole. On the first few charts I compiled in 1960 his career kicked off to a great start but primarily since that "Clementine" song (that I charted higher than probably I should) he's not been doing well. However I do foresee one big hit for him coming up in the next few months.
I actually have marked down today what might be my remaining #1s of the year. Nothing is certain but whilst there are about 8 of them which may be about right for half a year, the spacing isn't necessarily how I'd want, and the ones I'd expect to be the bigger hits, i.e. the longer running #1s, aren't necessarily the ones with the big gaps after them before the next one.
1961 was a year I followed intensely in 1983 (yeah that other year we're doing retro). And only the UK charts and that was through a certain DJ's "Old Record Club" where he'd play the top 10 and some of the hits outside (sometimes even a #50) and that would be every 4th week. So my placing of when songs were hits are more likely to be based on their peak and they mostly rose slowly, and also many of my hits are now charting earlier in the USA so enter my chart then. That I didn't hear US hits at the time may work against them on the familiarity factor.
Coming up during the latter half of the year are a lot of uptempo doo-wop songs covered by Showaddywaddy and other artists of that era. And two songs (not doo-wop) that had hit cover versions in the summer of 1980.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 5, 2015 0:27:56 GMT 1
15 July 1961
1 ( 1 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran 3 ( 5 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon 4 ( 4 ) A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard 5 ( 3 ) Stand By Me - Ben E King (#1[4]) 6 ( 12 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly 7 ( -- ) Cupid - Sam Cooke 8 ( 16 ) I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson 9 ( -- ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker 10 ( 6 ) Well I Ask You - Eden Kane (#4)
11 ( 13 ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro 12 ( -- ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk 13 ( 14 ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets 14 ( 8 ) Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell (#6) 15 ( 7 ) You Always Hurt The One You Love - "Clarence ""Frogman"" Henry" (#2[1]) 16 ( 11 ) Temptation - Everly Brothers (#11) 17 ( 9 ) Quarter To Three - US Bonds (#8) 18 ( 10 ) Bee Bom - Anthony Newley (#9) 19 ( 21 ) I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy - Bob Wallis 20 ( 15 ) Ring Of Fire - Duane Eddy (#15)
21 ( 19 ) Time - Craig Douglas (#19) 22 ( -- ) Romeo - Petula Clark 23 ( 28 ) I Like It Like That Part 1 - Chris Kenner 24 ( 18 ) Exclusively Yours - Mark Wynter (#17) 25 ( 22 ) Tell Me Why - Belmonts (#22) 26 ( 26 ) It Keeps Rainin' - Fats Domino 27 ( 17 ) Halfway To Paradise - Billy Fury (#1[2]) 28 ( 20 ) Barbara-Ann - Regents (#7) 29 ( 23 ) Ambush - Outlaws (#13) 30 ( 24 ) Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton (#11)
-- ( 25 ) Pablo - Russ Conway (#4) -- ( 27 ) She She Little Sheila - Gene Vincent (#17) -- ( 29 ) Tossin' And Turnin' - Bobby Lewis (#24) -- ( 30 ) Transistor Radio - Benny Hill (#10)
-- ( -- ) Together - Connie Francis
In the chart this week, as the Temperance Seven make it 3 weeks we have as a new entry a Sam Cooke song covered in the summer of 1980 by the (Detroit) Spinners who themselves turned up on the 1961 playlist that followed this one.
Chubby Checker's biggest UK hit was his second "Twist" related song. His earlier hit "Hucklebuck" was also covered in the early 80s. Yet another old jazz song revived, this time again by Mr Acker Bilk and like Buona Sera this peaks in the UK chart at #7. The "famous" one is a way off yet but he's a consistently good performer in this chart.
And finally the debut for Petula Clark, doing the revival thing and again a foreign song originally. "Salome" from 1919. The English lyrics were written for her.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 7, 2015 17:18:45 GMT 1
22 July 1961
1 ( 1 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke 3 ( 3 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon 4 ( 2 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran (#2[2]) 5 ( 9 ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker 6 ( 6 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly 7 ( 8 ) I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson 8 ( 4 ) A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard (#4) 9 ( 12 ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk 10 ( 5 ) Stand By Me - Ben E King (#1[4])
11 ( 11 ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro 12 ( 13 ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets 13 ( 22 ) Romeo - Petula Clark 14 ( 10 ) Well I Ask You - Eden Kane (#4) 15 ( 19 ) I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy - Bob Wallis 16 ( 23 ) I Like It Like That Part 1 - Chris Kenner 17 ( 14 ) Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell (#6) 18 ( -- ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith 19 ( 16 ) Temptation - Everly Brothers (#11) 20 ( 15 ) You Always Hurt The One You Love - "Clarence ""Frogman"" Henry" (#2[1])
21 ( 21 ) Time - Craig Douglas (#19) 22 ( 20 ) Ring Of Fire - Duane Eddy (#15) 23 ( 17 ) Quarter To Three - US Bonds (#8) 24 ( 26 ) It Keeps Rainin' - Fats Domino 25 ( 18 ) Bee Bom - Anthony Newley (#9) 26 ( 25 ) Tell Me Why - Belmonts (#22) 27 ( -- ) Last Night - Mar-Keys 28 ( 24 ) Exclusively Yours - Mark Wynter (#17) 29 ( -- ) Sacred - Castells 30 ( 29 ) Ambush - Outlaws (#13)
-- ( 30 ) Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton (#11) -- ( 27 ) Halfway To Paradise - Billy Fury (#1[2]) -- ( 28 ) Barbara-Ann - Regents (#7)
I have been considering whether when I reach maybe 1964 I will extend the chart to a top 40. And if not then, a bit later. However this week shows why it can't go beyond a top 30 yet as I had only songs on my list for this week (although some of the later weeks get a lot of entries). In the past I have borrowed one from a different week.
And of the 3 we had the highest entry is Adam Faith who only came 19th overall on the playlist that covers 6 weeks (which had 51 songs, but 11 of those got cut early on, including perhaps one surprise one).
One of the beneficieries, getting an extra week in the chart, were the Outlaws. They did a lot of session work for other artists, and their bass guitar player was a very young Chas Hodges, from Chas & Dave. And coming up quite soon will be one big hit in which they played.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 8, 2015 21:08:01 GMT 1
29 July 1961:
1 ( 2 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven (#1[4]) 3 ( 5 ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker 4 ( 3 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon (#3) 5 ( -- ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean 6 ( 4 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran (#2[2]) 7 ( 6 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly (#6) 8 ( 7 ) I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson (#7) 9 ( 9 ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk 10 ( -- ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee
11 ( 13 ) Romeo - Petula Clark 12 ( 18 ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith 13 ( 11 ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro (#11) 14 ( 12 ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets (#12) 15 ( 16 ) I Like It Like That Part 1 - Chris Kenner 16 ( 15 ) I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy - Bob Wallis (#15) 17 ( 8 ) A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard (#4) 18 ( -- ) Quite A Party - Fireballs 19 ( 27 ) Last Night - Mar-Keys 20 ( 10 ) Stand By Me - Ben E King (#1[4])
21 ( 14 ) Well I Ask You - Eden Kane (#4) 22 ( 29 ) Sacred - Castells 23 ( 17 ) Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell (#6) 24 ( 21 ) Time - Craig Douglas (#19) 25 ( 24 ) It Keeps Rainin' - Fats Domino (#24) 26 ( 19 ) Temptation - Everly Brothers (#11) 27 ( 22 ) Ring Of Fire - Duane Eddy (#15) 28 ( -- ) The Switch-A-Roo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 29 ( 20 ) You Always Hurt The One You Love - "Clarence ""Frogman"" Henry" (#2[1]) 30 ( -- ) Hide And Seek - Marty Wilde
-- ( 23 ) Quarter To Three - US Bonds (#8) -- ( 25 ) Bee Bom - Anthony Newley (#9) -- ( 26 ) Tell Me Why - Belmonts (#22) -- ( 28 ) Exclusively Yours - Mark Wynter (#17) -- ( 30 ) Ambush - Outlaws (#13)
-- ( -- ) The Fish - Bobby Rydell -- ( -- ) I'll Be There - Damita Jo -- ( -- ) In The Hall Of The Mountain King - Nero And The Gladiators -- ( -- ) Reach For The Stars / Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Shirley Bassey
Sam Cooke moves to the top with "Cupid" but its stay on top is threatened by a new entry at #5. A song I knew primarily from wannabe pianists at school who would play it as a duet, one person playing the lower part the other the melody.
The other high entry in the top 10 became known to me courtesy of Showaddywaddy, who picked a lot of songs to cover from these few months. Curtis Lee's follow-up "Under The Moon Of Love" became Showaddywaddy's only #1 but it peaks too low in the Billboard chart to make it into mine. Showaddywaddy's version was #2 in my "first" chart which no longer is. I'm not sure if I'm going to rerun the first few weeks of 1977 as well so we'll see what becomes of it if I do.
The Fireballs' track is heavily drum-presence instrumental and Hank Ballard gives us more rock 'n' roll whilst Kim's dad props up the table but gets in ahead of Bobby Rydell's ode to the fish and among those not to chart, the double A-side by Shirley Bassey, no connection to S Club 7 whatsoever (and their song did get in my chart so did better than her).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 9, 2015 17:51:27 GMT 1
5th August 1961
1 ( 1 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean 3 ( -- ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton 4 ( 3 ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker (#3) 5 ( -- ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee 6 ( 10 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee 7 ( 2 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven (#1[4]) 8 ( 4 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon (#3) 9 ( 12 ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith 10 ( 6 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran (#2[2])
11 ( 7 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly (#6) 12 ( 18 ) Quite A Party - Fireballs 13 ( 9 ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk (#9) 14 ( 8 ) I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson (#7) 15 ( 11 ) Romeo - Petula Clark (#11) 16 ( -- ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds 17 ( 19 ) Last Night - Mar-Keys 18 ( 15 ) I Like It Like That Part 1 - Chris Kenner (#15) 19 ( 13 ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro (#11) 20 ( 14 ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets (#12)
21 ( 22 ) Sacred - Castells 22 ( 16 ) I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy - Bob Wallis (#15) 23 ( 28 ) The Switch-A-Roo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 24 ( -- ) Don't Bet Money Honey - Linda Scott 25 ( 30 ) Hide And Seek Marty Wilde 26 ( 17 ) A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard (#4) 27 ( 25 ) It Keeps Rainin' - Fats Domino (#24) 28 ( 24 ) Time - Craig Douglas (#19) 29 ( 21 ) Well I Ask You - Eden Kane (#4) 30 ( 23 ) Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell (#6)
-- ( 20 ) Stand By Me - Ben E King (#1[4]) -- ( 26 ) Temptation - Everly Brothers (#11) -- ( 27 ) Ring Of Fire - Duane Eddy (#15) -- ( 29 ) You Always Hurt The One You Love - "Clarence ""Frogman"" Henry" (#2[1])
-- ( -- ) You Don't Know What You've Got (Until You Lose It) - Ral Donner -- ( -- ) What Kind Of Fool Am I - Anthony Newley -- ( -- ) That's What Girls Are Made For - Spinners -- ( -- ) Michael (Row The Boat Ashore) - Highwaymen
Sam Cooke remains at #1 for a 2nd week and Jan & Dean threaten the top spot with a climb from #5 to #2 but may well be too late as new entries crash in at #3 and #5 this week.
John Leyton was a British actor, the song features female vocals from Lissa Gray, has the Outlaws, of whom Chas Hodges (Chas & Dave) was a member (so he played bass guitar on this song) as the backing band and is written by Geoff Goddard and produced by Joe Meek. It's another song about death, more about ghostly voices of a dead person calling to him and wasn't played on the BBC as a result. However it reached #1 in the UK chart. (Incidentally, the Outlaws appeared as session musicians only. Chas Hodges wrote in his autobiography that he got paid £7 and 10 shilings, maybe around £160 day, to play a session regardless of whether or not the song was a hit. Most of Joe Meek's songs flopped).
Bobby Vee, who has another one coming up very shortly, crashes in too at #5, already his highest peaking single to date, 2 places higher than "Rubber Ball" which peaked at #7 at the end of 1960.
Not Alice Cooper maybe but Gary US Bonds (now officially using the Gary as part of his name) also did a song about end of school. As the chart is entering August now, so school holidays indeed.
Linda Scott's second hit peaked at #50 in the UK for 1 week, yet another hit in my chart for a song that peaked there. (So far only one has failed to do so). She's only 16 at this point but it would be her last UK chart entry. Her US top 30 career extended by one further hit so she'll get another shot at success here with that too.
Among those failing to chart this week are the Spinners with a song that would now would probably be politically incorrect and have females in rage (They suggest the purpose of women for the pleasure of men..). They shouldn't worry though. 19 years on from here they will get to NM #1 with a cover version of the song that is up there this week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 10, 2015 22:43:42 GMT 1
12 August 1961:
1 ( 3 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton < 1st #1 > 2 ( 5 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee 3 ( 2 ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean (#2[1]) 4 ( 1 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke (#1[2]) 5 ( 6 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee 6 ( 4 ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker (#3) 7 ( 9 ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith 8 ( 16 ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds 9 ( 12 ) Quite A Party - Fireballs 10 ( -- ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges
11 ( -- ) Tansy - Alex Welsh Band 12 ( -- ) Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos 13 ( 8 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon (#3) 14 ( 7 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven (#1[4]) 15 ( -- ) I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline 16 ( 10 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran (#2[2]) 17 ( 24 ) Don't Bet Money Honey - Linda Scott 18 ( 11 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly (#6) 19 ( 17 ) Last Night - Mar-Keys (#17) 20 ( 13 ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk (#9)
21 ( -- ) Girls - Johnny Burnette 22 ( 23 ) The Switch-A-Roo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 23 ( 15 ) Romeo - Petula Clark (#11) 24 ( 14 ) I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson (#7) 25 ( 21 ) Sacred - Castells (#21) 26 ( -- ) Runaround - Regents 27 ( 25 ) Hide And Seek - Marty Wilde (#25) 28 ( 18 ) I Like It Like That Part 1 - Chris Kenner (#15) 29 ( 19 ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro (#11) 30 ( 20 ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets (#12)
-- ( 22 ) I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy - Bob Wallis (#15) -- ( 26 ) A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard (#4) -- ( 27 ) It Keeps Rainin' - Fats Domino (#24) -- ( 28 ) Time - Craig Douglas (#19) -- ( 29 ) Well I Ask You - Eden Kane (#4) -- ( 30 ) Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell (#6)
-- ( -- ) Let The Four Winds Blow - Fats Domino -- ( -- ) Hurt - Timi Yuro
All change at the top as John Leyton heads to #1 with Bobby Vee just behind and as Jan & Dean slip but retain #3 meaninglast week's #1 drops to #4 this week.
Of the new entries, Eddie Hodges is a 14-year old male singer covering an Isley Brothers song, which will be later covered by Little Jimmy Osmond and several others. Tansy is a slow jazzy instrumental. Baby Sittin' is rock & roll and is significantly better than Buzz Clifford's "Baby Sitting Boogie" that featured little kiddie noises earlier in the year and flopped on this chart.
Country ballads normally struggle in this chart but this is Patsy Cline and she just sails in with all her charm at #15. Johnny Burnette charts but the positions are getting lower now and the second Regents hit after "Barbara Ann". The Beach Boys did "I Get Around" but not this song. It is also not the same as the Fleetwoods' song of the same title last year.
As Fats Domino fails to replace himself in the chart we also see down there Timi Yuro, whose main claim to fame in my chart was having her song "Interlude" covered by Morrissey & Siouxsie in the summer of 1994. Obsessed as I was about Morrissey at the time, it even got to #1.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 12, 2015 0:36:10 GMT 1
19 August 1961
1 ( 1 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee 3 ( 3 ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean (#2[1]) 4 ( 10 ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges 5 ( 11 ) Tansy - Alex Welsh Band 6 ( 8 ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds 7 ( 4 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke (#1[2]) 8 ( 12 ) Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos 9 ( 5 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee (#5) 10 ( 7 ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith (#7)
11 ( 15 ) I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline 12 ( 9 ) Quite A Party - Fireballs (#9) 13 ( 6 ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker (#3) 14 ( 21 ) Girls - Johnny Burnette 15 ( 17 ) Don't Bet Money Honey - Linda Scott 16 ( -- ) Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford 17 ( 26 ) Runaround - Regents 18 ( 13 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon (#3) 19 ( 14 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven (#1[4]) 20 ( 22 ) The Switch-A-Roo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
21 ( 19 ) Last Night - Mar-Keys (#17) 22 ( 16 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran (#2[2]) 23 ( 18 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly (#6) 24 ( -- ) I'm A Telling You - Jerry Butler 25 ( 20 ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk (#9) 26 ( -- ) Writing On The Wall - Tommy Steele 27 ( 27 ) Hide And Seek - Marty Wilde (#25) 28 ( 25 ) Sacred - Castells (#21) 29 ( 23 ) Romeo - Petula Clark (#11) 30 ( -- ) As If I Didn't Know - Adam Wade
-- ( 24 ) I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson (#7) -- ( 28 ) I Like It Like That Part 1 - Chris Kenner (#15) -- ( 29 ) You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro (#11) -- ( 30 ) Tonight (Could Be The Night) - Velvets (#12)
-- ( -- ) One Summer Night - Diamonds
After all that, another quiet week on the new entry front. Although we have 4 of them none of them are that high. Clinton Ford came 18th out of the 51 (52 songs but that included the double A-side from Shirley Bassey). The bottom end of the chart is showing the lack of competition down there. Adam Wade came 41st, the last one to survive the midweek cut yet charts, whereas in the past few weeks we saw Bobby Rydell and Fats Domino fail to do so with songs that were higher in the rankings but the competition that week was tougher.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 12, 2015 18:43:42 GMT 1
26 August 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee 3 ( 4 ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges 4 ( 5 ) Tansy - Alex Welsh Band 5 ( 3 ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean (#2[1]) 6 ( 6 ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds 7 ( 8 ) Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos 8 ( 16 ) Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford 9 ( 11 ) I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline 10 ( 14 ) Girls - Johnny Burnette
11 ( 7 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke (#1[2]) 12 ( 17 ) Runaround - Regents 13 ( 10 ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith (#7) 14 ( 9 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee (#5) 15 ( 15 ) Don't Bet Money Honey - Linda Scott 16 ( 24 ) I'm A Telling You - Jerry Butler 17 ( 12 ) Quite A Party - Fireballs (#9) 18 ( 26 ) Writing On The Wall - Tommy Steele 19 ( -- ) Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week - Brook Brothers 20 ( 20 ) The Switch-A-Roo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
21 ( 13 ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker (#3) 22 ( -- ) Right Or Wrong - Wanda Jackson 23 ( 18 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon (#3) 24 ( 21 ) Last Night - Mar-Keys (#17) 25 ( 19 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven (#1[4]) 26 ( 27 ) Hide And Seek - Marty Wilde (#25) 27 ( -- ) My True Story - Jive Five 28 ( 23 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly (#6) 29 ( 22 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran (#2[2]) 30 ( 25 ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk (#9)
-- ( 28 ) Sacred - Castells (#21) -- ( 29 ) Romeo - Petula Clark (#11) -- ( 30 ) As If I Didn't Know - Adam Wade (#30)
-- ( -- ) Say It With Flowers - Dorothy Squires & Russ Conway -- ( -- ) I Dreamed Of a Hill-Billy Heaven - Tex Ritter
And either this one or next week's is officially Carol's birthday chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 14, 2015 2:05:53 GMT 1
2 September 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee 3 ( 3 ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges 4 ( -- ) Crying - Roy Orbison 5 ( 4 ) Tansy - Alex Welsh Band (#4) 6 ( -- ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee 7 ( 8 ) Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford 8 ( -- ) Little Sister - Elvis Presley 9 ( -- ) Breakaway - Springfields 10 ( 6 ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds (#6)
11 ( 7 ) Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos (#7) 12 ( 5 ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean (#2[1]) 13 ( 10 ) Girls - Johnny Burnette (#10) 14 ( 9 ) I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline (#9) 15 ( -- ) Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann 16 ( -- ) Lumbered - Lonnie Donegan 17 ( 12 ) Runaround - Regents (#12) 18 ( 19 ) Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week - Brook Brothers 19 ( 16 ) I'm A Telling You - Jerry Butler (#16) 20 ( 22 ) Right Or Wrong - Wanda Jackson
21 ( 18 ) Writing On The Wall - Tommy Steele (#18) 22 ( -- ) I'm Going Home - Gene Vincent 23 ( 15 ) Don't Bet Money Honey - Linda Scott (#15) 24 ( 11 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke (#1[2]) 25 ( 13 ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith (#7) 26 ( -- ) Someday (You'll Be Sorry) - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 27 ( -- ) Sea Of Heartbreak - Don Gibson 28 ( 14 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee (#5) 29 ( -- ) Amor - Ben E King 30 ( 20 ) The Switch-A-Roo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (#20)
-- ( 17 ) Quite A Party - Fireballs (#9) -- ( 21 ) Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker (#3) -- ( 23 ) Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon (#3) -- ( 24 ) Last Night - Mar-Keys (#17) -- ( 25 ) Pasadena - Temperence Seven (#1[4]) -- ( 26 ) Hide And Seek - Marty Wilde (#25) -- ( 27 ) My True Story - Jive Five (#27) -- ( 28 ) Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly (#6) -- ( 29 ) Weekend - Eddie Cochran (#2[2]) -- ( 30 ) That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk (#9)
-- ( -- ) I Just Don't Understand - Ann Margaret -- ( -- ) Without You - Johnny Tillotson -- ( -- ) Princess - Frank Gari
An unchanged top 3 as "Johnny Remember Me" becomes the 4th single to manage 4 weeks at #1 so far this year and so far none have managed a 5th week. That chances of that happening now are seriously threatened by Roy Orbison's entry at #4. He's had two #2 hits so far so maybe will do better with a song that was a hit in my later era first for Don MacLean in 1980 (when it was also a UK #1) and then for Roy Orbison in a duet with kd lang in 1992.
Bobby Vee has been stuck at #2 for 4 weeks and the follow-up enters as the 2nd highest entry of the week. Maybe he'll get to #2 again then..
After a total flop with "Wild In The Country", we have a much better return for Elvis Presley who storms in at #8 with "Little Sister". This is part of a double-A side in the UK and the other side will follow shortly charting separately.
The Springfields feature Dusty and get an entry in the top 10. This is not the same song that Jackie DeShannon and later Tracey Ullman would record. (As far as I'm aware Jackie DeShannon's was the original and is 3 years away).
Making fun of the nonsense lyrics in many of the doo-woppers songs, Barry Mann's song "Who Put The Bomp" which has parentheses with "In the bomp a bomp" or whatever. He wrote this with Gerry Goffin, the two of them leaving their wives at home. (Not sure if Barry Mann was married yet but he would later write songs with Cynthia Weil. In that partnership he wrote the music and Cynthia the lyrics, whereas Goffin'King was the reverse so Goffin was a lyricist). Among the hits of the year that Showaddywaddy recorded, although it was later in their career and only scraped the top 40. (However there's one of their big hits coming up in its original version soon).
A few weeks ago the Highwaymen's version of "Michael (Row The Boat Ashore)" came out and failed to chart. (Michael was still too busy on his motorcycle at the time). Anyway it means Lonnie Donegan gets "Lumbered" with his other track, which is just as well given how it's done.. At this point he's also just entered the US chart with his UK 1959 hit "Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight" but I won't be charting that.
As you see a lot of songs this week and I pushed "Amor" in over last week's lowest entry "My True Story" as it had finished a few places above it in the rankings but was on a stronger week. "Amor" is a 1940s song and was also recorded by Julio Iglesias in 1982 and did actually get into my chart peaking at #17. (The retro chart topic shows it peaking only at #19 but that's because I belatedly added in some songs that I didn't chart at the time).
Thus Ben E King narrowly avoids following up a #1 with a total flop but Johnny Tillotson fails to enter again and remains a one-hit wonder on this chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 15, 2015 23:44:47 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Crying - Roy Orbison 3 ( 6 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee 4 ( 8 ) Little Sister - Elvis Presley 5 ( 2 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee (#2[4]) 6 ( 9 ) Breakaway - Springfields 7 ( 3 ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges (#3) 8 ( -- ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels 9 ( 5 ) Tansy - Alex Welsh Band (#4) 10 ( 7 ) Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford (#7)
11 ( 15 ) Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann 12 ( 16 ) Lumbered - Lonnie Donegan 13 ( -- ) Kon Tiki - Shadows 14 ( 22 ) I'm Going Home - Gene Vincent 15 ( -- ) Jealousy - Billy Fury 16 ( 10 ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds (#6) 17 ( 11 ) Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos (#7) 18 ( 13 ) Girls - Johnny Burnette (#10) 19 ( 26 ) Someday (You'll Be Sorry) - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 20 ( 18 ) Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week - Brook Brothers (#18)
21 ( 27 ) Sea Of Heartbreak - Don Gibson 22 ( 20 ) Right Or Wrong - Wanda Jackson (#20) 23 ( 14 ) I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline (#9) 24 ( 12 ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean (#2[1]) 25 ( 29 ) Amor - Ben E King 26 ( 17 ) Runaround - Regents (#12) 27 ( 19 ) I'm A Telling You - Jerry Butler (#16) 28 ( -- ) Nag - Halos 29 ( 21 ) Writing On The Wall - Tommy Steele (#18) 30 ( -- ) There I've Said It Again - Al Saxon
-- ( 23 ) Don't Bet Money Honey - Linda Scott (#15) -- ( 24 ) Cupid - Sam Cooke (#1[2]) -- ( 25 ) Don't You Know It - Adam Faith (#7) -- ( 28 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee (#5) -- ( 30 ) The Switch-A-Roo - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (#20)
-- ( -- ) The Mountain's High - Dick And Dee Dee -- ( -- ) True Love - Terry Lightfoot -- ( -- ) When We Get Married - Dreamlovers -- ( -- ) I'll Never Smile Again - Platters
September had more songs than the August and there are only 4 chart weeks on my last playlist. John Leyton gets a 5th week at #1, the first single so far this year to do so although 3 managed that many (one managing 6) in 1960. Last week's 3 highest entries who all entered at even positions halve their positions this week. This gives Roy Orbison his 3rd #2 now but obviously there's a chance he'll make it next week, while Bobby Vee pushes himself out of the top 3.
Both of last week's highest entries were of course covered in 1980 around the same time. (Bobby Vee's previous hit single "More Than I Can Say" was also covered in 1980 as was "Cupid", a recent NM #1).
Covered in 1978 though, by Showaddywaddy, was this week's highest entry. It was their 2nd hit of that year with "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" being their 3rd and both peaked at #5 for them, the last two hits of theirs that would go top 10. Note that "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" drops out of the chart this week, and "Who Put The Bomp" climbs to #11. (Note that two of last week's entries had lyrics by Gerry Goffin as he wrote Take Good Care Of My Baby with his usual songwriting partner, Carole King).
Billy Fury had an NM #1 with a King/Goffin composition. His biggest UK hit "Jealousy" is not likely to match that though. (Note: I've always considered Halfway To Paradise his most definitive hit with A Wondrous Place perhaps second. Didn't even remember Jealousy until it turned up on my playlist).
"Kon Tiki" took the Shadows back to #1 although this for me is also less memorable than their previous 2 hits. Of those missing out, Dick And Dee Dee got to #2 in the USA with that song. "True Love" is a jazzed up version of the song from "High Society" performed by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. Elton John & Kiki Dee covered that too in 1993 and got to #2 in the UK. I don't think the Terry Lightfoot arrangement really works.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 16, 2015 8:21:44 GMT 1
I can throw in something about Third Lanark. They started off life as Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, which was a sort of Territorial Army thing. The sort of thing that was big in the Victorian era - there were lots of similar clubs in Scotland using football as a training exercise. Only for the Thirds, football became the overwhelming thing.
Indeed they became the side representing the south of Glasgow and, in later times, those Weegies not interested in sectarianism. Wearing military red shirts, they won the Scots League once and the Cup a few times, were nicknamed Thirds or The Hi-Hi (from a fan chant), and played at Cathkin Park, near Hampden. When I get time I'll link some of my pics as the ground still exists...
At the beginning of the sixties they were still something of a force, perhaps on a parallel with someone like Dundee United or St Johnstone today. Third in the League and League Cup runners-up. Then they were taken over by a cretin called Hiddlestone who ran them into the ground so that he could sell the, er, ground for housing. By 1967 the club was bankrupt and Hiddlestone applied to turn Cathkin Park into housing. The Council refused, the Board of Trade started investigating his activities, and Hiddlestone conveniently died. Hope the b*st*rd is rotting in hell.
Thirds fans either drifted away from the game entirely or latched onto nearby junior club Pollok. There have been occasional attempts to revive the name.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 16, 2015 8:22:50 GMT 1
BTW, 29 July...that's quite a top three. Beginning to get overloaded with genuine classics now. Sea-change in musical quality.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 17, 2015 23:02:47 GMT 1
Thank you for the comments and especially the info about Third Lanark.
Moving on with the chart, and interestingly tonight I made a "fake" TOTP video for 26th June 1980 which has the same song at #1 as the retro chart here.
16 September 1961:
1 ( 2 ) Crying - Roy Orbison < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton (#1[5]) 3 ( 3 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee 4 ( 8 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels 5 ( 4 ) Little Sister - Elvis Presley (#4) 6 ( -- ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley 7 ( 6 ) Breakaway - Springfields (#6) 8 ( 13 ) Kon Tiki - Shadows 9 ( 15 ) Jealousy - Billy Fury 10 ( 5 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee (#2[4])
11 ( 11 ) Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann 12 ( -- ) Bless You - Tony Orlando 13 ( 14 ) I'm Going Home - Gene Vincent 14 ( 12 ) Lumbered - Lonnie Donegan (#12) 15 ( -- ) More Money For You And Me - Four Preps 16 ( 7 ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges (#3) 17 ( -- ) One Track Mind - Bobby Lewis 18 ( 10 ) Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford (#7) 19 ( 9 ) Tansy - Alex Welsh Band (#4) 20 ( 19 ) Someday (You'll Be Sorry) - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#19)
21 ( -- ) Drivin' Home - Duane Eddy 22 ( 21 ) Sea Of Heartbreak - Don Gibson (#21) 23 ( -- ) Get Lost - Eden Kane 24 ( 28 ) Nag - Halos 25 ( 30 ) There I've Said It Again - Al Saxon 26 ( 25 ) Amor - Ben E King (#25) 27 ( 16 ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds (#6) 28 ( 20 ) Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week - Brook Brothers (#18) 29 ( 18 ) Girls - Johnny Burnette (#10) 30 ( 17 ) Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos (#7)
-- ( 22 ) Right Or Wrong - Wanda Jackson (#20) -- ( 23 ) I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline (#9) -- ( 24 ) Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean (#2[1]) -- ( 26 ) Runaround - Regents (#12) -- ( 27 ) I'm A Telling You - Jerry Butler (#16) -- ( 29 ) Writing On The Wall - Tommy Steele (#18)
-- ( -- ) Big Cold Wind - Pat Boone -- ( -- ) Frankie And Johnny - Brook Benton -- ( -- ) You'll Answer To Me - Cleo Laine
Roy Orbison climbs to #1. So finally gets there. In early 1963 when the Beatles weren't quite so major they were supporting Roy Orbison in the UK and the crowd were cheering more for them but they were impressed with him and his voice, and later of course George would record with him as part of the Travellin' Wilburys.
Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" falls a place but "Marie's The Name", the "flip-side" which charts separately gets a high entry. Tony Orlando got to UK #5 with this song, a decade before having a chart-topper with Dawn (his first of two).
I don't know if this was the first song to do it, but the Four Preps here seem to be doing what the Barron Knights would do a bit later and making a medley based on other songs putting funny lyrics to it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 19, 2015 1:12:44 GMT 1
23 September 1961:
1 ( 6 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Crying - Roy Orbison (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee 4 ( 4 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels 5 ( 2 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton (#1[5]) 6 ( 12 ) Bless You - Tony Orlando 7 ( -- ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles 8 ( 8 ) Kon Tiki - Shadows 9 ( 9 ) Jealousy - Billy Fury 10 ( 5 ) Little Sister - Elvis Presley (#4)
11 ( 15 ) More Money For You And Me - Four Preps 12 ( 17 ) One Track Mind - Bobby Lewis 13 ( 7 ) Breakaway - Springfields (#6) 14 ( -- ) Mexico - Bob Moore 15 ( 11 ) Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann (#11) 16 ( 21 ) Drivin' Home - Duane Eddy 17 ( 13 ) I'm Going Home - Gene Vincent (#13) 18 ( -- ) Lonely Street - Clarence Frogman Henry 19 ( 23 ) Get Lost - Eden Kane 20 ( -- ) It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner
21 ( 10 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee (#2[4]) 22 ( 14 ) Lumbered - Lonnie Donegan (#12) 23 ( 24 ) Nag - Halos 24 ( 25 ) There I've Said It Again - Al Saxon 25 ( 20 ) Someday (You'll Be Sorry) - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#19) 26 ( -- ) You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bobby Darin 27 ( 22 ) Sea Of Heartbreak - Don Gibson (#21) 28 ( 16 ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges (#3) 29 ( 18 ) Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford (#7) 30 ( 26 ) Amor - Ben E King (#25)
-- ( 19 ) Tansy - Alex Welsh Band (#4) -- ( 27 ) School Is Out - Gary US Bonds (#6) -- ( 28 ) Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week - Brook Brothers (#18) -- ( 29 ) Girls - Johnny Burnette (#10) -- ( 30 ) Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos (#7)
-- ( -- ) Why Can't You - Clarence Frogman Henry -- ( -- ) Hole In The Bucket - Harry Belafonte
Elvis flies up to the top to restrict Roy Orbison to a single week. It's Elvis's 3rd #1 with the chart only starting in 1960. He had many classics before then so would no doubt have had more #1s. It will be unfair therefore to compare his count with the Beatles whose whole career will be spanned here.
Ray Charles's classic "Hit The Road Jack" takes the highest entry. "Mexico" is an instrumental. Clarence Frogman Henry has two bites with a double A-side and Ike & Tina Turner are back with another entry. alongisde another entry for Bobby Darin.
Failing to get in is Harry Belafonte with that song "There's a hole in m bucket.."
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 19, 2015 18:28:28 GMT 1
Last chart from the September playlist:
30 September 1961:
1 ( 1 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles 3 ( 2 ) Crying - Roy Orbison (#1[1]) 4 ( 3 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee (#3) 5 ( 6 ) Bless You - Tony Orlando 6 ( -- ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro 7 ( 4 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels (#4) 8 ( 14 ) Mexico - Bob Moore 9 ( -- ) Granada - Frank Sinatra 10 ( 8 ) Kon Tiki - Shadows (#8)
11 ( 5 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton (#1[5]) 12 ( 11 ) More Money For You And Me - Four Preps (#11) 13 ( 12 ) One Track Mind - Bobby Lewis (#12) 14 ( 18 ) Lonely Street - Clarence Frogman Henry 15 ( 9 ) Jealousy - Billy Fury (#9) 16 ( 20 ) It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner 17 ( 16 ) Drivin' Home - Duane Eddy (#16) 18 ( 10 ) Little Sister - Elvis Presley (#4) 19 ( 19 ) Get Lost - Eden Kane 20 ( 26 ) You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bobby Darin
21 ( -- ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven 22 ( 15 ) Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann (#11) 23 ( 13 ) Breakaway - Springfields (#6) 24 ( -- ) Sucu Sucu - Laurie Johnson 25 ( -- ) Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills 26 ( 17 ) I'm Going Home - Gene Vincent (#13) 27 ( 23 ) Nag - Halos (#23) 28 ( -- ) Gonna Build A Mountain - Matt Monro 29 ( 24 ) There I've Said It Again - Al Saxon (#24) 30 ( -- ) Bristol Stomp - Dovells
-- ( 21 ) How Many Tears - Bobby Vee (#2[4]) -- ( 22 ) Lumbered - Lonnie Donegan (#12) -- ( 25 ) Someday (You'll Be Sorry) - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#19) -- ( 27 ) Sea Of Heartbreak - Don Gibson (#21) -- ( 28 ) I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges (#3) -- ( 29 ) Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford (#7) -- ( 30 ) Amor - Ben E King (#25)
-- ( -- ) Missing You - Ray Peterson -- ( -- ) Long Time Boy - Nina And Frederik -- ( -- ) Let Me Belong To You - Brian Hyland -- ( -- ) The Astronaut (Parts 1 & 2) - Jose Jimenez -- ( -- ) This Time - Troy Shondell
A chart with a number of artists either doing their best song or their best from the ones within this period. Elvis back doing rock & roll, Ray Charles's most remembered song I would say (Troggs syndrome? I'm sure this one is more famous than his #1). Roy Orbison's memorable song from this era due to later versions (albeit Pretty Woman is obviously his best known of all), Helen Shapiro and Frank Sinatra enter with what I'd also consider relative classics.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 22, 2015 23:32:21 GMT 1
7 October 1961:
1 ( 1 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles 3 ( 6 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro 4 ( 9 ) Granada - Frank Sinatra 5 ( 3 ) Crying - Roy Orbison (#1[1]) 6 ( 5 ) Bless You - Tony Orlando (#5) 7 ( 8 ) Mexico - Bob Moore 8 ( 4 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee (#3) 9 ( 7 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels (#4) 10 ( -- ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake
11 ( 14 ) Lonely Street - Clarence Frogman Henry 12 ( 21 ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven 13 ( -- ) Runaround Sue - Dion 14 ( 10 ) Kon Tiki - Shadows (#8) 15 ( 16 ) It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner 16 ( 12 ) More Money For You And Me - Four Preps (#11) 17 ( -- ) Wild Wind - John Leyton 18 ( 13 ) One Track Mind - Bobby Lewis (#12) 19 ( 24 ) Sucu Sucu - Laurie Johnson 20 ( 20 ) You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bobby Darin
21 ( 25 ) Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills 22 ( 11 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton (#1[5]) 23 ( -- ) Sweets For My Sweet - Drifters 24 ( 17 ) Drivin' Home - Duane Eddy (#16) 25 ( 28 ) Gonna Build A Mountain - Matt Monro 26 ( 19 ) Get Lost - Eden Kane (#19) 27 ( -- ) Muskrat - Everly Brothers 28 ( 15 ) Jealousy - Billy Fury (#9) 29 ( 30 ) Bristol Stomp - Dovells 30 ( -- ) Sad Movies (Make Me Cry) - Sue Thompson
-- ( 18 ) Little Sister - Elvis Presley (#4) -- ( 22 ) Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann (#11) -- ( 23 ) Breakaway - Springfields (#6) -- ( 26 ) I'm Going Home - Gene Vincent (#13) -- ( 27 ) Nag - Halos (#23) -- ( 29 ) There I've Said It Again - Al Saxon (#24)
-- ( -- ) Caravan - Duane Eddy -- ( -- ) Look In My Eyes - Chantels -- ( -- ) The Way You Look Tonight - Lettermen -- ( -- ) Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey -- ( -- ) Don't Blame Me - Everly Brothers
One of those weeks with a lot of songs on the playlist (which often leads to some not getting in that would on a different week). A classic bit of comedy albeit not very politically correct as the highest entry, and a classic song by Dion that I would have rated higher had it not been such a clone of US Bonds' "Quarter To Three" from earlier in the year. Nevertheless this song, like the other one, got to #1 in the USA. John Leyton's follow-up to his massive #1 and a song that was covered by the Searchers for a UK #1. I'm not sure how long this "no second versions" rule is going to last. In general it's to prevent several almost identical covers. Sometimes though I have a vocal and an instrumental version of the same song/tune. Muskrat is the preferred Everly Brothers song from the UK double-A side. "Don't Blame Me" is a song that is later covered by Frank Ifield in 1964 and turned up in a 1952 countdown I did, I think Nat King Cole's version. There's another song covered in early 1964 coming up next week. There were 2 versions of the song entering at #30 but Sue Thompson grabs the bagging rights.
Duane Eddy missing out too, Lettermen with their version of The Way You Look Tonight ,a song I know well but not really in that version, and Lee Dorsey for whom I will expect "Working In A Coalmine" will be somewhat more successful. Slightly more surprised by the Chantels not charting. But then as I said, strong week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 24, 2015 22:12:50 GMT 1
14 October 1961:
1 ( 1 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro 3 ( 2 ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles (#2[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Granada - Frank Sinatra 5 ( 10 ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake 6 ( 13 ) Runaround Sue - Dion 7 ( 7 ) Mexico - Bob Moore 8 ( 12 ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven 9 ( 5 ) Crying - Roy Orbison (#1[1]) 10 ( 6 ) Bless You - Tony Orlando (#5)
11 ( 17 ) Wild Wind - John Leyton 12 ( -- ) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean 13 ( 11 ) Lonely Street - Clarence Frogman Henry (#11) 14 ( 9 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels (#4) 15 ( 8 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee (#3) 16 ( 23 ) Sweets For My Sweet - Drifters 17 ( 15 ) It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner (#15) 18 ( 19 ) Sucu Sucu - Laurie Johnson 19 ( 21 ) Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills 20 ( 27 ) Muskrat - Everly Brothers
21 ( 14 ) Kon Tiki - Shadows (#8) 22 ( -- ) Candy Man - Roy Orbison 23 ( 20 ) You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bobby Darin (#20) 24 ( 16 ) More Money For You And Me - Four Preps (#11) 25 ( 30 ) Sad Movies (Make Me Cry) - Sue Thompson 26 ( 25 ) Gonna Build A Mountain - Matt Monro (#25) 27 ( 18 ) One Track Mind - Bobby Lewis (#12) 28 ( -- ) I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters 29 ( 29 ) Bristol Stomp - Dovells 30 ( -- ) Stick Shift - Duals
-- ( 22 ) Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton (#1[5]) -- ( 24 ) Drivin' Home - Duane Eddy (#16) -- ( 26 ) Get Lost - Eden Kane (#19) -- ( 28 ) Jealousy - Billy Fury (#9)
-- ( -- ) Tribute To Buddy Holly - Mike Berry & The Outlaws -- ( -- ) The Fly - Chubby Checker
Elvis remains at #1. Jimmy Dean has the highest new entry with "Big Bad John". He was a country singer and obviously had the same name as a famous actor who died a few years earlier. (James Dean is also often called Jimmy and the song by Julian Velard was about him not the country singer). The song tells a story of a man that everybody was scared of and saved everyone in a mining disaster losing his own life at the same time.
Roy Orbison's "Candy Man" was officially the B-side of "Crying" but like many B-sides charted by itself in the USA. Depending how I'm going at the time that means Brian Poole & The Tremeloes UK hit version from 1964 may be overlooked.
That "Tribute To Buddy Holly" song was just a bit too corny for me..
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 25, 2015 22:39:35 GMT 1
21 October 1961
1 ( 2 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley (#1[4]) 3 ( 5 ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake 4 ( 6 ) Runaround Sue - Dion 5 ( 4 ) Granada - Frank Sinatra (#4) 6 ( 3 ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles (#2[2]) 7 ( 12 ) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean 8 ( 8 ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven 9 ( -- ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels 10 ( 7 ) Mexico - Bob Moore (#7)
11 ( 11 ) Wild Wind - John Leyton 12 ( 16 ) Sweets For My Sweet - Drifters 13 ( 22 ) Candy Man - Roy Orbison 14 ( 9 ) Crying - Roy Orbison (#1[1]) 15 ( 10 ) Bless You - Tony Orlando (#5) 16 ( 20 ) Muskrat - Everly Brothers 17 ( 13 ) Lonely Street - Clarence Frogman Henry (#11) 18 ( 18 ) Sucu Sucu - Laurie Johnson 19 ( 19 ) Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills 20 ( 28 ) I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters
21 ( 14 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels (#4) 22 ( 17 ) It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner (#15) 23 ( -- ) So Long Baby - Del Shannon 24 ( 25 ) Sad Movies (Make Me Cry) - Sue Thompson 25 ( 30 ) Stick Shift - Duals 26 ( 15 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee (#3) 27 ( -- ) You're The Reason - Bobby Edwards 28 ( -- ) Mexicali Rose - Karl Denver 29 ( 23 ) You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bobby Darin (#20) 30 ( 26 ) Gonna Build A Mountain - Matt Monro (#25)
-- ( 21 ) Kon Tiki - Shadows (#8) -- ( 24 ) More Money For You And Me - Four Preps (#11) -- ( 27 ) One Track Mind - Bobby Lewis (#12) -- ( 29 ) Bristol Stomp - Dovells
-- ( -- ) When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart - Cliff Richard -- ( -- ) (He's) The Great Imposter - Fleetwoods -- ( -- ) (He's My) Dreamboat - Connie Francis
Joy for Helen Shapiro as she becomes the youngest female singer to get to #1, although Brenda Lee was a younger age when she actually recorded "Rocking Around The Christmas Tree" which was #1 in 1960. In a reverse of what happened in the UK chart, she knocks Elvis's "His Latest Flame" off the top to get there. The reason the order is reversed is that "His Latest Flame" was a hit in the USA too and got its entry here from its entry week there.
In general the quality is getting poorer at present. Gene McDaniels gets bragging rights for "Tower Of Strength". Del Shannon gets another hit but they are diminishing and yodeller Karl Denver breaks in too (as well as Bobby Edwards, whoever he is).
There are some goodies coming up in the next few weeks but last year was quiet around this time too and then suddenly exploded.
Of course many post-1977 Cliff Richard singles have flopped in the NM chart but the above is the first of his 1960s singles to do so. Don't worry, his next single is "The Young Ones". Surely that is a contender for big things?
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