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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 26, 2015 18:29:31 GMT 1
The final chart of October 1961:
28 October 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 9 ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels 3 ( 4 ) Runaround Sue - Dion 4 ( 2 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley (#1[4]) 5 ( 3 ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake (#3) 6 ( 7 ) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean 7 ( -- ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck 8 ( 5 ) Granada - Frank Sinatra (#4) 9 ( -- ) Come September - Bobby Darin 10 ( 13 ) Candy Man - Roy Orbison
11 ( 8 ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven (#8) 12 ( -- ) I'm A Moody Guy - Shane Fenton 13 ( 12 ) Sweets For My Sweet - Drifters (#12) 14 ( 6 ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles (#2[2]) 15 ( 11 ) Wild Wind - John Leyton (#11) 16 ( -- ) I Really Love You - Stereos 17 ( 16 ) Muskrat - Everly Brothers (#16) 18 ( 10 ) Mexico - Bob Moore (#7) 19 ( 23 ) So Long Baby - Del Shannon 20 ( 20 ) I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters
21 ( -- ) The Time Has Come - Adam Faith 22 ( -- ) Please Mr Postman - Marvelettes 23 ( 27 ) You're The Reason - Bobby Edwards 24 ( 18 ) Sucu Sucu - Laurie Johnson (#18) 25 ( 28 ) Mexicali Rose - Karl Denver 26 ( 19 ) Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills (#19) 27 ( 14 ) Crying - Roy Orbison (#1[1]) 28 ( 15 ) Bless You - Tony Orlando (#5) 29 ( 25 ) Stick Shift - Duals (#25) 30 ( 17 ) Lonely Street - Clarence Frogman Henry (#11)
-- ( 21 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels (#4) -- ( 22 ) It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike & Tina Turner (#15) -- ( 24 ) Sad Movies (Make Me Cry) - Sue Thompson -- ( 26 ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee (#3) -- ( 29 ) You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bobby Darin (#20) -- ( 30 ) Gonna Build A Mountain - Matt Monro (#25)
-- ( -- ) Everlovin' - Ricky Nelson -- ( -- ) A Wonder Like You - Ricky Nelson -- ( -- ) Foot Stomping Part 1 - Flares -- ( -- ) Fool #1 - Brenda Lee -- ( -- ) I Understand (Just How You Feel) - G Clefs
A week with a lot of new entries sees the two highest go to instrumentals, with Dave Brubeck Quartet doing an interesting jazz tune with rhythm of 5 beats. A later vocal track "Living In The Past" by Jethro Tull used a similar rhythm. But 5-beat rhythms are rare. The emphasis on both these tunes is on the 1st and 4th note of the sequence, thus a bar of 3 then a bar of 2.
Bobby Darin has been losing favour on this chart since storming it early on. Come September is a tune he composed but is instrumental. It comes from a score he wrote which will contain a bigger hit for him later on. This one was one of those UK #50 for 1 week peaks.
Shane Fenton enters and will have hits in 3 different decades, later on as Alvin Stardust. Much lower down the Marvelettes enter with a classic early Motown (or whatever it was called at the time) song, later covered by the Carpenters.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 29, 2015 0:22:34 GMT 1
4 November 1961:
1 ( 7 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck < 1st #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels 3 ( 1 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro (#1[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Runaround Sue - Dion (#3) 5 ( 9 ) Come September - Bobby Darin 6 ( -- ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers 7 ( 12 ) I'm A Moody Guy - Shane Fenton 8 ( 6 ) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean (#6) 9 ( 4 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley (#1[4]) 10 ( 16 ) I Really Love You - Stereos
11 ( 5 ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake (#3) 12 ( 10 ) Candy Man - Roy Orbison (#10) 13 ( 8 ) Granada - Frank Sinatra (#4) 14 ( 21 ) The Time Has Come - Adam Faith 15 ( 22 ) Please Mr Postman - Marvelettes 16 ( 11 ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven (#8) 17 ( 13 ) Sweets For My Sweet - Drifters (#12) 18 ( 19 ) So Long Baby - Del Shannon 19 ( -- ) Creole Jazz - Mr Acker Bilk 20 ( 17 ) Muskrat - Everly Brothers (#16)
21 ( 15 ) Wild Wind - John Leyton (#11) 22 ( 23 ) You're The Reason - Bobby Edwards 23 ( 20 ) I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters (#20) 24 ( -- ) Big John - Shirelles 25 ( 14 ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles (#2[2]) 26 ( 25 ) Mexicali Rose - Karl Denver (#25) 27 ( -- ) Heartaches - Marcels 28 ( 18 ) Mexico - Bob Moore (#7) 29 ( 24 ) Sucu Sucu - Laurie Johnson (#18) 30 ( 26 ) Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills (#19)
-- ( 27 ) Crying - Roy Orbison (#1[1]) -- ( 28 ) Bless You - Tony Orlando (#5) -- ( 29 ) Stick Shift - Duals (#25) -- ( 30 ) Lonely Street - Clarence Frogman Henry (#11)
-- ( -- ) Stars And Stripes - Mr Acker Bilk
It has an unusual 5-beat rhythm and it is also over 5 minutes long, about twice the length of the average song in the chart. Dave Brubeck Quartet climb to the top denying Gene McDaniels who is caught at #2 whilst Helen Shapiro drops to #3 after 2 weeks on top.
The instrumentals are ruling the way again as for the 2nd week in a row the highest 2 entries are both instrumental. From my research it turned out that the Moontrekkers were a proper band - I thought it was just Joe Meek under a pseudonym with session musicians to release a Hallowe'en tune. Too scary for radio and in fact spent 1 week in the chart at #50. One of them went on to work with Rod Stewart in the early part of his career.
Acker Bilk gets the highest entry and also appears on the list of failures but that's only because it was a double A-side in the UK. Stars And Stripes would actually have entered the chart at #29 if listed totally separately. And he had another one on the (6-week) playlist which is coming up later.
The Shirelles entry is not related in any way to the song at #8. And the Marcels are ba-ba-dip-dipping again.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 30, 2015 21:15:54 GMT 1
11 November 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck (#1[2]) 2 ( 6 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers 3 ( 2 ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels (#2) 4 ( -- ) Crazy - Patsy Cline 5 ( 5 ) Come September - Bobby Darin 6 ( 7 ) I'm A Moody Guy - Shane Fenton 7 ( -- ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 8 ( 3 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro (#1[2]) 9 ( 4 ) Runaround Sue - Dion (#3) 10 ( 10 ) I Really Love You - Stereos
11 ( -- ) Moon River - Danny Williams 12 ( -- ) Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren 13 ( 14 ) The Time Has Come - Adam Faith 14 ( 19 ) Creole Jazz - Mr Acker Bilk 15 ( 8 ) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean (#6) 16 ( 15 ) Please Mr Postman - Marvelettes (#15) 17 ( 9 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley (#1[4]) 18 ( 24 ) Big John - Shirelles 19 ( 12 ) Candy Man - Roy Orbison (#10) 20 ( -- ) What A Party - Fats Domino
21 ( 11 ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake (#3) 22 ( 18 ) So Long Baby - Del Shannon (#18) 23 ( 27 ) Heartaches - Marcels 24 ( 13 ) Granada - Frank Sinatra (#4) 25 ( 17 ) Sweets For My Sweet - Drifters (#12) 26 ( 16 ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven (#8) 27 ( 22 ) You're The Reason - Bobby Edwards (#22) 28 ( 20 ) Muskrat - Everly Brothers (#16) 29 ( 23 ) I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters (#20) 30 ( 21 ) Wild Wind - John Leyton (#11)
-- ( 25 ) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles (#2[2]) -- ( 26 ) Mexicali Rose - Karl Denver (#25) -- ( 28 ) Mexico - Bob Moore (#7) -- ( 29 ) Sucu Sucu - Laurie Johnson (#18) -- ( 30 ) Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills (#19)
-- ( -- ) Tomorrow's Clown - Marty Wilde
Dave Brubeck gets a second week on top and the Moontrekkers climb to #2. This is jointly now the highest peaking UK #50 hit, and the highest by an artist that didn't have any other UK hits (i.e. a member of the 50 club).
Females singing country ballads are usually tossed out or chart relatively badly but no way that would happen with Patsy Cline's "Crazy" which is the leading entry among a number of classic songs. More instrumental jazz with Kenny Ball's biggest UK hit.
I did consider charting Henry Mancini's original of "Moon River" but decided to go for a vocal version. Jerry Butler's version was a US hit too. The original vocalist was Andy Williams. Danny has the same surname and a near anagram of the firstname.. (They're not related though).
James Darren's "Goodbye Cruel World" has a bit of the "Entry Of The Gladiators" riff as he's "off to join the circus". Got to US #3 and was a smaller hit in the UK. Marty Wilde is also tomorrow's clown but doesn't chart. Fats Domino does get another hit though with an uptempo song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 1, 2015 21:07:15 GMT 1
18 November 1961
1 ( 4 ) Crazy - Patsy Cline < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers (#2[1]) 4 ( 7 ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 5 ( 3 ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels (#2[2]) 6 ( 11 ) Moon River - Danny Williams 7 ( 12 ) Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren 8 ( 5 ) Come September - Bobby Darin (#5) 9 ( 6 ) I'm A Moody Guy - Shane Fenton (#6) 10 ( -- ) Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher
11 ( 10 ) I Really Love You - Stereos (#10) 12 ( 14 ) Creole Jazz - Mr Acker Bilk 13 ( 20 ) What A Party - Fats Domino 14 ( 13 ) The Time Has Come - Adam Faith (#13) 15 ( 8 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro (#1[2]) 16 ( 18 ) Big John - Shirelles 17 ( -- ) I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell 18 ( 9 ) Runaround Sue - Dion (#3) 19 ( -- ) The Savage - Shadows 20 ( 16 ) Please Mr Postman - Marvelettes (#15)
21 ( -- ) School Is In - Gary US Bonds 22 ( 23 ) Heartaches - Marcels 23 ( -- ) Let True Love Begin - Nat King Cole 24 ( 15 ) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean (#6) 25 ( 17 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley (#1[4]) 26 ( 22 ) So Long Baby - Del Shannon (#18) 27 ( 19 ) Candy Man - Roy Orbison (#10) 28 ( -- ) God Country And My Baby - Johnny Burnette 29 ( -- ) My Friend The Sea - Petula Clark 30 ( 21 ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake (#3)
-- ( 24 ) Granada - Frank Sinatra (#4) -- ( 25 ) Sweets For My Sweet - Drifters (#12) -- ( 26 ) Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven (#8) -- ( 27 ) You're The Reason - Bobby Edwards (#22) -- ( 28 ) Muskrat - Everly Brothers (#16) -- ( 29 ) I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters (#20) -- ( 30 ) Wild Wind - John Leyton (#11)
No stopping Patsy Cline, climbing to #1. The single was re-issued in 1990 and actually got to #3 in my chart then. Not because the music of 1990 was so much better but the fact that I tend to mark-down re-issues on purpose. I remember first seeing the film "Sweet Dreams" when it came out and have had a real liking to this song since then.
Having had the theme from "Breakfast At Tiffany's" enter the chart last week, we now have a tune from West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. This version of "Tonight" is mostly instrumental but at the end there is a chorus of vocals.
Bobby Rydell gets another entry, and Gary US Bonds, having had "School Is Out", now answers his own song with "School Is In", happy that he's back in class with his friends after all that horrible housework his mother made him do. Alice Cooper didn't do the same... I wasn't expecting Johnny Burnette or Petula Clark to actually chart but the large number of songs near the bottom last week waiting to drop out and the scarcity of new ones mean they did get in anyway.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 1, 2015 21:42:06 GMT 1
Apparently, when West Brom were playing Dukla Prague in the UEFA Cup, nobody could find a copy of the Czechoslovak anthem, so they played "Midnight In Moscow".
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 3, 2015 0:55:36 GMT 1
Apparently, when West Brom were playing Dukla Prague in the UEFA Cup, nobody could find a copy of the Czechoslovak anthem, so they played "Midnight In Moscow". I have no idea when that happened, i.e. whether it was before or after the Half Man Half Biscuit song but I'd have just played that...
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 3, 2015 0:58:08 GMT 1
And now for a chart:
25 November 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Crazy - Patsy Cline < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers 3 ( 4 ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 4 ( 2 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck (#1[2]) 5 ( 10 ) Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher 6 ( 6 ) Moon River - Danny Williams 7 ( 7 ) Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren 8 ( 5 ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels (#2[2]) 9 ( 17 ) I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell 10 ( 13 ) What A Party - Fats Domino
11 ( 19 ) The Savage - Shadows 12 ( 12 ) Creole Jazz - Mr Acker Bilk 13 ( 8 ) Come September - Bobby Darin (#5) 14 ( 21 ) School Is In - Gary US Bonds 15 ( -- ) Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson 16 ( -- ) September In The Rain - Dinah Washington 17 ( 9 ) I'm A Moody Guy - Shane Fenton (#6) 18 ( 11 ) I Really Love You - Stereos (#10) 19 ( -- ) King Kong - Terry Lightfoot 20 ( 23 ) Let True Love Begin - Nat King Cole
21 ( 16 ) Big John - Shirelles (#16) 22 ( 14 ) The Time Has Come - Adam Faith (#13) 23 ( -- ) Run To Him - Bobby Vee 24 ( 28 ) God Country And My Baby - Johnny Burnette 25 ( 29 ) My Friend The Sea - Petula Clark 26 ( 22 ) Heartaches - Marcels (#22) 27 ( 15 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro (#1[2]) 28 ( -- ) My Sunday Baby - Dale Sisters 29 ( 20 ) Please Mr Postman - Marvelettes (#15) 30 ( -- ) The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra
-- ( 18 ) Runaround Sue - Dion (#3) -- ( 24 ) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean (#6) -- ( 25 ) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley (#1[4]) -- ( 26 ) So Long Baby - Del Shannon (#18) -- ( 27 ) Candy Man - Roy Orbison (#10) -- ( 30 ) My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake (#3)
-- ( -- ) Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms) - Solomon Burke -- ( -- ) I'll Get By - Shirley Bassey -- ( -- ) You're The Only Good Thing - Jim Reeves
I have now "scored up" until the end of 1961, after which I will post the top singles of that year, and then this retro chart will be taking a break for about 6 weeks after which I will return to do 1962.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 3, 2015 17:39:21 GMT 1
Into the final month of 1961:
2 December 1961:
1 ( -- ) Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Crazy - Patsy Cline (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers (#2[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#3) 5 ( 5 ) Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher 6 ( -- ) Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka 7 ( 9 ) I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell 8 ( 4 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck (#1[2]) 9 ( 6 ) Moon River - Danny Williams (#6) 10 ( 15 ) Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson
11 ( 11 ) The Savage - Shadows 12 ( 16 ) September In The Rain - Dinah Washington 13 ( 7 ) Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren (#7) 14 ( -- ) Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke 15 ( 10 ) What A Party - Fats Domino (#10) 16 ( 14 ) School Is In - Gary US Bonds (#14) 17 ( 19 ) King Kong - Terry Lightfoot 18 ( 8 ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels (#2[2]) 19 ( 12 ) Creole Jazz - Mr Acker Bilk (#12) 20 ( 23 ) Run To Him - Bobby Vee
21 ( 20 ) Let True Love Begin - Nat King Cole (#20) 22 ( 13 ) Come September - Bobby Darin (#5) 23 ( -- ) Toy Balloons - Russ Conway 24 ( 28 ) My Sunday Baby - Dale Sisters 25 ( 24 ) God Country And My Baby - Johnny Burnette (#24) 26 ( 30 ) The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra 27 ( -- ) In The Middle Of A Heartache - Wanda Jackson 28 ( 25 ) My Friend The Sea - Petula Clark (#25) 29 ( -- ) Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie - Eddie Cochran 30 ( 18 ) I Really Love You - Stereos (#10)
-- ( 17 ) I'm A Moody Guy - Shane Fenton (#6) -- ( 21 ) Big John - Shirelles (#16) -- ( 22 ) The Time Has Come - Adam Faith (#13) -- ( 26 ) Heartaches - Marcels (#22) -- ( 27 ) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro (#1[2]) -- ( 29 ) Please Mr Postman - Marvelettes (#15)
-- ( -- ) Bambino - Springfields
Last year I had 3 consecutive #1s enter at the top in the weeks leading up to Christmas. During that time Acker Bilk got stuck at #2 behind one of them with Buona Sera.
Now a year on, he takes his own composition to the top, an instrumental originally called "Jenny" named after his daughter, but then used as the theme music to a TV series (I think) and thus took its name.
According to OCC it only peaked at #2 but was in the chart for ages and sold over a million. In the USA it got to #1, the first by a British artist in the Hot 100.
Neil Sedaka had the first #1 of this chart. I thought Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen had a good chance of also doing it but with Acker Bilk entering at the top he may have to content himself with #2.
Leroy Van Dyke's entry is not the same as the Dionne Warwick hit. Russ Conway's last UK top 10 hit gets an entry. Surprisingly his biggest NM hit so far has been "Pablo" and of course I missed "Side Saddle" and "Roulette" by starting my chart from 1960. Two further entries for Wanda Jackson and the late Eddie Cochran (whose last posthumous hit "Weekend" got as high as #2 on this chart) but Dusty Springfield and her band's seasonal hit fails to make it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 5, 2015 14:41:33 GMT 1
9 December 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka 3 ( 2 ) Crazy - Patsy Cline (#1[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers (#2[2]) 5 ( 4 ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#3) 6 ( 5 ) Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher (#5) 7 ( 7 ) I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell 8 ( 14 ) Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke 9 ( -- ) Johnny Will - Pat Boone 10 ( -- ) Don't Bring Lulu - Dorothy Provine
11 ( 10 ) Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson (#10) 12 ( 12 ) September In The Rain - Dinah Washington 13 ( -- ) The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tokens 14 ( 11 ) The Savage - Shadows (#11) 15 ( 9 ) Moon River - Danny Williams (#6) 16 ( 8 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck (#1[2]) 17 ( 23 ) Toy Balloons - Russ Conway 18 ( -- ) Charleston - Temperance Seven 19 ( 17 ) King Kong - Terry Lightfoot (#17) 20 ( 20 ) Run To Him - Bobby Vee
21 ( 27 ) In The Middle Of A Heartache - Wanda Jackson 22 ( 16 ) School Is In - Gary US Bonds (#14) 23 ( 13 ) Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren (#7) 24 ( 29 ) Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie - Eddie Cochran 25 ( 15 ) What A Party - Fats Domino (#10) 26 ( 24 ) My Sunday Baby - Dale Sisters (#24) 27 ( 21 ) Let True Love Begin - Nat King Cole (#20) 28 ( 26 ) The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra (#26) 29 ( -- ) Peppermint Twist Part 1 - Joey Dee & The Starliters 30 ( -- ) Gypsy Rover - Highwaymen
-- ( 18 ) Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels (#2[2]) -- ( 19 ) Creole Jazz - Mr Acker Bilk (#12) -- ( 22 ) Come September - Bobby Darin (#5) -- ( 25 ) God Country And My Baby - Johnny Burnette (#24) -- ( 28 ) My Friend The Sea - Petula Clark (#25) -- ( 30 ) I Really Love You - Stereos (#10)
-- ( -- ) Tall Dark Stranger - Rose Brennan -- ( -- ) I Don't Know Why - Linda Scott -- ( -- ) Gypsy Woman - Impressions
Acker Bilk remains at #1 and Neil Sedaka moves up to #2 pushing everything in between down one place. Of the new entries, Pat Boone gets the highest entry with an uptempo song that did well in the UK for him.
The next 3 entries are all old songs. Don't Bring Lulu dates back to 1925, The Lion Sleeps Tonight in its original form to 1939 but I think this was the first English version and the Charleston to 1923. "I Don't Know Why" on the miss list is also an old song, dating back to 1931.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 8, 2015 21:07:29 GMT 1
16 December 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka 3 ( 3 ) Crazy - Patsy Cline (#1[2]) 4 ( 9 ) Johnny Will - Pat Boone 5 ( 8 ) Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke 6 ( 10 ) Don't Bring Lulu - Dorothy Provine 7 ( 5 ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#3) 8 ( 13 ) The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tokens 9 ( 4 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers (#2[2]) 10 ( 7 ) I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell (#7)
11 ( 6 ) Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher (#5) 12 ( -- ) I'd Never Find Another You - Billy Fury 13 ( 18 ) Charleston - Temperance Seven 14 ( -- ) Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles 15 ( 12 ) September In The Rain - Dinah Washington (#12) 16 ( 11 ) Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson (#10) 17 ( 17 ) Toy Balloons - Russ Conway 18 ( 21 ) In The Middle Of A Heartache - Wanda Jackson 19 ( 14 ) The Savage - Shadows (#11) 20 ( 24 ) Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie - Eddie Cochran
21 ( 29 ) Peppermint Twist Part 1 - Joey Dee & The Starliters 22 ( 20 ) Run To Him - Bobby Vee (#20) 23 ( -- ) Baby's First Christmas - Connie Francis 24 ( 15 ) Moon River - Danny Williams (#6) 25 ( 30 ) Gypsy Rover - Highwaymen 26 ( 19 ) King Kong - Terry Lightfoot (#17) 27 ( -- ) I Cried For You - Ricky Stevens 28 ( 16 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck (#1[2]) 29 ( -- ) Til - Angels 30 ( 22 ) School Is In - Gary US Bonds (#14)
-- ( 23 ) Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren (#7) -- ( 25 ) What A Party - Fats Domino (#10) -- ( 26 ) My Sunday Baby - Dale Sisters (#24) -- ( 27 ) Let True Love Begin - Nat King Cole (#20) -- ( 28 ) The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra (#26)
-- ( -- ) Mrs Mills Medley - Mrs Mills -- ( -- ) When I Fall In Love - Lettermen
The year is nearly over. No change at all in the top 3. Pat Boone climbs to #4 with what is by far his biggest NM hit so far and likely will be.
Once this is finished I will be compiling both the chart of the year and also the artists of the year. I won't be doing the songwriters of the year but it is obviously Carole King & Gerry Goffin who have written many hits from this year including two of its #1s. Billy Fury got one of those, and has another hit now. He's a bit lucky that Tony Orlando failed to reach the US top 30 with both these songs.
Ray Charles follows up "Hit The Road Jack" which peaked at #2 and is in good form. This song was subsequently covered by Joe Cocker in 1992. (For this song Joe Cocker's cover was fairly faithful to the original).
It being nearly Christmas inspires Connie Francis to enter and the two that failed to enter. (The last of those isn't a Christmas song but sort-of goes with the season). We do get new entries for Ricky Stevens and the Angels (the latter being members of the UK 50-club, but not with this song).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 11, 2015 23:33:03 GMT 1
23 December 1961:
1 ( 1 ) Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka 3 ( 4 ) Johnny Will - Pat Boone 4 ( 3 ) Crazy - Patsy Cline (#1[2]) 5 ( 5 ) Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke 6 ( 6 ) Don't Bring Lulu - Dorothy Provine 7 ( 12 ) I'd Never Find Another You - Billy Fury 8 ( -- ) Multiplication - Bobby Darin 9 ( 8 ) The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tokens (#8) 10 ( 14 ) Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles
11 ( -- ) Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley 12 ( 7 ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#3) 13 ( 13 ) Charleston - Temperance Seven 14 ( 10 ) I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell (#7) 15 ( 23 ) Baby's First Christmas - Connie Francis 16 ( -- ) Image - Hank Levine 17 ( 9 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers (#2[2]) 18 ( 21 ) Peppermint Twist Part 1 - Joey Dee & The Starliters 19 ( 18 ) In The Middle Of A Heartache - Wanda Jackson (#18) 20 ( -- ) Revenge - Brook Benton
21 ( 11 ) Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher (#5) 22 ( 20 ) Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie - Eddie Cochran (#20) 23 ( 17 ) Toy Balloons - Russ Conway (#17) 24 ( -- ) Well I Told You - Chantels 25 ( 27 ) I Cried For You - Ricky Stevens 26 ( 15 ) September In The Rain - Dinah Washington (#12) 27 ( 29 ) Til - Angels 28 ( 25 ) Gypsy Rover - Highwaymen (#25) 29 ( 16 ) Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson (#10) 30 ( 19 ) The Savage - Shadows (#11)
-- ( 22 ) Run To Him - Bobby Vee (#20) -- ( 24 ) Moon River - Danny Williams (#6) -- ( 26 ) King Kong - Terry Lightfoot (#17) -- ( 28 ) Take Five - Dave Brubeck (#1[2]) -- ( 30 ) School Is In - Gary US Bonds (#14)
-- ( -- ) The Night Is Young - Gary Miller -- ( -- ) Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night - Kenny Dino -- ( -- ) There's No Other (Like My Baby) - Crystals -- ( -- ) There Goes That Song Again - Gary Miller
It's the Christmas chart this week but not much of a Christmas feel other than Connie Francis climbing from #23 to #15. Last year's had far more Christmas songs in it.
Acker Bilk gets the Christmas #1 in an unchanged top 2. The song that was #4 in the Christmas chart of 1990 is also in the same position in 1961. Only in 1961 it's on its way down having reached #1. In 1990 it would climb one place to #3 the following week with Seal's song of the same title in the chart and about to climb higher.
Bobby Darin certainly back in form now. I was always expecting "Multiplication" to do well though. And he wrote it himself. Meanwhile Elvis is back with the first of two songs from a double-A-side. This song was also a UK #1 for UB40 in 1993 and there were various other cover versions too.
That song starts "wise men say only fools rush in..". This time last year Brook Benton had his version of "Fools Rush In" in the chart (it peaked at #4) and he gets another entry this week (as his former singing partner Dinah Washington falls).
I don't usually care much for "answer" songs but in some ways "Well I Told You" is more a "sequel" song than an answer. The song it is based on is "Hit The Road Jack" but it has a different melody. And the girl has changed her mind and is asking for him to come back now.
The other entry is from Hank Levine, making his debut, whilst Gary Miller's double A-side fails to chart as do the Crystals but I'm sure they'll be charting later on.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 12, 2015 7:10:14 GMT 1
It's one of those quirks that, after a flurry of successful Christmas songs in the forties and fifties, they seemed to die out. The "Christmas" hit of the sixties and early seventies was a novelty rather than something Christmas themed. (Occasionally both, such as from The Barron Knights.) But if you wanted a big Christmas hit you'd be better off with something that was not serious than something Yule-flavoured. E.g. The Scaffold, Clive Dunn, Chuck Berry, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band; and Val Doonican's three biggest hits were all Christmas releases.
Slade and Wizzard simultaneously giving the genre the most incredible of jumpstarts shifted the focus back. Only in recent years it's gone away again as the British public is force-fed the latest clueless marionette dancing to Bowell's tuneless.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 12, 2015 16:07:24 GMT 1
Final chart of 1961..
30 December 1961
1 ( 1 ) Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka 3 ( 8 ) Multiplication - Bobby Darin 4 ( 3 ) Johnny Will - Pat Boone (#3) 5 ( -- ) Rock-A-Hula Baby - Elvis Presley 6 ( 11 ) Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley 7 ( 7 ) I'd Never Find Another You - Billy Fury 8 ( 5 ) Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke (#5) 9 ( 4 ) Crazy - Patsy Cline (#1[2]) 10 ( 6 ) Don't Bring Lulu - Dorothy Provine (#6)
11 ( 16 ) Image - Hank Levine 12 ( 10 ) Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles (#10) 13 ( 15 ) Baby's First Christmas - Connie Francis 14 ( 9 ) The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tokens (#8) 15 ( 20 ) Revenge - Brook Benton 16 ( -- ) Son This Is She - John Leyton 17 ( 13 ) Charleston - Temperance Seven (#13) 18 ( 24 ) Well I Told You - Chantels 19 ( 18 ) Peppermint Twist Part 1 - Joey Dee & The Starliters (#18) 20 ( 12 ) Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#3)
21 ( 14 ) I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell (#7) 22 ( -- ) I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) - Barbara George 23 ( 19 ) In The Middle Of A Heartache - Wanda Jackson (#18) 24 ( 25 ) I Cried For You - Ricky Stevens 25 ( 22 ) Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie - Eddie Cochran (#20) 26 ( 17 ) Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers (#2[2]) 27 ( 27 ) Til - Angels 28 ( 23 ) Toy Balloons - Russ Conway (#17) 29 ( 21 ) Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher (#5) 30 ( 28 ) Gypsy Rover - Highwaymen (#25)
-- ( 26 ) September In The Rain - Dinah Washington (#12) -- ( 29 ) Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson (#10) -- ( 30 ) The Savage - Shadows (#11)
-- ( -- ) Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker
Final chart of the year, few songs on the list but not a quiet chart as Rock-A-Hula Baby enters high to threaten the top that has been held by Acker Bilk for 5 weeks now. Bobby Darin moves up to #3 to also
I'll be posting the chart of the year soon and John Leyton will certainly be a contender, having also had a 5 week #1.
Barbara George gets the final entry. Bobby Rydell is still in the chart with "I Wanna Thank You" but his inferior duet with Chubby Checker cover of Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" (which was a US #6 peak 4 years earlier) doesn't make it in.
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Post by rubcale on Jul 12, 2015 17:40:56 GMT 1
Never understood the appeal of Stranger On The Shore
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 13, 2015 19:39:59 GMT 1
Stranger On The Shore is completely different from the kind of music Acker Bilk had been making in much of the last 2 years. "Summer Set" is a similar type of tune though. And it's just a totally beautiful chill-out tune.
The first 30 positions of the top 100 of the year:
100 Breakaway - Springfields 99 You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro 98 Happy Birthday Blues - Kathy Young & The Innocents 97 Quarter To Three - US Bonds 96 Too Many Beautiful Girls - Clinton Ford 95 I'm A Moody Guy - Shane Fenton 94 Baby Sittin' - Bobby Angelo & The Tuxedos 93 That's My Home - Mr Acker Bilk 92 Shop Around - Miracles 91 Have A Drink On Me - Lonnie Donegan 90 On The Rebound - Floyd Cramer 89 Kon Tiki - Shadows 88 Black Bear - Frank Cordell & His Orchestra 87 Wheels - String-A-Longs 86 I'm Comin' On Back To You - Jackie Wilson 85 I Told You So - Jimmy Jones *84 Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher 83 Hard Hearted Hannah - Temperance Seven 82 Let's Jump The Broomstick - Brenda Lee 81 Till There Was You - Peggy Lee 80 Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean 79 Moon River - Danny Williams 78 Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles 77 Little Sister - Elvis Presley 76 Barbara-Ann - Regents 75 Don't You Know It - Adam Faith **74 Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke 73 Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee 72 Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe 71 Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley
* Adding in 1960 points moves to #13 in 1960, #11 in 1961. ** in last chart of 1961
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 13, 2015 20:24:36 GMT 1
Never understood the appeal of Stranger On The Shore It's wonderful. A supremely languid, slightly melancholic, nostalgic slice of an innocent time.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 14, 2015 20:19:53 GMT 1
25 more from the chart of the year for 1961: 70 A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart *69 Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine 68 Mexico - Bob Moore **67 Johnny Will - Pat Boone 66 Frightened City - Shadows **65 I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell 64 The Magnificent Seven - John Barry 63 Come September - Bobby Darin 62 School Is Out - Gary US Bonds 61 Muskrat Ramble - Freddy Cannon 60 Mystery Girl - Jess Conrad 59 Gee Whiz It's You - Cliff Richard 58 FBI - Shadows 57 Bless You - Tony Orlando **56 Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher 55 Baby I Don't Care - Buddy Holly 54 Tansy - Alex Welsh Band 53 I've Told Every Little Star - Linda Scott 52 76 Trombones - King Brothers 51 A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard 50 My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake 49 Pablo - Russ Conway 48 Gunslinger - Frankie Laine 47 Motorcycle Michael - Jo Ann Campbell 46 A Little Bit Of Soap - Jarmels * Cleo Laine moves up to #61 adding in the one week from 1960. ** Still in the chart at the end of 1961 although Ferrante & Teicher are #29 so probably won't make the first chart of 1962. Pat Boone is still #4 at this point, and I will see if I can do show the positions where these songs would be in a combined chart. means the single spent one week in the UK chart at #50. Some of them may have been bigger hits in the USA and there are US hits in here that didn't reach the UK chart at all. But I just have a fascination with minimal chart runs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 15, 2015 21:24:39 GMT 1
20 more:
45 Granada - Frank Sinatra 44 I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door - Eddie Hodges 43 Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker 42 Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka 41 Hello Mary Lou - Ricky Nelson 40 Runaround Sue - Dion 39 Spanish Harlem - Ben E King 38 Blue Moon - Marcels 37 Warpaint - Brook Brothers 36 Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles **35 Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka 34 Heart And Soul - Jan & Dean **33 Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 32 Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaniels 31 Ginchy - Bert Weedon 30 Surrender - Elvis Presley *29 Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles 28 Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon 27 Well I Ask You - Eden Kane 26 Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee
Shirelles was #1 on the first chart of 1961. Adding in its 2 weeks from 1960 puts it up to #17. Still however a relatively low ranking #1 but you have to recall that December 1960 has been the strongest month so far.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 19, 2015 19:13:56 GMT 1
Next 15 25 You Always Hurt The One You Love - Clarence "Frogman" Henry 24 Samantha - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 23 You're Driving Me Crazy - Temperance Seven 22 Take Five - Dave Brubeck 21 Cupid - Sam Cooke 20 Running Scared - Roy Orbison ** 19 Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk 18 How Many Tears - Bobby Vee ** 17 Night Of The Vampire - Moontrekkers 16 Crying - Roy Orbison 15 Weekend - Eddie Cochran 14 Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren * 13 Serenata - Sarah Vaughan 12 My Kind Of Girl - Matt Monro 11 Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro Serenata moves up to #10 adding in its one chart week from 1960.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 21, 2015 22:34:49 GMT 1
The final 10 run in as follows:
**10 Crazy - Patsy Cline 9 Halfway To Paradise - Billy Fury 8 (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley 7 But I Do - Clarence "Frogman" Henry 6 Stand By Me - Ben E King 5 Pasadena - Temperence Seven 4 Runaway - Del Shannon 3 Walk Right Back - Everly Brothers 2 Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton 1 Pepe - Duane Eddy
Pepe by Duane Eddy spent 12 weeks in the chart early in the year, 4 of them at #1, 2 at #2 and 3 more at #3. The one that looks surprisingly high is the Everly Brothers as that was only 2 weeks at #1 but it did also spent 12 weeks in the chart 3 weeks at #2, one week each at #3 and #4.
The highest placed single of the year that didn't reach #1 is "Bangers And Mash", even though it only spent one week in the #2 position. But it shows how unlucky Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren have been on this chart as both their hits peaked at #2. "Goodness Gracious Me" entered at #4 but then failed to reach the top.
Roy Orbison has the best second-placed hit of the year with "Running Scared".
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