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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 20, 2015 23:52:48 GMT 1
28 July 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Twist And Shout - Isley Brothers 3 ( 2 ) Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins (#2[1]) 4 ( 7 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva 5 ( 3 ) Dancin' Party - Chubby Checker (#3) 6 ( 9 ) Things - Bobby Darin 7 ( 11 ) Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole & George Shearing 8 ( 4 ) Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland (#2[2]) 9 ( 6 ) Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone (#5) 10 ( -- ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee
11 ( 10 ) Ahab The Arab - Ray Stevens (#10) 12 ( 17 ) Welcome Home Baby - Shirelles 13 ( 8 ) I Remember You - Frank Ifield (#6) 14 ( 13 ) Bristol Twistin' Annie - Dovells (#13) 15 ( -- ) Gotta See Baby Tonight - Mr Acker Bilk 16 ( 25 ) Seven Day Weekend - Gary US Bonds 17 ( 14 ) Our Favourite Melodies - Craig Douglas (#11) 18 ( 12 ) Here Comes That Feeling - Brenda Lee (#5) 19 ( 22 ) (Girls Girls Girls) Made To Love - Eddie Hodges 20 ( 16 ) Don't Ever Change - Crickets (#12)
21 ( 20 ) The Crowd - Roy Orbison (#20) 22 ( 15 ) Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford (#1[2]) 23 ( -- ) That Noise - Anthony Newley 24 ( 26 ) I Need Your Loving - Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford 25 ( 18 ) English Country Garden - Jimmy Rodgers (#5) 26 ( 21 ) The Wah-Watusi - Orlons (#13) 27 ( 19 ) Orange Blossom Special - Spotnicks (#2[1]) 28 ( -- ) Party Lights - Claudine Clark 29 ( 24 ) Roses Are Red (My Love) - Bobby Vinton (#14) 30 ( -- ) Little Diane - Dion
-- ( 23 ) The Stripper - David Rose (#2[2]) -- ( 27 ) I'll Never Dance Again - Bobby Rydell (#22) -- ( 28 ) Walk On The Wild Side (Part 1 ) - Jimmy Smith (#10) -- ( 29 ) Johnny Get Angry - Joanie Sommers (#24) -- ( 30 ) Wolverton Mountain - Claude King (#17)
-- ( -- ) Heart In Hand - Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee is at it again, two different songs in the UK and USA in the same week. The UK entry makes it finishing top of the week, the US one is bottom of the week and fails to get in.
After the massive #1 with "Stranger On The Shore", Acker Bilk is now back singing and swinging on this one, and Anthony Newley gives us a bit of comedy with "That Noise". His talents as a songwriter will become apparent in the next few years.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 21, 2015 22:01:09 GMT 1
4 August 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva 3 ( 2 ) Twist And Shout - Isley Brothers (#2[1]) 4 ( 6 ) Things - Bobby Darin 5 ( 10 ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee 6 ( 3 ) Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins (#2[1]) 7 ( 7 ) Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole & George Shearing 8 ( 15 ) Gotta See Baby Tonight - Mr Acker Bilk 9 ( 5 ) Dancin' Party - Chubby Checker (#3) 10 ( 12 ) Welcome Home Baby - Shirelles
11 ( -- ) Vacation - Connie Francis 12 ( 16 ) Seven Day Weekend - Gary US Bonds 13 ( -- ) Guitar Tango - Shadows 14 ( 9 ) Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone (#5) 15 ( 8 ) Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland (#2[2]) 16 ( 11 ) Ahab The Arab - Ray Stevens (#10) 17 ( 23 ) That Noise - Anthony Newley 18 ( -- ) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles 19 ( 14 ) Bristol Twistin' Annie - Dovells (#13) 20 ( 19 ) (Girls Girls Girls) Made To Love - Eddie Hodges (#19)
21 ( -- ) Little Red Rented Rowboat - Joe Dowell 22 ( 13 ) I Remember You - Frank Ifield (#6) 23 ( 28 ) Party Lights - Claudine Clark 24 ( 17 ) Our Favourite Melodies - Craig Douglas (#11) 25 ( 30 ) Little Diane - Dion 26 ( 21 ) The Crowd - Roy Orbison (#20) 27 ( 24 ) I Need Your Loving - Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford (#24) 28 ( 20 ) Don't Ever Change - Crickets (#12) 29 ( 18 ) Here Comes That Feeling - Brenda Lee (#5) 30 ( 22 ) Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford (#1[2])
-- ( 25 ) English Country Garden - Jimmy Rodgers (#5) -- ( 26 ) The Wah-Watusi - Orlons (#13) -- ( 27 ) Orange Blossom Special - Spotnicks (#2[1]) -- ( 29 ) Roses Are Red (My Love) - Bobby Vinton (#14)
We're in the summer and a holiday song by Connie Francis gets the highest entry. She always does better on this chart with her uptempo songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 23, 2015 2:49:17 GMT 1
11 August 1962:
1 ( 2 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva < 1st #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Things - Bobby Darin 3 ( 1 ) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka (#1[5]) 4 ( 5 ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee 5 ( 11 ) Vacation - Connie Francis 6 ( 3 ) Twist And Shout - Isley Brothers (#2[1]) 7 ( 8 ) Gotta See Baby Tonight - Mr Acker Bilk 8 ( 13 ) Guitar Tango - Shadows 9 ( -- ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley 10 ( 7 ) Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole & George Shearing (#7)
11 ( 10 ) Welcome Home Baby - Shirelles (#10) 12 ( -- ) Sheila - Tommy Roe 13 ( 18 ) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles 14 ( 12 ) Seven Day Weekend - Gary US Bonds (#12) 15 ( 6 ) Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins (#2[1]) 16 ( 21 ) Little Red Rented Rowboat - Joe Dowell 17 ( 17 ) That Noise - Anthony Newley 18 ( 9 ) Dancin' Party - Chubby Checker (#3) 19 ( -- ) A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn 20 ( 23 ) Party Lights - Claudine Clark
21 ( 14 ) Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone (#5) 22 ( 25 ) Little Diane - Dion 23 ( 16 ) Ahab The Arab - Ray Stevens (#10) 24 ( 20 ) (Girls Girls Girls) Made To Love - Eddie Hodges (#19) 25 ( 15 ) Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland (#2[2]) 26 ( -- ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives 27 ( 19 ) Bristol Twistin' Annie - Dovells (#13) 28 ( -- ) Peter And The Wolf - Clyde Valley Stompers 29 ( 27 ) I Need Your Loving - Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford (#24) 30 ( 26 ) The Crowd - Roy Orbison (#20)
-- ( 22 ) I Remember You - Frank Ifield (#6) -- ( 24 ) Our Favourite Melodies - Craig Douglas (#11) -- ( 28 ) Don't Ever Change - Crickets (#12) -- ( 29 ) Here Comes That Feeling - Brenda Lee (#5) -- ( 30 ) Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford (#1[2])
-- ( -- ) Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle -- ( -- ) Bring It On Home To Me - Sam Cooke
There were no UK #1s featuring solo lead-vocalists in either 1962 or 1963, however we have one here, and perhaps this was the most likely to do it, as it was a UK #2 in 1962. We've had a solo female singer enter as the highest entry 3 weeks in a row prior to this, and Little Eva gets to #1 with a song composed by Carole King & Gerry Goffin, replacing Neil Sedaka whose previous #1 was about Carole King. Carole King is still only 19 at this time but she had a baby and Little Eva babysits for her.
The Locomotion is one of 4 songs (according to my calculations) that reached UK #2 in two different versions. One song that reached #1 in two different versions is "Dizzy". Tommy Roe's 2nd biggest UK hit was "Sheila" and that enters the chart now.
Elvis though gets the highest entry, and 2 of the other 3 entries are instrumental, Peter and the Wolf being the tune by Prokofiev, and A Swingin' Safari being a familiar tune, sounding a little like "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" only instrumental. The tune was composed by Bert Kampfaert, and originally recorded by him but never released as a single.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 25, 2015 3:53:33 GMT 1
18 August 1962:
1 ( 1 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Things - Bobby Darin 3 ( 5 ) Vacation - Connie Francis 4 ( 9 ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley 5 ( 4 ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee (#4) 6 ( 12 ) Sheila - Tommy Roe 7 ( 8 ) Guitar Tango - Shadows 8 ( 3 ) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka (#1[5]) 9 ( 7 ) Gotta See Baby Tonight - Mr Acker Bilk (#7) 10 ( 6 ) Twist And Shout - Isley Brothers (#2[1])
11 ( 13 ) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles 12 ( 19 ) A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn 13 ( -- ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers 14 ( 11 ) Welcome Home Baby - Shirelles (#10) 15 ( 16 ) Little Red Rented Rowboat - Joe Dowell 16 ( 10 ) Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole & George Shearing (#7) 17 ( 14 ) Seven Day Weekend - Gary US Bonds (#12) 18 ( 26 ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives 19 ( 17 ) That Noise - Anthony Newley (#17) 20 ( 20 ) Party Lights - Claudine Clark
21 ( 28 ) Peter And The Wolf Clyde Valley Stompers 22 ( -- ) The Man With The Golden Arm - Jet Harris 23 ( 22 ) Little Diane - Dion (#22) 24 ( -- ) She's Gone - Buddy Knox 25 ( 15 ) Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins (#2[1]) 26 ( -- ) Rinky Dink - Dave 'Baby' Cortez 27 ( -- ) Pick A Bale Of Cotton - Lonnie Donegan 28 ( 18 ) Dancin' Party - Chubby Checker (#3) 29 ( 21 ) Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone (#5) 30 ( 24 ) (Girls Girls Girls) Made To Love - Eddie Hodges (#19)
-- ( 23 ) Ahab The Arab - Ray Stevens (#10) -- ( 25 ) Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland (#2[2]) -- ( 27 ) Bristol Twistin' Annie - Dovells (#13) -- ( 29 ) I Need Your Loving - Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford (#24) -- ( 30 ) The Crowd - Roy Orbison (#20)
-- ( -- ) What's A Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You) Timi Yuro
Little Eva remains at #1 with Bobby Darin still at #2. Both these singles peaked at #2 in the UK chart. For the latter though, it's a turnaround in fortune after what was an amazing start to his NM chart career but then started fading.
The highest new entry is called Welcome Home Baby and sits one place above the Shirelles but they are different songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 26, 2015 11:20:13 GMT 1
Although the chart is in August, the next 4 weeks have "scored up" and contains some absolute classics, albeit some rather forgeettable stuff too, and now I'm listening to the next 5 weeks, so I'm listening up to entries now of 20 October, which includes one band I have been long awaiting..
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 27, 2015 18:10:56 GMT 1
I meant to post one last night, but I have only 4 anyway for the past week so should be fine.
Usually I get "festive" songs at the wrong time of year, but I actually appropriately have "Monster Mash" on the playlist this week..
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 28, 2015 1:20:38 GMT 1
25 August 1962:
1 ( 1 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Things - Bobby Darin 3 ( 4 ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley 4 ( 3 ) Vacation - Connie Francis (#3) 5 ( -- ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler 6 ( 6 ) Sheila - Tommy Roe 7 ( 13 ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers 8 ( 5 ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee (#4) 9 ( 7 ) Guitar Tango - Shadows (#7) 10 ( 12 ) A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn
11 ( 11 ) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles 12 ( 9 ) Gotta See Baby Tonight - Mr Acker Bilk (#7) 13 ( 22 ) The Man With The Golden Arm - Jet Harris 14 ( 18 ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives 15 ( 8 ) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka (#1[5]) 16 ( 10 ) Twist And Shout - Isley Brothers (#2[1]) 17 ( 15 ) Little Red Rented Rowboat - Joe Dowell (#15) 18 ( 24 ) She's Gone - Buddy Knox 19 ( -- ) Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole 20 ( 21 ) Peter And The Wolf - Clyde Valley Stompers
21 ( -- ) Some People - Carol Deene 22 ( 26 ) Rinky Dink - Dave 'Baby' Cortez 23 ( 14 ) Welcome Home Baby - Shirelles (#10) 24 ( -- ) Your Nose Is Gonna Grow - Johnny Crawford 25 ( 27 ) Pick A Bale Of Cotton - Lonnie Donegan 26 ( -- ) Ballad Of Paladin - Duane Eddy 27 ( 20 ) Party Lights - Claudine Clark (#20) 28 ( 17 ) Seven Day Weekend - Gary US Bonds (#12) 29 ( 19 ) That Noise - Anthony Newley (#17) 30 ( 16 ) Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole & George Shearing (#7)
-- ( 23 ) Little Diane - Dion (#22) -- ( 25 ) Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins (#2[1]) -- ( 28 ) Dancin' Party - Chubby Checker (#3) -- ( 29 ) Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone (#5) -- ( 30 ) (Girls Girls Girls) Made To Love - Eddie Hodges (#19)
-- ( -- ) So Do I - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen -- ( -- ) Down The River Nile - John Leyton -- ( -- ) Hot Pepper - Floyd Cramer -- ( -- ) Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
We're entering a period of stronger songs, thus 5 new entries and the ones that didn't get in weren't bad either and feature some big names.
The highest entry is a Bacherach & David song that was a UK #1 for the Walker Brothers a few years later. If Jerry Butler's version reaches NM #1 it will add to the list of songs that have reached UK #1 and NM #1 in different versions.
(Twist & Shout didn't quite manage that, stalling at #2 on this chart, but I did ask if you could remember who got to #1 in the UK with it... Actually Chaka Demus & Pliers, right at the start of 1994. It knocked Mr Blobby off the top).
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 28, 2015 22:03:31 GMT 1
1 September 1962:
1 ( 5 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva (#1[3]) 3 ( 2 ) Things - Bobby Darin (#2[3]) 4 ( 3 ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley (#3) 5 ( 7 ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers 6 ( -- ) Telstar - Tornados 7 ( -- ) Sherry - Four Seasons 8 ( 4 ) Vacation - Connie Francis (#3) 9 ( 6 ) Sheila - Tommy Roe (#6) 10 ( 13 ) The Man With The Golden Arm - Jet Harris
11 ( 10 ) A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn (#10) 12 ( 19 ) Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole 13 ( 14 ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives 14 ( 9 ) Guitar Tango - Shadows (#7) 15 ( 8 ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee (#4) 16 ( 11 ) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles (#11) 17 ( 21 ) Some People - Carol Deene 18 ( -- ) Alley Cat - Bent Fabric And His Piano 19 ( 18 ) She's Gone - Buddy Knox (#18) 20 ( 24 ) Your Nose Is Gonna Grow - Johnny Crawford
21 ( 12 ) Gotta See Baby Tonight - Mr Acker Bilk (#7) 22 ( 26 ) Ballad Of Paladin - Duane Eddy 23 ( 22 ) Rinky Dink - Dave 'Baby' Cortez (#22) 24 ( 20 ) Peter And The Wolf - Clyde Valley Stompers (#20) 25 ( 17 ) Little Red Rented Rowboat - Joe Dowell (#15) 26 ( -- ) Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Johnny Tillotson 27 ( 16 ) Twist And Shout - Isley Brothers (#2[1]) 28 ( 15 ) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka (#1[5]) 29 ( -- ) Will I What? - Mike Sarne 30 ( 25 ) Pick A Bale Of Cotton - Lonnie Donegan (#25)
-- ( 23 ) Welcome Home Baby - Shirelles (#10) -- ( 27 ) Party Lights - Claudine Clark (#20) -- ( 28 ) Seven Day Weekend - Gary US Bonds (#12) -- ( 29 ) That Noise - Anthony Newley (#17) -- ( 30 ) Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole & George Shearing (#7)
-- ( -- ) Don't That Beat All - Adam Faith -- ( -- ) What Now My Love - Shirley Bassey -- ( -- ) Teenage Idol - Ricky Nelson -- ( -- ) You Belong To Me - Duprees -- ( -- ) Till Death Do Us Part - Bob Braun
A classic song hits the top, albeit not in the version you probably know best, and two other classics enter side by side. And there is more to come.
Alley Cat is another instrumental, Send Me The Pillow is an old country song by Hank Locklin, and Morrissey "borrowed" some lyrics from it for the song "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others". Mike Sarne is bothering a different female this time, and manages to scrape in at the lower end.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 29, 2015 23:48:24 GMT 1
8 September 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Telstar - Tornados 3 ( 7 ) Sherry - Four Seasons 4 ( -- ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs 5 ( 2 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva (#1[3]) 6 ( 5 ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers (#5) 7 ( 3 ) Things - Bobby Darin (#2[3]) 8 ( 4 ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley (#3) 9 ( -- ) It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard 10 ( 12 ) Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole
11 ( 10 ) The Man With The Golden Arm - Jet Harris (#10) 12 ( -- ) Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton 13 ( 18 ) Alley Cat - Bent Fabric And His Piano 14 ( -- ) Rocket Man - Spotnicks 15 ( -- ) Point Of No Return - Gene McDaniels 16 ( 9 ) Sheila - Tommy Roe (#6) 17 ( 8 ) Vacation - Connie Francis (#3) 18 ( 13 ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives (#13) 19 ( 11 ) A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn (#10) 20 ( 17 ) Some People - Carol Deene (#17)
21 ( -- ) Silver Threads And Golden Needles - Springfields 22 ( 26 ) Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Johnny Tillotson 23 ( 20 ) Your Nose Is Gonna Grow - Johnny Crawford (#20) 24 ( 22 ) Ballad Of Paladin - Duane Eddy (#22) 25 ( 14 ) Guitar Tango - Shadows (#7) 26 ( -- ) You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells 27 ( 29 ) Will I What? - Mike Sarne 28 ( 19 ) She's Gone - Buddy Knox (#18) 29 ( 16 ) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles (#11) 30 ( 15 ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee (#4)
-- ( 21 ) Gotta See Baby Tonight - Mr Acker Bilk (#7) -- ( 23 ) Rinky Dink - Dave 'Baby' Cortez (#22) -- ( 24 ) Peter And The Wolf - Clyde Valley Stompers (#20) -- ( 25 ) Little Red Rented Rowboat - Joe Dowell (#15) -- ( 27 ) Twist And Shout - Isley Brothers (#2[1]) -- ( 28 ) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka (#1[5]) -- ( 30 ) Pick A Bale Of Cotton - Lonnie Donegan (#25)
-- ( -- ) Cry Myself To Sleep - Del Shannon -- ( -- ) Sweet Little Sixteen - Jerry Lee Lewis -- ( -- ) Shame On Me - Bobby Bare -- ( -- ) Patches Dickey Lee
As Jerry Butler takes a 2nd week on top, the main challengers are both classic instrumental hits. Telstar moves up to #2 - so far only the first two UK #1s of the year also reached #1 here. However that classic is under threat from a cool jazzy tune that revisited the chart in January 1980.
The second highest entry is Cliff Richard, who was still having hits when Green Onions came round again. "Carrie" was a hit for him not long after.
Jimmy Clanton's only week in the UK chart was at #50 in 1960. "Venus In Blue Jeans" was a UK hit for Mark Wynter instead. I'm not the only one who thinks "Ferry Across The Mersey" is a slight likeness. (The tune of the titles of the songs have the same notes).
The Spotnicks tune is instrumental and of course no relation to anything Elton John did later. (Unlike Pat Boone's recent hit..).
Among those failing this week is Del Shannon, but don't worry, his Swiss Maid is up next for him.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 30, 2015 15:18:33 GMT 1
1 ( 4 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Telstar - Tornados (#2[1]) 4 ( 3 ) Sherry - Four Seasons (#3) 5 ( 9 ) It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard 6 ( 12 ) Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton 7 ( 14 ) Rocket Man - Spotnicks 8 ( -- ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez 9 ( 15 ) Point Of No Return - Gene McDaniels 10 ( 6 ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers (#5)
11 ( 5 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva (#1[3]) 12 ( 10 ) Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole (#10) 13 ( -- ) Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys 14 ( 13 ) Alley Cat - Bent Fabric And His Piano (#13) 15 ( 7 ) Things - Bobby Darin (#2[3]) 16 ( 21 ) Silver Threads And Golden Needles - Springfields 17 ( 8 ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley (#3) 18 ( 11 ) The Man With The Golden Arm - Jet Harris (#10) 19 ( -- ) Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes 20 ( 26 ) You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells
21 ( 22 ) Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Johnny Tillotson 22 ( -- ) Your Tender Look - Joe Brown 23 ( 18 ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives (#13) 24 ( 16 ) Sheila - Tommy Roe (#6) 25 ( 20 ) Some People - Carol Deene (#17) 26 ( 27 ) Will I What? - Mike Sarne 27 ( -- ) Lie To Me - Brook Benton 28 ( 17 ) Vacation - Connie Francis (#3) 29 ( 24 ) Ballad Of Paladin - Duane Eddy (#22) 30 ( 23 ) Your Nose Is Gonna Grow - Johnny Crawford (#20)
-- ( 19 ) A Swingin' Safari - Billy Vaughn (#10) -- ( 25 ) Guitar Tango - Shadows (#7) -- ( 28 ) She's Gone - Buddy Knox (#18) -- ( 29 ) You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles (#11) -- ( 30 ) It Started All Over Again - Brenda Lee (#4)
-- ( -- ) A Wonderful Dream - Majors -- ( -- ) Puff - Kenny Lynch -- ( -- ) Reminiscing - Buddy Holly -- ( -- ) Come On Little Angel - Belmonts
With so many classic tracks, something has to give. Booker T & The MG's grab #1 as the 3 above it all slide a place and Chris Montez's classic gets the highest entry and will try to break into that top 4 next week, in addition to the climbers above it.
We've already had a couple of songs that the Beach Boys covered. Now we have them in the chart themselves.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 3, 2015 2:33:49 GMT 1
22 September 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Telstar - Tornados 3 ( 2 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler (#1[2]) 4 ( 8 ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez 5 ( 4 ) Sherry - Four Seasons (#3) 6 ( 5 ) It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard (#5) 7 ( 6 ) Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton (#6) 8 ( 7 ) Rocket Man - Spotnicks (#7) 9 ( -- ) Do You Love Me - Contours 10 ( 13 ) Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys
11 ( 9 ) Point Of No Return - Gene McDaniels (#9) 12 ( -- ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King 13 ( 19 ) Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes 14 ( 16 ) Silver Threads And Golden Needles - Springfields 15 ( 22 ) Your Tender Look - Joe Brown 16 ( 10 ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers (#5) 17 ( 12 ) Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole (#10) 18 ( 14 ) Alley Cat - Bent Fabric And His Piano (#13) 19 ( 20 ) You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells 20 ( 11 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva (#1[3])
21 ( 27 ) Lie To Me - Brook Benton 22 ( -- ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers 23 ( 21 ) Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Johnny Tillotson (#21) 24 ( 15 ) Things - Bobby Darin (#2[3]) 25 ( 18 ) The Man With The Golden Arm - Jet Harris (#10) 26 ( 26 ) Will I What? - Mike Sarne 27 ( -- ) What Kind Of Love Is This - Joey Dee & The Starliters 28 ( 17 ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley (#3) 29 ( -- ) If I Had A Hammer - Peter Paul & Mary 30 ( 23 ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives (#13)
-- ( 24 ) Sheila - Tommy Roe (#6) -- ( 25 ) Some People - Carol Deene (#17) -- ( 28 ) Vacation - Connie Francis (#3) -- ( 29 ) Ballad Of Paladin - Duane Eddy (#22) -- ( 30 ) Your Nose Is Gonna Grow - Johnny Crawford (#20)
-- ( -- ) Blue Weekend - Karl Denver -- ( -- ) Hully Gully Baby - Dovells -- ( -- ) Rain Rain Go Away - Bobby Vinton
The top 3 remain the same albeit Telstar moves back up to #2 and as Chris Montez climbs to #4 a number of others slide a place but the top 8 has the same songs as last week.
The top 3 entries are all classics. The original version of "Do You Love Me?" followed by Carole King, half of our most successful songwriting duo of the last couple of years taking up the vocal this time, and a song that was much played over the last week all around. Perhaps if that one can hang around a while it might climb high as the chart reaches the end of October. In the USA it did exactly that in 1962.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 3, 2015 22:37:15 GMT 1
29 September 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Telstar - Tornados 3 ( 4 ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez 4 ( 9 ) Do You Love Me - Contours 5 ( 3 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler (#1[2]) 6 ( 12 ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King 7 ( 5 ) Sherry - Four Seasons (#3) 8 ( 6 ) It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard (#5) 9 ( 10 ) Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys 10 ( 7 ) Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton (#6)
11 ( 13 ) Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes 12 ( 8 ) Rocket Man - Spotnicks (#7) 13 ( 22 ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers 14 ( 15 ) Your Tender Look - Joe Brown 15 ( -- ) Lonely - Mr Acker Bilk 16 ( 14 ) Silver Threads And Golden Needles - Springfields (#14) 17 ( 11 ) Point Of No Return - Gene McDaniels (#9) 18 ( -- ) Hercules - Frankie Vaughan 19 ( 21 ) Lie To Me - Brook Benton 20 ( -- ) The Breeze And I - Fentones
21 ( 27 ) What Kind Of Love Is This - Joey Dee & The Starliters 22 ( 19 ) You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells (#19) 23 ( 29 ) If I Had A Hammer - Peter Paul & Mary 24 ( 18 ) Alley Cat - Bent Fabric And His Piano (#13) 25 ( 17 ) Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole (#10) 26 ( 16 ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers (#5) 27 ( -- ) Punish Her - Bobby Vee 28 ( 23 ) Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Johnny Tillotson (#21) 29 ( 26 ) Will I What? - Mike Sarne (#26) 30 ( -- ) A Forever Kind Of Love - Bobby Vee
-- ( 20 ) The Locomotion - Little Eva (#1[3]) -- ( 24 ) Things - Bobby Darin (#2[3]) -- ( 25 ) The Man With The Golden Arm - Jet Harris (#10) -- ( 28 ) She's Not You - Elvis Presley (#3) -- ( 30 ) Call Me Mr In-Between - Burl Ives (#13)
-- ( -- ) Only Love Can Break A Heart - Gene Pitney
Instrumentals remaining strong, like they were in much of 1961. Top two plus 2 of the new entries, as the new Acker Bilk tune is more in the style of Stranger On the Shore and the Fentones perform an instrumental in the absence of Shane. Liverpool singer Frankie Vaughan gets an entry with Hercules and a brace from Bobby Vee (separate releases in the UK and USA?) squeeze out Gene Pitney.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 4, 2015 22:41:03 GMT 1
6 October 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Do You Love Me - Contours 3 ( 6 ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King 4 ( 3 ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez (#3) 5 ( 2 ) Telstar - Tornados (#2[3]) 6 ( 13 ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers 7 ( 15 ) Lonely - Mr Acker Bilk 8 ( 5 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler (#1[2]) 9 ( -- ) He's A Rebel - Crystals 10 ( 9 ) Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys (#9)
11 ( 18 ) Hercules - Frankie Vaughan 12 ( 7 ) Sherry - Four Seasons (#3) 13 ( 11 ) Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes (#11) 14 ( 8 ) It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard (#5) 15 ( 20 ) The Breeze And I - Fentones 16 ( -- ) If A Man Answers - Bobby Darin 17 ( 10 ) Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton (#6) 18 ( 14 ) Your Tender Look - Joe Brown (#14) 19 ( 12 ) Rocket Man - Spotnicks (#7) 20 ( 21 ) What Kind Of Love Is This - Joey Dee & The Starliters
21 ( 19 ) Lie To Me - Brook Benton (#19) 22 ( 27 ) Punish Her - Bobby Vee 23 ( 23 ) If I Had A Hammer - Peter Paul & Mary 24 ( 16 ) Silver Threads And Golden Needles - Springfields (#14) 25 ( -- ) Out Of This World - Tony Hatch 26 ( -- ) Popeye (The Hitchhiker) - Chubby Checker 27 ( 30 ) A Forever Kind Of Love - Bobby Vee 28 ( 17 ) Point Of No Return - Gene McDaniels (#9) 29 ( -- ) Baubles Bangles And Beads - George Shearing 30 ( 22 ) You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells (#19)
-- ( 24 ) Alley Cat - Bent Fabric And His Piano (#13) -- ( 25 ) Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole (#10) -- ( 26 ) Welcome Home Baby - Brook Brothers (#5) -- ( 28 ) Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Johnny Tillotson (#21) -- ( 29 ) Will I What? - Mike Sarne (#26)
-- ( -- ) Don't Go Near The Indians - Rex Allen -- ( -- ) I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Tony Bennett
We are now in October 1962. Rosh Hashanah was exactly 1 week ago, i.e. 29 September so the year is now 5723. We are heading for a freezing cold winter, and a musical change in direction. At present though it's American vocalists and British instrumentalists / producers that are charting, albeit an American instrumental group still leading the way, having seen off its British challenger.
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Post by raliverpool on Nov 4, 2015 22:55:42 GMT 1
My reaction after finding out Telstar failed to top your Retro chart:
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 5, 2015 10:14:32 GMT 1
The reaction is "What kept it off #1?" And you'll see it was another great instrumental. I know you managed to squeeze both of them into #1.
I guess once I reach 1964 there will be far more "great" songs that don't make it to #1 here.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 6, 2015 14:11:21 GMT 1
And now for the moment we have been long awaiting:
13 October 1962:
1 ( 2 ) Do You Love Me - Contours < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs (#1[4]) 3 ( 3 ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King 4 ( 6 ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers 5 ( 9 ) He's A Rebel - Crystals 6 ( 7 ) Lonely - Mr Acker Bilk 7 ( -- ) Love Me Do - Beatles 8 ( 4 ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez (#3) 9 ( -- ) All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee 10 ( 5 ) Telstar - Tornados (#2[3])
11 ( 11 ) Hercules - Frankie Vaughan 12 ( 16 ) If A Man Answers - Bobby Darin 13 ( 8 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler (#1[2]) 14 ( 10 ) Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys (#9) 15 ( 15 ) The Breeze And I - Fentones 16 ( -- ) Swiss Maid - Del Shannon 17 ( 13 ) Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes (#11) 18 ( 25 ) Out Of This World - Tony Hatch 19 ( 26 ) Popeye (The Hitchhiker) - Chubby Checker 20 ( 12 ) Sherry - Four Seasons (#3)
21 ( 22 ) Punish Her - Bobby Vee 22 ( 20 ) What Kind Of Love Is This - Joey Dee & The Starliters (#20) 23 ( 29 ) Baubles Bangles And Beads - George Shearing 24 ( 14 ) It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard (#5) 25 ( -- ) Pretty Jenny - Jess Conrad 26 ( 18 ) Your Tender Look - Joe Brown (#14) 27 ( 23 ) If I Had A Hammer - Peter Paul & Mary (#23) 28 ( 21 ) Lie To Me - Brook Benton (#19) 29 ( 17 ) Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton (#6) 30 ( 27 ) A Forever Kind Of Love - Bobby Vee (#27)
-- ( 19 ) Rocket Man - Spotnicks (#7) -- ( 24 ) Silver Threads And Golden Needles - Springfields (#14) -- ( 28 ) Point Of No Return - Gene McDaniels (#9) -- ( 30 ) You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells (#19)
-- ( -- ) He Got What He Wanted - Little Richard -- ( -- ) Torture - Kris Jensen
Yes, the Beatles are in the chart! John Lennon's harmonica and a song mostly written by Paul McCartney but John Lennon helped out on the "middle 8". Very much inspired by the Crickets and the Everly Brothers. In fact they took their name by copying the Crickets and using the name of a small animal, and then came up with the clever pun of changing the 'e' to an 'a' to have the word "Beat" in the title. Actually Stuart Sutcliffe, a member of the Quarrymen, came up with the name, but he died earlier in the year. He was bass guitarist.
The song at #1 this year did not reached #1 in the UK until the following year with a cover version, by which time we are in the height of "Beatlemania". In addition, Green Onions was in the UK chart competing with a cover version of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (so a cover of that was competing with the original of Green Onions, whilst the original of IWHYH was competing with a cover of Do You Love Me).
Monster Mash, which is still climbing as we get closer to Hallowe'en, was a UK hit in 1973 by which time the Beatles had long split.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 8, 2015 2:46:54 GMT 1
20 October 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Do You Love Me - Contours < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers 3 ( 7 ) Love Me Do - Beatles 4 ( 5 ) He's A Rebel - Crystals 5 ( 3 ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King (#3) 6 ( 9 ) All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee 7 ( 2 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs (#1[4]) 8 ( 6 ) Lonely - Mr Acker Bilk (#6) 9 ( 16 ) Swiss Maid - Del Shannon 10 ( -- ) Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker
11 ( 12 ) If A Man Answers - Bobby Darin 12 ( -- ) King Of The Whole Wide World - Elvis Presley 13 ( 11 ) Hercules - Frankie Vaughan (#11) 14 ( 8 ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez (#3) 15 ( 18 ) Out Of This World - Tony Hatch 16 ( 19 ) Popeye (The Hitchhiker) - Chubby Checker 17 ( -- ) Next Door To An Angel - Neil Sedaka 18 ( -- ) Oh Lonesome Me - Craig Douglas 19 ( 15 ) The Breeze And I - Fentones (#15) 20 ( 10 ) Telstar - Tornados (#2[3])
21 ( 25 ) Pretty Jenny - Jess Conrad 22 ( 14 ) Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys (#9) 23 ( 13 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler (#1[2]) 24 ( -- ) The Pay Off - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 25 ( 23 ) Baubles Bangles And Beads - George Shearing (#23) 26 ( 21 ) Punish Her - Bobby Vee (#21) 27 ( 17 ) Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes (#11) 28 ( -- ) Keep Away From Other Girls - Helen Shapiro 29 ( 22 ) What Kind Of Love Is This - Joey Dee & The Starliters (#20) 30 ( 20 ) Sherry - Four Seasons (#3)
-- ( 24 ) It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard (#5) -- ( 26 ) Your Tender Look - Joe Brown (#14) -- ( 27 ) If I Had A Hammer - Peter Paul & Mary (#23) -- ( 28 ) Lie To Me - Brook Benton (#19) -- ( 29 ) Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton (#6) -- ( 30 ) A Forever Kind Of Love - Bobby Vee (#27)
-- ( -- ) Gina - Johnny Mathis -- ( -- ) Close To Cathy - Mike Clifford
The number of songs that have reached NM #1 and UK #1 in different versions has gone up in the last few weeks. From the retro period we have "Crying" (Roy Orbison NM #1, Don McLean UK#1), Make It Easy On Yourself (Jerry Butler NM #1, Walker Brothers UK #1) and now "Do You Love Me (Contours NM #1, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes UK #1).
Chubby Checker's gone calypso with his latest hit. Elvis sings about being king, but the act at #3 may shortly dethrone him. Neil Sedaka's song suffers from sounding too much like his last hit. Craig Douglas covers a Don Gibson country song that was originally the A-side to which Ray Charles covered the B-side (I Can't Stop Loving You). Kenny Ball gets another jazz hit whilst Helen Shapiro asks you to keep away from other girls. Two songs with girls names in them don't make it in.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 8, 2015 21:34:43 GMT 1
27 October 1962:
1 ( 2 ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Love Me Do - Beatles 3 ( 1 ) Do You Love Me - Contours (#1[2]) 4 ( 6 ) All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee 5 ( -- ) Return To Sender - Elvis Presley 6 ( 10 ) Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker 7 ( 4 ) He's A Rebel - Crystals (#4) 8 ( 12 ) King Of The Whole Wide World - Elvis Presley 9 ( -- ) Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons 10 ( 9 ) Swiss Maid - Del Shannon (#9)
11 ( 5 ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King (#3) 12 ( -- ) James (Hold The Ladder Steady) - Sue Thompson 13 ( 17 ) Next Door To An Angel - Neil Sedaka 14 ( -- ) Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield 15 ( 18 ) Oh Lonesome Me - Craig Douglas 16 ( 8 ) Lonely - Mr Acker Bilk (#6) 17 ( 11 ) If A Man Answers - Bobby Darin (#11) 18 ( 7 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs (#1[4]) 19 ( 15 ) Out Of This World - Tony Hatch (#15) 20 ( -- ) Sun Arise - Rolf Harris
21 ( 16 ) Popeye (The Hitchhiker) - Chubby Checker (#16) 22 ( 24 ) The Pay Off - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 23 ( 13 ) Hercules - Frankie Vaughan (#11) 24 ( -- ) Because Of Love - Billy Fury 25 ( -- ) No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile - Everly Brothers 26 ( 21 ) Pretty Jenny - Jess Conrad (#21) 27 ( -- ) Little Black Book - Jimmy Dean 28 ( 28 ) Keep Away From Other Girls - Helen Shapiro 29 ( 14 ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez (#3) 30 ( -- ) The Cha-Cha-Cha - Bobby Rydell
-- ( 19 ) The Breeze And I - Fentones (#15) -- ( 20 ) Telstar - Tornados (#2[3]) -- ( 22 ) Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys (#9) -- ( 23 ) Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler (#1[2]) -- ( 25 ) Baubles Bangles And Beads - George Shearing (#23) -- ( 26 ) Punish Her - Bobby Vee (#21) -- ( 27 ) Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes (#11) -- ( 29 ) What Kind Of Love Is This - Joey Dee & The Starliters (#20) -- ( 30 ) Sherry - Four Seasons (#3)
-- ( -- ) Warmed Over Kisses (Left Over Love) - Brian Hyland -- ( -- ) Ever Since You Said Goodbye - Marty Wilde -- ( -- ) Nothing Can Change This Love - Sam Cooke
The Monster Mash gets to #1 just in time for Hallowe'en with what is so far the slowest climb up to #1 on this chart, topping the chart in its 6th week. In reality it was ahead of everything in its playlist including the Contours but it was so early on that had it had a normal run it would have expired by the time Hallowe'en came around. In the US it took equally long to reach the top (most singles did) also topping the chart around this week.
It is currently keeping the Beatles off #1 and with Elvis Presley entering at #5, showing us who is currently the king and who are perhaps just still the pretenders, we will have to see if the Beatles can make it with this one.
Another Four Seasons classic gets the next entry. Sue Thompson is one of those I wasn't familiar with before. Frank Ifield continues to yodel out the classics. This song was actually a top 10 hit for Tex Ritter 6 years earlier. I am thinking therefore that had I done retro charts for 1956 I might not have allowed it, and how long I should make the gap before allowing songs to come back again. I was considering 7 years (which makes this cover too soon, but the rules are probably a bit different when the original was before my chart era). It also depends whether the new version is significantly different from the previous one (thus I will allow Joe Cocker's rendition of With A Little Help From My Friends) or is just a "karaoke" cover.
Incidentally there are 2 competing versions of a song, a UK and US version both of which reached #3 in their countries. The first to chart isn't necessarily the one I pick, and the UK one would have already charted but is conspicuous in its absence, as you'll soon see. (The US version, although it charted second, is the original one).
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 11, 2015 0:58:31 GMT 1
3 November 1962:
1 ( 1 ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers <2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Return To Sender - Elvis Presley 3 ( 2 ) Love Me Do - Beatles (#2) 4 ( 9 ) Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons 5 ( 4 ) All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee (#4) 6 ( -- ) The James Bond Theme - John Barry 7 ( 6 ) Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker (#6) 8 ( 12 ) James (Hold The Ladder Steady) - Sue Thompson 9 ( 3 ) Do You Love Me - Contours (#1[2]) 10 ( 8 ) King Of The Whole Wide World - Elvis Presley (#8)
11 ( 14 ) Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield 12 ( 13 ) Next Door To An Angel - Neil Sedaka 13 ( 7 ) He's A Rebel - Crystals (#4) 14 ( 20 ) Sun Arise - Rolf Harris 15 ( 10 ) Swiss Maid - Del Shannon (#9) 16 ( 15 ) Oh Lonesome Me - Craig Douglas (#15) 17 ( 24 ) Because Of Love - Billy Fury 18 ( 25 ) No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile - Everly Brothers 19 ( 11 ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King (#3) 20 ( 27 ) Little Black Book - Jimmy Dean
21 ( 22 ) The Pay Off - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 22 ( -- ) Desafinado - Stan Getz & Charlie Boyd 23 ( 30 ) The Cha-Cha-Cha - Bobby Rydell 24 ( 19 ) Out Of This World - Tony Hatch (#15) 25 ( 17 ) If A Man Answers - Bobby Darin (#11) 26 ( -- ) Must Be Madison - Joe Loss 27 ( 16 ) Lonely - Mr Acker Bilk (#6) 28 ( 21 ) Popeye (The Hitchhiker) - Chubby Checker (#16) 29 ( 28 ) Keep Away From Other Girls - Helen Shapiro (#28) 30 ( 18 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs (#1[4])
-- ( 23 ) Hercules - Frankie Vaughan (#11) -- ( 26 ) Pretty Jenny - Jess Conrad (#21) -- ( 29 ) Let's Dance - Chris Montez (#3)
-- ( -- ) I've Got A Woman (Part 1) - Jimmy McGriff -- ( -- ) Love Me Tender - Richard Chamberlain
Ok, so it's confirmed then. Love Me Do got stuck at #2 behind the Monster Mash.. This week, all 3 entries are instrumental and Elvis is poised to take over next week unless John Barry's "James Bond Theme" can pip him whilst Richard Chamberlain fails to chart with a cover of one of Elvis's earlier hits.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 11, 2015 22:53:01 GMT 1
10 November 1962:
1 ( 2 ) Return To Sender - Elvis Presley <6th #1> 2 ( 1 ) Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers (#1[2]) 3 ( 6 ) The James Bond Theme - John Barry 4 ( 4 ) Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons 5 ( -- ) Workin' For The Man - Roy Orbison 6 ( 3 ) Love Me Do - Beatles (#2[1]) 7 ( 8 ) James (Hold The Ladder Steady) - Sue Thompson 8 ( -- ) Bobby's Girl - Marcie Blane 9 ( 5 ) All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee (#4) 10 ( 7 ) Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker (#6)
11 ( 11 ) Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield 12 ( -- ) Don't Hang Up - Orlons 13 ( 14 ) Sun Arise - Rolf Harris 14 ( 12 ) Next Door To An Angel - Neil Sedaka (#12) 15 ( -- ) Dance With The Guitar Man - Duane Eddy 16 ( 10 ) King Of The Whole Wide World - Elvis Presley (#8) 17 ( 17 ) Because Of Love - Billy Fury 18 ( 22 ) Desafinado - Stan Getz & Charlie Boyd 19 ( 18 ) No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile - Everly Brothers (#18) 20 ( 20 ) Little Black Book - Jimmy Dean
21 ( 9 ) Do You Love Me - Contours (#1[2]) 22 ( -- ) Ride! - Dee Dee Sharp 23 ( 26 ) Must Be Madison - Joe Loss 24 ( 16 ) Oh Lonesome Me - Craig Douglas (#15) 25 ( 23 ) The Cha-Cha-Cha - Bobby Rydell (#23) 26 ( 13 ) He's A Rebel - Crystals (#4) 27 ( 15 ) Swiss Maid - Del Shannon (#9) 28 ( 21 ) The Pay Off - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (#21) 29 ( -- ) Can Can 62 - Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers 30 ( 19 ) It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King (#3)
-- ( 24 ) Out Of This World - Tony Hatch (#15) -- ( 25 ) If A Man Answers - Bobby Darin (#11) -- ( 27 ) Lonely - Mr Acker Bilk (#6) -- ( 28 ) Popeye (The Hitchhiker) - Chubby Checker (#16) -- ( 29 ) Keep Away From Other Girls - Helen Shapiro (#28) -- ( 30 ) Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs (#1[4])
-- ( -- ) I Was Such A Fool (To Fall In Love With You) - Connie Francis -- ( -- ) My Love And Devotion - Matt Monro
Elvis gets yet another #1, and it becomes 3rd UK/NM #1 of 1962. The highest new entry is a song that was a UK #50 spending just one week in the chart. So far none of those have reached NM #1 but two of them have peaked at #2. Maybe the Big-O is the one to do it. This song appears to "sample" some grunts from Sam Cooke's hit "Chain Gang".
(Incidentally of the artists whose only ever hit was 1 week at #50, so far the clear leader for me is the Moontrekkers with "Night Of The Vampire", which was very close to being a #1).
At #8 we see the reason Susan Maughan hasn't been in the chart or even listed among the bubblers. Her version of the song got rejected for the far superior original.
The Orlons get another hit after their Wah-Watusi, and hey, Dee Dee Sharp has finally reached this chart.
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