Monday, January 19, 2015

50 Year Flashback - January 19th, 1965

Here's a WHK Tunedex Chart from Lorain, Ohio.

Check out Robert Goulet at #3!!!  Frank Sinatra (#12), Ronnie Dove (#27), Bobby Vinton (#28), Dean Martin (#30), Jerry Vale (#36), Mel Carter (#38) and even George Jones (#32) are all doing side-by-side battle with the likes of the biggest British Invasion Artists of the day like The Beatles, Petula Clark (#1 and misspelled on this week's chart!), The Searchers, The Dave Clark Five, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Kinks and Chad and Jeremy.

Big movers of the week include "The In-Crowd" by Dobie Gray (#30 to #8), "Thou Shalt Not Steal" by Dick And DeeDee (#31 to #9), "The Jolly Green Giant" by The Kingsmen (#20 to #11), Sinatra ("Somewhere In Your Heart", up from #27 to #12), "This Diamond Ring" by Gary Lewis and the Playboys (#29 to #13), "Paper Tiger" by Sue Thompson (#33 to #18), The Dixie Cups ("Little Bell", #36 to #19), Joe Tex (up 20 places from #41 to #21 with "Hold What You've Got"), Ned Miller's "Do What You Do Do Well", up from #47 to #22, Ronnie Dove ("Hello Pretty Girl", up from #43 to #27), Dean Martin "("You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You", #46 to #30), George Jones' version of "The Race Is On" (up 17 places from #49 to #32), "Everyday" by The Rogues (#44 to #33) and The Kinks ("All Day And All Of The Night", up from #50 to #39).

New premiers include "Have You Looked Into Your Heart" by Jerry Vale, "Camel Walk" by The Ikettes, and future hits like "Bye Bye Baby" by The Four Seasons, "Tell Her No" by The Zombies, "Little Things" by Bobby Goldsboro, "The Boy From New York City" by The Ad-Libs and "King Of The Road" by Roger Miller.

And check out this week's #34 record ... it's "Dream Baby" by Cherilyn ... an early Cher solo track written and produced by Sonny Bono (doing his best Phil Spector imitation in the studio!), several months before Sonny and Cher would first hit the charts!  (It would later be reissued as simply by Cher once the couple broke through but never made The Billboard Charts!)