Northern Songs, who publishes The Beatles' songs written by the song-writing team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, announce that in the eighteen months since The Beatles first recorded it, their song "Yesterday" has now been recorded by 448 other artists.
Billboard Magazine publishes a three-page article regarding The Monkees' sudden success in Europe.
Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March tell us ...
The Buckinghams achieved the distinction of having two
singles debut on two different labels on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on the same day --
March 11, 1967. On that date, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" on the U.S.A. label
and "Don't You Care" on the band's new label, Columbia, both hit the
chart. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (spelled Laudy Miss Claudy" on some
pressings), an energetic horn-driven celebration of Lloyd Price's 1952 R&B
hit, peaked at No. 41 and was on the chart for six weeks. "Don't You
Care" went higher and stayed longer -- reaching No. 6, with a 14-week run
on the chart.
Saxophonist Clifford Scott, who played for R&B great Bill
Doggett on his 1956 hit "Honky Tonk," had influenced the musical
tastes of Buckinghams saxophone and piano player Marty Grebb. "Where I
grew up, if you couldn't play that song, you couldn't be in the good
bands," he told authors Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March for the
Buckinghams chapter in their book "Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone?
Volume 2." Marty continued, "I still have an autograph from Bill
Doggett from when I was 16. He took music in a certain direction from where it
was and he filled a gap; he crossed over from sort of a swing-jazz thing into
an R&B thing that created a certain step toward rock and roll."
