Don't let them tell you that Beatlemania is dead ...
They've got the #1 Song in the Country again ("Can't Buy Me Love," topping the chart for its fourth week), "Do You Want To Know A Secret" at #3, "Twist And Shout" at #9, "Love Me Do" at #31 (up from #47), "She Loves You" at #33, "All My Loving" at #36 and "Thank You Girl," finally cracking the Top 40 at #40. That's SEVEN songs in The Top 40 alone.
But the list doesn't stop there ...
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" is still hanging on at #44 in its 16th week on the chart, "Please Please Me" sits at #53 and "P.S. I Love You," the flipside of "Love Me Do," is new on the chart at #91, giving them three more tracks in The Top 100, for a total of ten ... which is 10% of the entire chart! (By the way, "Roll Over Beethoven" falls out of The Top 100 to #108 this week, so it still has chart representation in "The Next Ten.")
And that doesn't even take into account the REST of the British Invasion acts on the list this week.
The Dave Clark Five now have FOUR Top 100 Hits of their own ...
"Bits And Pieces" moves up to #4, "Glad All Over" slips out of The Top 10 to #11, "Do You Love Me" is the week's highest premiering record at #66 and "I Knew It All The Time" is back on the chart at #96.
The Searchers have three Top 100 Hits as well ... "Needles And Pins" is still hanging on at #19, "Ain't That Just Like" sits at #72 and "Sugar And Spice" creeps up to #86.
Landing at places in between, we find "Little Children" by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas breaking into The Top 40 at #38 (up from #61), "Stay Awhile" by Dusty Springfield holding on at #43 and "Hippy Hippy Shake" by The Swinging Blue Jeans at #60. (Some count The Bachelors as part of The British Invasion, but they're actually from Ireland ... still, they've got the #46 record, "Diane," their first US chart hit.) Even without it, British acts now account for 20% of the entire US chart.
On the upside, fourteen American acts are represented in The Top 20 this week ... so the war's not over yet! These include Louis Armstrong, The Serendipity Singers, Terry Stafford, Mary Wells, The Four Seasons, Jan and Dean, Robert Maxwell, Danny Williams, Betty Everett, Lesley Gore, Roy Orbison, The Kingsmen, Marvin Gaye and Pete Drake, whose song I really like, so we'll feature that one today!
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
4/27/64 – A photo of President Johnson picking up his pet beagles by their ears sends a wave of outrage to animal lovers across the country. After hearing the dogs — named "Him" and "Her" — yelp, a reporter asked, "Why did you do that?" and Johnson explained that it was to make them bark, adding, "And if you've ever followed dogs, you like to hear them yelp."
(The whole country yelped after they saw these pictures!!!)
Also on 4/27, the last original episode of “The Danny Thomas Show” airs on ABC-TV, bringing an end to the 11-year-old series that first premiered as “Make Room For Daddy.”
Danny’s daughter on the show was portrayed by Angela Cartwright, who just may have been my first major crush as a ten year old! (lol) kk
That's OK ...
Angela landed on her feet in "Lost In Space" shortly thereafter.
