The Animals hold on to the #1 spot for the third straight week with their first US Hit, "The House Of The Rising Sun." "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann comes crashing into The Top Ten this week, leaping from #28 to #8 in only its third week on the chart. This looks like a sure-fire #1 Hit.
But it may have to wait for Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" before it can make that claim ...
The Big O is up to #3 (from #6 the week before) and is still showing all kinds of momentum.
In between at #2, also still with a bullet, is "Bread And Butter" by The Newbeats. It climbs from #4 to #2 this week. Other Top Ten attention grabbers include "GTO" by Ronny and the Daytonas (#5, up from #7) and "Remember (Walking In The Sand)" by The Shangri-Las, which climbs to #7 from last week's #10 position.
Our focus this year has been on The British Invasion Hits ... and there are still plenty of those on this week's list ... The Beatles have six: "A Hard Day's Night" (#13), "Matchbox" (#28), "And I Love Her" (#30), "Slow Down" (#41), "If I Fell" (#69) and "I'll Cry Instead," which falls from #50 to #100.
Also scoring from across the pond are The Dave Clark Five with "Because" (#9), "It's All Over Now" by The Rolling Stones (#31), "How Do You Do It" by Gerry and the Pacemakers (#34), Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde with "A Summer Song" (#35), The Searchers ("Someday We're Gonna Love Again," #40), "From A Window" by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas at #45, "Wishin' And Hopin'," still holding on at #54 for Dusty Springfield, "Tobacco Road" by The Nashville Teens, a big mover at #64, up from #88, "Ringo's Theme" by George Martin, holding at #66 after two weeks at #56, "Someone Someone" by Brian Poole and the Tremeloes (#70), The Animals, up nearly twenty places with "Gonna Send You Back To Walker," now #78, up from #97, "Hold Me," #80 for P.J. Proby, "Have I The Right" by The Honeycombs, brand new at #85, "It's For You" by Cilla Black, another Lennon and McCartney song, and "I Wouldn't Trade You For The World," #96 for The Bachelors.
Big up-and-coming hits to watch include "Dancing In The Street" by Martha and the Vandellas (#11, up from #23), "It Hurts To Be In Love" by Gene Pitney (#16, up from #21), "Last Kiss" by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers (#37, up from #44), "You Must Believe Me" by The Impressions (#39, up from #53), "When I Grow Up To Be A Man" by The Beach Boys, up 31 spots from #73 to #42, "Let It Be Me" by Betty Everett and Jerry Butler, up 19 spots from #62 to #43, "Little Honda" by The Hondells, #65 after bowing at #94 the week before, and "Come A Little Bit Closer" for Jay and the Americans, brand new on the chart at #79.
Also on 9/14/64, little Frannie Blassingame turns four years old. 35 years later, she will move to Chicago and then, two years after that, marry Kent Kotal.
