The Beatles top the chart in their fourth week on the chart with "Eight Days A Week." (This one shot up the chart from #51 to #11 to #3 to #1.)
"My Girl" by The Temptations holds at #2 ... while four other Top Ten Hits make significant moves up the chart, all earning bullets in the process:
"The Birds And The Bees" climbs from #9 to #4, "Stop! In The Name of Love" moves up ten places from #15 to #5, "Ferry 'Cross The Mersey" by Gerry and the Pacemakers now sits at #7, up from #11 last week, and "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" by Herman's Hermits bursts into The Top Ten AT #10, up nine places from the week before.
British acts are doing just fine on this week's chart ...
Besides The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Zombies and Herman's Hermits in The Top Ten, we've got Shirley Bassey at #12 with "Goldfinger," Petula Clark at #16 with her former #1 Hit "Downtown," Peter and Gordon at #20 with "I Go To Pieces" and The Dave Clark Five right behind them at #21 with "Come Home," "Yeh Yeh" by Georgie Fame at #22, The Animals make an eleven point move from #42 to #31 with their latest, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," Chad and Jeremy climb fifteen spots with "If I Loved You" (#47 to #32), "All Day And All Of The Night" by The Kinks (#34), "What Have They Done To The Rain" by The Searchers (#46), "Come Tomorrow" by Manfred Mann (#47), The Moody Blues at #60 with "Go Now" (up 17 spots), Adam Faith ("It's Alright, #61), "Come And Stay With Me" by Marianne Faithfull (#62 ... up from #100 last week ... that's a move of 38 places!!!), "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" by The Beatles (the flip-side of their now #1 Hit "Eight Days A Week"), "Heart Of Stone" by The Rolling Stones (which falls to #74), John Barry's instrumental version of "Goldfinger" (#78, up twenty spots), "4 By The Beatles" at #79, "Tired Of Waiting For You," new at #80 for The Kinks, "Girl Don't Come" by Sandie Shaw (#83), "Love Potion Number Nine" (#85 for The Searchers), Ian Whitcomb, #88 with "This Sporting Life," "I'm Telling You Now," a song that will do very well for Freddie and the Dreamers, premiers at #81, "Did You Ever" by The Hullaballoos (#92) and Dusty Springfield's latest, "Losing You," new at #96. (For those of you keeping score, that's still 29%.)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
3/8/65 – David Bowie makes his television debut as part of the group The Mannish Boys, performing their new single “I Pity The Fool.” They appear on the British television program “Gadzooks! It’s All Happening.”
