Friday, August 22, 2014

50 Years Ago This Weekend (8/22 - 8/23 - 8/24)

THE BEATLES' A HARD DAY'S NIGHT holds at #3 this week on The Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, but "Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes replaces Dean Martin in the #1 spot.  THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN by THE ANIMALS continues to climb, this week moving from #10 to #5 … and BECAUSE (#7) and HOW DO YOU DO IT( #10) join it in The Top Ten for the first time this week.  DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S still holding on with WISHIN' AND HOPIN' at #9, giving British Invasion Artists HALF of The Top Ten Hits in America this week.   

Running down the rest of the chart you'll find AND I LOVE HER by THE BEATLES at #17, AIN'T SHE SWEET by THE BEATLES at #19, TELL ME by THE ROLLING STONES at #27, I'LL CRY INSTEAD by THE BEATLES again at #29, I'LL KEEP YOU SATISFIED by BILLY J. KRAMER AND THE DAKOTAS at #30, IT'S ALL OVER NOW, up to #40 (from #54 the week before) for THE ROLLING STONES, NOBODY I KNOW by PETER AND GORDON at #41, RINGO' THEME by GEORGE MARTIN at #56, IF I FELL (by THE BEATLES again!) up to #57, (a nice jump from #72 to #57), SOME DAY WE'RE GONNA LOVE AGAIN (jumping from #89 to #67 with a bullet) for THE SEARCHERS, CHAD AND JEREMY's A SUMMER SONG at #85, FROM A WINDOW, new at #92 for BILLY J. KRAMER AND THE DAKOTAS and THE JAMES BOND THEME (albeit by American session guitarist BILLY STRANGE), debuting at #97. 








SHOUT by LULU AND THE LUVERS moves up a spot to #31 this week on our WLS Chicagoland chart.  IT'S ALL OVER NOW is brand new for THE ROLLING STONES at #30.  AND I LOVE HER by THE BEATLES falls to #25 and I'LL KEEP YOU SATISFIED by BILLY J. KRAMER AND THE DAKOTAS falls to #21.  Meanwhile, THE BEATLES' I'LL CRY INSTEAD (now charting as just the A-Side) moves up a few places to #19.  THE ANIMALS' THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN jumps from #29 to #14 as THE DAVE CLARK FIVE's latest, BECAUSE, cracks The Top Ten at #9.    
 
Three more British Hits round out The Top Ten this week … HOW DO YOU DO IT by GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS at #6, WISHIN' AND HOPIN' by DUSTY SPRINGFIELD at #4 and THE BEATLES' A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (also just down to the A-Side) at #3.