THE CHART:
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" remains in the #1 position for the third straight week.
Meanwhile, "She Loves You" moves from #18 to #7, giving The Beatles TWO Top Ten Hits on this week's chart.
Cliff Richard sits at #24 with his version of "It's All In The Game" while Dusty Springfield's hit "I Only Want To Be With You" cracks The Top 40 at #36.
If you look deep enough, you'll find FOUR more records by The Beatles on this week's chart ...
"Please Please Me" moves from #84 to #57, "I Saw Her Standing There" (the flip-side of "I Want To Hold Your Hand") debuts at #88 and a record that The Beatles recorded in Germany back in 1960 as the uncredited backing band for singer Tony Sheridan is now released here in America as "The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan," who sings a rockin' version of the old classic "My Bonnie."
I said you had to "look deep" to find the sixth song by The Fab Four on the chart this week ...
That's because "From Me To You," a #1 Hit in England that was relegated to the B-Side of "Please Please Me" when it was re-released in 1964, is "bubbling under at #105. It'll crack The Top 100 next week. (An original release on Vee Jay last summer made the charts in California but failed to make our Super Chart. It DID "bubble under" in both Billboard and Cash Box, however, peaking at #116 and #149 respectively.)
American groups didn't totally lie down and watch The Beatles take over the chart ...
"Dawn," the new Four Seasons record, jumps 47 places from #78 to #31 this week ... this one looks to be a smash!
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
2/3/64 – The "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
Also on 2/3, The Warren Report hearing begins. In all, 93 witnesses will testify during the course of this investigation. The first one to testify: Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was accused of killing The President Of The United States.
