The Beatles hold down the #1 spot for the 7th week in a row. ("I Want To Hold Your Hand" has been #1 for 7 of the 8 weeks it has charted!)
"She Loves You" is still in the runner-up spot at #2 for the third week in a row. (It loses its bullet this week ... but "Please Please Me" moves up to #4, giving The Fab Four THREE of The Top Four Records in the country this week.)
Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You" creeps up two more places to #14 while The Dave Clark Five make a big jump from #45 to #23, a move of 22 places, with "Glad All Over."
"I Saw Her Standing There" enters The Top 40 for the first time, moving from #43 to #34 ... and "My Bonnie" joins it at #35, up from #47.
But it's The Searchers' "Needles And Pins" that makes the biggest move of all ... up 38 places from #98 to #60. This is going to be a very big record.
New at #75 is "Hippy Hippy Shake" by The Swinging Blue Jeans. And The Beatles FINALLY crack The Top 100 with "From Me To You," which debuts at #79.
Cliff Richard is hanging on at #89 with "It's All In The Game" ... and new on the charts is yet ANOTHER new Beatles record ... "Twist And Shout" premiers at #93, giving The Beatles SEVEN songs in The Top 100 this week.
Another new track premiers at #82 that will go on to become a '60's classic ... the somewhat prophetic "Dead Man's Curve" by Jan and Dean! And I especially like Terry Stafford's spot-on Elvis impression on "Suspicion" ... up 34 places from #100 to #66.
And, speaking Elvis, he's got a new record on the chart this week as well ...
"It Hurts Me" premiers at #57. It's the flip-side of this week's #15 hit, "Kissin' Cousins" (and is the FAR stronger track in my opinion!)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
3/2/64 – The Beatles begin filming their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night" ... and on this date, George Harrison meets his future wife, Pattie
Boyd for the first time. (Pattie has an "extra" spot in the film in one of the train car scenes.)
Also on this date, 3/2, Vee Jay Records spins off a new
subsidiary label called Tollie and releases “Twist And Shout” by The Beatles. It, too, will go straight to #1 on two of the
three national pop charts. (You'll see it premier above at #93!)
