Eight weeks and counting ... "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is STILL the #1 Record in the Country! ("She Loves You" is already in its fourth week in the Runner-Up position!)
In fact, The Top Six Records this week are EXACTLY the same as the were last week ...
"She Loves You" still sits at #2, followed by "Dawn" by The Four Seasons at #3, "Please Please Me" by The Beatles at #4, "Java" by Al Hirt at #5 and "Navy Blue" by Diane Renay at #6.
And numbers 7 and 8 simply flip-flopped their positions from the week before ... "Fun Fun Fun" by The Beach Boys moves up a notch to #7 and "California Sun" by The Rivieras slips to #8. Bobby Goldsboro finally cracks The Top Ten on his tenth week on the chart with "See The Funny Little Clown" and Al Martino (Al Martino?!?!?) sits at #10 with "I Love Your More And More Every Day."
Dusty Springfield holds at #14 with "I Only Want To Be With You." "Glad All Over" by The Dave Clark Five (who just appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show) is up six places to #17.
The Beatles' hits "I Saw Her Standing There" and "My Bonnie," which seem to be joined at the hip, are now #31 and #32 ... while The Searchers are on quite a streak ... their first US Hit, "Needles And Pins," has moved from #98 to #60 to #39.
But the BIG news is The Beatles' "Twist And Shout" leaping from #93 to #45, a move of 48 places ... that's nearly half the chart! (Everybody but Billboard seems to know this is a #1 Hit!)
The Swinging Blue Jeans sit at #58 while The Beatles are back at #71 with "From Me To You."
And, enough copies of the Canadian pressing of "Roll Over Beethoven" by The Beatles have been sold here in The States to rank it at #108!
We've got a new Beatles novelty record on the charts this week, too ...
"We Love You Beatles" by The Carefrees (a take-off of "We Love You, Conrad" from the musical "Bye, Bye Birdie") debuts at #93 ...
While "My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut" by Donna Lynn is back on the chart this week at #91.
60 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK:
3/9/64 - The first Ford Mustang is produced
(I got to drive my Dad's 1965 Mustang to school in 1971 ...
It was the coolest car ever!) kk
