60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
4/16/64 – The first Rolling Stones album is released in England
It will be released here in The States a month and a half later as "England's Newest Hit Makers" with a slightly altered song line-up ... and it didn't make much of an impression at first, ultimately peaking at #11 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart.
The first two US singles, both contained on the American pressing, were "Not Fade Away" (their take on the Buddy Holly tune), which peaked at #44 and "Tell Me," a Jagger and Richards original, which went to #24.
Also on 4/16, after a day of filming, The Beatles return to the recording studio to record the title track to their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night.
Ironically, also on 4/16, Dean Martin records “Everybody Loves Somebody,” the song that would knock The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" out of the #1 spot later this year!
Dino was quite confident that he had recorded a MAJOR hit record ... and the truth is, he hadn't had one in a while. After the session, he tells his friends and family (and anyone else who would listen) that he just recorded the song that was going to knock The Beatles out of the #1 spot ...
Which is exactly what it did in August when it replaced "A Hard Day's Night" at the top of the charts in both Billboard and Cash Box Magazine.
Co-written by Ken Lane (who would go on to become Dino's pianist when he got his own television show on NBC), the song dates back to 1947 ... and was first recorded by Dean's Rat Pack Buddy Frank Sinatra as the B-Side to his 1948 single "Just For Now." It became Dean Martin's theme song for the rest of his career.
