The Beatles finally fall from the #1 Spot as "Hello Dolly" by Louis Armstrong ascends to the top after two weeks at #2 and 13 weeks on the chart
The Beatles still have three records in this week's Top Ten, however, as "Can't Buy Me Love" falls to #2, "Do You Want To Know A Secret" holds at #3 and "Love Me Do" skyrockets from #31 to #8. (The B-Side of "Love Me Do," "P.S. I Love You," ALSO makes a giant leap, jumping from #91 to #53.)
Other Top 100 Hits by The Fab Four include "Twist And Shout" (#14), "Thank You Girl" (#41), "All My Loving" (#56), "She Loves You" (#62) and, falling to #91 in its 17th week on the chart, the one that started it all, "I Want To Hold Your Hand."
Other Brits holding court on our US Chart include The Dave Clark Five (#4 with "Bits And Pieces," #15 with "Glad All Over," #37 with "Do You Love Me" ... up from #66 the week before ... and "I Knew It All The Time," finally making a move, from #96 to #79.)
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas climb to #22 with "Little Children," The Searchers are at #32 with "Needles And Pins" (and also at #75 with "Sugar And Spice"), Dusty Springfield, still holding on at #44 with "Stay Awhile," "Good Golly Miss Molly," new on the chart for The Swinging Blue Jeans and, making their first US chart appearance, The Rolling Stones, who come in at #100 with their version of the old Buddy Holly tune, "Not Fade Away."
Two new British duos make their first chart appearances this week ...
Peter and Gordon debut at #65 with "A World Without Love," a tune writtenby Lennon and McCartney, and Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde bow at #89 with "Yesterday's Gone." (A competing US version by The Overlanders also premiers this week at #99. Peter and Gordon will face similar competition when Bobby Rydell releases HIS version of "A World Without Love." In BOTH cases, it was the British artists who won these chart battles.)
Elvis Presley debuts this week with his classic "Viva Las Vegas" ... it premiers at #80.
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
5/4/64 – The daytime soap opera classic “Another World” debuts
Also on 5/4 – The Moody Blues form
