The same week that J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers are injured in a fatal car crash in Ohio, their first chart hit, "Last Kiss" (about a fatal car crash!) reaches the top of the Super Chart. (The song showed up in the #1 position all over the country ... but for some reason, never reached the summit in Billboard Magazine, despite hitting #1 in both Cash Box and Record World ... and holding that spot for two weeks in Record World!) That #1 showing in two of the three major trade publications this week was enough to push it to #1 on our Super Chart as well.
American acts dominate The Top Ten this week, with The Supremes rising to #2 with their latest, "Baby Love," up from #6 the week before. It's a sure thing to become The Supremes' second straight #1 Record.
The lone British acts in this week's Top Ten are Manfred Mann, down to #3 after topping the charts for two weeks with their big hit, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," and The Honeycombs, who climb from #11 to #9 with "Have I The RIght."
The only other new entry into The Top Ten this week is by The Hondells with their Beach Boys cover "Little Honda," which climbs from #12 to #10. Oddly enough, the only two Top Ten Records to earn bullets on this week's chart are the #1 and #2 records by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers and The Supremes. We don't find another bulleted record until we hit #11, where Jay and the Americans climb up from #16 with "Come A Little Bit Closer."
Also earning bullets within this week's Top 40, we find "Tobacco Road" by The Nashville Teens, up from #18 to #14, "Leader Of The Pack" by The Shangri-Las, which climbs from #24 to #15, a significant move of nine places, "Ain't That Loving You Baby" by Elvis Presley, up 8 spots to #17, "Everybody Knows (I Still Love You" by The Dave Clark Five, also up 8 spots to #18, "I Don't Want To See You Again" by Peter and Gordon, a ten point jumper to #21, "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, a REAL mover from #41 to #26, "Is It True" by Brenda Lee, up nearly 20 places from #47 to #28, "She's Not There" by The Zombies, which DOES move 20 places, from #52 to #32, "Time Is On My Side," #38 by The Rolling Stones (a jump of 23 spots), and "Ask Me" by Elvis Presley, which glides from #55 to #39. (As we saw in yesterday's post, The Rolling Stones performed "Time Is On My Side" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" last night.)
This week's top debut is by television's "Bonanza" star, Lorne Greene. It's a track called "Ringo" ... but has NOTHING to do with America's favorite mop-top. A spoken-word record, it will eventually top the charts in both Billboard and Cash Box.
Bobby Vinton's got another tear-jerker on the chart this week, too, as "Mr. Lonely" debuts at #74.
Although Lorne Greene's record had absolutely nothing to do with The World's Favorite Drummer, it wouldn't take long for a parody to appear and cash in on the popularity of Greene's new hit.
Larry
Finnegan, who had a Top Ten Hit of his own back in 1962 with "Dear
One," recorded "The Other Ringo" as a cash-in attempt in late 1964.
Although we heard it quite a bit here in Chicago (where it went to #28),
Finnegan topped out at #91 in Record World ... and never made The Top
100 in either Billboard or Cash Box (where it DID manage to "bubble
under" at #130 and #140 respectively)
