"I Want To Hold Your Hand" holds on to the #1 spot for a fourth straight week ... while "She Loves You" is up five spots to #3. (Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me" is at #2 for its third straight week.)
Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You" is up ten more places to #26 while Cliff Richard's "It's All In The Game" is right behind it at #27.
"Please Please Me" sits outside The Top 40 at #46 (that's a move of eleven places) while "I Saw Her Standing There" jumps 22 spots (from #88 to #66) and even "My Bonnie" (the track the recorded with Tony Sheridan back in 1960) is up 21 notches to #68.
Brand new on the chart is "Glad All Over" by The Dave Clark Five ... they will appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" next month and soon become the darlings of The British Invasion in Ed's eyes, ultimately appearing on his program eighteen times over the years.
And "From Me To You" is still "bubbling under" at #106.
Meanwhile, we were right about "Dawn" ... the new Four Seasons' record jumps twenty places from #31 to #11 this week. And The Beach Boys have this week's top debut as their latest, "Fun Fun Fun" premiers at #67.
2/9/64 - The Beatles make their first appearance on “The Ed
Sullivan Show,” performing “All My Lovin’,” “Till There Was You,” “She Loves
You,” “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”73.7 million television viewers tune in, a
then record-breaking audience
Also on the program this evening:A young David Jones, currently starring in
the musical “Oliver” … TWO YEARS before The Monkees premier on NBC.
This is the first time I’ve watched The Grammy Awards all
the way thru in YEARS!!!
I found the program well-paced, fun and interesting, and
never had the urge to turn away, even tho I wasn’t especially familiar with all
of the music being featured.
I think Trevor Noah did an acceptable job of hosting,
getting off a few zingers in the process … and the artists seemed to accept him
in his role.
Grammy viewership was up 34% over last year’s show, the
highest since the pre-pandemic days of 2020.(If they still released the Grammy Nominated Songs and Artists like they
used to, I absolutely would have ordered a copy that night!)
Meanwhile, a record number of fans DID download Tracy
Chapman’s version of “Fast Car” … enough to make it the #1 Song on iTunes the
following day.
The full clip is definitely worth seeing … but it’s been
impossible to find!Luke’s backstory on
what the song has meant to him is all a must see …
One VERY big surprise was the appearance of Celine Dion who,
as we all know, has been suffering some medical issues these past few years.
But Celine bravely came out and presented The Album Of The
Year Award (to Taylor Swift, the record breaking FOURTH time she has won this
award!).All in all, it was a very
exciting and emotional night.If you
missed it, you can probably catch it streaming on Paramount Plus for a limited
time.(kk)
Hey Kent -
Thursday Morning (2/8) at 8:40 am (CST) I'll be featuring "The Secrets of The Beatles' Recording Sessions From Inside Abbey Road."
>>>MC5
have earned the rep as one of rock’s original punk bands, even tho their brief
moment in the sun came in 1969 with their minor hit “Kick Out The Jams.”
(#61 in Record World … but only #82 in Billboard.)Still, they were the pride of Detroit there
for a while … and Jann Wenner wanted them in The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame so
badly, he made sure their name made the ballot SIX TIMES … yet they still never
garnered enough votes to make the cut. (Guess nobody else out there … as
in just out EVERYBODY … didn’t feel they deserved it!) Personally, I
don’t think you should be allowed more than three times on the ballot … if they
don’t vote you in by then, you’re off the list. Then again, MOST people
probably feel MC5 are more deserving than The Guess Who or Jethro Tull or Tommy
James and the Shondells or The Turtles or Three Dog Night … or any of the
countless others who have shown up on our Deserving And Denied list. (For
the record, MC5 never showed up there either!) kk
As I have stated previously, in order to assess or
properly pass judgement on The MC5, you had to attend one or more, in my
case, of their live performances. Sorry you missed them.
Robert Campbell
Hey Kent,
Just a great song from
Wayne Kramer’s solo career …
We told you about Micky Dolenz’s
appearances this weekend at The Fest For Beatles Fans, the first time he’s done
one of these events in YEARS!
Well, last Friday, Micky performed
his first show of the new year …
Micky Dolenz performed his first
show of the year Friday night at the New Hope Winery in New Hope, PA with 100%
of the proceeds going to charity.
Michael Tearson from WMGK
introduced him to the SRO crowd.
Dolenz opened the show with
“Last Train To Clarksville” and peppered the set with some surprises like “For
What It’s Worth” and “Sometime In The Morning.”
Photos by Jodi Ritzen
We didn’t have a spot to plug Clark Besch’s
radio show last Saturday …
But the GOOD news is, you can still catch it thru
the podcast links right on this same site.
Here are a few words from Clark …
Hello, all my legendary Chicago
music / radio friends!
I hope you might consider
joining me for an hour of radio fun …
There will be Chicago band
legends and my guest will be WLS' legendary Ron Riley! You'll hear some
bits from Chicago bands like The New Colony Six, The Buckinghams, The Cryan’
Shames, The Daughters of Eve and Saturday's Children, too!
Hope you can tune in.
Thanks!
WLSClark Besch
Yeah, it's me with another
blatant self-promotion of my new radio show on NYC's WFMU-FM! Time to
take the DeLorean back in time for the good old Top 40 radio days of the 60's
and 70s. It was the time of 2 1/2 minute pop music gems and legendary DJs
(including an interview with my all-time fave 60's WLS DJ!) who made life
exciting!
This time, my show will
concentrate on the more melodic side of the decade with bad focus on the mostly
non-hits from my Kansas, Chicago and Lincoln youth days, with UK faves as
well. I won't forget the ladies, as we hear from solo, duet and an all
female band. We'll have contests, requests filled (HOW? This show
is on tape!), unreleased songs, Beatles memories, WFMU Superstars including my
Artificial Intelligence buddy, and even some baseball!
How do I cram all of this and 44
songs into 1 hour? Easy, I recorded it all on my old reel to reel machine
at 1 7/8 speed and play it back at 15 IPS speed! (Just joking).
Just click on the "Pop
Up" thing shown below and it will open a new window where you can just hit
"Play," and if you have your sound on, you should be able hear.
Looks like this on the site
above:
Let's go back and have some
fun!
HEY, is that Taylor Swift in
that 1962 Pepsi ad above? You don't have to be old to ”think
young!"
>>>Just to get Chuck wired up, I am
sending this "who really cares?" information ...
The recorder was initially called the
fipple-flute . . . Henry VIII is said to have had a collection of more
than twenty recorders . . . Recorders were so popular that it was once a
standard household item . . .
yada yada yada . . .
( Read this in your Best Casey Kasem impersonation
~~~ )
"And now this from the Forgotten Hits Long Distance
Dedication Department, Chicago, Illinois Division ...
'Dear Casey,
Would you please play this special dedication
for Shelly Sweet-Tufano from Kent and Chuck? Maybe when she hears
it, she'll know this song's question will never become an issue.'
OK, Shelly, this one is for you."
Harvey Kubernik tells us about a new Beatles book ...
Blue Jade Press has just published Helen Marketti's collection of
interviews with Beatles' insiders for her book, "The Long and Winding
Phone."
Angie McCartney, Nancy Andrews, Chris O'Dell and Harvey Kubernik
provided book testimonials. “Pete
Best, Peter Asher, Denny Laine, Pattie Boyd, Jenny Boyd, May Pang,
Julian Lennon and Brian Ray are among the witnesses Helen Marketti has
interviewed," writes Kubernik. "Some reflections pre-date The Beatles
February, 1964, USA arrival to New York and the landmark "Ed Sullivan
Show" booking.
The men and women in Helen’s exploration bring something
new to the legacy of the Beatles. Enjoy her navigational results with
those who were there and now share with us insider memories of the
Beatles’ glow and the aftermath that remains 60 years on.”
Just so I'm clear ...
Country Superstar Toby Keith has died ...
King Charles has cancer ...
And the biggest crisis the world is worried about today is where Taylor Swift will be able to park her private plane for The Super Bowl.
Does that sound about right???
Jeez! (kk)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
2/8/64 – After all the fuss about what the lyrics of “Louie
Louie” are really all about, the publishers of the tune offer $1000 to anyone
who can find any suggestive lyrics in the song.
Despite being banned on a number of radio stations around the country,
the record still went to #1 on two of the three national charts. Billboard was the lone hold-out, peaking it at #2 for six weeks thanks to that Singing Nun!!!
(Funny ... nobody ever questioned what SHE was singing about ...
And it wasn't even in English, so who really knew?!?!) kk
2/7/64 – Sixty years ago today, all four Beatles woke up, fell out of bed and dragged combs across their respective heads ... and then made a beeline to London's Heathrow Airport where they boarded a plane (Pan Am Yankee Clipper Flight 101) and headed to America for the very first time.
When The Beatles landed at New York's JFK airport, it was pure pandemonium.
3000 fans had shown up at JFK to greet their new music heroes ... and they hadn't even appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show yet! (That wouldn't happen until two days later on February 9th)
A slew of reporters were on hand to question the Mop Top Quartet (as they were so often being referred to at the time), but The Fab Four, now seasoned performers and interview subjects, were ready for them with quick, witty and charming answers to their questions. After already conquering the European Continent, they became immediate media darlings here in The States, too.
THE BEATLES ARRIVE AT JFK AIRPORT
Also on 2/7, the last episode of “77 Sunset Strip” airs on
ABC.The only original cast member still
on the show till the end was actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
