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
Legendary Guitarist Duane
Eddy passed away on April 30th.His death was announced on Wednesday, May 1st … he was 86
years old.
Between 1958 and 1963,
Eddy placed sixteen songs in The National Top 40, including The Top Ten Hits
“Rebel Rouser” (#6, 1958), “Forty Miles Of Bad Road” (#5, 1959), “Because
They’re Young” (#3, 1960) and “Dance With The Guitar Man” (#9, 1962.)He was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall
Of Fame in 1994.
His song “Because They’re
Young” was the theme song to the film of the same name … Eddy also acted in the
picture, as he did in “A Thunder Of Drums” and “The Wild Westeners.”
Although his version of
“Peter Gunn” wasn’t the highest charting version (it peaked at #23 in 1960), it
was a song long-associated with his career.Eddy recorded a new version with British rockers The Art Of Noise in
1986 that went to #50.
His style was very
distinctive … and he influenced countless wanna-be guitarists thru the
decades.(When BJ Thomas recorded his
1972 hit “Rock And Roll Lullaby,” producers said that they need to find
somebody who could “sound like Duane Eddy” for the guitar solo break … to which
someone ELSE said, “Why don’t we just get Duane Eddy?” … which is exactly what
they did.
I haven't seen this posted in FHs yet. But then I just found out a few moments ago myself ~~~
>>>Duane
Eddy has died at the age of 86. The Grammy-winning artist died of
cancer on Tuesday in hospital in Tennessee, surrounded by his family.
In
my High School Radio years, another on-air Guy and I brought Duane Eddy
into our hometown of Rapid City, South Dakota, to play a show at the old
City Auditorium.
We really
liked his hits. For me, maybe it was because for my buddies and I, "We
Were Young" and a bunch of "Rebel Rousers" who had driven our jeeps for
more than a cumulative "Forty Miles of Bad Road" around the Badlands of
South Dakota!
Because
this was one of the first Rock 'n Roll shows to play Rapid, it was a
big hit. We each made $500 on the night! Pretty good pocket change for
the times!
CB ( which stands for Eddy's 1958 Top 15 Hit, " 'Cannonball' Boy! " )
I had a pre-post already set up for yesterday so we couldn't address the Duane Eddy story until this morning. But there is no doubt he was quite the innovator when it came to the "twangy guitar" ... and a real hit on the radio during the early days of rock and roll. (kk)
Hi, Kent -
I'm forwarding this email to you from my Bro-In-Law, regarding Duane Eddy. Duane
is in the attached pic on top row, with a beard. I'd guess that shot to be
late 80's/early 90's. The rest of the guys are the band "Big Daddy."
Timmy
Hey Timmy,
Thanks
for sending this. One of our, Big Daddy's, great thrills was meeting
Duane Eddy, I think it was in Tahoe, where we were playing at Caesar's.
He came to one of our shows and then back to the dressing room where we
hung out and talked for a while.
I've attached a photo. A great talent
and a true gentleman.
Marty
Hi Kent,
Was
sad to hear of Duane Eddy's recent passing.
Duane and Joel Whitburn
became friends after Paul McCartney showed Duane one of Joel's books
back in the late 1970s. Duane and his wife Deed attended the wedding of
Joel's daughter Kim in 1994. After the ceremony, I noticed Duane and
Deed sitting by themselves, so I grabbed a few beers and went over and
introduced myself. For the next couple of hours Duane shared with me
many stories about his life and career. The next day, before he flew
back to Tennessee, he made it a point to stop by my office at Record
Research to say how much he enjoyed our visit the day before. The photo
below was taken on that day.
The next time I talked to Duane was the
day Joel Whitburn died. Both he and Deed were devastated to hear the
news.
Duane was Joel's all-time favorite artist, one of the "Big 3 E's"
along with Elvis and The Everly Brothers.
Paul Haney
Record Research
Billboard remembers Duane Eddy's Biggest Hot 100 Hits ...
Also passing away this
week was Richard Tandy of The Electric Light Orchestra.Although he wasn’t a founding member, Tandy
came over after Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan all decided to leave The
Move (of which Tandy was also a member) and try something new in the way of
“orchestral rock.”He joined ELO in 1973
and played keyboards for the band through 1986.(Remaining tight, he also appeared on a couple of Jeff Lynne’s solo
albums.)Tandy was 76.(kk)
Elton John has written
another book, this time about his farewell tour, titled “Farewell Yellow Brick
Road: Memories Of My Life On Tour.”It
is due to be released in September.
The tour was the most
successful tour in history, grossing $939.1 million (or just under a billion
dollars, spread out over five years and 328 dates … and Elton shares his most
memorable moments from his jaunt around the world.
>>>Check out
Johnny Cash and Tony Joe White, having a WHOLE lotta fun singing Tony’s big Top
Ten Hit from 1969, “Polk Salad Annie”(kk)
kk …
I Think Johnny
Will Be Trading In His Polk Salad For Bread & Water.
Folsom Prison
or San Quentin?
FB
Harvey Kubernik had the
opportunity to interview Johnny Cash in 1975 … and on the anniversary of Bob
Dylan taping his appearance on Cash’s program, sent us this to share …
55 Years
Ago:Bob Dylan Is Taped with Johnny Cash
for The Johnny Cash Show
During the
late ‘60s Johnny Cash was a box office attraction, selling concert tickets,
appearing on national television and now entrenched in the spotlight partially
owing to the commercial success of his Johnny
Cash at Folsom Prison long player giving him increased visibility on the
pop and rock music charts.
Granada, a UK
TV channel then broadcast a documentary Johnny
Cash, The Man, His World, His Music that garnered crucial US television
along with print media attention. The Granada program, directed by Robert
Elfstrom, triggered ABC-TV stateside to offer Cash an hour-long pilot as a
summer replacement for their Saturday night variety show, The Hollywood Palace.
In June,
1969, Columbia Records released Johnny
Cash at San Quentin, produced by Bob Johnston, which yielded the LP’s smash
country and pop hit single “A Boy Named Sue.” It convinced ABC, who then picked
the option on the Cash TV show up for a full season.
“I would say there were many things that likely would not have happened
were it not for [manager] Saul Holiff’s influence on Johnny's career, but the
San Quentin show and Johnny's television show are both ones that undoubtedly
can be credited to Saul's vision for Johnny,” observed author Julie Chadwick
who penned The Man Who Carried Cash - Saul Holiff,
Johnny Cash and the Making of an American Icon (Dundurn
Press).
“On the television front, there are dozens of letters that go back more
than a decade in which he continually pitched the idea of getting Johnny on TV,
which finally bore fruit when a Canadian named Stan Jacobson decided to do a
CBC special on Johnny in 1967, which many regard as the predecessor to his
television series.”
A veteran of The Wayne and Shuster
Show for several seasons, Jacobson had been a writer for Country Hoedown and writer/producer of
the program Music Hop. In 1966, he wrote and directed the Battle of Britain documentary for the
Canadian Broadcasting Company series Telescope,
and in 1967, The Legend
of Johnny Cash. During 1970-1971 Jacobson helmed the debut of the
prime time Cash ABC-TV slot.
Bill
Carruthers directed year 1969. He had previously directed both The Soupy Sales Show on station WXYZ-TV
in Detroit and the Ernie Kovacs game show Take
a Good Look, for ABC-TV. Carruthers subsequently directed The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game.
“The first show was a mindblower, as we all know, and the first season
surprised ABC enough to pick it up. The sets were cheap, ‘cause they had no
money. The production issues they faced retro-fitting the Ryman Auditorium were
immense,” recollected guitarist/songwriter Carruthers.
“For that year of pre-production and production, my dad and John were
close. He showered my dad with gifts (among them a 1932 Martin Guitar, and a
Civil War Colt Pistol - John had a pair of them with consecutive numbers. He
gave my father one, and he kept one, so they'd each have one as symbol of their
relationship.”
The Johnny Cash Show debuted in June of 1969. Programs
were done at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, which back then was home to the
Grand Ole Opry, 1943-1974. Bill Walker was the musical director and arranger.
June Carter Cash and the Carter Family, Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers, and
the Tennessee Three were screen regulars.
Among the
Cash-invited performers:Louis
Armstrong, Bill Monroe, Dusty Springfield, Judy Collins, The Monkees, Creedence
Clearwater Revival, Stevie Wonder, Tony Joe White, Homer & Jethro, the
Everly Brothers, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Derek and The Dominos, Roger
Miller, Faron Young, Charley Pride, Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, Mickey
Newbury, Neil Diamond, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, Bob Dylan, Waylon
Jennings, George Jones and Doug Kershaw.
Dylan taped
his episode on May 1, 1969, and it was broadcast on June 1st.
“Dylan called my dad, before he and his staff left for
Nashville,” reminisced Byl Carruthers.
“I had gone to work with my dad that day. He had an overall deal with
Screen Gems at the time and had an office on their lot. He had said we were
going to get lunch, and then his assistant beckoned him back to the office,
saying it was important!
“Two full hours went by, and I had to wait. When he got off the phone,
he came out and said that he had just gotten off the phone with Bob Dylan. I
asked him what he was calling about, and he said that Johnny wanted Dylan to do
the show.Johnny really wanted Bob to do
the first episode and told Bob that he would be in good hands with my dad, and
he wouldn't have to do anything he didn't want to. My dad said Bob was ‘feeling
him out’ on the phone.
“My dad was very cool about letting me hang when the musicians were
there, and yes, I got to fetch coffee and stuff for Bob Dylan, in the hour or
so before the taping...
“I distinctly remember Dylan having two very sedate western-style
two-piece suits laid out, and he saying to my dad ‘Bill, which one of these do
you think would be best?’ A few minutes later, my dad said to the assistant
director, ‘I can't believe Bob asked me what he should wear!’”
In his review
of The Johnny Cash Show in the June
12, 1969 issue of Great Speckled Bird,
the counterculture underground newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, Gene Guerrero
reviewed the ABC-TV/Screen Gems initial broadcast.
“TV CASHES
IN.OCCASIONALLY, television gives the
viewer a glimpse of its potential as a creative medium. Usually, as with
the Smothers Brothers Show, it is a fleeting glimpse before the
owners of the public airways get uptight or commercialism subverts the
creativity. With the inauguration of the Johnny Cash Show, country
music has finally made it to network television. One can only hope and pray
that it will take a couple of seasons before these corrupting influences set
in.
“Dylan sang a
couple of songs off his new album including 'Girl From the North Country' which
he sings with Cash. In a non-contrived way Dylan and Cash singing together
reminds you of two kids practicing for their first recital. In this time of
super-slick entertainers, that's very refreshing.”
On August 16,
1975, forty miles from Los Angeles, California, I interviewed Johnny for the
now defunct Melody Maker inside the
Royal Inn Hotel in Anaheim.
In my 1975 Melody Maker interview with Cash, I asked him about Bob Dylan.
"I became aware of Bob Dylan when
the Freewheelin' album came out in
1963,” Johnny recalled.
“I thought he was one of the best
country singers I had ever heard. I always felt a lot in common with him. I
knew a lot about him before we had ever met. I knew he had heard and listened
to country music. I heard a lot of inflections from country artists I was
familiar with. I was in Las Vegas in '63 and '64 and wrote him a letter telling
him how much I liked his work. I got a letter back and we developed a
correspondence.
"We
finally met at Newport in 1964. It was like we were two old friends. There was
none of this standing back, trying to figure each other out. He's unique and
original.
“I keep
lookin' around as we pass the middle of the 70s and I don't see anybody come
close to Bob Dylan. I respect him. Dylan is a few years younger than I am, but
we share a bond that hasn't diminished. I get inspiration from him."
As a
teenager, in the very late fifties, Dylan, birth name Robert Allen Zimmerman,
hitchhiked from Hibbing, Minnesota, to Duluth to see Cash and the Tennessee Two
(Marshall Grant bass and Luther Perkins guitar) play at the Duluth Amphitheater.
On February
6, 2015, Bob Dylan was honored at the 25th anniversary MusiCares 2015 Person of
the Year Gala at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles.
In his stage
remarks, Dylan praised Cash.
"Johnny
Cash recorded some of my songs early on, too. I met him about '63, when he was
all skin and bones. He traveled long, he traveled hard, but he was a hero of
mine. I heard many of his songs growing up. I knew them better than I knew my
own. 'Big River,' 'I Walk the Line.' 'How High's the Water, Mama?’ I wrote
'It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)' with that song reverberating inside my
head.
"Johnny
was an intense character, and he saw that people were putting me down [for]
playing electric music. And he posted letters to magazines, scolding people,
telling them to 'shut up and let him sing.' In Johnny Cash's world of hardcore
Southern drama, that kind of thing didn't exist. Nobody told anybody what to
sing or what not to sing."
Drummer and
friend Jim Keltner on November 19, 1979 invited Knack drummer Bruce Gary and I
to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Southern California to attend Bob
Dylan’s Slow Train Coming tour. Jim
was in the band. I was reviewing the concert for Melody Maker.
I had a very
brief backstage encounter with. Dylan. He inquired about Phil Spector. I told
him I had recently done an interview with Spector for Melody Maker. Phil talked about R&B vocalists, also listing
“Dion, John, Paul, Elvis, Bobby Darin, and Johnny Cash as great singers.”
Dylan then
removed his sunglasses. He has blue eyes like Eva Marie Saint, Charles
Bukowski, and Kris Kristofferson. Bob offered a firm handshake, and smiled,
“Johnny Cash is a friend of mine.”
In Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan writes
“Johnny Cash sounds like he’s at the edge of fire, or in the deep snow, or in a
ghostly forest, the coolness of conscious obvious strength, full tilt and
vibrant with danger … Johnny’s voice was so big, it made the world grow
small…”
In the 2009
book A Heartbeat And A Guitar: Johnny
Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, written by author Antonino D’Ambrosio,
Cash business music associate Johnny Western disclosed to D’Ambrosio in an
interview witnessing a Dylan and Cash exchange where Dylan admitted, “Man, I
didn’t just dig you; I breathed you.”
In November,
1961, Cash had stuck his head inside the Columbia Records studio when talent
scout/A&R man John Hammond was producing Dylan’s debut album, Bob Dylan.
“Dylan was
also grateful that Cash would constantly endorse his talents to skeptical
Columbia Records executives,” Antonino underscored to me in a 2009 interview,
“after the initial weak sales of his first platter, some calling it ‘Hammond’s
Folly.’”
Cash’s
variety show TV program, along with his successful Folsom Prison and San Quentin
albums ushered in today's acceptance of country music artists on television.
"One
reason country music has expanded the way it has is that we haven't let
ourselves become locked into any category. We do what we feel,” reinforced
Cash.
“I like to go
into the studio with my own musicians and record my own songs,” Johnny reminded
me in our encounter. “I’m open to other songwriters. I like to do things
different in my career.”
However, Johnny said that TV obligations of his ABC-TV series
hampered his creativity.
“It cut down
on my touring, it became too confining. We stayed in Nashville for two-thirds
of the time. I really didn’t enjoy it all that much. If it was kept loose and
spontaneous it could have been great. But we had to do the same song every
eight or ten times before they would accept it. The show lost its feel and
honesty. Consequently, I lost a lot of interest in it.”
In September,
2006, a 2-disc DVD set of The Best of the
Johnny Cash Show, hosted by Kris Kristofferson, was distributed by
CMV/Columbia Legacy, a division of Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
>>>They
added the August 3, 2024, at Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CT, that
Shelley told us about, which had previously been missing from their official
tour poster. Hmm … I wonder if that’s the show SHE’S going
to!?!?! (kk)
Hmmm ... I received
notice of this concert before it was announced, so YES! As a matter of fact, I
will be going to this one.
Shelley
Also from Shelley ...
>>>How
"I'll Get You" failed to chart is beyond me ... it's a GREAT example of
the early Beatles sound. (You guys voted it your FAVORITE, FORGOTTEN
B-SIDE several years ago.)
ABSOLUTELY
AGREE! It has a great beat, beautiful harmonies, and flirtatious rather
romantic lyrics. And you can dance to it. (Thank you Dick Clark)
I give
it a '10'!
Shelley
Here's something to consider ...
After reading your bit regarding Beatles trading cards, which I
collected as a child and lost during my adolescence transitional
morphing into puberty-dom, my favourite series was the Hard Day's Night
cards, probably because of the high standard quality of the B&W
pics. As memory serves me, I think they were a slightly smaller card
than previous series were.
ANYWAYS ...
I have this ditty to offer up: ebay has it for $159 ... but I'll let it go for
$50.00. It is still sealed in factory shrink wrap.
I don't think I've seen these before ... a hell of a steal for somebody.
The "A Hard Day's Night" bubble gum card series was cool because they kind of had that sepia-tone look to them.
I bought ALL The Beatles cards back then ... as I recall, there were a couple of series of black and white cards, then the HDN set, and then a couple of sets in full color, which were just AWESOME!!! Mine, too, are long gone. (kk)
And, speaking of our FH Buddy Timmy, I just HAD to share this ultra cool shot that he sent me ...
Camco Drums?!?!? Never even heard of 'em!!!
But they did have at least ONE notorious client ...
And one more from Harvey Kubernik …
Hi kk …
If any of your
readers happen to be in West Hollywood the first week of May, try and check
out "The Canyon of Dreams" exhibit.
"The Canyon of Dreams"
Photography Exhibit Opens Monday, May 6th, at the Morrison Hotel
in West Hollywood.Select photographs on public view in both LA and NYC
starting Monday, May 6, feature photographic contributions from renowned
artists such as Henry Diltz, Joel Bernstein, Art Kane, Thomas Monaster and
Ethan Russell.
"The Canyon
of Dreams" is a celebration of creative minds and voices not to be
slept on or forgotten in this unique retelling of Laurel Canyon’s distinct
sound, style and resplendent ideals.
Morrison Hotel
Gallery
116 Prince Street,
Second Floor, New York, NY, 10012
212-941-8770
Morrison Hotel
Gallery
Sunset Marquis
Hotel
1200 Alta Loma,
Rd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
310-881-6025
Some of these regional
images were exhibited in my 2009 book "Canyon of Dreams," which
featured a Foreword by Ray Manzarek and an Afterword by Lou Adler.
Canyon
of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon
"A
lavishly illustrated insider’s look at 80 years of music and culture in Laurel
Canyon -- a ZIP code with its own playlist. Sonny & Cher, the Doors, the
Monkees, the Byrds, Love, Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne;
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; the Eagles, Bobby Womack, Carole King, and
others cultivated their immortal sounds in this L.A.-based musical fraternity.
Written by a long-time Canyon resident who knows them all, Canyon of Dreams traces the history of the community and its enduring
legacy. Taking a deeply personal approach, it uses a multiple-voice narration
based on exclusive interviews with the area’s musical elite. Because of their
close connection with Kubernik, some of these stars are speaking openly for the
first time."
Harvey’s “Canyon Of Dreams” is a
coffee table book that ranks amongst the greatest and most beautifully illustrated coffee
table books of all time … a genuine keepsake of a time and place like no
other.Just seeing this posting made me
flip thru it again!(kk)
I’m not sure I'm ready to sit here and tell you that it’s worth $300 bucks
… but if you get the chance to pick it up cheaper, do yourself a favor and grab
a copy. (Believe it or not, I actually found a used copy listed for sale online for $2340!!! So I guess it's safe to say it's held in pretty high regard!)
If you DO happen to find a more reasonably-priced copy, I think you’ll find
yourself referring back to it time and time again to once again enjoy all its splendor.(kk)
[or if not, I’ll sell you MY copy for
$2 Grand!!!]
Speaking of up for sale, LA’s oldest
record store, The Record Collector, is up on the market for just under five
million dollars.(NOTE:That price does NOT include its inventory of
over 500,000 pieces)
The Record Collector first opened
its doors in 1974 and has been a steady fixture now for fifty years.Owner Sandy Chase feels it’s time for someone
else to take it thru its next fifty.
The Record Collector only sells
vinyl … and never got into the CD phase.
If you’ve got an extra five mill
that you don’t know what to do with, here is the official real estate listing …
