The Four Seasons and The Beach Boys flip-flop positions this week as "Rag Doll" slides into the #1 spot while "I Get Around" slips to #2.
We've still got three British Invasion Hits in The Top Ten this week: "Can't You See That She's Mine" by The Dave Clark Five is up a notch to #4, "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" by Gerry and the Pacemakers falls to #9 and "Wishin' And Hopin'" by Dusty Springfield makes another big move from #18 to #10.
The Beatles make a HUGE move with their latest hit ... "A Hard Day's Night" sails from #65 to #13. (No doubt where THIS one is headed!)
Peter and Gordon have the #15 and #16 hits with "Nobody I Know (up from #27) and "A World Without Love" (down from #7). The Searchers are at #19 with "Don't Throw Your Love Away" while Billy J. Kramer has both the #20 record ("Bad To Me") and the #27 record ("Little Children).
Chad and Jeremy fall to the #31 spot with "Yesterday's Gone" (down from #26) while Cilla Black continues to climb with her booming ballad "You're My World" ... it jumps from #50 to #37 this week. The Overlanders' version of "Yesterday's Gone" slips to #89 in its 11th week on the chart.
The Bachelors climb to #41 with their latest, "I Believe," while their first big chart hit, "Diane," falls to #71.
The Beatles fall just outside The Top 40 as "Love Me Do" drops to #43 ... while The Rolling Stones show a little more success with their second US hit, "Tell Me" ... it climbs from #72 to #58. Just behind it is their first US chart hit, "Not Fade Away," which now sits at #61.
Gerry and the Pacemakers have a new song on the chart ... "How Do You Do It" debuts at #74. (This is the song that Producer George Martin suggested The Beatles record as their follow up single to "Love Me Do." John and Paul protested, saying that they only wanted to record their own songs as singles, to which Martin challenged, "Then write me something as good." They did ... "Please Please Me" became their first British #1 Record.)
And, speaking of The Beatles, Atco dug an old 1961 recording out the archives that the band recorded in Germany when they were cutting tracks with Tony Sheridan.
In this instance, they were given the chance to cut two songs on their own ... so "Cry For A Shadow" (and instrumental written by John and GEORGE) and a rockin' remake of the old standard "Ain't She Sweet" were recorded.
I still say John's vocal on "Ain't She Sweet is among his best EVER. Had it come out just a couple of months sooner, it probably would have been a Top Ten Hit ... but British and American releases were enjoying simultaneous release dates these days ... and technically, this one was already an "oldie" ... so it lingered at #13 in Record World ... and #19 in Billboard. (Incredibly, it was already The Beatles' 23rd National Chart appearance this year!)
American
acts making their mark on this week's chart include an impressive
showing of "The Girl From Ipanema" by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto at
#5, "How Glad I Am" by Nancy Wilson (another song that felt as if it
came from another era) at #38 (up 15 places), The Supremes jumping an
incredible FIFTY places with "Where Did Our Love Go," The Ventures
remaking one of their own hits, this time calling it "Walk Don't Run
'64," new at #75 and "People Say" by The Dixie Cups, the follow-up hit
to their #1 smash "Chapel Of Love."
But perhaps most impressive is Dean Martin's leap from #41 to #11 with "Everybody Loves Somebody." When he recorded it, he told anyone that would listen that he had just recorded the song that would knock The Beatles out of the #1 spot ... and it did a few weeks later when it replaced "A Hard Day's Night" at the top of the charts.
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
The Supremes record "Come See About Me." It will become their third straight #1 Record, following in the footsteps of "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Baby Love."
Deep Purple have a new album (“=1”) coming out later this month
(July 19th) and have just released their third advance single from
it.
The story behind the track “Lazy Sod” is just too fun not to
share.
According to front man Ian Gillan, "Recently, a young journalist
asked me how many songs I had written in my life. I replied that the last time
my assistant counted, twenty years ago, it was over 500. I felt quite
accomplished until she pointed out Dolly Parton's 5,000 songs, calling me a
lazy sod. I couldn't help but agree and wrote down the exchange in my
notebook."
(ROCKS
magazine, June 2024)
The band will kick off a new tour in support of the new
release next month …
Here is a list of their North American dates …
August 14th – Hollywood, FL @
Hard Rock Live
August 15th – Tampa, FL @ Seminole Hard Rock Event Center
August 17th – The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 18th – Durant, OK @ Choctaw Casino – Grand Theater
August 19th – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
August 21st – Cincinnati, OH @ PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
August 22nd – Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom
Hill
August 23rd – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
August 25th – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
August 27th – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
August 28th – Gilford, NH @ BankNH Pavilion
August 30th – Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
August 31st – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
September 1st – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
September 3rd – Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
September 4th – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Broadview Stage at SPAC
September 6th – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
September 7th – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
September 8th – Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
Last week FH Reader Mike DeMartino mentioned going to
see Burton Cummings when he comes to play at The Four Winds Casino in New
Buffalo, Michigan in October.
Burton has added a few more dates to his US tour …
The complete list of events as is currently stands is
as follows:
July 19th – Kemptville, ON – Kemptville Live Music
Festival
August 17th – Vancouver, ON – Pacific Coliseum
September 13th – Deadwood, SD – Deadwood Jam
September 14th – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
September 17th – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory
September 18th – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads Saloon
September 20th – Tulsa, OK – River Spirit Casino Resort
September 21st – Arlington, TX – Arlington Music Hall
September 23rd – Marion, IL – Marion Cultural and Civic Center
September 25th – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
September 26th – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center
September 28th – Northfield, OH – MGM Northfield Park
September 29th – Nashville, IN – Brown County Music Center
October 1st – Hopewell, VA – Beacon Theatre
October 2nd – Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
October 4th – Collingswood, NJ – Scottish Rite Auditorium
October 5th – Lynn, MA – Lynn Memorial Auditorium
October 18th – Windsor, ON – The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
October 19th – New Buffalo, MI – Silver Creek Event Center at Four Winds Casino
November 1st – Edmonton, AB – River Cree Resort and Casino
November 8th – Niagara Falls, ON – Fallsview Casino Resort
December 28th – Moncton, NB – Casino New Brunswick
He's billing it as his 60th Anniversary
Hits Tour.(Hmm …maybe he’s planning on keeping it going thru 2029,
in order to celebrate the 1969 anniversary of when The Guess Who first burst on
the scene with Burton on lead vocals???)
Anyway, if you get the chance to check out this TRUE
legend, do yourself a favor and do so.And report back to us, please as as of right now, he doesn’t have any
shows booked here locally. (C’mon Ron Onesti … you’re not going to let him pass
us by, are you???)kk
All year long we’ve been reliving the events of 60
YEARS AGO TODAY as they pertain to the history of Beatlemania and The British
Invasion (as well as many other significant events of this very exciting time.)
This past week, Ultimate Classic Rock published an
interesting overview of that first year The Beatles first invaded our lives
here in The States, which offers up a cool recap of these events.(If you’ve been following along with our
on-going series, you already know that there are plenty more!)
I have the personal charts from at least two
other friends who did similar.
I liked Paul Haney's story about how he led up
to his Record Research work. I went to the library in 70s when I was in
college and would sit there and read thru Billboard and Broadcasting each
week. I would get irritated when someone else happened to have Billboard
already and waited too long to get it and sometimes left without. I would
fold the Hot 100 page to fit an 8.5 x 11 size so I could xerox the page, thus
leaving the mangled page intact in library copies. Same with Broadcasting
Top 70s.
American Top 40 put out their own LP in ‘74 or
so. I bought it finally in 2009 at a store in LA, but sent to an AT40
fan/friend. Loved AT40 from 70-80 or so when I could get Billboard
weekly, so I didn't need to listen and write. When still in Dodge City, I
would write down last week's numbers so I could fill in at home.
Randy's early charts are SO precise and nice --
you can tell how he came up with Super Charts styling! I like his use of
* and # and the Stamped Stars for things, as I did, too. Like Ed, I did
my own WLS chart comparisons later when I finally got at least a xerox of every
60s chart.
Timmy's petition was BOLD! Good
show! As for kk, IF I had been a typing class person, I could have
studied much more, as I am still basically a one-finger (on both hands)
typer. Ugh.
Clark
In addition to Chuck's
Science Lesson, perhaps there is a Social
Studies lesson as well.
I'd never even thought about it, but midsummer in the northern
hemisphere does cause a huge percentage of earth's population to be in daylight
at the same time. With Australia having less than one half of one percent of
the world's population, darkness there - and in nearby south Pacific islands -
results in only one percent of the inhabitants of earth in darkness.
You just never know what you'll learn on Forgotten Hits!
We're loving the chart stories, too.
David Lewis
Sadly, David shared with us news of Dave
Loggins’ passing …
David Allen Loggins, Grammy nominated Hall of Fame
singer/songwriter best known for “Please Come To Boston,” died on July 10th,
2024
In addition to his own Top Five smash “Please Come To
Boston,” Loggins also wrote Three Dog Night’s hit “Pieces Of April,” a Top 20
Hit for the group in early 1973.One of
MY favorite recordings by him is the duet he cut with Anne Murray, “Nobody
Loves Me Like You Do,” which somehow managed to miss The Top 100 altogether but
was a #1 Country Hit in 1984.(kk)
And, when it comes to Country Music, there were few acts as popular over the years as The Oak Ridge Boys, who also crossed over to the pop charts a number of times in the early '80's.
Sadly, we lost Joe Bonsall earlier this past week (July 9th). He had been a member of the famed quartet for over fifty years.
He will certainly be missed ... but fortunately his voice will live on forever thanks to all of the great recordings they made over the years. (kk)
Rod Argent, founder of both The Zombies and the band that
bore his name, has announced his retirement from touring.
Argent recently suffered a stroke, which became the
determining factor in this decision.
We, of course, wish him the very best.(In the meantime, just hold your head
up!)kk
Meanwhile, Mick Fleetwood is feeling quite a bit of sadness
that Fleetwood Mac will not go on.
Last week, Stevie Nicks made a comment that she would never
return to the band now that Christine McVie is gone …
And she’s not exactly on the best of terms with her ex,
Lindsey Buckingham, either … which, according to Mick, is his biggest disappointment.
In a recent interview with Mojo Magazine, Fleetwood said
that he hoped Nicks and Buckingham could reconnect in some way.
“I would love to see a healing between them.And it doesn’t have to take the shape of a
tour, necessarily.”
Between all of the downtime due to Covid, the firing of Buckingham
from the band, the death of Christine and then the devastating loss of his
property due to the Hawaiian wildfires, Mick feels like he’s been dealt a
pretty hard hand to play these past few years.
The idea of regrouping Fleetwood Mac in some fashion as a
way to say goodbye to the fans has been weighing on his mind quite a bit lately
… but it just doesn’t sound like they’re going to have the chance to do
so.(kk)
>>>Old and new Chuck Berry at #3 and
#11(Clark Besch)
Clark's comment brought to mind another 1964
song with a Chuck Berry connection.The
Rivieras’ song "Little Donna" uses the melody from the song
"Rock & Roll Music" and Chuck Berry isn't even credited on the
label. I don't see any record of him ever pressing for co-writer credit …
maybe he didn't figure it was worth it.The
song only spent two weeks on Randy Price's Superchart, peaking at #90 on May 9,
1964.
It was a different story here in Chicago
where it peaked at #4 on WLS. It was one of my favorites back then, but
listening to it recently it reminded me of a 33 rpm record being played at
45. I guess I listen slower than I did 60 years ago.
Ed Erxleben
Funnily enough, I heard it recently, too …
It’s pretty darn awful!(And yet they did such an incredible job with “California Sun”)kk
>>>On your showing of the WLS survey
for May 7, 1965, the one record that stuck out with me was the one that was
charted at #33, MAGIC TRUMPET, by the University Orchestra. In OKC, that record
peaked at #27 for the week of June 16, 1965. On the survey, the artist was
listed as Compares Universitaria De La Laguna.(Larry Neal)
Herb Alpert did a rendition of the song and
his version rocked around our house from room to room as even my parents liked
it.
Shelley
Herb Alpert???Wasn’t
he the guy who did that …
Oh, never mind!(kk)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
7/12/64 – “The Ed Sullivan Show” shows a rerun of The
Beatles’ first appearance on the program from back in February.(Look how much has happened since then!)
