Peter Noone and Company kick off their second week at #1 with their SECOND official US chart-topper, "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter." (Incredibly, despite its enormous popularity here in The States ... it is clearly one of the band's signature tunes and rose to the top in a mere three weeks! ... the song was never released as a single back home in Great Britain. The same would be true of their NEXT #1 Hit, "I'm Henry VII, I Am," another '60's classic.)
Hot on its tail at #2, however, is the latest single by The Beatles, "Ticket To Ride," which vaults to #2 in only its third week on the chart. (#54 to #10 to #2!) Yeah, these guys are still doing A-OK in the USA.
Right behind it at #3, with a bullet, is the latest from Gary Lewis and the Playboys. "Count Me In" climbs from #6 to #3.
Lots more British action in The Top Ten this week: Petula Clark, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, The Seekers, Freddie and the Dreamers, Sounds Orchestral and another hit by Herman's Hermits account for EIGHT of The Top Ten Tunes in America this week. (Technically, The Seekers hail from Australia ... but they have always been lumped in with the British Invasion acts of the '60's.) Ronnie Dove makes a six point leap to land at #10 this week with "One Kiss For Old Time's Sake."
Other big movers on this week's chart include "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs (#24 to #16), "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones, who appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" last night, which will no doubt boost sales even further ... he's up from #29 to #21 as it is!, "It's Gonna Be Alright" by Gerry and the Pacemakers (#34 to #23), "Help Me Rhonda" by The Beach Boys (#43 to #24), "Iko Iko" by The Dixie Cups (#38 to #26), "Reelin' And Rockin'," another hit for The Dave Clark Five, which climbs from #46 to #30, "True Love Ways" by Peter and Gordon (#45 to #32), a big mover for Elvis Presley, as "Crying In The Chapel" climbs from #56 to #33, a jump of 23 places, "Back In My Arms Again" by The Supremes (now sitting at #35 after premiering at #71 last week) and "Just A Little" by The Beau Brummels (#38, up from #50.)
There is a decidedly British feel to the countdown again, some sixteen months after The Beatles first kicked things off here in America. In fact, 15 of this week's Top 40 Hits are by British artists. (That's nearly 40%!) In fact, you'll find another 13 if you consider the entire Top 100!
MRS. BROWN: Over the years, people have theorized as to how The Hermits achieved that "banjo-like" sound on this record.
Peter Noone set the record straight for our readers many years ago ...
There is an unlikely story that the fake Hermits tell
about Derek Leckenby. He DID NOT put a duster under the bridge of his
guitar to get the Mrs. Brown sound! That was KEITH HOPWOOD and he used a
Gretsch Country Gentleman which had a damper as standard equipment and
that’s how he got the sound. For some unknown reason the unHerman's
Hermits tell a strange and untrue story during their live shows about a
duster, and this DID NOT happen. If any of you saw a fake Herman and he
told this story, you got CONNED!!! And I hope he was good.
You can read the whole thing here:
https://fhpeternoone.blogspot.com/
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
5/3/65 – DJ Don Steele kicks off his 40+ year radio career at KHJ in Los Angeles. (Although he worked at other radio stations prior to KHJ, it is here that he will prove himself to be "The Real Deal" over the next few years!)
Born in Hollywood, California, Steele's radio career began in 1960 at KBUC in Corona, California. He later worked at various other stations before joining KHJ in Los Angeles in March, 1965, where he first became famous and nationally known. Although he was hired at KHJ in March of 1965, his on-air debut was on May 3, 1965, when he helped launch the "ultrahip" top-40 Boss Radio format, which began on April 27, 1965 at 3 pm.
The Real Don Steele stayed at KHJ until June, 1973, then
moved on to L.A. radio stations KIQQ, KTNQ, KRLA, KODJ / KCBS before arriving at
KRTH in July, 1982. At one time, he hosted a successful,
nationally syndicated radio show called "Live From the 60's," which was created by
Steele along with friend and contemporary DJ “Machine Gun” Kelly. "Live
From the 60's" was a three-hour program that featured oldies exclusively
from the 1960s. Each hour of the show profiled a certain year from that decade.
It was written and performed in present tense, and peppered with audio clips of
news events, presidential speeches and TV shows that correlated with that
particular year. The show ran in syndication, and was marketed and picked up by
over 200 radio stations with an "Oldies" format from 1988 until 1993.
Repeats of earlier shows aired in some markets as late as 1996. In July, 2015,
"Live From the 60's with The Real Don Steele" was placed back into
three hour rerun syndication for AM/FM and Podcasting radio stations.
(Steel is also the DJ on Cheap Trick's "On the Radio.") He died of lung cancer on August 5, 1997, at the age of 61.
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REMINDER: Phil Nee interviews John Cafferty on his "Those Were The Days" radio program this evening at: https://wrco.com/
Segments will air between 5:30 pm and Midnight, Central Time
And, as we mentioned earlier, tickets to see John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band here at The Arcada Theatre on November 2nd are now on sale:
And, just in case you missed it, you can read OUR interview with John here:
https://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2025/04/forgotten-hits-interviews-john-cafferty.html
NEW MUSIC:
