The Supremes rise to the top for the sixth time in the past sixteen months as "I Hear A Symphony" knocks The Rolling Stones off their post this week. (That's OK ... you can watch The Rolling Stones perform their FORMER #1 Hit on "Hullabaloo" below ... that happened exactly 60 YEARS AGO TODAY!)
Meanwhile, Len Barry's got his first big solo hit as "1-2-3" slides up two notches into the #2 position ... and The Byrds finally crack The Top Ten in their fifth week on the chart with "Turn! Turn! Turn!"
James Brown makes a very impressive move this week as "I Got You" moves into the #19 slot after premiering at #44 last week ... and The Dave Clark Five climb thirty places with "Over And Over" ... most of us watched them perform it last night on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Debuting at #68 this week is the new song by Jay and the Americans, "Sunday And Me." While I have always liked this song, it is probably MOST significant as being the first big chart hit for a young, new songwriter out of New York by the name of Neil Diamond. Neil would start hitting the chart under his own name early next year.
Also worth pointing out is this week's #90 premier ...
It's by a new duo out of New York called Simon and Garfunkel ... and this track was actually recorded a YEAR ago. It went absolutely nowhere at the time ... but then some enterprising engineer decided to beef things up a little bit by adding drums and an electric guitar and all of a sudden, people were noticing it! (Dylan plugging in may have had more of a effect than folks realized at the time!)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
11/15/65 – The Rolling Stones appear on “Hullabaloo,” performing “Get Off My Cloud.”
Also on November 15th, 1965, Walt Disney and his brother Roy held a press conference to announce plans to build a theme park in Orlando, Florida, similar to Disneyland in California. (They teamed with William "Joe" Potter, Vice President for EPCOT Planning.)
Far more than just a theme park ... they were thinking about something on a much grander scale ... more along the lines of a family resort ... they simply referred to it at the time as "The Florida Project. This, of course, would later grow to become Walt Disney World, with a string of properties throughout the area to house their visiting guests from around the world.
Two years later, on May 30th, 1967, construction began on "Walt Disney Resort" ... which officially opened to the public on October 1st, 1971, as Walt Disney World.
