James Brown makes a ten point leap into The Top Ten this week, where The Supremes retain their hold on the #1 position.
The Dave Clark Five are up 17 spots with their remake of "Over And Over" ... it now sits at #13 ... while The Shangri-Las also climb 17 places with their latest, "I Can Never Go Home Anymore," some pretty heavy stuff for 1965.
"England Swings" by Roger Miller is up 18 places ... while The Ramsey Lewis Trio's take on "Hang On Sloopy" climbs 29 places ... just ahead of The McCoys' new release "Fever" (which is up 24 spots to #30), The McCoys having taken "Hang On Sloopy to #1 just a few months ago.
The Four Seasons, recording incognito as The Wonder Who?, crack the Top 40 with their fun take on the Bob Dylan tune, "Don't Think Twice" ... while their West Coast counterparts, The Beach Boys, snag the top debut of the week with "The Little Girl I Once Knew," which bows at #67. (The Four Seasons also have a Top Ten Hit under their own name with "Let's Hang On.")
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
11/22/65 – Bob Dylan married Sara Lowndes in a secret ceremony during a break in his tour. The marriage took place under an oak tree on a judge's lawn on Mineola, Long Island, New York. Sara, who is the mother of singer Jakob Dylan, filed for divorce on March 1st, 1977.
Also on 11/22, Muhammad Ali, in his second title defense, scores a 12th-round knock-out of Floyd Patterson at The Las Vegas Convention Center to retain his world heavyweight boxing championship
Floyd Patterson was a two-time Heavyweight Champion of the World, first winning the title in 1956 at the age of 21, the youngest boxer ever to attain this status, and then again in 1960 after winning the title back from Ingemar Johansson, who, after knocking Patterson down seven times in their first bout in 1959, took the title from him by virtue of a TKO.
When Patterson regained the title a year later, he became the first boxer in history to become a two-time champ. (Ironically, Ali would go on to win the Heavyweight Title THREE times over the course of his career.) Floyd Patterson would lose his title to Sonny Liston in 1962, the man Ali (then Cassius Clay) beat to win his first heavyweight title.
He would go on to fight Ali one more time in 1972, losing that bout as well.
11/22 also marked the two year anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... just as today marks the two year anniversary of our 60 YEARS AGO TODAY feature!!!
http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2023/11/sixty-years-ago-today.html
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