The Dave Clark Five earn their first (and only) US #1 Hit with their remake of "Over And Over." It tops The Super Chart in its seventh week on the chart, skating ahead of James Brown's "I Got You." (Back home in Great Britain, this one flopped, peaking at only #45)
Some big Top Ten action this week as "The Sounds Of Silence," "Ebb Tide" and "We Can Work It Out" all make huge strides up the chart, moving from #15 to #4 for Simon and Garfunkel, from #13 to #9 for The Righteous Brothers and from #29 to #10 for The Beatles.
Elsewhere on the chart, making moves of twenty points or more, you'll find "Day Tripper" by the still Fab Four (#71 to #29), "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In" by The T-Bones (#56 to #30), "A Must To Avoid," the latest from Herman's Hermits, which makes the biggest move of the week, from #96 to #43, a leap of 53 places!, "Jenny Take A Ride" by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (#85 to #60) and "Second Hand Rose" by Barbra Streisand (#86 to #61)
This week's top debut belongs to The Rolling Stones, who just released THEIR version of "As Tears Go By," a song they gave away to Marianne Faithfull last year. (This one wound up as a Stones B-Side in England.)
Other interesting new records to watch include "It Was A Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra, new at #75, "The Men In My Little Girl's Life" by Mike Douglas (it premiers at #77) and "Zorba The Greek," the latest from Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, which debuts at #82. We were also treated to the first single by The Young Rascals: "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" bows at #91.
SIXTY YEARS AGO TODAY:
12/20/65 – Wilson Pickett records “634-5789” in Memphis,
backed by Booker T’s MG’s. (Booker T. is
absent from this session … so the keyboard duties are filled in by Isaac Hayes) The song was cowritten by Pickett and Steve Cropper, who we just lost recently. Steve also plays some wicked guitar on this track.
