April 24, 1964

50  1  Beatles--Love Me Do
17  2  Mary Wells--My Guy
 5   3  Roy Orbison--It's Over
 4   4  Billy J. Kramer--Little Children
 6   5  Jan & Dean--New Girl in School
11  6  Wink Martindale--Big Buildin'
 1   7  Dave Clark Five--Bits and Pieces
 2   8  Danny Williams--White on White
20  9  Impressions--I'm So Proud
25 10 Dionne Warwick--Walk On By
15 11 Four Seasons--Ronnie
 3  12 Beatles--Can't Buy Me Love
 7  13 Vic Dana--Shangri-La
 9  14 Kingsmen--Money
15 15 Betty Everett--The Shoop Shoop Song
13 16 Louis Armstrong--Hello Dolly
21 17 Ray Charles Singers--Love Me With All Your Heart
30 18 Nino Tempo & April Stevens--I'm Confessin'
29 19 Al Hirt--Walkin'
24 20 Bobby Wayne--Half Breed
14 21 Ronettes--Breakin' Up
19 22 Royaltones--Our Faded Love
23 23 Boots Randolph--Hey Mr. Sax Man
44 24 Diane Renay--Kiss Me Sailor
45 25 Dale & Grace--The Loneliest Night
26 26 Beatles--There's a Place
24 27 Skeeter Davis--Gonna Get Along Without You Now
22 28 Viceroys--Dartell Stomp
10 29 Beatles--Do You Want to Know a Secret
16 30 Serendipity Singers--Crooked Little Man
12 31 Lesley Gore--That's the Way Boys Are
38 32 Bermudas--Donnie
27 33 Terry Stafford--Suspicion
31 34 Bachelors--Diane
37 35 Hollies--Just One Look
39 36 Monarchs--Look Homeward Angel
18 37 Cicadas--That's What I Want
47 38 Bobby Goldsboro--Whenever He Holds You
---  39 Major Lance--The Matador
---  40 Andy Williams--Wrong For Each Other
33 41 Sammy Kaye--Charade
42 42 Wayne Newton--The Little White Cloud That Cried
46 43 Donna Lynn--Java Jones
---  44 Nat "King" Cole--I Don't Want to Be Hurt Anymore
43 45 Four Seasons--Dawn
35 46 Cascades--Those Were the Good Old Days
 D  47 Rick Nelson--The Very Thought of You
---  48 Trini Lopez--What Have I Got of My Own
---  49 Irma Thomas--Wish Someone Would Care
---  50 Dusty Springfield--Stay Awhile

The first column is the previous week's position.  The "D" next to "The Very Thought of You" stands for "Discovery."  My notes don't show any record having been the Discovery for this week.

This was the first week that the Fabulous 50 was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  Previous to this it had been distributed as a small folded piece of paper with an advertisement on the back--I don't know where or how widely it was distributed.  While this survey's date was April 24 (a Friday), the date of the newspaper it appeared in, the previous survey had been dated April 20--they had up until then had Monday dates on them.

Some interesting non-national-hits on this one, which is what got me interested in radio station surveys in the first place.  I would hear that such-and-such record had been "big in Seattle," and would wonder, "Was it really?  And if so, how big?"  And KJR was such a dominant station in those days that "big in Seattle" and "big at KJR" were just about synonymous.  Anyway, at number 6 here, its peak position, we have Wink Martindale with "Big Buildin'," which never made the Billboard Hot 100 or the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 charts.  It featured Robin Ward, best known for her hit "Wonderful Summer," and also featured Wink actually singing, unlike on his one big national hit, the recitation "Deck of Cards."  

The next non-Billboard record here is "Half Breed," peaking at number 20, a remake of a 1959 Marvin Rainwater country hit, by northwest rockabilly pioneer Bobby Wayne, not to be confused with the Bobby Wayne who was in Merle Haggard's band and had a minor 1971 country hit called "Harold's Super Service."  At number 28, after peaking at 14 a few weeks previously, is "Dartell Stomp" by Seattle's Viceroys, one of the most popular bands in the region in the early 60s.  At number 37, about to drop off the survey two weeks after peaking at number 12, is Beatles imitation "That's What I Want" by the Cicadas (get it?), who I just learned were Australian.  Then the final non-BB record here is "Those Were the Good Old Days" by San Diego's Cascades, who are chiefly remembered for their big 1963 hit "Rhythm of the Rain."

Also worth noting are "Love Me Do"'s leap from number 50 to number 1, and the fact that at KJR Jan & Dean's "New Girl in School" was bigger than its A-side, "Dead Man's Curve," which was by far the bigger national hit.