October 2, 1964

1	1	Manfred Mann--Do Wah Diddy Diddy
2	2	Four Tops--Baby I Need Your Loving
7	3	Sonny Knight--If You Want This Love
13	4	Dean Martin--The Door is Still Open to My Heart
15	5	Hondells--Little Honda
11	6	Sandy Nelson--Teen Beat '65
16	7	Zombies--She's Not There
10	8	Beach Boys--Wendy
5	9	Roger Miller--Chug-a-Lug
19	10	Kingsmen--Death of an Angel
3	11	Chad & Jeremy--A Summer Song
26	12	Dusty Springfield--All Cried Out
8	13	Jan & Dean--Ride the Wild Surf
6	14	Gene Pitney--It Hurts to Be in Love
9	15	Roy Orbison--Oh, Pretty Woman
22	16	Honeycombs--Have I the Right
4	17	Shangri-Las--Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)
27	18	Beatles--Ask Me Why
28	19	Drifters--I've Got Sand in My Shoes
44	20	J. Frank Wilson--Last Kiss
12	21	Searchers--Someday We're Gonna Love Again
14	22	Beatles--Slow Down
17	23	Jerry Wallace--In the Misty Moonlight
37	24	Nashville Teens--Tobacco Road
34	25	Animals--I'm Crying
25	26	Pat & Lolly Vegas--Robot Walk
18	27	Ronny & the Daytonas--G.T.O.
---	28	Chartbusters--Why (Doncha Be My Girl)
43	29	Louis Armstrong--So Long Dearie
50	30	Al Hirt--Up Above My Head
---	31	Miracles--That's What Love is Made of
42	32	Egyptian Combo--Gale Winds
---	33	Everly Brothers--Torture
20	34	Newbeats--Bread and Butter
29	35	Al Martino--Always Together
21	36	Butterflys--Good Night Baby
47	37	Vic Dana--Garden in the Rain
24	38	Jerry Butler & Betty Everett--Let it Be Me
23	39	Gene Simmons--Haunted House
D	40	Ventures--Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
---	41	Superbs--Baby Baby All the Time
---	42	Jay & the Americans--Come a Little Bit Closer
31	43	Gale Garnett--We'll Sing in the Sunshine
41	44	Impressions--You Must Believe Me
39	45	Billy J. Kramer--From a Window
---	46	Young Men--(Junior's) Backfield Beat
32	47	Beatles--And I Love Her
30	48	Pat Boone--Beach Girl
---	49	Bob Moline--Forbidden
33	50	Frank Sinatra--Softly As I Leave You

Discovery: Johnny Mathis—Listen Lonely Girl

Three non-BB debuts this week.  The Everly Brothers’ “Torture,” which will get no higher than its number 33 this week, was the b-side of “Gone Gone Gone,” a number 31 hit at Billboard that KJR opted not to play.  I assume that the Young Men were from Seattle, since they recorded for Seattle’s Bolo Records and they recorded songs about University of Washington football players.  “(Junior’s) Backfield Beat” (to the tune of “Big Boy Pete,” a 1960 hit by the Olympics), was about Husky running back Junior Coffey, who later played four seasons in the NFL.  In December 1963 the Young Men had hit number one at KJR with “Charlie Browning” (to the tune of the Coasters’ “Charlie Brown”), about another Husky running back.  Charlie Browning had a less significant NFL career than Junior Coffey, getting into just one game, for the Jets, but he beat him at KJR as “(Junior’s) Backfield Beat” peaks at number 43 here next week.  “Forbidden” by Bob Moline is a melodramatic pop record that reminds me of “Suspicion” by Terry Stafford, and would be recorded by Stafford in 1966--it peaks here next week at number 21.  Bob Moline later had success writing and singing Christian music and songs for Disney theme parks.

Other debuts that did better in Seattle than nationally: “Why (Doncha Be My Girl)” (92BB/16KJR), “That’s What Love is Made of” (35/9), and “Baby Baby All the Time” (83/14).