January 15, 1965

2	1	Kingsmen--Jolly Green Giant
1	2	Righteous Brothers--You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
6	3	Sonics--The Witch
7	4	Petula Clark--Downtown
5	5	Sue Thompson--Paper Tiger
8	6	Dolphins--Hey-Da-Da-Dow
14	7	Shirley Ellis--The Name Game
4	8	Beau Brummels--Laugh, Laugh
19	9	Gary Lewis & the Playboys--This Diamond Ring
---	10	Billy Edd Wheeler--Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back
3	11	Dick & Dee Dee--Thou Shalt Not Steal
22	12	Sonny & Cher--Baby Don't Go
9	13	Dean Martin--You'll Always Be the One I Love
10	14	Gerry & the Pacemakers--I'll Be There
11	15	Manfred Mann--Sha La La
33	16	Esther Ofarim--Dirty Old Town
13	17	Vic Mizzy--The Addams Family
12	18	Supremes--Come See About Me
16	19	P.J. Proby--Somewhere
45	20	Four Seasons--Bye Bye Baby
20	21	Chad & Jeremy--Willow Weep For Me
27	22	Peter & Gordon--I Go to Pieces
24	23	Dusty Springfield--Guess Who?
36	24	Jay & the Americans--Let's Lock the Door (And Throw Away the Key)
39	25	Shangri-Las--Give Him a Great Big Kiss
46	26	Sam Cooke--A Change is Gonna Come
17	27	Searchers--Love Potion Number Nine
28	28	Brenda Lee--The Crying Game
31	29	Robert Goulet--My Love Forgive Me
32	30	Trini Lopez--Lemon Tree
15	31	Larks--The Jerk
---	32	Gale Garnett--Lovin' Place
---	33	Jay Bentley & the Jet Set--Watusi '64
---	34	Frank Sinatra--Somewhere in Your Heart
35	35	Jimmy Hanna--Busybody
---	36	Joe Tex--Hold What You've Got
18	37	Beatles--I Feel Fine
21	38	Beach Boys--Dance, Dance, Dance
23	39	Del Shannon--Keep Searchin'
---	40	Rolling Stones--Heart of Stone
---	41	Lulu--I'll Come Running
43	42	Chuck Berry--Promised Land
25	43	Bobby Vinton--Mr. Lonely
26	44	Hullaballoos--I'm Gonna Love You Too
---	45	Jewel Akens--The Birds and the Bees
---	46	Jerry Vale--Have You Looked Into Your Heart
D	47	Ian Whitcomb--This Sporting Life
30	48	Bachelors--No Arms Can Ever Hold You
29	49	Gestures--Run, Run, Run
---	50	Kinks--All Day and All of the Night

Discovery: Roger Miller—King of the Road

All the debuts this week were Billboard hits, though two only Bubbled Under.  “Watusi ‘64” by Jay Bentley & the Jet Set, number 128 BB, will rise to number 6 here (not sure why), while Lulu’s “I’ll Come Running,” number 105 BB, is already at its peak here this week at number 41.  Gale Garnett’s “Lovin’ Place” was a number 54 Billboard hit that will reach number 20 here next week.  “Hold What You’ve Got” by Joe Tex was number 5 in Billboard, while at KJR it will only reach number 31.

The most interesting debut this week, though, is “Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back” by Billy Edd Wheeler.  It was a number 50 hit on the Billboard pop chart (number 3 on the country chart), and it debuts here at number 10, where it will remain next week before dropping to 28 and then off the chart.  But in Pat O’Day’s column that ran alongside the survey in those days, he wrote that the record “has not and will not be played on KJR;” “however it is one of the top ten selling records in Seattle.”  The subject matter, an outhouse (“Don’t let ‘em tear that little brown building down…”), was considered inappropriate, either by Pat or by someone in station management.  This is the only time a record was listed on the survey with a notation that it was not actually being played, though in 1969 the Beatles’ number 8 national hit “The Ballad of John & Yoko” (“Christ, you know it ain’t easy…”) did not appear on the KJR chart, and in 1972 Chuck Berry’s number one hit “My Ding-a-Ling” also did not appear.

“I Feel Fine” by the Beatles, in its last week on the survey, once again stands alone without its b-side, “She’s a Woman,” while, as mentioned last time, Sam Cooke’s record is turned over this week, with “A Change is Gonna Come” replacing “Shake.”