February 4, 1966

2	1	Lou Christie--Lightnin' Strikes
1	2	Beatles/David & Jonathan--Michelle
3	3	Nancy Sinatra--These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
4	4	Herman's Hermits--Listen People
18	5	Mamas & Papas--California Dreamin'
6	6	Petula Clark--My Love
8	7	Vogues--Five O'Clock World
5	8	Beatles--Norwegian Wood
9	9	Neal Hefti--Batman Theme
12	10	Bobby Fuller Four--I Fought the Law
11	11	Four Seasons--Working My Way Back to You
36	12	SSgt Barry Sadler--The Ballad of the Green Berets
13	13	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Just Like Me
15	14	Ray Charles--Crying Time
10	15	Lovin' Spoonful--You Didn't Have to Be So Nice
19	16	Sonny & Cher--What Now My Love
23	17	Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Jenny Take a Ride!
31	18	Bob Kuban & the In-Men--The Cheater
22	19	Turtles--You Baby
21	20	Dionne Warwick--Are You There (With Another Girl)
44	21	Verdelle Smith--In My Room
7	22	Beatles--Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out
48	23	Bob Lind--Elusive Butterfly
14	24	Knickerbockers--Lies
24	25	Supremes--My World is Empty Without You
26	26	Stevie Wonder--Uptight (Everything's Alright)
25	27	Ronnie Dove--I'm Learning How to Smile Again
35	28	Dave Clark Five--At the Scene
42	29	Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs--Red Hot
29	30	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass--Zorba the Greek
---	31	Sheep--Hide & Seek
16	32	T-Bones--No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)
27	33	Toys--Attack
20	34	Ramsey Lewis Trio--A Hard Day's Night
17	35	Al Hirt--The Arena
---	36	Freddie Lennon--That's My Life (My Love and My Home)
30	37	Len Barry--Like a Baby
34	38	Jackie Lee--The Duck
38	39	Ken Dodd--Tears (For Souvenirs)
39	40	Frank Sinatra--It Was a Very Good Year
---	41	Byrds--It Won't Be Wrong
46	42	Mel Carter--Love is All We Need
---	43	Dean Martin--Somewhere There's a Someone
50	44	Peter & Gordon--Woman
---	45	Newbeats--Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying)
---	46	Exciters--A Little Bit of Soap
47	47	Sammy Davis, Jr.--Lonely Weekends
49	48	Roy Orbison--Breakin' Up is Breakin' My Heart
---	49	New Colony Six--I Confess
---	50	Pozo-Seco Singers--Time

“We Can Work it Out” and “Day Tripper” switch positions one last time.

“Time” by the Pozo-Seco Singers appeared on the survey for two weeks in December, at 49 and 45.  Then it went away for six weeks, and now it’s back for six more weeks, and will peak at number 34.

Two records get turned over this week.  Mel Carter’s “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” had been on the survey for four weeks, peaking at number 24; now it is replaced by the actual a-side of the record, “Love is All We Need,” a number 50 BB hit, at number 42, which will drop to 49 next week and then off.  Both sides of the Herb Alpert record, “Zorba the Greek” and “Tijuana Taxi,” were Billboard hits, debuting there simultaneously, reaching 11 and 38 respectively.  KJR started playing just “Tijuana Taxi,” which got to number 16 here two weeks ago; this week “Zorba the Greek” replaces it on the survey, and it will make it to number nine.

One non-BB debut this week, and it’s an interesting one.  John Lennon’s estranged father Alf “Freddie” Lennon recorded a single in England in an attempt to capitalize on his son’s popularity.  It did not chart there.  In the US it was released by Seattle record company Jerden (I wonder how many labels passed on it before it got to them?), which partially explains why we’re seeing it here.  It’ll peak at number 33 next week.

The  other debuts will all do better here than they did in Billboard, most of them significantly so.  In addition to the aforementioned Mel Carter and Herb Alpert, and the mentioned-in-a-previous-post David & Jonathan, we have the Sheep (58BB/16KJR), the Byrds (63/19), Dean Martin (32/14), the Newbeats (92/18), The Exciters (58/32) and the New Colony Six (80/30).

The debuts of “It’s My Life (My Love and My Home)” and “Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying)” brings us up to six parenthetical titles.