Sunday, September 1, 2013

November 11, 1966


1
1
Beach Boys--Good Vibrations
16
2
Monkees--I Wanna Be Free
3
3
New Vaudeville Band--Winchester Cathedral
5
4
Donovan--Mellow Yellow
2
5
Peter & Gordon--Lady Godiva
4
6
Johnny Rivers--Poor Side of Town
6
7
Hardtimes--Fortune Teller
11
8
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Devil With a Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly
14
9
Hollies--Stop Stop Stop
9
10
Roger Williams--Born Free
7
11
Supremes--You Keep Me Hangin' On
19
12
Brian Hyland--Run, Run, Look and See
13
13
Lovin' Spoonful--Rain on the Roof
17
14
Chicago Loop--(When She Needs Good Lovin') She Comes to Me
18
15
Gary & the Hornets--Hi Hi Hazel
49
16
Don Grady & the Windupwatchband--The Children of St. Monica
20
17
James & Bobby Purify--I'm Your Puppet
24
18
Music Machine--Talk Talk
45
19
Innocence--There's Got to Be a Word!
46
20
Frank Sinatra--That's Life
12
21
Pozo-Seco Singers--I Can Make it With You
50
22
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass--Mame
8
23
Monkees--(Theme From) The Monkees
10
24
Tommy Roe--Hooray For Hazel
21
25
Herman's Hermits--Dandy
23
26
Carla Thomas--B-A-B-Y
22
27
Monkees--Last Train to Clarksville
40
28
Lou Rawls--Love is a Hurtin' Thing
36
29
Jan & Dean--School Days
15
30
Standells--Why Pick on Me
26
31
Left Banke--Walk Away Renee
34
32
Sandpipers--Louie, Louie
28
33
Jimmy Ruffin--What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
25
34
Troggs--I Can't Control Myself
31
35
Four Tops--Reach Out I'll Be There
27
36
Fastest Group Alive--The Bears
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37
Margaret Whiting--The Wheel of Hurt
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38
Sandy Posey--Single Girl
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39
Nancy Sinatra--Sugar Town
30
40
Claudine Longet--Meditation (Meditacao)
41
41
Eddie Fisher--Games That Lovers Play
37
42
Turtles--Can I Get to Know You Better
39
43
Happenings--Go Away Little Girl
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44
Cryan' Shames--I Wanna Meet You
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45
Ray Charles--Please Say You're Fooling
42
46
Arbors--A Symphony For Susan
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47
Neil Diamond--I Got the Feelin' (Oh No No)
43
48
Brenda Lee--Coming on Strong
48
49
Danny O'Keefe--That Old Sweet Song
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50
Johnny Cash/Lan Roberts--Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog


“Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog” was a track from Johnny Cash’s Everybody Loves a Nut album, appearing here on the survey just this one week.  Lan Roberts was a KJR disc jockey; I have not been able to determine why he was listed as a co-artist.

The other debuts were all Hot 100 hits.  “I Wanna Meet You” by the Cryan’ Shames, inexplicably to me, only got to number 85 in Billboard; here it’ll peak next week at number 43.  The Ray Charles ballad “Please Say You’re Fooling” was a number 64 BB hit that will make it to number 28 here.  And Neil Diamond’s “I Got the Feelin’ (Oh No No),” which made it up to number 16 in Billboard, will only get to number 34 here.

I find it interesting that, as the psychedelic era is underway, KJR is playing 1940s star Margaret Whiting’s new record, “Wheel of Hurt.”  It just goes to show how much less fragmented entertainment was in those days.  She had a pretty big comeback on the Easy Listening chart from 1966-70, though most of those hits did not make the pop Hot 100; “Wheel of Hurt” was the biggest and the only one played at KJR.

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