Friday, December 7, 2012

September 4, 1964

1
1
Roy Orbison--Oh, Pretty Woman
8
2
Newbeats--Bread and Butter
6
3
Beatles--And I Love Her
4
4
Jerry Wallace--In the Misty Moonlight
10
5
Rolling Stones--It's All Over Now
2
6
Animals--House of the Rising Sun
3
7
Four Seasons--Save it For Me
22
8
Shangri-Las--Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)
31
9
Gene Pitney--It Hurts to Be in Love
5
10
Beatles--A Hard Day's Night
13
11
Tokens--He's in Town
17
12
Dave Clark Five--Because
16
13
Ronny & the Daytonas--G.T.O.
14
14
Counts--Turn On Song
9
15
Drifters--Under the Boardwalk
36
16
Chad & Jeremy--A Summer Song
38
17
Beatles--Slow Down
7
18
Gale Garnett--We'll Sing in the Sunshine
35
19
Butterflys--Good Night Baby
11
20
Beatles--I Should Have Known Better
12
21
Johnny Rivers--Maybelline
49
22
Searchers--Someday We're Gonna Love Again
15
23
Supremes--Where Did Our Love Go?
18
24
Lesley Gore--Maybe I Know
27
25
Frank Sinatra--Softly As I Leave You
39
26
Billy J. Kramer--From a Window
20
27
Ventures--Walk Don't Run '64
34
28
Al Martino--Always Together
25
29
Beatles--If I Fell
32
30
Beach Boys--She Knows Me Too Well
37
31
Jimmy Hughes--Steal Away
19
32
Gerry & the Pacemakers--How Do You Do it
29
33
Little Anthony & the Imperials--I'm On the Outside (Looking In)
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34
Manfred Mann--Do Wah Diddy Diddy
D
35
Jerry Butler & Betty Everett--Let it Be Me
28
36
Gene Simmons--Haunted House
26
37
Dean Martin--Everybody Loves Somebody
23
38
Beatles--I'll Cry Instead
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39
Kingsmen--Death of an Angel
30
40
Bobby Vinton--Clinging Vine
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41
Pat & Lolly Vegas--Robot Walk
48
42
Animals--Gonna Send You Back to Walker
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43
Paul Revere & the Raiders--Over You
47
44
Shevelles--I Could Conquer the World
21
45
Trini Lopez--Michael
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46
Dave Lewis--Mr. Clyde
44
47
Jackie Ross--Selfish One
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48
Pat Boone--Beach Girl
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49
Roger Miller--Chug-a-Lug
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50
Ray Peterson--Oh No!
Discovery: Jan & Dean—Ride the Wild Surf

This week there are two debuts that did not make Billboard at all and two that just barely scraped into the Bubbling Under chart.  The former two are “Robot Walk,” by Native American brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas, who later formed the group Redbone, and “Mr. Clyde,” another one by Seattle’s Dave Lewis.  “Robot Walk” will reach number 25 here; “Mr. Clyde” number 37.  “Over You” by Paul Revere and the Raiders, who were based in Portland during this period, got to number 133 at BB and will reach number 34 here, while Ray Peterson, who was best-known for 1960’s “Tell Laura I Love Her,” will get to number 46 here next week with “Oh No!”, a number 128 record in Billboard.

Also worth mentioning is that the Kingsmen’s “Death of an Angel” will reach number 10 here at KJR but only got to number 42 at Billboard.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

August 28, 1964



8
1
Roy Orbison--Oh, Pretty Woman
1
2
Animals--House of the Rising Sun
3
3
Four Seasons--Save it For Me
4
4
Jerry Wallace--In the Misty Moonlight
2
5
Beatles--A Hard Day's Night
28
6
Beatles--And I Love Her
10
7
Gale Garnett--We'll Sing in the Sunshine
15
8
Newbeats--Bread and Butter
5
9
Drifters--Under the Boardwalk
21
10
Rolling Stones--It's All Over Now
9
11
Beatles--I Should Have Known Better
6
12
Johnny Rivers--Maybelline
34
13
Tokens--He's in Town
22
14
Counts--Turn On Song
7
15
Supremes--Where Did Our Love Go?
13
16
Ronny & the Daytonas--G.T.O.
19
17
Dave Clark Five--Because
20
18
Lesley Gore--Maybe I Know
11
19
Gerry & the Pacemakers--How Do You Do it
18
20
Ventures--Walk Don't Run '64
23
21
Trini Lopez--Michael
31
22
Shangri-Las--Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)
12
23
Beatles--I'll Cry Instead
16
24
Chuck Berry--You Never Can Tell
17
25
Beatles--If I Fell
14
26
Dean Martin--Everybody Loves Somebody
---
27
Frank Sinatra--Softly As I Leave You
41
28
Gene Simmons--Haunted House
40
29
Little Anthony & the Imperials--I'm On the Outside (Looking In)
25
30
Bobby Vinton--Clinging Vine
32
31
Gene Pitney--It Hurts to Be in Love
D
32
Beach Boys--She Knows Me Too Well
36
33
Billy Strange--The James Bond Theme
44
34
Al Martino--Always Together
---
35
Butterflys--Good Night Baby
42
36
Chad & Jeremy--A Summer Song
50
37
Jimmy Hughes--Steal Away
---
38
Beatles--Slow Down
45
39
Billy J. Kramer--From a Window
38
40
Millie Small--Sweet William
30
41
Fleetwoods--Mr. Sandman
26
42
George Hamilton IV--Forth Worth, Dallas or Houston
29
43
Elvis Presley--Such a Night
48
44
Jackie Ross--Selfish One
24
45
Dixie Cups--People Say
27
46
Al Hirt--Sugar Lips
49
47
Shevelles--I Could Conquer the World
---
48
Animals--Gonna Send You Back to Walker
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49
Searchers--Someday We're Gonna Love Again
---
50
Ronnie Dove--Say You

Discovery: Jerry Butler & Betty Everett—Let it Be Me

All the debuts this week were Billboard Hot 100 hits.  “Good Night Baby” by the Butterflys, a number 51 BB hit, will reach number 9 here at KJR, while the Searchers’ “Someday We’re Gonna Love Again” will reach number 6 here but only got to number 34 at BB.

Yet another Beatles single reaches the survey this week.  Nationally, “Slow Down” got to number 25 while the other side, “Matchbox,” got to number 17.  At KJR just “Slow Down” is listed this week and the next, then the following two weeks both sides will be listed together, as “Slow Down/Matchbox,” and they will peak at number 6.  Then again for three weeks after that just “Slow Down” will be listed.  Meanwhile, "And I Love Her" makes a big leap this week from 28 to 6.

Ronnie Dove's "Say You," which had been on the survey from July 3 through 24 and then dropped off for four weeks, inexplicably reappears here at number 50 before vanishing for good.