July 16, 1960
Local and R&B hits entering national charts:
Dion & the Belmonts – In the Still of the Night
Nat King Cole and Stan Kenton – My Love
Billy Bland - Pardon Me
Jerry Byrd – Theme from Adventures in Paradise
Elvis Presley – It’s Now or Never
Rusty Draper – Please Help Me, I’m Falling
Hank Ballard and the Midnighetrs – The Twist
The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run
The Olympics - Big Boy Pete
Flamingos – Mio Amore
The Viscounts – Night Train
US (Country)
Audio only:
Hank Snow – Miller’s Cave
www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-Ya2zCnaMWilma Lee and Stoney Cooper – Johnny, My Love (Grandma’s Diary)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2QHorsoIO0Merle Kilgore – Getting Old Before My Time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=75oumO8sJQUUK (Melody Maker)
Audio only:
Anthony Newley – If She Should Come To You (La Montana)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiDkjzPaLQ4UK (Billboard)
Audio only:
Marty Wilde – Angry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18mED0T3s0Canada
Audio only:
Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks – Southern Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1V_cw06RvYNorway
Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye – When the Saints Go Marching In
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6m-PVFFYAAudio only:
Bjorg og Per Gunnar – Han Lovet Meg En Ring I Zanzibar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4cgYJH1WHoAustralia
Rolf Harris - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCiYDWGZv4www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd14NxZuvGgwww.youtube.com/watch?v=B4gru7Ial3kCol Joye & the Joy Boys – Oh Yeah, Uh Huh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QqXYK2uFsMJohnnie O’Keefe – Shout
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht8WDs8H7wMwww.youtube.com/watch?v=2kP3BS23PNEwww.youtube.com/watch?v=V8N1Ln__A-oJohnny O’Keefe – She’s My Baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CGxlZRsIkgwww.youtube.com/watch?v=-ThTdwyTawkBilly "Crash" Craddock – Boom Boom Baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6BTfD0hpaYRod Lauren – If I Had a Girl
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1FeiqsdibkAudio only:
Chan Romero – The Hippy Hippy Shake
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlkKB1JlbFgThe Rock-a-Teens – Woo Hoo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cLsFtGE8zUBilly “Crash†Craddock – I Want That
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPTKNxKVDK8Billy “Crash†Craddock – Well Don’t You Know
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99AsVDRnkvELonnie Lee – Starlight Starbright
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyyhMFyldXILonnie Lee – Yes Indeed I Do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LfM9wjOXYWarren Williams and the Squares – Where My Baby Goes (She Goes With Me)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxVWzV7GRoJohnny Rebb – Highway of Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRYec9Xdrh8Col Joye and the Joy Boys – Teenage Baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnlXzvhAHBQCol Joye & the Joy Boys – (Making Love on a) Moonlit Night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e3gzKKNhcwCol Joye & the Joy Boys – Bad Man
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5As3loLJLNsJohnny Devlin and His Devils – Turn the Lights Out Johnny
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyujkctIoKQThe Crescents – Mr. Blue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z4VqgLLIbcJohnny O’Keefe – It’s Too Late
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Cs-B5BNJ4Johnny O’Keefe – Own True Self
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZ2ktUHGgkJohnnie Ray – When It’s Springtime in the Rockies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o04EQOBqKgLonnie Lee and the Dee Jays – Ain’t It So (song begins at 1:11)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-yxK-Ec5CoNew Zealand
Adam Faith – Someone Else’s Baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r1usQ221A0Italy
Audio only:
Johnny Dorelli – Lettera a Pinocchio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZUu1NNCdbIWMGM (New York)
Audio only:
The Shirelles – Tonight’s the Night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-W7Uiic5oWIBG (Philadelphia)
Audio only:
Johnny Cash – Honky Tonk Girl
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KacJVgNQkcgThe Spaniels – I Know
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMLAGSXCCwJune Valli – Looking at the World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauL6D0U1G0June Valli – I’ll Step Aside
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB7qTYUwbOkJimmy Charles and the Revelletts – A Million to One
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyOXqGFOqsKRLA (Los Angeles)
Audio only:
Don Costa – Never on Sunday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT3FRzVK9UChubby Checker – Toot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Hl926nOnAThe Chordettes – A Broken Vow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0iXTxPXJICliff Gleaves – Long Black Hearse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5euaL8UbOwKFWB (Los Angeles)
Audio only:
Bobby Hendricks – I Want That
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qGK7aoHNYWKBR (Manchester, NH)
Audio only:
Bud and Travis – Come to the Dance (Vamos al baile)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihP5ei4bPmQWSPR (Springfield, MA)
Audio only:
Phil Phillips – Come Back My Darling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQwF2eltHMIThe Little Dippers – Be Sincere
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGPwSybp8MWSAY (Rochester, NY)
Audio only:
Bobby Helms – I Wanna Be With You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97REAhkAT_MJack Scott – It Only Happened Yesterday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaA4LT1KSxkWVET (Rochester, NY)
Audio only:
The Four Preps – Sentimental Kid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEtDqpkxa1wBill Smith’s Combo – Tough
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaCMnK1AEN8Don Gibson – Far Far Away
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RECC6oBMCMQCharlie Rich – Gonna Be Waitin’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gi1js7rX10Debbie Reynolds – City Lights
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dt8JOiGweoSunny Gale – Church Bells May Ring
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Vrwg4fI10Keely Smith – Close
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHX-VAUJvGAWNDR (Syracuse, NY)
Audio only:
Little Jan and the Radiants – Heart and Soul
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrpukUb_IpYLittle Jan and the Radiants – If You Love Me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSeWiQSq9fMChico Booth and the Upsetters – (Let’S Do) The Shimmy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAkn_dzzB0The Crests – Always You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQAK1ec-pgHollywood Playboys – Ding Dong School Is Out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYseTUoAFlsSpector’s Three – My Heart Stood Still
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQOdKwFgugBobby Freeman – You Don’t Understand Me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPv6XcI5xwSanto & Johnny – Lazy Day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAqSbh6aXCgThe Kestrels – In the Chapel in the Moonlight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLalHEekwm8The Noteables – Tonto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=41PLGAQ8MzQWebb Pierce – All I Need Is You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6xUd4ZJIcKLIF (Dallas)
Audio only:
Buddy Holly – True Love Ways
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5INjGRtrEcJeanne Black – Lisa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8ixdqSf7kKUDL (Kansas City, MO)
Tom Blair and the West Coasters – Rock It
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTb4uHRHUQgAudio only:
Barrett Strong – Yes, No, Maybe So
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-jLhNdC4UJessie Hill – Whip It On Me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_5R4eDHyIkEarl Bostic – Tuxedo Junction (well, a bit of it anyway)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsfohSqvvEWYDE (Birmingham, AL)
Audio only:
Otis Williams and the Charms – Image of a Girl
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEmvbk1tNk8Harold Dorman – River of Tears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cce6EAMxXyYJohnnie Morisette – Never (Come Running Back To You)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sKzeYr-4NILittle Anthony and the Imperials – I’m Taking a Vacation from Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUF6FqVJkPURoy Hamilton – The Clock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKbcSTXEPyQMarty Robbins – I Told My Heart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c3xNe2xOaEThe Browns – Margo (The Ninth of May)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQsUFUUG7UJoni James – They Really Don’t Know You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV7OeO039-cKDIA (Oakland)
Audio only:
Lillian Offitt – Will My Man Be Home Tonight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7dNw5QndKISugar Pie DeSanto – I Want To Know
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEETHgGr96UMemphis Slim – The Comeback
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_cHTCg4dU8Barrett Strong – You Knows What To Do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKgdRXkqDqgRoscoe Gordon – Surely I Love You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNOQ-lsNvz0The 5 Royales – (Something Moves Me) Within My Heart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm1304aDB7MKXFM (San Bernardino, CA)
Audio only:
Richard Berry – Walk Right In
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-m7TWQiywThe Fortunes – Congratulations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GikkqpcAZiAThe Fidelitys – This Girl of Mine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtJU0gaMFukWalt Maddox – Would I
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WRX16TVNVEDavid Gates – The Happiest Man Alive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js_fgseHEv8Don Costa and His orchestra – The Sound of Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudQAb9MunwKYA (San Francisco)
The Ivy Three – Yogi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSE3GjlIJJ8Audio only:
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Beatnik Sticks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-TuYlIkv-QThe Three Swingers – A Kookie Little Paradise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzF3ZZp2jICKWX (Vancouver)
Audio only:
Annette (Funicello) – Pineapple Princess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02oh5Ri4Y0Not on YouTube:
US (Country)
Paul Davis – One of Her Faults
Australia
Billy “Crash†Craddock – Since She Turned Sixteen
The Dee Jays – Shout
The Delltones – Shout
Col Joye & the Joy Boys – Living Doll
Floyd Robinson – Tonight You Belong to Me
New Zealand
Bill and Boyd – Cathy’s Clown
WJJD (Chicago)
Nick Noble – The Tips of My Fingers
WKBR (Manchester, NH)
Bob Beckham – Only the Broken Hearted
Walter Brennan – Noah’s Ark (Part 1)
Lee Djinns – Le jour ou la pluie viendra
Herb and Betty Waner – Dilly Dover
WSPR (Springfield, MA)
Frankie Rago – I Lied to You
WSAY (Rochester, NY)
The McGuire Sisters – Nine O’Clock
WVET (Rochester. NY)
Al Alberts – Blue Bird of Happiness
Walter Brennan – Noah’s Ark (Part 2)
Bob Crewe - Silhouettes
Eddie Heywood – Love Theme from The Rat Race
Jaye P. Morgan – I Understand
Jaye P. Morgan – I Wish I Didn’t Love You So
Pat and the Empires – Autumn Leaves
Debbie Reynolds – A Touch of Your Love
Sarah Vaughan – Maybe You’ll Be There
WNDR (Syracuse, NY)
Betty Johnson – There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere (The Ballad of Francis Gary Powers #2)
The Ramblers - Rambling
The Rockin’ R’s – Humbug
Don Rondo - Friends
Bob Sanderson – Chinatown
The Top Notes – Wonderful Time
KLIF (Dallas)
The Four Voices – You’re All There Is
KUDL (Kansas City, MO)
The McGuire Sisters – The Last Dance
The Silver Tones – Midnight Thunder
The Top Notes – Walking with Love
Muddy Waters – Love Affair
WYDE (Birmingham, AL)
Archie Campbell – Make Friends
The Four Lads – Sheik of Chicago
Don Rondo – Hoot an’ Holler
Bobby Sykes - Slowly
Ted Tyler – I Need You So
KXFM (San Bernardino, CA)
Ben Bennett and His Orchestra – The Whistling Walker
Jerry Fuller – Gone for the Summer
Larry Tamblyn – The Lie
#1 this week:
US (Cashbox): Hollywood Argyles – Alley-Oop
US (Billboard): Brenda Lee –I’m Sorry
US (country): Hank Locklin - Please Help Me, I'm Falling
US (r&b): Dinah Washington and Brook Benton - A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)
UK (Melody Maker): Jimmy Jones - Good Timin'
UK (Billboard): Jimmy Jones - Good Timin'
Canada: Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
France: Jimmy Jones - Good Timin'
Norway: Billy Vaughn - Blue Hawaii
West Germany: Edith Piaf – Milord
Australia: Connie Francis - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
New Zealand: Bill and Boyd – Cathy’s Clown
Italy: Ruggero Cori – Serenata a Margellina
WMGM (New York): Dante and the Evergreens - Alley-Oop
WABC (New York): Dante and the Evergreens - Alley-Oop
KRLA (Los Angeles): Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
KFWB (Los Angeles): Duane Eddy - Because They're Young
KDWB (Minneapolis): Brenda Lee – That’s All You Gotta Do/I’m Sorry
WJJD (Chicago): TIE: The Safaris – Image of a Girl and Brenda Lee –I’m Sorry
WKBR (Manchester, NH): Hollywood Argyles – Alley-Oop
WHIL (Boston): Brenda Lee –I’m Sorry
WSPR (Springfield, MA): Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
WKBW (Buffalo): Hollywood Argyles – Alley-Oop
WSAY (Rochester): Elvis Presley – It’s Now or Never
WVET (Rochester): The Fendermen - Mule Skinner Blues
WNDR (Syracuse, NY): Hank Locklin - Please Help Me, I'm Falling
WIBG (Philadelphia): Brenda Lee – That’s All You Gotta Do/I’m Sorry
KLIF (Dallas): The Safaris – Image of a Girl
KUDL (Kansas City, MO): Elvis Presley – It’s Now or Never
WYDE (Birmingham, AL): Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
WKXY (Sarasota, FL): Hollywood Argyles – Alley-Oop
KDIA (Oakland): Little Willie John – Heartbreak (It’s Hurtin’ Me)
KFXM (San Bernardino, CA): Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
KYA (San Francisco): The Safaris – Image of a Girl
CHUM (Toronto): Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
CKWX (Vancouver, BC): Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
CFUN (Vancouver, BC): Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
US (album - mono): The Kingston Trio - Sold Out
US (album - stereo): Terry Snyder and the All Stars - Persuasive Percussion
Pick of the week: Tonight’s the Night is the class of the field by a long way, which doesn't mean there isn't a bunch of cool singles in this batch. I Know takes second, with Southern Love and Honky Tonk Girl tying for third.
Rock It is fabulous, as much for the nifty footage as for the song.
I also liked a bunch of other tunes: Miller’s Cave, When the Saints Go Marching In, Yes, No, Maybe So, Will My Man Be Home Tonight, I Want To Know, The Comeback, You Knows What To Do, Surely I Love You, Within My Heart, Image of a Girl, River of Tears, Never, I’m Taking a Vacation from Love, The ClockWhip It On Me, the Bobby Hendricks version of I Want That, Sentimental Kid, Toot, Come Back My Darling, Be Sincere, Looking at the World, Johnny, My Love, Zanzibar, A Million to One, A Broken Vow, Long Black Hearse, I Wanna Be With You, Tough, Far Far Away, Gonna Be Waitin’, Heart and Soul, If You Love Me, The Shimmy, Always You, My Heart Stood Still, You Don’t Understand Me, Lazy Day, I Told My Heart, Walk Right In, Congratulations, This Girl of Mine, Would I . . .
I was also pleasantly surprised by the Aussie pop, a bunch of loving knock offs and covers of US rock & roll, mostly c. 1957. So kudos as well to Oh Yeah Uh Huh, Shout, She’s My Baby, Boom Boom Baby, If I Had a Girl, The Hippy Hippy Shake, Woo Hoo, I Want That, Well Don’t You Know, Starlight Starbright, Yes Indeed I Do, Where My Baby Goes, Highway of Love, Teenage Baby, Turn the Lights Out Johnny and It’s Too Late
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport is in a different category. A novelty song that would travel to North America a few years later. It's okay, I guess. What's with that "Let my abos go loose, Bruce" line? Isn't "abos" short for aborigines in an n-word kind of way? Is the guy freeing his slaves? And is the line as racist as it sounds? Interesting kids' songs they have Down Under . . .
Don Costa's version of Never on Sunday is probably the worst major version of it, but the song is indestructible and even buried under Costa's arrangement remains kind of catchy.
As for Yogi . . . what the hell?
And True Love Ways is better than any of them, but I don't think it was actually a single. It charted on a Texas station that was probably still playing Buddy tributes.
Another version of Miller’s Cave:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIeCAGTefnUAnother version of Tonight’s the Night (audio only):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtIPR-9yNAMore of Never on Sunday, starting with the movie version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCFXGanTx4Awww.youtube.com/watch?v=wQht_oEDKTcwww.youtube.com/watch?v=XRdkRaKgIsYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFDafm6JHMwww.youtube.com/watch?v=G2hCW_g81VAwww.youtube.com/watch?v=WraZUqggn3Ywww.youtube.com/watch?v=P3-lYiKF_twwww.youtube.com/watch?v=I1HLhfB8znAwww.youtube.com/watch?v=p57nf-FvVxwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=XUWniWj4Pdkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=m4iCDQi-pzMwww.youtube.com/watch?v=P-gEVpA-_xYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=2PT5L-GyzSkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=X309rTBNvHYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1XPpDRo5cwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wKcODccI3f4www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bcArUAGyCATrailer for The Rat Race:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I20Ff_5elYA later version of Far Far Away (audio only):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39uvrEiXaG0Original version of City Lights:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr79fOfP0dYAlternative version of Maybe You’ll Be There (audio only):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtERd08TCkSome of the many better versions of Church Bells May Ring (audio only):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIOS51NxuGowww.youtube.com/watch?v=trYRlWb9IKQwww.youtube.com/watch?v=puCSlyU2lQMwww.youtube.com/watch?v=DbEoOTLp2pYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=qcO7wR32eYUwww.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MahqamfcAAlternate versions of Le jour ou la pluie viendra:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E74JohdDTaYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=CyVhjKTwqYcwww.youtube.com/watch?v=HuEafhkX8M8www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfOr01MLnQkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEMmLPQY84www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7zQaTdGBsowww.youtube.com/watch?v=nnOrcDXtNjEOriginal version of If You Love Me:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjctartwBQ