Home come "Kay" doesn't get a last night like all the male dj's? Or is it a Cher thing?
NYC top 10 12/15/65:
1 1 TASTE OF HONEY - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass 2 5 WE CAN WORK IT OUT / DAY TRIPPER - The Beatles 3 2 TURN! TURN! TURN! (To Everything There Is A Season) - The Byrds 4 3 I GOT YOU (I Feel Good) - James Brown & The Famous Flames 5 9 OVER AND OVER - The Dave Clark Five 6 6 I HEAR A SYMPHONY - The Supremes 7 4 DON’T THINK TWICE - The Wonder Who? 8 10 LET’S HANG ON! - The 4 Seasons 9 23 THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE - Simon & Garfunkel 10 24 A MUST TO AVOID - Herman’s Hermits
The Young Rascals' first big hit (at least in New York), the classic "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore," jumped from 31 to 20. "As Tears Go By" by the Stones went from Sure Shot to 23.
When I was a freshman in college, we could occasionally pick up KOMA in the dorm. So one night we pooled our money for a long-distance call (it was the old days) to the station and requested "Teen Angel."
Turn, Turn, Turn, The Byrds I hear a Symphony, The Supremes Let's Hang On, The Four Seasons (featuring the Sound, but not the body, of Frankie Valli) I Got You, James Brown and the Famous Flames Over and Over, The Dave Clark Five I Can Never Go Home Anymore, The Shangri-Las 1-2-3, Len Barry A Taste of Honey, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Rescue Me, fontella Bass I Will, Dean Martin (WTF? I listened to this on You Tube, and, honestly, I don't think I had ever heard it before)
Just outside the top 10, Ramsey Lewis is at #11 with Hang On Sloopy and Roger Miller is clogging things up with England Swings at #12. The Bird of Paradise is still flying up Little Jimmy Dickens' nose (at #28). Al Martino's Spanish Eyes are smiling at us at #47, Sloopy shows up again (Everybody Do the Sloopy, by Johnny Thunder, #67). At #74, A Well Respected Man is dissed by The Kinks. And there is a lot of very strange stuff outside the top 40...
Fred, I hesitate to tell you how my parents felt about all those singers/groups, except maybe Herb Alpert and Dean Martin...they'd pine for the days of Glenn Miller, Patti Page, Rosemary /Clooney, and oh, so many others.
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Home come "Kay" doesn't get a last night like all the male dj's? Or is it a Cher thing?
NYC top 10 12/15/65:
1 1 TASTE OF HONEY - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
2 5 WE CAN WORK IT OUT / DAY TRIPPER - The Beatles
3 2 TURN! TURN! TURN! (To Everything There Is A Season) - The Byrds
4 3 I GOT YOU (I Feel Good) - James Brown & The Famous Flames
5 9 OVER AND OVER - The Dave Clark Five
6 6 I HEAR A SYMPHONY - The Supremes
7 4 DON’T THINK TWICE - The Wonder Who?
8 10 LET’S HANG ON! - The 4 Seasons
9 23 THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE - Simon & Garfunkel
10 24 A MUST TO AVOID - Herman’s Hermits
The Young Rascals' first big hit (at least in New York), the classic "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore," jumped from 31 to 20. "As Tears Go By" by the Stones went from Sure Shot to 23.
I'm less surprised by the number of deejays than by the fact that one of them is a woman. Progressive stuff in Okkahoma City!
When I was a freshman in college, we could occasionally pick up KOMA in the dorm. So one night we pooled our money for a long-distance call (it was the old days) to the station and requested "Teen Angel."
Billboard:
Turn, Turn, Turn, The Byrds
I hear a Symphony, The Supremes
Let's Hang On, The Four Seasons (featuring the Sound, but not the body, of Frankie Valli)
I Got You, James Brown and the Famous Flames
Over and Over, The Dave Clark Five
I Can Never Go Home Anymore, The Shangri-Las
1-2-3, Len Barry
A Taste of Honey, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Rescue Me, fontella Bass
I Will, Dean Martin (WTF? I listened to this on You Tube, and, honestly, I don't think I had ever heard it before)
Just outside the top 10, Ramsey Lewis is at #11 with Hang On Sloopy and Roger Miller is clogging things up with England Swings at #12. The Bird of Paradise is still flying up Little Jimmy Dickens' nose (at #28). Al Martino's Spanish Eyes are smiling at us at #47, Sloopy shows up again (Everybody Do the Sloopy, by Johnny Thunder, #67). At #74, A Well Respected Man is dissed by The Kinks. And there is a lot of very strange stuff outside the top 40...
I've heard that Dean Martin song, but I sure didn't realize it was a Top Ten hit.
I don't know the Dean Martin song either.
As I look at the list, I'm reflecting that today's charts are dominated by the sorry likes of Adele and Taylor Swift. Flow my tears.
Fred, I hesitate to tell you how my parents felt about all those singers/groups, except maybe Herb Alpert and Dean Martin...they'd pine for the days of Glenn Miller, Patti Page, Rosemary /Clooney, and oh, so many others.
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