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NME, RM, MM, Disc all go with Cliff at #1 and RR goes with Johnny Kidd. It kinda stands out who is out of step big time. Nuff said
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Greetings Pop Pickers ! Hope you are all enjoying 1960 !
There are 9 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending August 6th 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending August 6th 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Total Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 110 50 30 Points Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 Scored 1 1 Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 1 1 1 1 1 3 9840 3 2 Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates 2 3 3 2 3 1 9410 8 3 A Mess Of Blues / The Girl Of My Best Friend - Elvis Presley* 3 4 2 3 2 8 9140 2 4 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 4 2 4 4 4 2 9130 4 5 When Will I Be Loved - The Everly Brothers 6 8 6 5 5 6 8250 12 6 Apache - The Shadows 5 5 5 6 6 15 8120 13 7 Because They're Young - Duane Eddy 9 7 7 9 12 4 7540 11 8 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland 7= 10 10 8 8 9 7280 9 9 If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley 7= 9 8 10 7 16 7100 5 10 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis* 10 12 15 7 10 7 7070 10 11 Look For A Star - Garry Mills 11 6 9 11 13 12 6990 7 12 When Johnny Comes Marching Home / Made You - Adam Faith 13 13 11 13 9 10 6350 6 13 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 12 11 17 12 11 5 6310 14 14 What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 14 18 16 15 15 17 4920 17 15 Love Is Like A Violin - Ken Dodd 15 19 19 14 16 13 4840 21 16 Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris 16 14 12 19 17 24 4730 20 17 I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 19 20 14 18 19 18 4320 22 18 Paper Roses - The Kaye Sisters 18 17 20 17 20 20 4200 15 19 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 17 26 16 14 11 3500 16 20 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 20 24 18 19 1570 19 21 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 20 25 1390 NEW 22 As Long As He Needs Me - Shirley Bassey 23 20 1300 18 23 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 22 14 1230 24 24 Talkin' Army Blues - Josh McCrae 13 1080 27 25 Mais Oui - The King Brothers 21 28 890 NEW 26 Listen Little Girl - Keith Kelly 18 780 25 27 Train Of Love - Alma Cogan 26 400 30 28 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 21 300 28 29 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 22 270 23 30 Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 28 240 Made You - Adam Faith 15 Mama - Connie Francis 16 The Girl Of My Best Friend - Elvis Presley 25 Elvis Is Back (LP) - Elvis Presley 29 160 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 23 240 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 26 150 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 27 120 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 30 30 110 Papa Loves Mama - Joan Regan 29 60 * This week the split sides would have affected NME's averaged chart position so an average was taken from the other 4 charts giving an average of 3.75 to Elvis Presley and 9.75 to Connie Francis and awarded to NME to give a more representative chart position for both sides together. Last edited by MrTibbs; Wed December 23, 2020, 22:19.Leave a comment:
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Greetings Pop Pickers !
There are 11 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending July 30th 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending July 30th 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Total Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 110 50 30 Points Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 Scored 2 1 Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 1 1 1 1 1 1 9900 1 2 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 2 2 2 2 2 2 9570 3 3 Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd anmd The Pirates 3 3 3 3 3 3 9240 9 4 When Will I Be Loved - The Everly Brothers 4 6 5 5 5 5 8500 6 5 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis* 5 13 9 4 4 15 7960 4 6 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 6 4 8 8 10 9 7780 5 7 Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 8 10 7 9 7 8 7610 NEW 8 A Mess Of Blues / The Girl Of My Best Friend - Elvis Presley 9 8 4 6 13 19 7470 13 9 If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley 7 9 12 7 9 4 7450 8 10 Look For A Star - Garry Mills 11 5 6 11 14 7 7350 12 11 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland 10 11 14 10 8 12 6650 19 12 Apache - The Shadows 12 7 10 15 12 14 6400 16 13 Because They're Young - Duane Eddy 14= 11 11 12 15 11 6290 7 14 What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 14= 14 13 13 11 10 6050 10 15 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 13 17 18 14 6 13 5560 11 16 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 16 20 19 16 16 17 4420 18 17 Love Is Like A Violin - Ken Dodd 17 19 18 18 18 3430 14 18 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 19 22 20 17 6 3380 RE 19 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 20 17 17 27 2500 15 20 I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 27 15 19 16 2330 NEW 21 Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris 18 15 20 24 2150 20 22 Paper Roses - The Kaye Sisters 23 20 25 1370 RE 23 Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 19 1320 23 24 Talkin' Army Blues - Josh McCrae 15 960 NEW 25 Train Of Love - Alma Cogan 24 560 27 26 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 28 23 480 26 27 Mais Oui - The King Brothers 26 30 430 17 28 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 20 330 22 29 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 21 300 21 30 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 22 270 When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 16 Mama - Connie Francis 18 The Girl Of My Best Friend - Elvis Presley 21 Elvis Is Back (LP) - Elvis Presley 24 Papa Loves Mama - Donald Peers 28 240 The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco 26 150 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 28 90 Banjo Boy - Valerie Masters 30 80 Alley Oop - The Hollywood Argyles 29 60 * This week the split sides would have affected NME's averaged chart position so an average was taken from the other 4 charts giving an average of 8 for Connie Francis and 7.75 for Adam Faith and awarded to NME to give a more representative chart position for both sides together. Last edited by MrTibbs; Wed December 23, 2020, 22:18.Leave a comment:
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Looking at these charts you can see why the Beatles had a hard time getting signed. The acts are nearly all solo artists. The only group being the Shadows and that was all instrumental! The rest of the groups were backing acts for solo artists, even the Shadows!
You go along to a record company with an act like the "Beatles" and they would have said plenty of backing bands, who's the singer?
The other reason was the money. EMI would give you 1d a side (45 rpm). So a group would have to split that four ways in the Beatles case plus 5 ways for their manger!Leave a comment:
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Jimmy Jones achieves #1 status this week as he holds that position in 3 of the four charts.
The Shadows kick off their solo chart career with a stunning single that is as vibrant today as it was back in 1960. The same applies to Johnny Kidd.
It's purely a personal opinion but I think Jericho Brown's Look For A Star is superior to Garry Mills' version.Leave a comment:
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Greetings Pop Pickers !
There are again 14 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending July 23rd 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending July 23rd 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Total Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 38 50 30 Points Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 Scored 1 1 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 2 2 1 1 2 1 7610 2 2 Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 1 1 2 2 1 2 7612 5 3 Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates 3 3 3 3 3 4 7194 3 4 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 4 4 6 4 5 3 6826 6 5 Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 6= 11 4 6 6 5 6200 4 6 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis 5 9 8 5 4 7 6198 7 7 What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 6= 7 9 9 8 6 5976 11 8 Look For A Star - Garry Mills 10 5 5 8 13 14 5924 16 9 When Will I Be Loved - The Everly Brothers 6= 6 7 7 11 12 5922 9 10 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 9 8 10 10 7 10 5728 8 11 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 11 13 15 12 9 8 4912 17 12 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland 12 15 12 11 10 11 4830 28 13 If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley 13 10 11 15 15 15 4768 13 14 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 15 14 17 16 17 9 4130 12 15 I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 14 21 14 14 12 13 3956 NEW 16 Because They're Young - Duane Eddy 16 15 13 13 28 3134 10 17 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 17 24 20 17 16 19 2862 RE 18 Love Is Like A Violin - Ken Dodd 20 18 18 20 16 2688 NEW 19 Apache - The Shadows 19 19 1680 22 20 Paper Roses - The Kaye Sisters 22 19 23 1560 15 21 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 18 27 14 18 1560 14 22 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 26 18 20 1380 24 23 Talkin' Army Blues - Josh McCrae 16 900 25 24 The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco 30 20 26 780 19 25 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 19 21 756 NEW 26 Mais Oui - The King Brothers 23 640 18 27 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 30 17 500 RE 28 Look For A Star - Jericho Brown 18 494 30 29 Angry - Marty Wilde 25 480 NEW 30 Come Back Again - Anne Shelton 27 320 When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 12 Elvis Is Back (LP) - Elvis Presley 19 17 1120 Mama - Connie Francis 19 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 22 270 River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 24 210 That's Love - Billy Fury 25 180 Wonderful World - Sam Cooke 27 120 How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer 29 60 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 30 30 * No 2 on points but No 1 on majority of charts. Leave a comment:
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Greetings Pop Pickers !
There are 14 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending July 16th 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending July 16th 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Total Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 38 50 30 Points Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 Scored 1 1 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 1 1 1 1 1 1 7740 2 2 Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 2 2 2 2 2 2 7482 3 3 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 3 3 5 4 4 4 6986 4 4 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis* 4= 6 6 5 3 3 6868 9 5 Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates 4= 4 3 3 7 10 6734 8 6 Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 6 5 4 6 6 6 6650 5 7 What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 7 7 7 9 5 8 6186 6 8 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 8 10 9 7 8 5 5842 10 9 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 9 9 8 8 9 7 5834 7 10 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 10 13 12 10 10 11 5028 21 11 Look For A Star - Garry Mills 11 8 10 11 19 4460 20 12 I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 13= 14 11 17 16 20 4172 13 13 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 12 15 15 14 17 14 4096 11 14 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 13= 17 16 18 12 13 4004 14 15 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 15 21 19 16 11 15 3570 NEW 16 When Will I Be Loved - The Everly Brothers 17 16 14 15 2828 NEW 17 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland 17 13 20 2750 12 18 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 16 23 13 15 12 2694 15 19 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 18 28 19 13 16 2046 18 20 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 19 17 12 22 1832 19 21 River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 26 18 18 1440 29 22 Paper Roses - The Kaye Sisters 19 20 1378 17 23 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 20 14 17 1270 23 24 Talkin' Army Blues - Josh McCrae 18 780 NEW 25 The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco 22 720 16 26 Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens 9 660 24 27 Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 24 560 NEW 28 If She Should Come To You - Anthony Newley 25 480 RE 29 That's Love - Billy Fury 19 360 NEW 30 Angry - Marty Wilde 27 320 When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 11 Mama - Connie Francis 12 Elvis Is Back (LP) - Elvis Presley 20 20 1540 You'll Never Know What You're Missin' - Emile Ford and The Checkmates 21 300 Love Is Like A Violin - Kenn Dodd 29 28 250 Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 23 240 Paper Roses - Anita Bryant 24 210 Shazam - Duane Eddy 25 180 Walking The Floor Over You - Pat Boone 29 160 Come Back Again - Anne Shelton 29 160 Footsteps - Steve Lawrence 26 150 How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer 27 120 Green Fields - The Beverly Sisters 29 60 That's You - Nat King Cole 30 30 * This week the split sides would have affected NME's averaged chart position so an average was taken from the other 4 charts giving an average of 4.25 and awarded to NME to give a more representative chart position for both sides together. Leave a comment:
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No it's completely different.Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka. An early version of the Led Zeppelin tune?
A few of the lyrics:
I'll build a stairway to heaven
I'll climb to the highest star
I'll build a stairway to heaven
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Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home - Bobby Darin. Is that the song about the fella who won the Strictly Come Dancing competition?
Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka. An early version of the Led Zeppelin tune?
He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves. He'll Have To Stay - Jeanne Black. So that's where The Clash got the idea for Should I stay or should I go?Leave a comment:
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Greetings Pop Pickers !
There are 14 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending July 9th 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending July 9th 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Total Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 38 50 30 Points Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 Scored 1 1 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 1 1 1 1 1 1 7740 9 2 Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 3 3 2 2 5 6 7132 4 3 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 4 2 4 6 3 7 7010 2 4 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis 2 5 6 3 2 4 6904 6 5 What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 6 4 5 8 6 5 6624 3 6 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 5 7 8 4 4 2 6546 5 7 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 7 7 10 5 7 3 6208 8 8 Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 8 6 3 10 8 15 6108 17 9 Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates 9 9 6 7 11 10 5802 10 10 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 10 11 9 9 9 11 5456 11 11 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 11 12 12 16 10 8 4970 12 12 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 12 13 13 11 16 9 4690 13 13 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 15 14 16 17 14 14 4152 16 14 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 16 19 11 15 12 22 3988 18 15 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 13= 16 20 12 15 17 3802 14 16 Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens 17 20 18 14 17 18 3396 7 17 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 13= 17 13 13 12 3274 15 18 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 19 22 15 18 20 20 3054 20 19 River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 18 18 19 19 2000 NEW 20 I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 21 19 20 1938 NEW 21 Look For A Star - Garry Mills 23 17 1480 19 22 Shazam - Duane Eddy 20 18 13 1190 22 23 Talkin' Army Blues - Josh McCrae 14 1020 NEW 24 Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home - Bobby Darin 24 560 NEW 24 Angela Jones - Johnny Ferguson 24 560 NEW 26 Look For A Star - Jericho Brown 19 456 21 27 Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 16 450 27 28 Green Fields - The Brothers Four 26 400 NEW 29 Paper Roses - The Kaye Sisters 27 30 350 NEW 30 Walking The Floor Over You - Pat Boone 27 320 Mama - Connie Francis 10 When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 15 How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer 21 300 Mustapha - Bob Azzam 23 240 That's Love - Billy Fury 24 210 Love Is Like A Violin - Ken Dodd 25 180 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland 29 160 You'll Never Know What You're Missin' - Emile Ford and The Checkmates 26 150 Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 27 120 Lucky Five - Russ Conway 28 90 Green Fields - The Beverly Sisters 30 80 The Urge - Freddie Cannon 29 60 Leave a comment:
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The 5 charts can't agree on #1 this week and the position is split 4 ways but Jimmy Jones just nudges ahead.Leave a comment:
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Greetings Pop Pickers !
There are 13 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending July 2nd 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending July 2nd 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Total Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 38 50 30 Points Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 Scored 8 1 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 1 1 1 2 3 2 7572 2 2 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis* 4 5 2 4 1 3 7386 3 3 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 2 3 3 3 2 1 7334 6 4 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 5 2 4 5 5 4 7038 1 5 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 3 4 5 1 4 7 6930 27 6 What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 7 6 6 7 14 13 5802 4 7 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 6 8 12 9 7 5 5796 20 8 Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 8 9 8 8 11 8 5704 NEW 9 Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard 10 7 7 6 17 21 5310 14 10 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 11 14 9 10 8 10 5258 10 11 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 9 10 13 13 6 14 5204 5 12 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 12 12 11 11 10 9 5190 7 13 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 13 12 13 14 9 6 5096 11 14 Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens 15 15 16 15 15 11 4188 13 15 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 17 17 15 16 18 12 3870 17 16 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 16 19 17 18 13 16 3644 26 17 Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates 18 16 10 17 15 3472 9 18 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 14 20 20 12 12 25 3392 12 19 Shazam - Duane Eddy 19 22 18 20 16 18 3058 15 20 River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 20 18 19 22 1910 16 21 Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 23 17 1060 25 22 Talkin' Army Blues- Josh McCrae 19 720 18 23 Footsteps - Steve Lawrence 19 23 696 22 24 Mustapha - Bob Azzam 24 560 NEW 25 He'll Have To Stay - Jeanne Black 20 550 NEW 26 Paper Roses - Anita Bryant 25 480 NEW 27 Green Fields - The Brothers Four 26 400 NEW 27 Love Is Like A Violin - Ken Dodd 26 400 RE 29 That's Love - Billy Fury 19 360 21 30 Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 20 330 Mama - Connie Francis 11 When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 20 I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee 28 240 Romantica - Jane Morgan 28 240 The Urge - Freddie Cannon 24 210 That's You - Nat King Cole 26 150 You'll Never Know What You're Missin' - Emile Ford and The Checkmates 27 120 Lucky Five - Russ Conway 28 90 Green Fields - The Beverly Sisters 30 80 Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson 29 60 How Do You Know It's Love - Teresa Brewer 30 30 Leave a comment:
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The wikipedia page for Glen A. Larson reveals he was much cricitised for plagiarism and indeed was fined for stealing plots and characters from The Rockford Files for his own programmes. His response to the fine was to steal the theme music instead which apparently led to James Garner punching him when the two met...Originally posted by Metalweb View Post
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I used to love Alias Smith And Jones as a kid, not even realising it was a rip-off of Butch Cassidy and The Sunshine Kid! By the time Battlestar Galactica arrived a few years later, everyone could see that was a (bad) copy of Star Wars.....Originally posted by Robbie View PostLeave a comment:
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Unbelievably The Four Preps are still active although only lead vocalist Bruce Belland is still alive. One member (who died in 2014) was Glen A. Larson whose name may be more familiar to televison viewers - he created many TV programmes including Alias Smith And Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Quincy, M.E., The Fall Guy, Magnum, PI and Knight Rider.Leave a comment:
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Greetings Pop Pickers !
There are 10 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending June 25th 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending June 25th 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Total Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 38 50 30 Points Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 Scored 1 1 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 1 1 1 1 2 6 7540 2 2 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis 2 3 2 3 1 2 7414 4 3 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 3 2 3 2 3 1 7402 3 4 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 4 6 6 5 4 4 6648 5 5 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 5 4 7 6 6 3 6640 11 6 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 7 6 4 7 8 9 6342 6 7 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 8 8 8 8 5 5 6174 16 8 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 6 4 5 4 11 18 6136 8 9 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 9 9 14 9 7 8 5506 13 10 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 10 10 9 10 12 16 5198 9 11 Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens 11 12 12 11 10 17 4890 7 12 Shazam - Duane Eddy 12 15 13 14 9 7 4826 12 13 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 13 13 11 13 13 12 4794 14 14 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 14 17 10 12 15 14 4412 20 15 River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 16 16 16 16 19 28 3360 10 16 Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 17 14 17 17 11 3332 28 17 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 18 19 15 18 16 30 3194 18 18 Footsteps - Steve Lawrence 15 20 15 14 13 2878 19 19 That's You - Nat King Cole 22 19 18 10 2720 NEW 20 Made You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Adam Faith 19 18 18 19 2276 23 21 Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 20 26 17 15 1580 27 22 Mustapha - Bob Azzam 21 27 920 15 23 Someone Else's Baby / Big Time - Adam Faith 20 19 910 17 24 Lucky Five - Russ Conway 23 23 880 NEW 25 Talkin' Army Blues - Josh McCrae 20 660 NEW 26 Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates 28 20 658 NEW 27 What A Mouth - Tommy Steele 24 560 25 28 The Urge - Freddy Cannon 27 24 530 NEW 29 Romantica - Jane Morgan 25 480 22 30 You'll Never Know What You're Missin' - Emile Ford and The Checkmates 30 22 350 Mama - Connie Francis 11 The Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas 20 330 Fall In Love With You / Willie And The Hand Jive - Cliff Richard 21 300 Stuck On You - Elvis Presley 25 180 Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home - Bobby Darin 29 160 That's Love - Billy Fury 26 150 Why Didn't You Tell Me - Marke Anthony 30 80 Got A Girl - The Four Preps 29 60 Leave a comment:
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I have to admit I loved Joe Meek's sound. I have lots of his hits and lesser ones too.Leave a comment:
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At home too. And the doctor's name was "Livingstone" believe it or not.Originally posted by MrTibbs View PostLots of good stuff on that chart to welcome you
He was my doctor for many years and I got some strange looks when officials at school etc asked for my doctor's name
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Unfortunately Joe Meek was the type of guy that would also buy up records in the known chart shops. Well recorded. The record was consider a joke. For how could a small label fill the massive amount of record shops? It was said at the time that if people asked for it, that they were told to try the chemist.Originally posted by Splodj View Post
The version of the song that presumably was bought at the time for it's still in my record collection was by Johnny Ferguson. Even so it is also in one of my relation's record collection, on the MGM label. It was also the first time I began to suspect the charts. For it's not in the hit singles book. I knew this was odd because my family were not big record buyers. So for them to buy a none hit was strange to say the least.Leave a comment:
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Joe Meek managing to get a record on his independent Triumph label into the charts at 14.Leave a comment:
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Greetings Pop Pickers !
There are 15 differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart Top 20 and The Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 20.
Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending June 18th 1960.
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending June 18th 1960 NME RM MM DISC RR Last This The Sound Survey Stores 80 60 38 50 30 Week Week The Top 30 Singles Chart BBC TOP 30 1 1 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 2 Robot Man / Mama - Connie Francis * 4 7 2 4 2 4 2 3 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston 2 2 4 2 3 5 3 4 Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochran 3 3 3 3 4 2 5 5 Handy Man - Jimmy Jones 5 4 6 5 5 3 8 6 I Wanna Go Home - Lonnie Donegan 6= 5 5 7 8 6 7 7 Shazam - Duane Eddy 6= 6 7 8 6 7 6 8 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee 8 9 8 6 7 9 11 9 Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens 9 11 12 10 9 11 12 10 Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka 12= 12 14 16 16 8 19 11 Ain't Misbehavin' - Tommy Bruce 10 8 9 12 21 14 12 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves 12= 19 11 14 11 22 21 13 Down Yonder - Johnny and The Hurricanes 11 13 10 9 26 NEW 14 Angela Jones - Michael Cox 17 20 17 13 15 9 15 Someone Else's Baby / Big Time - Adam Faith 12= 16 15 13 15 NEW 16 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones 15= 14 15 11 13 17 Lucky Five - Russ Conway 20 12 20 17 10 18 Footsteps - Steve Lawrence 15= 15 10 10 17 19 That's You - Nat King Cole 22 19 18 13 25 20 River Stay 'Way From My Door - Frank Sinatra 20 17 16 19 27 16 21 Do You Mind - Anthony Newley 18 25 12 14 24 22 You'll Never Know What You're Missin' - Emile Ford and The Checkmates 24 18 12 20 23 Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland 22 17 16 18 24 Fall In Love With You / Willie And The Hand Jive - Cliff Richard 19 26 14 18 22 25 The Urge - Freddy Cannon 18 19 19 23 26 That's Love - Billy Fury 27 17 20 28 27 Mustapha - Bob Azzam 18 NEW 28 Pistol Packin' Mama - Gene Vincent 28 20 15 29 The Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas 20 23 30 30 Sweet Dreams - Dave Sampson 28 30 Mama - Connie Francis 10 Romantica - Jane Morgan 28 Stuck On You - Elvis Presley 24 True Love Ways - Buddy Holly 25 Beatnik Fly - Johnny and The Hurricanes 28 Theme From 'A Summer Place' - Percy Faith 29 * This week the split sides would have affected NME's averaged chart position so an average was taken from the other 4 charts giving an average of 3 and awarded to NME to give a more representative chart position for both sides together.
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Great work MrTibbs! Apologies for the delay in mentioning this, but I just noticed that the entry of Sandy Nelson with Teen Beat on the 6/2/1960 chart was actually a re-entry.
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