The Ultimate Averaged Chart - The BBC Chart Re-Imagined

[Robbie]

I agree with you MrTibbs, Cilla's version of 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' was the better version. I'm sure I once read that Dionne Warwick wasn't happy that there was a competing version in the UK which she ultimately lost out to. I also agree that the Righteous Brothers version of 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'' is by far the better version. I was too young to follow the charts in 1964 (being only a few months old!) so nearly all my knowledge of the 1960s charts stems from when I bought the Tony Jasper book in 1976. I remember noticing that Cilla's version had the head start but that the Righteous Brothers version quickly overtook it. And rightly so as it's one of the all-time great singles (in my opinion of course!). It didn't occur to me back then (in 1976) that the BBC must have been plugging Cilla's version instead of the original.

[MrTibbs]

Yeah Splodj, I also remember it was Cilla Black's version that was plugged on the BBC, just the same as how Cilla's Anyone Who Had A Heart was, and I also remember it was a headline on the BBC News the week it went to No 1. I'm going to be controversial here lol and have all the puritans up in arms, but I really do think Cilla's version of 'Heart' was way superior to Dionne's. BUT the Righteous Brothers 'Feelin', is without a shadow of a doubt way superior in every way.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers ! I've been working all day and just arrived home, but worry ye not. Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 30 for Week Ending 30th January 1965.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 30th 1965							BBC	NME	MM	Disc	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				Number Of Chart Positions				30	Scored
1	1	Go Now - The Moody Blues					1	1	2	1	1	18800
15	2	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers					2	2	1	2	3	18580
8	3	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Cilla Black					3=	5	4	7	2	16815
9	4	Come Tomorrow - Manfred Mann					3=	4	5	4	5	16810
18	5	Tired Of Waiting For You - The Kinks					3=	3	6	3	6	16775
2	6	Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames					6	7	3	6	4	16595
5	7	Cast Your Fate To To The Wind - Sounds Orchestral					7	6	7	5	10	15385
3	8	Terry - Twinkle					8	8	8	8	7	14690
4	9	Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw					9	11	10	9	8	13405
7	10	Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry and The Pacemakers					10	12	9	10	9	13270
16	11	Keep Searchin' - Del Shannon					11	9	12	11	12	12765
12	12	Baby Please Don't Go - Them					12	10	11	13	11	12700
6	13	I Feel Fine - The Beatles					13	13	13	12	13	11530
10	14	Somewhere - P J Proby					14	15	14	14	14	10595
11	15	Downtown - Petula Clark					15	19	15	15	16	9275
21	16	The Three Bells - Brian Poole and The Tremeloes					16	16	17	16	17	9190
28	17	The Special Years - Val Doonican					17	14	21	18	21	8050
24	18	Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las					18	17	20	19	20	7685
22	19	I'm Lost Without You - Billy Fury					20	21	18	17	24	7245
13	20	Walk Tall - Val Doonican					19	25	16	22	15	7210
27	21	I'll Never Find Another You - The Seekers					21	18	23	21	19	6620
14	22	I Could Easily Fall - Cliff Richard					23	27	19	23	18	5705
20	23	No Arms Can Ever Hold You - The Bachelors					25		22	29	22	3215
NEW	24	What In The World's Come Over You - The Rockin' Berries					24	24	27	24		3100
29	25	Getting Mighty Crowded - Betty Everett					26	20		26	29	2870
NEW	26	Promised Land - Chuck Berry					27	26	28	27	26	2575
19	27	I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney					28=		24		23	2430
NEW	28	Dance Dance Dance - The Beach Boys					28=	23	29	28		2400
17	29	What Have They Done To The Rain - The Searchers					28=		25	30	25	2110
23	30	I Understand - Freddie and The Dreamers							26		28	1505
		The Rolling Stones (LP) No 2 - The Rolling Stones					22	22		20		2900
		Come See About Me - The Supremes						28		25		1200
		Whatcha Gonna Do About It - Doris Troy						29				400
		Baby I Need Your Loving - The Fourmost									27	340
		Ringo - Lorne Green							30			250
		Yes I Will - The Hollies						30				200
		Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - The Shadows									30	85

[Graham76man]

Pirate radio charts were of course all made up. There was of course some element of how many times a disc was being played. They would however get them weeks in advance of release. In fact in many cases the record once released had dropped out of the pirate chart.
What we tend to forget is that the time TOTP played a record or showed a chart, it was already out of date. The effect of this was TOTP was playing a record that was collapsing in sales. I have monitored all of these charts, when doing now three years of 60's charts. And the number of times after a record has been on TOTP when a record should go up in sales, these charts show them falling down. It rarely happens on the full picture. But some of the charts record 10 place falls. Often the record leaves the top 30 and in doing so kills the sales completely. Remember the Sun article which said that the kids go for the thirty best sellers. So being removed when your record is in demand from a TV slot, is the death knell to a record.
Each TOTP has the effect of pushing sales for two weeks of charts. The first is the Friday and Saturday push on the first chart. Then a full of week on the second chart, but on the decline as the week progresses, unless something else pushes the sales.
But the pure fact of the matter is that there's a large list of records that were on TOTP that never make these published charts. Of course allowing for the fact that the biggest chart was only a 50, does take a few of them into account. Since even on the Real Chart, they fell short of 50. But most should have made the top 50 and simply didn't.
I have come across one this week, in the 1967 chart from the New Christy Minstrels. On TOTP Thursday so in the chart, but only at 99. Next week gone when it should still be selling, despite lots of newspaper adds for the record, plus even more TV slots the week after been shown on TOTP.
The reason for this wasn't the fact the record was rubbish in the public's eyes, but all down to supply. Even today the "stock" copy - sent out to shops is hardly available. And even on 45 Cat not one person owns it. Members commenting it was on TOTP, but asking even if it was released. This was however the exception to the rule. Most records making TOTP (as new releases) were well distributed.
The sales at 99 were only 8,000, the equivalent to only one in one store for all the shops.

[Splodj]

My memory of Lovin' Feelin' is that when it was released here the BBC played the Cilla Black version (because it was British!) and the pirates played the Righteous Brothers more. Caroline was being eclipsed by Radio London which on 31st January had the Righteous Brothers as their number one. Any record that got into their Fab 40 received a boost, in the same way that getting into the BBC Top 20 ensured exposure as a New Entry on TOTP and POTP.

[Graham76man]

Brian I wasn't attacking your chart in any way. Simply comparing the two charts. The Real Chart isn't based on points like the other charts, but on the actual sales that were happening on the 7 days it covers. Some people don't accept the chart, but some people think the World is flat. I will argue with such people till I am blue in the face. But when we are and somebody asks what was the UK top 100 like on the 10 to 16 January 1965? On the other side! They will see the the same thing posted by me a few years ago.
By the way that week fame clocked up 165,000 copies, a loss of 5k. In 1965 only he had sold 335,000 by then.
The Moody Blues take it from him as in your chart, by selling 201,000. The Woolies version moves to 25. The Terry Brandon cover of the Manfred's hit was already at 60. Only a week after the Manfred song entered the chart! Showing how quick they liked to get the covers out!!

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers ! Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 30 for Week Ending 23rd January 1965.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 23rd 1965							BBC	NME	MM	Disc	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				Number Of Chart Positions				30	Scored
3	1	Go Now - The Moody Blues					1	1	1	1	2	18965
1	2	Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames					2	2	2	2	1	18500
5	3	Terry - Twinkle					3	3	3	3	4	17695
4	4	Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw					4	4	4	4	3	17230
10	5	Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Sounds Orchestral					5	5	6	6	5	16160
2	6	I Feel Fine - The Beatles					6	7	5	5	7	15940
9	7	Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry and The Pacemakers					7	9	7	7	8	14755
20	8	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Cilla Black					8	5	9	8	12	14615
19	9	Come Tomorrow - Manfred Mann					9	8	8	9	14	13995
6	10	Somewhere - P J Proby					10	12	11	10	6	13025
7	11	Downtown - Petula Clark					11	14	10	11	10	12435
16	12	Baby Please Don't Go - Them					12	11	13	12	11	12100
8	13	Walk Tall - Val Doonican					13	15	12	13	9	11620
11	14	I Could Easily Fall - Cliff Richard					14	18	14	15	13	9980
30	15	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers					15	10	18	16	20	9885
NEW	16	Keep Searchin' - Del Shannon					16	16	23	17	19	7420
15	17	What Have They Done To The Rain - The Searchers					18	25	17	19	17	7090
NEW	18	Tired Of Waiting For You - The Kinks					19	13	24	14		7050
14	19	I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney					17	29	16	18	15	6810
12	20	No Arms Can Ever Hold You - The Bachelors					20	28	15	23	16	6675
21	21	The Three Bells - Brian Poole and The Tremeloes					21	20	20	25	21	6400
25	22	I'm Lost Without You - Billy Fury					23=	17	22	22	29	6120
13	23	I Understand - Freddie and The Dreamers					22		19	20	18	5205
27	24	Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las					25	19	26	21	27	4990
18	25	Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - The Shadows					26		21	27	23	3580
22	26	A Message To Martha - Adam Faith					27		25		22	2265
NEW	27	I'll Never Find Another You - The Seekers					29	24	29	29		2100
NEW	28	The Special Years - Val Doonican						22				1800
NEW	29	Getting Mighty Crowded - Betty Everett						23				1600
17	30	Little Red Rooster - The Rolling Stones							27		26	1425
		The Rolling Stones No 2 (LP) - The Rolling Stones					23=	21		24		2700
		Baby I Need Your Lovin' - The Fourmost					28	29		26	25	1410
		Ringo - Lorne Green					30		28		24	1345
		Dance Dance Dance - The Beach Boys						25				1200
		Promised Land - Chuck Berry						27		30		900
		Like A Child - Julie Rogers							30	28	30	635
		What In The World's Come Over You - The Rockin' Berries						29				400
		There's A Heartache Following Me - Jim Reeves									28	255

[MrTibbs]

Thanks for that Dave. I appreciate your feedback and intend to keep this thread going.

[eurofandave]

Brian,your Ultimate Averaged Chart really makes for very interesting and fascinating reading!! :-) Keep up your excellent work!!

[MrTibbs]

I just factually report what all the four main music papers say Graham. I just take their positions, points, store returns and add them up and present the information in the Ultimate Average chart which by definition has to be the most accurate as it is based on what all the major music papers at the time say then I average it, and although they all vary a bit by a few places they are all by and large reflecting the same records on their charts.

As nobody accurately knows the actual sales week on week for the time in question and that is well accepted, then the information reported in the four main music papers charts is the most factual we actually have to base charts around.

No chart was perfect then, NME and Disc accepted advance orders, included LP's, NME and MM in particular were a target for hyping, RR had a ridiculous number of shop returns, so by averaging them all out, excluded many of the anomalies and smoothed the chart out by finding the centre ground. So therefore the most likely chart possible is the Ultimate Averaged Chart.

[Graham76man]

I'm looking at the Real Chart for the above and the number 20 and 30 are way to high. Cilla being only 60. So some hyping going off there. In fact at the time Cilla's cover was attacked as destroying the better single from the Brothers, who were 41.
Ruby and the Romantics down 8 to 28. Missing out also Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is - 23. Gunter Kallmann at 27. Dodie West 24. Matt Munro - For mama 22. Del Shannon 21.
Woolies get a 31 entry with Jaybirds - Go Now
Even the top ten has 4 wrong.
Not in the top ten - your chart 5, 6, 7, 8.
In the top ten - 14,15, 16, 22.
Manfred Mann were in-between NME and Disc positions at 15.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers ! Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 30 for Week Ending 16th January 1965.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 16th 1965							BBC	NME	MM	Disc	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				Number Of Chart Positions				30	Scored
2	1	Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames					1	1	1	1	1	19050
1	2	I Feel Fine - The Beatles					2	2	2	2	2	18415
11	3	Go Now - The Moody Blues					3	3	3	4	3	17680
7	4	Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw					4	4	5	3	5	16910
6	5	Terry - Twinkle					5	5	4	5	4	16845
5	6	Somewhere - P J Proby					6	6	6	7	6	15775
3	7	Downtown - Petula Clark					7	7	8	6	8	15005
4	8	Walk Tall - Val Doonican					8	9	7	8	7	14740
13	9	Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry and The Pacemakers					9	8	9	9	9	14170
16	10	Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Sounds Orchestral					10	11	10	10	10	13135
8	11	I Could Easily Fall - Cliff Richard					11	10	11	11	11	12900
9	12	No Arms Can Ever Hold You - The Bachelors					12	12	12	13	13	11880
12	13	I Understand - Freddie and The Dreamers					13	19	13	12	14	10245
10	14	I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney					14	18	14	15	12	10065
14	15	What Have They Done To The Rain - The Searchers					15	16	15	14	15	10060
27	16	Baby Please Don't Go - Them					16=	14	18	21	19	8670
15	17	Little Red Rooster - The Rolling Stones					16=	20	17	17	18	8205
18	18	Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - The Shadows					18	22	16	20	17	7840
NEW	19	Come Tomorrow - Manfred Mann					19	14	23	16	26	7325
NEW	20	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Cilla Black					24	17	20	25	28	6405
29	21	The Three Bells - Brian Poole and The Tremeloes					21	21	20	18	27	6390
17	22	A Message To Martha - Adam Faith					20	27	19	19	16	6275
20	23	There's A Heartache Following Me - Jim Reeves					22=	30	22	27	20	3785
22	24	Like A Child - Julie Rogers					22=	28	24	26	21	3700
26	25	I'm Lost Without You - Billy Fury					25=	13		30		3700
28	26	Ringo - Lorne Green					25=		21		22	3265
NEW	27	Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las					27	23		22		2500
30	28	Baby I Need Your Lovin' - The Fourmost					28		25	29	24	2295
19	29	Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison							26		29	1420
NEW	30	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers						24				1400
		Baby Love - The Supremes					30=		28		25	1260
		Dance Dance Dance - The Beach Boys						25				1200
		All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks					29		29		23	1180
		Getting Mighty Crowded - Betty Everett						26				1000
		Walk Away - Matt Monro							27			1000
		Keep Searchin' - Del Shannon					30=	30		24	30	985
		I'll Never Find Another You - The Seekers								23		800
		Promised Land - Chuck Berry						29				400
		Goin' Out Of My Head - Dodie West								28		300

[MrTibbs]

I type the titles into the spreadsheet and add the chart positions manually for each week Trevor then excell does the calculations.

July 11th spelling amended.

[trebor]

Brian:
The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending July 11th 1964
> Non Ho L'Eta Per Amerti - Gigliola Cinquetti - (RR #30)

Typo: "Amerti" should read "Amarti"

Off-topic:

Are you actually re-typing each chart entry by hand from scratch for every new update? ( Just inquiring nicely )

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers ! Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 30 for Week Ending 9th January 1965.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 9th 1965							BBC	NME	MM	Disc	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				Number Of Chart Positions				30	Scored
1	1	I Feel Fine - The Beatles					1	1	1	1	1	19050
6	2	Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames					2	2	2	2	2	18415
2	3	Downtown - Petula Clark					3	3	3	3	3	17780
3	4	Walk Tall - Val Doonican					4	5	4	4	5	16860
4	5	Somewhere - P J Proby					5	4	5	5	8	16455
10	6	Terry - Twinkle					6	8	6	6	4	15645
11	7	Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw					7	6	7	7	7	15440
8	8	I Could Easily Fall - Cliff Richard					8	7	9	8	9	14470
7	9	No Arms Can Ever Hold You - The Bachelors					10	10	8	10	11	13750
5	10	I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney					9	11	10	12	6	13275
17	11	Go Now - The Moody Blues					11	9	12	9	10	13135
9	12	I Understand - Freddie and The Dreamers					12	12	11	11	12	12415
20	13	Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry and The Pacemakers					13=	13	14	14	14	10995
15	14	What Have They Done To The Rain - The Searchers					13=	14	15	13	13	10730
12	15	Little Red Rooster - The Rolling Stones					15	15	13	17	16	10375
21	16	Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Sounds Orchestral					16	16	18	15	17	9040
16	17	A Message To Martha - Adam Faith					17	18	17	16	15	8960
18	18	Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - The Shadows					18	17	16	18	20	8785
14	19	Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison					19	19	19	19	22	7365
19	20	There's A Heartache Following Me - Jim Reeves					20	22	20	26	18	6155
13	21	Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley					21	25	22	20	24	5145
23	22	Like A Child - Julie Rogers					23	21	24	23	25	5060
26	23	All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks					22	26	23	24	19	4720
22	24	Baby Love - The Supremes					25	27	25	27	21	3550
24	25	Walk Away - Matt Monro					27		21		23	3180
NEW	26	I'm Lost Without You - Billy Fury					26	20		22		3100
NEW	27	Baby Please Don't Go - Them					28	23		25		2200
NEW	28	Ringo - Lorne Green					29		26		26	1675
NEW	29	The Three Bells - Brian Poole and The Tremeloes							27	30		1100
NEW	30	Baby I Need Your Loving - The Fourmost					30		28		27	1090
		Beatles For Sale (LP) - The Beatles					24	24		21		2400
		Goin' Out Of My Head - Dodie West						29		28		700
		Um Um Um Um Um Um - Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders							29		29	670
		Et Meme - Francoise Hardy						28				600
		Losing You - Dusty Springfield							30		28	505
		Goin' Out Of My Head - Little Anthony and The Imperials						30				200
		Tribute To Jim Reeves - Larry Cunningham								29		200
		Show Me Girl - Herman's Hermits									30	85

[MrTibbs]

oops, sorry Robin, I have amended the chart for 26th December and added the column with points if you want to look back

[Splodj]

One quality record that under-performed in the 'official' chart was The Girl From Ipanema. It was 3 weeks in the Ultimate Chart peaking at 21, despite the best efforts of RR to drag it down. It only peaked at 29 in RR after it had left the other Top 30s!

[Robbie]

I don't think the BBC broadcast a chart for the last week of 1964, as they had Christmas specials looking back over the year.

According to BBC Genome, the BBC project which lists all BBC radio and TV programmes from the 1920s to 2009, the Pick Of The Pops "review of the Hit Parade of 1964" was broadcast at 5pm on Sunday 20 December 1964 while the following Sunday lists a normal, weekly, chart show

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/light/1964-12-20

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/light/1964-12-27

Interestingly from the first Sunday in 1965 Pick Of The Pops began to be broadcast an hour earlier, at 4pm

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/light/1965-01-03

[Splodj]

I don't think the BBC broadcast a chart for the last week of 1964, as they had Christmas specials looking back over the year.

[RokinRobinOfLocksley]

(Brian, you left off the points column for the last Dec 1964 chart...)

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers ! Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart Top 30 for Week Ending 2nd January 1965.

The BBC Chart didn't include the RR Chart for this week but the Ultimate Averaged Chart has included it.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 2nd 1965							BBC	NME	MM	Disc	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				Number Of Chart Positions				30	Scored
1	1	I Feel Fine - The Beatles					1	1	1	1	1	19050
3	2	Downtown - Petula Clark					2	2	2	2	2	18415
4	3	Walk Tall -Val Doonican					3	3	5	3	3	17280
6	4	Somewhere - P J Proby					4	4	4	7	9	16420
2	5	I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney					6	6	6	5	4	16145
11	6	Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames					5	5	7	4	7	15940
5	7	No Arms Can Ever Hold You - The Bachelors					7	8	3	8	8	15855
8	8	I Could Easily Fall - Cliff Richard					8	7	8	6	6	15175
7	9	I Understand - Freddie and The Dreamers					11	10	10	11	5	13660
13	10	Terry - Twinkle					9	9	11	9	10	13385
10	11	Girl Don't Come Come - Sandie Shaw					10	11	9	10	11	13300
9	12	Little Red Rooster - The Rolling Stones					13	12	12	17	14	11395
14	13	Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley					12	13	13	12	15	11360
12	14	Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison					14	15	16	13	13	10280
18	15	What Have They Done To The Rain - The Searchers					15	14	15	16	16	10175
15	16	A Message To Martha - Adam Faith					17	17	17	15	12	9515
20	17	Go Now - The Moody Blues					18	19	14	18	19	8970
19	18	Genie With The Light Brown Lamp - The Shadows					16	16	19	14	24	8295
16	19	There's A Heartache Following Me - Jim Reeves					19	18	18	26	21	7200
27	20	Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry and The Pacemakers					20	20	24	22	22	5615
23	21	Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Sounds Orchestral					22	24	23	21	17	5590
17	22	Baby Love - The Supremes					25	27	21	24	18	5105
25	23	Like A Child - Julie Rogers					24	22	25	25	20	4835
22	24	Walk Away - Matt Monro					26	23	20		27	4690
29	25	Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day - Brenda Lee					23	21	26	23	25	4560
21	26	All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks					27	26	22		26	3675
NEW	27	For Mama - Matt Monro					28			20	23	1780
26	28	Losing You - Dusty Springfield					29	28	30	27	29	1420
24	29	Um Um Um Um Um Um - Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders					30		27			1000
30	30	Tokyo Melody - Helmut Zacharias							28			750
		Beatles For Sale (LP) - The Beatles					21	24		19		2600
		Ringo - Lorne Green							29		30	585
		Mrs Mills' Party Medley - Mrs Mills						29				400
		Baby Please Don't Go - Them								28		300
		Baby I Need Your Loving - The Fourmost									28	255
		Et Meme - Francoise Hardy						30				200
		Tribute To Jim Reeves - Larry Cunningham								29		200
		Goin' Out Of My Head - Dodie West								30		100

[MrTibbs]

Before I launch 1965 here are a few records that should have happened in '64 and criminally missed out grrrrr !

Dawn (Go Away) - The Four Seasons
You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore
Come A Little Bit Closer - Jay and The Americans
Rod McKuen - The World I Used To Know
Every Day I Have To Cry - Dusty Springfield (Should have really been a Single)
It's Alright - The Impressions
Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops

[braindeadpj]

Yall, that Dave McAleer overview was written by Alan Smith...

Yes, You're right. It does say that at the beginning. I missed that when I posted it.

[RokinRobinOfLocksley]

Yall, that Dave McAleer overview was written by Alan Smith...

[Splodj]

According to Dave McAleer's overview of the 50s and 60s charts (https://web.archive.org/web/20110903...com/page21.htm), it sounds like the stores provided a top 40 for Melody Maker in 1964.

That is true. The 'World In Action' to which I linked showed the forms from the stores and it could be seen that MM asked them each to fill in their Top 40.