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Subject: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: Paul on 04/29/04 at 2:46 pm
Following on from Karen's American example, these were our top sellers for this day many moons ago...enjoy...
1960 - Do You Mind - Anthony Newley
1961 - Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley
1962 - Wonderful Land - The Shadows
1963 - How Do You Do It - Gerry & The Pacemakers
1964 - A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
1965 - Ticket To Ride - The Beatles
1966 - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield
1967 - Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw
1968 - What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
1969 - Get Back - The Beatles
Subject: Re: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 04/29/04 at 2:52 pm
Gosh, I only recognize about 3 songs on this list. :-[
Subject: Re: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: Paul on 04/29/04 at 3:07 pm
Gosh, I only recognize about 3 songs on this list. :-[
Heh! I thought as much...special mention to Dusty's effort (originally an Italian song which became her 'theme' tune) - fantastic singer, much missed...
Sandie's song was the first ever British winner in the Eurovision Song Contest - sadly, it near-enough killed her career...she still hates it...!!
And Louie Armstrong became the oldest artist to have a #1 - not only here, but in America too with 'Hello Dolly' in 1964 - the great 'Wonderful World' was used to good effect in 'Good Morning Vietnam'
Subject: Re: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 04/29/04 at 3:44 pm
1965 - Ticket To Ride - The Beatles Not bad. I'd give it a 3.5.
1968 - What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong Lovely song! 4
1969 - Get Back - The Beatles Again, not bad. 3.5
Subject: Re: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: Howard on 04/29/04 at 7:56 pm
I never knew Anthony Newley was a singer....?
Howard
Subject: Re: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 04/30/04 at 6:19 am
1960 - Do You Mind - Anthony Newley U/K
1961 - Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley 4 – not a bad Elvis tune
1962 - Wonderful Land - The Shadows 4.5 – my fave Shadows tune
1963 - How Do You Do It - Gerry & The Pacemakers 2 – Never liked the nasally sound of this song…
1964 - A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon 3.5 – never really did that much for me…
1965 - Ticket To Ride - The Beatles 4 – one of their better ones from the middle period
1966 - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield 4 - ok
1967 - Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw 4.5 – Quite liked it, for the type of song it was
1968 - What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong 4.5 – but get the man a glass of water quick
1969 - Get Back - The Beatles 4 – Of their latter stuff it was ‘ok’
Subject: Re: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: Paul on 04/30/04 at 6:59 am
I never knew Anthony Newley was a singer....?
Howard
Probably better known for his acting ability, Howard - but he could carry a tune to a certain degree...
I was a bit tired last night, so I'll finish these off...
1960 - Tony's song was a bit ho-hum...but unusually was a British song that was 'covered' for the US, by none other than Andy Williams...
1962 - The Shadows were Cliff Richard's backing band who were almost as successful in their own right (everywhere but America...) - this was an attractive tune where they used an orchestra as backing for the first time...
1963 - 'How Do You Do It' was first thrown at The Beatles, but they performed such a lacklustre version that George Martin (thankfully) agreed to let them do their own material...Gerry had no such problems...
1964 - Peter & Gordon were fortunate in as much that Peter's sister Jane was dating Paul McCartney at the time, so he 'donated' this song to them...alright, but not essential...
1965 - Superb 'droning' effort from them Fabs...The Carpenters also did an interesting version early in their career...
1969 - Trucks along nicely, with Billy Preston doing marvellous things on the electric piano...
Subject: Re: Number One Song On This Day...1960's (UK)
Written By: mandamoo on 04/30/04 at 11:11 pm
1961 - Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley 2......not overly keen on this one :P
1964 - A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon 3....so,so..
1965 - Ticket To Ride - The Beatles 5
1966 - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield 4
1967 - Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw 5....a sentimental fave.
1968 - What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong 5....I like it, but it makes me melancholy..
1969 - Get Back - The Beatles 5.....this is on the very first Beatles album I ever got :D