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diva thin muffin View member profile	3rd September 2020, 08:13 PM Post #61
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0024 \| 01 ROSIE AND THE ORIGINALS Angel Baby 9xm3qnh1sck No. 1 Run: 20 January, 1961 - 26 January, 1961 (1 week) .........UK Chart Peak: (did not chart) .........US Chart Peak: #5 (13 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: December 1960 on Highland Records .........Sales: 320k (est.) Starting off 1961 was Rosie & The Originals who stayed on top for only one week but already managed to outsell all but the top 3 of the previous year! "Angel Baby" is definitely a grower and while it was pushed off the top spot quickly it had some serious staying power as it stayed in my top 20 for 14 weeks! This is a sweet ballad that feels eerily familiar for some reason. Rosie and the Originals, fronted by lead singer Rosie Hamlin, were an American doo-wop group and this song is perhaps their biggest and best known hit to date and I just gotta say I like it. While the sound quality isn't great I can imagine it was quite fitting for the time and this is surely the type of music I can appreciate even though it's far from what I normally listen to. Rosie unfortunately joins the club of artists that are no longer with us after she passed away in 2017 at the young age of 71. The cause of her death has never been disclosed. While Rosie Hamlin has absolutely no relation to actor Harry Hamlin (perhaps better known as Lisa Rinna's husband as she will gladly tell you), Rosie's father was interestingly enough also named Harry. Do what you want with that info. While "Angel Baby" was on top for a week a few things happened. On January 20, John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th President of the United States. On January 24, a B-52 Stratofortress, with two nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina. On January 25, the Soviet Union frees the two surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane, shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea on July 1, 1960. Also on January 25, Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians is released in cinemas. On January 26, president John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician, the first woman to hold this appointment.


diva thin muffin View member profile	3rd September 2020, 08:33 PM Post #62
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0025 \| 02 ELVIS PRESLEY Are You Lonesome Tonight? 9XVdtX7uSnk No. 1 Run: 27 January, 1961 - 2 February, 1961 (1 week) .........UK Chart Peak: #1 (15 weeks on chart) .........US Chart Peak: #1 (16 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: 1 November, 1960 on RCA Victor .........Sales: 185k (est.) Aaaaand the king is back! Elvis did indeed manage to snatch another top spot from me but again just like with "It's Now Or Never" back in October '60 this one only lasts a week and doesn't sell a whole lot in the long run. Despite being successful in pushing Rosie off the throne "Are You Lonesome" manages to sell only barely more than half of what "Angel Baby" did once their chart runs were over. 'Lonesome' is a beautiful ballad but ultimately it's a bit boring for me so not as strong of a number one as the previous few. Elvis will definitely be back later with much better songs but I still think this may very well be the first song to top my chart that also managed to top both the US and UK chart IRL? Elvis still, despite the overall floppage of this song, fought off hard competition from another previous number one title holder: Chubby Checker. Chubby challenged the king with his awkwardly titled song "Pony Time" but ultimately settled for a peak at No. 4 and sales at around 160k. While "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" was on top for a week a few things happened. On January 28, Supercar, the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation, debuts on ATV. Also on January 28, Arnaldur Indriðason is born. He is one of the most popular Icelandic writers and a two time winner of the best Nordic crime novel award. (I recommend reading his novel Mýrin, or Jar City) On January 30, American civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King have a baby boy who they later name Dexter King. On January 31, Ham the Chimp, a 37-pound (17-kg) male, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury spacecraft, designed to carry United States astronauts into space. On February 1, the United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile. On February 2, actress Anna May Wong died of a heart attack at the age of 56. She is considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star.


diva thin muffin View member profile	4th September 2020, 09:41 AM Post #63
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0026 \| 03 THE MIRACLES Shop Around AQGXa3FiXKM No. 1 Run: 3 February, 1961 - 9 February, 1961 (1 week) .........UK Chart Peak: (did not chart) .........US Chart Peak: #2 (16 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: October 15, 1960 on Tamla/Motown .........Sales: 210k (est.) "Shop Around" was the first million-selling hit for Motown Records and for good reason. It provides a new and fresh sound to the previous hits for the Record Company (then known as Tamla Records) and really paved the way for some of the most famous Motown records we know and love today. The Miracles were fronted by lead singer Smokey Robinson who is of course a very famous name on his own but this seems to have been a popular stepping stone for the biggest names of the time, especially when it came to black singers. They'd start off in a band (The Drifters, The Supremes, The Miracles), later become the main attraction (Ben E. King and The Drifters, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles) before finally venturing out on their own and becoming successful solo singers. "Shop Around" is cute and as I said earlier, it's worthy of the title but there are far superior Motown records to come in the next few years so hold on to your socks! "Shop Around" marks the longest run of 1-week number ones yet but there will be much longer runs later! While "Shop Around" was on top for a week a few things happened. On February 3, Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 542 and its 26 occupants disappeared while flying from Surabaya on the island of Java, to Balikpapan on the island of Borneo. The Douglas DC-3 plane plunged into the Java Sea after having last been seen over Madura Island. On February 4, The Portuguese Colonial War began in Angola with a co-ordinated attack by 180 MPLA guerillas in Luanda. In a morning raid, armed groups attacked the prison, the police barracks, a police patrol and the radio station. The attacks failed, and armed white Angolan residents exacted revenge on Luanda's black neighborhoods, but the battle inspired a 14-year-long campaign to liberate Portugal's colonies. On February 5, movie actress Marilyn Monroe voluntarily checked herself into the Cornell University Medical Center (under the pseudonym "Faye Miller") after being driven there by her psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne Kris. Admitted on the premise that she would be treated for exhaustion, Monroe was instead taken to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and found "the worst fear of her life come true", being locked inside a padded cell. After three days, she was permitted to make a phone call and reached her ex-husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio, who flew to New York City and effected her release. On February 6, Olin Library at Cornell University in New York, designed by Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde, opens. Also on February 6, in the Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu named Joseph Ileo as the Prime Minister in an interim government. Ileo was unable to persuade major secessionist leaders to join his cabinet and would resign on August 1. On February 8, at a press conference to announce that Prime Minister John Diefenbaker of Canada would be coming to the United States on February 20, President Kennedy mispronounced the Canadian leader's name multiple times. Kennedy had asked Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who in turn had asked Assistant for European Affairs Foy D. Kohler, who suggested the German pronunciation "Dee-fen-bawk-er"; Diefenbaker's name was misspelled by various news sources as "Diffenbaker", "Diefenbacker", "Diefenbacon" and even (by UPI) "Fifenbaker". Privately, the Prime Minister, whose name was pronounced "Dee-fen-bay-ker", was enraged at what he viewed as being mocked by the American president. On February 9, The Beatles perform for the very first time at The Cavern Club.


Popchartfreak View member profile	4th September 2020, 02:52 PM Post #64
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,821 User: 17,376	I've never heard that Angel Baby record! I like it, though it's exactly how you'd expect a girl doo-wop song to sound. It's very rough n ready, you're right about that, sounds like it was an amateur breakthrough track rather than a big studio big production. Lonesome isn't one of my fave Presley tracks, there was an awful laughing version Elvis recorded live that became a hit in the 80's and that was the final nail in the coffin of my regard for the song, oops! Shop Around is a decent track, Smokey has had an amazing career purely as a songwriter, sheer quality is on the way!


diva thin muffin View member profile	7th September 2020, 07:43 PM Post #65
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0027 \| 04 FERRANTE AND TEICHER Exodus xhXZ3eXJIFc No. 1 Run: 10 February, 1961 - 9 March, 1961 (4 weeks) .........UK Chart Peak: #6 (17 weeks on chart) .........US Chart Peak: #2 (22 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: November 7, 1960 on DME .........Sales: 710k (est.) And with that the previous biggest hit record has been absolutely smashed into smithereens. "Stay" by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs sold 428,000 copies during its run but Ferrante & Teicher's piano epic did it one better and sold almost twice as many copies. This is also the first song featured here that has been certified platinum. This song is an absolute masterpiece even though admittedly I have never heard it before going over the songs for 1961. It absolutely captivated all of my attention and I felt all kinds of feelings I was certainly not expecting to feel for a song from this time period but wow this is just so beautiful. While the movie the song was featured in may not have aged very well I'm happy they brought us this amazing tune. During the time that 'Exodus' was on top it was only really faced by one major competition from chart alum Neil Sedaka whose song "Calendar Girl" peaked at No. 2 behind Ferrante & Teicher. Neil's sound, or moreover the subject of his songs, is getting a bit old at this point so he's gonna need a musical reform soon if he wants to top the chart again soon. While "Exodus" was on top for 4 weeks a few things happened. On February 12, The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus. Also on February 12, The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single. On February 13, Frank Sinatra forms his own record label, Reprise Records, which will later release recordings by The Beach Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, The Kinks and Jimi Hendrix. On February 14, Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California. Also on February 14, The Platters file a lawsuit against Mercury Records for breach of contract after the record company refuses to accept recordings on which Tony Williams does not sing lead. The group's lawsuit contends that their contract does not require Williams to sing lead. On February 15, Sabena Flight 548 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches. On February 25, The last public trams in Sydney, Australia cease operation, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network. On March 1, United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. On March 8, Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.


diva thin muffin View member profile	7th September 2020, 09:25 PM Post #66
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0028 \| 05 RICKY NELSON Travelin' Man k0vFdCdNQP4 No. 1 Run: 10 March, 1961 - 16 March, 1961 (1 week) .........UK Chart Peak: (did not chart) .........US Chart Peak: #1 (17 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: November 7, 1960 on DME .........Sales: 110k (est.) From the biggest selling number one of the year so far to the lowest selling number one. While I enjoy the melody of the song I admittedly am not a big fan of the lyrics. It's honestly quite surprising I allowed this to take the top spot from 'Exodus' when it's very bland even by 1961 standards. Ricky sings about his million and one girlfriends in all these different places and it's got some lyrics that haven't aged quite well but I guess it's a product of its time so not much to do about that. I guess what made me like this enough to put it at #1 was the melody. The piano in the background is cool. Ricky Nelson was a handsome guy and his sons actually managed to follow in his footsteps and reach number one in the US with a song in 1990. This makes them the only family to have reached #1 in three generations as Ricky's parents, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, did it as well. The family was a popular family as they starred on a hit sitcom in the 50's and 60's. However their story is quite tragic as Ricky's father died from cancer in 1975, Ricky died in a plane crash on the last day of 1985 and finally Harriet passed away at the age of 85 in 1994. Some say she died of a broken heart after never really recovering from Ricky's death. Quite heartbreaking really. While "Travelin' Man" was on top for a week a few things happened. On March 11, "Barbie" gets a boyfriend, when the "Ken" doll is introduced in the United States. On March 12, english actress Belinda Lee died in a car accident near San Bernardino, California at the young age of 25. On March 13, Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender in the UK. Also on March 13, a mudslide occurs in Kurenivka, Ukraine. The official death toll is 145, however a later study estimates that the number of victims was closer to 1,500. Also on March 13, Cyprus joins the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming the first small country in the Commonwealth. And finally on March 13, A second B-52 crashes near Yuba City, California, after cabin pressure is lost and the fuel runs out. Two nuclear weapons are found unexploded. On March 15, The Union of Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal.


crazy chris View member profile	8th September 2020, 07:11 PM Post #67
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 22,001 User: 53	QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ Sep 4 2020, 03:52 PM) I've never heard that Angel Baby record! I like it, though it's exactly how you'd expect a girl doo-wop song to sound. It's very rough n ready, you're right about that, sounds like it was an amateur breakthrough track rather than a big studio big production. Hadn't heard of it before and not keen on it. Sounds dated and rough as you say.


Popchartfreak View member profile	8th September 2020, 08:23 PM Post #68
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,821 User: 17,376	Exodus is one of those instrumentals i know but didnt know i knew! Its actually pretty good, i enjoy a dramatic theme tune. Ricky Nelson ive always liked, the better side of tv star cum pop star pop, and i like this one too. In terms of the lyrics, bragging about how many girls you get off with is thematically what a million and one rap songs are based on just not as much concerned with the details back in those days Ricks finest moment was still 11 years in the future at this stage - the wonderful Garden Party.


diva thin muffin View member profile	12th September 2020, 06:59 PM Post #69
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0029 \| 06 ETTA JAMES At Last S-cbOl96RFM No. 1 Run: 17 March, 1961 - 6 April, 1961 (3 weeks) .........UK Chart Peak: #39 (11 weeks on chart) .........US Chart Peak: #47 (8 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: November 15, 1960 on Argo .........Sales: 775k (est.) And now onto another huge track it's the legendary Etta James claiming the top spot for the very first time and just like that 'Exodus' has been dethroned as the biggest track of the year, although not be a whole lot. Etta was a magnificent voice and 'At Last' being such a well known song today sort of makes up for the absolute floppage it presented to us upon its' release. Etta's raspy vocals were unique and so so beautiful and there is just something so incredible about this woman. It's of course thanks to her that we have one of my favourite hits of 2011, Avicii's 'Levels' and alternatively Flo Rida's best 'Good Feeling' although both of those sample another one of her tracks yet to come. 'At Last' is a song I sort of relate to coffee ads today as it was featured in ads for, I wanna say Merrild Coffee, for a while in the 90's and early 2000's here in Iceland so it's hard for me not to think about that when I hear it but the song is absolutely stunning to say the least. While Etta didn't face a lot of worthy opponents during her three week stint on top she did manage to fend off Linda Scott's "I've Told Every Little Star" (No. 4) when it debuted but other than a little scare there Etta was firm on top. While "At Last" was on top for a week a lot of things happened. On March 17, Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States, died at the age of 101; in 1887, she was elected to a two-year term as mayor of the small town of Argonia, Kansas, after being placed on the ballot as a prank. Also on March 18, "Nous les amoureux" by Jean-Claude Pascal wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg. On March 19, Tornadoes swept through four districts of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing more than 250 people. The dead included 32 people who had taken refuge in a Catholic church in Dacca after attending Sunday mass. On March 23, An American C-47 transport plane with eight men aboard disappeared over the war-torn nation of Laos after taking off from Vientiane toward Saigon. The U.S. Air Force did not announce the incident until two days later. The sole survivor, Major Lawrence R. Bailey, Jr., was captured and became the first American POW of the Vietnam Era. He would be released on August 15, 1962.+ Also on March 23, Valentin Bondarenko, 24, Russian cosmonaut, was burned to death in a training accident. His death would be concealed by the Soviet government for more than 25 years, finally being revealed in 1986 in an article in the daily newspaper Izvestia. On March 25, The day after the U.S. launch of a test dummy into space, the Soviets made one final launch of their own Ivan Ivanovich dummy into space, along with the last dog in space, Zvezdochka. Both went up on Sputnik 10, which made one orbit and safely returned to Earth. On March 27, Nine African-American students from Mississippi's Tougaloo College made the first effort of passive resistance to end segregation in the state capital, Jackson, by walking into the whites-only main branch of the municipal public library. After beginning the "read-in", the students declined to leave and were arrested by police. The next day, black students at Jackson State College marched to the city jail to protest the arrest of the "Tougaloo Nine", and more demonstrations followed. Also on March 29, American actress Amy Sedaris was born. Her breakout role came as Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central comedy series Strangers with Candy (1999–2000) and the prequel film Strangers with Candy (2005), which she also wrote. On March 30, Actor Ronald Reagan gave a speech entitled 'Encroaching Control' to the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. This speech was considered by some historians to be his finest and the moment his political career truly began. Also on April 1, Susan Boyle, Scottish singer who became a worldwide sensation after singing "I Dreamed a Dream" on the TV show Britain's Got Talent, was born in Blackburn, West Lothian. On April 2, Christopher Meloni, American TV actor, was born in Washington, D.C. He is known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for its first twelve seasons and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz. On April 3, Country music star Spade Cooley, nicknamed "The King of Western Swing", murdered his wife Ella Mae after she admitted to having an affair. Cooley remained in prison until 1969, and died on November 23 of that year after performing a concert while on furlough. Also on April 3, The Soviet government approved sending a man into space on the April 12 launch of a rocket, and made a choice between the two remaining candidates for first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov. Also on April 3, Eddie Murphy, American comedian and actor, was born in Brooklyn, New York. While Murphy hardly needs an introduction he's best known for his performances in 48 Hrs., the Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, The Nutty Professor, Shrek, and Dolemite Is My Name. On April 4, At 6:00 pm in a conference room at the office of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy convened a meeting to discuss final plans for the invasion of Cuba. U.S. Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas, who argued against the operation, was invited to participate at the meeting, which also included Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and three members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The meeting ended at 8:18 pm with Kennedy approving the mission. Also on April 5, Singer Barbra Streisand made her national television debut, as a guest on Tonight Starring Jack Paar. In TV listings, both of her names were misspelled, as "Barbara Strysand". On April 6, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill authorizing the construction of the World Trade Center and a rehabilitation of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (H & M RR). The original plan for the WTC called for construction of several buildings in the east side of Manhattan, near the Brooklyn Bridge, the two tallest being 72 stories and 30 stories. New Jersey, which shared the Port Authority with New York, protested the location and the site was relocated to Manhattan's west side, where the H & M's office buildings stood. This post has been edited by diva thin muffin: 12th September 2020, 10:55 PM


dandy* View member profile	12th September 2020, 09:25 PM Post #70
Mansonette Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 35,301 User: 54	I can’t say I overly care for much so far but I do have to mention that I’m loving the presentation of all of this, the effort is great!


diva thin muffin View member profile	12th September 2020, 10:16 PM Post #71
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	QUOTE(dandy* @ Sep 12 2020, 09:25 PM) I can’t say I overly care for much so far but I do have to mention that I’m loving the presentation of all of this, the effort is great! Aww thank you! Presentation matters to me, I wanna enjoy reading this back later on and I’m obsessed with history these days so 😅


diva thin muffin View member profile	12th September 2020, 11:23 PM Post #72
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0030 \| 07 THE SHIRELLES Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 3irmBv8h4Tw No. 1 Run: 7 April, 1961 - 4 May, 1961 (4 weeks) .........UK Chart Peak: #4 (15 weeks on chart) .........US Chart Peak: #1 (19 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: November 1960 on Scepter .........Sales: 840k (est.) The trend of big selling number ones continues as we see another platinum selling song outsell the current leader and spend a few weeks at the top, the third one of the year as we slide into the start of summer 1961. The Shirelles released this absolute classic gem in late 1960 and it managed to reach number one in the US in 1961 and I can understand why. While it's very much in line with what was popular at the time, this song still manages to stand out of the crowd like a sore thumb. The Carole King penned song (which was released as a single by King herself some 10 years later) and its heartbreaking lyrics were introduced to us by The Shirelles which consisted of four girls who were schoolmates in Passaic, New Jersey. This was additionally the first song ever to reach number one in the US that was performed by a black all-girl group. This is just splendid. While "Will You Still Love Me" was on top for a few weeks a lot of things happened. On April 8, Shortly after 4:00 am, the British passenger ship MV Dara exploded off Dubai. In the fire and in panic during the rescue, 238 passengers and crew died, while another 565 were rescued. The ship sank two days later while being towed. A British Admiralty court concluded a year later that an anti-tank mine, "deliberately placed by a person or persons unknown", had "almost certainly" caused the explosion. On April 9, Eight days before the scheduled invasion of Cuba, the CIA learned that the Soviet Union was aware that the attack would take place on the 17th. Even with the secret compromised, the CIA elected not to call off the operation nor to alert the participants. The information would not be made public until 39 years later, with the declassification of the Taylor Commission report. On April 11, The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem. Eichmann, accused of more than six million murders, was found guilty on August 14, and hanged on May 31, 1962. On April 12, At 2:07 p.m. local time (9:07 a.m. Moscow, 0607 UTC and 1:07 a.m. in New York), Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched from Baikonur, in the Kazakh SSR on the Vostok 1 rocket, and became the first human being to go into outer space. Gagarin made one orbit of the Earth before re-entering, and landed at 10:55 a.m., 15 miles southwest of the city of Engels in Russia's Saratov Oblast. From April 15 to April 19, the Bay of Pigs invasion is set in motion, takes place and eventually fails. Fidel Castro announces on April 20 that the Bay of Pigs Invasion has been defeated. On April 17, At the 33rd Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Bob Hope, the award for Best Picture went to The Apartment, for which Billy Wilder won Best Director. Burt Lancaster won Best Actor (for Elmer Gantry), Elizabeth Taylor Best Actress for Butterfield 8. On April 23, Judy Garland performed a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City, receiving a standing ovation as she arrived on stage, and five minutes of cheering. Variety critic Gordon Cox Tom Moon described the event as "the greatest night in show business history". The live performance was recorded as a Grammy award-winning and bestselling album, Judy at Carnegie Hall. On April 29, Luciano Pavarotti, a 25-year-old tenor from Italy, made his operatic debut, as Rodolfo in a production of La bohème at Reggio Emilia.


Popchartfreak View member profile	13th September 2020, 09:32 AM Post #73
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,821 User: 17,376	Two top-notch all-time classics there. I didn't know At Last until the 90's but it topped my chart at the first opportunity, it's just brilliant. I knew The Shirelles song as a kid, and liked it, and love Carole King still. The version I knew best was by Melanie in 1974, but it's pretty much a song that is hard to ruin in any cover. The original has the period charm though. Chris Meloni in prison-drama Oz, well-worth googling photos if anyone is partial to mature fit men great actor too, always good.


King Rollo View member profile	13th September 2020, 10:34 AM Post #74
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 3 January 2017 Posts: 10,155 User: 23,961	Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow is a classic. I know At Last for Jeff Lynne's version from his Long Wave album which consisted of covers of songs he listened to on the radio when he was growing up.


diva thin muffin View member profile	13th November 2020, 06:45 PM Post #75
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0031 \| 08 CONNIE FRANCIS Where The Boys Are cqgl0VRJW0E No. 1 Run: 5 May, 1961 - 11 May, 1961 (1 week) .........UK Chart Peak: #5 (14 weeks on chart) .........US Chart Peak: #4 (15 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: January 1961 on MGM Records .........Sales: 325k (est.) Connie manages to grab a third number one, giving her the lead as the artist with the most songs at the top of my chart so far. This song's melody is very reminiscent of "Blue Velvet" actually in a nice way. Her vocals are sweet and calming to listen to and this is just really beautiful. She only stuck around on top for one week though as there were a couple of worthy songs roaming around the higher echelons of the chart at the time but one song that Connie managed to keep from ever getting to #1 was Patsy Cline's "I Fall To Pieces" which peaked at #2. "Where The Boys Are" is a love song written by chart alum Neil Sedaka along with a man called Howard Greenfield, and was written as the title track for the 1960 movie of the same name in which Connie was co-starring. Sedaka later said that this is the only song out of over a 700 that he's written that he did not write with himself singing it in mind. While "Where The Boys Are" was on top for a week a few things happened. On May 5, at 9:34 am, Alan Shepard became the first American in space as Freedom 7 lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Shepard's rocket, first of the Mercury program, reached an altitude of 115 miles without achieving orbit, and was recovered 19 minutes later by the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain. On May 6, Tottenham Hotspur F.C. defeated Leicester City 2-0 in the 1961 FA Cup Final before a crowd of 100,000 at Wembley, becoming the first team in the 20th century to win the English League and Cup double. As of 2020, this is the last time Tottenham have won the English League. Also on May 6, American actor George Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He rose to fame after starring in the medical drama series ER and later appeared in movies such as Ocean's Eleven, Syriana and Up in the Air among others. On May 7, China's Prime Minister Zhou Enlai telephoned Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong after a tour in Handan County, Hebei Province, of rural villages affected by malnutrition and famine during the "Great Leap Forward" campaign of 1958 and brought an end to the practice of feeding people through inefficiently-operated collective dining halls. Beginning in June, people were allowed to produce their own food rather than having all resources limited to the village "mess halls". Also on May 7, the Soviet Union restored capital punishment for embezzlement of public property. Legal execution had been abolished for all purposes on May 26, 1947, but was gradually introduced for various crimes starting in 1950. Females were exempt from the death penalty under any circumstances, as were men who had reached the age of 60 by the time of their sentencing. On May 8, Briton George Blake was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying. On May 10, Air France Flight 406 crashed in the Sahara Desert while en route from Bangui to Marseilles. All 79 persons on board (69 passengers and the crew of 10) were killed when the Super Constellation crashed. This post has been edited by diva thin muffin: 13th November 2020, 06:47 PM


diva thin muffin View member profile	13th November 2020, 07:03 PM Post #76
BuzzJack Platinum Member Pronouns: he/him Joined: 20 January 2011 Posts: 5,907 User: 12,837	0032 \| 09 DEL SHANNON Runaway 0S13mP_pfEc No. 1 Run: 12 May, 1961 - 18 May, 1961 (1 week) .........UK Chart Peak: #1 (22 weeks on chart) .........US Chart Peak: #1 (17 weeks on chart) .........Release Date: February 18, 1961 on BigTop Records .........Sales: 290k (est.) Del Shannon, born Charles Weedon Westover, was an American rock 'n roll country musician born in Michigan and "Runaway" was his debut hit and he managed to top not only the UK and US chart with this but obviously also my chart in what I think is the first so far song to top both the US and UK chart and also mine! This is a really fun track and especially the instrumental is quite unique. This was his only ever chart topper in both of those main territories but only time will tell if the same goes for my chart. Now as you may have noticed I am talking about Charles in the past tense as he sadly took his own life in 1990 after battling with depression for a while. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 9 years later. I admittedly had never heard of Del Shannon prior to making this list and I actually thought this was a band until reading up on the fella, but he seemed like an alright guy and I quite enjoyed this track even if I only had one week to spare for it to take the top spot. While "Runaway" was on top for a week a few things happened. On May 12, a brush fire in Hollywood, California, destroyed 24 houses, including the home of author Aldous Huxley, who lost almost all of his unpublished manuscripts and works in progress. Also on May 12, Tony Bettenhausen, 44, American racecar driver and USAC driving champion for 1958, was killed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway while testing the car to be driven by his friend Paul Russo in advance of the 1961 Indianapolis 500. "Failure of a 10-cent bolt led to the death of the full time farmer and part time race driver," a UPI report would note the next day. As Bettenhausen entered a turn, the bolt fell off of the car's front rod support and "permitted the front axle to twist, thereby misaligning the front wheels", according to the U.S. Auto Club's report. The vehicle veered into the outside retaining wall at 145 m.p.h., "climbed over it, upside down, and tore through an 8 foot high wire fence", bursting into flames on impact. On May 13, Gary Cooper, 60, American film star, died of colon cancer at his home in Bel Air in California. Cooper had won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for Sergeant York in 1942, and for High Noon in 1952. On May 16, a military coup in South Korea overthrew the government of Prime Minister Chang Myon (John M. Chang) and President Yung Po Sun. At 3:30 in the morning local time, Republic of Korea forces led by Lt. Gen. Chang Do Yung seized control of police barracks and government offices in Seoul and other cities, then announced the takeover at 6:00 a.m. General Park Chung Hee, Deputy Commander of the ROK Second Army, soon took over as the new President. General Carter B. Magruder, Commander of the U.S. 8th Army and highest ranking American officer in Korea, declared American support for the Chang regime, but U.S. forces did not intervene during the tumult. On May 17, the first fatality in the history of Little League Baseball occurred during an evening game in Temple City, California. Nine-year-old Barry Babcock was struck in the chest by a pitched ball, with impact above his heart, and collapsed and died from a cardiac dysrhythmia. One week later, the second fatality in Little League baseball took place when ten-year-old George McCormick, of Park Ridge, Illinois, was struck in the head by a batted ball during practice. Also on May 17, Irish singer and composer Eithne Pattricia Ní Bhraonáin, better known by her stage name Enya, was born in Gweedore, County Donegal. Also on May 17, calls for help from an unnamed, unrecognized Soviet spaceship were (supposedly) received at the Torre Bert listening station by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers. This post has been edited by diva thin muffin: 13th November 2020, 07:04 PM


Popchartfreak View member profile	14th November 2020, 04:16 PM Post #77
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,821 User: 17,376	Connie Francis is always sweetly wholesome, but Del Shannon was the bees-knees for a while, starting with the fab Runaway, another big advance in pop sound, still love it. Funny Rollo mentioning Jeff Lynne, Jeff produced his last album just before he died (it was released posthumously) and I bought the single he wrote with Del & Tom Petty, Walk Away, before he killed himself and which sadly wasn't a hit.