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This week back in 1964 history was made with the Top 5 and the Beatles on the Billboard Hop 100

The likes of which had never happened before or even since.

They were released on 4 different record labels.

There were more lower down in the chart.

 

You can see the chart HERE

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Bloody hell! They were pretty popular then eh? Even just number 1 and number 2 is almost unprecented, I've never seen the entire top 5 all the same artist before!

 

A few fun things I noticed (my parents weren't even born when this chart came out):

 

*I had no idea The Shoop Shoop Song was a cover version until I clicked that link. I assumed Cher wrote it herself in the 1990s.

*I love the cheap cashins of bands recording songs called "A Letter to the Beatles" and "We Love the Beatles".

*The Pink Panther theme is in the charts!

Bloody hell! They were pretty popular then eh? Even just number 1 and number 2 is almost unprecented, I've never seen the entire top 5 all the same artist before!

 

A few fun things I noticed (my parents weren't even born when this chart came out):

 

*I had no idea The Shoop Shoop Song was a cover version until I clicked that link. I assumed Cher wrote it herself in the 1990s.

*I love the cheap cashins of bands recording songs called "A Letter to the Beatles" and "We Love the Beatles".

*The Pink Panther theme is in the charts!

 

:lol: Hard to believe that even Cher's cover was from 18 years ago now.

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:lol: Hard to believe that even Cher's cover was from 18 years ago now.

 

The original Betty Everett version peaked at UK#34 on re-release in 1968

 

There was also a UK cover in between by Linda Lewis from 1975 peaking at UK #6

 

It was written by Rudy Clark who's wrote many US hits but his other major UK was the 1987 UK#2 hit Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison

 

Here's the original Betty Everett version

 

Linda Lewis disco cover from 1975

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I don't know about the US Hot 100, but Cher's version of The Shoop Shoop Song was from the film Mermaids and charted in the UK in 1991 - I find it hard to believe that it would have charted at an entirely different point in the US. Her massive hit Believe was from the end of 1998 - perhaps you're getting it confused with that? :unsure:

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