DanChartFan

The One Week Wonders - Episode 96 First up we have the 4th and last Uk charting single from Unit Four Plus Two, Baby Never Say Goodbye, which was at #49 on w/e 17th March 1966. Their second single, Concrete And Clay, had reached #1. crxIMGlBDT4 Next is Ray Charles with Together Again, at #48 on w/e 21st April 1966. 0qKHM_oHJMg Finally we stay with the same week and move one place lower to #49 for Petula Clark's A Sign Of The Times. RaeKpFuLvIY

The One Week Wonders - Episode 95 We begin today with a woman called Barry! Bary St John to be precise who sings an anti-war duet called Come Away Melinda with a small girl. The song was Barry's only Uk charting single and was at #47 on w/e 9th December 1965. W6fnNOhtrs8 Next up are The Pretty Things with Midnight To Six Man which was at #46 on w/e 20th January 1966. w3qJ-KPlt4M Finally for this episode is Ray Charles with Crying Time, or to give the full credit, Ray Charles with The Jack Halloran Singers and the Ray Charles Orchestra with The Raeletts. Crying Time was at #50 on w/e 10th February 1966. faYXTndRasE

The One Week Wonders - Episode 94 We start with Roger Miller's Kansas City Star which was at #48 on w/e 21st October 1965. This was Roger's third charting single, and his first, King Of The Road, had been a charttopper. NBeXnzjvMrk From one Miller to another, this time Jody Miller, who was one place lower at #49 that week with her only Uk charting single Home Of The Brave. Dc5MAqcCJZ8 Finally for today we have the 3rd and final new charting single for Millie, who was at #48 on w/e 11th November 1965 with Bloodshot Eyes. Her first single was the #2 hit my Boy Lollipop, which did manage to also reach #46 in a re-issue in 1987. o68h5XJbWx8

The One Week Wonders - Episode 93 First up today we have the only week of UK chart action for The Birds (not to be confused with The Byrds), and Leaving Here, which was at #45 on w/e 27th May 1965. 5Qy2s87kpIA Next is the only week of chart action for The Cadets and Eileen Reid. Jealous Heart was at #42 on w/e 3rd June 1965. Connie Francis released a version in January 1966 which reached #44 and was her 24th and final UK charting single. 4lgvzpBq-Eg We could have been ending today's episode with Nina Simone's I Put A Spell On You, which had one week at #49 on w/e 5th August 1965, however it then reentered in January 1969, when it got as high as #28. Other versions of the song have faired better with The Alan Price Set reaching #9 in 1966, Bryan Ferry #18 in 1993, and Sonique #8 on her second try in 2000, two years after her first attempt to chart it. Annie Lennox also got to #63 with it in 2015. Seems a bit weird that Nina's sublime version is pretty well known, but there are 3 other versions that have charted higher than hers. Anyway we instead end with the only week of chart action for Spanish duo Johnny and Charley, and La Yenka, which was at #49 on 14th October 1965, and which apparently was a minor dance craze at the time. Maybe time to revive it to join the ranks of Macarena, Saturday Night and Cha Cha Slide in the cheesier nightclubs of a Saturday night? I know I'd have a go after a bevy or three.... _3WnFEjfVw4 PS: This slightly odd footage shows what the actual dance looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbCp_qZOCTw

The One Week Wonders - Episode 92 First up we have Heinz, or Heinz Burt to give him his full name, with Digging My Potatoes, which was at #49 on w/e 18th March 1965. It was Heinz' fifth and last UK charting single, and his most succesful had been his first, Just Like Eddie, which hit #5 in 1963. amLfQLEoJDs Next up is Quiet Five, with When The Morning Sun Dries The Dew, which was at #45 on w/e 13th May 1965. They had one other charting single, Homeward Bound, which reached #44 in April 1966. 2HFHRosGpsk Finally for this episode we have the In Crowd, who were having their only week of UK chart action on w/e 20th May 1965 at #48 with That's How Strong My Love Is. akMr6agQNbs

The One Week Wonders - Episode 91 We start with Ned Miller and Do What You Do Do Well, which was at #48 on w/e 18th February 1965. This was his second and last UK charting single, after the #2 hit From A Jack To A King two years previously to the week. PSvbV1pzYEs Next up is Frankie Vaughan and Someone Must Have Hurt You A Lot, which was at #46 on w/e 11th March 1965. Unfortunately I can't find any trace of it anywhere online, despite the vast number of other Frankie Vaughan tracks available on Youtube, Spotify and other sites. This is only the second single on this thread (after Mrs Mills Party Medley) that I haven't been able to link to, but I suspect it has to do with having reached the mid 1960s, and to do with copyright laws regarding recorded music. In the Uk, for all work published, or peformed to or communicated to the public, by 31st October 1963 the copyright period of 50 years has expired, and the same applies to all unpublished music recordings made prior to the same date. Things are different though for music recorded after that date, or recorded before that date but published after it (provided the publication was within 50 years of the recording date) as there was a change in law on 1st November 2013 that extended their copyright's to 70 years instead of 50, meaning that a few episodes back we moved from music that was out of copyright and in the public domain, and so was easy to find on youtube and streaming sites, to music that is for the most part still under copyright for many years to come, and can therefore only be found online if the copyright holder allows it to be. I hope the majority of songs on this thread will still be findable, but if I had to guess I think we'll have the biggest problem between the late 80s and early 00s, when the number of new entries per week was much higher, so there are many more obscure songs in the first place, and independent labels were behind a fair few of them which also doesn't help, and then once we enter the digital era of the late 00s on I expect it will be less of a problem again as the majority of tracks will then have been licensed with digital methods of distribution in mind from the outset, but we shall see. At this point we could have been finishing this episode with My Girl by The Temptations, had it not been for the cinematic success of Macaulay Culkin and Anna Klumsky's film of that name, which led to the Temptations single being reissued in 1992, when it reached #2. Originally it had had one week at #43 on w/e 18th March 1965. Sticking with the same chart week, but moving down to #48 we instead find The Zephyrs only week of UK chart action with She's Lost You. 5CrCHofo85I

The One Week Wonders - Episode 90 First up its Marvin Gaye's second UK chart hit, and his first truly solo, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), which was at #49 on w/e 10th December 1964. jX4cO5njMxQ Next we have pianist Mrs Mills, with Mrs Mills Party Medley, featuring two medley's of three songs, which was at #50 on w/e 31st December 1964, a chart week that was only published in Record Mirror, (who always published the Record Retailer chart by this point) and not by Record Retailer, and so was missed by early editions of Guinness British Hit Singles, and by many other chart books, meaning Mrs Mills one week wonder gets forgotten about in many sources. The A-side was a medley of You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It), Shine On Harvest Moon and I Didn't Want To Set The World On Fire. Unfortunately, though admittedly appropriately for a chart single that was nearly forgotten about, I can't find the precise medley on youtube, or anywhere else on line, but have instead found separate recordings of the first two tracks. If anyone can find an online source for the original medley then do let me know. HuP6ZsVOMpU acqcKCGzR_Q Finally for this episode we have the first UK charting single for The Peddlers, Let The Sunshine In, which isn't the song from Hair, but a different song with the same title. It was at #50 on w/e 7th January 1965. They would have to wait until 1969 and 1970 for their other two chart hits, Birth (#17) and Girlie (#34) respectively. Guinness says that the Milk And Sugar track of the same name which reached #18 in 2003 was a version of the Peddlers song, but after listening to it I suspect it is actually based on the other song, the one from Hair. MLTmRBi-hbI And now I'm nearly caught back up to where I wanted to be by this date in the first place. When I uploaded the first few posts on this thread in late October and early November it was suggested I do one three song episode a night, which began to be my plan with episode 7 on 3rd November, so by my reckoning today (26/1) should have been episode 91, which will appear this evening. From now on I aim to return to one episode per evening, and to stick to that more reliably than I have managed over December and January. The original idea was to introduce us all to the singles over the years that were good enough to get into the chart in the first place, yet obscure enough to get only one week on chart and then disappear. A voyage of discovery, if you will, through a lot of old music we may otherwise not have heard. I feel that part of that journey is discussing what we think of the songs we've discovered, so I am always interested to hear any views any of you may have. I know I don't tend to say my own views in this thread, as I feel as host I ought to remain fairly neutral and present all the singles equally for my readers/viewers to decide how they feel about them, but perhaps I'm wrong to think that, maybe. In any case I, and the other contributors so far, don't usually bite, so don't be shy... join in and help make this voyage even better for everyone on it. Enjoy your Sunday afternoon, and see you this evening for Episode 91!

The One Week Wonders - Episode 89 First up we have ol' blue eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, with Hello Dolly, which was at #47 on w/e 24th September 1964. The song was taken from the stage musical of the same name, which had debuted in the US in November 1963, although the London production of the show didn't begin until December 1965. Other versions of Hello Dolly to chart in the UK in 1964 where by Frankie Vaughan (#18), Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen (#30) and Louis Armstrong (#4). There was also a version by the Bachelors which reached #38. fJsbJvNfwl8 Next up is the UK chart debut of The Rockin' Berries, with I Didn't Mean To Hurt You, which was at #43 in w/e 1st October 1964. H1KFiuCN6pY And finally for this episode we have Lulu with Here Comes The Night, which was at #50 on w/e 12th November 1964. It was her second UK charting single after the #7 hit Shout. In early 1965 The Them, led by Van Morrison, took the song to #2. GTUbVC9YpOE

The One Week Wonders - Episode 88 We start this episode with the 9th and last UK charting single by Johnny Kidd and The Pirates, Always and Ever, which was at #46 on w/e 30th April 1964. After this The Pirates went their separate ways from Kidd, whilst Kidd continued to perform with various sesssion musicians backing him. At some point in 1966 a new backing band was put together, named the New Pirates, and they and Kidd continued to perform live gigs and began to get a new following. The word was that they were on the verge of a comeback. On 7th October 1966 they were due to perform at The Imperial Bolton, but the gig was cancelled at short notice. Johnny and his bassist, Nick Simper, were travelling back from this cancelled gig when the car they were in was involved in an accident, crashing head-long into another vehicle on the A58 near Bury. Nick received some minor injuries and a broken arm, but was able to return to performing after a period of recovery. Sadly Johnny was killed in the crash, he was just 30 years old. The New Pirates continued in his memory for a while, but separated in May 1967. SaXvg1eLl3k Next we have the UK chart debut of Motown legend Marvin Gaye, as well as the second UK charting single for Mary Wells, who had just had a UK #5 and US #1 with My Guy. This is Once Upon A Time which was at #50 on w/e 30th July 1964. ijPtJ39CTh0 Finally for this episode we have the only UK chart hit for Denny Seyton and The Sabres, The Way You Look Tonight, which was also a #36 hit around this time for The Lettermen. A version by actor Edward Woodward reached #42 in 1971. Denny's version was at #48 on 17th September 1964. QxxX5pbf0JE

The One Week Wonders - Episode 87 First up at #49 on w/e 20th February 1964 we have the 9th and last uk charting single for John Leyton, Make Love To Me, which had previously been a #8 hit for Jo Stafford in 1954. ml69k3xcF2E Next is a version of Anyone Who Had A Heart, which was a charttopper around this time for Cilla Black, and also reached #42 for Dionne Warwick at this time. This version is by Mary May, whose real name was Lily Sanderson if one of the commenters under this video is to be believed. This was #49 on w/e 27th February 1964. u8h2ng0Lui4 Finally for this episode is Just A Little Bit by The Undertakers which was at #49 on w/e 9th April 1964. This was the groups only UK charting single. K4IwJvtPAlI

The One Week Wonders - Episode 86 We start in the same chart week that the last episode ended, but one place lower at #49 with Duane Eddy and The Rebelettes and You're Baby's Gone Surfin' which charted almost 5 years to the day after his debut single, Rebel-Rouser, had done. This was also the last charting single of his original run, though he did chart twice more in later year, reaching #9 in 1975 with Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar, and #8 in 1986 with a re-recording of 1959 hit Peter Gunn. iAtXQzm7Gag Next up is a US number one that amazingly had only one single week in the UK chart's at #50 on w/e 3rd October 1963. It's The Angels with My Boyfriend's Back. 5NuofNHKbVc Finally for this episode we have the only week of UK chart action for Tony Sheveton with A Million Drums at #49 on w/e 13th February 1964. e9mPcQUCzDI

The One Week Wonders - Episode 85 First up we have producer Mickie Most, with a solo single as an artist prior to becoming a highly successful producer. The single, Mr Porter, was at #45 on w/e 25th July 1963. nZJX29y1YNo Next up is Swedish vocalist Alice Babs with After You've Gone, which was at #43 on w/e 15th August 1963. Although many version of After You've Gone have been recorded over the last century or so since the first version was recorded by Marion Harris in 1918, Alice's version is the only one to have ever reached the UK singles chart. IwRw7MQx4fE Finally for this episode is return to the charts for its first charttopper, Al Martino, who we last saw in the charts, and this thread, in 1960, when he charted with Summertime. Now he was charting at #48 on w/e 29th August 1963 with I Love You Because, a song taken to #5 the following year by Jim Reeves. Al would reach the UK charts one last time when he scored a #5 hit in 1973 with Spanish Eyes. zKzUDw9_ygo

One more for today I think, then I may well try to do the same number of episodes again tomorrow to be fully caught up. The One Week Wonders - Episode 84 First up we have a temporary return to the UK chart for Johnny Mathis, who was last seen in the charts in early 1961 with the #9 hit My Love For You, and wouldn't hit the charts again until the #10 hit I'm Stone In Love With You in January 1975. This is What Will Mary Say, which was at #49 on w/e 4th April 1963. OQ9BK5eKcsY Next up we have Tony Sheridan and The Beatles with My Bonnie. This was Tony Sheridan' only UK charting single, and the only one of The Beatles' many hits to be a one week wonder. It was at #48 on w/e 6th June 1963. pBhqy07_KWw And finally for this episode we have The Isley Brothers with Twist And Shout, their debut on the UK charts, which was at #42 on w/e 25th July 1963. Other versions of Twist And Shout that have charted were by Brian Poole and The Tremeloes (#4 in 1963), Salt-n-Peppa (#4 in 1988) and Chaka Demus and Pliers (#1 in 1993). M7xKa6RV0t4

The One Week Wonders - Episode 83 First up we have Johnny Kidd and The Pirates with their first charting single since we saw them with Linda Lu in April 1961. A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues was at #48 on w/e 10th January 1963. tKh8uQ_2rAA Next we stay with the same chart week and move down to #50 to find the only week of UK chart action for The Cookies with Chains. yyWBAZR_C2c And finally for this episode we have Tell Him by The Exciters, which was at #46 on w/e 21st February 1963. The Exciters had to wait just over 12.5 years for their only other UK charting single, Reaching For The Best which hit #31 in late 1975. Tell Him was also a hit for several other acts and artists, Billie Davis (#10 in 1963), Hello (#6 in 1974) and comedy actresses Quentin and Ash (#25 in 1996). As for The Exciters version we have something particularly interesting to watch here, as I'm fairly sure it's the first proper music video we've seen, as opposed to liver performance footage from tv shows, or footage taken from feature films. Strictly speaking it's actually a Scopitone, a 16mm film made for a type of jukebox with a moving picture component, they were made in Technicolour with a hifi magnetic soundtrack. Scopitones had begun a few years before in France, then spread to Germany, before arriving in England around 1962/3, so this would be one of the first ones made for an English language single. ah-tui1ubnU

The One Week Wonders - Episode 82 We start this episode with a prolific producer, writer, and composer of TV theme tunes, Tony Hatch, who amongst many others composed the original themes for Crossroads, Emmerdale Farm and Neighbours. In this instance he was at #50 on w/e 4th October 1962 with the theme to the ABC sci-fi series Out Of This World, which featured introductions from Boris Karloff, and ran for 13 episodes in 1962 (technically 14 episodes if you count the fact that the week before it started Armchair Theatre aired an episode that had been made for Out Of This World, as a way to promote the new series). This is the only time Tony Hatch appears on a UK charting single as the named artist (albeite leading an orchestra), though he wrote and/or produced many many more. 2YrNyqmBGCE Next up is The Big 'O', Roy Orbison, with Working For The Man, which was at #50 on w/e 8th November 1962. cNzGoT5bYYs And finally for this episode we revisit one we previously saw in the Christmas special a few weeks. Connie Francis was at #48 on w/e 20th December 1962 with I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter. EPDzohv_VVo

I've just found their wikipedia article (didn't realise Vernons had an 's' on the end) and apparently they were a group of women who worked at Vernons Pools in Liverpool, so perhaps them sounding ordinary was part of the appeal to those who bought their records. To be honest I wasn't even sure the song was entirely in tune, but thought maybe they were just going for a different key or a different tone to the Little Eva and Kylie Minogue versions I'm used to.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 81 First up we have the Vernon Girls with The Locomotion, at #47 in w/e 6th September 1962. Other versions that have charted are by Little Eva (#2 1962), Dave Stewart (#70 1986) and Kylie Minogue (#2 1988). 0GR2jJrkgeY Next, at #48 on w/e 27th September 1962, we have The Fentones with The Breeze And I, which had been a #5 hit for Caterina Valente in 1955. This was the last of The Fentones six charting singles, four of which were with Shane Fenton. ruovGKAOk_o And from one instrumental to another we end this episode with the George Shearing Quartet with Baubles Bangles And Beads, which was at #49 on w/e 4th October 1962. George Shearing's only other charting single was Let There Be Love which reached #11 earlier in 1962. KoR5R49TPfA

The One Week Wonders - Episode 80 First up for this episode are Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell, real names Ernest Evans and Robert Ridarelli, with Teach Me To Twist, in which Bobby asks Chubby to teach him, and Chubby does so. It was Chubby's 5th UK charting single (4 of which were tied to the Twist dance craze), his biggest having been the #2 hit Let's Twist Again. For Bobby it was his 6th single, his biggest to that point having been his debut, Wild One, which reached #7. Bobby's only charting singles after this were another duet with Chubby, Jingle Bell Rock, which reached #40 over Xmas 1962, and, as a soloist, Forget Him which reached #13. Chubby had three more minor hits by the end of 1963, in addition to Jingle Bell Rock, plus a reissue of Let's Twist Again and The Twist which hit #5 in 1975. He also saw a brief revival alongside the Fat Boys with a reworked version of the Twist which got to #2 in 1988. Teach Me To Twist was at #45 on w/e 19th April 1962. yFCnrbIbXDk This is followed by the first of only two UK charting singles in the 60s for Patsy Cline, real name Virginia Hensley. She's Got You was at #43 on w/e 26th April 1962. This was followed up with Heartaches, which reached #31 towards the end of 1962. On March 3rd 1963 Patsy appeared in a benefit concert in Kansas City, for DJ 'Cactus' Jack Call who died in a car crash about a month before. The following day she was unable to fly home due to foggy conditions. On March 5th she boarded a private plane with fellow performers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, who had also been on the bill for the benefit gig, as well as manager Randy Hughes who piloted the plane. The plane stopped at one point in Missouri, then at 5pm landed at Dyersberg Airport, Tennessee. The airfield manager at Dyersberg advised them to stay the night there, because of high winds, even offering them free rooms and meals, but Hughes responded 'I've already come this far. We'll be there before you know it.'. They took off from Dyersberg at 6:07pm. The plane crashed nose first in a forest in Camden, Tennesee that evening, killing all on board. Patsy's watch was later discovered to have stopped at 6:20pm. Many years later, in 1990, a reissue of her most famous song, Crazy, reached #14 in the UK chart, and another single, the somewhat uncomfortably named (given her cause of death) I Fall To Pieces, also got to #87. owNATIdymvs Finally for this episode the third and final UK charting single for Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans Jazzmen, Tavern In The Town, at #49 on w/e 3rd May 1962. Their previous hits were True Love (#33) and King Kong (#29), both in 1961. Tavern In The Town was from the recent movie It's Trad Dad!, and their performance from that film can be seen in this video. gjgVY2vQumU

Apologies for taking another unexpected week off, but I'm going to resume again now. Rather than trying to do triples again for several days until I catch up to where I would have been (24th Jan should be Episode 89 if I'd stuck to one a day), I think I will just see how many episodes I can get through today. The One Week Wonders - Episode 79 First up at #50 on w/e 22nd February 1962 was Tommy Bruce with Babette. Tommy Bruce had had two singles in the charts in 1960, as part of Tommy Bruce and the Bruisers, Ain't Misbehavin' which reached #3, and Broken Doll which only got to #36. Babette was his last UK charting single. HthebGZNKl8 Next at #43 on w/e 8th March 1962 was Emile Ford, now solo, but a former charttopper alongside his Checkmates, with What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For. This was his 8th and last UK charting single, spanning a period of 2.5 years. rP-S5wUR4m8 We then skip over Buddy Holly's Listen To Me, at #48 on w/e 15th March 1962, as this was a reissue of a single that had charted back in March 1958. Instead we end this episode a version of Jamabalaya by Fats Domino which was at #41 on w/e 29th March 1962. We saw Jo Stafford's version of the song back in 1952 (albeit as a two week wonder, due to the technicality of the repeated chart week), and the only other version that charted was the most famous version, by the Carpenters which spent 11 weeks on chart and peaked at #12. h4cbQ0vkZoM

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 76, 77 & 78 First today is Al Saxon, real name Allan Fowler, with There I've Said It Again, which was at #48 on w/e 7th September 1961. A version by Bobby Vinton released in 1963 reached #34 in the UK and #1 in the US. B3Wg4o-ryDU Then a week later at #50 was Linda Scott with Don't Bet Money Honey, the follow up to her #7 hit I've Told Every Little Star, and her only other UK charting single. RgCSG3KrIcs Spending a week at #48 on w/e 19th October 1961 was Joe Loss with Sucu Sucu. There were four other versions of this in the charts in 1961, by Laurie Johnson (#9), Nina and Frederik (#23), Ping Ping and Al Verlaine (#41) and Ted Heath (#36) XoT0yfq6BQI A week later at #50 we find another instrumental, the Bobby Darin Orchestra with Come September, the theme from the movie of the same name, which starred Bobby. It was the movie where Bobby met his future wife, Sandra Dee, who played her usual innocent virginal character in this movie, and who I presume (though I'd never heard of her until just now) was the inspiration for the Grease song Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee. YRW05aAklGE Also at #50, but on w/e 2nd November 1961, were The Moontrekkers with yet another insturmental, Night Of The Vampire, their only week of UK chart action. C2pg1X0CR8M Moving on to w/e 26th November 1961 we have Fat Domino with What A Party at #43. AzMwynCqvkg Next up is a Belgium group called Les Chakachas who were at #48 in w/e 11th January 1962 with Twist Twist. They had to wait just over 10 years, until May 1972, for their only other UK charting single, Jungle Fever, which reached #7. hGowFGM_UD4 And the we have the Brook Brothers, Geoff and Ricky, with He's Old Enough To Know Better, which was at #37 on w/e 25th January 1962. We won't see another One Week Wonder within the Top 40 now until 1969! TEQ0x4igyMk Finally for this triple episode we have the only week of UK chart action for Brad Newman with Somebody To Love, which was at #47 in w/e 22nd February 1962. A version by The Jets reached #56 in 1982. nhwEvAeJu08

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 73, 74 and 75 First up today with the 8th and final UK charting single for guitarist Bert Weedon, who was at # 47 on w/e 4th May 1961 with Mr Guitar. OMNHigodJB4 Moving on one week we have The Velvets at #46 with That Lucky Old Sun. kzNDcC0I-wk And then after an 18 month absence from the charts it's the 27th and final single from four time charttopper Frankie Laine, who had been the most successful chart artist in the UK until a year or so before when Elvis shot past at a rate of knots (on his 8th number one at the date of this single's week in the charts). Gunslinger was at #50 in w/e 11th May 1961, and was the theme to a US TV series of the same name which was airing in the UK in spring 1961. rDLVa3g1m3M Onward to w/e 8th June 1961, where Jimmy Crawford, real name Michael Lindsey, is at #49 with Love Or Money. There was also a version at about the same time by The Blackwells, which spent two weeks on chart, peaking at #46, as well as a version released by Billy Fury in 1982 which peaked at #57. Jimmy's only other UK charting single was I Love How You Love Me, which peaked at #18 later in the year. JC2_vYhbDBc The following that we have the second and last single from instrumentalists Nero and The Gladiators, who were at #48 on w/e 27/07/1961 with their version of 'I dovregubbins hall' or In The Hall Of The Mountain King. I'm going to guess that some of you will be thinking about a certain theme park after his this tune.... XKWXisFJmQs One place lower that week was Fats Domino with It Keeps Rainin', as song taken to #2 in 1993 by Bitty McLean (and I'll be honest I didn't know Bitty's was a cover until a second ago when I hit play on the video). qOwD_zz7dOE The on to w/e 17th August 1961 where Clinton Ford, real name Ian Stopford Harrison, was at #48 with Too Many Beautiful Girls. This was Clinton's second UK charting single after Old Shep which we saw on this thread back in 1959, and would go on to have two more, Fanlight Fanny (#22 in 1962) and Run To The Door (#25 in 1967). jDBliRBpmpQ And in the same week at 50 we find the only other UK charting single by The Velvets, namely Tonight (Could Be The Night). 1gyz90zCGUY Finally for today we have the only week of UK chart action for Joe Barry, with I'm A Fool To Care, which was at #49 on w/e 24th August 1961. QcriNmPyY-Q

There's U by Loni Clark which reached number 28 in 1994, and X by Snoop Dogg which reached number 14 in 2001. Outside of the Top 40 there are also I by Petey Pablo, O O O by Adrenalin M.O.D. and X by Warrior. I used Guinnes Hit Singles 17, so there's probably more in the 76-100 section 1983-2003, and others from 2004 onwards.

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 70, 71 & 72 We start today with Fools Rush In by Brook Benton, real name Benjamin Peay, which was at #50 on w/e 16th February 1961. In 1963 Rick Nelson took his version of this song to #12. Here's footage of Brook performing it. KCxWqh_C7OI Or hear the full single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qf6JiGS1iQ Moving on to w/e 23rd February 1961 we have the only week of UK chart action for the Packabeats, with an insturmental called Gypsy Beat. IPAZwlJNaM4 From one instumental to another, as Tony Osborne Sound ft Joanne Brown with The Man From Madrid, which one place lower at #50 in the same week. Tony Osbourne Sound had to wait 12 years for their second and last Uk charting single, The Shepherd's Song, which reached #46 in February 1973. b9jNbld2368 And making it a hat trick of instrumentals here's The Ventures with Ram Bunk Shush, at #45 in w/e 9th March 1961. This was their third charting single, after Walk Don't Run (#8) and Perfidia (#4). They had one more charting single to come, Lullaby Of The Leaves which reach #41 in May 1961. pgWIAuGbeIw Back in March 1960 Jim Reeves had his first charting single in the UK, He'll Have To Go which peaked at #12 and spent an impressive 31 weeks on the chart. A year on this is his second single to make the chart, Whispering Hope, which manages only a solitary week at #50in w/e 16th March 1961. eqwomT5YSiw In w/e 6th April 1961 Brenda Lee was at #47 with Emotions. Here she is performing it. hbWoSuxzLyM Or hear the full single here: Next up is Petula Clark with Something Missing, at #44 in w/e 13th April 1961. This was the follow up to her #1 hit Sailor, and was in turn followed up by the #3 hit Romeo. JX83npWTpUA And at #47 in the same week was Johnny Kidd and The Pirates with Linda Lu, their 5th charting single. They had a #1 in 1960 with Shakin' All Over, and wouldn't chart after this until January 1963, which we'll see in due course on this thread. UcIqwz2wgPc Finally for today we have the only week of UK chart action for Dick Charlesworth and his City Gents and Billy Boy, which was at #43 on w/e 9th May 1961. AxRk8TYK1hg

In that case I almost certainly heard it a few days ago in the latest episode of The Hard Sell by Applemask and Bob The Fish productions, a youtube series about advertising over the years, as the latest episode, tying into new year etc, was about weight loss foods (Weight Watchers, Lean Cuisine and Slim Fast). No wonder it seemed familiar then!

Looking at the Missing Charts book it shows him with only two charting singles in the pre-NME era charts calculated from order books. Hey Good Lookin' which peaked at #8 in 1951, and Half As Much which reached #23 in 1952. I just looked at his wikipedia page and apparently, amongst many other songs, he wrote Jambalaya, one of my favourite Carpenters songs, though the song was also recorded by Hank himself, and also charted by Jo Stafford in 1952 and Fats Domino in 1962. Hank's premature death from heart failure was on 1st January 1953, and the NME singles chart only began in November 1952, so that coupled with the fact there was limited unreleased material of his left at the time he died, with only five singles released after his death (in the US at least), probably explains why he never made the singles chart here. I'm going to have to listen to some of his songs now I think, as he seems like he must have been pretty influential given how many songs he recorded himself, and wrote for others.