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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.

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 67, 68, and 69. We start today with the 19th and final UK charting single for David Whitfield, with a cover of I Believe, probably the biggest chart hits of the 1950s when Frankie Laine had released it in 1953. In fact David had also released a mono version of the song back then, but this was a new stereo mix with added harp and backing singers. David had last appeared in the chart (and on this thread) in August 1958. I believe spent one week at #49 on w/e 24th November 1960. mAMCqh5Z6TA We then skip over Andy Stewart's Donald Where's Your Troosers, which had a single week at #37 on w/e 15/12/1960, as a reissue in 1989 compehensively removed it from the One Week Wonders list, giving it 8 more weeks and a peak of #4. So instead our next song is Why Why Bye Bye by Bob Luman, which was the follow to his #6 hit, Let's Think About Living. Why Why Bye Bye was at #46 on w/e 15/12/1960 mWNgYbSuJvs Next up we have Jackie Wilson, or Jack Leory Wilson Jr to give him his full name. He was at #50 on w/e 22nd December 1960 with Alone at Last. This is the only time he appears on this thread, so I'm including a potted history here of his career and life. Incredibly he has only had seven different tracks in the UK charts, and three of those much later than the rock and roll era he was associated, but many reissues over the years have given him repeated success over the years with just a few song. At his point Jackie had had a #6 hit with Reet Petite in 1957, and a couple of smaller hits in 1958 and earlier in 1960. After this You're Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher hit #11 in 1969, and I Get The Sweetest Feeling hit #9 in 1972. In May 1975 a reissue of those last two songs reached #25. In September 1975 Jackie was one of the acts on Dick Clark's Good Ol' Rock 'N' Roll Revue, and was on stage performing 'Lonely Teardrops'. On singing the lyric 'My heart is crying' Jackie sank to the stage. The audience applauded, believing it to be part of the act, but when his fellow musicians stopped the music, and one of the Coasters rushed to resucitate him it became apparent he had in fact suffered a massive heart attack. The heart attack had caused a lack of Oxygen to his brain, and besides a brief period of apparent recovery in 1976, he spent the rest of his life in a semi-comatose state, until he died in January 1984 from pneumonia aged 49. He was said to be broke for much of his later life, due allegedly to his manager being unfair with his earnings, and was certainly broke at the time of his death, and so the music legend was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1987 a US radio station who had decided to do something about this was able to raise the funds to buy him a headstone. I'm not sure if it was part of the money raising initiative, or if that had simply raised his profile enough to cause a new demand for his records, but late 1986 had seen the re-release of Reet Petite, with a quirky clay-mation video, which would take that year's Christmas number one. In 1987 there were also re-reissues of I Get The Sweetest Feeling, and Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher And Higher), reaching #3 and #15 respectively. Finally, at the end of 1987 a previously uncharted track, Baby Workout, was also released, perhaps in an effort to secure him a second consecutive Christmas number one, but in the event it only reached #93 (and even then I think the 75-100 positions were compressed, so in a full chart it would have been lower). I think it's interesting that Jackie Wilson was a big legend of rock and roll, with a big voice and lungs, but at the same time had relatively few charting singles, and a career tragically cut short at the young age of 41. PPvfVRwQdVY I know I covered this next one in the Christmas special a couple of week's back, but in the interest of completion in the main run of episodes we have Tommy Steele's Must Be Santa at #40 on w/e 29/12/1960. kegSOr2FRlo Also on w/e 29/12/1960, at #42, we have Cleo Laine Let's Slip Away. Cleo's only other Uk charting single was the #5 hit You'll Answer To Me in 1961. HXRJfOxlSb0 And in w/e 05/01/1961 another version of Must Be Santa, by Joan Regan, at #42. 4tnDeKajoJc Next up we have the Olympics with I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, which was at #40 on w/e 19/01/1961. They had only other hit in the UK, Western Movies, which hit #12 in 1958, but a had a longer career in their native USA. 0xNYuOswSYQ Then we have Dion, who had previously spent two weeks at #28 in 1959 as part of Dion and The Belmonts, with the single A Teenager In Love, which was also a #2 for Marty Wilde and a #13 for Craig Douglas in the same year. Dion was now back with his first solo single, Lonely Teenager, which was at #47 on w/e 19/01/1961. He would go on to hit #11 later in the year with Runaround Sue, and #10 in 1962 with The Wanderer, which also reentered the top 20 in 1976. In 1989 he had one more charting single, King Of The New York Streets, which peaked at #74. 6YCbHgb8Ya8 Finally for today is the only week of UK chart action for Tommy Zang, with Hey Good Looking, which was at #45 in w/e 16/02/1961. I have to say this song seems to be so familiar to me, but there is no other version ever charted here, and Tommy Zang is obscure enough he doesn't even have a wikipedia page, so no idea where I've heard the song before. There is another single with the same title, by Bo Diddley, which hit #39 in 1965, but that seems to be a different song. uqRYYf8HrPo

I've just checked The Missing Charts by Steve Water, which are privately compiled charts for the UK covering 1940-1952, and using data from music companies' re-order sheets. It shows only four solo hits for Ella in that period, with none reaching the top 20. There is also a duet with Louis Jordan, Baby It's Cold Outside, which peaked at #18 in 1949, and two bigger hits when she was singing on Ink Spots records (which were vitrtually guaranted to hit top 10 anyway with or without her on them), Cow Cow Boogie (#3 in 1944) and a double a-side I'm Making Believe/Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (#9 in 1945).

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 64, 65 and 66 We start today with Bill Black's Combo with White Silver Sands, which was #50 in w/e 8th September 1960. -9Jx_ZUVHJo A week later at #44 was Paul Anka's Hello Young Lover, a song from the musical The King And I. sneHfOVmGbQ On w/e 29th September 1960 Frank Ifield charted his second single, Gotta Get A Date at #49. He next charted in 1962, when he began a run of 5 top 5 hits, four of which topped the charts. kD-au8oJT54 Next up on 6th October 1960 at #44 was Ella Fitzgerald's How High The Moon. The song was also a #33 hit for Gloria Gaynor in 1976. -cHYXaMCCIo or watch this slightly longer live version: Moving forward 3 weeks to w/e 27th October 1960 at #50 we find the lowest ranked of 5 versions of Never On Sunday to chart this year, by Chaquito, real name Johnny Gregory, which was at #50. There were also versions by Lynn Cornell (peaking at #30), Don Costa (#27), Makadopoulos and his Greek Serenaders(#36), and Manuel and his Music of the Mountains (#29). The song was the theme from the Greek rom-com film of the same name. x0NL_S8WLAQ We follow that with a posthumous one week wonder for rock and roll icon Eddie Cochran, with a week at #41 on w/e 3rd November 1960 with Lonely. Eddie had been trying to limit the amount of travel he untook for his work, following the fatal plane crash in 1959 that had claim three of his rock and roll friends, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, but had nonetheless accepted a UK tour. On the night of Easter Saturday April 1960 he had performed at Bristol Hipperdrome and was travelling through Chippenham (just up the road from where I am actually) in a taxi with his fiancee, songwriter Sharon Shelley, as well as tour manager Pat Thompson and fellow rock and roll star Gene Vincent. Just before midnight the taxi driver, David Harman, lost control at excessive speed and the vehicle crashed. At the moment of impact Eddie threw himself in front of his fiancee to protect her, she survived as a result, but when the door of the car popped open in the impact the momentum threw him out the door and he sustained fatal brain injuries. He was just 21. A couple of months later he reached number one for the only time, with Three Steps To Heaven. YNoWi-eMHMw Next up the only week of UK action for Italian singer Umberto Bindi, with Il Nostro Concerto at #47 on w/e 10th October 1960. Although this was his only charting single in the UK, one of his biggest singles elsewhere was Il Mio Mondo, which was covered by Cilla Black, as You're My World, and reached #1 in that version. grDlxUTKQt8 A week later Jimmy Jones, who had topped the charts earlier in the year with Good Timin', had a single week at #46 with Ready For Love. peJNnoOQgVQ And finally today at #47 in w/e 24th October 1960 was Joan Regan with One Of The Lucky Ones, her 10th of 11 singles to chart in the UK. CpqwUep7rbA

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 61, 62 and 63 We start with 'Uncle' Max Bygraves having a go at the Oliver! song Consider Yourself, which spent a week at #50 on w/e 28th July 1960 2uvDFWZWv84 Next up is Steve Perry's on week of UK chart action, with Step By Step at #41 in w/e 4th August 1960 Usy5fvYJzmM And on another week to w/e 11th August 1960 at #43 we have Craig Douglas with Oh! What A Day, the only one of his 11 singles to miss the top 40. zDn_Xz_55kc Then staying with the same week, and moving down to #50, we have some early Motown in the form of Marv Johnson's Ain't Gonna Be That Way. Marv wouldn't reach the UK charts again until January 1969, when he took I'll Pick A Rose For My Rose to #10. mrwlRqJDTs0 We then take an instumental interlude with the theme from The Apartment, by Ferrante and Teicher, which was #44 on w/e 18th August 1960. The Apartment was a romantic film starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Ferrante and Teicher would have a much bigger hit in spring 1961, reaching #6 with theme from The Exodus. HVvw2ewFHrc In the same week, at #47 was Keith Kelly, real name Michael Pailthorpe, with his second and final Uk charting single, Listen Little Girl. GaGkgtlq_0g And also in the same week, at #49, was Steve Lawrence, real name Sidney Leibowitz, with Girls Girls Girls. I notice their have been at least 6 different singles in the UK charts with that name, all completely different songs. Steve was following up the #4 hit Footsteps, from earlier in 1960, and would go on to have a #3 hit in 1963, as part of Steve and Eydie, with I Want To Stay Here. FU_ifKnV13o Next up we have Hal Paige and The Whalers only week of UK chart action at #50 on w/e 25th August 1960. GXj1Tx4xxSU And we end today's triple episode with the last of ten singles for Michael Holliday, with Little Boy Lost at #50 in w/e 1st September 1960. 5f2bcGrXSLU

Let's have a triple episode to get things restarted as we return to the summer of 1960... Episodes 58, 59 and 60 We start with the fifth and final appearance on the list of Sammy Davis Jr, this time in duet with Carmen McRae. Happy To Make Your acquaintance spent a week at #46 on w/e 16th June 1960. p7IyXkbT4i4 Staying at #46, but moving forward a week to w/e 23rd June 1960, we have the only week of UK chart action for Jerry Wallace, with You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else. GRIlkOWCQNA And forward another week to w/e 30th June 1960, Jess Conard is debuting on the chart with a week at #39 with Cherry Pie. h3usTueYUrk And at #44 the same week was Bobby Rydell with Swinging School. DCQz6lehS9M Spending one week at #48 in w/e 7th July 1960 was Ricky Nelson with Young Emotions. The next time he would hit the UK charts would be in a years time, with the UK #2, and US #1, Hello Mary Lou. by7s9i9rKQ And at #49 on w/e 14th July 1960 was the John Barry Orchestra with Never Let Go, the theme to the movie of the same name, in cinemas at the time, about a stolen Ford Anglia, and featuring Peter Sellers in a rare straight role as a villain. UNTPl3flfQA Reaching #50 on w/e 21st July 1960 was Jimmy Clanton, who was experiencing his only week on the UK charts, with Another Sleepless Night. Nh_H7aSYYvc What to you get if you fuse a French singer, arabic culture, and early 60s pop music? You get this tripfest of a song. Spending their only UK chart week, at #43 on w/e 28th July 1960 were Staiffi and his Mustafas with Mustafa Cha Cha Cha. OucIFOpEbdI And to end this triple episode today we move 6 places down to #49 the same week, to find Johnny Preston singing I'm Starting To Go Steady. The song is actually the other side of Feel So Fine which entered the charts on w/e 11th August 1960 and peaked at #18, but the two sides weren't listed on the chart together so this side has but one week. b47Lkf8PAFw

Sorry, a couple of day's break from the thread for Xmas turned into a fortnight, but yes I do want to resume the thread soon. Perhaps later today. Part of me wants to catch up to where we would have been had I not taken an extended break, but that means either double episodes for a fortnight, or else one or two days in the next week or so where I churn out loads of episodes, and either way could be overkill I suppose. But at least one episode should appear this evening, I think, unless something unforseen gets in the way.

Firstly I'm not sure where you get the 10 pence figure for one stream of a track from (I assume that's what you mean), as streaming a single track once will earn the record company/artist etc far less than 10 pence. Secondly the 1/100 is the fraction of one sale that it counts as (i.e. they need 100 of those 1/100ths to be able to count as one sale) so it is not counting as one sale.

The One Christmas Week Wonders – The 2019 Xmas Special Christmas is coming, you've been preparing for it for a week, time for a xmas special from this amateur chart geek. Hope you’ve finished the xmas shopping, wrapped all your gifts, and remembered to defrost the turkey. Now pour your choice of festive spirit, grab a mince pie and enjoy a look at, and listen, to singles that spent a solitary week in the charts on the week of the Xmas chart (or sometimes the week before or after). We’ve already reached early 1960 on the thread, so I’ll start with Xmas 1960 and Tommy Steele’s Must Be Santa, which charted at #40 on w/e 29th December 1960. There was also a version by Joan Regan which had a single week on chart the following week at #42. kegSOr2FRlo Also from that week is Cleo Laine Let’s Slip Away which charted at #42. HXRJfOxlSb0 On w/e 20th December 1962, one week before the xmas chart, we find Connie Francis’ Warm This Winter charting at #48. I’ve heard this one on the radio quite a bit this year, and it turns out to be the xmas classic I didn’t know that I knew. H79-7rytoMI Charting for one week at #50 on w/e 31st December 1964 was Mrs Mills Party Medley, but I can’t find that precise recording on youtube, so here she is performing a rendition of the first song featured in that medley, You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want To Do It). ycwZCeeXwls Hitting the chart at #46 on w/e 29th December 1966 was Welsh singer Donald Peers, with Games That Lovers Play. Is it me or is this the same tune as Demis Roussos’ Ever And Ever? lcVf-byv6DQ At #47 on w/e 27th December 1967 was Gladys Knight and The Pips version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine. WWvwP72FuVg 1969 was the year of the first Official Christmas chart, compiled by BMRB, and on that w/e 27th December 1969 there was a one week hit for Moira Anderson with Holy City at #43. This week is typically repeated by chartologists to fill the gap caused by the following week’s chart not being compiled, so most chart books will say she had two weeks on chart. eC6p5L_WUZc We move forward now to w/e 1st January 1972, and to a somewhat forgotten Christmas classic, The Carpenters Merry Christmas Darling at #45. It went on to be included on a double a-side reissue with Close To You at Christmas 1990, reaching #25, but otherwise it would have remained a one week wonder as it has never returned to the chart in the download and streaming eras. lV5ENWOQ6d8 And on to w/e 23rd Deecember 1972. The following week was not compiled, and the w/e 6th January was a top 30 only, though the OCC has artificially filled in the 31-50 section on their website, so these two singles have ended up with three chart weeks for the price of one sales week, so to speak. The first will be something of a surprise I suspect, as #43 was The Jackson Five with Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town. It finally returned to the chart for a second genuine week on the w/e 4th January 2018, and then reached a new peak of #30 at xmas 2018, but prior to that it had only charted in one genuine sales week and only ever reached #43. e0LyEXXkqPE And down to #48 for Vicki Leandros’ The Love In Your Eyes. joQ5ofW2cSY Then we jump forward five years to w/e 24th December 1977. As with 1972 the following week was not compiled, and the week after that has an artificial 31-50, so again this single gets three weeks for the price of one. It’s Debbie Boone – You Light Up My Life at #48. b07-yKnKRMQ On 24th August 1980 Slade found themselves unexpectedly playing the 20th Reading Festival, after Gary Moore’s G-Force and Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard Of Oz had both pulled out of the line-up. It proved to be the stimulus for a revival of the band’s fortunes. The performance was recorded by the BBC, and Tommy Vance began to play the recordings on his show, creating a demand for them, so they were soon released on EPs. The first, Alive At Reading, entered the charts on w/e 18th October 1980, and peaked at #44. The second one was called The Xmas Ear Bender, which charted for one week on w/e 27th December 1980 at #70, and contained three more tracks, Merry Xmas Everybody, Okey Cokey and Get Down And Get On It. The third of those tracks was a genuine Reading performance, but Okey Cokey was their 1979 studio recording with an audience noise added to fit the other two tracks on the EP. Merry Xmas Everybody was a mere 40 seconds long, and was the result of the band challenging the crowd at Reading to sing the song. Yes they literally recorded their audience then sold the recording back to them! Anyway the chart books don’t bother to mention the EP, and merely list the entry as ‘Merry Xmas Everybody (re-recording)’, albeit credited to Slade and The Reading Choir (the latter being a jokey name for the crowd). ZMcoe-TKJfo We move onto w/e 24th December 1983, and a whole slew of new entries in the sub 75 portion of the first ever Christmas top 100. The w/e 31st December 1983 was the last time the chart went uncompiled, and so chartologists repeat this chart, making the next few singles technically two week wonders. First up we have Joe Fagin’s Breaking Away at #77. He would go on to have a #3 hit in 1984 with That’s Livin’ Alright. Both singles were taken from the TV series Auf Wiedersehen Pet. X6kzegfNzqc Next at #78 is Brendan Shine with Thank God For Kids. m6giBTtaLSM Bing Crosby was at #95 with White Christmas 1983, but I’m assuming that it’s still the same familiar recording, and that the chart company have tacked on the year for this particular reissue for some reason. So onto #97 and The Damned with There Ain’t No Sanity Clause. hhf2UAPYF2w At #98 was Slade with Cum On Feel The Noize 1983, but again that’s just a reissue of an old hit, so on to #99 and Men Without Hats – I Got The Message. oQ6gk0ka2IE And finally for the 1983 Christmas chart we have Hooray and The Henry’s All Stuck Up at #100, which is a comedy parody of Elvis’ All Shook Up, and many other songs, so see how many you can spot. soSdcYZ9Igg On w/e 29th December 1984 there was a one week wonder for Bouncing Czecks with I’m A Little Christmas Cracker at #72. 6aG682rd9qE Another comedy record spent it’s one week on chart on w/e 28th December 1985. It’s the papier mache headed Frank Sidebottom with Oh Blimey It’s Christmas. 8Ct-jO9Hvuo And the final one Christmas week wonder of the eighties is from Michael Crawford and the London Symphony Orchestra with their version of When You Wish Upon A Star at #97 on w/e 26th December 1987. b4cRh6A8RQ0 I’ve covered three decades worth of xmas one weekers now, and there’re three decades more to go, so I might do a second special just after xmas, or I might save it for next year’s special, assuming I’m still going with this project next year, as I should be somewhere in the 90s (I think?) by then if I am. Thank you everyone who has interacted in this thread so far, and also all of those who are content to read the episode without interacting. Hopefully as we move through time the singles will start to become more familiar and more people will have more to say about them, but I’ll probably plod on through them anyway even if not. May you all have a very cool Yule whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whoever you’re with, whatever you’re eating, and most importantly whatever music you are listening to. Merry Christmas!