Time Machine co-ordinates VIXXVII45511360

So today we home in on November 3rd, 1960- and for once, there's plenty going on!  Just a day ago, a London jury allowed Lady Chatterly's Lover to be sold at long last, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown premiered on Broadway;  tomorrow, the movie The Misfits finished filming- the last movie for stars Clark Gable (who died of a heart attack the next day) and Marilyn Monroe.  And today the Explorer 8 satellite went into orbit- an orbit it would maintain until March 28, 2012- just a bit shy of 52 years!

Not bad, but not a record- Vanguard 1 launched in March of '58 and is STILL in orbit!

And so is the Musical Tardis as we come to rest in 1960, where we find a 6D connection between Johnny Horton and Dwight Yoakam; the act that was named after a one-year old child- but not THIS one-

-a singer named "Ditta"- or maybe Lolita;  Bobby Darin's strange beast, and perhaps the beginning of a repeat of last year's amazing two song duel on the M10 by two new contenders!  Let's launch into this!


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One of the rare but not too rare occurrences on the M10 is two songs by the same act being back to back.  I went looking this up as I typed, and I found the following examples:

The first time was in April of 2016 when Nada Surf was 2 and 3 with Believe You're Mine and Cold To See Clear.

Then came Ruth B who was at 3 and 4 with Two Poor Kids and Superficial Love- and repeated that feat in various positions for three straight weeks!

In September of 2016, the Explorer's Club were 8 and 9 with Quietly and California's Calling You.

And the last time was in April this year when Melody's Echo Chamber met up at 9 and 10 with Crystallized and You Won't Be Missing That Part Of Me.

And this week, we have it happen again.  Dent and Frankie manage to stay in the countdown with Across The Multiverse- and Dent May comes in solo with his latest at #9:





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Today, I'd like to bring in Gary Troxel of the Fleetwoods to give out the Panel picks.  How are you today?

Oh, you know, retired, doing the hot rod thing...

Well, actually, I pulled you out of 1959, so you aren't doing that yet.

Really?  Oh, can we stop by my place and leave me a message?  There are a few things I'd like to tell Gretchen...

Uh, no... fixed point in time, collapsing the past, timey-whimey stuff, you know.

Crap.

So let me give you the list here so you can give us this week's candidates.  22 stations, 10 candidates this week.

Okay.  So first on the list, we have Kathy Young, with some help from the Innocents, with A Thousand Stars, which was in its second week on the chart at #68.

Then comes Ray Charles with Georgia On My Mind, the #3 this week.

Brenda Lee was at #2 with I Want To Be Wanted.  I shouldn't think that would be a problem.

Oh, Gary, aren't you the sweetest...

Yeah, ahem, next is Floyd Cramer with Last Date, which was at  #31...

Why, Gary, you're blushing!

Man, don't tell Jenifer, I'll be on the sofa...

I don't think you're married yet...

Oh, well then I guess it's all good!  Then comes Gary US Bonds- who was actually just going by US Bonds back then- with New Orleans at #35.  Sure a lot of down-chart votes!

Johnny Tillotson was at #10 with Poetry In Motion.

I'm gonna interrupt you here, Gary, to tell a little story about the next song.  It was Ruby Duby Doo, and a record exec named Paul Glass had heard it on a movie soundtrack and wanted to make a hit of it.  So he put together a studio band, which he credited as Tobin Matthews, after his one-year-old son, Tobin Matthew Glass.  Well, after it started charting, he realized he now needed a "real" Tobin Matthews, and held auditions.  A guy by the name of Willy Henson won the part, and spent his career being Tobin Matthews...

Which sounds a lot better than Willy Henson.

Werd.

Huh?

Never mind.

So anyway, Tobin/Willy is at #90 this week.  That's REALLY down-chart!

Next up is a little gal name of Edith Einzinger, from Austria.  She went by Ditta around the house, but once she became a recording act, they changed her name to Lolita.

Hmm.  Not what I was expec-

Steady, Gary.  Family show.

Um, right.  Anyway, she was on the charts with a German language hit which was Seeman, Deine Heimat Ist Das Meer...

"Tee hee, he said, 'seemen'..."

KNOCK IT OFF YOU TWO!  Gary, go ahead...

...which was titled in English Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea), and it was at #49 this week.

The Drifters (the real ones, not the Shadows from last week) were at #1 with Save The Last Dance For Me.

And finally, Joe Jones was at #4 with You Talk Too Much.

Alright Gary, great job!  Now as far as... eh?  Yes, Gary?

So where do I pick up my check?  Elvis told me you pay pretty good for these bits...

Elvis spends too much time around the Everly Brothers.  Anyway, four songs got more than two votes this week, and it was a close race until the winner broke away at the end.  So you get to choose from Brenda Lee, Johnny Tillotson, Kathy Young, and the Drifters- #s 2, 10, 1, and 69.



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Stat Pack this week:  #101 was Perfida by the Ventures, and old song that had amongst its tales to tell that Desi Arnaz once sang it in the 1941 movie Father Takes A Wife.

Desi hitting on Gloria Swanson between numbers.

The #60 in '60 was Bobby Darin with a tune called Somebody To Love.  Darin was changing up his style to hold on to the new teenage audience, and put out a drastic change of an lp called For Teenagers Only.  One reviewer kindly called it "a strange beast" and this lone single from it would crap out at #58 next week.

Speaking of crapping out, I only knew 14 this week- and most of them were in the top 15 or so...


And in the UK, that dastardly Elvis was on top with It's Now Or Never, which had spent its popularity here and was on its way down this week in America at #43.  In the meantime, OUR number one, Save The Last Dance For Me, was debuting on their chart at #39 (40-spot chart).


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So you may (if you had the same country music period as I did) know Dwight Yoakam's hit Honky Tonk Man, which hit #3 on those charts back in 1986.  The biggest hit made with this old song prior was by Johnny Horton in 1956 (when he took it to #9 country).  In between them was a dude by the name of Bob Luman.  A fellow that hit the country charts sporadically all the way to 1977, he redid the song in 1970, peaking on the country chart at#22.  On the pop charts, though, he only ever hit once- with a song written by Everlys songwriter Boudleaux Bryant.  And that song was at #5 this week, without a Panel vote- Let's Think About Living.


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And now, the M10.

Dent and Frankie, which you have already figured had to be at #10 or 8, were indeed at #10 in their 9th week with Across The Multiverse.

Darius Rucker peaked at 5, falls to 8 with Don't.

The Undercover Dream Lovers (which I may well be shortening to UDLs soon) move up 3 to #7 with Rewind.


Ducktails slide from 2 to 6 with the former top dog Light A Candle.

Nothing But Thieves do the one-notch-up thing to #6 with Broken Machine. 

Alvvays holds at #4 with Your Type.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers evacuating the top spot for the battle to come, slipping to #3 with Walls (No. 3).

Now a little history:  Just a bit more than a year ago, two songs made their debut on the M10.  Rapidly climbing, they would be #s 1 and 2 as of Pearl Harbor Day- and stay in those two spots for the next five weeks.

They were the Shacks and Strange Boy and Melody's Echo Chamber and I Follow You.  And history may be about to repeat itself with the two that just moved into the top two spots. 

Mo Kenney makes the move from #9 to #2 with Unglued.  And the new #1?

...the Derevolutions and Something Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And on the Panel vote?

Well, #1, the Drifters, got 13.6%...

#s 2 (Brenda Lee) and 69 (Kathy Young) got 18.2% each...

And the winnah, with 31.8% of the vote...

Johnny Tillotson with Poetry In Motion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Next week we enter 1961.... be there!