Time Machine co-ordinates VIXXXII46012865

We slam into December 8th, 1965, and find:
-The UK now has the right to sue over discrimination (though apparently not going so far as to outlaw it);
- The USSR cordially invites India and Pakistan to Tashkent to try to settle their "little dust-up" in the Punjab;
-Pope Paul VI closes the Second Vatican Council, telling the assembled Bishops, "Go in peace, and do it quick!  My Three Nuns is on in a little bit and I got a pizza ordered.";
- Rhodesian strongman Ian Smith says, "I'm gonna discriminate, and I don't care IF you hit us with a trade embargo!  More jobs for white folks here!"
- A quarter million Russians "gathered" in Moscow to protest US involvement in Vietnam.  Did anyone show up 25 years later over Afghanistan?  Just askin';
-And finally, in the "wow, times change" moment for today, Iran and Saudi Arabia ink a "Islamic Pact for mutual protection."  Somewhere, a turbaned head just did a spit take.

"Sister Uncle Charlie, you did not shave again!  I'm telling Father Fred McMurray..."

And there you have it!  So we got a packed show this week, including the second-biggest candidate list in Panel history- bigger than the Democrats in '76!  And two features, two debuts, and something that has NEVER happened on the M10 before!  Could it be that Mo Kenney got that 5th week at the top- or something totally unexpected?  All that and Bobby Vinton too!

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First off, let me intro the features that are upcoming.  One involves a question I asked myself last week- what act has the most hits on the Cashbox end-of-the-year charts for the Martin Era 2.0?  I logged in the acts who hit the year end top ten the most often.  The second involved the question- what are the biggest ME2.0 girl group songs of all time?  This second question involved the 6D victim for the week, and 2 very different charts...

Now, you might ask- as I did- how it is that with THIRTY ONE candidates this week, how did the #7 song on Cashbox go without a Panel vote?  Well, I don't know... but what I do know is that it was the subject of a lawsuit by the Supremes!  Okay, okay, so I haven't told you what song we're talking about (I'll get to that later), and it was the record company, lawyers, et al, and not the girls themselves that sued.  But this particular song had a resemblance to a song called Ask Any Girl, which was on the B-side of the Supremes hit Baby Love.  That was one of several hits off the album Where Did Our Love Go, of which the album's title cut was named by a list of Billboard critics as the #4 girl group song of all time.  Naturally, I had to investigate.

So I found that they had two charts- one with the critics' picks of what were the most influential girl-group songs, and one with the actual chart performance winners!  So here, with where they placed overall, and a little * if they made both charts, are the top critics picks from the ME2.0 (or as normal people know it, 1955-76):

10- My Boyfriend's Back*, the Angels- 24th on their all time list.
9- Please Mr Postman, the Marvelettes, 22 on their all time list (henceforth known as ATL).
8- You Can't Hurry Love, Supremes, 19 ATL.
7- Lady Marmalade, Labelle, 16 ATL.
6- Heatwave, Martha and the Vandellas, 12 ATL.
5- Leader Of The Pack*, the Shangri-Las, 9 ATL.
4- Then He Kissed Me, Crystals, 5 ATL.
3- Where Did Our Love Go*, Supremes, 4 ATL.

And the top 2 are both ME2.0 songs:

2- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow*, the Shirelles, and at #1-

...the Ronettes and Be My Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for the chart performance list later, but now...


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Today, we welcome Bobby Vinton to our show, and boy, he has his work cut out for him!  31 songs, 76 stations, are you up for the challenge?

I sure hope so.  Say, when to I do my number?

Sorry, no live numbers, just the charts.  We don't reall...

My fans will be disappointed if I don't do a song...

Okay, maybe after the songs here, all right?

You don't want to hear me sing...

I would love to hear you sing.  This is just a really bad week for it.

Oh sure, you have plenty of time when Ben Franklin was here, and he don't even sing.

All right, we'll try to squeeze a song in, okay?

Really?

I'm looking forward to it.

All right, let's have the list... First in alphabetical order we have the Toys and A Lovers Concerto.  Beautiful song, was #35 and falling this week, though.
Herb Alpert and the boys had A Taste Of Honey at #3.
The Beach Boys had peaked in late August with California Girls.  But this was off a South African chart, and just getting warm there, so it's okay.

The Soul Survivors- not the soul group that made it big, but a Denver garage band that didn't- had a song called Can't Stand To Be In Love With You.  Some of these guys would end up in Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band!

The Seekers had The Carnival Is Over at 115 here, but at the top in Australia.
Roy Orbison was at #40 with Crawling Back.
Another act we never heard much from were the All Night Workers.  Apparently their lead vocal was a buddy of Lou Reed's.  Their song was called Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket.  Sure hope they followed THAT advice.

The Righteous Brothers had Ebb Tide at #25.
The Statler Brothers were at #39 with Flowers On The Wall.
The Rolling Stones were at #21 with Get Off My Cloud.
We sure have a lot of songs that were in CB's lower than 100 chart this week!  The next one was the Beau Brummels at #118 with Good Time Music.
The Shangri-Las are back with the song at #8, I Can Never Go Home Again.  Sad!
James Brown was at #5 with I Got You.  I can't scream like that.

Thank God...

The Supremes were at # 2 with I Hear A Symphony.
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons were at the top of the charts with Let's Hang On!
The Knickerbockers were at #82 in their debut week with Lies.  How many more, Chris?

You don't wanna know...

Sigh...  another low man on the charts was Lou Christie's Lightning Strikes, spending it's first chart week at #132.
The Hollies were starting up the chart for the first time here, I believe, with Look Through Any Window at #62.
Eddie Albert- not the Green Acres guy- was at #17 with Make The World Go Away.
The Walker Brothers were at # 23 with Make It Easy On Yourself.
The T-Bones with their alka-seltzer ad, No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In, were at #71.
The Dave Clark Five had Over And Over at #6.
Hey, here's Elvis, with Puppet On A String at #19.
Fontella Bass was at #9 with Rescue Me.
Normie Rowe was doing the Australian version of Shakin' All Over.  He covered the Guess Who, who'd charted Down Under earlier in the year.

The Four Tops had Something About You at #12.
Simon and Garfunkel were at #22 with The Sounds Of Silence.
The Byrds were at #4 with Turn Turn Turn.

I think you need exclamation marks there- Turn! Turn! Turn!

Geez, as long as this list is, I'm lucky I got periods left!  The Beatles were at 101- yes, 101, with We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper.

The Kinks were at #73 with Well-Respected Man, and right next at #74 were the Beatles again with Yesterday.  And that's it.

Great job, Bobby!

I think I'll need a break before my song, though...

Take all the time you need.  Anyhow, let me parse down the list to the leading contenders for your voting pleasure.  Choose from: I Hear A Symphony, I Got You, Get Off My Cloud, Turn Turn Turn...

Hey!  Exclamation points!

...Turn! Turn! Turn!,  and Let's Hang On for the POTM next week.  And now, back to this week...

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And I have to let a rather sizable cat out of the bag.  This was one of the most contentious M10s I ever picked, with several savage battles for position.  The one, and only one song, that gave me peace of mind when I put it there...

...was dropping Mo Kenney's Unglued to #3 this week.  So what's the never before on the M10?  How about debuting two songs by the same act in the same week?  Last time, I shared with you Shilpa Ray's song Manhattanoid Creepazoid, and this week I debut it- all the way up at #4!  And back at #10, I bring her in a second time...







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So the 6D song that couldn't manage a vote at #7 was one we brought up just a couple weeks ago- Len Berry's 1-2-3.  And since you know the rest of the tale, let's see how the actual chart list of the biggest girl group songs went.  Again, I'll notate where each was on the ATL.

10- Will You Love Me Tomorrow, #25.
9- Someday We'll Be Together, Supremes, #24.
8- Soldier Boy, Shirelles, #19.
7- My Boyfriend's Back, #18.
6- Come See About Me, Supremes, #17.
5- Where Did Our Love Go, #16.
4- Baby Love, Supremes, #14.
3- Get Up And Boogie, Silver Convention (???), #11.
2- Chiffons, He's So Fine- which is kinda ironic considering their OWN lawsuit... and at #1:

...gee, the Supremes again, but with MY favorite... Love Child!  it was #7 on their list...

Their #1 actually missed the ME2.0 by just a few months- the Emotions' Best Of My Love.  Everything else was 1986 or later (Including Walk Like An Egyptian at #3.)

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Let me deal a quick glancing blow to the Stat Pack:  Already told you the Beatles were at #101 with We Can Work It Out.  I'm gonna have to go back and see how many times the Beatles were in the Bubbling Unders someday...

I knew 35 songs this week.

Tom Jones ruled the UK with Green Green Grass Of Home.

The #65 in '65 was none other than Sonny Bono, with the first of his three solo tunes.  Called The Revolution Kind (which he goes on to explain he is not), it never got any higher.

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And now, the acts with the most appearances in the top ten of the year-end Cashbox Charts, ME2.0...

There were 9 acts that had three songs make this list-  two of them, though, have asterisks.  One is Elton John, whose duet with Kiki Dee was one of the three.  The other involved the Supremes and a bit of chicanery.  Randy Price, the dude who compiled the cashbox archive, says that while Back In My Arms Again took the #1 spot on its chart- it shouldn't have.  Having a comparable run to what California Girls had both charting wise and time of year wise, it SHOULD have been back with California Girls back around #30- but for some completely unknown reason they put it at #1.  Whether this was a clerical error or someone owed Berry Gordy a favor, it screwed Sam The Sham's Wooly Bully out of the year's top spot.  Nonetheless, it is there, and the Supremes have three songs.

The others with a trio of hits were John Denver, 3 Dog Night (with one top song of the year), The Young (or not so young) Rascals, Simon and Garfunkel, our POTM this week, Bobby Vinton, Chubby Checker- who had The Twist on there twice, with one of those runs along with Limbo Rock as the top of the year, and the Platters, who had the # 2 and 3 slots on the very first year-end chart from 1956.

Then, two acts grabbed 4 songs- the Everlys and the Beatles.  And you know who got the top rung, with 7 year-end top tens-

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And what remains of the M10:

Alvvays gets crowded out, down 4 to #9 with Dreams Tonite.

Foo Fighters move up to #8 with Sunday Rain.  While Paul McCartney plays the drums, the usual drummer sings lead on this one!

Strawberry Runners are up 2 to #7 with Garden Hose.

The Derevs, taking a cue from Mo, begin their exit by dropping to #6 in their 8th week with Something Good.

POWERS move up a spot to #5 with Beat Of My Drum.

That leaves you with the battle for the top spot, and shockingly, after a long drawn out battle- Dent May defers, keeping Picture On A Screen at #2, and rising from #4 to the top spot...

...Plume Of Feathers with their first #1, Rhyl Love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And as for the Panel vote...

Unlike the girl group deal, the Supremes only got 5.2%...
The Stones got 6.6%...
James Brown got 9.2 %...
The Four Seasons got 11.8....

But the winner with 15.8 %...

The Byrds with Turn! Turn! Turn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now, with his number, Mr Bobby Vinton....





And now that everybody's happy for a change, see you next week- in 1966!