Time Machine co-ordinates VIL48442762

Today is and was April 28, 1962- and once again we go to the day before for our lead story.  Baseball player Harry Chiti- a good, but not great, player in the twilight of his career, was traded before playing a game this season by the Cleveland Indians to the inaugural New York Mets team for a player to be named later.  After a 15-game career with the Amazin' Mets- who had already lost 41 of their still-record 120 losses- he BECAME the player to be named later just 50 days later.  Thus he was the first- though not the last- player to be traded for himself.

Guess that .195 average didn't cut it, huh?

Chiti would get sent down and never play in the majors again.  Guess he won't be wearing the Chief Wahoo hat to the Hall of Fame...


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And that brings us to this week's Time Machine, where we creep ever closer to that 300th M10 song; the greatest hits of Kal Mann (who?); and for the second week ever- and second week in a row- ladies only on the M10!  Batter up!

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Today we welcome Del Shannon into the Musical Tardis! How's it going, Del?

Well, I'm a bit confused... whatta ya call this thing again?

TARDIS- Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.  A time machine, bigger on the inside.

So kind of a Jules Verne-y thing...

Yeah, kinda.  Only with music.

Good.  I never did like science fiction.  So what do I do again?

Well, we got the charts from this week- 30 stations- and counted out the #1s- 14 different songs- and you name them off, with the little odds and ends on the list, and whatever comments you want to throw in.

Okay.  Your first one is Brenda Lee with Everybody Loves Me But You.  Man, I know that feelin'.  She was at #17 on Cashbox this week.

Elvis was at... WHOA, he was at #126 with Follow That Dream.  And then, he was at #5 with Good Luck Charm.  He sure did have one...

Who's this guy?

Um, well, all I found out about Ben Terrell was that he was part of Johnny Winters' band at one point, and they might have backed him on this song.  Some ol' Cajun boy.

So that's why his song- Golly Gee- didn't have a chart number?  Makes sense.  Local boy doesn't quite make good.

Shelly Fabres - she still a little cutie?

Well, we're 55 years later now- but she did age well...

Mmmm... anyway, she's at #4 with Johnny Angel.  'Bout makes ya wanna change your name...

Clyde McPhatter- he used to be in the Drifters- he's at #7 with Lover Please.

The national number one is Dee Dee Sharp with Mashed Potato Time.  Hey, that reminds me, Elvis said...

No, no buffet.

Figures.  He always was a bit of a scoundrel.  Jimmy Dean was at #13 with PT 109.  Say, how'd ol' JFK make out, anyway?

What in the...

It means, I can't tell you.

Okay, sweetie.  Next Is Jay and the Americans with She Cried, at #12.

Ernie Maresca and Shout Shout Knock Yourself Out was at #23.  Good dance tune.

Ah, here's a pretty one.  The Shirelles and Soldier Boy at #2.  Kinda tugs at the ol' heart.

I know what you mean.

...Mister Acker Bilk was at #3 with Strangers On The Shore...

An' the last one on the list- Claude King and Wolverton Mountain.  He was at ... hey!  You didn't mark that one down!  

(Goes back in time and looks it up)  Yeah, I did, it's right there.

I'm tellin' ya, it... well, I'll be.  He was all the way down at #131...

Means it'll be shooting up pretty fast.  Well, thanks a lot, Del, It's...

Hey, can I ask you something?

Maybe...

Are they still using this musitron gimmick we got?  Is it still popular?

Well, they call it a clavioline now... at least, the beast that your guy, Max Crook, based your musitron on is... and I found an article that says...


"Claviolines and their derivatives were sold until the latter half of the '60s, which means that the youngest of them are now entering their 40s. Nonetheless, finding one is not hard in 2007: they appear fairly regularly on eBay and in the free ads of local papers. But buying one that is in good condition and still works perfectly is far less straightforward, because most are riddled with problems." (Soundonsound (dot) com)


Hey, wait... you just blinked out and came back...

Yeah, in the Tardis I can...

An' you did that back when I asked about Wolverton Mountain, too, didn't you...

DEL Shannon, everybody, nice round of applause.  Now this week the winner had a fairly strong run, though no, er, runaway like last time.  Let me give you a choice of  the top 5- Mashed Potato Time, Soldier Boy, Strangers On The Shore, Johnny Angel, and Good Luck Charm- letting you know, parenthetically that the only UK entrants in the Panel were Johnny Angel debuting at #41 and Strangers at #12, and...

HEY, WAIT!  Listen, everybody!  He forgot to put Strangers On The Shore on my list!  He just went back and had me say it for a "sound check", he said, an' then moved it foreword, an...

DEL Shannon, everybody!  And now it's time for the newest M10 song- and it's the oldest one in a while.  A couple weeks back when we did the Best Original Song feature, I got introduced to Dusty Springfield's The Windmills Of Your Mind.  My first words were, "Best Dusty song I ever heard- and this week, it becomes the oldest M10 in almost a year!  At #10...







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Honestly, I think we're a little light this week, so let me go right to the 6D, which was Slow Twistin' at #6 by Chubby Checker with an uncredited-on-the-label assist from Dee Dee Sharp.  It took me a bit to stumble on to something interesting, but I did- the flip was written by one Kal Mann- a name I found more than a few times.  In fact, let's just give you the hits that Mann as a lyricist charted- 15 of them, from 1957 to 1963:

You Can't Sit Down, Phil Upchurch Combo, #29 in '61.  We'll hit this song again- much later.

Ding-A-Ling, Bobby Rydell, #18 in '60.  He had a lot of hits with Rydell, as you'll see.

Wildwood Days, Rydell, 17 in '63.  This song mentions South Street, which the Orlons would make a big hit about.  How was it back then, Bobby G?  The Orlons will also come up in a bit.

Kissin' Time, Rydell, #11 in '59.

Cha Cha Cha, Rydell, #10 in '62.

Let's Twist Again, Chubby Checker, #8 in '61.

We Got Love, Rydell, #6 in '59.

Don't Hang Up, the Orlons (see?), #4 in '62.

You Can't Sit Down (see?), the Dovells, #3 in '63.

Three tunes hit #2:

Rydell's Wild One ('60)
The Dovells' Bristol Stomp ('61)
and Chubby's Limbo Rock ('62).

And three hit the very top:

Elvis with Teddy Bear ('57)
and both Charlie Grace and Andy Williams in '57 with that year's latest Panel winner, Butterfly!

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Debut #2 is a lot newer- from an lp coming out next month called Rebound.  With a lady who just over 2 years separated from an M10 #1 in 2016, here's Eleanor Friedberger at #9- and song #299...





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Stat Pack Time!

I got 19 "know 'em"s on this weeks hot 100-  and 5 more on the bubbling under, including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (103), It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' (107), Al Di La (135), and The Stripper (143)!

the #62 in '62 was The Falcons with I Found A Love.  An early "supergroup" of sorts, they had just replaced Joe Stubbs (brother of Levi) with Wilson Pickett for this one!

#101 was Brook Benton with a song called Hit Record.  It was... in four weeks, it would peak at #36.

The top dog in the UK was the Shadows with Wonderful Land.  It was written by Jerry Lordan, who had also wrote one of last week's panelists, Jorgen Ingman's Apache ( which the Shadows took to the top in the Isles two years before).

And the big mover goes to, ironically, Dion's Lovers Who Wander, which wandered up 30 spots from #72 to #42.


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And now, the other M10s:

The last of the Iron Ceiling, Mikaela Davis' Little Bird- now in 7th all time by herself- spends her 9th week on the chart at #8, down 5.

Which means Melody's Echo Chamber had a little room to Breathe In Breathe Out at #7, up 2 spots.

Roseanne Cash slips a pair to #6 with The Walking Wounded.

A pair of 2-spot risers next- illuminati hotties and Paying Off The Happiness at #5, Neko Case's Bad Luck at #4.

Lucius slips from the top to #3 with Eventually.

The Shacks shoot up 3 to #2 with My Name Is.

And at the top... since they hit #1 with Archie Marry Me 72 weeks ago, they've been stopped at 3, 10, 2, and 3- but now they have their second #1...

...Alvvays and Not My Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And on the Panel vote:  if you took DeeDee, the Shirelles, or Elvis, you crapped out with 10% of the vote.

And if you took Shelly, you did slightly better at 13.3 %.

But the winner with 23.33% of the vote...

...Mr Acker Bilk and Stranger On The Shore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next week, he takes you through 1963, God will...

HEY!  You mean ta tell me, you left the WINNER off the list?  BWA-HA-HA-HA!!! Wait'll I tell Elvis!

Try it, and I'll send you so far back you'll be telling MOSES!

Uh, yeah, I'll just be keepin' quiet now...