Time Machine co-ordinates VILXXXII52922257

Today we go to February 22, 1957.  Today the Duke of Edinburgh became a Prince of the United Kingdom.

And everywhere you look for "what happened on February 22, 1957", you get, "Why is Phillip a Prince and not a King?"  Quick American answer:  The Queen is not so dumb....



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Welcome to this week's Time Machine, where -and I know you are all probably expecting Frank Gorshin...

"I know, I can't believe he didn't ask me!  When is a riddle not a riddle?"

-we will actually have the (relatively) real Nelson Riddle on board!  Also, see if you can tell me what Johnny Cash, Elvis, the Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis,Glen Campbell, Pat Boone, Bert Kaempfert, Frank Sinatra, and Carl Perkins have in common- and what they have to do with a dude named Charles Singleton!  Also, is THIS the week that we get our 100th M10 #1?  Stay tuned and find out!




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And a big welcome to Nelson Riddle!  Always great to have a vet from The Big One on the show!

Thanks!  Although I was in after all the hard work was done...

That's all right!  You stood up for our country, and that's what's important.

Thank you.

So, how's Rosemary Clooney?

WHAT?  Wh- wh-what, er, how, er, why do you ask...?

Well, you just started appearing on her TV show...

Oh, well, yes, er, of course you're right.  She, why she's just fine...

I'm sorry if I upset you.  My understanding was that you didn't start your affair until later on...

Af- Good God, shhhhhh! The-the-there's no affair!  Please, if my wife's here...

Oh, don't worry!  The audience is...

AUDIENCE???  Oh, my... (sound of running steps)... SLAM!

"Well, That certainly went well..."

  


I know, right?  I wonder if he's suffering from PTSD from the war...

S: .....

Nardole:  If not, he'll certainly get it once he returns home...

I suppose you two ought to figure out where he went, before he makes the gift shop and Elvis sells him one of his "I BANGED CLOONEY" t-shirts...

N:  All right.  Come along, Scrappy.

S: (Translated from Old High Beagle) Hey, I need to go pee...

N: Of course you do.

I guess that means I get to fly solo here.  I actually had a legit Panel this week- 10 contestants from 18 stations.  Before we get started, how about we listen to the week's lone debut?  At #10, here's some Leon Bridges...








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So here we go with the Panel picks this week! This was not an overly close race, and ALL songs that got more than one vote are in the final- all 3 of 'em!  The seven that didn't make the list...


Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat Song (Day-o) was at #5 on Cashbox this week.  There was another version- just different enough CB didn't combine it with Harry's- and we'll get to it a bit later.

Tab Hunter's version of Young Love- shared with another version we'll get to a bit later- was at #2.  His version by itself was #1 on Billboard.

That other version was tied on BB at #3 with the CB #1 for the week- Elvis's Too Much.  Pretty much what I always say...

One station had an entire lp at it's #1- Norrie Paramor's New York Impressions.  While he did have a couple of low ranking singles on the Brit charts, he didn't chart here.

Another non charter to make the list is Les Elgart's For Dancers Only.

Former winner Andy Williams' version of Butterfly was in a shared spot with Charlie Grace at #32 on CB.  Billboard had Andy at 42- a debut- and Charlie at #31.

And one song was a bit ahead of the curve- Perry Como's Mi Casa Es Su Casa, which would peak later in March at #50.

And that leaves you your three choices for this week's winner:

The Tarriers- they were habitually late, not small dogs- with their take on the Banana Boat thing, #6 this week.

Sonny James' version of Young Love- the one that was tied with Elvis at #3 on BB but sharing #2 with Tab on CB.

And finally, Terry Gilkyson and the Easy Riders with that song many of us learned on Captain Kangaroo- Marianne, sharing a spot with the Hilltoppers at #8 on CB, one spot ahead of the Hilltoppers at #11 on BB.

Tarriers, Sonny, or Terry- who gets the nod this week?  Take your pick and find out in just a bit.


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So our 6D at Cashbox's #3 has quite a few people attached to it.  One, by having the same writer as one of HIS hits, is Frank Sinatra.  A track almost disposed of by Frank as a "piece of $#!t" after session man Glen Campbell screwed up his part on take one, it was written by one Charles Singleton.  Singleton composed our subject song as well, and sent it as a demo to Elvis, "  where it laid UNOPENED, in Elvis' words "with all the junk that comes there", according to wiki.  However, Elvis eventually did a fast version of it in the jam session by what became known as "the Million Dollar Quartet" with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.  Somehow or another it became a hit by another star; after which it was covered in the Hamburg years by the Beatles.  As he was arranging- and signing them to a contract with Tony Sheridan for Polydor- this is where Bert Kaempfert heard it.  While the Beatles versions were never recorded, apparently, Kaempfert did a version on his Wonderland Of Bert Kaempfert lp.  So what WAS this song, and who made it a hit? 

Why, it was Pat Boone (back in leather in "response" to popular demand) with Don't Forbid Me, #3 on CB without any Panel love.


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Stat Pack time!

We had a double Big Mover this week.  Both went up ten spots- George Hamilton IV with Only One Love at 34 and Bad Boy by the Jive Bombers at 35.

Thanks to the BB list I have a #100 this week, and it's a biggie:

The Panel's presence in the UK consisted of the Young Love boys- Tab at #1, Sonny at #12.  I knew 7 in the UK and 13 at home, including the slowly dropping hits, Love Me Tender, Blueberry Hill, Ain't Got No Home (Clarence Frogman Henry), and Bing and Grace doing True Love.

This time, unlike last week, there were only 7 "combined hits" on CB, and one of them tickled me, because I used to own another shared hit by the same too men.  The men were Bill Hayes and Fess Parker, doing a tune called Wringle Wrangle- together they were #12 on CB, separately they were 34 (Bill) and 21 (Fess) on BB.  The other song they both recorded that I know- The Ballad Of Davy Crockett.  Hayes' version (which we had) hit #1 on BB and CB; Fess's hit #6, and Tennessee Ernie Ford chipped in a version that hit #5, as well as #4 country.


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And most of the M10 for a change:

The Fast Romantics do a slow climb, up one spot to #9 with Mexico.

boygenius is stuck again, with Bite The Hand spending a second week at 8.

Leonard Cohen up a pair to 7 with You Want It Darker.

This week's "dropping to get out of the way" tune is The Essex Green's Sloane Ranger, down 3 to #6.

Then, three straight one-notch climbers:  The Dig's You're Not Alone at 5, Santana's In Search Of Mona Lisa at 4, and Criminal Hygiene's Greetings From A Postcard at 3.


Roseanne Cash settles for a second week at #2 with The Only Thing Worth Fighting For, which means we wait another week for #100.  For a third week at the top:

...Liz Cooper and the Stampede and Outer Space!

 And the Panel?  With a whopping 38.8%...

....Sonny James and Young Love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



So join Sonny and the gang next week for 1958!