Tilting at Windmills: Time Machine co-ordinates VIXXV66932665

Friday, March 26, 2021

Time Machine co-ordinates VIXXV66932665

Man, Boss, I was here and was wearin' shamrocks and stuff, and then Noodle tells me you ain't comin' in last week! I was bummin'...

Yeah, I'm sorry... I was sick, I was down, and just didn't have the heart for it... But that means this week is gonna be kinda messed up... for one, the Beatles had to be scratched, which is always a shame...

Yeah, ain't it...

And this week it's just me and you, and LAST WEEK'S hits from 1965, and 2 sets of M10 countdowns...

Man, I hate to say it, but we may NEED the Beatles to pull this one off!

Courage, Elvis, courage. There is one thing I would like to do before anything else. A couple nights ago, I was informed of the death of classic rocker Michael Stanley- another loss to the demon that is cancer, and with the demon hard at work as well on BJ Thomas, who announced he's in stage four. Michael, unlike BJ, never got the national notoriety that he warranted, and I want to feature him with one of his best. It only got to 39 nationally- a lot higher in the Midwest for the Cleveland boy.

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Y'know what sucks, though- we never did anything for St Patty's last week.

That would be the day I worked for a whopping 2 hours and 40 minutes and came home. But never fear- while you were up here whining, I looked at the charts and found the Martin Era 2.0 (1955-1977) songs that were #1 on the years Billboard and Cashbox published their charts exactly on St Patrick's Day! You will note, though, that out of 4 songs that had that distinction, as they published on all the same days, save once, there is ONE song that was #1 on SPD on BB but NOT on CB! Your job, is to pick which song was NOT a St Patrick's chart topper on Cashbox! Was it...

Nelson Riddle, Lisbon Antigua (1956)

The Champs, Tequila (1958)

Bruce Channel, Hey Baby (1962)

or Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly (1973)!

Oh, wow, you made 'em green!

I just hope they show up on the background! Anyway, let me get to last week's M10, and... hey, who's at the door?

Hey, it's Ringworm!

RS: That's Rin-GO, Elvis Parsley...

Nice to see you! Did you come to help us out?

RS: No, I think I'm just late... were we supposed to be here last week? I don't see the other lads...

Yeah, it's a long story. But since you're here, how about you do last week's M10?

RS: Sounds like you lot are late as well! Very good, then...

Last week, Chris's top ten were...

Those lovely boys from Royal Blood with Typhoons at #10, down 5...

Dami Im is up one spot with Abandoned Pincushion...

EP: LONELY CACTUS. You oughtta leave the jokes to the professionals...

And should we ever have a professional in this place, we'll look into that. Carry on...

RS: The debut at #8 is this one by Matthew Sweet...

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Then we have Leon Bridges and his mate with Like A Ship at 7, up 2...

Tommy James and the Shondells have a bit of a tumble, down 4 to #6 with Hold Ont Him... seems they should have held on a bit tighter...

EP: I have something for you to hold right...

THAT will do, bud! Carry on...

RS: Er, yes, the Fratellis move up to 5 with Action Replay...

Weezer holds at 4 with Grapes Of Wrath...

Pale Waves goes from 6 to 3 with You Don't Own Me... Is this a Leslie Gore cover?

EP: Are all you guys gonna ask that? NO!

RS: No need to twist yer knickers, Parsley...

EP: It's not Parsley!

RS: Sage?

Moving right along...

RS: Yes, quite. The Explorer's Club are up next with Don't Waste Her Time pulling into the #2 spot.

And finally, it seems American Pie has had quite an innings, 6 weeks now and counting.

EP: Yeah, I'll bet you guys couldn'tna done that...

Actually, I Want To Hold Your Hand was 8 weeks at the top on CB, and Hey Jude was 7....

EP: Whatever....

Anyway, last week we had 17 songs from 79 stations, including these songs that ended up on the year's hot 100:

Gerry and the Pacemakers, Ferry Cross the Mersey, #82

Beatles, Eight Days A Week, 55- a finalist

Freddie and the Dreamers, I'm Telling You Now, 48

Supremes, Stop In The Name Of Love, 24- a finalist

Herman's Hermits, Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, 22- a finalist

Jewel Akins, The Birds And The Bees, 20- a finalist

Roger Miller, King Of The Road, 17

and Gary Lewis and the Playboys, This Diamond Ring, 15.

And so, you have the four finalists there- Eight Days A Week (which was #1 last week), Stop In The Name Of Love (8), Can't You Hear My Heartbeat (12), The Birds And The Bees (3), plus the Seekers and I'll Never Find Another You (Debuts tomorrow), to choose from. In the meantime, here's the song that debuts on THIS week's M10 at #10... more Elton John from Jewel Box, this one a b-side to a 1997 hit...

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Just to let you know, the 6D victim would have been the Temptations, with My Girl at #2. Ringo, would you like to handle the Overseas If You Please...

EP: Oh sure, let him do everything...

RS: Elvis, just to show what a sporting chap I am, I'll let you do half... Here, let me do England and Australia, you can do Canada and New Zealand...

EP: That's mighty nice of you! You go first!

RS: All right, then, Australia had I'll Never Find Another You, which rather explains its spot in the finals...

EP: Okay, and Canada had... hey, it was your Eight Days A Week! You did that on purpose!

RS: Now, you're being right paranoid! In the UK, we had Mick and his lot, the Rolling Stones, and The Last Time. Elvis?

EP: Yeah, the New Zealand song was... HEY! This is that year they lost the data to their charts!

RS: Oh, right... guess that was a bit cheeky of me...

Before he blows a gasket, let's give my big buddy a chance to right the ship by telling which song was a SPD #1 on BB but not CB...

EP: Uh, yeah, that would be Tequila by the Champs. Guess that makes sense, being the one year that wasn't spaced away from the rest...

And the big mover last week...

EP: Sure, that would have been the Beach Boys with Do Ya Wanna Dance, up 31 spots, 74 to 43.

And this week's new M10 chart!

EP: All right! So, 9 was Hold On To Him, down from 6...