As we hit March, 2024 and it starts to feel a little Autumnal here in Auckland, we turn our ears back to the sounds of April, 1965…
Songs of the month
[new] “Baby The Rain Will Fall” – Glenn Yarbrough
[new] “Bumble Bee” – Searchers
“Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat” – Herman’s Hermits
[new] “Cast Your Fate To The Wind” – Sounds Orchestral
[new] “Come And Stay With Me” – Marianne Faithfull
[new] “Count Me In” – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
“Do The Clam” – Elvis Presley
“Do You Wanna Dance” – Beach Boys
“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” – Animals
“Eight Days A Week” – Beatles
“Ferry Cross The Mersey” – Gerry & The Pacemakers
[new] “Game Of Love” – Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
“Go Now” – Moody Blues
“Goldfinger” – Shirley Bassey
[new] “Got To Get You Off My Mind” – Solomon Burke
[new] “I Know A Place” – Petula Clark
[new] “I’ll Be Doggone” – Marvin Gaye
[new] “I’ll Never Find Another You” – Seekers
“I’m Telling You Now” – Freddie & The Dreamers
“If I Loved You” – Chad & Jeremy
[new] “It’s Growing” – Temptations
[new] “Just Once In My Life” – Righteous Brothers
“King Of The Road” – Roger Miller
[new] “Land Of 1000 Dances” – Cannibal & The Headhunters
“Little Things” – Bobby Goldsboro
“Long Lonely Nights” – Bobby Vinton
[new] “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter” – Herman’s Hermits
“My Girl” – Temptations
“Nowhere To Run” – Martha & The Vandellas
[new] “Nowhere To Run” – Supremes
[new] “One Kiss For Old Time’s Sake” – Ronnie Dove
[new] “Ooo Baby Baby” – Miracles
“People Get Ready” – Impressions
“Red Roses For A Blue Lady” – Bert Kaempfert
“Red Roses For A Blue Lady” – Vic Dana
[new] “Red Roses For A Blue Lady” – Wayne Newton
“Send Me The Pillow You Dream On” – Dean Martin
“Shotgun” – Junior Walker & The All Stars
[new] “Silhouettes” – Herman’s Hermits
“Stop In The Name Of Love” – Supremes
“The Birds And The Bees” – Jewel Akens
[new] “The Clapping Song” – Shirley Ellis
[new] “The Last Time” – Rolling Stones
“The Race Is On” – Jack Jones
“This Diamond Ring” – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
“Tired Of Waiting For You” – Kinks
[new] “When I’m Gone” – Brenda Holloway
“Yeh Yeh” – Georgie Fame
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
On April 5th at the 37th Academy Awards, “My Fair Lady” won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
On the 16th in Huntsville, Alabama, scientists made the first test of the most powerful rocket engine system ever developed, the powerful first stage of the three-stage Saturn rocket, composed of five engines that could combine for 7.5 million pounds of thrust.
“The thunderous sound of the first static test of this stage,” an author would later note, “brought home to many observers that the Kennedy goal” (of sending a man to the Moon before the end of the decade) “was within technological grasp.”
Then on the 19th what would become known as “Moore’s Law”, that computing power would double every two years, was first suggested by Gordon Moore in an article in Electronics magazine, titled “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits”. “The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year,” he wrote. Within three years, Moore would become co-founder of the transistor and microprocessor manufacturer Intel and his “law” would hold for decades.
What’d Sadie think?
A week at the top for “Stop In The Name Of Love” by the Supremes before a couple for Freddie & The Dreamers with “I’m Telling You Now”, with the month rounded out by the “Game Of Love” by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders.
Loved ’em
- “Come And Stay With Me” – Marianne Faithfull
- “Game Of Love” – Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
- “I’ll Be Doggone” – Marvin Gaye
- “I’ll Never Find Another You” – Seekers
- “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter” – Herman’s Hermits
- “Nowhere To Run” – Supremes
- “The Clapping Song” – Shirley Ellis
Liked ’em
- “Baby The Rain Will Fall” – Glenn Yarbrough
- “Bumble Bee” – Searchers
- “Cast Your Fate To The Wind” – Sounds Orchestral
- “Count Me In” – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
- “Got To Get You Off My Mind” – Solomon Burke
- “I Know A Place” – Petula Clark
- “It’s Growing” – Temptations
- “Just Once In My Life” – Righteous Brothers
- “Land Of 1000 Dances” – Cannibal & The Headhunters
- “One Kiss For Old Time’s Sake” – Ronnie Dove
- “Ooo Baby Baby” – Miracles
- “Red Roses For A Blue Lady” – Wayne Newton
- “Silhouettes” – Herman’s Hermits
- “The Last Time” – Rolling Stones
- “When I’m Gone” – Brenda Holloway
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.