It’s 56 years and 4 months before Sadie is born and 12 years and 10 months before Thomas is…and we missed sending the newsletter this week, so let’s jump straight into the tunes of April, 1964!
Songs of the month
[new] “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do” – Bobby Bland
[new] “Bits And Pieces” – Dave Clark Five
“Blue Winter” – Connie Francis
“Can’t Buy Me Love” – Beatles
“Dawn” – Four Seasons
[new] “Dead Man’s Curve” – Jan And Dean
[new] “Do You Want To Know A Secret” – Beatles
“Don’t Let The Rain Come Down” – Serendipity Singers
[new] “Ebb Tide” – Lenny Welch
[new] “Forever” – Pete Drake And His Talking Steel Guitar
“Fun Fun Fun” – Beach Boys
“Glad All Over” – Dave Clark Five
“Hello Dolly” – Louis Armstrong
[new] “Hey Bobba Needle” – Chubby Checker
“Hi-Heel Sneakers” – Tommy Tucker
[new] “Hippy Hippy Shake” – Swinging Blue Jeans
“I Love You More And More Every Day” – Al Martino
“I Want To Hold Your Hand” – Beatles
“It Hurts Me” – Elvis Presley
“It’s In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)” – Betty Everett
[new] “It’s Over” – Roy Orbison
“Java” – Al Hirt
“Kissin’ Cousins” – Elvis Presley
[new] “Money” – Kingsmen
[new] “My Guy” – Mary Wells
“My Heart Belongs To Only You” – Bobby Vinton
[new] “Nadine” – Chuck Berry
“Navy Blue” – Diane Renay
“Needles And Pins” – Searchers
“Please Please Me” – Beatles
[new] “Ronnie” – Four Seasons
[new] “Shangri-La” – Robert Maxwell
“She Loves You” – Beatles
“Stay” – Four Seasons
“Suspicion” – Terry Stafford
[new] “That’s The Way Boys Are” – Lesley Gore
[new] “The Matador” – Major Lance
“The Way You Do The Things You Do” – Temptations
[new] “Think” – Brenda Lee
“Twist And Shout” – Beatles
[new] “White On White” – Danny Williams
“You’re A Wonderful One” – Marvin Gaye
[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 7th IBM announced the System/360 mainframe computer system, the first commercially available system to use micro-miniaturized logic circuits.The new machine, which IBM chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. described as “the beginning of a new generation—not only of computers—but their application in business, science and government”, was shown off at meetings in 165 cities.
On the 13th the 36th Academy Awards ceremony were held. Sidney Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award in the category Best Actor in a Leading Role, for his performance in Lilies of the Field – trailer below.
And on the 20th the first jar of Nutella, a “hazelnut cocoa spread” now popular around the world, was shipped from the Ferrero factory in Italy.
What’d Sadie think?
It’s four weeks at number 1 for The Beatles with “Can’t Buy Me Love”. The first week of the month sees even more extreme domination though…
yes they held the top 5 spots!
Loved ’em
- “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do” – Bobby Bland
- “Bits And Pieces” – Dave Clark Five
- “Do You Want To Know A Secret” – Beatles
- “Hippy Hippy Shake” – Swinging Blue Jeans
- “My Guy” – Mary Wells
Liked ’em
- “Dead Man’s Curve” – Jan And Dean
- “Ebb Tide” – Lenny Welch
- “Forever” – Pete Drake
- “Hey Bobba Needle” – Chubby Checker
- “It’s Over” – Roy Orbison
- “Money” – Kingsmen
- “Nadine” – Chuck Berry
- “Ronnie” – Four Seasons
- “Shangri-La” – Robert Maxwell
- “That’s The Way Boys Are” – Lesley Gore
- “The Matador” – Major Lance
Leave ’em
- “Think” – Brenda Lee
- “White On White” – Danny Williams
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.