We’re coming to the end of another year in our journey, but before the Xmas songs hit the charts lets hear from November, 1964 sounded like…
Songs of the month
“A Summer Song” – Chad Stuart And Jeremy Clyde
“Ain’t That Loving You Baby” – Elvis Presley
[new] “Ask Me” – Elvis Presley
“Baby Don’t You Do It” – Marvin Gaye
“Baby Love” – Supremes
[new] “Big Man In Town” – Four Seasons
“Chug-A-Lug” – Roger Miller
“Come A Little Bit Closer” – Jay And The Americans
[new] “Come See About Me” – Supremes
[new] “Dance Dance Dance” – Beach Boys
“Dancing In The Street” – Martha And The Vandellas
“Do Wah Diddy Diddy” – Manfred Mann
“Everybody Knows” – Dave Clark Five
[new] “Everything’s Alright” – Newbeats
[new] “Goin’ Out Of My Head” – Little Anthony And The Imperials
“Have I The Right” – Honeycombs
“I Don’t Want To See You Again” – Peter & Gordon
“I Like It” – Gerry And The Pacemakers
“I’m Crying” – Animals
[new] “I’m Gonna Be Strong” – Gene Pitney
[new] “I’m Into Something Good” – Herman’s Hermits
“Is It True” – Brenda Lee
“Last Kiss” – J. Frank Wilson
“Leader Of The Pack” – Shangri-Las
“Let It Be Me” – Betty Everett And Jerry Butler
“Little Honda” – Hondells
[new] “Mountain Of Love” – Johnny Rivers
[new] “Mr. Lonely” – Bobby Vinton
“Oh Pretty Woman” – Roy Orbison
[new] “Reach Out For Me” – Dionne Warwick
“Ride The Wild Surf” – Jan & Dean
[new] “Right Or Wrong” – Ronnie Dove
[new] “Ringo” – Lorne Greene
[new] “Saturday Night At The Movies” – Drifters
[new] “Sha La La” – Manfred Mann
[new] “She’s Not There” – Zombies
[new] “Sidewalk Surfin'” – Jan & Dean
“The Door Is Still Open To My Heart” – Dean Martin
[new] “The Jerk” – Larks
[new] “Time Is On My Side” – Rolling Stones
“Tobacco Road” – Nashville Teens
[new] “Walking In The Rain” – Ronettes
[new] “We’ll Sing In The Sunshine” – Gale Garnet
“We’ll Sing In The Sunshine” – Gale Garnett
“When I Grow Up” – Beach Boys
“You Must Believe Me” – Impressions
[new] “You Really Got Me” – Kinks
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
The annual Royal Variety Performance in the UK is a useful showcase of pop-culture of the time, and luckily recordings of many performances from the ’60s seem to exist. In 1964 the line-up included Tommy Cooper, The Bachelors, Millicent Martin, Kathy Kirby, Brenda Lee, Morecambe and Wise, Gracie Fields, Jimmy Tarbuck, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, and Cilla Black who you can see below.
On November 10 the “Porsche 901” sports car, introduced at the Paris Auto Show the previous month, was rebranded as the Porsche 911 after 82 of the vehicles had been constructed. French automaker Peugeot had objected to the designation with the claim “that it held all the rights to all car model numbers with zero as the middle digit”, and the West German Porsche company “elected to switch rather than fight French logic.”
And on the 29th on the first Sunday of Advent in the Roman Catholic Church, Catholics “walked into their parishes around the globe and, for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, participated in a mass that was given largely in their native tongue.” rather than the traditional Latin.
What’d Sadie think?
It’s three weeks at the top for “Baby Love” by the Supremes before “Leader Of The Pack” by the Shangri-Las takes it for a week.
Loved ’em
Particularly loving the psychedelic tinged first hit from the Zombies, with “She’s Not There” and the proto-punk of “The Kinks” with “You Really Got Me”.
- “I’m Into Something Good” – Herman’s Hermits
- “Big Man In Town” – Four Seasons
- “Come See About Me” – Supremes
- “Goin’ Out Of My Head” – Little Anthony And The Imperials
- “Mountain Of Love” – Johnny Rivers
- “Ringo” – Lorne Greene
- “She’s Not There” – Zombies
- “Time Is On My Side” – Rolling Stones
- “You Really Got Me” – Kinks
Liked ’em
- “Ask Me” – Elvis Presley
- “Dance Dance Dance” – Beach Boys
- “Everything’s Alright” – Newbeats
- “I’m Gonna Be Strong” – Gene Pitney
- “Reach Out For Me” – Dionne Warwick
- “Right Or Wrong” – Ronnie Dove
- “Saturday Night At The Movies” – Drifters
- “Sha La La” – Manfred Mann
- “Sidewalk Surfin'” – Jan & Dean
- “The Jerk” – Larks
- “Walking In The Rain” – Ronettes
- “We’ll Sing In The Sunshine” – Gale Garnet
Leave ’em
- “Mr. Lonely” – Bobby Vinton
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.