Friday, August 7, 2009

Forgotten Singles for Saturday 8 August 2009


UK#1(2) from 4 August and NZ#1(3) from 13 October 1966 - Monster Hit in N.Z.

UK#1(3) from 5 August, Au#1(3) from 1 September and US#1(3) from 4 September 1965. The title song from this group's second film, it sold a million in one week in the States and 500,000 in the first week in Britain where it was an instant #1 also for 3 weeks.


This group received 5 gold disc awards in 3 months; including this track, a US#1(1) 7 August 1965, and (eventual) 5th million-seller for the group with a song that had been made famous in 1911 by the cockney comedian, Harry Champion. Monster Hit in N.Z.

US#25, with 14 weeks in the Top 100 from 7 August 1961. Backed with CRYIN’ which made the Top 100 one week later on 14 August and peaked higher at US#2. (16 weeks in the Top 100).

The biggest Merseybeat group not managed by Brian Epstein. Formed in 1962 the group were signed to Pye in 1963 and put under the care of staff producer Tony Hatch and this was the first of six such production successes for him. A cover of a Drifters hit it became #1 the day of the Great Train Robbery - UK#1(2) from 8 August 1963 and a Monster Hit in NZ.

and a US#4, UK#5 and NZ#1(1), 8 August 1968 - Monster Hit in N.Z.

And the songs;
1pm, The Troggs – With A Girl Like You
2pm, Beatles – Help
3pm, Herman's Hermits – I'm Henry VIII, I Am
4pm, Roy Orbison – Candy Man
5pm, Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
The article in Wikipedia says; "Though marketed as a band, it would be more accurate to say that the name "The Ohio Express" served as a brand name used by Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffrey Katz's Super K Productions to release the music of a number of different musicians and acts. The best known songs of The Ohio Express (including their best scoring single, "Yummy Yummy Yummy") were actually the work of an assemblage of studio musicians working out of New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine."

and the biggest Merseybeat group not managed by Brian Epstein - I did play The Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet. A regular on the Coast playlist.

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