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WAIT!    Listen to this podcast (wrong Beatle?) on Sunday, July 7 at 11:45 AM localtime!      Kit, Martin and I wish Ringo "All the Best" and "Peace and Love" to the universe in this brief WTWF crossover diversion.       A tiny bit of Ringo Sta
We finish June of 1964.    Sie Liebt Dich (Yah! Yah! Yah!), the Valentinos (formerly the Womack Brothers) with a song the stones will cover and make a classic, a not-so-great new one from the Everlys, a banger from Dusty and more from the "arti
Our first months of four sides.      The first week of June 1964 on the Billboard Charts.    Irma Thomas (The Soul Queen of New Orleans!), The Girl from Ipanema, the Impressions, Sam Cooke and Johnny Rivers (who might have sold more records tha
Francoise Hardy, Peter and Gordon, Little Richard, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Pretty Things and more versions of "Hello, Dolly!" than you might expect as we continue our four-sided odyssey for June.     #MadeonZencastr
June 1964.     The Beatles are off to the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. when Ringo collapses.     What happens next?     Jim Berkenstadt joins your toppermost crew to discuss Jimmie Nicol, The Bossa Nova and a little bit of ska.     I
More from Cashbox, and more than four by the Beatles!   BB King, Lesley Gore, The Temptations, Terry Stafford, Steve Lawrence and the next smash from the Beach Boys.    #madeonZencastr 
Cashbox Month!     The Beatles still dominate, although they will soon move back to "just" being the hottest band in the States.    Other acts include Brenda Holloway, Skeeter Davis, Tracey Day (why would anyone change their name from Nora Ferr
Around the Beatles aired in the UK sixty years ago, so we look at "the other acts" on that show.   (See "When They Was Fab" 2024.17, April 28 for Kit and I talking about the Beatles side of things).       Additionally, the British charts for Ma
The Billboard charts for the final two weeks of April 1964.      Rampant Beatlemania (not starring Terri Hemmert), and a couple of tunes that must be heard to be believed! #MadeonZencastr
The Billboard Charts for the first two weeks of April, 1964.     The Beatles rule the roost, but Motown continues churning out commercial and critical darlings (My Guy), and Burt Bacharach gives Dionne Warwick a song which will become one of th
The Beatles have conquered the Billboard charts, so we examine some of the news stories from the month.    Additionally, the British charts for April 1964.    Eden Kane, Shirley Bassey, the Four Pennies, the Undertakers, the Merseybeats and a h
More from March of 1964.     Even more  Beatles on the charts, but figures including Lenny Welch, The Shirelles, Tony Bennett, Bobby Goldsboro and others you may or may not remember continue to make appearances.  #madeonZencastr
Beatlemania, Beatlemania, Beatlemania!!!   (and it hasn't even reached it's Zenith).     Lots and lots of Beatles, but also Jan and Dean (and Mel Blanc) The Four Preps, Dale and Grace, Nino and April and more!  #madeonZencastr
The British charts for March of 1964.      Can't Buy Me Love arrives, while Lennon/McCartney also continue the string with Peter & Gordon and World Without Love.      We also consider the state of "other music" on the British charts. #madeonzen
The Beatles continue rampaging the charts, but the Americans also stake some ground.     Two sides from Elvis in the charts (one good, one very bad), The Shoop Shoop Song, a bad Merseybeat knockoff and a Beatles novelty record (about the hair,
The first two weeks of Billboard, 1964.       Dawn, Fun Fun Fun and more of the Beatles than you can shake a forest at!    #MadeonZencastr
Cilla, Beatles, Stones and a feature on the Ed Sullivan Show.     Side A - the British charts and more!
We roll into the American charts for January 1964.     Marsha Albert, Carroll James, and millions of East Coasters help "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to the Top of the Cashbox charts.   Meanwhile, Capitol cannot keep up with demand as the Ed Sulli
I Want to Hold Your Hand firmly takes control of the American charts, while British bands continue their dominance on the British charts.   To use the lingo of music writers of the time.    "While the Beatles crawl to the top of the Cashbox cha
1963 draws to a close, and Capitol records decides to celebrate by finallly releasing a little record from across the pond - Frank Ifield covering Bing Crosby!    All this and more, including some thoughts on that other record which would escap
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" enters the British charts, "She Loves You" hums along, as does the NEMS crew.      Piers Hemmingsen guests as we spend some time considering the rise of the "British Invasion" in Canada.
The American charts for November of 1963.    Doldrums in the charts that were not improved by the Kennedy assassination at the end of the month.    A lot of filler, with a select few gems.    Steven Allen, Ray Charles (not that one) and Sammy D
The charts roll on.    She Loves You finds it's way back to the top of the charts and we discuss Beatles covers from the first year in honor of the Stones  "I Wanna Be Your Man" #MadeonZencastr
We close out October 1963 with two more weeks that have nothing to do with Eeephing or Ardells.    Somehow we manage a Happy Days reference, and a story about George Greif.   #MadeonZencastr,.
It doesn't matter what we call it, you are going to remember this show for one of two things - eefin' (no, it's not dirty), the Ardells and their successor "The American Beetles".     Dress up as 30-year old high schoolers, moptops or maybe eve
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