Jason’s Jukebox Volume 3

Jason Maloney reviews

JASON’S JUKEBOX
V o l u m e # 0 3 Chart Date: Week Ending 3rd Febuary 1966 Online Date: 3rd February 2004

Spencer Davis Group:
The Singles There was a Beatles song at #1 on this date 38 years ago, but it wasn’t the Fab Four’s version of Michelle topping the chart for the second week. One-hit-wonders The Overlanders took the Rubber Soul track all the way having ended the reign of Keep On Running by the Spencer Davis Group, which still clung on to the #2 position.

A rival version of Michelle stood on the cusp of the Top 10, but David & Jonathan‘s interpretation never rose higher than #11. John, Paul, George and Ringo had just the one chart entry, former #1 Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out, which continued to fall gently down the Top 10 to #7, while Peter Sellers’ A Hard Day’s Night dropped two places to #22 and St. Louis Union moved up 5 to #19 with their cover of Girl. The Beatles’ friend, Cilla Black, was peaking at #5 with Love’s Just A Broken Heart, but it didn’t bear the Lennon/McCartney writing credit.

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The Kinks:
The Ultimate Collection The Kinks and The Walker Brothers‘ latest hits – Till The End Of The Day and My Ship Is Coming In respectively, were still in the top 10, though neither were among each act’s collection of UK chart-toppers. Highest climber of the week was Nancy Sinatra‘s These Boots Are Made For Walkin‘, which soared 20 places to #18 on its way to the very top a fortnight later.

The original Groovy Kind Of Love, by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, was inching up the top 20 from #18 to #14. It would eventually reach #2 in March, while the song itself became a chart-topper in 1988 courtesy of Phil Collins.

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Bob Dylan:
The Essential Collection Singles would very rarely peak on their first week in the 1960s, but Bob Dylan‘s Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window did just that, dropping from its debut position of #17 to #23.

Tom Jones‘ theme from the James Bond film Thunderball re-entered the Top 40 at #38, having appeared two weeks previously at #35 before instantly dropping out. Its revival was short-lived, however, as the single disappeared from the chart again 7 days later, never to return.

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Stevie Wonder:
Definitive Collection Debuting at #40 was Uptight by Little Stevie Wonder, the Motown legend’s introductory appearance in the UK charts. It would go on to reach #14, the first of more than 50 hits spanning five decades. Page Content copyright © Jason Maloney, 2004.