Billboard Chart History - 10 Years: the 0s

[Dawn]

This time, let's look at the charts of years ending in "0":


July 20, 1940
(this doesn't correspond exactly for the week, but it's the earliest Billboard chart published, at least according to the information I have.)


1 I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN - Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers (Note: This...the first Dorsey/Sinatra hit...was their biggest together; it was 12 weeks as Billboard's #1 Best Seller)
2 THE BREEZE AND I - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Bob Eberly (Note: This song was adapted from the Spanish song "Andalucia")
3 IMAGINATION - Glenn Miller & His Orch. w. vocal/Ray Eberle
4 PLAYMATES - Kay Kyser & His Orch. w. vocal/Sully Mason & Trio
5 FOOLS RUSH IN - Glenn Miller & His Orch. w. vocal/Ray Eberle
6 WHERE WAS I? - Charlie Barnet & His Orch. w. vocal/Mary Ann McCall
7 PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000 - Glenn Miller & His Orch. (Note: This was the telephone number of New York's Hotel Pennsylvania)
8 IMAGINATION - Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Frank Sinatra
9 SIERRA SUE - Bing Crosby w. John Scott Trotter & His Orch.
10 MAKE-BELIEVE ISLAND - Mitchell Ayres & His Orch. w. vocal/Mary Ann Mercer

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July 8, 1950


(TW = Position This Week; LW = Position Last Week; NW = Number Weeks on Chart; *Former #1)
TW LW NW
1 2 6 MONA LISA - Nat "King" Cole w. Les Baxter & His Orch. (Note: This Oscar-winning song from the movie "Captain Carey U.S.A." was probably Nat's most memorable hit)
2 1 17 *THIRD MAN THEME - Anton Karas, Acoustic Guitar w. Orch. (Note: aka the "Harry Lime Theme," this was a Billboard #1 Best Seller for 11 weeks; it featured the Karas zither and was played behind the opening credits of the famous Orson Welles movie "The Third Man")
3 4 10 I WANNA BE LOVED - The Andrews Sisters w. Gordon Jenkins, His Orch. & Chorus (Note: This 1933 song provided Patti, Maxine & Laverne with their final Top Five hit)
4 9 18 SENTIMENTAL ME - The Ames Brothers w. Orch. Conducted by Roy Ross (Note: Was 27 weeks on Billboard's Pop charts; originally released on the other side of "Rag Mop," but soon thereafter reissued with a different flip side)
5 3 15 THIRD MAN THEME - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (Note: For 11 weeks this version of the famous theme was the #1 jukebox hit in the U.S.)
6 12 2 TZENA, TZENA, TZENA - The Weavers w. Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. (Note: The Weavers simultaneously also released a single of this song in their Hebrew language without orchestral backing)
7 7 13 BEWITCHED - Bill Snyder & His Orch. (Note: This 9-year-old Rodgers and Hart song from the musical movie "Pal Joey" had not previously been widely exposed to the public due to the 1941 ASCAP radio ban, but now became a major hit due to this recording)
8 6 10 BEWITCHED - Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. w. vocal/Bonnie Lou Williams
9 8 18 MY FOOLISH HEART - Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. w. vocal/Sandy Evans
10 5 11 HOOP-DEE-DOO - Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters w. Mitchell Ayers & His Orch.

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US Hot 100 Singles Week Ending 10th July, 1960
Issue Date 4th July, 1960

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL
Connie Francis (MGM)-9 (2 weeks at #1) (1)
2 3 ALLEY-OOP
Hollywood Argyles (Lute)-6 (2)
3 6 I'M SORRY
Brenda Lee (Decca)-6 (3)
4 5 BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG
Duane Eddy (Jamie)-7 (4)
5 2 CATHY'S CLOWN
The Everly Brothers (Warner Brothers)-12 (1)
6 17 THAT'S ALL YOU GOTTA DO
Brenda Lee (Decca)-5 (6)
7 4 BURNING BRIDGES
Jack Scott (Top Rank)-12 (3)
8 11 MY HOME TOWN
Paul Anka (ABC-Paramount)-7 (8)
9 15 MULE SKINNER BLUES
The Fendermen (Soma)-7 (9)
10 7 A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY (To Mess Around and Fall In Love)
Dinah Washington and Brook Benton (Mercury)-7 (7)

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US Top 100 Singles 25 Years Ago (Week Ending 11th July, 1970)

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart

1 2 MAMA TOLD ME (Not To Come)
Three Dog Night (Dunhill)-8 (1 week at #1)
2 1 THE LOVE YOU SAVE/
I FOUND THAT GIRL
Jackson 5 (Motown)-7
3 3 BALL OF CONFUSION (That's What the World Is Today)
The Temptations (Gordy)-8
4 6 RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE
Blues Image (Atco)-10
5 7 BAND OF GOLD
Freda Payne (Invictus)-12
6 8 LAY DOWN (Candles In the Rain)
Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers (Buddah)-12
7 14 (They Long To Be) CLOSE TO YOU
The Carpenters (A&M)-4
8 4 THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD/
FOR YOU BLUE
The Beatles (Apple)-8
9 9 THE WONDER OF YOU/
MAMA LIKED THE ROSES
Elvis Presley (RCA)-9
10 5 HITCHIN' A RIDE
Vanity Fare (Page One)-17

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending 12th July, 1980

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 COMING UP/
COMING UP (Live At Glasgow)
Paul McCartney and Wings (Columbia)-12 (3 weeks at #1) (1)
2 4 IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME
Billy Joel (Columbia)-8 (2)
3 3 THE ROSE
Bette Midler (Atlantic)-17 (3)
4 5 LITTLE JEANNIE
Elton John (MCA)-11 (4)
5 8 CUPID/I'VE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG TIME (Medley)
The Spinners (Altantic)-9 (5)
6 7 STEAL AWAY
Robbie Dupree (Elektra)-14 (6)
7 2 FUNKY TOWN
Lipps, Inc. (Casablanca)-16 (1)
8 14 MAGIC
Olivia Newton-John (MCA)-8 (8)
9 10 LET'S GET SERIOUS
Jermaine Jackson (Motown)-16 (9)
10 11 LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT
The Pure Prairie League (Casablanca)-10 (10)

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending July 7, 1990

TW LW TITLE Artist - Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 STEP BY STEP New Kids On The Block - 7 (1)
2 2 IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE Roxette - 14 (1)
3 9 SHE AIN'T WORTH IT Glenn Medeiros & Bobby Brown - 8 (3)
4 3 POISON Bell Biv Devoe - 14 (3)
5 6 HOLD ON En Vogue - 10 (5)
6 4 DO YOU REMEMBER? Phil Collins - 11 (4)
7 8 I'LL BE YOUR SHELTER Taylor Dayne - 10 (7)
8 10 CRADLE OF LOVE Billy Idol - 10 (8)
9 5 HOLD ON Wilson Phillips - 17 (1)
10 11 RUB YOU THE RIGHT WAY Johnny Gill - 9 (10)

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending July 8, 2000

TW LW Weeks TITLE - Artist

1 1 15 BE WITH YOU - Enrique Iglesias
2 2 17 TRY AGAIN - Aaliyah
3 3 13 I TURN TO YOU - Christina Aguilera
4 5 10 THE REAL SLIM SHADY - Eminem
5 4 28 I WANNA KNOW - Joe
6 6 25 EVERYTHING YOU WANT - Vertical Horizon
7 7 10 IT'S GONNA BE ME - 'N Sync
8 12 11 BENT - matchbox twenty
9 11 36 HIGHER - Creed
10 10 19 THERE YOU GO - Pink

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My parents had an Everly Brothers hits album when I was a kid, and I used to play it over and over. "Cathy's Clown" was my favorite...still enjoy it very much today.

That 1980 chart is very good. I vividly remember when all those songs were popular.

I'm showing my age here, but I know only one song by title on that 2000 chart...the Creed one. I've probably heard a couple of the others at some point, though.

[Jughead]

That Ball of Confusion song on the '70 chart...I don't recall hearing it, but I swear that Love & Rockets redid that song in the mid-eighties!

LOL! The 1990 chart makes me laugh. Taylor Dayne and Billy Idol were all right, and I still listen to both of them today...but the New Kids? Ugh. I still haven't forgiven Glenn Medeiros for that gawd awful "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" back in '87 or '88!!!

Unlike you, Dawn, I know the whole 2000 chart by heart. Some of them were great (Vertical Horizon, Matchbox 20), but some of them were forgettable (i.e. Enrique Iglesias). I always wondered if had Aaliyah not died in 2001 if she'd be right up there with Beyonce, or Alicia Keys today.

[Ken]

Jul 7, 2010 17:32:59 GMT -5 Jughead said:

That Ball of Confusion song on the '70 chart...I don't recall hearing it, but I swear that Love & Rockets redid that song in the mid-eighties!

LOL! The 1990 chart makes me laugh. Taylor Dayne and Billy Idol were all right, and I still listen to both of them today...but the New Kids? Ugh. I still haven't forgiven Glenn Medeiros for that gawd awful "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" back in '87 or '88!!!

Unlike you, Dawn, I know the whole 2000 chart by heart. Some of them were great (Vertical Horizon, Matchbox 20), but some of them were forgettable (i.e. Enrique Iglesias). I always wondered if had Aaliyah not died in 2001 if she'd be right up there with Beyonce, or Alicia Keys today.

Hey Matt,

You are correct, Love and Rockets did record that cover of Ball of Confusion. A buddy of mine had the 12" single version at the time.

[Ken]

1940 - The only track I'm familiar with is Pennsylvania 6 - 5000 and is "Fools Rush In" the same tune that Rick Nelson later covered?

1950 - "Mona Lisa" - Nat had an amazing voice.

1960 - My Uncle had the 45 of "Alley Oop. I remember seeing it along with many other cool 45's while browsing through his collection one day. I agree Dawn, Cathy's Clown is an excellent track.

1970 - A lot of great tunes here. Sadly, the Beatles would be officially ending their "Long and Winding Road" very soon. I remember hearing Hitchin' a Ride when I was little and I just loved it - still do!

1980 - This chart sure takes me back, all except for Jermaine Jackson - I missed that one.

1990 - The only two songs I like are Phil Collins and Billy Idol. I remember hearing the Billy Idol CD for the first time in my buddy's car.

2000 - Yuck

[m c dornan]

1940- I learned to play "Breeze and I". It was in one of the songbooks that came with our new Lowery Chord Organ.

1950- "Third Man Theme". Hope you've all seen the Third Man movie- a classic! In the 1960s, Herb Alpert did a Tijuana Brass version of the song.

1960- Of all the weeks here, my favorite week. My fave- "Burning Bridges", sadly all but forgotten now.

1970 - Shortly after "Long & Winding Road" was on the charts, I saw the movie "Let it Be" in the theater, so I knew back then about the "unplugged" version of this. Always liked it better.

1980- Know all the songs here.

1990 & 2000- don't know any of these.

[dave910]

Jul 7, 2010 7:57:45 GMT -5 Dawn said:

This time, let's look at the charts of years ending in "0":


July 20, 1940
(this doesn't correspond exactly for the week, but it's the earliest Billboard chart published, at least according to the information I have.)


1 I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN - Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers (Note: This...the first Dorsey/Sinatra hit...was their biggest together; it was 12 weeks as Billboard's #1 Best Seller)
2 THE BREEZE AND I - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Bob Eberly (Note: This song was adapted from the Spanish song "Andalucia")
3 IMAGINATION - Glenn Miller & His Orch. w. vocal/Ray Eberle
4 PLAYMATES - Kay Kyser & His Orch. w. vocal/Sully Mason & Trio
5 FOOLS RUSH IN - Glenn Miller & His Orch. w. vocal/Ray Eberle
6 WHERE WAS I? - Charlie Barnet & His Orch. w. vocal/Mary Ann McCall
7 PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000 - Glenn Miller & His Orch. (Note: This was the telephone number of New York's Hotel Pennsylvania)
8 IMAGINATION - Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Frank Sinatra
9 SIERRA SUE - Bing Crosby w. John Scott Trotter & His Orch.
10 MAKE-BELIEVE ISLAND - Mitchell Ayres & His Orch. w. vocal/Mary Ann Mercer

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July 8, 1950


(TW = Position This Week; LW = Position Last Week; NW = Number Weeks on Chart; *Former #1)
TW LW NW
1 2 6 MONA LISA - Nat "King" Cole w. Les Baxter & His Orch. (Note: This Oscar-winning song from the movie "Captain Carey U.S.A." was probably Nat's most memorable hit)
2 1 17 *THIRD MAN THEME - Anton Karas, Acoustic Guitar w. Orch. (Note: aka the "Harry Lime Theme," this was a Billboard #1 Best Seller for 11 weeks; it featured the Karas zither and was played behind the opening credits of the famous Orson Welles movie "The Third Man")
3 4 10 I WANNA BE LOVED - The Andrews Sisters w. Gordon Jenkins, His Orch. & Chorus (Note: This 1933 song provided Patti, Maxine & Laverne with their final Top Five hit)
4 9 18 SENTIMENTAL ME - The Ames Brothers w. Orch. Conducted by Roy Ross (Note: Was 27 weeks on Billboard's Pop charts; originally released on the other side of "Rag Mop," but soon thereafter reissued with a different flip side)
5 3 15 THIRD MAN THEME - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (Note: For 11 weeks this version of the famous theme was the #1 jukebox hit in the U.S.)
6 12 2 TZENA, TZENA, TZENA - The Weavers w. Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. (Note: The Weavers simultaneously also released a single of this song in their Hebrew language without orchestral backing)
7 7 13 BEWITCHED - Bill Snyder & His Orch. (Note: This 9-year-old Rodgers and Hart song from the musical movie "Pal Joey" had not previously been widely exposed to the public due to the 1941 ASCAP radio ban, but now became a major hit due to this recording)
8 6 10 BEWITCHED - Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. w. vocal/Bonnie Lou Williams
9 8 18 MY FOOLISH HEART - Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. w. vocal/Sandy Evans
10 5 11 HOOP-DEE-DOO - Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters w. Mitchell Ayers & His Orch.

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US Hot 100 Singles Week Ending 10th July, 1960
Issue Date 4th July, 1960

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL
Connie Francis (MGM)-9 (2 weeks at #1) (1)
2 3 ALLEY-OOP
Hollywood Argyles (Lute)-6 (2)
3 6 I'M SORRY
Brenda Lee (Decca)-6 (3)
4 5 BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG
Duane Eddy (Jamie)-7 (4)
5 2 CATHY'S CLOWN
The Everly Brothers (Warner Brothers)-12 (1)
6 17 THAT'S ALL YOU GOTTA DO
Brenda Lee (Decca)-5 (6)
7 4 BURNING BRIDGES
Jack Scott (Top Rank)-12 (3)
8 11 MY HOME TOWN
Paul Anka (ABC-Paramount)-7 (8)
9 15 MULE SKINNER BLUES
The Fendermen (Soma)-7 (9)
10 7 A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY (To Mess Around and Fall In Love)
Dinah Washington and Brook Benton (Mercury)-7 (7)

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US Top 100 Singles 25 Years Ago (Week Ending 11th July, 1970)

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart

1 2 MAMA TOLD ME (Not To Come)
Three Dog Night (Dunhill)-8 (1 week at #1)
2 1 THE LOVE YOU SAVE/
I FOUND THAT GIRL
Jackson 5 (Motown)-7
3 3 BALL OF CONFUSION (That's What the World Is Today)
The Temptations (Gordy)-8
4 6 RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE
Blues Image (Atco)-10
5 7 BAND OF GOLD
Freda Payne (Invictus)-12
6 8 LAY DOWN (Candles In the Rain)
Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers (Buddah)-12
7 14 (They Long To Be) CLOSE TO YOU
The Carpenters (A&M)-4
8 4 THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD/
FOR YOU BLUE
The Beatles (Apple)-8
9 9 THE WONDER OF YOU/
MAMA LIKED THE ROSES
Elvis Presley (RCA)-9
10 5 HITCHIN' A RIDE
Vanity Fare (Page One)-17

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending 12th July, 1980

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 COMING UP/
COMING UP (Live At Glasgow)
Paul McCartney and Wings (Columbia)-12 (3 weeks at #1) (1)
2 4 IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME
Billy Joel (Columbia)-8 (2)
3 3 THE ROSE
Bette Midler (Atlantic)-17 (3)
4 5 LITTLE JEANNIE
Elton John (MCA)-11 (4)
5 8 CUPID/I'VE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG TIME (Medley)
The Spinners (Altantic)-9 (5)
6 7 STEAL AWAY
Robbie Dupree (Elektra)-14 (6)
7 2 FUNKY TOWN
Lipps, Inc. (Casablanca)-16 (1)
8 14 MAGIC
Olivia Newton-John (MCA)-8 (8)
9 10 LET'S GET SERIOUS
Jermaine Jackson (Motown)-16 (9)
10 11 LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT
The Pure Prairie League (Casablanca)-10 (10)

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending July 7, 1990

TW LW TITLE Artist - Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 STEP BY STEP New Kids On The Block - 7 (1)
2 2 IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE Roxette - 14 (1)
3 9 SHE AIN'T WORTH IT Glenn Medeiros & Bobby Brown - 8 (3)
4 3 POISON Bell Biv Devoe - 14 (3)
5 6 HOLD ON En Vogue - 10 (5)
6 4 DO YOU REMEMBER? Phil Collins - 11 (4)
7 8 I'LL BE YOUR SHELTER Taylor Dayne - 10 (7)
8 10 CRADLE OF LOVE Billy Idol - 10 (8)
9 5 HOLD ON Wilson Phillips - 17 (1)
10 11 RUB YOU THE RIGHT WAY Johnny Gill - 9 (10)

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending July 8, 2000

TW LW Weeks TITLE - Artist

1 1 15 BE WITH YOU - Enrique Iglesias
2 2 17 TRY AGAIN - Aaliyah
3 3 13 I TURN TO YOU - Christina Aguilera
4 5 10 THE REAL SLIM SHADY - Eminem
5 4 28 I WANNA KNOW - Joe
6 6 25 EVERYTHING YOU WANT - Vertical Horizon
7 7 10 IT'S GONNA BE ME - 'N Sync
8 12 11 BENT - matchbox twenty
9 11 36 HIGHER - Creed
10 10 19 THERE YOU GO - Pink

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My parents had an Everly Brothers hits album when I was a kid, and I used to play it over and over. "Cathy's Clown" was my favorite...still enjoy it very much today.

That 1980 chart is very good. I vividly remember when all those songs were popular.

I'm showing my age here, but I know only one song by title on that 2000 chart...the Creed one. I've probably heard a couple of the others at some point, though.

Dawn,

Thanks again for the feature. Here are my thoughts

1940 - I actually owned a "Red Label RCA Copy" of "Pennsylvania 6-5000" 45 by Glenn Miller as a boy and enjoy the song to this day. People tend to forget how popular Glenn Miller was. With so many hits he was the Michael Jackson of his day. You can understand how sad his fans were when his plane disappeared. This artist would be a good study for the "what would happened if he didn't die" feature

1950 - Nat "king" Cole - Mona Lisa. Beatiful song one of my favorites of that era.

1960 - Too much teen idols here for me. Everly Brothers one of the few acts to transend themselves from the teen market and not have a backlash after the Beatles. I'd actually like to hear the Dinah Washington tune. Too bad she died too young four years later.

1970 - The year of my birth! Great stuff. I actually heard this as the first American Top 40 show on the radio last weekend! Elvis, the Beatles, Temptations and Three Dog Night. Fantastic!

1980 - Not my favorite year for top 40. But I can't fault a chart that includes McCartney, Elton & Billy Joel.

1990 - Some decent tunes here. Johnny Gill was a good R&B singler in the early 90's. Roxette did write some good pop songs. But there are some songs I'd rather relegate to the cut-out bin. Bell-Biv-Devoe and Glenn Mederios.

2000 - I was still buying CD singles back then. Matchbox 20 and Vertical Horizon were two of them. I also remember I had to buy them in the first week or two, because the labels would only print a limited amount. Many times record companies would only print singles if the song was already a garaunteed smash on the radio. I was a big Creed fan. I even own the greatest hits CD!

[Pete70s]

Maybe somebody here can share some insight on this:

Regarding "The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue", every chart book ranks them together as a double-A sided hit. So why has "For You Blue" been totally ignored for 39 years? I mean, "Something/Come Together" was a double A sided hit, both songs considered classics, both included on The Beatles "1" CD. I know that the way the charts worked in 1970, two-sided hits were combined into one chart entry, SO, that means that, technically, "For You Blue" WAS a #1 hit. Perhaps the most FORGOTTEN #1 hit ever, and by the BEATLES, no less!

Somehow, this does not make any sense to me..

[Dawn]

Jul 7, 2010 17:32:59 GMT -5 Jughead said:

That Ball of Confusion song on the '70 chart...I don't recall hearing it, but I swear that Love & Rockets redid that song in the mid-eighties!

LOL! The 1990 chart makes me laugh. Taylor Dayne and Billy Idol were all right, and I still listen to both of them today...but the New Kids? Ugh. I still haven't forgiven Glenn Medeiros for that gawd awful "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" back in '87 or '88!!!

Unlike you, Dawn, I know the whole 2000 chart by heart. Some of them were great (Vertical Horizon, Matchbox 20), but some of them were forgettable (i.e. Enrique Iglesias). I always wondered if had Aaliyah not died in 2001 if she'd be right up there with Beyonce, or Alicia Keys today.

I didn't realize "Ball of Confusion" had been remade. That's interesting.

That Glenn Medeiros song is awful, I agree. I didn't care for it then, and it hasn't improved with age.

[Dawn]

Jul 8, 2010 0:32:23 GMT -5 Ken said:

1940 - The only track I'm familiar with is Pennsylvania 6 - 5000 and is "Fools Rush In" the same tune that Rick Nelson later covered?

1950 - "Mona Lisa" - Nat had an amazing voice.

1960 - My Uncle had the 45 of "Alley Oop. I remember seeing it along with many other cool 45's while browsing through his collection one day. I agree Dawn, Cathy's Clown is an excellent track.

1970 - A lot of great tunes here. Sadly, the Beatles would be officially ending their "Long and Winding Road" very soon. I remember hearing Hitchin' a Ride when I was little and I just loved it - still do!

1980 - This chart sure takes me back, all except for Jermaine Jackson - I missed that one.

1990 - The only two songs I like are Phil Collins and Billy Idol. I remember hearing the Billy Idol CD for the first time in my buddy's car.

2000 - Yuck

I looked up "Fools Rush In," and it is indeed the same song. I had no idea it dated that far back. Here's Glenn's version of it:


That Jermaine Jackson song never got much play on the radio at the time as I recall. I knew it mainly from listening to the 45 that a friend of my cousin's had.

[Dawn]

Jul 10, 2010 19:20:51 GMT -5 m c dornan said:

1940- I learned to play "Breeze and I". It was in one of the songbooks that came with our new Lowery Chord Organ.

1950- "Third Man Theme". Hope you've all seen the Third Man movie- a classic! In the 1960s, Herb Alpert did a Tijuana Brass version of the song.

1960- Of all the weeks here, my favorite week. My fave- "Burning Bridges", sadly all but forgotten now.

1970 - Shortly after "Long & Winding Road" was on the charts, I saw the movie "Let it Be" in the theater, so I knew back then about the "unplugged" version of this. Always liked it better.

1980- Know all the songs here.

1990 & 2000- don't know any of these.

I had a Magnus tabletop chord organ...used to play that thing all the time as a kid. I sold it to one of my mom's co-workers when I was a teenager, and I regret doing that. I've checked eBay many times, but never have come across one exactly like the one I had.

"Burning Bridges" is very obscure these days, I agree. I wonder if it's because it's too "country" for oldies stations - but then again, I haven't heard it on classic country radio either.

[Dawn]

Jul 11, 2010 17:52:46 GMT -5 dave910 said:

Jul 7, 2010 7:57:45 GMT -5 Dawn said:

This time, let's look at the charts of years ending in "0":


July 20, 1940
(this doesn't correspond exactly for the week, but it's the earliest Billboard chart published, at least according to the information I have.)


1 I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN - Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers (Note: This...the first Dorsey/Sinatra hit...was their biggest together; it was 12 weeks as Billboard's #1 Best Seller)
2 THE BREEZE AND I - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Bob Eberly (Note: This song was adapted from the Spanish song "Andalucia")
3 IMAGINATION - Glenn Miller & His Orch. w. vocal/Ray Eberle
4 PLAYMATES - Kay Kyser & His Orch. w. vocal/Sully Mason & Trio
5 FOOLS RUSH IN - Glenn Miller & His Orch. w. vocal/Ray Eberle
6 WHERE WAS I? - Charlie Barnet & His Orch. w. vocal/Mary Ann McCall
7 PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000 - Glenn Miller & His Orch. (Note: This was the telephone number of New York's Hotel Pennsylvania)
8 IMAGINATION - Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. w. vocal/Frank Sinatra
9 SIERRA SUE - Bing Crosby w. John Scott Trotter & His Orch.
10 MAKE-BELIEVE ISLAND - Mitchell Ayres & His Orch. w. vocal/Mary Ann Mercer

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July 8, 1950


(TW = Position This Week; LW = Position Last Week; NW = Number Weeks on Chart; *Former #1)
TW LW NW
1 2 6 MONA LISA - Nat "King" Cole w. Les Baxter & His Orch. (Note: This Oscar-winning song from the movie "Captain Carey U.S.A." was probably Nat's most memorable hit)
2 1 17 *THIRD MAN THEME - Anton Karas, Acoustic Guitar w. Orch. (Note: aka the "Harry Lime Theme," this was a Billboard #1 Best Seller for 11 weeks; it featured the Karas zither and was played behind the opening credits of the famous Orson Welles movie "The Third Man")
3 4 10 I WANNA BE LOVED - The Andrews Sisters w. Gordon Jenkins, His Orch. & Chorus (Note: This 1933 song provided Patti, Maxine & Laverne with their final Top Five hit)
4 9 18 SENTIMENTAL ME - The Ames Brothers w. Orch. Conducted by Roy Ross (Note: Was 27 weeks on Billboard's Pop charts; originally released on the other side of "Rag Mop," but soon thereafter reissued with a different flip side)
5 3 15 THIRD MAN THEME - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (Note: For 11 weeks this version of the famous theme was the #1 jukebox hit in the U.S.)
6 12 2 TZENA, TZENA, TZENA - The Weavers w. Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. (Note: The Weavers simultaneously also released a single of this song in their Hebrew language without orchestral backing)
7 7 13 BEWITCHED - Bill Snyder & His Orch. (Note: This 9-year-old Rodgers and Hart song from the musical movie "Pal Joey" had not previously been widely exposed to the public due to the 1941 ASCAP radio ban, but now became a major hit due to this recording)
8 6 10 BEWITCHED - Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. w. vocal/Bonnie Lou Williams
9 8 18 MY FOOLISH HEART - Gordon Jenkins & His Orch. w. vocal/Sandy Evans
10 5 11 HOOP-DEE-DOO - Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters w. Mitchell Ayers & His Orch.

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US Hot 100 Singles Week Ending 10th July, 1960
Issue Date 4th July, 1960

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL
Connie Francis (MGM)-9 (2 weeks at #1) (1)
2 3 ALLEY-OOP
Hollywood Argyles (Lute)-6 (2)
3 6 I'M SORRY
Brenda Lee (Decca)-6 (3)
4 5 BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG
Duane Eddy (Jamie)-7 (4)
5 2 CATHY'S CLOWN
The Everly Brothers (Warner Brothers)-12 (1)
6 17 THAT'S ALL YOU GOTTA DO
Brenda Lee (Decca)-5 (6)
7 4 BURNING BRIDGES
Jack Scott (Top Rank)-12 (3)
8 11 MY HOME TOWN
Paul Anka (ABC-Paramount)-7 (8)
9 15 MULE SKINNER BLUES
The Fendermen (Soma)-7 (9)
10 7 A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY (To Mess Around and Fall In Love)
Dinah Washington and Brook Benton (Mercury)-7 (7)

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US Top 100 Singles 25 Years Ago (Week Ending 11th July, 1970)

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart

1 2 MAMA TOLD ME (Not To Come)
Three Dog Night (Dunhill)-8 (1 week at #1)
2 1 THE LOVE YOU SAVE/
I FOUND THAT GIRL
Jackson 5 (Motown)-7
3 3 BALL OF CONFUSION (That's What the World Is Today)
The Temptations (Gordy)-8
4 6 RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE
Blues Image (Atco)-10
5 7 BAND OF GOLD
Freda Payne (Invictus)-12
6 8 LAY DOWN (Candles In the Rain)
Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers (Buddah)-12
7 14 (They Long To Be) CLOSE TO YOU
The Carpenters (A&M)-4
8 4 THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD/
FOR YOU BLUE
The Beatles (Apple)-8
9 9 THE WONDER OF YOU/
MAMA LIKED THE ROSES
Elvis Presley (RCA)-9
10 5 HITCHIN' A RIDE
Vanity Fare (Page One)-17

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending 12th July, 1980

TW LW TITLE Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 COMING UP/
COMING UP (Live At Glasgow)
Paul McCartney and Wings (Columbia)-12 (3 weeks at #1) (1)
2 4 IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME
Billy Joel (Columbia)-8 (2)
3 3 THE ROSE
Bette Midler (Atlantic)-17 (3)
4 5 LITTLE JEANNIE
Elton John (MCA)-11 (4)
5 8 CUPID/I'VE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG TIME (Medley)
The Spinners (Altantic)-9 (5)
6 7 STEAL AWAY
Robbie Dupree (Elektra)-14 (6)
7 2 FUNKY TOWN
Lipps, Inc. (Casablanca)-16 (1)
8 14 MAGIC
Olivia Newton-John (MCA)-8 (8)
9 10 LET'S GET SERIOUS
Jermaine Jackson (Motown)-16 (9)
10 11 LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT
The Pure Prairie League (Casablanca)-10 (10)

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending July 7, 1990

TW LW TITLE Artist - Weeks on Chart (Peak Position)

1 1 STEP BY STEP New Kids On The Block - 7 (1)
2 2 IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE Roxette - 14 (1)
3 9 SHE AIN'T WORTH IT Glenn Medeiros & Bobby Brown - 8 (3)
4 3 POISON Bell Biv Devoe - 14 (3)
5 6 HOLD ON En Vogue - 10 (5)
6 4 DO YOU REMEMBER? Phil Collins - 11 (4)
7 8 I'LL BE YOUR SHELTER Taylor Dayne - 10 (7)
8 10 CRADLE OF LOVE Billy Idol - 10 (8)
9 5 HOLD ON Wilson Phillips - 17 (1)
10 11 RUB YOU THE RIGHT WAY Johnny Gill - 9 (10)

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US Top 100 Singles Week Ending July 8, 2000

TW LW Weeks TITLE - Artist

1 1 15 BE WITH YOU - Enrique Iglesias
2 2 17 TRY AGAIN - Aaliyah
3 3 13 I TURN TO YOU - Christina Aguilera
4 5 10 THE REAL SLIM SHADY - Eminem
5 4 28 I WANNA KNOW - Joe
6 6 25 EVERYTHING YOU WANT - Vertical Horizon
7 7 10 IT'S GONNA BE ME - 'N Sync
8 12 11 BENT - matchbox twenty
9 11 36 HIGHER - Creed
10 10 19 THERE YOU GO - Pink

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My parents had an Everly Brothers hits album when I was a kid, and I used to play it over and over. "Cathy's Clown" was my favorite...still enjoy it very much today.

That 1980 chart is very good. I vividly remember when all those songs were popular.

I'm showing my age here, but I know only one song by title on that 2000 chart...the Creed one. I've probably heard a couple of the others at some point, though.

Dawn,

Thanks again for the feature. Here are my thoughts

1940 - I actually owned a "Red Label RCA Copy" of "Pennsylvania 6-5000" 45 by Glenn Miller as a boy and enjoy the song to this day. People tend to forget how popular Glenn Miller was. With so many hits he was the Michael Jackson of his day. You can understand how sad his fans were when his plane disappeared. This artist would be a good study for the "what would happened if he didn't die" feature

1950 - Nat "king" Cole - Mona Lisa. Beatiful song one of my favorites of that era.

1960 - Too much teen idols here for me. Everly Brothers one of the few acts to transend themselves from the teen market and not have a backlash after the Beatles. I'd actually like to hear the Dinah Washington tune. Too bad she died too young four years later.

1970 - The year of my birth! Great stuff. I actually heard this as the first American Top 40 show on the radio last weekend! Elvis, the Beatles, Temptations and Three Dog Night. Fantastic!

1980 - Not my favorite year for top 40. But I can't fault a chart that includes McCartney, Elton & Billy Joel.

1990 - Some decent tunes here. Johnny Gill was a good R&B singler in the early 90's. Roxette did write some good pop songs. But there are some songs I'd rather relegate to the cut-out bin. Bell-Biv-Devoe and Glenn Mederios.

2000 - I was still buying CD singles back then. Matchbox 20 and Vertical Horizon were two of them. I also remember I had to buy them in the first week or two, because the labels would only print a limited amount. Many times record companies would only print singles if the song was already a garaunteed smash on the radio. I was a big Creed fan. I even own the greatest hits CD!

You're welcome, Dave - glad you're enjoying them!

Good point about Glenn Miller. My husband and I occasionally listen to a radio show called "Big Band Jump," and they feature a lot of Glenn's music on it. Not long ago, I made the comment that in 20 years or so, probably very few people will know of Glenn or listen to big band music. Kinda sad to have that era lost.

I wasn't familiar with the Dinah Washington song, but found it on Youtube: . Catchy little number...shame it hasn't gotten more exposure.

[Dawn]

Jul 13, 2010 22:16:09 GMT -5 Pete70s said:

Maybe somebody here can share some insight on this:

Regarding "The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue", every chart book ranks them together as a double-A sided hit. So why has "For You Blue" been totally ignored for 39 years? I mean, "Something/Come Together" was a double A sided hit, both songs considered classics, both included on The Beatles "1" CD. I know that the way the charts worked in 1970, two-sided hits were combined into one chart entry, SO, that means that, technically, "For You Blue" WAS a #1 hit. Perhaps the most FORGOTTEN #1 hit ever, and by the BEATLES, no less!

Somehow, this does not make any sense to me..

I don't have an answer, but it's an interesting and valid question. "For You Blue" wasn't even included on the "Blue Album" greatest hits collection...and it definitely should have been. It does seem to be pretty much forgotten, as about the only time I ever hear it on the radio is a related program like "Breakfast with the Beatles" or "The Beatle Years."

[Jughead]

Jul 14, 2010 7:46:18 GMT -5 Dawn said:

Jul 7, 2010 17:32:59 GMT -5 Jughead said:

That Ball of Confusion song on the '70 chart...I don't recall hearing it, but I swear that Love & Rockets redid that song in the mid-eighties!

LOL! The 1990 chart makes me laugh. Taylor Dayne and Billy Idol were all right, and I still listen to both of them today...but the New Kids? Ugh. I still haven't forgiven Glenn Medeiros for that gawd awful "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" back in '87 or '88!!!

Unlike you, Dawn, I know the whole 2000 chart by heart. Some of them were great (Vertical Horizon, Matchbox 20), but some of them were forgettable (i.e. Enrique Iglesias). I always wondered if had Aaliyah not died in 2001 if she'd be right up there with Beyonce, or Alicia Keys today.

I didn't realize "Ball of Confusion" had been remade. That's interesting.

That Glenn Medeiros song is awful, I agree. I didn't care for it then, and it hasn't improved with age.

From 1985...

Ball Of Confusion/LOVE & ROCKETS