01 Jan 2002
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Some UK Hits: Jan 1964
| 1 |
Glad All Over |
| Dave Clark Five |
| 2 |
I Want To Hold Your Hand |
| Beatles |
| 3 |
I Only Want To Be With You |
| Dusty Springfield |
| 4 |
Hippy Hippy Shake |
| Swinging Blue Jeans |
| 5 |
She Loves You |
| Beatles |
| 6 |
24 Hours From Tulsa |
| Gene Pitney |
| 7 |
Swinging On A Star |
| Big Dee Irwin |
| 8 |
You Were Made For Me |
| Freddie and The Dreamers |
| 9 |
Dominique |
| The Singing Nun |
| 10 |
Stay |
| Hollies |
| 11 |
Secret Love |
| Kathy Kirby |
| 12 |
Maria Elena |
| Los Indios Tabaras |
| 13 |
I Wanna Be Your Man |
| Rolling Stones |
| 14 |
Kiss Me Quick |
| Elvis Presley |
| 15 |
We Are In Love |
| Adam Faith |
| 16 |
Don't Talk To Him |
| Cliff Richard |
| 17 |
As Usual |
| Brenda Lee |
| 18 |
Needles And Pins |
| Searchers |
| 19 |
Geronimo |
| Shadows |
| 20 |
I'm The One |
| Gerry and The Pacemakers |
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 We
have been refused permission to reproduce charts from this
era, so please note that the list of singles on this page does
not represent any one UK chart; compiled from many different
sources, the list is a general guide to the most popular singles of
the month, ordered loosely by sales and peak chart position.
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A
foot-stamping start to the year with The
Dave Clark Five, consisting of Dave Clark himself, Mike
Smith, Lenny Davidson, Denny Payton and Rick Huxley. Big in
the Sixties - they had eight other Top Twenty hits after Glad All
Over - they split in the early Seventies, Dave leaving to
concentrate on music publishing. Glad All Over was
re-released in 1993, reaching No. 37. Dave has twice been
offered big money for a nostalgia tour, but has decided against it,
on the grounds that the DC5 had had their day 30 years ago.
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Dusty
Springfield started her career with folksy trio The Springfields,
but they went their separate ways in 1963. Dusty then
experimented with various styles, and eventually transformed herself
brilliantly into a White British soul diva. Able to
handle big Motown as effectively as ballads, she achieved an
international reputation in the Sixties, with 13 hits including I
Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself, You Don't Have To Say
You Love Me, and Son Of A Preacher Man. The Sixties
were her best decade, but she kept singing, and in 1987 reached No.
2 in collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys with What Have I Done
To Deserve This? Dusty died in March 1999 from
breast cancer.
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Starting
off at High School with Gene Pitney And The Genials (hope they took
care with the spelling of that one) singer and songwriter Gene
Pitney is one the most enduring acts of the last 40
years. He'll be 61 soon, and still tours six months of
each year. 24 Hours From Tulsa was the first of
his 10 UK Top Ten hits. He has never made the Top 20 as
a soloist since 1968, bu remains a very successful live
performer. In 1989, Marc Almond reached No. 1 with Something's
Gotten Hold Of My Heart, with Gene providing guest vocals.
Surprisingly, this is Gene's only No. 1.
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Unlikely
star the Singing Nun at No. 9. Dominique
was a U.S. No.1 for Belgian Jeanine Deckers, whose singing career
and modern views caused some unease among her Dominican
order. She gave up singing in 1965 to return to her
studies, but then left again in 1966 to resume her musical career,
recording among other things a song in praise of the contraceptive
pill. In the 70's she became close to Annie Pescher, with whom
she co-owned a school for autistic children. But in the 1980's
the Belgian tax authorities hit her with a $60,000 tax bill for her
earlier recording work (although she had given all proceeds to the
Church) and in 1985 she and Pescher killed themselves in a suicide
pact.
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