Talks on the baby say. No it's time to drop the corn right into the slots for 2 hours a vintage music in Henrietta's jukebox. This week show begins with a rerun of the British top 10 on the 10th of December 960 with the Drifters Cliff Richard and shadows in the Hurricanes among the major makers are 56 years ago this week. After that we are brothers in Alaska Sister Rosetta Tharpe and are both will be encouraging us to shine. Later on in the 2nd half of the show will be a look back at the headline news and top tunes in 60 years ago and the big 4 of December 9056 months when 82 missing signal to Lucian is landed on the coast of Cuba and Guy Mitchell sung the blue. Time to finish last assignment Garfunkel Martin bandos and Stevie Wonder will be representing the American top 20 newcomers of December 966 with the story with these and we're told it was at number warm in the British top 10 of the 10th of December 19th 60. Come. Call. Me Ma. Too. Long with. Its. What you'll soon see. To school. Coming. Elvis Presley and it's now or never this Records a far cry from the likes of Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock but we must remember that as well as being influenced by the blues of Arthur crude up in the Country Music of Red Foley and Hank Snow Elvis would always love romantic ballads as sung by people such as Dean Martin out of that the pressure from both his manager and record company to pursue the mainstream market it is inevitable that something like It's now or never would have cropped up sooner or later the idea of this particular song though came from Elvis himself or is doing is army service in Germany between one to 58 and 960 he spent a lot of time listening to the romantic outpourings of the former opera singer Mario Lanza want to press this particular favorites was oh solar Meo an Italian song dating from the beginning of the century when Elvis is music publisher Freddie beanstalk got wind of this he needed the commission his in-house team of Aaron Schroeder and Wally gold to update the song and provide it with an English lyric took Schroeder in gold just about half an hour to come up with an undersized version that sold 20000000 copies worldwide including a 5 week stint at number one in America in the late summer 960 its British release was delayed for a few months owing to copyright disputes but the sense of anticipation resulted in even stronger sales in expected the record Saturday u.k. Number one for 8 weeks throughout November and December it's now or never opens Elvis' golden records Volume 3 on r.c.a. The long reign of its now or never number one prevented a far worthier record from getting the top spot. With the bad news heading home. You can smile if you smile fold. Your hand the pillow like. A. Pig The news comes you know me. Some doctors say. That the music's fine nightspot play mostly when have you. Left in the same bed round here all hot Don't give me your mom said my. Mom I am so. Sleepy but let's just call me. Baby don't you know I love you so my you could be my I have never let you know. How close I. Can get close. Killing is gone and it's time. To give. You The Drifters say the last dance and me it's actually the simile entitled dance with me that introduced the Drifters to British record boss when it made a brief appearance in the top 20 in January 960 but many people still think of say the last dance to me as being the 1st chapter of the drift a story. In point of fact he was the epilogue as far as the lead singer Benny King was concerned as he'd already left the group to go solo by the time say the last dance to me was released this is to avoid the clutches of the Richie George Treadwell The Drifters manager who had sacked the previous line the previous act in its entirety for daring to ask for a wage rise as for the song that was penned by Pomus and Shuman Doc Pomus Subban written the lyrics way back in 157 when on his honeymoon is a poignant commentary on the fact that his polio crippled legs went up to a scorching his bride around the dance floor except for one final careful turn at the end of the evening after she danced with other partners more Schumann to come up with a nobody much more recently carefully telling it to suit Benny King's voice say the last dance to me had already sat at number one in America for 3 weeks in October 960 before it appeared in the Bushies charts at the beginning of November after which he spent nearly all of December number 2 on able to force his way past is now or never is a title track of Volume 3 of the definitive Drifters anthology on sequel records more easily an inexpensive be found nowadays as part of a drift as far volume set called original album series on Rhino Records number 3 this week 56 years ago it's an extremely weird record indeed. Her. To. a straw. C shop. The dump is big strong. It was Anthony Newley with a very actor ish cabaret style update of the old folk song straw Rifat the record label actually credits the Victorian collector's sessile sharpen the Reverend sub on bearing Gould with composing song but 8 was probably a certain age freak would shepherd you know sitting down in Devon in the 1990 s. And be most likely baring who then tinkered with the words possibly to make the more genteel additional lyrics i.e. The jokey bits were attributed to someone called not only Clapton this is apparently newly himself in disguise of a weird you may think this record to be Anthony knew he was at the height of his popularity between one to 59 and 96 he won't stroll found no difficulty in peaking at number 3 on the 10th of December 960 and indeed spending all of that month in the top 5 on the very best of on to newly on spectrum music just about to overtake Strawberry fair in the charts was this all the more conventional offering from Cliff Richard and the shadows. Means more to me. Falling. Off. A. Cliff Richard in the shadows and I love you must be admitted that this song by the shadows rhythm guitarist Bruce Welsh wasn't his most outstanding no memorable composition but it served its purpose and in any case the fact that cliff could count on his band members to provide material in addition to that coming from other sources bode well for the future cast in the similarly easygoing start of previous chart toppers such as living doll and traveling light I love you bounce straight into the hit parade in the 8 on the 3rd of December and reached Number 4 the week after that but there was a blast injuries way up one place at a time until it finally became Cliff's 4th number one hit we spent the 1st 4 nights 61 on top are taking all of you from a cliff collection called The rocking years not 592960 Volume 2 on Smith and Co. Now be a number 5 on the 10th of December 16th but the shadows. In a. Thanks. Thanks. Shadows and the double sided top 10 hits of December 1960 the follow up to their debut success with Apache which is spent 5 weeks and number one from late August to the end of September the new singles nominal a side was Man of Mystery these highly catchy tunes written by Michael Carr a composer born in Leeds in the early years the 20th century who created it for a popular t.v. Series of dramatize ation of Edgar Wallace stories the theme soon converted perfectly to the star the shadows and he looked all set to provide them with a very big hit however there is a slight hiccup at 1st when Man of Mystery had to compete in the charts of his own beside the stranger written by the team of Bill Crompton and Morgan Jones Jones was otherwise known as the manic pianist thunderclap Jones this team had earlier in the year come up with a top 10 hit for Craig Douglas the heart of a teenage girl because of the rival popularity of the stranger the shadow single was hastily re promoted as a double sided one even so it went straight in a number 10 in mid November spending the 1st fortnight of December number 5 but there after dropping out of the top 10 both sides on the shadows collection 50 golden greats on e.m.i. . A number 6 on the 10th of December was a little donkey by Nina and Frederick and I caught tell you how disappointed I am that there's a radio embargo on Christmas ditties until later in the month such a shame but goodness gracious me whatever it was at number 7. 0 I'm in trouble when Goodness gracious me for every time a certain man is standing next to me as flush comes to my face and my mouth the instant case goes boom boom boom boom boom deep Good evening bloody below them bloody don't bloody boom boom boom Goodness gracious me. How often does this happen and when did the trumpet start receive mazed hit the scope with Bobby Abreu the drum beat of your heart what man needs he to create these I live g. He goes boom boom boom bloody boom boom boom bloody the evil people the boom boom boom boom for Tito bloody boom with Goodness gracious me. From your day to Dad leading a home run mate yet a feeling I know Dave never better yet been beaten or outbox I remembered that with one job of making me but japa how it yeah I'd update it Betty I knew you did did this and Teddy but you ought to come clean because God leave you to be. Put to touch my feet with goodness gracious. You may be very Florida but how can't you see my heart beats much too much to sift intended to watch 8 goes boom boom boom. People. Who know if you don't bloody go to dethrone with Goodness gracious me. Can Is your tongue nothing the matter with it could you do a piece maybe it's my bank maybe July down here. My initial diagnosis soon so to me was done from close to the sleeping sickness and as far as I can. Influence and him fly mission group being called by night study issues I knew all these so good that put you out I board was so chaotic that I got in but did you please who had that do. Just put 2 and 2 to get for a few head ice the see the face that makes my closest race just right in front to me brood there is nothing I can do oh my heart is jumping toll we go boom good people good people good people good people good you don't put a boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom goodness gracious whoa old be sure it's goodness gracious hopeless you should Goodness gracious me it is you get to the. Goodness gracious me at the end of October I played you more in Evans and Brian Matthews critical stab at duplicating this record for with the embassy label the song though it was the real thing a most unlikely combination of Peter Sellers as a feeler Wren let alone an uncredited wobble ballplayer Goodness Gracious Me is a record that might be considered just a shade known p.c. These days but not 56 years ago it came about because sellers and Lloren were appearing together in a film called The Millionaire s. And they cut this comedy record playing the same characters as a portrayed in the movie yet the filmmakers refused to countenance its inclusion in the picture however they were happy enough to see it releases a single as there's nothing quite like free publicity Goodness Gracious Me produced like much of sellers work by George Martin Julie obliged by shooting out the top 20 in of eminent 160 peak at number 4 the beginning of December to drop down to number 7 the following week but remain in the top 10 into the New Year Goodness gracious me in its top 30 follow up bangers and mash both on the Peter Sellars collection on e.m.i. a Number 8 on the 10th of December can be found joining the hurricanes in the process of planning their festive dinner which would feature rocking boobs. John in the hurricanes and rocking boots and one of their usual repertoire of rocked up out of copyright material this latest offering of that as was an original composition written for them by their associate t.j. Foul up Fowler was a veteran Detroit band leader who simple Tennessee helping Barry Gordy set up what would eventually become the time of Motown organization fellow who also had a hand in writing during hurricanes debut hit crossfire for rocking goose the novelty honking sounds were cheated by the simple expedient of the group's leader Johnny Paris removing the mouthpiece of his saxophone I'm blowing through it directly into the mike By now the fortunes of John hurricanes begin to decline in the States with a record only just scraped into the top 60 a British audiences on the other hand were still very fond of this Ohio band rocking goose actually became the all time biggest hit here. Much in the peak of number 3 achieved by Red River Rock but remaining on chart for a month longer an impressive 20 weeks altogether walking Goosen spent the last fortnight of November a number 3 but by the 10th of December it's a state that's number 8 where it would remain for another week or 2 during the hurricanes the e.p. Collection is on c 4 miles records. And. Your listening to Henrietta's jukebox on b.b.c. Radio Humberside Lincolnshire and York coming up shortly the Isley Brothers will be leading the way in a bit of a shouting match but before that I must finish off the rerun of the British top 10 or the 10th of December 960 and the number 9 this week 56 years ago was someone who'd been virtually unknown in this country just a month earlier Johnny tell it's. See . To. Remove. There's nothing. To say. Doesn't. Prove. She's. there's nothing. To say. Prove. She's. The a. Johnny Tillotson and poetry in motion it in the States this Florida born singer was relatively unknown despite quietly chalking up 6 mine a hot 100 hits before poetry in motion made his name in a big way and in this country just 3 singles have been issued and completely ignored but poetry in motion was something that demanded attention a superior team ballad given a classy Nashville treatment with boots Randolph supplying a sleazily humorous commentary on the tennis sax the record appeal to a wide spread of tastes and shots of the American charts to peak at number 2 in November 19th $6010.00 to the British hit parade at the very end of that same month by the 10th of December reached the top 10 number 9 as the new year dawned it was in the top 5 and a fortnight later poetry in motion dislodges cliffs I love you to reach number one most of Johnny's subsequent records stuck more closely to his favored country music style and so so much better in the States and they did here he did though manage another 5 u.k. Chart hits despite not of the making the top 20 a collection of Donna Tilton's releases on the cadence label London American here is called All these early hits and more for exclamation marks and is on a strict holds. I've already played you and in New Orleans current hit from the close a 960 Strawberry fair one of the things that helped on its way was being plugged on an experimental television series by Newley called the strange world of goodness Slade this series is rather to sue real for the tastes of both the public and t.v. Executives but it proved to be very influential in the long run the time however more people probably bought a recording of the theme tune than fall of the t.v. Series itself especially after being shifted to the post 11 pm graveyard slot after registering poor audience figures in fact enough people bought the single to get into the top 10. The gurney Slade theme by Max Harrison is group Max Harris was a just pianist by inclination found his ability to compose and arrange radio and t.v. Themes provided a steady income by its own admission his piano part on the gurney Slade theme was modeled on that a Mose Allison on Parchment Farm though I'm afraid I've been are only able to find out who his flute player was released on the Fontana label the theme broke into the charts at the end of the Vemma $960.00 reached its peak on the 10th of December whether that beat was number 11 some listings claim or number 10 or the one I'm using does is a small matter as it hung around at or near its peak the rest of the month by which time the t.v. Show the lost it that ceased its run never to return Max Harris never return to the charts either but the future composer of the theme tunes to porridge Open All Hours on Paul dark the original series really didn't need to worry about that the gurney Slade theme reemerge in the mid 19th seventies as an accompaniment of the clock sequence in the children's t.v. Series vision on our family from 960 British hit parade part 3 on Acrobat music other brings to a close this rerun of the British top 10 or the 10th of December 9 $160.00 now it's time to start shouting Who better to set us off than the Isley Brothers. C C 7 C 7 to me. You know you meant. Oops one of the brothers got caught out at the end there I think that was the Isley Brothers with Shout parts $1.00 and $2.00 were thinly disguised piece of gospel hollering both by the brothers local church organist Professor Thurman Stevens that they recorded in New York in the summer of 9059 the story goes that the Cincinnati born sibling trio were performing in Washington d.c. One night doing a version of Jackie Wilson's lonely teardrops when one of them ad lib the line you know you make me want to shout the audience hollered its approval and the seeds of a new song was sown the Isley Brothers of the come to New York in one to $57.00 and after a few one of single small labels recently signed to r.c.a. Where they were produced by Hugo and Luigi despite the fact that shout only just made the pop top 50 and failed to register at all in the army charts in the also a 59 it proved highly influential in the long run it got back into the Hot 100 through a spring of 9062 Reissue for instance and then in the summer of 64 a lively and engaging revival by Lulu in the lovers became a British Top 10 hit not many anthologies give you both parts of shout but you can get it on a collection of the Isleys complete r.c.a. Recordings on the Camden label is entitled What else shout Now let's double up and then triple up on our shouting he has earned him a rescue 1st with Shout shout knock yourself out. I. Maybe with me. Because I. Say oh no. That song was 3 things sold me me. A good the. Cold. Shoulder. A long night long. Gone a car the sun sets good. Go. Cold. Come on good. Luck sun. Baby put me. Down. On all night long. She told the break they didn't say. No way. They even me. I. Told. You. I. Shall. A. A. A. 3. A a. A a. The 1st that their records to a shout shout knock yourself out by earn him a rescuer the rest goes in the spring do what singer from the Bronx who discovered early on that his talents lay and songwriting The reference to Run Around Sue is the clue that Dion was the main recipient of his songs and while I may not have had as good a set of tonsils as Mr Di Mucci never pretended to have that he could bash out a raucous song as well as the next man shout shout knock yourself out which As with many of Dion solo hits featured the Del satins on backing vocals was the only one of his songs he managed to turn into a hit him self but is a big one registering in the top 10 in the spring of 9062 you can find it on the Golden Age of American rock n roll volume 8 on a strict holds are to shout shout came shout shout shout Now this one's a real obscurity is attributed to Candy Rivers a female r. And b. Singer active in Los Angeles in the 1950s though she is a former gospel singer from Indianapolis whose real name was apparently the netter Riley Obviously though hers is only one of 2 or 3 other voices or male the composer of shout shout shout is credited as Fletcher Smith there was a band on the l.a. Scene at the time called Fletcher Smith squares I guess that's who we're actually hearing here with Candy Millie doing a guest spot helping out on vocals and the way the track record of the combo label was never issued until the 1990 s. Though its style suggested actually dates from the early fifty's I found it on a compilation called jiving to and that's also on a strict rules. Now from a former gospel singer Let's hear from someone who in the forty's and fifty's was very much an active one Sister Rosetta thought. Out. Oh I thought. When everybody in the word. I'm sure I mean. I read them but. Really. Not. A reason. I read. Them No. Doubt. No. Doubt. Oh my oh about a 1000000. 0 I oh about. Me. I really want to and. Can't. I can understand the bird when I get up and them be easy for me but not despair already. And I can understand your. Rhythm. That was shout sister shout recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe with a frequent collaborators of the day looking in his orchestra the song had in fact been written for her by Millan to himself in association with his pianist Bill Doggett later of honkytonk Fame chances to show it was very popular on the sound is an early form of video jukebox and also so strongly as a conventional 78 r.p.m. Record on the deck a label in the summer of $142.00 just too soon to register in the hall and hit parade to 1st published that autumn both the sound even on the deck of the ocean committee found on the system as a thought box set called The original soul system some proper records. Now I began the sequence with the brothers and shout. They're associated with of course and that's twist and shout It's a taken up by the Beatles and countless others I thought you might find it interesting to hear the original recorded version of this song which contra to popular belief wasn't by the Isley Brothers and told by a group called the top notes but it would have warning scarcely recognizable as the same song. Top Notes and twist and shout now when Bert Burns wrote this song in association with Phil medley no relation to Bill Medley the Righteous Brothers he had a definite sound in his head a sort of cross between gospel influenced r. And b. And Latino music specifically La Bamba but he had little studio experience at the time and Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records ignored Burke's request to produce a recording of the song himself and instead get the job to the company's rising young star Phil Spector On paper they should do work just fine especially cause a member of the top notes the vocal group chosen to record it was Derek Martin later responsible for a celebrated version of the on b. Standard Danny Rolling Stone Not only that but the studio band included King Curtis on 10 a sax than he has on keyboards John Pitzer rarely on guitar Panama Francis on drums on the cookies on backing vocals and as well as Phil Spector in the producer's chair with Jerry Wexler hovering paternally behind him the arrangement was in the hands of the do what Maestro Teddy ran that so. What could possibly go wrong just about everything as it turned out the top notes couldn't seem to get their heads around the song and suspect in these pre-war sound days messed about with run that sos arrangement completely change in the middle 8 and no one could work out what rhythm to use but Burns watched proceedings aghast in the spectators booth and of course it works for afterwards with the words man you really messed it up said he didn't say messed up later after birth Burns of encounter the Isley Brothers of produce them singing Twist and Shout the way he then visited Wexler had the grace to admit he'd got it wrong the top notes version of Twist and Shout was shiftily issued as the b. Side in August $9061.00 and vanished without trace a year later the Isleys recording of it made the Top 20 and inspired the Beatles memorable revival of 1963 This leaves the top notes original recording as a mere curiosity must be admitted they can be found on land of a 1000 Dances all twist in addition on a strike olds that are shouting match at an end. To the obese it's Henri's to box on the b.b.c. a. You're listening to Henrietta's jukebox on b.b.c. Radio Lincolnshire York and homicide coming up in the 2nd half of the show the headline news and top tunes of 60 years ago this month in the Big 4 of December 956 when Britain trying to disengage itself from Sue is America again some trouble some new neighbors and frankly Von hinted licentious goings on behind the green door and to finish Aaron Neville Stevie Wonder and the temptations will be found among the American top 20 newcomers of December 19th 66 this week's rock n roll instrumental is called totem pole was performed by the Great Yarmouth band of Peter j. In the jaywalkers the top of the piece was perhaps inspired by Redskins the b. Side of their hit record cancan 62 and also shadows hits such as Apache for the sound of the record seems strange mixture of styles starts off with a distinct feel of the tornadoes about it well it was produced by Joe Meek after all then settles down to the shadows tributes and only really sounds like Peter j. And co themselves when the sexes come in so no surprise therefore when the record fell to chart on its release in February to 63 despite having had plenty of promotion behind it for some solid touring by the band all the Peter j. In the jaywalker singles made between 90629065 or on an album called Jay Walking on rpm records. Headline News. It was Edwin Starr with Headline News Edwin Starr was born Charles Hatcher in Nashville in 142 he grew up in Cleveland Ohio but had moved to Detroit by the 960 s. Or his son to the small but ambitious Rick take label for whom he owned his account in the summer of 9065 with a James Bond referencing agent double 0 So maybe on the top 10 on the pop top 30 his next single fault but then stop her on sight put him back in the army top 1066 so if found a place in the pop top 40 Headline News who star's last single for Rick tick before the label was swallowed up by its big neighbor to Motown on whose Gordy subsidiary The singer was then placed. Sounds very much to me like members of Motown's Funk Brothers band backing star of headline news but a lack of promotion prior to the takeover resulted in the single only just nicely making it into the Hot 100 and failing completely to appear in the RB charts However the stopper on site already made the British Top 40 and Headline News followed it there in the summer of 9066 Edwin Starr's popularity grew here rapidly following tours and promotional visits with a result that a reissue of stopper on site and Headline News back to back on the same single sailed into the u.k. Top $22.00 in the winter 906869 all 3 of these hits of Edwin stars are mentioned on an album of his called early classics on spectrum music. Loued is a vocal one featuring Billie Holiday but Miss Nova bend Websters Tennessee as well the song is not telling Tony and Classic do nothing to me do nothing till you hear from me. Pay no attention. To what. People are saying. Is. Do nothing till you hear from me. At least skins. If you should. Have been seen. With someone new. But. Really. Me. Some kids make. Home live. Have. Been seeing. With someone new. But then is that me. Then and one. When only. Who lives in. The have. Some kids make out. We. Then know that it's. All over. But. Never. Billie Holiday and do nothing till you hear from me a popular just standard with a melody by Duke Ellington and the lyric added by Bob Russell Bill recorded it in Hollywood in the summer of 156 with a sensational collection of musicians behind her or the sort that even in her final declining years she was still able to command Ben Webster as I said before contributed that lovely tennis solo was also Harry sweets Edison on trumpet Jimmy rose on piano Bonnie Castle on Guitar Joe monk dragon on bass that's the musician heard on Paley's fever and Alvin Stoller on drums the track was 1st released on the Billie Holiday LP entitled All or nothing at all but I've seen it from a collection called Ben Webster's finest hour on The Verge Records. Now it's time to look at Headline News and listen to the top tunes of 60 years ago this month in the Big 4 of December $956.00 when the repercussions of the humiliation the attempted British and French takeover of the Suez Canal Zone were becoming painfully apparent the refusal of the American government to become involved other militarily or financially clearly show that any future independent military action by Britain without u.s. Approval would be severely limited and that in consequence the good old days of gunboat diplomacy by an all powerful British Empire would our orbit at an end on the 3rd of December an announcement was made that a withdrawal of troops would take place Julie carried out 2 days before Christmas and that petrol was subjected to a price hike of 40 percent to bring it up to an eye watering 6 shillings a gallon for sure that's only 30 pence by today's standards but at the time you could pretty much buy a gallon a beer for that amount Britain and America did at least show one problem in December 9056 the threat of revolutionary activity here this was manifested by the ira mounting a series of attacks on military and astonishment premises on the Irish border the threat was taken seriously enough for the Ulster government to invoke the Special Powers Act to in turn without trial several 100 people suspected of Republican activity insurrection didn't see much of a threat to America on the other hand when the boat deposited 82 starving sea sick revolutionaries and the commander Fidel Castro on the Cuban beach on the 2nd of December the both of the distinctly normal revolution in name of Granma the journey taken far longer than anticipated thanks to adverse weather conditions leaks that needed constant bailing out and insufficient supplies seemed on the face of it to be a doomed enterprise. 2 events of cultural significance happened in this country in December 9056 Christmas Day saw the unveiling of the 1st p.g. Tips chimps are vert some who remain in the affection of the British public for many years and it is Peter Sellers incidentally who initially provided the voices and on the 31st of December a musical revue opened in a tiny theater in unfashionable Notting Hill consisting of a bare stage with just 2 men occupying it one sitting at a piano the other bearded sitting in a wheelchair from his unlikely start not only would Michael Flanders and Donal Swan become national treasures with their review of the drop of a hat but also arguably the $960.00 s. Satire boom witnessed its 1st stirrings Meanwhile over in Memphis what was later referred to as the $1000000.00 Quartet assembled informally at the Sun Studios present were Elvis Presley Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis together with a brief appearance by Johnny Cash where his wife dragged him off to do some Christmas shopping. So random encounters anything but really resonate with music fans ever more a few knew about it at the time and just 4 days after it happened Elvis is Love Me Tender toppled from its push at number one by this inescapable record. a move meet. My Spoke. To. A. Sleep. Alan. Did. A. Long. Cold. A. Lot of. Soul. Mate. Was. She. Saying. Just to. See. The and. That was the big 4 of December 956 starting with a rather cheerful sounding guy Mitchell claiming he was singing the blues and hopes that Marty Robbins might have had that his massive country hit with singing the blues would give him his long look for breakthrough into the mainstream were dashed when the Columbia producer Mitch Miller decided that his versions to country 5 a pop tastes and the song would better suit guy Mitchell whose career had been languishing in America if not in Britain for the past 4 years sure enough guys remake sporting an arrangement very similar to the one device for just walking in the rain by yet another Miller protege Johnny Ray struck gold he wound up at number one in the u.s. Pop charts for 9 weeks from early December to early February and despite severe competition from Tommy Steele's homegrown rendition to spend 3 weeks at u.k. Number one early in the new year it's on hits a $56.00 memories are made of this on living era. With Marty Robbins recording of singing the blues continuing to head the country charts throughout December we have to look at some of the failed contenders for the top spot for an alternative this month is Ray Price who's the strongest challenger with I've got a new heartache prices earlier effort Crazy arms have been the country hit of the year after occupying the number one slot for 20 weeks from spring on words but I got a new heartache had to content itself with peaking at number 2 in December Ray had 5 charting records that year and they're all on the greatest country hits a $956.00 on Acrobat music someone else who had to be satisfied with the number 2 hit was Frankie Vaughan with the Green Door this song was already heading up the u.s. Charts courtesy of Jim lo when Frank his producer Johnny fronts gestured that the singer cover it the b. Side of a Justin's beat ballad called Pity the poor poor man in there was to be a b. Side Frankie still wanted his version not to be a carbon copy so he asked for a Wallace Staats arrangement to give it some distinction where the D.J.'s got hold of the record they decided that the Green Door was the side to plug after all you know Jim Lowe's version of by now a fortnight start in the u.k. Charts and would wind up at number 8 Frankie's recording swiftly over took it and Peter number 2 image December just behind Johnny Ray's immoveable just walking in the rain is Frankie's biggest hit to date by a long chalk but it wouldn't be long before it's a past it given the moonlight the best of Frankie Vaughn is on spectrum music the r. And b. Charts were similarly clogged up with a record that continued to lord it over all others in December 9056 in this case Fats Domino was Blueberry Hill we spent 11 weeks on and off at number one from early November wrong with its one of its frustrated challengers was instrumental slow walk by sil Austin. They were overwhelming success of Bill dog's honkytonk 3 months earlier spawn many other instrumentals that sought the same common ground of r. And b. Jazz and rock n roll the tenor sax often is civil Austin was better place than most to lay claim to it born in 129 in Florida he went to talent contest in his mid teens playing Danny Boy the blessings that flowed from this recording contract and the chance to study at New York's influential junior school of music tours in the virtual giving the public what it wanted stints with kuchi Williams and tiny Bradshaw followed before sill struck out on his own so walk benefited from the presence of Mickey Baker on guitar and George Stubbs on piano and gave Austin by far and away his career best hit by rich number 3 r. And b. On the pop top 20 in December 956 Not only that but Bill Doggett paid c lost in the complement of covering slow walk him self and doing almost as well with it by reaching the RB top 5 and pop top 30 both build up it's honky tonk and still lost in slow walk are included in the into mental anthology Teen Beat 5 on a circle that's that's the big 4 of December 1956. 3 to Motown groups in the u.s. Top 2050 years ago this month featuring the new heaviest sound that seemed to be required of them by now least comfortable with his approach I should say with the miracles we heard 1st singing Come around here I'm the one you need nearly all of these groups classic hits were written and produced by their lead singer Smokey Robinson sometimes in association with the group members but this one was by the seemingly tieless though in reality increasingly disenchanted team of Holland Dozier and Holland local record Peter number 4 in the r. And b. Charts is struggle to reach the pop top 20 eventually making its number 17 the week before Christmas miracles had only recently been discovered by the public at large in this country so no surprise that the record stalled here at number 45 the surprise came when the reissue of come around here on the one you need made number 13 in the u.k. Charts in February 971 Smokey Robinson in the miracles the ultimate collection is on Motown Records much better suited to the output of Holland those in Holland were Martha in the Van Dellen us importer further the team and only intermittently written for the vandal as in the past and I'm Ready For Love sounds rather like a reject for the Supremes it has some similarities with You Can't Hurry Love however it was actually right at the vendetta street and master and Co belted the song out in a far more forthright fashion than the Supremes could ever have done the result was the vandalize biggest hit in 18 months when I'm ready for love Pete and I'm a 9 in the 2nd week of December 1966 those i'm a number 2 r. And b. And the British top 30 Martha in the Van Dellen gold is on the strangely named hip Oh Motown label. The last and most adventurous of the 3 records was I know I'm Losing You by The Temptations under the new producer Norman Whitfield the temptations that experienced a change of direction with David Ruffin rather than Eddie Kendricks on lead vocals and altogether tougher sound ain't too proud to beg or put the group back into the top 20 in the summer of 66 and its follow up beauty is only skin deep and reaches high as number 3 in the autumn now came I know I'm losing you which was based around a dominant guitar riff devised by the group's road manager musical director Cornelius Grant Eddie Holland also had a hand in writing the song as did Whitfield The result was a temptation 3rd arm be number one hit in a row and the 3rd top 20 Pop Eater in a row this time peak at number 8 at the very end of the year in this country I know I'm losing you similar follow the person of his immediate predecessors by whoring around the fringes of the top 20 funny just making it their number 19 in mid January all of these hits I mentioned are on the temptations at their very best on Universal Music. He's a very different side to Motown now. Stevie Wonder. Lol Yeah. Garfunkel So you wonder song looks forward to better times with a place in the sun for a hard on the heels of his chart topping version of blowing in the wind a place in the sun also sought to have a degree of political comment or rather social aspiration in this case co-written by Ronald Miller who later have a hand in the composition of for once in my life and yes to me yes to you yesterday but social awareness apart a place in the sun was an early warning of Stevie Wonder's increasing love of middle of the road music and its soft centered melody and arrangement still be It did pretty well for itself region I'm a 9 pop Christmas 9066 notes becoming the singer's 3rd British hit when it made it to number 20 in the 2nd half of January Stevie Wonder The Definitive Collection on Island Records you would normally expect someone Garfunkel to come up with something tougher sounding than Stevie Wonder but a hazy shade of winter does just that is for the fact that it's a lament to the transition of autumn into winter it was written during Paul Simon Sargent on the English Folk Club see 9065 it's got quite a zip to it partly thanks to Bob Johnson's production certain perform better than its predecessor the dangling conversation which had stalled in them or 25 in September by peaking at number 13 in mid December hazy shade a winter had actually been intended for a track on the duo's Pasley sage rosemary in time LP but was released instead as a standalone single the same month October despite all your memory might tell you some and Garfunkel are currently out of favor in this country going hitless for 2 years between I am a rock in the summer of 66 and Mrs Robinson in the summer of 68 but all of these singles are mentioned find a place on the best of summer and Garfunkel on Sony b.m.g. Is something else that was completely ignored by British record buyers at the end of 1906. Something to. Go and sell. This to the expanses his. Bowl. If you lose. Me. Don't call it makes me feel. Like if you call me. In a. Week. John. You. Know. Me. Love me. Love to. See. You this way. The a to. Be a. When she and. The a be an experience in our. Era never will and tell it like it is Aaron was the 3rd born of 4 celebrated siblings from New Orleans although the Neville Brothers are uniting all fall income about until $976.00 even though it was inevitably the eldest brother Art who made the running 1st experiencing local fame at least with a $9.00 to $54.00 recording called Mardi Gras mumbo as a member of the hall cats he went on to found the meters in one to 65 but 5 years before that in the also 1960 Aaron scored his 1st hit record with over you which store just outside the Army top 20 it was Tell It Like It Is That was the big one influenced by classic $950.00 s. Doowop Aaron employed on it a battery a vocal effects that was melisma the stretching out of a syllable over several musical notes to achieve an arresting an unforgettable effect the record top the army charts for 5 weeks in January in February 1 to 67 and also crossed over into the pop charts in the top 20 Christmas and spending most of January and number 3 finally peaking at the end of that month at number 2 sandwiched in between on the believe about the monkeys at number one and Snoopy vs the Red Baron by the Royal Guardsman number 3 considerations of good taste prevent me from playing either of those 2 records. Those issued here on stateside tell it like it is seem to pass completely unnoticed in the u.k. And it wasn't until it was included on the soundtrack of a 1986 cop thriller set in New Orleans called the Big Easy that we seem to become aware of it at all well better late than never I suppose from the 1st volume of radio gold on 8 records and it finishes both the American top 20 newcomers of December 9066 and indeed this week's edition of Henrietta's jukebox The address is b.b.c. Radio Humberside Queen's gardens whole issue 13 r.h. Of our email on Henry dot. Bbc doco dot u.k. Email us please note at and smelt a y r t o n follow the links on your local station website of the next 30 days to hear it again Sam but in just 7 days Tom will be broadcasting a fresh selection of vintage sounds including part 3 of high fives records that beat a number 5 in the u.s. Charts in the Golden Age of Rock n roll this time the b. From one to $59.60 I would devour the likes of John in the Hurricanes Jimmy Clanton and Anita Bryant also be a look at the big hits of 50 years ago on this hour they landed in the British top 20 newcomers of December 1906 with Gene Pitney The Kinks The Easybeats and others this week's play out piece comes from a gym in the graphs 963 album one of mine which was featured in both organ and piano together with Morris dowen Laurie Fraser on guitars and Willie St Jenkins on drums the truck in question was also issued as a single that spring just nice to squeeze into the Hot 100 number 99 It's called the last minute. You know it's weak.