4BK Top 40 Charts March 1966

This is from the Courier Mail March 11th 1966 and this is the 4BK Top 40 charts for that week with Nancy Sinatra at number 1 with These Boots Are Made For Walkin, The Who at number 2 with My Generation, The Beach Boys at number 3 with their version of the Regents 1961 hit Barbara Ann which Dean Torrence from Jan and Dean is on the recording and Simon and Garfunkel at number 4 with the Sounds Of Silence. New Entries in the charts that week were Normie Rowe and the Playboys at number 22 with The Breaking Point, The Seekers at number 29 with the song written by Paul Simon who was with Art Garfunkel at that time Someday Oneday and Chris Andrews at number 32 with To Whom It May Concerns. The Australian acts on the charts that week were Ray Brown and the Whispers at number 8 with the Tennessee Waltz Song, Normie Rowe and the Playboys for the second time with the double sided hit Tell Him I'm Not Home/Call On Me at number 12, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs with their version of Dancing In The Street at number 19, the Seekers for the second time in the chart with The Carnival Is Over at number 28 and Tony Worsley at number 34 with Missing You. Among the other acts in the charts that week were Hermans Hermits twice with A Must To Avoid written by Steve Barri and PF Sloan which was recorded at RCA Studios Hollywood at number 5 and Listen People written by Graham Gouldman long before 10CC at number 9, Peter and Gordon at number 7 with Woman written by Bernard Webb who was really Paul McCartney, Tom Jones at number 10 with Thunderball, the Beatles at number 12 with We Can Work It Out /Day Tripper, The Spencer Davis Group at number 17 with Keep On Running, Hedgehoppers Anonymous at number 23 with Don't Push Me, The Rolling Stonestwice at number 24 with 19th Nervous Breakdown/As Tears Go By and Get off My Cloud at number 36, Gary Lewis and the Playboys at number 31 with She's Just My Style, The Supremes at number 38 with I Hear A Symphony and Chris Andrews for the 2nd time in the charts with Yesterday Man at number 40.

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