4BH Top 40 charts January 1965

This is from the Southside News January 20th 1965 and this was the 4BH Top 40 charts with Julie Rogers at number 1 with the Wedding, the boy from Moorooka Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs at number 2 with their version of the Judy Garland song Over The Rainbow, Gene Pitney at number 3 with I'm Gonna Be Strong and the Beatles at number 4 with I Feel Fine which had feedback which was one of the first heard on record. Besides from Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs who was also in the charts for the 2nd time as well as their version of the Fats Domino song Sick and Tired at number 18 the other Australian acts on the charts that week were Little Pattie at number 13 with Surfin Time Again written by Jay Justin and Joe Halford, Brisbane group the Pacifics at number 17 with Slowly But Surely/Lost My Baby, Bryan Davies at number 22 with Tell The Other Guy and New Zealand singer Dinah Lee who was making inroads in Australia at the time at number 40 with I'm Walkin/Who Stole The Sugar and among the other acts in the charts that week were The Rolling Stones at number 5 with Little Red Rooster, The Supremes twice with Baby Love at number 16 and Come See About Me at number 30, Petula Clark at number 8 with the song written by Tony Hatch Downtown, Elvis Presley at number 14 with Ain't That Lovin You Baby/Ask Me, The Beach Boys at number 25 with Dance Dance Dance, Manfred Mann at number 33 with their version of the Shirelles song Sha La La and Gerry and the Pacemakers at number 36 with Ferry Cross The Mersey.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hermans Hermits Australian Tour 2025

Image
In August and September 2025 legendary British rock group Hermans Hermits are touring Australia which they will be performing in Queensland, NSW, ACT, Western Australia and Victoria and the group with original member and drummer Barry Whitwam, Jamie Thurston on bass guitar and vocals, John Summerton on guitar and vocals and Tony Young on Keyboards and vocals will perform many of their classic hits from the 60's including I'm Into Something Good, Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter, No Milk Today, There's A Kind Of Hush, My Sentimental Friend and many others. If you have not seen them before but would like to see them please do yourselves an favour and SEE THEM which you will be impressed and amazed as I am sure it will bring back memories for those who grew up in the 60's as well as those who are discovering 60's music for the first time you will be truly entertained by an iconic Music act which you will hear the music and the stories. Australian Tour Da...
Read more

Vale Peter Flanagan(the Fauns/The Flanagans)

Image
Peter Flanagan member of legendary Australian singing family group the Fauns aka the The Flanagans passed away on September 2nd aged 73 at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Peter along with brother Paul and Sister Margaret began as the Fauns in 1959 as they had been doing classical music training which they released 3 singles on the Leedon label- Dance With Me/Don't Take the Stars, We Should Be Together/While Susan Sleeps and Nursery Rhymes Rock and as the Flanagans they released 4 singles on the HMV label-He/Wonderland Of Love and Dreams(1965), Follow the Wind/Land OF Beyond(1965), You Were Meant FOr Me/That's How Man Began(1966) and This is My Song/For Bobby(1967). the group did appearances on Bandstand,Six O'Clock Rock, Teen Time, The Johnny O'Keefe Show, Sing Sing Sing, the Mike Walsh Show, IMT, Revue 61, Revue 62 and many others as well as performing on the Matt Munro TV special in 1966 as well as performing in the clubs too as well as co writing the song...
Read more

Memoirs of A Piano Man by John Charter

Image
 This is the autobiography of Australian Pianist and musician John Charter and in this book he talks about his upbringing in Kingsford (Sydney), started learning piano at age 8, playing in Australia's first rock and roll band Alan Dale and the Houserockers, playing in his own trio, forming Johnny Rebb and The Rebels with Johnny Rebb who would achieve 6 top 40 hits from 1959-60 including Hey Sheriff and Pathway To Paradise, doing the Lee Gordon tours with the Everly brothers, Fabian , The Platters and Johnny Ray, doing Bandstand and Six O'Clock Rock, working with Slim Dusty, playing in the Sydney Club  and hotel Scene , forming his own group The John Charter Group, working in Vietnam and America with Digger Revell and many others. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with AWESOME Impressive, Very funny and very entertaining stories told by John and it is great to see someone who was there at the start of Australian rock and roll in the 50's and still going  as well as tel...
Read more