1st August 1964

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(1)

A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles

Parlophone R 5160

2

(2)

It's All Over Now

The Rolling Stones

Decca F 11934

3

(7)

Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Manfred Mann

HMV POP 1320

4

(3)

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

Dusty Springfield

Philips BF 1348

5

(5)

Call Up The Groups

The Barron Knights

Columbia DB 7317

6

(10)

On The Beach

Cliff Richard & The Shadows

Columbia DB 7305

7

(4)

House Of The Rising Sun

The Animals

Columbia DB 7301

8

(9)

Tobacco Road

The Nashville Teens

Decca F 11930

9

(6)

Hold Me

P.J. Proby

Decca F 11904

10

(8)

I Won't Forget You

Jim Reeves

RCA 1400

11

(11)

Someday We're Gonna Love Again

The Searchers

Pye 7N 15670

12

(15)

Wishin' And Hopin'

The Merseybeats

Fontana TF 482

13

(20)

It's Only Make Believe

Billy Fury

Decca F 11939

14

(19)

I Get Around

The Beach Boys

Capitol CL 15350

15

(12)

You're No Good

The Swinging Blue Jeans

HMV POP 1304

16

(13)

Kissin' Cousins

Elvis Presley

RCA 1404

17

(17)

From A Window

Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas

Parlophone R 5156

18

(14)

Someone, Someone

Brian Poole & The Tremeloes

Decca F 11893

19

(17)

It's Over

Roy Orbison

London HLU 9882

20

(18)

Long Tall Sally (EP)

The Beatles

Parlophone GEP 8913

21

(-)

Ferris Wheel

The Everly Brothers

Warner Brothers WB 135

22

(23)

A Hard Day's Night (LP)

The Beatles

Parlophone PMC 1230

23

(16)

Hello Dolly

Louis Armstrong

London HLR 9878

24

(21)

Ramona

The Bachelors

Decca F 11910

25

(-)

I Found Out The Hard Way

The Four Pennies

Philips BF 1349

26

(-)

You'll Never Get To Heaven

Dionne Warwick

Pye International 7N 25256

27

(25)

(They Call Her) La Bamba

The Crickets

Liberty LIB 55696

28

(26)

Hello Dolly

Frankie Vaughan

Philips BF 1339

29

(30)

Nobody I Know

Peter & Gordon

Columbia DB 7292

30

(24)

My Guy

Mary Wells

Stateside SS 288

 

 

 

It happened this week...

Saturday 1st... Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) was born

Sunday 2nd... The US destroyer "Maddox" was fired upon in the Gulf of Tonkin, North Vietnam

Sunday 2nd... Police were flown to Hastings to break up clashes between Mods and Rockers

Monday 3rd... 150 were reported to have been massacred by Lumpa church sect members in Northern Rhodesia

Monday 3rd... US novelist Flannery O'Connor died, aged 39

Tuesday 4th... The bodies of the three missing Mississippi civil rights workers were found

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