Toppermost Of The Poppermost

The Beatles still have "Eight Days a Week" and their EP (including "Mr. Moonlight") in the charts while two versions of "For Mama" appear, Brian Wilson gets stoned and the discussion of brightly colored suits continues!       Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr . &nb...

Petula Clark knows a place (which might include a cellarful of noise), while the Yardbirds ask for your Love (although Eric doesn't want it, so runs away, the Ian Campbell folk group ask us if the times are actually changing, while we meet a new singer in a cloth cap that plays acoustic guitar and harmonica (and no he's not Bob Dylan).   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patr...

This month, our feature is the Beatles final in-studio appearance on "Thank Your Lucky Stars".    Meanwhile, the Stones insist this (will/will not) be the last time, the Moodies continue with Denny Laine, and the potato man himself (Heinz) is digging some potatoes!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create...

Paul McCartney first hears of the "na na boys", and doesn't want to spoil the party!     Elvis shuffles around in the sand, and the Ray Charles singers (but not THE Ray Charles) give us another of their old-timey favorites!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr...

Ride on that Orange Blossom Special while listening to Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and of course the Beatles!     Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery...

Great New Sound for 1965!     New, improved Full Dimensional Stereo.    Beatles, Tom Jones, The Animals and the Mindbenders!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles sum...

More fun in Feb 1965!    Will the Righteous Brothers topple Cilla?     Animals, Ivy (League) and Brenda too!    What a bunch of (Wayne Fontana and the) Mindbenders!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr .    &nb...

I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back!     Beyond that, the best of Roger Miller, more early Aretha, and the latest hit single from Lorne Green.     All the hottest tunes, whether at the club or on the road!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonz...

What happens when Frankie Valli and his buddies go up against a Bob Crewe certified copy, and another, completely separate duplicate?     Tune in and find out!     More Trini.    More Brenda.    More Peter Paul and Mary, and Kit and I get into a knock-down drag-out over Jewel Aiken.       We then ma...

January of 1965 continues.      Chubby Checker battled Dobie Gray, while the Beau Brummels try and convince us that they are more than "that band starting with B-E-A" that follows the Beatles in the record bins.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr

1964 became 1965, but the Beatles had to deal with chasing the Abominable Snowman.     Meanwhile, Brian and Cilla (and George Martin) chased The Righteous Brothers and Andrew Loog Oldham (and Phil Spector).      We also see the new tunes from the band Decca chose over the Beatles, and the drummer who took up the sticks when Ringo chose the Beat;es over...

What would happen if we locked the door and thre away the key?     I don't know, but Jay and the Americans claim to understand this conundrum.       Meanwhile, Bobby, the Shangri-Las and James Brown continue their run at that British group at the top of the charts!     Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  ...

Cold weather, maybe a little snow, but the hottest hits of 1964 keep you warm.    The Beatles are still on the rise while old favorites such as Chuck Berry and even Gerry succumb to market forces.     We also get a side from the REAL singer behind the Archies.    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content! &nbs...

A Tribute to Jim Reeves, and a tribute to Dennny Laine (Go Now entered the British Charts in December 1964) lead side B (British charts, part two).     Brian Epstein and NEMS continue their role, as does Cliff Richard.    I Feel Fine, do you?    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create you...

Who wants to go on a Blind Date with George Harrison?  Millions of girls for sure, but only Hayley Mills and the backpage of the Melody Maker accomplished the feat.      Tune in for Twinkle (but not Little Star), Ken Dodd, Elvis, the CND and a little song that just might be "the first record to start with feedback".    Support this podcast at the $6/mon...

We close out the US Charts for November 1964 with friends old and new.      Jerry Lee Lewis, The Searchers (with a song recorded "many years ago it seems"), The Four Tops, The Impressions and Rick Nelson.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr

We start on the American charts for November of 1964.  Supremes, Chad and Jeremy, Marvelettes and Little Anthony and the Imperials.    Hey, UMe - when are we getting that 180g reissue of "The Greatest Music Ever Sold".    Who doesn't love a compilation that puts Glen Campbell, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys, Beatles (solo and group) and others on a single "long playing...

More of the British charts for November 1964.    Our first month in the history of the show without a Beatles song in either the British or American charts.      It will be all the way to *next month* for us to Feel Fine again.   Still some quality music as Petula Clark takes us Downtown, the Stones tell us about their Little Red Rooster and the Ya...

Sixty years ago, Melody Maker took John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison out on a blind date.     Sixty years later, Marv, Kit and I tag along.      All this, and the first half of the UK charts for November of 1964!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today...

Still more October fun as we finish the month!     Lots of songs, lots of artists.    More Jan and Dean, Lesley Gore Ronettes and Fats Domino.      Those Liverpool Lads are also holding on, despite their new single not dropping for  several more weeks!  Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra con...

More October fun.   Side C, the first half of the American charts.    The leader of the pack rolls on, Heuy P. Meaux, Elvis and Ike and Tina go "Vroom!", while we try and determine whether anyone is on that train to Anaheim, Azusa and CucaMonga.     Meanwhile, A Hard Day's Night, Matchbox and  Slow Down are still present for kids trick-or-treating...

Even if you've been told, time and time again!     Side B of October 1964.     Val Doonican rips off Dewey Cox.    Jimmy Page talks about Shirley Bassey and her bra.     Brian concerns himself with Tommy Quickly.       Sha La La, and more while the Beatles take a minute to breathe.   ...

October 1964 on the UK charts - the first two weeks of 1964.     There is always something there to remind me there's a place.     Our feature (guest: https://x.com/BrutalBeatles) centers on the NEMS offices in London and Whaddon house (home to Brian, George and Ringo during this era), and our usual look at the charts!    Support this podcast...

September 1964 on the American charts continues.   One of the best known (and deservedly so) Sam Cooke songs along with the Drifters, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles rockin' and rollin' while Capitol and the Beatles also do their thing!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr

More of the American charts!    Hawaiian music comes to the US, Barbra Streisand (or the people around her) cash in on Funny Girl, The Hondells, the Blendells, but no Michael Dells.      Meanwhile, Jay and the Americans continue rolling while Capitol and the Beatles also do their thing!   Create your podcast today!   #madeonzencastr