Ed, Kit and Martin go chronologically through the singles releases of The Beatles, discussing what inspired the band in the charts, and any links there were with other artists.
More of the UK charts for 1965. Cliff, Donovn (Colours - don't forget the "U"), the next one from the Moodies, Genet Pitney and our old friend (and Band on the Run cover boy) Kenny Lynch! Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
Following a feature on the albums of 1965, we enter the UK charts for June of 1965. Ticket to Ride, the Who and Tony Bennett are among the bangers in these charts! Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
Len Barry and Shirley Ellis spout puzzles and tongue twisters. Thankfully, we are playing with fire and taking a ticket to ride with Mr. Tambourine Man! Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
Engine Engine Number Nine! Supremes, Roger Miller and Trini eight days a week (no, that's out of the charts), YES IT IS! (yep, that one's here). Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
We are joined by Billy J. Kramer as we discuss his recent album, his upcoming tour through the UK, and his history with Brian Epstein, The BeeGees, Harry Nilsson and more. We also manage to run through the entire British charts for May 1965! Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr ....
Eight Days a Week rolls on. George and Gene, Connie Stevens, Ray Charles, Al "He's The King" Hirt, Soupy Sales and a couple of songs from "Mary Poppins" are all on the charts. Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr ....
Dylan and the Impressions roll on while Gary Lewis asks you to "count me in" (or is he asking for a coke?) while Sam the Sham and his buddies just want you to Wooly Bully. I guess it's better than Chubby begging you to "Do the Freddie!" The first few weeks of April 1965 on the Billboard Charts! 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 ...
RIP Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943 - June 9, 2025 RIP Brian Wilson, June 20, 1942 - June 11, 2025 Martin Quibell, Kit O'Toole and I "break period" to celebrate the lives and music of two artists whose influence cannot be measured, and have been omnipresent as performers, songwriters and producers from the "Toppermost Era" to the present day. #DancetotheMusic #AFriendLikeYou #madeonzencastr Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #...
The Beatles, Stones, Kinks and Moodies at the 1965 NME Pollwinners show! A Ticket to Ride? Bring It On Home to Me! Also, the full British charts for April of 1965! 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 Camp!...
Eight Days a Week continues to roll on, while Marvin Gaye, the Miracles, Jay and the Americans, and Lesley Gore show off their new wares. 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 Camp!...
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 . If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!...
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 patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr . If you are looking for Beatles summer fun...
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 your podcast today! #madeonzencastr . If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!...
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 . If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!...
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 Camp!...
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 summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!...
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 . If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!...
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! #madeonzencastr . If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!...
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 make up and I acknowledge She's a Woman, and I Feel Fine! 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, ...
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 Rory Storm. Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
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 to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
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! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
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 your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
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/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
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 deck?" Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
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 Yardbirds talk about their little schoolgirl. Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon to get extra content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencas...
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! #madeonzencastr...
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 content! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr...
