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THURSDAY BACKTRACK: Music and news from 60 years ago - week ending 6 January 1962

Thursday, January 6, 2022 2:17

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At #4 to begin 1962 is Pat Boone’s ‘Johnny Will’:

Some memorable events (via Wikipedia):

31 December; ’Ireland’s first national television station, Telefís Éireann (later RTÉ), began broadcasting. A speech by Irish President Éamon de Valera opened the new era.’

1 January: ‘Western Samoa (now called Samoa) became independent from New Zealand. The two fautua (advisers), Malietoa Tanumafili II and Tupua Tamasese Mea’ole were named as the two heads of state.’

‘The People’s Revolutionary Party was founded as a Marxist–Leninist political party in South Vietnam, and its leaders receiving instruction directly from the Lao Dong Party of North Vietnam.’

‘The Beatles auditioned unsuccessfully for Decca Records with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and, at that time, drummer Pete Best.’

‘Illinois becomes the first U.S. State to decriminalize homosexual activity.’

3 January: ‘A spokesman for Pope John XXIII revealed that Cuban leader Fidel Castro and several other officials had received a decree of excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church in 1961 under two sections of canon law, for impeding bishops in their work and for violence against clergymen. In September, Cuban bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal and 135 priests had been forced to leave Cuba.’

5 January: ‘The first recording on which The Beatles play, the 45 rpm record My Bonnie, credited to “Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers” (recorded last June in Hamburg), is released by Polydor in the United Kingdom; “The Saints” is on the B-side.’

Also on 5 January: ‘Prison inmate Clarence Gideon sent a letter, written in pencil, to the United States Supreme Court, asking them to reverse his conviction for burglary on the grounds that he had not been given the right to an attorney. The Supreme Court granted certiorari and, on March 18, 1963, issued the landmark decision of Gideon v. Wainwright, holding that the Sixth Amendment guarantee, of the right to assistance of counsel, required the appointment of a lawyer for any person unable to afford one.

UK chart hits, week ending 6 January 1962 (tracks in italics have been featured previously)

Htp: Clint’s labour-of love compilation https://www.sixtiescity.net/charts/61chart.htm

Stranger On The Shore

Acker Bilk

Columbia

Moon River

Danny Williams

HMV

Let There Be Drums

Sandy Nelson

London

Johnny Will

Pat Boone

London

Tower Of Strength

Frankie Vaughan

Philips

Midnight In Moscow

Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen

Pye

So Long Baby

Del Shannon

London

Toy Balloons

Russ Conway

Columbia

I’d Never Find Another You

Billy Fury

Decca

My Friend The Sea

Petula Clark

Pye

Multiplication

Bobby Darin

London

Take Five

Dave Brubeck

Fontana

Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

Neil Sedaka

RCA

Don’t Bring Lulu

Dorothy Provine

Warner Brothers

Bambino

The Springfields

Philips

September In The Rain

Dinah Washington

Mercury

Goodbye Cruel World

Jimmy Darren

Pye

Walkin’ Back To Happiness

Helen Shapiro

Columbia

Run To Him

Bobby Vee

London

Take Good Care Of My Baby

Bobby Vee

London

Source: http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2022/01/thursday-backtrack-music-and-news-from_02026672273.html

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