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Low or non charting songs that deserved better

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johnbasalla

Which songs that either peaked below #40 or did not hit the "Hot 100" at all deserved a higher chart position?

"Knock Knock, Who's There" by Mary Hopkin - A fun, light upbeat tune with fantastic hooks in both verses and refrain.

"I Need A Hundred of You" by Coven - THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE COMPLETE BOMB.
It was on Buddah Records in 1974. A wonderful mid tempo Pop-Rock love song. It is impeccably produced. This song has it all, but didn't get any traction whatsoever. Better then "One Tin Soldier"? YOU BETCHA! So, what happened?
Lack of promotion? God wouldn't allow it because they dabbled in Satanism?
 
'39 by Queen. The suits decided not to release it as a single from "A Night At The Opera".

"We Belong to the Night" by Ellen Foley. Great song!
 
johnbasalla said:
Which songs that either peaked below #40 or did not hit the "Hot 100" at all deserved a higher chart position?
"Knock Knock, Who's There" by Mary Hopkin - A fun, light upbeat tune with fantastic hooks in both verses and refrain.
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I agree!
 
"From Me to You" by the Beatles only reached #41! It got lost in the shuffle of all those Beatles songs that were reissued during the initial wave of Beatlemania. Being on one of those indie labels (Swan, Veejay, Tollie, whichever) probably didn't help any.
 
firepoint525 said:
"From Me to You" by the Beatles only reached #41! It got lost in the shuffle of all those Beatles songs that were reissued during the initial wave of Beatlemania. Being on one of those indie labels (Swan, Veejay, Tollie, whichever) probably didn't help any.
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you can't hardly get higher than that when you have the top five songs on the hot 100 about a dozen others........i went to my joel whitburnm hot100 charts of the 60's book and saw the following:
april 4, 1964 with a bullet :eek:
1 can't buy me love :eek:
2 twist and shout
3 she loves you
4 i want to hold your hand
5 please, please me
31 i saw her standing there
41 FROM ME TO YOU peaked on this historical date...
42 we love you beatles - carefrees
46 do you want to know a secret :eek:
58 all my loving :eek:
65 you can't do that :eek:
79 thank you girl :eek:
85 letter to the beatles - four preps :eek:

Plus the Top two LP's on the the album charts , not to mention the dozen or more British artists and Beatles related novelty songs on the hot 100...the Beatles were log-jamed by themselves and the phenomenon that they spawned "The British Invasion".
 
JohnnyOhJohnny said:
All my loving should have been #1
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Died on the vine, as it was passed bye, by, "Can't Buy Me Love " and "Love Me Do" on their way straight to number 1.
 
JohnnyOhJohnny said:
All my loving should have been #1
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No kidding! I think I read somewhere that it was a Canada-only single. Growing up listening to CHUM/Toronto at the time, it sure SEEMED like it was a #1! What an intro!
 
Now, if only "Stairway to Heaven" by Zepellin, were released as a single...#1......most likely.
7:55 time prevented the single, but look at "Hey Jude"!
 
We actually had more Beatles singles than they did in the U.K., probably due to those indy labels, at least early on, but in the U.K., they satisfied at least some of that demand by putting some of the more popular non-singles on EPs. Probably some singles on those, too.
 
johnbasalla said:
Tollie was a subsidiary of Vee-Jay records.
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you gotta remember the VJ stuff "Introducing The Beatles" was licensed almost a year approx 1962-1963 before the British Invasion, and flopped upon release..the Beatles couldn't get arrested in the US prior to Nov 1963. When the BI phenom took off , VJ on the verge of bankruptcy re-released "Introducing The Beatles" amid threats of lawsuits from EMI UK over the song count originally licensed to VJ. A desparate VJ "hey we are sunk anyway", "lets reap as much as we can"...they re-released several singles on VJ and On Tollie their subsidary....shortly thereafter Philly label Swan Records an indy label managed thru some miracle of releasing "She Loves You", ....well the miracle of Swan turned out to be or rumored to be a silent partner with alot of Juice...ssshhhh don't say this too loud MR Dick Clark..Also at this time MGM had recorded the Beatles with Tony Sheridan in 1962 they released "My Bonnie" as the Beatles With Tony Sheridan....compound this with the Capiotol releases and you have the Beatle domination of the Hot 100 that peaked in Aril 4th of 1964 with the top 5 songs and the top 2 lp's ..."Introducing the Beatles" on VJ was released twice with two different song counts and other nuances..which has caused this LP to be the most counterfeited LP in history. This is the most difficult LP for collectors to appraise both in Authenticity and in price, as well.

One other interesting side note "Hard Days Night" is an automatic collectible At $100...because the rights are owned and released by the movie company label United Artists, consequently more collectible because it is not on Capitol...Amazing what the Beatles Phenom brings to the table in so many different ways, never mind their monster talent.
 
Dick Biondi played "Please Please Me" on WLS in Feb 1963. On March 8, 1963 the record charted at #35 on WLS.
Four months later Biondi played the Beatles on KRLA in Los Angeles and was told by his listeners to "get that crap off the air and play more Beach Boys".
Biondi was the first US DJ to play a Beatles record. The rest is history.
 
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