The UK Top 50 of 1964 Poll

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The great British Invasion year actually had several huge hits by American acts in the UK.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Kinks You Really Got Me	4
The Supremes Where Did Our Love Go	3
Roy Orbison It's Over	3
The Supremes Baby Love	2
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night	2
Dave Clark Five Glad All Over	2
The Searchers Needles And Pins	2
Jim Reeves I Love You Because	1
Dave Clark Five Bits And Pieces	1
The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand	1
The Rolling Stones Not Fade Away	1
The Beatles I Feel Fine	1
The Rolling Stones It's All Over Now	1
Dusty Springfield I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself	1
Roy Orbison Oh Pretty Woman	1
Manfred Mann Do Wah Diddy Diddy	1
Dusty Springfield I Only Want To Be With You	1
Cliff Richard Constantly	0
The Four Seasons Rag Doll	0
The Searchers When You Walk In The Room	0
The Animals House Of The Rising Sun	0
The Hollies Just One Look	0
Matt Monro Walk Away	0
The Merseybeats I Think Of You	0
The Barron Knights Call Up The Groups	0
The Kinks All Day And All Of The Night	0
Petula Clark Downtown	0
Gene Pitney I'm Gonna Be Strong	0
Brenda Lee As Usual	0
PJ Proby Hold Me	0
Gene Pitney Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa	0
The Bachelors I Wouldn't Trade You For The World	0
Gerry & The Pacemakers I'm The One	0
Cilla Black You're My World	0
Cilla Black Anyone Who Had A Heart	0
The Honeycombs Have I The Right?	0
Herman's Hermits I'm Into Something Good	0
The Bachelors Diane	0
The Beatles Can't Buy Me Love	0
Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas Little Children	0
The Bachelors I Believe	0
Julie Rogers The Wedding	0
The Four Pennies Juliet	0
Millie My Boy Lollipop	0
Brian Poole & The Tremeloes Someone, Someone	0
The Swinging Blue Jeans Hippy Hippy Shake	0
Sandie Shaw (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me	0
Peter & Gordon World Without Love	0
The Searchers Don't Throw Your Love Away	0
Jim Reeves I Won't Forget You	0

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 17 March 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

Voted "I Want To Hold Your Hand", as I plan to vote for another (and better) Beatles single in the 1963 poll.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 17 March 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

And, of course, while there are four American songs at the very top, there are few American entries in the rest of the list.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 17 March 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

You Really Got Me

― our work is never over, Monday, 17 March 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

Shit, maybe Baby Love

― our work is never over, Monday, 17 March 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

I voted for Baby Love for being a perfect pop song. The Beatles entries all are too, but they'll be getting plenty of props.

― chap, Monday, 17 March 2008 09:47 (seventeen years ago)

Dave Clark Five, "Bits And Pieces"

^Absolute banger.

― DavidM, Monday, 17 March 2008 09:49 (seventeen years ago)

Everything's coming up Dusty! I went for IJDKWTDWM.

― mike t-diva, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:03 (seventeen years ago)

"You really got me"

There's never been a bad cover version of this, but similarly there's never been a really great version. Apart from the original.

― Mark G, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:05 (seventeen years ago)

Unless you count the Jethro Tull one... ;-)

For sentimental reasons I'm going for "Glad All Over" 'cos it was number one the day I was born...

Note the similarity in the intros to "Bits And Pieces" and "Where Did Our Love Go?" and, bless them, Holland-Dozier-Holland subsequently put their hands up and said it was a fair cop...

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:07 (seventeen years ago)

JT one, bad or great? I can imagin...

― Mark G, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:10 (seventeen years ago)

Well they did rename it "Living In The Past"...

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:13 (seventeen years ago)

this is impossible

― braveclub, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:14 (seventeen years ago)

check out that flute solo

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:26 (seventeen years ago)

Of course, for a good "All Day And All Of The Night" cover (i.e. not the Stranglers one), look no further than "Hello I Love You" by the Doors.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 09:54 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Friday, 28 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

This should be Really Got Me

― zeus, Friday, 28 March 2008 09:38 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Way too few votes for The Beatles of course. Before 1966, there wasn't much else that counted.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

No, look at it this way.

Add up the artist votes:

The Supremes 5
The Beatles 4
Roy Orbison 4
The Kinks 4
Dave Clark Five 3
The Searchers 2
Jim Reeves 1
The Rolling Stones 2
Dusty Springfield 2
Manfred Mann 1

Which reflects things moreso. Even the Beatles would have voted for the Supremes.

― Mark G, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

The Beatles didn't realise themselves how much better they were than any of their R&B influences

(that being said, Holland/Dozier/Holland were great - really great)

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:53 (seventeen years ago)

HolDozHol wrote a great many songs. Many many many.

The Beatles may have been 'better' than their R&B influences, but not when they were playing R&B.

Anyway, I'm over and out.

― Mark G, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

There wasn't much point for The Beatles in playing R&B at all, except Merseybeat/beat was partly influenced by R&B. The point of Merseybeat was combining the rawness and energy of R&B with the melodic and harmonic sophistication of Tin Pan Alley and European classical music.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 30 March 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

Also shagging birds.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 March 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

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