Apache best no 1 of 1960 - The Guardian

[Tim]

Rob
I've gone right off Telstar now I know Mark Thatcher bought a copy!
Jim - Telstar was as you say a big hit in the US, but that doesn't necessarily make it influential in terms of musical style. Green Onions - same year - would I have thought had more of a long term impact on musical trends. But I suspect we are arguing about angels on pin heads. They are all great records which we still enjoy and which I suspect generations to come will enjoy, which is more than can be said for much of today's popular music. As I said earlier, we were lucky to be born into that great era of hits of so many different styles. I would have thought it unlikely that popular music will ever see such major changes as rock n roll, Elvis and the rest in such a short space of time, with an influence that is still around 50+ years later.
Best wishes
Tim

[Arpeggio]

Hi Tim,
He! He! I hear what you say - but don't forget that Mark Thatcher was only a child back in 1962 and not the odious character of much later years. We can't judge the music in terms of who might have bought a copy surely, eh??

Bests....Rob

[Tim]

Hi Rob
You're right! I bought Two Little Boys (for my mother of course)!
Tim

[Arpeggio]

Two Little Boys? A classic! Rolf....a legend!!

Rob

[Jiggerz]

Two Little Boys still makes me cry to this day. Man am I soppy!

[Jay Bass]

Two little Boys Another Classic No 1 With none other than Clem Cattini on Drums !

Jay

[Bob Dore]

Yes, I am aware that many people claim that Please Please Me didn't hit number one - but, actually, it did.

JN

When was this, Jim? My listings give Please Please Me a highest position of No. 2 on 17th January 1963 while Cliff Richard & The Shadows were No. 1 with Bachelor Boy / The Next Time.

Bob.

[Jay Bass]

This Maybe Is what Jim is talking about?
officialy Please Please Me Only reached no 2

http://www.jpgr.co.uk/stats_no1_s.html

Regards
Jay

[Martin Page]

This Maybe Is what Jim is talking about?
officialy Please Please Me Only reached no 2

http://www.jpgr.co.uk/stats_no1_s.html

Regards
Jay

...and it wasn't on The Beatles' '1' album - an album of all their number one hits from the U.K. and the U.S.

Martin.

[JimN]

Absolutely. The Beatles' Please Please Me was number one in the NME charts and in the Melody Maker (can't remember whether that was top fifty or top twenty at the time).

It was a number one, acknowledged and regarded as such at the time. It was only in relatively recent years that the nit-picking about Record Retailer came about.

JN