It was 47 years ago today...

**holygoat** · 04-04-2011, 06:18 PM

The Beatles held the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart

April 4, 1964: The Beatles Make Hot 100 History - Chart Beat | Billboard.com

On the Billboard Hot 100 dated 47 years ago today - April 4, 1964 - the Beatles made history as the only act ever to monopolize the chart's top five positions.

With a 27-1 second-week blast to the top for "Can't Buy Me Love," the Fab Four locked up the chart's entire top five:

The Billboard Hot 100, April 4, 1964
Position, Title
No. 1, "Can't Buy Me Love"
No. 2, "Twist and Shout"
No. 3, "She Loves You"
No. 4, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
No. 5, "Please Please Me"

**hueytaxi** · 04-04-2011, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by holygoat

The Beatles held the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart

And the Nightshades, a local hometown band, could not do the Beatles well for our Senior Prom. Jim Mack was the drummer in his first try with a band. I think one of the Van Zant's also performed. One of my best friends from then is 2nd on the left side, Rudy Wheeler.

**Lousluggage** · 04-04-2011, 06:46 PM

And interestingly enough, the lyric "Sgt Pepper taught the band to play" came into my head when I saw the thread title. Of course the first line to that song is "It was 20 years ago today" but that's beside the point. ;)

**NeedMoreLike84** · 04-04-2011, 09:49 PM

People who dislike the Beatles are not right in their opinions. They simply have either not heard enough, don't really understand music or lack perspective.

**djhutch** · 04-05-2011, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by NeedMoreLike84

People who dislike the Beatles are not right in their opinions. They simply have either not heard enough, don't really understand music or lack perspective.

People who tell people their opinions are wrong lack the knowledge to know opinions aren't facts.

**eastside billee** · 04-05-2011, 08:14 AM

for you Beatle fans, please check out my band's website :

Silver Hammer

Huey, I love the name The Nightshades!!! Very cool memories.

**NeedMoreLike84** · 04-05-2011, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by djhutch

People who tell people their opinions are wrong lack the knowledge to know opinions aren't facts.

Oh come on.

Did you really need to be so stern in "lecturing" me?

**NeedMoreLike84** · 04-05-2011, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by eastside billee

for you Beatle fans, please check out my band's website :

Silver Hammer

Huey, I love the name The Nightshades!!! Very cool memories.

I like Beatles tributes. I like the guys who sort of do the act. But I like this kind of thing too. The Fab Faux approach.

**Motor City Sonics** · 04-05-2011, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by eastside billee

for you Beatle fans, please check out my band's website :

Silver Hammer

Maxwell's Silver Hammer...............has there ever been a catchier song about murder?

**IdahoBert** · 04-05-2011, 12:45 PM

On Feb. 9, 1964 the Beatles debuted on Ed Sullivan and I was 12. There had been a lot of buzz before hand and I had not yet heard their music on local radio, but their performance was electric. The next day in school it was like the world had changed forever. It was all people could talk about, and within weeks radio was utterly different as the British Invasion arrived. It was like a great cloud burst had washed away the old and the new took root immediately.

You have to realize that the Beatles and the rest of the British groups were entirely different from what we had been hearing before. Even if the early Beatles seem quaint and mundane now, it was really different than artists like Bobby Vinton, Bobby Darin, and even the Beach Boys, Motown or folk.

I liked absolutely everything the Beatles did which was something I could not say about all the other records I got from the Columbia Record Club. I loved every single song. It's true, they didn't challenge me. The Doors, for instance, took time to grow on me because they did challenge me and then I was hooked. But the Beatles were sheer fun immediately. Then came the Stones and other groups. Wow.

**shabba4detroit** · 04-05-2011, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by Motor City Sonics

Maxwell's Silver Hammer...............has there ever been a catchier song about murder?

"Papa Loved Mama" by Garth Brooks.

**shabba4detroit** · 04-05-2011, 12:55 PM

I consider them to be great using a rather empirical method. Having been born shortly before their breakup, I was unable to enjoy them as a group while they were alive. Yet, even after nearly half a century, so much of their stuff is still listenable and enjoyable that they must have done something right.

The other thing that I have been trying to wrap my brain around recently is the fact that they came up with so much music, and so much good music -- and they arrived here in 1964 and were done by 1970. Has anyone else come up with such a quantity of music in such a short a period of time ... regardless of quality?

**NeedMoreLike84** · 04-05-2011, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by shabba4detroit

The other thing that I have been trying to wrap my brain around recently is the fact that they came up with so much music, and so much good music -- and they arrived here in 1964 and were done by 1970. Has anyone else come up with such a quantity of music in such a short a period of time ... regardless of quality?

I don't think so. Nothing like that. And that is why I think it stands alone.

I mean some bands have made 5 or 6 great albums. But not with the insane musical growth that happened.