To the Toppermost of the Poppermost, Johnny!

Much has always been made - and rightfully so - about The Beatles impossibly holding the Top 5 songs on the Billboard charts on April 4, 1964 but it's only now occurred to me to wonder what 6-10 were. Incredibly, The Beatles' songs look even more remarkable when placed up against the other songs. Even in the 1950s people thought Louis Armstrong's music a hundred years old or something, and the songs by Terry Stafford, Betty Everett and Bobby Vinton are all fine but they all absolutely reek of 1959.

Meanwhile the Dave Clark Five, who threatened to challenge The Beatles reign over the British Invasion for about a minute, totally peaked with Glad All Over - not a good song but a GREAT song - and never came close to sniffing anything close to resembling greatness while The Beatles just went on delivering lightening bolts of magic that would just keep changing th world over & over again as long as there are humans with working ears and hearts.

NOTE: no, I have no earthly ides why there's a photo from Sgt. Pepper which came out 3 years later (ONLY 3 years later are you kidding me?!?!?) but I've decided to get over it and just move along with my goddam life already.