Beatlemania, Beatlemania, Beatlemania!!!   (and it hasn't even reached it's Zenith).     Lots and lots of Beatles, but also Jan and Dean (and Mel Blanc) The Four Preps, Dale and Grace, Nino and April and more!  #madeonZencastr

The British charts for March of 1964.      Can't Buy Me Love arrives, while Lennon/McCartney also continue the string with Peter & Gordon and World Without Love.      We also consider the state of "other music" on the British charts. #madeonzencastr

The Beatles continue rampaging the charts, but the Americans also stake some ground.     Two sides from Elvis in the charts (one good, one very bad), The Shoop Shoop Song, a bad Merseybeat knockoff and a Beatles novelty record (about the hair, of course) written by someone you might not expect! #madeonzencastr.

The first two weeks of Billboard, 1964.       Dawn, Fun Fun Fun and more of the Beatles than you can shake a forest at!    #MadeonZencastr

Cilla, Beatles, Stones and a feature on the Ed Sullivan Show.     Side A - the British charts and more!

We roll into the American charts for January 1964.     Marsha Albert, Carroll James, and millions of East Coasters help "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to the Top of the Cashbox charts.   Meanwhile, Capitol cannot keep up with demand as the Ed Sullivan show approaches.

I Want to Hold Your Hand firmly takes control of the American charts, while British bands continue their dominance on the British charts.   To use the lingo of music writers of the time.    "While the Beatles crawl to the top of the Cashbox charts (but not quite Billboard), the Searchers give us a swinging, twisting new deck!"    

1963 draws to a close, and Capitol records decides to celebrate by finallly releasing a little record from across the pond - Frank Ifield covering Bing Crosby!    All this and more, including some thoughts on that other record which would escape on boxing day and make a big splash in January!

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" enters the British charts, "She Loves You" hums along, as does the NEMS crew.      Piers Hemmingsen guests as we spend some time considering the rise of the "British Invasion" in Canada.

The American charts for November of 1963.    Doldrums in the charts that were not improved by the Kennedy assassination at the end of the month.    A lot of filler, with a select few gems.    Steven Allen, Ray Charles (not that one) and Sammy Davis, Jr. too!