Updated: October 2006
Liverpool No.1’s 1953 – 1969
All acts below are from liverpool and have reached No. 1
| 1953 | Lita Roza: How Much Is That Doggie In The Window |
| 1957 | Frankie Vaughan: The Garden Of Eden |
| 1958 | Michael Holliday: The Story Of My Life |
| 1960 | Michael Holliday: Starry Eyed |
| 1961 | Frankie Vaughan: Tower Of Strength |
| 1963 | Gerry & The Pacemakers: How Do You Do It? |
| 1963 | The Beatles: From Me To You |
| 1963 | Gerry & The Pacemakers: I Like It |
| 1963 | The Searchers: Sweets For My Sweet |
| 1963 | Billy J. Kramer: Bad To Me |
| 1963 | The Beatles: She Loves You |
| 1963 | Gerry & The Pacemakers: You’ll Never Walk Alone |
| 1963 | The Beatles: I Want To Hold Your Hand |
| 1964 | The Searchers: Needles And Pins |
| 1964 | Cilla Black: Anyone Who Had A Heart |
| 1964 | Billy J. Kramer: Little Children |
| 1964 | The Beatles: Can’t Buy Me Love |
| 1964 | The Searchers: Don’t Throw Your Love Away |
| 1964 | Cilla Black: You’re My World |
| 1964 | The Beatles: Hard Day’s Night |
| 1964 | The Beatles: I Feel Fine |
| 1965 | The Beatles: Ticket To Ride |
| 1965 | The Beatles: Help! |
| 1965 | Ken Dodd: Tears |
| 1965 | The Beatles: Day Tripper |
| 1966 | The Beatles: Paperback Writer |
| 1966 | The Beatles: Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby |
| 1967 | The Beatles: All You Need Is Love |
| 1967 | The Beatles: Hello, Goodbye |
| 1968 | The Beatles: Lady Madonna |
| 1968 | The Beatles: Hey Jude |
| 1968 | The Scaffold: Lily The Pink |
| 1969 | The Beatles: Get Back |
| 1969 | The Beatles: The Ballad Of John & Yoko |
The list is impressive for one city in England.
Their are many more No.1’s from Liverpool acts but I have stopped at the end of the fab 60’s.
Berry Good News
Dave Berry is delighted that he has secured a distribution deal with Universal for his new album ‘Memphis in the Meantime’. Strangely, it coincides with the same week his first single, ‘Memphis Tennessee’ was released on Decca, now part of Universal. As a bonus,Beat Goes On Records are releasing two of the 1964/65 Decca albums later this month (August 2004). They feature early jazz & blues material never released on singles. Berry’s roots obviously do run very deep.
Bill Harry Q and A
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Some questions to Bill Harry…more to follow………Questions asked by merseybeatlover1 (Brian). Bill will answer the questions below.
these are questions…that I and many more would love to know…….
(answers supplied by Bill Harry) (c)bill harry
The Beach Boys were one of the groups you were press agent for. What were they like?
They were very easy to get on with and not as raucous or as fond of the booze as some of the British groups I represented (can you image what it was like having afternoon drinking sessions with Keith Moon!). I’d initially met them when I was writing for Record Mirror and first interviewed them at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane.
A lot of it involved social interaction. We’d go clubbing at the Revolution with Al Jardine and Sandra, a friend of ours who he went out with (sadly, she died last year), I interested Carl in physic books and took him to the psychic book shops off Charing Cross Road. I also took Carl on visits to Apple. I accompanied them on a camera shoot at Strand on the Green, outside the pub where the Beatles had filmed Help! I used to drink in De Hems with Dennis Wilson and he told me how excited he was about this group of people he’d become involved with, who had a place in the desert with lots of girls. It turned out to be Manson and his crowd. Sitting in the Palladium during rehearsals I interested Mike Love in the book ‘The Morning of the Magicians,’ he was intrigued about Atlantis and mystical things. Dick Duryea, film actor Dan Duryea’s son was their road manager and we used to go to parties with them. I represented them on a couple of their British visits.
What was Apple like?
I only saw Apple from a social point of view and initially visited their original offices before dropping in regularly when they moved to Savile Row. Derek Taylor used to invite me along to listen to previews of new albums. In his office smelling of pot, in which bottles of lager were freely available, he would be busily writing memos, inviting me to create memos (I didn’t write it, but he made a memo, allegedly from me, asking would the Beatles appear at the Cavern again). His memos were bizarre, but intriguing. Another Apple friend was Tony Bramwell, whose autobiography is published this year by St Martin’s Press. At the Revolution one night, Sandra, a friend of ours, introduced us to members of the Hell’s Angels who had been invited over by George Harrison. She’d told them all about me and they wanted me to handle their publicity. I said I couldn’t, but they insisted – fortunately they forgot about it and didn’t press it. Then, at the Apple party, the Hell’s Angels were there. The main place where the party was held was crammed with people in the fashionable psychedelic styles and colours of clothes of the time. A girl was breast feeding her baby, Caleb was crouched on the floor reading tarot cards, there were lots of kids around, it seemed a bit of a mayhem, so I drifted to the floor above. In the main room were two solitary figures, sitting cross-legged in the middle of the floor: Mr & Mrs Santa Claus – John and Yoko. John introduced me to her and we shook hands, but she wasn’t very communicative.
As mentioned with Carl Wilson, I often dropped around with people to introduce them. I took Mike Moorcock, a former pen pal of mine, who had become a science-fiction author and was currently publishing New Worlds magazine. The Beatles were impressed with the magazine and donated £1,000 towards it.