Chart Notes: As earlier material from the Beatles becomes available in the States, 'Love Me Do' debuts in the Top Ten at #1 at WPGC (and would go on to be the #13 song of the year on the WPGC Top 100 of 1964). Simultaneously, newly recorded tuneage from the Fab Four also arrives with 'Roll Over Beethoven' debuting in the Top Ten at #8 where it joins 'Can't Buy Me Love' which falls from the #1 spot to #3 and 'All My Lovin' which drops from #2 - #10.

Elsewhere around the dial, 'Can't Buy Me Love' holds a stranglehold at #1 at both WEAM and Milt Grant's Network where the song had been #2 at both places the previous week, as well as stays #1 for another week at both WWDC and WHMC and lands at #3 at WEEL, the same spot it was at last week.

'Twist And Shout' hangs on strong to #2 at WEAM falling from the #1 spot the week before, #3 at Milt Grant's Network also dropping from the top spot the week before, falls out of the Top Ten from #6 a week ago at WEEL, falls from #1 - #3 at WINX and falls out of the Top Ten from #9 last week at WWDC.

'She Loves You' doesn't budge a bit this week, still at #3 at both WEAM and WHMC but drops out of the Top Ten from #9 last week at WINX. Meanwhile, 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' displays amazing staying power, locked in to the #4 position just as the week before at WEAM.

'Do You Want To Know A Secret' debuts in the Top Ten at #5 at WEAM, debuts in the Top Ten at #7 on Milt Grant's Network, drops a notch at WEEL from #1 - #2, debuts in the Top Ten at #6 at WINX, creeps up from #8 - #7 at WWDC and moves up from #8 - #5 at WHMC.

'Roll Over Beethoven' debuts in the Top Ten at #6 at WEAM and sticks at the #5 position for the second week in a row at WEEL.

'All My Lovin' ranks #7 at WEAM this week, having not appeared in the Top Ten the previous week on 1390.

'Thank You Girl', another song that did not appear last week on WEAM debuts in the Top Ten at #8 but falls out of the Top Ten from #2 last week at WEEL.

'You Can't Do That' breaks in to the Top Ten this week at WEAM at #9.

Finally, Donna Lynn who earlier in the year scored with a novelty tune about the Beatles, 'My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut' returns with a follow up, 'Java Jones', this week's 'Predicted Hit' at WPGC. The song would fare considerably worse than its novelty predecessor which stalled at #83, not even making Billboard's Hot 100.

© Evening Star

04/04/64

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