Chart Notes: The Beatles', 'A Hard Day's Night', remains at #1 at WPGC for the third consecutive week (and which ends the year at #7 on the WPGC Top 100 of 1964) while another track from the film's soundtrack, 'Tell Me Why' (still erroneously credited as 'Ask Me Why') stays at #4. In another apparent crediting error, 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' ranks as #5 despite the fact the original version had fallen off the chart weeks earlier. A more likely explanation would be the previous week's #10 ranking of the Boston Pops' instrumental cover version of the song which may have risen this week to #5 and simply been mistakenly identified as by the Fab Four.

Elsewhere around the DC dial, 'A Hard Day's Night' moves from #6 - #1 at WEAM, stays at #1 for a second consecutive week at WAVA, stays at #1 for a fourth consecutive week at WEEL, falls from #4 - #5 at WINX, jumps from #7 - #2 at WWDC and leaps from #8 - #1 at WHMC.

Yet another track from the soundtrack and also used in the film, 'And I Love Her' debuts in the Top Ten at #10 at WAVA this week while a tune on the soundtrack but not used in the motion picture, 'I'll Cry Instead', last week's 'Predicted Hit' at WWDC does not appear in the Top Ten this week.

Milking the second wave of Beatlemania to the max, ATCO Record's release of 'Ain't She Sweet' with John on lead vocal from the Polygram sessions in 1960 with Tony Sheridan debuts in the Top Ten this week at #10 on WHMC.

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07/18/64

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