Mining the Charts: Billboard's Hits of the World supplement for Winter 1967

 

HOTW Winter 1967

Mining the Charts: Canada supplement for Autumn 1966

 

One of these is by The 5 Canadians, who were from Texas, and another from The Royal Guardsmen, who were from Florida. When their novelty record Snoopy vs. The Red Baron became an unexpected huge hit, there was no Canadian licensing agreement between Peanuts creator Charles Schulz and the song publisher, so the band recorded new vocals for Canada, substituting the word Snoopy with Squeaky and the Red Baron with the Black Knight. 

 Canada Autumn 1966

Mining the Charts - Billboard's Hits of the World supplement for Autumn 1966

 

This is becoming less and less interesting as we move forward through the 60s. There are, however, several records worthy of being added to the Mining the Charts folder. 

4 records from the Irish Top 10, but the only one I added is Doc Carroll's "Far Away From You".

5 records from Malaysia & Singapore. Blue Eyes by The Blue Comets was released in America by Epic. I believe The Victorians were an American act with ties to former Four Seasons members or something. The b-side of American country singer Jeannie Seely's hit Don't Touch Me, a song called You Tied Tin Cans To My Heart, was a hit in Malaysia and Singapore, but I was unable to track down a copy of it.

There are a few records from Holland by the usual suspects: Q '65, The Outsiders and the Golden Earrings. 

There is only 1 from South Africa this time around, and that is by British singer Guy Darrell.

That leaves one from Greece by a young lady calling herself Tammy.

HOTW Autumn 1966

Mining the Charts - Canada supplement for Summer 1966

 

Canada Summer 1966

Mining the Charts - Billboard's Hits of the World supplement for Summer 1966

 

The Lovin' Spoonful had a hit in Sweden with a track from their 2nd LP that was issued as a single there and nowhere else......for good reason. I can't understand what the Swedes liked about it. The Hollies hit in Sweden with their cover version of Peter, Paul & Mary's Very Last Day, which appears to have been issued as a single only in the Scandinavian countries and Germany. The Tages had a hit with In My Dreams, which is a decent light pop song for 1966.

Local Singapore acts The Quests and Naomi & The Boys each had decent hits there while UK band The Shadows hit in Malaysia with Will You Be There and over in Hong Kong The Astro-Notes hit with My Baby Treated Me Cool.   

Ireland had its usual local-yokel cover hits. I excluded a few of them as they are just "too Irish", if you know what I mean. 

British band The Overlanders hit in Israel with My Life.

New Zealand band The Gremlins hit in their homeland with The Coming Generation.

South Africa had local hits from The Ad-Libs, Dickie Loader, and the Dream Merchants.

Danish band The Red Squares hit there with a cover of the Four Seasons song Sherry.

Norway's The Pussycats hit there with Just A Little Teardrop.

The rest are from Holland, which had local English-language hits from The Motions, Q '65, The Hunters, The Outsiders as well as competing records from Will Andy and Flemish singer Micky Day doing Oh Oh What a Kiss.

HOTW Summer 1966

Mining the Charts - Canada supplement for Spring 1966

 

Canada Spring 1966

Mining the Charts - Billboard's Hits of the World supplement for Spring 1966

 

Going further into 1966 this Hits of the World thing is getting to be a bit disappointing. 

First of all, there are only 21 tracks, not 23. I can't be bothered to go back and make that correction since there are only 3 or 4 people that download this.

There are 9 tracks from Ireland, 5 tracks from Holland, 3 from Sweden, 2 from South Africa, and 1 each from Denmark and Hong Kong........and the one from Hong Kong is by Californians Bruce & Terry, their release of "Come Love", which did nothing in the USA but went Top 10 in Hong Kong. Also, one of the Holland tracks is from British singer Dave Berry.

Personally, I only added these tracks to my own Mining the Charts Spring 1966 folder:

Above and Beyond - Houston Wells & The Premier Aces (Ireland)

Come Love - Bruce & Terry {USA} (Hong Kong)

For You Babe - June Muscat (South Africa)

I Know - Les Baroques (Holland)

If You Leave Me - The Golden Earrings (Holland)

If You Wait For Love - Dave Berry {UK} (Holland)

Love Was On Your Mind - Ola & The Janglers (Sweden)

My Heartache's Got Heartaches - The Jack Ruane Band (Ireland)

Such A Cad - Les Baroques (Holland)

Wedding - The Hep Stars (Sweden)

You're The Victor - Q '65 (Holland)

and took a pass on the other ten. The Fly by Brendan Bowyer is a good rocker, but sounds more like Spring 1962 than 1966. 

HOTW Spring '66