Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Can't Buy Me Love

Released March 16, 1964.

From Beatles-Discography.com:

When it knocked She Loves You off the top of the tree, the Beatles had twelve songs in the Hot 100. The songs (and the positions they held) were: 1) Can’t Buy Me Love; 2) Twist And Shout; 3) She Loves You; 4) I Want To Hold Your Hand; 5) Please Please Me; 31) I Saw Her Standing There; 41) From Me To You; 46) Do You Want To Know A Secret; 58) All My Loving; 65) You Can’t Do That; 68) Roll Over Beethoven, and 79) Thank You Girl. And two weeks later they were joined by 74) There’s A Place, and 81) Love Me Do as well. And if that wasn’t enough, they also had a couple of tribute records by other bands: 42) We Love You Beatles by The Carefrees, and 85) A Letter To The Beatles by the Four Preps.

The Beatles went on to enjoy thirteen straight weeks at the top of the tree stretching all the back to 1st February ‘64 (seven for I Want To Hold Your Hand , two for She Love's You and four for this one). It eventually came to end when Louis Armstrong knocked them off with Hello, Dolly! on 9th May.


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