The Beatles Are Coming!! The Beatles Are Coming!!-- Part 1: WLS Top 40 Survey January 17, 1964

From the Oldies Loon website. //// Yesterday, Bob Stroud started off his show on WDRV with "California Sun" by the Rivieras and "Hey Little Cobra" by the Ripchords and said that these two songs were in the WLS Silver Dollar Survey for the week of January 17, 1964. This was also the week that the Beatles first cracked the chart with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" which debuted at #40. By the next week it had jumped to #8 and the following week was #1. //// Beatlemania and the British Invasion had arrived on U.S. shores. Things wouldn't be the same after that. And that means music and myself. //// The next several days I will be taking a look at the charts for the next couple of months back in 1964. Those four lads from Liverpool had quite the impact. //// Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. --RoadDog