Now, on with the show ... November 1968 ...
Baby Jude: Hey Jude’s Love Child!
Believe it or not, here we go head-long into the final two
months of 2018. How did we get here?!
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Speaking of duels, a
battle of boy-band vs. girl-band played out on music surveys across the nation Fifty Years Ago this Month …
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Roy Clark & Buck Trent, Hee Haw |
November 4th: We’ve heard of
dueling banjos and dueling pianos, but in November 1968 we radio listeners played
a crucial part in a duel for the top of the charts between two talented and
charismatic music powerhouses.
Diana Ross and the Supremes and brash boy band, The Beatles, hit
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WRIT/Milwaukee’s
Silver Dollar Music Survey November 4, 1968 is a perfect example of their
musical rivalry. Click on our Featured Survey*
to see The Beatles’ “Hey Jude”/”Revolution”
combo at #2, nipping at the heels of Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were the Days.”
Diana Ross & the Supremes’ “Love Child” started its
climb as a distant contender in the #28 spot.
The Beatles’ songs stayed at #2 for the November 11th
chart, but “Love Child” quickly jumped several rungs up the ladder to #12.
By November 25th, however, Diana had led her girls up to
#3, while The Beatles slipped to #4 & #5 (“Revolution” & “Hey Jude,”
respectively). And yep, “Those Were the Days” still kept a glass ceiling on their rise.
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Featured Radio
Survey: WRIT/Milwaukee November 4, 1968 … for all their popularity across the country,
neither The Beatles or Diana Ross and The Supremes could knock Mary Hopkin out
of the #1 spot at WRIT … 50 Years Ago This Month. Rev up your memories and recall that awesome day
when …
Celebrate NOVEMBER 1968 and … Rock On!
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LinDee Rochelle is a writer
and editor by trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published
two books (of three) in her Blast from Your Past
series, available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll
Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll Radio
DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon, … The Psychedelic Seventies!
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