The Charts No.1’s

Dave Clark Five.. Glad All Over
Searchers.. Needles & Pins
Bachelors.. Diane
Cilla Black.. Anyone Who Had A Heart
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas.. Little Children
Beatles.. Can’t Buy Me Love
Peter & Gordon.. A World Without Love
Searchers.. Don’t Throw Your Love Away
Four Pennies.. Juliet
Cilla Black .. You’re My World
Roy Orbison.. It’s Over
Animals.. The House Of The Rising Sun—- Rolling Stones.. It’s All Over now
Beatles.. A Hard Day’s Night ———————Manfred Mann.. Do Wah Diddy Diddy
Honeycombes.. Have I The Right————- Kinks.. You Really Got Me
Supremes.. Baby Love—————————— Rolling Stones.. Little Red Rooster
Herman’s Hermits.. I’m Into Something Good

Roy Orbison.. Oh Pretty Woman
Sandie Shaw.. (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me

Other Artistes with Top 30 hits were; Billy Fury, Brenda Lee, The Ronettes, Frank Ifield, The Bachelors, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Merseybeats, Nino Temple, Helen Shapiro, Eden Kane, Dave Berry, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, The Kingsmen, Ken Dodd, Matt Monro, Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Jim Reeves, Kathy Kirby, Freddie and the Dreamers, Dusty Springfield, The Joy Strings, Heinz, Crystals, Karl Denver, Gene Pitney, Adam Faith, Del Shannon, Millie and, of course, Elvis Presley.

FILMS
Include….My Fair Lady, Dr.Strangelove, A Hard Days Night, Mary Poppins, A Fistful of Dollars, Zorba the Greek, The Pink Panther and Goldfinger

ON THE TV
BBC2 started, but the first night was cancelled due to a major power cut accross London.
New to the TV screen was Top of the Pops on 1st.January. Play School also started in 1964

Popular programmes included The Likely Lads, That was the Week that Was.
Juke Box Jury was just about still running and Ready Steady Go was in t’s second year out of four. ITV’s Big hit was Thank your Lucky Stars

We also watched Peyton Place and the Olympic Games from Tokyo

ON THE RADIO
With a lot of people fed up with BBC Radio and it’s reluctance to ‘move on’; 1964 saw the introduction of ‘Pirate Radio’. These were basically radio stations on a boat anchored just outside legal British Waters and were listened to by keen youngsters with their transister radios under the bedsheets.
Radio Caroline was the first, followed closely by Radio Sutch and Invicta Radio, both did not last long, but it shook the BBC up enough to change it’s whole programme policy shortly afterwards.

All in all, much of the entertainment reflected the mood of the time; Harold Wilson for Labour replaced a long standing Conservative led Government albeit by just 5 seats.
Mods and Rockers were clashing at numurous seaside resorts causing havoc on every Bank Holiday weekend. The Sun was first published and the war in Vietnam escalated causing the start of many peace campaigns.

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