6 of the 60s: 3/19/14 (1964)...

Wednesday brings another installment of my 60s flashback, with a half-dozen more nuggets from 1964, the Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa was convicted for tampering with a jury. (As usual I've included highlighted links to pick up the song or album)

Manfred Mann - "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
from the album The Manfred Mann Album (1964)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1
Songwriters: Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich

The song with the silly title was originally a minor hit as one of the follow-ups to the Exciters' The Big Chill hit "Tell Him" before the band led by South African Mann conquered the world with it.

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Jay & The Americans - "Come A Little Bit Closer"
from the album Come A Little Bit Closer (1964)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3
Songwriters: Tommy Boyce, Wes Farrell, Bobby Hart

After scoring a hit with this song, the group from Queens landed an opening slot on the Beatles' first tour...

The Dave Clark Five - "Glad All Over"
from the album Glad All Over (1964)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6
Songwriters: Dave Clark, Mike Smith

The quintet from London rode the way the Beatles paved to have their first American hit with this single.

The Beatles - "I Saw Her Standing There"
from the album Please Please Me (1963)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14
Songwriters: John Lennon, Paul McCartney

Speaking of the Fab Four, you can feel the excitement in your bones listening to the possessed audience from their Washington DC concert just as they were breaking in America..

Gerry & The Pacemakers - "I Like It"
from the album Second Album (1964)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17
Songwriter: Mitch Murray

A bunch of British "boy" bands cribbed on the Beatles' "Please Please Me" simple rock and roll craze, though the Fab Four would quickly outgrow the rest of them by miles.

The Rolling Stones - "It's All Over Now"
from the album 12X5 (1964)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26
Songwriters: Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack

The Stones, though, had no intention on mining the teenybopper pop crowd, throwing down this soul cover as their second top-40 hit in the U.S.

Tomorrow I'll serve up seven more from 1974 and 8 from 1984...