The week of August 22, 1964, saw The Supremes atop the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Where Did Our Love Go,’ a song I featured 15 years ago during Motown Weekends.
At #2 that week was Dean Martin’s ‘Everybody Loves Somebody,’ down a spot after a one-week stint at #1. This was a nearly 20-year-old song that had already been recorded by Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra in the 40s, but Martin had the most success with it and it became his signature tune.
According to a biography of Martin, he was resentful of the increasing dominance of rock-n-roll, and told his son, a Beatles fan, that he would knock the Fab Four off the charts. Sure enough, ‘Everybody Loves Somebody’ replaced ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ at #1.
Everybody loves somebody sometime
Everybody falls in love somehow
Something in your kiss just told me
My sometime is now
[Verse 2]
Everybody finds somebody someplace
There’s no telling where love may appear
Something in my heart keeps saying
My someplace is here
[Chorus]
If I had it in my power
I’d arrange for every girl to have your charms
Then every minute, every hour
Every boy would find what I found in your arms
[Verse 3]
Everybody loves somebody sometime
And although my dream was overdue
Your love made it well worth waiting
For someone like you
[Chorus]
If I had it in my power
I would arrange for every girl to have your charms
Then every minute, every hour
Every boy would find what I found in your arms
[Verse 4]
Everybody loves somebody sometime
And although my dream was overdue
Your love made it well worth waiting
For someone like you
[Outro]
Everybody loves somebody sometime
Meet Me In Montauk 
Martin’s son should have told his dad that “rock and roll is here to stay!”
Glad Dean had his day but Rock and Roll was here to stay ❤️