To wrap up 2024 and kick off 2025, I’m planning to write my “looking back” and “looking ahead” posts over the next two days. That leaves today as a bit of a dead spot.
I was torn between posting another Christmas song and posting a New Year’s Eve song, but one would be late and one would be early. Then I realized I could split the difference and post a New Year’s song in a Christmas movie, which averages out to December 30, more or less (ok, the math’s not perfect, but cut me some slack).
When The Beatles’ ‘I Feel Fine’ showed up as the #1 song the week of December 29, 1964, I assumed I had featured it on the blog already. After all, I posted 80 Beatles songs as part of ‘Beatles Weekends‘ alone back in 2009.
But somehow I never got around to this one, The Beatles’ sixth #1 in 1964 (a record for a single calendar year). The Beatles would nearly repeat that feat the following year, scoring five #1s in 1965. I look forward to encountering those in coming installments of Throwback Weekends.
Today’s Throwback Weekend selection falls on my wife’s birthday, so I had to chuckle when the title turned out to be ‘The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane’ by the Ames Brothers.
This track sat at #3 the week of December 28, 1954, behind repeat Songs of the Day ‘Mister Sandman’ by The Chordettes and ‘Let Me Go Lover’ by Joan Weber.
Meet Me In Montauk 