Toppermost Of The Poppermost

Herb Alpert, Billy Stewart, A Taste of Honey, Danny Hutton (on Hanna-Barbera Records), Kim Weston, yet another new cover of "Road Runner" and more!    The Magical Mystery Camp (https://www.magicalmysterycamp.com/toppermost/) once again sponsors Toppermost for the 2026 year!  #madeonzencastr.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Several Beatles songs, Fontella Bass and Len Barry's "1-2-3".    Even "The Eve of Destruction", it's first cousin "The Dawn of Correction" and a mediocre Patty Duke song can't bring us down!    The Magical Mystery Camp (https://www.magicalmysterycamp.com/toppermost/) once again sponsors Toppermost for the 2026 year!  #madeonzencastr.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

The Gentrys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Andy Williams, Lesley Gore, the great Roy Head and the return of Jay and the Americans!   The Magical Mystery Camp (https://www.magicalmysterycamp.com/toppermost/) once again sponsors Toppermost for the 2026 year!     Friends of the show Darin Murphy and Jon Stone join us for a feature on the Beatles and Dylan! #madeonzencastr.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Help! keeps on running while The Hollies invite us to look through any window, the Small Faces borrow an old title (and chord progression), while PJ Proby moves on with a tune from Lennon and McCartney.    The Magical Mystery Camp (https://www.magicalmysterycamp.com/toppermost/) once again sponsors Toppermost for the 2026 year!     Friends of the show Darin Murphy and Jon Stone join us for a feature on the Beatles and Dylan! #madeonzencastr.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

I'm mad, and I don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.    Elvis, Beatles and Charlie Rich sharing space in the charts with Stevie Wonder.     Meanwhile, Phil Spector brushes up on cod french.   #madeonzencastr.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

We start the US charts for August 1965.     Dean Martin sings, the Kingsmen are reading Playboy, Marianne Faithull (and Kit O'Toole) are enjoying some summer nights despite the fact Barbara Mason is a sad, sad girl.    #madeonzencastr.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

August 1965.    Steve Matteo drops in for a feature on film in 1965 (including Help!), and we go through the UK charts in August.    Dylan, Stones, Beatles, the Everly Brothers and Sonny (?1).    #madeonzencastr

Some of the biggest hits of the sixties that still ring through our heads, hearts (and shopping outlets?).      Dylan, James Brown, the Four Tops and the best of the Righteous Brothers.     Not just the rock tunes of a year or decade, but the entire twentieth century!    #madeonzencastr.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Why is Dylan hanging out with Sonny and Cher while complaining to the Byrds about them?    All they really wanna do (Bob) is baby be friends with you.    Streisand, and Elvis EP and some grep Soul as well.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Billy Fury, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes and another "could it be anything other than a posthumous record" from Jim Reeves.      Decent, but not overly strong material from Roy Orbison and Marianne Faithful.    Thankfully, there's the Animals and DC5 to hold up the higher end of the spectrum!    #madeonzencastr.  Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

July of 1965.    Cook and Greenaway, the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, Joan Baez and PJ Proby.     All this and a feature covering the radio of 1965 with Rob Leonard!  #madeonzencastr.  Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Forget Domani?    How would that be possible when we are reminded by both Connie Francis and Francis Albert Sinatra?    Lots of film songs.     Elvis regurgitates his "Pot Luck", Tom Jones talks about pretty, pussy ... cat lips, Lesley  Gore talks about Sunshine Lollipops AND Rainbows, and ever more!   #madeonzencastr.  Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Shangri-Las-65!     It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood for the Capitol Swirl.     Jay and the Americans continue doing their thing, and Johnny Rivers delivers a hit.       We still don't quite get why the guy with the Long Liverpool Hair had it cut off, but it'll grow back!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Also, Create your own podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

More of the UK charts for 1965.    Cliff, Donovn (Colours - don't forget the "U"), the next one from the Moodies, Genet Pitney and our old friend (and Band on the Run cover boy) Kenny Lynch!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Following a feature on the albums of 1965, we enter the UK charts for June of 1965.    Ticket to Ride, the Who and Tony Bennett are among the bangers in these charts!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Len Barry and Shirley Ellis spout puzzles and tongue twisters.     Thankfully, we are playing with fire and taking a ticket to ride with Mr. Tambourine Man!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Engine Engine Number Nine!     Supremes, Roger Miller and Trini eight days a week (no, that's out of the charts), YES IT IS!   (yep, that one's here).     Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

We are joined by Billy J. Kramer as we discuss his recent album, his upcoming tour through the UK, and his history with Brian Epstein, The BeeGees, Harry Nilsson and more.     We also manage to run through the entire British charts for May 1965!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .

Eight Days a Week rolls on.     George and Gene, Connie Stevens, Ray Charles, Al "He's The King" Hirt, Soupy Sales and a couple of songs from "Mary Poppins" are all on the charts.     Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .

Dylan and the Impressions roll on while Gary Lewis asks you to "count me in" (or is he asking for a coke?) while Sam the Sham and his buddies just want you to Wooly Bully.    I guess it's better than Chubby begging you to "Do the Freddie!"    The first few weeks of April 1965 on the Billboard Charts!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

RIP Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943 - June 9, 2025RIP Brian Wilson, June 20, 1942 - June 11, 2025Martin Quibell, Kit O'Toole and I "break period" to celebrate the lives and music of two artists whose influence cannot be measured, and have been omnipresent as performers, songwriters and producers from the "Toppermost Era" to the present day. #DancetotheMusic #AFriendLikeYou #madeonzencastr Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

The Beatles, Stones, Kinks and Moodies at the 1965 NME Pollwinners show!    A Ticket to Ride?    Bring It On Home to Me!    Also, the full British charts for April of 1965!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

Eight Days a Week continues to roll on, while Marvin Gaye, the Miracles, Jay and the Americans, and Lesley Gore show off their new wares.    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

The Beatles still have "Eight Days a Week" and their EP (including "Mr. Moonlight") in the charts while two versions of "For Mama" appear, Brian Wilson gets stoned and the discussion of brightly colored suits continues!      Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

Petula Clark knows a place (which might include a cellarful of noise), while the Yardbirds ask for your Love (although Eric doesn't want it, so runs away, the Ian Campbell folk group ask us if the times are actually changing, while we meet a new singer in a cloth cap that plays acoustic guitar and harmonica (and no he's not Bob Dylan).   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

This month, our feature is the Beatles final in-studio appearance on "Thank Your Lucky Stars".    Meanwhile, the Stones insist this (will/will not) be the last time, the Moodies continue with Denny Laine, and the potato man himself (Heinz) is digging some potatoes!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

Paul McCartney first hears of the "na na boys", and doesn't want to spoil the party!     Elvis shuffles around in the sand, and the Ray Charles singers (but not THE Ray Charles) give us another of their old-timey favorites!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

Ride on that Orange Blossom Special while listening to Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and of course the Beatles!     Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

Great New Sound for 1965!     New, improved Full Dimensional Stereo.    Beatles, Tom Jones, The Animals and the Mindbenders!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

More fun in Feb 1965!    Will the Righteous Brothers topple Cilla?     Animals, Ivy (League) and Brenda too!    What a bunch of (Wayne Fontana and the) Mindbenders!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back!     Beyond that, the best of Roger Miller, more early Aretha, and the latest hit single from Lorne Green.     All the hottest tunes, whether at the club or on the road!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp! 

What happens when Frankie Valli and his buddies go up against a Bob Crewe certified copy, and another, completely separate duplicate?     Tune in and find out!     More Trini.    More Brenda.    More Peter Paul and Mary, and Kit and I get into a knock-down drag-out over Jewel Aiken.       We then make up and I acknowledge She's a Woman, and I Feel Fine!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr .        If you are looking for Beatles summer fun, join our friends at the Magical Mystery Camp!  

January of 1965 continues.      Chubby Checker battled Dobie Gray, while the Beau Brummels try and convince us that they are more than "that band starting with B-E-A" that follows the Beatles in the record bins.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

1964 became 1965, but the Beatles had to deal with chasing the Abominable Snowman.     Meanwhile, Brian and Cilla (and George Martin) chased The Righteous Brothers and Andrew Loog Oldham (and Phil Spector).      We also see the new tunes from the band Decca chose over the Beatles, and the drummer who took up the sticks when Ringo chose the Beat;es over Rory Storm.    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

What would happen if we locked the door and thre away the key?     I don't know, but Jay and the Americans claim to understand this conundrum.       Meanwhile, Bobby, the Shangri-Las and James Brown continue their run at that British group at the top of the charts!     Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Cold weather, maybe a little snow, but the hottest hits of 1964 keep you warm.    The Beatles are still on the rise while old favorites such as Chuck Berry and even Gerry succumb to market forces.     We also get a side from the REAL singer behind the Archies.    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

A Tribute to Jim Reeves, and a tribute to Dennny Laine (Go Now entered the British Charts in December 1964) lead side B (British charts, part two).     Brian Epstein and NEMS continue their role, as does Cliff Richard.    I Feel Fine, do you?    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Who wants to go on a Blind Date with George Harrison?  Millions of girls for sure, but only Hayley Mills and the backpage of the Melody Maker accomplished the feat.      Tune in for Twinkle (but not Little Star), Ken Dodd, Elvis, the CND and a little song that just might be "the first record to start with feedback".    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

We close out the US Charts for November 1964 with friends old and new.      Jerry Lee Lewis, The Searchers (with a song recorded "many years ago it seems"), The Four Tops, The Impressions and Rick Nelson.   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

We start on the American charts for November of 1964.  Supremes, Chad and Jeremy, Marvelettes and Little Anthony and the Imperials.    Hey, UMe - when are we getting that 180g reissue of "The Greatest Music Ever Sold".    Who doesn't love a compilation that puts Glen Campbell, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys, Beatles (solo and group) and others on a single "long playing deck?"       Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

More of the British charts for November 1964.    Our first month in the history of the show without a Beatles song in either the British or American charts.      It will be all the way to *next month* for us to Feel Fine again.   Still some quality music as Petula Clark takes us Downtown, the Stones tell us about their Little Red Rooster and the Yardbirds talk about their little schoolgirl.    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Sixty years ago, Melody Maker took John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison out on a blind date.     Sixty years later, Marv, Kit and I tag along.      All this, and the first half of the UK charts for November of 1964!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Still more October fun as we finish the month!     Lots of songs, lots of artists.    More Jan and Dean, Lesley Gore Ronettes and Fats Domino.      Those Liverpool Lads are also holding on, despite their new single not dropping for  several more weeks!  Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

More October fun.   Side C, the first half of the American charts.    The leader of the pack rolls on, Heuy P. Meaux, Elvis and Ike and Tina go "Vroom!", while we try and determine whether anyone is on that train to Anaheim, Azusa and CucaMonga.     Meanwhile, A Hard Day's Night, Matchbox and  Slow Down are still present for kids trick-or-treating to mime while going door to door in their Beatle wigs.   Happy Halloween, everybody!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

Even if you've been told, time and time again!     Side B of October 1964.     Val Doonican rips off Dewey Cox.    Jimmy Page talks about Shirley Bassey and her bra.     Brian concerns himself with Tommy Quickly.       Sha La La, and more while the Beatles take a minute to breathe.     Happy Halloween, everybody!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

October 1964 on the UK charts - the first two weeks of 1964.     There is always something there to remind me there's a place.     Our feature (guest: https://x.com/BrutalBeatles) centers on the NEMS offices in London and Whaddon house (home to Brian, George and Ringo during this era), and our usual look at the charts!    Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

September 1964 on the American charts continues.   One of the best known (and deservedly so) Sam Cooke songs along with the Drifters, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles rockin' and rollin' while Capitol and the Beatles also do their thing!   Support this podcast at the $6/month level on patreon  to get extra content!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

More of the American charts!    Hawaiian music comes to the US, Barbra Streisand (or the people around her) cash in on Funny Girl, The Hondells, the Blendells, but no Michael Dells.      Meanwhile, Jay and the Americans continue rolling while Capitol and the Beatles also do their thing!   Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

We start in on the American charts for September 1964!     The Beatles do a Carl Perkins tune.     An Everly Brothers tune is resurrected, as are the Orlons!     Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr

The British charts for September of 1964 are here!     Two years since "Love Me Do", and now the Beatles are the top band around the World, and Britain was the home of the biggest pop stars!    The Beatles, The Dave Clark 5, the NEMS stable, and maybe a little bit of Old Blue Eyes as well....    Please support this podcast by joining our patreon, or following our zencastr link if you want to create your own show!   https://www.patreon.com/toppermostpodcast #madeonzencastr Create your podcast today!  #madeonzencastr