Here are the new entries ranked from best to worst:
The Beatles have arrived with their 2nd hit coming out this month. It is however fair to say their chart impact was yet to be felt, their debut "Love Me Do" had been in the charts since October but got no higher than 17 whilst "Please Please Me" had reached a peak of 33 at the end of January but would eventually climb to 2.
There was also no other records in this batch that I would class as being mersey beat. Despite this, The Beatles only manage 3rd in my rankings. For a start I think their sound got better once they'd progressed from the mersey beat sound, but more importantly there are 2 records in this batch that I prefer.
There's the excellent "Don't Hang Up" by the Orlons, a nice uplifting number which is easily the best record I've featured so far though it's not quite good enough to score 5.
Then we have "Little Town Flirt" by Del Shannon, a man who help The Beatles crack America who was mid-way through his UK chart career at this point.
Like The Beatles, The Four Seasons were onto hit number 2 in this batch with "Big Girls Don't Cry". Both bands were the only 1962 debutants to clock up more than 6 Top 40 hits. This does sound a more forward thinking records and ranks 1 place below The Beatles.
The handful of records that follow are mostly decent records but clearly from a pre-Beatles era. This includes 2 Joe Meek produced records "Globetrotter" by Tornados and "Don't You Think It's Time" by Mike Berry.
Whilst The Beatles were pushing things forwards, fellow newcomers The Bachelors were taking things in the opposite direction. They managed to keep their Top 40 career going until mid-1967 but their records wouldn't of sounded out of place in the 50s.
Below The Bachelors record we have a bunch of novelty records which is what was letting this batch of records down in my opinion. Again I make the point that The Beatles impact was yet to be properly felt and whilst some other acts were taking things in the right direction, others weren't.
The worst of these novelty records was "Funny All Over" by Vernons Girls. It's one of the most irritating records I've ever heard.
We do still get the predicted highest score so far though.
Score: 40
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