Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The British Are Charting Edition Part 1
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🗓️ 15 April 2023
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Summary
Before 1964, British bands couldn’t get anywhere on the U.S. charts. Then suddenly, after a certain Fab Four broke, they were everywhere. By 1965, they had locked down our Top 10.
In 1981, a new generation of U.K. acts armed with synthesizers were largely shut out of the Hot 100 once again. But then a new video channel called MTV changed the game—helped by some very pretty men in dapper suits. By 1983, half of the U.S. Top 40 had a British accent.
What did these two movements have in common, besides screaming fans and impressive hair? Join Chris Molanphy as he dissects these two bloodless coups that rebooted our hit parade. These Invasions were about as easy as a nuclear war.
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| 0:03.8 | Hey there, hit parade listeners. |
| 0:06.6 | What you're about to hear is part one of this episode. |
| 0:10.6 | Part two will arrive in your podcast feed at the end of the month. |
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| 0:38.9 | our bonus episodes, |
| 0:40.3 | with guest interviews, |
| 0:42.7 | deeper dives on our episode topics, |
| 0:44.3 | and Popchart trivia. |
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| 0:51.5 | And now, |
| 0:55.2 | please enjoy part one of this Hit Parade episode. |
| 1:12.6 | Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Popchart History from Slate magazine magazine about the hits from coast to coast. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series? On today's show, nearly six decades ago, in April of 1964, this single by a band from Tottenham, North London, was just breaking |
| 1:32.2 | into the top ten on America's flagship chart, The Hot 100. |
| 1:42.9 | The song was Glad All Over, the band, the Dave Clark Five. |
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