[Fiji Hill]

always wonder, if the Beatles never happened, would one of these bands wound up taking their place as the “Big Thing”?

One wonders where pop music would have gone had the Beatles never happened. Until the Beatles reached the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1964, knocking off Bobby Vinton's cover of Vaughn Monroe's 1945 hit There! I've Said it Again!, no rocker had topped the chart since the Angels' My Boyfriend's Back fell from the top spot in September, 1963. Subsequent chart toppers included Dominique, a French-language ballad about a Spanish crusader that held the top spot for nearly a month.

Had the Beatles decided to quit music and get regular jobs in 1962, who knows, maybe Bobby Vinton, Frank Sinatra and Connie Francis would have ruled the charts.

[Revolting cat!]

Had the Beatles decided to quit music and get regular jobs in 1962, who knows, maybe Bobby Vinton, Frank Sinatra and Connie Francis would have ruled the charts.

And what a wonderful world it woulda been! Don't forget Bobby Vee, Troy Shondell, Joanie Summers, Little Peggy March, so many others we'd be calling geniuses today instead of all those youknowhoos!

[a fool in paradise]

always wonder, if the Beatles never happened, would one of these bands wound up taking their place as the “Big Thing”?

America would have been taken by storm by the comedy stylings of Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill.