TORONTO, ONTARIO
Week: 1961-04-03 Format: T40CHUM - TORONTO
CHUM HIT PARADE
WEEK OF APRIL 3, 1961
This is another CHUM April Fools Day chart, an annual tradition from 1959-
1965. The joke entries on this chart are full of excruciating puns ... but
every entry corresponds to the real chart placing of an actual hit.
For the sake of database integrity, the database entries contain the
real titles and artists.
Survey courtesy of Craig Puccio.
3 1 The Guided Missiles Blew Moon
8 2 George Washington I Don't Know Lie
41 3 Howdy-Doody Wooden Heart
2 4 Musical Measels Men A-Rashy
4 5 Handy Stewart Ronald, Where' s Your Rougers?
9 6 Joyce Davidson Greener Pastures
1 7 Spy-Pilot Powers Surrender-Lonely Man
5 8 "He Ish Not!" Asia Minor
6 9 "Sure! Two" Ebony Eyes?
6 9 The Needlers Salk Right Back
10 10 The Ravens Poe-Any Time
14 11 Tummy Tunes Rumble Boogie
15 12 Brendan Behan On The Tea-Bound
16 13 Conn Smythe "Happy Birthday, Blues!"
21 14 The Toreadors The Touchy-Bulls
30 15 Eve Find Another Girl
37 16 Al Boliska Pun-Away
31 17 …Four-Five-Six… Wa-Tu-Si…
34 18 "The Newspaper Fired Another Horse" Pony Ex-Press
32 19 Casper Milque-Ghost Baby Boo
35 20 Bee Bumble She Wears My Sting
7 21 The Dancshing Schots A Schottische Sholdier
11 22 The Russians Boast Riders In The Sky
12 23 The Singin' Subway Diggers Don't Hurry
13 24 The Little Letters Whe-els
17 25 The Hypochondriacs Medicated, To The One I Love
18 26 Pierre Berton I'll Have Another Cup Of Coffee
47 27 The Sales Taxers Please Tell Me Why
47 27 Mom Your One And Only Love
46 28 Sam Etcheverry That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On
45 29 Red Skelton Just For Old Mime's Sake
50 30 The Greedy Group Poor Trait Of My Love
40 31 The Young Lions Take Good Care Of 'GRR'
39 32 Ed Sullivan I've Told Every Star
20 33 Zsa Zsa Gabor Cold Gold Heart
22 34 The Happy Days Dozen Lazy Liver
23 35 The Newlyweds Tarts Of Stone
26 36 The Sugar Daddies Mink Twice For My Baby
24 37 Chum dee-jays Havin' Fun
27 38 Arthur Miller You Can Have Her
44 39 Paul Anka Paul Tonight My Love Tonight
-- 40 The Sub-Division-Six A Hundred Mounds Of Clay
36 41 Ben Ree King Spanish Onion/First Taste Of Garlic
29 42 Attila & The Boys The Last Hun Rise
29 42 William Tell I Miss You
-- 43 Liz Taylor Muddled Girl
28 44 The Four Minute Milers "Good Time, Baby!"
28 44 "Waiter, Bring Me A Good Year" Cherie
-- 45 The Peking Chorale Aah So,--- Look Me Over
25 46 "You Talk Funny!" Where The Boys Are?
25 46 New York Rangers No Won
-- 47 The Kennedys Love Theme From Mon-Eyed Jacks
19 48 Dennis The Menace Little Boy Bad
-- 49 The Wishing Wells "Tonight I Fell In, Love."
-- 50 The 101 Dalmation Fleas Love Me Forever
A few of the puns would only have made sense to Toronto audiences, or to audiences of the time:
#6 - Well-known Canadian reporter Joyce Davidson had relocated to the US to be the co-host
(with Mike Wallace) of a new night-time talk show called PM East/PM West.
Designed to compete against Jack Paar's Tonight Show, it lasted from June 1961
to June 1962. Davidson later returned to Canada as an afternoon talk show
host in the 1970s.
#7 - A topical reference to Francis Gary Powers, a CIA pilot shot down and
captured by USSR forces in 1960. At the time this chart was printed, Powers
was in a Russian prison, having been convicted of espionage. He was widely
regarded with suspicion in the US for having failed to activate his
aircraft’s self-destruct charge to destroy the camera, photographic film,
and related classified parts of his aircraft before his capture.
#12 - Irish playwright Brendan Behan was noted as an especially heavy drinker;
around this time, it was announced he had developed diabetes as a result of his
alcohol consumption. It was expected Behan would stop drinking as a result, but
he did not, and diabetic comas and seizures occurred regularly in the remaining
few years of his life.
#13 - Conn Smythe owned the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, whose uniforms
were blue and white.
#16 - CHUM morning man Al Boliska was noted for his feature "The World's Worst
Jokes".
#23 - The University line of Toronto's TTC subway system was under construction
at the time, and was presumably behind schedule.
#26 - Canadian author and celebrity Pierre Berton had recently won the Leacock
Medal for his humour collection "Just Add Water And Stir". The widely-
read title essay was a scathing attack on the poor quality of instant coffee.
#28 - Star Canadian football player Sam Etcheverry was in the news for quitting
the Canadian Football League to sign with the St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL.
#38 - Playwright Arthur Miller had just divorced his movie star wife Marilyn Monroe.
Contributed by: K.A. Scott (Monday, 2010-03-08) |
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