Something Better Beginning was the third attempt by the Honeycombs to follow up the international success of their Joe Meek-produced Have I the Right.

The band was formed in 1963 by Martin Murray – described on his own website as looking "more like an accountant than a guitarist and the leader of a chart-topping rock & roll band". Martin managed a London hair salon where Ann Lantree, known as Honey, was his assistant. Honey's brother John came in on bass, with Alan Ward on lead and Dennis D'Ell (aka Dalziel) taking lead vocals.

Offshore radio aside, none of the follow-ups to Have I the Right reached the Top Twenty, apart from the next release after Something Better Beginning – That's the Way.

Martin had already become disillusioned with the band by the end of 1964 and left, to be replaced by Peter Pye. The feature from which this photo is taken - it appeared in Teenbeat Annual 1967 - unfortunately does not identify any of the band members, but is presumably the Peter Pye line-up.

Kenny and Cash had endless fun with Subterranean Homesick Blues, running a competition for listeners to try and translate its indecipherable lyrics.With Knees Club Official (and friend) Mozz, I spent ages playing back a tape recording of the song that we'd made from the Kenny and Cash show, and unsuccessfully attempting to work out the words. I recall that all we ever managed to get out of the line, 'must bust in early May' was 'mus bus moolie may'.

With the Seekers and Silkie also riding high in the Fab, the Dynamic Duo responded to the current folk trend by running a Dylan vs Donovan competition, to determine which of the singers was the hero of the discerning Kenny and Cash audience. I'm prepared to stand corrected if anyone has evidence to the contrary, but I believe Donovan won.

Note that the pic sleeve at the top of the chart (kindly supplied by Gert), depicts Subterranean Homesick Blues b/w The Times They Are A-Changin'. In the UK, The Times... was the first Dylan release (CBS 201751) b/w Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance. Subterranean... was the second single (CBS 201753) b/w She Belongs To Me.