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Although Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote 'We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place', the Animals' rendering of the song was sufficiently gritty to be relevant to grim industrial cities in the UK. Eric Burdon penned the B-side, "I Can't Believe It'. Hands up all those who viewed this hit as their personal anthem for escaping school for the summer! |
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1
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We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place | Animals |
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4
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2
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Catch Us If You Can | Dave Clark Five |
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1
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3
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Help! | Beatles |
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10
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4
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Everyone's Gone To The Moon | Jonathan King |
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9
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5
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I Can't Help Myself | Four Tops |
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8
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6
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I Want Candy | Brian Poole & the Tremeloes |
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12
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7
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Cry To Me | Pretty Things |
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11
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8
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Too Many Rivers | Brenda Lee |
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3
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9
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You've Got Your Troubles | Fortunes |
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22
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10
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Zorba's Dance | Marcello Minerbi |
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7
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11
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Summer Nights | Marianne Faithfull |
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5
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12
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(Say) You're My Girl | Roy Orbison |
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25
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13
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All I Really Want To Do | Byrds / Cher |
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27
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14
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Don't Make My Baby Blue | Shadows |
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15
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15
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With These Hands | Tom Jones |
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24
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16
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Unchained Melody | Righteous Brothers |
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6
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17
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He's Got No Love | Searchers |
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17
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18
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In Thoughts Of You | Billy Fury |
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30
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19
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See My Friend | Kinks |
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16
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20
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Like We Used To Be | Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames |
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40
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21
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Make It Easy On Yourself | Walker Brothers |
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20
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22
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Heart Full Of Soul | Yardbirds |
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13
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23
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There But For Fortune | Joan Baez |
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24
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I Got You Babe | Sonny & Cher |
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33
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25
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The Secret Of My Success | Chantelles |
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19
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26
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Tossing And Turning | Ivy League |
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27
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What's New Pussycat? | Tom Jones |
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28
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28
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Baby Never Say Goodbye | Bo Street Runners |
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31
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29
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Seventh Son | Johnny Rivers |
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30
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Yakety Axe | Chet Atkins |
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35
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31
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Day By Day | Julie Rogers |
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32
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You're My Girl | Rockin' Berries |
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33
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Mr Tambourine Man | Byrds |
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14
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34
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That's The Way | Honeycombs |
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35
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Nothing Comes Easy | Rey Anton & the Peppermint Men |
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29
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36
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Show Me Around | Mike Hurst |
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34
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37
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In The Middle Of Nowhere | Dusty Springfield |
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32
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38
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Woolly Bully | Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs |
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39
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Follow Me | Drifters |
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21
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40
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Let The Water Run Down | P J Proby |
Note: Spot the Dateline Diamonds acts this week! The Chantelles at #25, Rey Anton at #35 (see notes below) and The Small Faces with this week's Pete Brady climber, all appear in the film – although it was mainly a vehicle to promote the Small Faces.
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The former Leonard Hirons was an ex-window cleaner and scaffolder from Bournemouth. He released eleven UK and several continental singles between 1962 and 1966, as Rey Anton, backed by the Batons, then the Peppermint Men and finally Pro Form. (The latter name is also listed by various sources as 'Proform'', 'Pro Forma' and 'Proformula'!) Rey wrote Nothing Comes Easy, which was published by the Big L-associated Pall Mall Music. A second Anton/Pall Mall collaboration Premeditation was released in November '65 by 'Rey Anton and Pro Forma'. The band performs First Taste
of Love in Dateline
Diamonds and also appears alongside a young Pauline
Collins and (the lovely)
Aimi MacDonald in the film Secrets of a Windmill Girl
- described by one reviewer as 'almost
 unwatchable'!Len Hirons is currently vocalist and harmonica-player with popular south coast band, the Southern Blues. We asked Len if he could fill in some of the missing information
about the Peppermint Men. He not
only did that, (see letter, right) but kindly sent two photos
of himself with the band. Len tells us that the Peppermint Men were
Ted Dry (lead), Martin
Dry (bass), Chubby
(rhythm) and Malcolm (drums).
(He could not recall Chubby and Malcolm's surnames.)
A photo feature on Len is on the Southern Blues website The Mulberries website is here and a photo of Len in full flow, is here. |
