| #25 Joe fails to hold on to what he's got and slips two places. Altantic/Stax Appreciation Society Photo: PR 363 |  |
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#31 The Stones chase Marianne Faithfull up the chart – not the last time they play with fire |
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It's Not Unusual | Tom Jones |
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Funny How Love Can Be | Ivy League |
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The Game Of Love | Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders |
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood | Animals |
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Goodnight | Roy Orbison |
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Mary Anne | Shadows |
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I Must Be Seeing Things | Gene Pitney |
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I'll Never Find Another You | Seekers |
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I Apologise | P J Proby |
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Silhouettes | Herman's Hermits |
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Honey I Need | Pretty Things |
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Yes I Will | Hollies |
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I'll Stop At Nothing | Sandie Shaw |
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Come And Stay With Me | Marianne Faithfull |
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It Hurts So Much | Jim Reeves |
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Do What You Do Do Well | Ned Miller |
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The Birds And The Bees | Jewel Akens |
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Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself | Adam Faith |
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Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun) | Del Shannon |
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Hawaii Tattoo | Waikikis |
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Can't You Hear My Heartbeat | Goldie & the Gingerbreads |
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The Special Years | Val Doonican |
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Your Hurtin' Kinda Love | Dusty Springfield |
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Diggin' My Potatoes | Heinz |
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Hold What You've Got | Joe Tex |
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In The Meantime | Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames |
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I Don't Want To Go On Without You | Moody Blues |
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Concrete And Clay | Unit 4 + 2 |
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I Belong | Kathy Kirby |
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Goodbye My Love | Searchers |
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The Last Time | Rolling Stones |
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Tired Of Waiting For You | Kinks |
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Where Am I | Sundowners |
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Find My Way Back Home | Nashville Teens |
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Give Him A Great Big Kiss | Shangri-Las |
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The Boy From New York City | Ad Libs |
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I Know A Place | Petula Clark |
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The 'In' Crowd | Dobie Gray |
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Every Little Bit Hurts | Spencer Davis Group |
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If I Can Help Somebody | Frenesi Watson |
Released in November 1964, Go Now was one of the singles Radio London had been playing since it first went on the air. First recorded by Bessie Banks, the song was written for her by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett. Go Now (a huge hit for the Moodies both in the UK Nationals and the US Hot Hundred) finally disappeared from the Big L Fab Forty last week, but their follow-up takes them straight back in at #27. The band was formed in 1964 by Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals), Mike Pinder (keyboards/vocals), Ray Thomas (vocals, flute, percussion) and Clint Warwick (bass/vocals). They had previously been members of Birmingham bands the Krew Cats and El Riot and the Rebels. An unidentified band member told Teenbeat Annual, "Most groups start when two or three friends get together to make their own kind of music... but we were all leaders of our own groups playing in and around Birmingham, when the chap offered to back us if we gave up our own groups and joined together - so we became the Moody Blues." 'The chap' was Tony Seconda, who became the band's manager and got them a recording contract with Decca. "We had the most terrible rows when we started. We were all used to having our own way, but the chap who was training us made us knuckle under to the firmest discipline and eventually, we all got pulling together. Now we trust and respect each other completely." |
Information about Frenesi Watson is scant, but she is known to have released at least three singles, and to have made TV appearances on ATV's Thank Your Lucky Stars in 1963 and 64. Two other known Frenesi Watson releases were Baby Don't You Weep/ Danny Boy and Happiness Train/The Green Willow. It seems the word Frenezi translates as 'frenzy' which is somewhat unusual for a singer who specialised in folk and gospel music. If I Can Help Somebody is said to have been Dr Martin Luther King's favourite song. Perhaps Frenesi, or someone who knows her, would like to get in touch
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Come and Stay With Me is on Marianne's 40-track double CD, The Collection. Click on the sleeve photos for full track listings. |
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| I Can't Explain | Who |
Although we currently have no other climber listings available for this week, the previous Disc of the Week (March 21st), the Zephyrs' She's Lost You, is very likely to have been included in the Big L playlist for a second week running, as we see the single enter the Fab Forty next week – March 7th – at #35. It's interesting to note that the Zephyrs' single was picked as a Disc of the Week, when neither the Stones' The Last Time (straight in this week at #31) nor the Who's I Can't Explain, (leaping in next week at #12) were!