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Having climbed to #4 in the Radio London Fab Forty in November '65, with their first single, 'Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches', the Ryan brothers were aiming to repeat their Fab Forty success with 'Have Pity on the Boy', but this time they stalled at #12. The twins' mother was no stranger to the charts herself. The well-respected Fifties' vocalist, Marion Ryan, had enjoyed a Top Ten national hit of her own in 1958, with 'Love Me Forever'. |
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Like A Baby | Len Barry |
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2
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A Groovy Kind Of Love | Mindbenders |
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10
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3
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Don't Make Me Over | Swinging Blue Jeans |
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These Boots Are Made For Walkin' | Nancy Sinatra |
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5
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Love's Just A Broken Heart | Cilla Black |
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You Didn't Have To Be So Nice | Lovin' Spoonful |
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7
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Michelle | David & Jonathan / Overlanders |
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5
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8
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Second Hand Rose | Barbra Streisand |
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I Can't Express It | David Ballantyne |
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11
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Midnight To Six Man | Pretty Things |
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20
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11
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Call Me | Lulu |
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12
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Have Pity On The Boy | Paul & Barry Ryan |
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Tomorrow | Sandie Shaw |
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14
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Sha La La La Lee | Small Faces |
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Girl | St Louis Union / Truth |
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This Golden Ring | Fortunes |
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17
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Uptight (Everything's Alright) | Stevie Wonder |
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Mirror Mirror | Pinkerton's Assorted Colours |
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19
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Little By Little | Dusty Springfield |
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20
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My Girl | Otis Redding |
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When You Move You Lose | Keith Powell & Billie Davis |
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19th Nervous Breakdown | Rolling Stones |
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A Little Bit Of Soap | Craig / Exciters |
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Remember You | Zombies |
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A Must To Avoid | Herman's Hermits |
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26
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Can't Help Thinking About Me | David Bowie & the Lower Third |
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27
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Attack | Toys |
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28
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Cry Cry Cry | Riot Squad |
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My Love | Petula Clark |
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The Same Old Room | Bobby Shafto |
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Flowers On The Wall | Statler Brothers |
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Barbara Ann | Beach Boys |
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This Man's Got No Luck | Gary Benson |
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You've Come Back | P J Proby |
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Baby Don't You Do It | Poets |
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Me And You | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
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Land Of 1000 Dances | Cherokees |
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Teenage Failure | Chad & Jeremy |
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Keep On Running | Spencer Davis Group |
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Something Beautiful | Adrienne Poster |
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Land Of 1000 Dances | Cherokees | Columbia DB 7822 |
The first of a four-week Fab Forty residence for the Cherokees. In June 1966, the band reappears in the Radio London chart, renamed New York Public Library. See notes for 19/06/66 and the NYPL website.
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| Good Hard Rock | Ian Whitcomb | Dave Cash |
| Broomstick Cowboy | Bobby Goldsboro | Mike Lennox |
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| Lightnin' Strikes | Lou Christie | |
| There Isn't Anything | Gidian | |
Gidian – a Scottish ex-fridge salesman, whose real name was James Frew Pollock – was discovered by singer and comedian, Ken Dodd. Despite being heralded as 'Doddy's Discovery of 1966', and despite There Isn't Anything being voted a 'hit' on TV's Juke Box Jury, ballad-singer Gidian found himself in the Radio London climber list for only one week. His follow-up in May, See if She Cares, fared the same fate, despite having been picked as Dave Dennis's climber. Gidian finally made the lower reaches of the Fab Forty in October 66, with his third single, Feeling, for which he had written the B-side, Don't Be Sentimental. On this single, he was backed by Chris Lamb (sometimes spelt 'Lambe') and the Universals, a band who had the previous year released an unsuccessful single of their own called Mysterious Land. Sadly for Gidian, it was not a case of 'third time lucky' and Feeling
stalled in the Fab 40 at #31. |
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Tune in next week for another Big L Fab 40!