Sunday 20th February 1966
(in 2010 new recordings of Dave Cash Breakfast Shows broadcast during the week 21 - 25 February came to light.
These have enabled climber and other information to be added to this chart.)

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch appreciating the meaning of 'Hold Tight' when applied to the constrictions of paisley pants! The tight gear had not prevented them from leaping 18 places up the Fab Forty, to #18 – even if it prevented them from sitting down!

Last	This
Week	Week
1	1	19th Nervous Breakdown / As Tears Go By*	Rolling Stones
8	2	My Love	Petula Clark
9	3	Sha La La La Lee	Small Faces
7	4	Uptight (Everything's Alright)	Stevie Wonder
3	5	A Groovy Kind Of Love	Mindbenders
23	6	Inside Looking Out	Animals
6	7	Tomorrow	Sandie Shaw
17	8	Barbara Ann	Beach Boys
10	9	Little By Little	Dusty Springfield
14	10	This Golden Ring	Fortunes
2	11	These Boots Are Made For Walkin'	Nancy Sinatra
16	12	Land Of 1000 Dances	Cherokees
19	13	Think	Chris Farlowe
21	14	Can't Help Thinking About Me	David Bowie & the Lower Third
24	15	Jenny Take A Ride	Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
25	16	Lightnin' Strikes	Lou Christie
4	17	You Didn't Have To Be So Nice	Lovin' Spoonful
34	18	Hold Tight	Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich
28	19	What Now My Love	Sonny & Cher
35	20	You've Come Back	P J Proby
29	21	Under Your Spell Again	Johnny Rivers
–	22	Make The World Go Away	Eddy Arnold
31	23	La La La	Gerry & the Pacemakers
–	24	Backstage	Gene Pitney
–	25	Blue River	Elvis Presley
–	26	I Can't Let Go	Hollies
12	27	Have Pity On The Boy	Paul & Barry Ryan
36	28	You Don't Love Me	Gary Walker
–	29	I'll Never Quite Get Over You	Billy Fury
–	30	Shapes Of Things	Yardbirds
–	31	Me And You	Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott
38	32	Never Let It Be Said	Valerie Mitchell
37	33	Woman	Peter & Gordon
11	34	Girl	Truth / St Louis Union
39	35	Please Go	Trekkas
–	36	634-5789	Wilson Pickett
–	37	Baby Don't You Do It	Poets
–	38	Accidental Love	Loving Kind
–	39	Who Is Sylvia?	Honeycombs
–	40	Why Don't I Run Away From You?	Kiki Dee

1

1

19th Nervous Breakdown / As Tears Go By*

Rolling Stones

Dave Cash played As Tears Go By during the ensuing week and announced it as a double-sided hit at number 1. It was probably listed alongside 19th Nervous Breakdown in other weeks too, but no accurate assumptions can be made, because such records were often not listed as double-sided hits throughout their entire chart run on Radio London.

19

13

Think

Chris Farlowe

Please see the notes from last week's Fab Forty concerning the placing for Think, which was originally listed here as new in at #13.

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22

Make The World Go Away

Eddy Arnold

Make the World Go Away had somewhat strange journey up the Fab Forty. Eddy Arnold had entered the chart on December 19th 1965 and spent three weeks there, sharing the second two on equal footing with Dodie West's version of the song. The peak position shared on this occasion was #20. However, after a seven-week absence, Eddy Arnold's version of Make the World Go Away suddenly reappears in the Big L chart at #22, where it will remain for another five weeks, reaching #7 on March 20th. Dodie West is nowhere to be seen.

Make the World Go Away spent a total of 17 weeks on the UK National chart, peaking at #6. Eddy Arnold was, however, unable to follow this success in the UK charts, although he remained a best-seller in the US. His singles did, in fact, receive more airplay on Radio Caroline than on Radio London. Make the World Go Away spent its final week in the Caroline Countdown of Sound on April 23rd 1966.

Massively-popular country singer Eddy Arnold died in 2008, just one week short of his 90th birthday.

On Feb 25th (Friday), our Knees Club Official, Lynn, was the person responsible for signing-up the Swinging Blue Jeans at Beaconsfield Youth Club. Ray Ennis (#100), became our Vice-President at his own insistence, and also received the special award of a (plastic) knee for becoming our 100th member. (I think, and certainly hope, that this was an item removed from a doll!) Other group members were Terry Sylvester (101) (who in 1969 would replace Graham Nash in the Hollies), Norman Kuhlke (102), Les Braid (99), and Ralph Ellis. As far as can be established, poor Ralph was omitted from the KC book due to an 'administrative error' and unfortunely failed to get a membership number. He is perhaps the only unnumbered Knees Club member. 'Life With the Swinging Blue Jeans' – a feature written by band members in 1964/5 is here. Videoclip from 1964, here. Sadly, Les Braid passed away in 2005. Such was the way of the Big L Fab Forty, that the band's latest single Don't Make Me Over, which last week had stood at #13, had already vanished from this week's chart. It was still selling sufficiently well to remain in the Nationals, although it climbed no higher than #31.

Note: this somewhat dog-eared, or perhaps simply well-loved, autographed photo shows a four-man group. Terry Sylvester who is not pictured, definitely joined the Knees Club at Beaconsfield Youth Club, so this was probably a change-over phase in the band's line-up.

Fast-forward 34 years to 2000 and the Brighton Summer Sixties Festival, where we found the Knees Club's Vice-President still indicating eagerness to display his patellae to all-and-sundry. Ray's years of dedication to knees prompted the Club Founder to promote him to the role of President, to take the place of the late TW. Ex-Caroline DJ Bud Ballou was also present at Brighton. Bud, who has proved an exemplary ambassador for knees, and has displayed them internationally, was immediately chosen to step into the role of Vice-President. More Knees Club history here.

DJ Climbers:
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore	Walker Brothers	Dave Cash
Elusive Buttterfly	Bob Lind	Mike Lennox
Devil May Care	Ray Stevens	Mark Roman
Nowhere Man	Settlers/Three Good Reasons	Ed Stewart

Climbers:
Please Stay	Cryin' Shames
Super Girl	Graham Bonney
Disc of the Week:
Stop Breaking My Heart	Tom Jones

The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here

Tune in next week for another Big L Fab 40!