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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! |
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1
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19th Nervous Breakdown | Rolling Stones |
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8
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2
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My Love | Petula Clark |
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9
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3
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Sha La La La Lee | Small Faces |
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7
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4
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Uptight (Everything's Alright) | Stevie Wonder |
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3
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5
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A Groovy Kind Of Love | Mindbenders |
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23
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6
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Inside Looking Out | Animals |
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6
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7
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Tomorrow | Sandie Shaw |
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17
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8
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Barbara Ann | Beach Boys |
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10
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9
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Little By Little | Dusty Springfield |
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14
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10
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This Golden Ring | Fortunes |
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2
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11
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These Boots Are Made For Walkin' | Nancy Sinatra |
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16
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12
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Land Of 1000 Dances | Cherokees |
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13
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Think | Chris Farlowe |
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21
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14
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Can't Help Thinking About Me | David Bowie & the Lower Third |
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24
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15
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Jenny Take A Ride | Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels |
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25
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16
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Lightnin' Strikes | Lou Christie |
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4
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17
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You Didn't Have To Be So Nice | Lovin' Spoonful |
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34
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18
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Hold Tight | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
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28
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19
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What Now My Love | Sonny & Cher |
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35
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20
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You've Come Back | P J Proby |
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29
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21
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Under Your Spell Again | Johnny Rivers |
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22
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Make The World Go Away | Eddy Arnold |
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31
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23
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La La La | Gerry & the Pacemakers |
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24
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Backstage | Gene Pitney |
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25
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Blue River | Elvis Presley |
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26
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I Can't Let Go | Hollies |
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12
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27
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Have Pity On The Boy | Paul & Barry Ryan |
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36
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28
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You Don't Love Me | Gary Walker |
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29
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I'll Never Quite Get Over You | Billy Fury |
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30
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Shapes Of Things | Yardbirds |
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31
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Me And You | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
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38
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32
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Never Let It Be Said | Valerie Mitchell |
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37
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33
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Woman | Peter & Gordon |
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11
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34
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Girl | Truth / St Louis Union |
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39
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35
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Please Go | Trekkas |
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36
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634-5789 | Wilson Pickett |
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37
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Baby Don't You Do It | Poets |
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38
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Accidental Love | Loving Kind |
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39
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Who Is Sylvia? | Honeycombs |
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40
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Why Don't I Run Away From You? | Kiki Dee |
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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. 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. |
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| Note: this somewhat dog-eared, or perhaps simply well-loved, autographed photo shows a four-man group. Terry Sylvester definitely joined the Knees Club at Beaconsfield Youth Club, so this was probably a change-over phase in the band's line-up. | |
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Fast-forward 34 years to the year 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. |
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Tune in next week for another Big L Fab 40!