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The Pretty Things may have leapt up to #12 in the Fab Forty with Midnight to Six Man, (note the typo on the sleeve), but they climbed no higher than #46 in the Nationals. |
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18
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1
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Till The End Of The Day | Kinks |
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5
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2
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Mirror Mirror | Pinkerton's Assorted Colours |
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2
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3
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The Little Girl I Once Knew | Beach Boys |
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6
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4
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The Water Is Over My Head | Rockin' Berries |
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4
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5
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We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper | Beatles |
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1
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6
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A Must To Avoid | Herman's Hermits |
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10
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7
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Don't Push Me | Hedgehoppers Anonymous |
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3
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8
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England Swings | Roger Miller |
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8
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9
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Keep On Running | Spencer Davis Group |
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14
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10
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My Girl | Otis Redding |
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26
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11
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Michelle | Overlanders / David & Jonathan |
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19
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12
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Midnight To Six Man | Pretty Things |
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9
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13
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The Long Cigarette | Roulettes |
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7
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14
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Spanish Flea | Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass |
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17
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15
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May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose | Little Jimmy Dickens |
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15
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16
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A Sweet Woman Like You | Joe Tex |
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20
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17
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Can't Nobody Love You | David Essex |
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21
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18
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Witches' Brew | Janie Jones |
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13
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19
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Hello Dolly | Bachelors |
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16
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20
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Tchaikovsky One | Second City Sound |
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29
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21
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Apple Of My Eye | Roy Head & the Traits |
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31
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22
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It Was Easier To Hurt Her | Wayne Fontana |
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34
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23
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A Young Girl Of Sixteen | Noel Harrison |
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35
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24
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Like A Baby | Len Barry |
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39
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25
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Take Me For A Little While | Koobas / Stevie Lewis |
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11
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26
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Eight Days A Week | Alma Cogan |
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12
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27
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You Make It Move | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
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33
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28
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That's My Life (My Love And My Home) | Freddie Lennon |
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29
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Love's Just A Broken Heart | Cilla Black |
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32
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30
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Five O'Clock World | Vogues |
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31
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Recovery | Fontella Bass |
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32
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Sunday And Me | Jay & the Americans |
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33
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Wait | Frankie Vaughan |
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28
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34
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Second Hand Rose | Barbra Streisand |
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35
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The Hard Way | Nashville Teens |
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36
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I Can't Express It | David Ballantyne |
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37
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Another Year, Another Love, Another Heartache | Julie Rogers |
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25
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38
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Take Me For What I'm Worth | Searchers |
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39
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I Can Never Go Home Anymore | Shangri-Las |
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40
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Lies | Knickerbockers |
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| Can't Help Thinking About Me | David Bowie & the Lower Third |
| Have Pity on the Boy | Paul & Barry Ryan |
| Don't Make Me Over | Swinging Blue Jeans |
| Attack | Toys |
| Girl | Truth |
| Cryin' time | Ray Charles |
| I-I-I (Want Your Lovin') | Sons of Fred |
The climbers in RED have been added as a supplement to Brian Long's original listing, and have kindly been contributed by Holger Postelmann who says:
"When I had a look at the notes that I made when I was listening to the Fab 40 shows on Radio London in the sixties (I still have this notebook, which is a bit worn now but it is a big treasure to me) I found out that I also noted down six climbers of the Fab 40 show of January 9th, 1966. I usually didn't do that, so I don't know why I did it that Sunday. Five of them got into the Fab 40 one week later whereas one (Sons of Fred) didn't succeed in this."
Webmasters note: As there is virtually no climber information for the next few weeks, we do not know if I-I-I (Want Your Lovin') remained on the playlist without reaching the Fab Forty.* The first Sons of Fred single Sweet Love was also a climber.
See the Fab for 13th June 1965 for more info about the band and their highly-collectable singles. (I-I-I (Want Your Lovin') can fetch £45).Click on the picture for an Amazon link to more information about the Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide |
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Dateline, Wednesday, January 12th, 1966 – London After Midnight with a Difference! At 1.30am during a force nine gale, the Galaxy lost her anchors and drifted into territorial waters, forcing Radio London to cease broadcasting. Captain Buninga discovered that the engines had not been used for so long that they no longer functioned. The ship was towed by the tug Kent and the station resumed broadcasting at 1300 hours with a special news bulletin about the overnight adventure, as soon as she returned to International Waters. The Galaxy was fully back in position by 1500 hours. Many quips were made about the unscheduled voyage, and DJs sang the words, "The station with the very loose anchor" over the PAMS jingle "The Station with the happy difference"! The first record played after Radio London's return to the airwaves was appropriately the #5 in the Fab Forty – Day Tripper! Press adverts appeared the following day: To view a legible copy of this newspaper clipping, click on the picture. See MD Phillip Birch's letter of thanks to Captain Bill Buninga here. |
A Young Girl of Sixteen will be recalled by Radio London listeners as a Dave Dennis fave. The Jaques Brel-style death-song, would invariably have appealed to the DD's theatrical nature. ("A young girl of sixteen, child of springtime, still green, lying here by the road – DEAD!") The Untamed, the band championed by the Double D, also recorded the song .* Une enfant de seize ans, to give the death-ditty its original title, was co-written by French star, Charles Aznavour. Noel Harrison had serious competition on the continent in the form of performer/composer Boudewijn de Groot who recorded the song as Een meisje van zestien – also on the Decca label. His version entered the Dutch charts on October 16, 1965, where it remained for 13 weeks. A site devoted to Boudewijn de Groot contains the song lyrics, both in English and in French. However, the real fun comes when you allow the Google automatic translator facility to battle with converting the entire page into English. Aznavour could never have improved upon, "She had left her parents to follow a boy, Bohemian, who could sign and say: I love you, and without that becoming upsetting" or "He told her coils demanded space, so they grinds from place to place." *Although the Untamed's version was not released as a single, it is available on their CD 'Gimme Gimme'. |
Tune in next week for another Big L Fab 40!