The Early Radio London Fab Forties

Sunday 14th November 1965

Both Pet Clark and The Vogues, sharing a new entry at #24, hope they're 'the one' to have the hit in the UK, the Pennsylvania band having already reached #4 in the US Hot Hundred.

This sleeve of Pet's German translation of the song that she co-wrote with Tony Hatch, is used merely as an illustration. Her English-language version (lyrics here) was the one being played on Radio London.

In German, the title becomes 'Your Love is Wonderful'. We would have preferred 'Your Love is as Wonderful as Radio London!'

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4
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1-2-3 Len Barry
2
2
It's My Life Animals
5
3
A Lover's Concerto Toys
10
4
My Generation Who
1
5
Get Off Of My Cloud Rolling Stones
8
6
Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches Paul & Barry Ryan
3
7
The Carnival Is Over Seekers
11
8
Positively 4th Street Bob Dylan
12
9
Baby I'm Yours Peter & Gordon
17
10
Wind Me Up (Let Me Go) Cliff Richard
15
11
It's Alright Uglys
16
12
Value For Love Bobby Rio & the Revelles
23
13
Is It Really Over? Jim Reeves
33
14
Good Lovin' Brian Poole & the Tremeloes
35
15
Tell Me Why Elvis Presley
38
16
Turn Turn Turn Byrds
7
17
But You're Mine Sonny & Cher
28
18
Princess In Rags Gene Pitney
32
19
Rescue Me Fontella Bass
13
20
Yesterday Man Chris Andrews
27
21
Until It's Time For You To Go Four Pennies
30
21
The River Ken Dodd
39
22
Neon City Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas
40
23
I've Got Mine Small Faces
24
You're The One Petula Clark / Vogues
25
Let's Hang On Four Seasons
29
26
Gonna Get Burned Chantelles
6
27
Yesterday Matt Monro
28
This Year, Next Year Honeycombs
29
Girls Girls Girls Fourmost
18
30
I Know How It Feels To Be Loved Nashville Teens
31
There's No Living Without Your Loving (EP) Manfred Mann
32
How Can You Tell? Sandie Shaw
25
33
Walk Hand In Hand Gerry & the Pacemakers
36
34
I Knew You When Billy Joe Royal
35
I Found A Girl Jan & Dean
36
You Thrill Me To Pieces Herbie's People
19
37
Love Is Strange Everly Brothers
9
38
Here It Comes Again Fortunes
34
39
Crawling Back Roy Orbison
40
Ain't That Peculiar Marvin Gaye

31
There's No Living Without Your Loving (EP) Manfred Mann HMV 7EG 8922

Alan Field's Fab Notes:
This EP features the following tracks – (1) There's No Living Without Your Loving, (2) Let's Go Get Stoned, (3) Tired Of Trying, Bored With Lying, Scared Of Dying, and (4) I Put A Spell On You. A sampler of the EP was issued for demonstration purposes only (HMV 7TEA 2124) featuring just tracks (1) and (3). The correct title of the collection is "No Living Without Loving", but this may not have been apparent on the demo disc sent out to the ship, and Brian Long has credited the main track which was receiving airplay.

Radio England expert Sven Martinsen in Norway noted in his DX log two singles played on Big L on the afternoon of Monday, Nov 15th.

"1133 kcs Nov 15th,1965 1430  R London. Great mx, Len Barry 1-2-3, no 1 in Fab 40 played every hour after news. PF Sloan Sins of the Family and Sunrays I Live for the Sun also heard."

Unfortunately, Sven did not report how these singles were announced. Neither was ever in the Fab Forty, but they could have been played as American hits, as both saw minor US chart success. However, because both records were issued in the UK on 1st October 1965, it's hard to imagine that six weeks after their release date, they would be included in the climber list, which normally featured new singles. All we know for certain is that the Sunrays and P F Sloan were each played once on a particular afternoon. We cannot verify that either single was regularly included in that week's playlist.


Ashore this week
The Kenny and Cash single Knees/The B Side was released on Nov 12th 1965. In a recording of the Kenny and Cash Show broadcast on Thursday, Sept 2nd, they play a clip of the Marquee Club crowd yelling, "We want knees! We want knees!". We had long wondered, was this an attempt on their part to get Decca to release their Knees single and to have it accepted onto the Big L playlist? However, it's uncertain whether the DJs had actually recorded the song at that stage. Perhaps the Marquee crowd had merely been attempting to incite a display of patellae! (Possibly special guest Chubby Checker's.)

So far, no recorded evidence has emerged of either side of the Kenny and Cash record having received airplay on Radio London. This was despite the single's B-side – called The B-Side (what else?) – being a product of the Radlon-linked publishing company, Pall Mall Music. The B Side was moved by Decca to the 'A' side (which, as the song's creator, David Cumming pointed out, made no sense whatsoever) Climber lists from this period are far from complete, but one explanation as to why Knees might have failed to make the playlist, could be that the single did not see the light of day till after Dave Cash had moved to the Breakfast Show and the much-loved Kenny and Cash Show was no more. At this stage, Ben Toney probably considered that the only point in Big L promoting a novelty single on its playlist might have been a possible revenue for Pall Mall.



The Caroline 'Sounds of '65' chart (south ship) for this week is here


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