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Steve Cropper (right, pictured in 2011) co-wrote this week's #2, 'In the Midnight Hour' with Wilson Pickett at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, later the site of the murder of human rights campaigner, Martin Luther King Jr. Good fortune for the boys on the left! 'Here it Comes Again' is up from #15 to #5. This week's chart contains three songs where two versions share their Fab 40 positions. 'Do You Believe In Magic?', 'Yesterday' and 'Home Of The Brave'. However, 'Thou Shalt Not Steal', is two different songs of the same title, with Glenda Collins at #12 and Freddie and the Dreamers at #37. |
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It's Good News Week | Hedgehoppers Anonymous |
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In The Midnight Hour | Wilson Pickett |
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Treat Her Right | Roy Head |
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12
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Still I'm Sad | Yardbirds |
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Here It Comes Again | Fortunes |
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Yesterday Man | Chris Andrews |
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Message Understood | Sandie Shaw |
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8
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If You Gotta Go, Go Now | Manfred Mann |
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Some Of Your Lovin' | Dusty Springfield |
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Untrue Unfaithful (That Was You) | Nita Rossi |
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Our Love Is Slipping Away | Ivy League |
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Thou Shalt Not Steal | Glenda Collins |
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She Needs Love | Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders |
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Keep A Hold Of What You've Got | Shots |
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Love Is Strange | Everly Brothers |
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Keep On Dancing | Gentrys |
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Well Respected Man (EP) | Kinks |
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You're The One | Vogues |
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Crazy 'Bout My Baby | Swinging Blue Jeans |
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When I Get Home | Searchers |
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Almost There | Andy Williams |
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We Didn't Ask To Be Brought Here | Bobby Darin |
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Hang On Sloopy | McCoys |
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Baby Don't Go | Sonny & Cher |
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Do You Believe In Magic? | Lovin' Spoonful / Pack |
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There's Another One Behind / Shame And Scandal In The Family | Lance Percival |
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On The Horizon | Syndicats |
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But You're Mine | Sonny & Cher |
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Come And Get It | Clayton Squares |
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Yesterday | Matt Monro / Marianne Faithfull |
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I'm Gonna Take You There | Dave Berry |
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Tell Me Like It Is | Lulu |
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I Don't Love You No More | Hotrods |
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Tears | Ken Dodd |
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Home Of The Brave | Jody Miller / Peanut |
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I Stand Alone | Charles Dickens |
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Thou Shalt Not Steal | Freddie & the Dreamers |
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Something | Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames |
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Bless You | Peter London |
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I Know How It Feels To Be Loved | Nashville Teens |
Brian Long's main source for the Fab Forties from those dates is the lists that were typed at the Curzon Street offices. Things had very often changed by the time the list and the accompanying new releases arrived aboard the Galaxy and the chart that was actually broadcast had often changed substantially from the list originally sent! Sadly, unless we can unearth actual recordings of all the charts in question, we can't confirm what was actually broadcast. See our full feature about The Pack, by lead singer Rustic Rod Goodway. |
The
way in which the two versions of Do You Believe in Magic come and go
in the Fab 40 is rather strange: 
Two versions of Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil's composition Home Of The Brave enter the Fab 40 this week at #35. The first, by American country singer Jody Miller (Capitol CL 15415) was already a hit in the States, having seen off competition from another version of the song by Bonnie & the Treasures from the Phil Spector stable. Jody shook off the early tag of "queen of the answer record" (she recorded Queen Of The House in reply to Roger Miller's King Of The Road, and If You Were A Carpenter in reply to Bobby Darin's / Tim Hardin's If I Were A Carpenter) and went on to notch up 27 country hits, recording over 20 albums and winning a Grammy or two along the way.
Joint #35 with Jody is the British version of Home Of The Brave (Pye 7N 15963) by Peanut, who turns out to be none other than Katie Kissoon. Katie and her brother Mac were born in Trinidad but brought up in West London. Earlier in 1965 they'd formed one half of the Marionettes, whose cover of Under The Boardwalk made #28 in the Fab 40 in July. As well as releasing solo records under the name Peanut, and later under her real name, Katie again joined forces with her brother as part of the Rag Dolls in 1967-68, and as the duo Mac and Katie Kissoon in the 70's, hitting the Top 10 twice in 1975 with Sugar Candy Kisses and Don't Do It Baby.
