for Sunday 21st August 1966
For one week only, Dave Cash returned to the Galaxy


Not only were the Small Faces at #1 in the Fab Forty, (#9 on this week's Caroline Countdown of Sound and #4 in Radio City's Swinging Sixty), they were headlining Radio England's 'Swinging '66' tour.

Click on this promotional photo which appeared on the front page of New Musical Express dated 19th August 1966, to see a larger version.

Clipping kindly supplied by Bert Bossink.

As Alan Field was on holiday abroad this week in 1966, all chart information is courtesy of Brian Long and Wolfgang Buchholz and Roy Taylor.


Last
This
 
Week
Week
13
1
All Or Nothing Small Faces
3
2
More Than Love Ken Dodd
1
3
Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby Beatles
14
4
They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haa! Napoleon XIV
16
5
Got To Get You Into My Life Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers
23
6
Barefootin' Robert Parker
10
7
Headline News Alan Bown Set / Edwin Starr
9
8
Just Like A Woman Manfred Mann
12
9
Big Time Operator Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
30
10
Too Soon To Know Roy Orbison
2
11
God Only Knows Beach Boys
6
12
Hi-Lili Hi-Lo Alan Price Set
38
13
Working In The Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
18
14
Tell Her Dean Parrish
20
15
So Fine Santells
15
16
Warm And Tender Love Percy Sledge
40
17
You Make Me Feel Like Someone Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas
37
18
Cast Your Fate To The Wind Shelby Flint
7
19
With A Girl Like You Troggs
4
20
I Saw Her Again Mamas & Papas
40
21
I Can't Turn You Loose Otis Redding
37
22
Stop That Girl Chris Andrews
8
23
I Want You Bob Dylan
32
24
Tossin' And Turnin' Dave Davani Four
11
25
Give Me Your Word Billy Fury
26
Step Out Of Line Twice As Much
27
If You Ever Leave Me Jackie Trent
28
(You Make Me Feel) So Good McCoys
29
Distant Drums Jim Reeves
17
30
Summer In The City Lovin' Spoonful
35
31
This Heart Of Mine Jimmy James & the Vagabonds
32
Just Once In My Life Righteous Brothers
33
Ashes To Ashes Mindbenders
34
My Heart's Symphony Gary Lewis & the Playboys
35
Sunny Bobby Hebb
36
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Junior Walker & the All Stars
26
36
Out Of This World Chiffons
34
37
Good Day Sunshine Tremeloes / Glen Dale
38
Is That A Ship I Hear Tornados
38
Here There And Everywhere Episode Six
39
See You In September Symbols
33
39
Summertime Billy Stewart
40
I Dig Everything David Bowie
40
Never You Hurt (The One You Love) Laurel Aitken & the Soulmen


In an archive Radio London recording available on Azanorak, TW - sitting in on the Kenny Everett show on Saturday 20th August 1966 - announced that the Fab 40 show the following day (Sunday 21st August) would be presented by Tony Blackburn. Tony had been on the 3-6pm slot on the Saturday also. It's very likely that Tony did present today's Fab Forty, but with no recording of the show and no written evidence, we have been unable to verify this.

Like the Small Faces, Twice As Much also featured in a large photo on the front page of the current edition of the NME. It promoted the release that day (19th August) of their new single Step Out of Line – new in at #26 in this week's Fab Forty.

Step Out of Line and the biggest Twice As Much hit Sitting on a Fence can be found on the Sequel compilation Jimmy Page – Hip Young Guitar Slinger, comprising 65 tracks on 2 CDs. Although Jimmy played on so many sessions that it's impossible for him to recall them all, all tracks on these CDs are believed to have been enhanced by his musical talents. Click on the picture to see the track list.

DJ Climbers:
You Can't Hurry Love Supremes Tony Blackburn
Hey Nellie Nellie Bob Lind Dave Dennis
Land Of 1,000 Dances Wilson Pickett Kenny Everett
World Of No Return Kenny Damon Paul Kaye
I Guess I'll Always Love You Isley Brothers Mike Lennox
I'm A Boy Who Mark Roman
Run Sandie Shaw Keith Skues
Little Darling (I Need You) Marvin Gaye Ed Stewart
When I Come Home Spencer Davis Group Norman St John
I Don't Care Los Bravos Richard Warner
Beg Borrow And Steal Rare Breed Tony Windsor

Climbers:  
Thigh High David Essex
Daytime Hedgehoppers Anonymous
Angelica Bobby Rio
Wade In The Water Ramsey Lewis Trio / Graham Bond Organisation
Pack Your Bags Brendan Phillips
Winchester Cathedral New Vaudeville Band
Another Time, Another Place Chippy
When The Ship Comes In Folk Blues Incorporated
Disc of the Week:  
We Love The Pirates Roaring 60's
Album of the Week:  
Portrait Walker Brothers


Aboard the Galaxy

A recording that John Hutley has kindly shared with us captures a tiny portion of Dave Cash's little-known one-week return to the Galaxy to present live shows, four months after he'd originally left. There were particular staffing issues on Big L at the time, with djs on holiday or shore leave, or away for other reasons. Kenny Everett was in the States covering the Beatles' U.S. tour, and Paul Kaye was occupied with working on the UK end of Kenny's reports. With no direct communication to the ship available, Paul had to go ashore daily, in order to take telephone calls from Kenny at a designated time. He recorded the conversation, then returned to the ship to edit the recording for the tour report for broadcast at 1930. (Clips of Kenny's reports can be heard on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame)

Fortunately Dave Cash was on hand and only too willing to help out. (Sadly, he doesn't seem to have been allocated a climber.) On John's tape we hear him sitting in on the Roman Empire one evening this week. According to Norman St John's handover at 9pm, it appears Dave was also due to cover the 12-2am slot directly afterwards. The recording is from the actual day of Dave's return to the ship, as he talks about his journey, meeting TW in passing as the latter went off on shore leave, and he jokes about the dubious pleasure of getting reacquainted with Dave Dennis and engineer Russ Tollerfield. The date is almost certainly Tuesday 23rd August 1966, Tuesday being the regular weekly shift-change. I (Mary) did note in my 1966 diary on Wednesday August 24th that Dave had returned to the Galaxy for one week, but it's possible that I did not write the diary on the 24th, but updated it a few days later and misremembered the date of Dave's unexpected return.

Dave is heard playing the usual blend of Fab 40 hits and climbers that enable us to accurately date the tape, and in one particular link he reminisces fondly about the old Kenny and Cash days the previous year, as he plays an oldie they used to feature a lot back then, In The Misty Moonlight by Jerry Wallace.



The PURPLE DJ climbers were supplied by Roy Taylor in 2020

The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here
This week's Radio City 'City Sixty' on the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is here

Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty