for Sunday 4th December 1966

Alan Field notes that Brian Long has the Troggs' Any Way That You Want Me listed at joint #22. It's not in the Fab 40 list that Alan made when he listened in 1966, nor is it in contributor Hans Peters'. They both have the record down as a new entry at #12 the following week. The track had been Kenny Everett's hit pick for November 27th, and was not due for release until 16th December. According to Alan's list it was played and announced on the station between 4th and 11th December as a climber for a second week.

Besides climbers that were played at the time of the broadcast of the Sunday Fab Forty, Alan kept a note of others he heard later in the week and incorporated them into his list.

Climbers:
You Better Run	Listen/'N Betweens
When Will The Good Apples Fall	Ronnie Hilton
Night Of Fear	Move
The Fun Loving Kind	Robert Peters
Can't Stop Talkin' About My Baby	Mike Patto
Stone Free/Hey Joe	Jimi Hendrix Experience
Any Way That You Want Me	Troggs
Something Inside Of Me Died	Gene Latter
Mr Smith	Forresters
Disc of the Week:
Deadlier Than The Male	Walker Brothers
Album of the Week: (courtesy of Brian Long)
For Certain Because	Hollies

Aboard the Galaxy
December 6th – Dave Dennis left Radio London to get married and was replaced by Chuck Blair from Radio England, which had just closed after being on the air for only six months.

Ashore
December 6th – Between 1845 and 0150, the Beatles were in EMI's Abbey Road Studio 2 recording their first session for their upcoming album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Fab Four recorded two takes of When I'm Sixty-Four and two takes each of Christmas Messages for Radio London and Radio Caroline, indicating the importance the band placed on offshore radio airplay.

December 10th – The New Musical Express published the results of its annual readers' poll. Kenny Everett is voted 4th Most Popular DJ, with Caroline's Mike Ahern 9th, beating Tony Blackburn into 10th position. The only two pirate programmes enhancing the Best TV/Radio Show category are the Fab Forty, in 6th place, and the Kenny Everett Show in 7th. Radio London did pretty well, considering that its broadcasts did not cover the whole of the country and it was also obliged to compete against television programmes.

The Hollies – probably penning 'thank you' letters to TW for selecting For Certain Because as Radio London Album of the Week

You Better Run

'N Betweens

Columbia DB 8080

Paul Kay from Telford, who describes himself as: 'a bit of a Slade fanatic' explains why mint condition copies of this single can fetch £225:

The first line up of a popular 1960s Wolverhampton band called The 'N Betweens recorded 2 EPs for the French label 'Barclay Records'. The first EP was never officially released, but on the second EP, this band recorded a version of The Sorrows' Take A Heart at the Pye Records studio in Birmingham.

The first line up of The 'N Betweens featured drummer Don Powell and guitarist Dave Hill. When in mid-1966, the other 3 members of this band left, they were replaced by Neville 'Noddy' Holder MBE, on vocals/guitar and Jimmy Lea on bass. The second version of the 'N Betweens recorded for EMI's Columbia Records in 1966 and went on to become Ambrose Slade on Fontana in 1969. By 1970, they became just Slade with the hit-making songwriting talents of Mr Holder and Mr Lea – the rest you probably already know!

Possibly the only copy still in existence of the first Barclay Records EP is/was believed to be in the possession of Johnny Howells. He was the vocalist on Take A Heart and was replaced by Noddy Holder.

The red additions to the climbers indicate singles listed in Brian Long's book 'The London Sound' based on information typed in the Curzon Street offices or other sources. Alan Field did not hear them played or announced as climbers.

The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here

Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty!