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With A Girl Like You | Troggs |
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Summer In The City | Lovin' Spoonful |
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Visions | Cliff Richard |
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Hi-Lili Hi-Lo | Alan Price Set |
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Barefootin' | Robert Parker |
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Love Letters | Elvis Presley |
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Lovers Of The World Unite | David & Jonathan |
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God Only Knows | Beach Boys |
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I Saw Her Again | Mamas & Papas |
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Black Is Black | Los Bravos |
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Hanky Panky | Tommy James & the Shondells |
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I Want You | Bob Dylan |
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The Man Who Took The Valise Off The Floor Of Grand Central Station At Noon | She Trinity |
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I Love How You Love Me | Paul & Barry Ryan |
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Doctor Love | Bobby Sheen |
28
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More Than Love | Ken Dodd |
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Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever | Four Tops |
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Mama | Dave Berry |
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(Baby) You Don't Have To Tell Me | Walker Brothers |
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Oops | Neil Christian |
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Out Of Time | Chris Farlowe |
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You Better Run | Young Rascals |
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Goin' Back | Dusty Springfield |
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Headline News | Alan Bown Set / Edwin Starr |
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Give Me Your Word | Billy Fury |
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Where Were You When I Needed You? | Grass Roots |
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The More I See You | Chris Montez |
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Big Time Operator | Zoot Money's Big Roll Band |
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So Sad About Us | Merseys |
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Just Like A Woman | Jonathan King / Manfred Mann |
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Sh-Boom Sh-Boom | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
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How Long Is Time | Odyssey |
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This And That | Tom Jones |
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The Moment Of Truth | Three Good Reasons |
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Tell Her | Dean Parrish |
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There She Is | Clayton Squares |
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Half A Picture | Daemon Dee |
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Hungry | Paul Revere & the Raiders |
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Lil' Red Riding Hood | Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs |
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Green Light | Tony Blackburn |
Daemon Dee was a pseudonym of blues and folk singer Cliff
Aungier. He penned the single's B-side, Tell Me Baby, which
is one of eleven Pall Mall-published compositions featuring in this week's
playlist. The strange publicity clip on the left, (kindly supplied by Hans Knot) fails to mention the title of the single it talks about and unfortunately, is inaccurate about the Fab 40 position. Despite its Pall Mall B-side, Half a Picture reached only #37, where it remained for 2 weeks before vanishing. |
On Friday, August 5th, the Beatles' seventh studio album Revolver was released. It had already been Radio London Album of the Week and now the double-sided single taken from it, Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine, released on the same day, is chosen as Radio London Club Disc of the Week.
DJ Climbers: | ||
(You Make Me Feel) So Good | McCoys | Tony Blackburn |
Cast Your Fate To The Wind | Shelby Flint | Chris Denning |
There She Goes | J & B | Dave Dennis |
Popsicle | Jan & Dean | Kenny Everett |
Opportunity | Jason Dene | Bill Hearne |
Too Soon To Know | Roy Orbison | Paul Kaye |
Sweet Dreams | Tommy McLain | Mike Lennox |
Blowin' In The Wind | Stevie Wonder | Mark Roman |
Take Your Love | Bobby Goldsboro | Keith Skues |
Stop That Girl | Chris Andrews | Ed Stewart |
So Fine | Santells | Norman St John |
All Or Nothing | Small Faces | Tony Windsor |
Guitarist Michael Leslie Jones and drummer Thomas Francis Brown went by the name of J & B for the release of just one single, but it was not merely the initials of their surnames. Both were soul fans and admirers of James Brown and intended There She Goes to be a tribute to the Godfather of Soul. The name printed on the Polydor label is The J & B, but it seems more likely that Jones and Brown intended to call themselves simply 'J & B'. That was certainly how they were billed on the Curzon Street list. Early in the decade, the duo had been in one of many line-ups of Nero and the Gladiators, a band that had enjoyed a couple of minor instrumental hits. It was during their performance at the Paris Olympia that the talents of Mickand Tommy were spotted by French megastar Johnny Hallyday, who recruited them initially for his wife Sylvie Vartan's backing band. They also backed Hallyday himself, as regular members of his session men, Les Blackburds. When Hallyday decided to record a soul album, Mick landed the enviable job of going to the States to record backing tracks with Otis Redding's band (presumably the MGs), with Hallyday's vocals to be added later. "When Otis heard that Johnny was covering some of his songs, he flew to Paris and sat in on the sessions. That was unbelievable, hilarious! Otis would look at me and say, 'How we gonna help this guy get some soul?'", Mick told Record Collector magazine in 1994. In France, Mick honed his songwriting skills and contributed to many recordings, including several movie soundtracks. In 1965 he gave Cliff Richard a Fab Forty Top Twenty entry with his song The Time In Between – although it fared less well in the Nationals. Mick and Tommy released other singles (and in France, an EP) as The State of Micky and Tommy (with Micky sometimes spelt 'Mickey'). Les Blackburds released singles of their own, including their instrumental take on The In Crowd. However, as the Sixties became the Seventies, Micky became involved in other ventures and his long-time musical partnership with Tommy ceased. Their catalogue of work is now collected on the 24-track CD The State of Micky and Tommy. Although very much a part of the music business since the Fifties, Mick Jones's biggest hits came in the late Seventies and Eighties when he founded rockers Foreigner and enjoyed huge international success with hits, I Want to Know What Love Is, Waiting for a Girl Like You and Cold As Ice. The band website describes him thus: "The architect behind Foreigner’s extraordinary catalogue of smash hits, Mick has crafted some of rock music’s most enduring songs and produced 10 multi-platinum albums. (He is a) Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated songwriter, performer and producer and winner of the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriter award in Britain in 1998." In mint condition, There She Goes can command a price of £50 or more, while the two singles released under the banner of The State of Micky and Tommy are even more highly valued. |
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This Heart Of Mine | Jimmy James & the Vagabonds |
When You Walk In The Sand | Tuesday's Children |
Harlem Shuffle | Mike Cotton Sound |
Peace Of Mind | Zuider Zee |
Got To Get You Into My Life | Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers |
5 O'Clock World | Greg Hunter |
Things Get Better | Rey Anton & The Pro Form |
Doing What She's Not Supposed to Do* | Barron Knights |
Summertime* | Billy Stewart |
They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haa! | Kim Fowley |
Disc of the Week: | |
Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby | Beatles |
Album of the Week: | |
Follow Me | Crispian St Peters |
Typically of the era, the Album of the Week's sleeve features a rather literal interpretation of its title. Major session men of the time, Jimmy Page, Big Jim Sullivan and Vick Flick are credited as playing on it, enhancing the LP's value as secondhand vinyl. |
The PURPLE climber was supplied by Roy Taylor in 2020.
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 addition of Billy Stewart's 'Summertime' as a climber is courtesy of Wolfgang Buchholz.
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
This week's Radio England 'Boss Forty' on the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is here
Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty