for Sunday 26th June 1966
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Presented by Ed Stewart
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 River Deep Mountain High Ike & Tina Turner
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 Nobody Needs Your Love Gene Pitney
8
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 Hideaway Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich
10
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 Sittin' On A Fence Twice As Much
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 I Need You (EP) Walker Brothers
1
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 Sunny Afternoon Kinks
11
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 Along Comes Mary Association
38
8
 Bus Stop Hollies
4
9
 Paperback Writer Beatles
27
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 Get Away Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames
5
11
 Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me) Four Seasons
16
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 Merci Cherie Vince Hill
19
13
 The Music Goes Round Jeeps
13
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 Over Under Sideways Down Yardbirds
20
15
 I Am A Rock Simon & Garfunkel
12
16
 Lady Jane David Garrick
3
17
 Don't Bring Me Down Animals
39
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 It's A Man's Man's Man's World James Brown & the Famous Flames
6
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 Don't Answer Me Cilla Black
9
20
 Sweet Talkin' Guy Chiffons
26
21
 Just Like Him David Wilcox
36
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 You Gave Me Somebody To Love Fortunes/Manfred Mann
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23
 Out Of Time Chris Farlowe
29
24
 Indication Zombies
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25
 I Couldn't Live Without Your Love Petula Clark
31
26
 Excuse Me Baby Magic Lanterns
32
27
 Glendora Downliners Sect
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 Have I Stayed Too Long Sonny & Cher
34
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 I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart Out Any More New York Public Library
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30
 This Door Swings Both Ways Herman's Hermits
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31
 Crazy Stockings Marva Josie
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32
 Lovers Of The World Unite David & Jonathan
37
33
 Friday Night Red Hawkes
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34
 Can I Trust You Bachelors
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34
 To Show I Love You Peter & Gordon
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35
 Younger Girl Critters
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36
 When You're In Love With A Girl Tony Barry
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37
 Black Is Black Los Bravos
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38
 Shades Of Blue Pirates
33
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 The More I See You Chris Montez
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40
 Aggravation Chris Curtis
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40
 Makin' Time Creation


1966 advertisement for Making Time from The London Sound, courtesy of Brian Long


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 Sittin' On A Fence Twice As Much Immediate IM033

Twice As Much joined the Knees Club on July 9th 1966, at the Marquee Club.(Signatures and birth dates from the Knees Club book below). The duo also to visited the Galaxy in July.

Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham signed them to his Immediate label and they received the gift of a Jagger/Richards composition for their debut single. Sittin' On A Fence, made #25 in the Nationals, but four subsequent Immediate singles failed to impress.

What David Skinner did between the issue of the last Twice As Much single in 1966 and his next known project in 1972, remains a mystery.

In 1972, David Skinner joined Uncle Dog, a group including vocalist Carol Grimes. He penned most of the tracks on their album Old Hat. In 1977/8, David toured as keyboard player with Roxy Music.

About Andrew's subsequent career, no information so far.


Twice As Much. We believe it's David Skinner (#314) on the left of the picture and Andrew Rose (#313) on the right.
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 I Need You (EP) Walker Brothers Philips BE 12596

Alan Field says:

My brother and I used to have the Walker Brothers EP. Apart from I Need You, I think there was also Looking For Me, Young Man Cried and Everything's Gonna Be Alright. Unfortunately, it was my brother who kept the record when we left home, and he got rid of it years ago.

Webmaster's note:
Moral of story: never trust siblings with record collections!

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 Just Like Him David Wilcox

David Wilcox was a former member of the Nocturns, and had co-written songs for the group. They had just one single issued in 1964

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.

DJ Climbers:    
Follow Me Mark Leeman Five Tony Blackburn
Cloud Nine Winston G Chris Denning
Oops Neil Christian Dave Dennis
Turning Around Wishful Thinking John Edward
A House In The Country Pretty Things Kenny Everett
My Lover's Prayer Otis Redding Paul Kaye
I Never Loved Her Anyway Jimmy Beaumont Mike Lennox
Don't Come Running To Me Madeline Bell Keith Skues
He Righteous Brothers Ed Stewart
Love Letters Elvis Presley Tony Windsor
Pastel Shades of Love Lesley Dawson Willy Walker

Willy Walker's climber is not part of Field's Fab Forty, because Alan's charts are based on what he heard played at the time. However, Harm Koenders of the Restoring Department of offshoreradio.org has discovered a recording from June 27th, of Willy anouncing Pastel Shades of Love as his climber. In The London Sound, Brian Long has the single listed as 'Pastel Shades of Blue'. It is quite easy to speculate that the title may have been mistyped at the Curzon Street offices and that with 42 singles in the Fab 42 and 21 climbers, Willy's climber may simply have been accidentally omitted.

Cloud Nine Winston G Chris Denning Decca F12444, released 8/7/66

Winston G's third release, which failed to reach the Fab Forty, was a Les Reed and Barry Mason composition enhanced by funky horns.The follow-up in 1967 was called, intriguingly, Mother Ferguson's Love Dust. Winston also recorded as Winston G and the Wicked.

Turning Around Wishful Thinking Decca F12438

Another DJ climber that never made the Fab, the title of which The Record Collector Price Guide lists as Turning Round. The single was recorded by the band's original line-up of Roy Daniels (vcls), Terry New (lead gtr), Roger Charles (bass) and Brian Allen (drms). Wishful Thinking had two further excursions on the Big L playlists for October 9th '66, and April 16th, 1967, (second band line-up) but the band made no musical impression till 1969, when their forth line-up achieved an overseas hit, Hiroshima. Taken from their album of the same name, the single was a huge hit in Germany. Full Wishful Thinking profile is on the Fab for 16th April '67.

The letter begins: "Thank you so much for being so nice to write to me. It is always nice to hear from people who listening to Radio London and to find out more about their lives. I receive your member Knees Club card and could you send me a photograph of you please, if you don't mind."

June 29th – Paul Kay (#18) and Mich (Michel Philistin) (#275) said "Hello" to the Knees Club on the Coffee Break. Mich the Haitian Steward was one of the original crew who had sailed with the Galaxy from Miami. Concerned that he must be feeling homesick, TW had introduced Mich to the Big L audience as a Coffee Break guest and encouraged listeners to write to him to help him to learn English. Mich proved so popular that he went on to make regular Coffee Break appearances and was to become as much a star as the DJs.

Mich was to remain on board till the end of Big L, making lifelong friends with DJs and members of the crew. After the demise of Radio London, he would adopt England as his new home, obtaining British citizenship with the assistance of Tommy Vance and Duncan Johnson..

I always included 'Kneeland' at the bottom of my address when I wrote to people on Knees Club business and many perpetuated the joke by including it in the address when they replied. With his limited knowledge of English, Mich might well have thought that 'Kneeland' was a genuine place! I suspect any letter so addressed these days would be returned by the snail as 'unkneeliverable.'

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June 30th – I sunbathed using TW's special recipe for suntan lotion, a vinegar and olive oil mixture. It might have been popular Down Under, but it must have made me smell like a bag of chips and it attracted flies!

Climbers:  
A Little Lovin' Somethin' Shapes & Sizes
It's All Over Jimmy Witherspoon
Something's Going On In There Behind My Back Dick Jordan
Nothing In The World Geneveve
The Sweet And Tender Hold Of Your Love Peter Lee Stirling
It's That Time Of The Year Len Barry
One By One Mockingbirds
Let's Go Get Stoned Ray Charles
Midnight Mary Rockin' Berries
Disc of the Week:  
Going Back Dusty Springfield
Album of the Week:  
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich

One By One Mockingbirds Decca F12438

Graham Gouldman formed the Mockingbirds in February 1965 with fellow members of The Whirlwinds, Steve Jacobson and Bernard Basso. Drummer Kevin Godley joined the line-up from The Sabres.

Ironically, although the singles Gouldman penned for the Mockingbirds failed to meet any success, his compositions brought fame for many other bands, including the Yardbirds, Herman's Hermits and Hollies. This week's #8, Bus Stop, is a Gouldman composition.

Disc of the Week:
Going Back Dusty Springfield

Roger Waters writes: "I was a Radio London Club disc winner of the week – I won Dusty Springfield's Going Back. I still have the single, my membership card and the badge – but best of all the memories!
Big Rog

How lovely to hear from a Big L winner - and to know that Rog still has his prize! There were an awful lot of winners during Lil's lifetime, and we would love to hear from more of you.

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