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River Deep Mountain High | Ike & Tina Turner |
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7
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2
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Nobody Needs Your Love | Gene Pitney |
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8
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3
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Hideaway | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
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10
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4
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Sittin' On A Fence | Twice As Much |
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15
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5
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I Need You (EP) | Walker Brothers |
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1
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6
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Sunny Afternoon | Kinks |
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11
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7
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Along Comes Mary | Association |
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38
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8
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Bus Stop | Hollies |
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4
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9
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Paperback Writer | Beatles |
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27
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10
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Get Away | Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames |
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5
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11
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Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me) | Four Seasons |
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16
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12
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Merci Cherie | Vince Hill |
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19
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13
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The Music Goes Round | Jeeps |
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13
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14
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Over Under Sideways Down | Yardbirds |
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20
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15
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I Am A Rock | Simon & Garfunkel |
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12
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16
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Lady Jane | David Garrick |
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3
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17
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Don't Bring Me Down | Animals |
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39
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18
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It's A Man's Man's Man's World | James Brown & the Famous Flames |
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6
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19
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Don't Answer Me | Cilla Black |
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9
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20
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Sweet Talkin' Guy | Chiffons |
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26
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21
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Just Like Him | David Wilcox |
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36
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22
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You Gave Me Somebody To Love | Fortunes/Manfred Mann |
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23
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Out Of Time | Chris Farlowe |
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29
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24
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Indication | Zombies |
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25
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I Couldn't Live Without Your Love | Petula Clark |
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31
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26
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Excuse Me Baby | Magic Lanterns |
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32
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27
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Glendora | Downliners Sect |
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28
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Have I Stayed Too Long | Sonny & Cher |
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34
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29
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I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart Out Any More | New York Public Library |
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30
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This Door Swings Both Ways | Herman's Hermits |
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31
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Crazy Stockings | Marva Josie |
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32
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Lovers Of The World Unite | David & Jonathan |
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37
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33
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Friday Night | Red Hawkes |
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34
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Can I Trust You | Bachelors |
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34
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To Show I Love You | Peter & Gordon |
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14
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35
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Younger Girl | Critters |
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36
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When You're In Love With A Girl | Tony Barry |
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37
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Black Is Black | Los Bravos |
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38
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Shades Of Blue | Pirates |
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33
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39
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The More I See You | Chris Montez |
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40
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Aggravation | Chris Curtis |
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Makin' Time | Creation |

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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. |
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I Need You (EP) | Walker Brothers | Philips BE 12596 |
Alan Field says:
Webmaster's note: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.
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Just Like Him | David Wilcox |
| 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.
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| Turning Around | Wishful Thinking | Decca F12438 |
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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." |
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.' . |
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.
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