Field's
Fab Forty charts run from May 1st 1966 to the final Fab Forty, August 6th
1967 (These were the first of the Fab Forty charts to appear on the Radio London website. See introduction for explanation) Sunday 1st May 1966 |
Field's
Fab Forty charts run from May 1st 1966 to the final Fab Forty, August 6th
1967 (These were the first of the Fab Forty charts to appear on the Radio London website. See introduction for explanation) Sunday 1st May 1966 |
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Presented
by Ed Stewart
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4
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1
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Pretty Flamingo | Manfred Mann |
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7
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2
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Sloop John B | Beach Boys |
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9
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3
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(You're My) Soul And Inspiration | Righteous Brothers |
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12
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4
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Walking My Cat Named Dog | Norma Tanega |
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33
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5
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Shotgun Wedding | Roy C |
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1
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6
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Daydream | Lovin' Spoonful |
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27
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7
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Love Around The World | David Ballantyne |
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10
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8
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Frankie And Johnny | Elvis Presley |
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3
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9
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Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) | Cher |
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18
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10
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Cheat And Lie | Miki Dallon |
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13
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11
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Come On Home | Wayne Fontana |
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2
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12
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The Pied Piper | Crispian St. Peters |
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14
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13
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Splendour In The Grass | Gulliver's People |
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22
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14
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Something On My Mind | Chris Andrews |
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5
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15
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Alfie | Cilla Black |
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15
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16
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A Sign Of The Times | Petula Clark |
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6
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17
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I Put A Spell On You | Alan Price Set |
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29
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18
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Sorrow | Merseys |
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36
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19
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Love Ya, Ilya | Angela & the Fans |
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38
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20
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I Hear Trumpets Blow | Episode Six |
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34
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21
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You've Got To Learn | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
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17
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22
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How Does That Grab You Darlin' | Nancy Sinatra |
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8
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23
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You Don't Have To Say You Love Me | Dusty Springfield |
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24
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Lies A Million | Roving Kind |
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25
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Can't Live With You, Can't Live Without You | Mindbenders |
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23
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26
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I'm Comin' Home, Cindy | Trini Lopez |
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27
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I Could Make You Fall In Love | Rockin' Berries |
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37
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28
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Ain't That A Groove | James Brown |
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29
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I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree | Just Us |
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30
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Come See Me | Pretty Things |
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31
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I Love Her | Paul & Barry Ryan |
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32
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Wild Thing | Troggs |
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19
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33
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Substitute | Who |
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34
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I Take What I Want | Artwoods |
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32
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35
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Never Leave Your Baby's Side | Tony Jackson |
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36
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I Go To Sleep | Truth |
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37
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Andromeda's Theme | Zambetas & his Bouzouki |
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38
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Here In My Arms | Robbie Porter |
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40
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39
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I Can't Get Through | Bill Oddie |
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40
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Nothing's Too Good For My Baby | Stevie Wonder |
(Right) "Put those guns
down before you have someone's eye out!" Mr Waverly is not impressed
by the glamour boys' weapon skills. The 'Ilya' in question was, of course, Ilya Kuryakin, the character from hit TV spy series, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. played by David McCallum. In 1966, golden-haired Ilya and his raven-locked co-agent Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) had female knees a-trembling. Being besotted by the series, and particularly the charms of Ilya, I wrote a spoof spy serial for club magazine, Knees Monthly, called 'The Knee From A.N.K.L.E.', starring Napoleon Unaccompanied and Ilya Kuryankle. Their boss, (in the series, Mr Waverley, played by Les Carroll) was Mr Notelets.Anyone named Angela and indeed, all fans of avuncular secret agents should investigate Clint's 'Sixties City', where their favourite U.N.C.L.E.s have been given a section all to themselves. |
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Crispian arrived in the Fab Forty on March 7th 1965 with his first single At This Moment and returned in November with You Were On My Mind, which had been a US Top Ten hit for the Californian quintet, We Five. This was Pied Piper's 6th week in the FF after appearing as a Climber on March 20th. It hit #2 in the Fab and #5 in the nationals, climbing to #4 in the USA four months later. Oddly, the song had already charted there the previous November, as the only success for the Changin' Times, but their version had failed to climb any higher than #87. The Pied Piper from Swanley's follow-up, Changes, only scraped into the UK nationals at # 47 and the US Hot Hundred at # 57, but fared better in the Radio London Fab Forty, reaching #16. In the US You Were On My Mind, was released after Changes, and climbed to #36 around the end of '66. Not bad, considering We Five version had already taken the song to #3 in the summer of '65. Crispian St. Peters became Knees Club member #253 at High Wycombe Town Hall on May 17th. He was backed by Lancashire group, The Puppets: Jim Whittle (#259), Don Parfitt (#262), Des O'Reilly (#263), Dave Miller (#264) (no relation to our own Pancake Man, CK) and their roadie, N Ellis (#260). Kit Wells, who joined as member #261, was listed in the KC Book as St. Peters' manager and gave a Curzon Street address, (not number 17!). A feature in Disc, dated 7th May names Kit as Crispian's publicist and Dave Nicholson as his manager. However, according to Johnny Rogan's book Starmakers and Svengalis, the singer was contracted to Kenneth Pitt at that time. The Knees Club gang was given a lift home in Crispian's Jag, and we agreed to run a fan club for him, although this never came to fruition. The Puppets had received their name from Joe Meek and the band released singles on Pye in '63 and '64. Drummer Des O'Reilly tells their story on his website. |
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders had by this time gone their separate ways, but came together again in this week's Big L chart, with Wayne holding down the #11 position, and the Mindbenders at #25.
May 1st 1966, was also the date of the NME Pollwinners' Concert at the Empire Pool, Wembley, which turned out to be the Beatles' last UK concert. Apart from the Fab Four, starring pollwinners included the Stones, (TW had Paint It Black as his climber this week), Herman's Hermits, Fourmost, Small Faces, Yardbirds, Cliff and the Shadows, Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield and the Spencer Davis Group.
I (Mary) went on a coach trip to the concert with my best friends and Knees
Club Officials, Jenny Royal and Mozz Walker. My diary entry reads:
"Concert was great except for screaming kids behind us. (I now considered myself
too old at sixteen to join the ranks of 'screaming kids'). The weather was so
hot it reached about 80 degrees."
It's incredible to think I went to see the above line-up of top acts, probably
THE line-up of the decade, and wrote about the weather! Probably, at the time
I thought the event was unforgettable and therefore, unnecessary to put into
words.
I didn't regularly wear specs in those days, only needing them for distance-viewing.
In 1966, the frames available were hideous and hardly a top teenage fashion
accessory, so I couldn't bear being seen wearing them. However, if I didn't
wear them, I couldn't see the stage. Jenny recalls that the event was being
filmed for TV, and I was rushing to remove my glasses whenever I thought the
camera might be on me!
Naturally, I took my faithful trannie with me so that we could listen to the
Fab Forty during the interval.
| DJ Climbers | ||
| Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35 | Bob Dylan | Chris Denning |
| Promises | Ken Dodd | Dave Dennis |
| Today's The Day | Spokesmen | John Edward |
| Strangers In The Night | Frank Sinatra | Duncan Johnson |
| When A Man Loves A Woman | Percy Sledge | Paul Kaye |
| You Can Go | Valerie Mitchell | Mike Lennox |
| Night-Time Girl | Modern Folk Quartet | Mark Roman |
| Scratch My Back | Jan Panter | Ed Stewart |
| Paint It Black | Rolling Stones | Tony Windsor |
Notice that this week's Climbers include several mega-hits. They certainly knew how to pick 'em!
| Climbers | |
| Water | Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band |
| Mother's Little Helper | Gene Latter |
| Stay A Little While | Barry Benson |
| Under My Thumb | Wayne Gibson |
| I Do | Goldie |
| Monday Monday | Mamas & Papas |
| While I Live | Kenny Damon |
| Stop Her On Sight (SOS) | Edwin Starr |
| Disc of the Week | |
| Hey Girl | Small Faces |
| Album of the Week | |
| The Wondrous World Of Sonny And Cher | Sonny & Cher |
The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here
Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty!
