Cardboard Shoes, Keith Skues, began his sojourn on the Galaxy on May 3rd, after leaving Caroline South. While participating in 1997's Summer of Love broadcast from the Yeoman Rose, Keith recalled that the first record he played on Big L was Shotgun Wedding. Keith's first climber was I've Got So Used To Loving You by Marty Wilde.

Graham Gill (real name Graeme Gilson) was also new to the ship, joining Radio London on May 9th. He was allocated Look At My Baby by The Sensations as his first climber.

7 5 Love Around The World David Ballantyne (Columbia DB 7896) Record Mirror review: "Very good song, might well hit the charts" On Friday, March 18th, at the Target Club, High Wycombe, aka the Co-op Memorial Hall, Big L's Earl Richmond, Knees Club member #13, made a personal appearance. He introduced a couple of newcomer David Bs: Bowie and Ballantyne. Nobody at the Target gig was interested in obtaining either of the Davids' autographs, except for the Knees Club Founder and her Club Official, Lynn. Bowie was duly signed-up as member #127 and Ballantyne, #129. Next to Ballantyne's name in my diary, I wrote: "Corr!" His looks obviously impressed me more than Bowie's, who was not awarded any compkneementarknee exclamations! David Ballantyne's first single, I Can't Express It, had spent four weeks in the Fab earlier in '66, out-performing Bowie's Can't Help Thinking About Me, which charted around the same time –January/February. I Can't Express It was also a Caroline Hot Shot, and David promoted it with a personal appearance on kids' TV show 5 o'clock Club - presumably meeting hosts Muriel Young and superstar owl Ollie Beak! The story of David Ballantyne, his Discatron promotion in Trend magazine, and correspondence with David, who now lives in America, is so long that it has been allocated its own page.

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The Artwoods feature, along with Knees Club Luminaries, Episode Six and M15 in Pete Frame's Rock Family Tree as a 'branch' (or maybe a twig?) of Deep Purple. The group contained Art Wood, ex-Blues Incorporated and brother of Ron, Jon Lord and Keef Hartley. For this reason, mint copies of the single fetch £40. The single's 'B' side is a 'longest title' contender: I'm Looking for A Saxophonist Doubling French Horn Wearing Size 37 Boots, which was written by someone called Gump. Forrest, presumably....

The band started life as the Art Wood Combo: Reg Dunnage (drm); Derek Griffith (gtr); Jon Lord (kbd); Malcolm Pool (bss); Art Wood (vcl). When drummer Keef Hartley replaced Dunnage, they became the Artwoods.

Brothers Ron and Art Wood (who sadly died in November 2006) briefly combined their bands' names as the Artbirds (see Fab Forty 241065).

Artwoods MySpace here.

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Everyone will be devastated to note that Anthony Newley's 'Why Can't You Try to Didgeridoo' failed to make any chart impact at all.