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by Ed Stewart |
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3 |
1 |
I'm A Boy | Who |
21 |
2 |
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? | Rolling Stones |
4 |
3 |
Winchester Cathedral | New Vaudeville Band |
7 |
4 |
All I See Is You | Dusty Springfield |
1 |
5 |
Bend It | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
9 |
6 |
Guantanamera | Sandpipers |
17 |
7 |
Lady Godiva | Peter & Gordon |
2 |
8 |
Walk With Me | Seekers |
12 |
9 |
I've Got You Under My Skin | Four Seasons |
5 |
10 |
Sunny | Bobby Hebb / Georgie Fame |
11 |
11 |
Have You Ever Loved Somebody | Searchers/Paul & Barry Ryan |
13 |
12 |
Another Tear Falls | Walker Brothers |
14 |
13 |
Baby Toys | Toys |
16 |
14 |
Dear Mrs Applebee | David Garrick |
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14 |
Happy New Year | Beverley |
6 |
15 |
You Can't Hurry Love | Supremes |
36 |
16 |
My Strength, Heart And Soul | Johnny Devlin |
8 |
17 |
I Don't Care | Los Bravos |
10 |
18 |
Little Man | Sonny & Cher |
19 |
19 |
I Struck It Rich | Len Barry |
22 |
20 |
What A Wonderful Feeling | Lulu |
21 |
20 |
There Will Never Be Another You | Chris Montez |
26 |
21 |
She Drives Me Out Of My Mind | Swingin' Medallions |
20 |
22 |
We Love The Pirates | Roaring 60's |
15 |
23 |
Distant Drums | Jim Reeves |
31 |
24 |
What Would Your Mama Say Now? | Miki Dallon |
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25 |
I Can't Control Myself | Troggs |
32 |
26 |
There's Something About You | Chantelles |
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27 |
Time Drags By | Cliff Richard & the Shadows |
37 |
28 |
That Loving Feeling | Honeycombs |
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28 |
Stop Stop Stop | Hollies |
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29 |
If I Were A Carpenter | Bobby Darin |
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30 |
No Milk Today | Herman's Hermits |
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31 |
I Love My Dog | Cat Stevens |
23 |
31 |
Summer Wind | Frank Sinatra |
29 |
32 |
Gotta Get A Hold Of Myself | Zombies |
34 |
33 |
'Til Winter Follows Spring | Settlers |
33 |
33 |
Born A Woman | Sandy Posey |
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34 |
High Time | Paul Jones |
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35 |
End Of The Season | Uglys |
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36 |
No One Knows | Graham Bonney |
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37 |
Join My Gang | Oscar |
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37 |
Everything I Touch Turns To Tears | Brian Poole |
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38 |
Oh What A Day It's Going To Be | Mo & Steve |
35 |
39 |
Dommage, Dommage (Too Bad, Too Bad) | Engelbert Humperdinck |
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40 |
Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah | Wee Willie Harris |
Despite Deram's Beardsley-style promotional poster, Happy New Year failed to give Beverley a major hit. After a couple of weeks as a climber, it leapt straight into this week's Fab Forty at #14, but stayed there for only one week. Nobody seems to have attempted to tie-in the Randy Newman song with the festive season and in reality, it was about a very unhappy new year. As a Guardian feature explains."The cracker-barrel view of the 1960s is of a glossy, fluffy, upbeat pop time but, like many records released in that decade and during 1966 in particular, Happy New Year partakes of a distinctly negative, if not hostile, spirit." In '67, Beverley released her recording of Donovan's Museum, unfortunately for her on the same day, July 7th, as Columbia issued Herman's Hermits' version of the same song, which was picked as Chuck Blair's climber and made #13 on the Fab Forty. Beverley's autobiography is available in paperback and Kindle editions.
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Join My Gang | Oscar | Reaction 591 006 |
This Pete Townshend composition was a second Fab entry for the artist formerly known as Paul Dean. The full story with Oscar's true identity and a Knees Club connection is revealed in the Fab Forty for 19th June 1966.
Aboard
the Galaxy
Oct 1st 1966 was the first day of a revised programme
schedule for weekends, launched as "The New Sound' with a specially-made Kenny Everett promo.
Percy Faith Orchestra the wild drake Radio London -Kenny Everett New Fab 40 Promo
Hans Knot has successfully identified the backing music as 'The Wild Drake' an instrumental from the film 'The Oscar' written by Percy Faith.
Breakfast was one
hour shorter, with 'London After Midnight' extended by an hour. The Fab Forty, still to be presented regularly by Stewpot, now ran from 1100 to 1400 and included
a half-hour sponsored show, 'It's a Dog's Life'.
A new customised PAMS package (series 31 - 'the Music Explosion') was purchased
to enhance 'The new sound'. Series 31 included 'Go-go, go-go, 'The top
forty sound of wonderful Radio London', 'Radio London means more and more music
on wonderful B-I-G-L', 'More music (more music) on Big L - Big L' and 'At sea,
the mast with the most'.
The first day's line-up was
0530 Tony Blackburn
0800 Tony Windsor
1100 Ed Stewart
1400 Kenny Everett
1700 Mike Lennox
2000 Pete Drummond
2300 to 0200 Alan West
Pete Drummond, who had joined Big L on September 27th, was given a terrific first climber – What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin
(Thanks to Brian Long and Alan Field)
DJ Climbers: | ||
Friday On My Mind | Easybeats | Tony Blackburn |
I Can't Make It Alone | P J Proby | Dave Dennis |
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted | Jimmy Ruffin | Pete Drummond |
Full Stop | Giorgio | Kenny Everett |
Cheryl's Goin' Home | Adam Faith | Paul Kaye |
B-A-B-Y | Carla Thomas | Mike Lennox |
You're Ready Now | Frankie Valli | Mark Roman |
Step By Step | Wishful Thinking | Keith Skues |
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep | Temptations | Ed Stewart |
Two At A Time | Neil Christian & the Crusaders | Norman St John |
High On A Hill | Tuesday's Children | Alan West |
Reach Out, I'll Be There | Four Tops | Tony Windsor |
Climbers: | |
No Sad Songs For Me | Four Pennies |
The English Girl | Bruno |
Mind Excursion | Trade Winds |
That's When Happiness Began | Montanas |
A Fool Am I | Cilla Black |
My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died | Roger Miller |
Marble Breaks, Iron Bends | Peter Fenton |
Flamingo | Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass |
In Our Time | Nancy Sinatra |
Disc of the Week: | |
All That I Am | Elvis Presley |
Album of the Week: (courtesy of Brian Long) | |
Black is Black | Los Bravos |
Relegations this week for both Keith Skues's former Hit Pick My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died and
Cilla Black's former Disc of the Week A Fool Am I, to the less-prestigious regular climbers list.
Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty!