Sunday 16th May 1965

A Ray Davies song (from the 'Kinda Kinks' LP) is at #17 for drummer Honey Lantree and friends, while a new Kinks single, 'Set Me Free', is named as Disc of the Week.

Last	This
Week	Week
5	1	Wonderful World	Herman's Hermits
7	2	Where Are You Now (My Love)	Jackie Trent
2	3	Oh No Not My Baby	Manfred Mann
1	4	Subterranean Homesick Blues	Bob Dylan
6	5	Come On Over To My Place	Drifters
10	6	Not Until The Next Time	Jim Reeves
4	7	Bring It On Home To Me	Animals
13	8	This Little Bird	Marianne Faithfull
22	9	Poor Man's Son	Rockin' Berries
18	10	Long Live Love	Sandie Shaw
12	11	Comin' On To Cry / That's The Way It Goes	Mojos
20	12	(You've) Never Been In Love Like This Before	Unit 4 + 2
9	13	Once Upon A Time	Tom Jones
8	14	A World Of Our Own	Seekers
29	15	The Clapping Song	Shirley Ellis
14	16	Ticket To Ride	Beatles
3	17	Something Better Beginning	Honeycombs
16	18	King Of The Road	Roger Miller
19	19	True Love Ways	Peter & Gordon
23	20	That's Why I'm Crying	Ivy League
11	21	Some Things You Never Get Used To	Calvin James
28	22	Marie	Bachelors
15	23	All Over The World	Francoise Hardy
–	24	The Price Of Love	Everly Brothers
17	25	Love Her	Walker Brothers
26	26	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	Heinz & the Wild Boys
37	27	Trains And Boats And Planes	Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas
–	28	Come Home	Dave Clark Five
32	29	Mr Pitiful	Otis Redding
39	30	When The Ship Comes In	Peter Paul & Mary
35	31	I've Been Wrong Before	Cilla Black
–	32	Little Lonely One	Tom Jones
–	33	I Want That Boy	Chantelles
–	34	It Ain't Me Babe	Johnny Cash
–	35	In The Deep Of Night	Dodie West
27	36	Iko Iko	Dixie Cups
31	37	Hand Me Down Things	Adam Faith
–	38	Be My Guest	Niteshades
25	39	Stop! In The Name Of Love	Supremes
–	40	When The Morning Sun Dries The Dew	Quiet Five

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Some Things You Never Get Used To

Calvin James

Columbia DB7516

Calvin James, aka George Underwood, had been a member of David Bowie's Manish Boys, alongside our offshore DJ friends John 'Purpleknees' Edward and Radio City's Woolf Byrne. John told us:
"The Manish Boys have got together four times now in recent years. On the occasion of the third event, Bowie rang and spoke to each of us for five minutes or so. He was very friendly and I told him of the track I had just put down of a new version of I Pity The Fool (our first release). He laughed and said he'd be interested in hearing it."

– 38 Be My Guest Niteshades CBS 201763 The Niteshades was a 6-piece outfit from Stevenage and Be My Guest was the title song from a 1964 Rank film. The single's release date presumably coincided with the movie's, which played as the support to the Morecambe and Wise feature The Intelligence Men. Be My Guest starred David Hemmings, with the cast list including one "Steven Marriott" – yes, young Stevie, soon to join the Small Faces. Musically, the film also showcases performances by Jerry Lee Lewis, the Nashville Teens, the Zephyrs, the Plebs and Kenny and the Wranglers. The plot centres on a young man whose family runs a guest house. After his band's demo record, called (guess what?) Be My Guest, gets stolen, they enter a talent contest, but discover a plot to rig the result. They confront the promoter with the evidence, and go on to win. This was Steve Marriott's third film and a sequel to 1963's Live it Up, involving a very similar plot. The musical movies were low-budget promotional vehicles for the Rank organisation's Film Music division, which was run by Harold Shampan and acquired by him at the end of 1964. Harold became a director of Radio London's music publishing company, Pall Mall Music and later wrote and produced Dateline Diamonds. The Niteshades' B-side, I Must Reveal, was published by Pall Mall. (Notes: Alan Field/Mary Payne) Dateline Diamonds, released April 1966 to play alongside Doctor in Clover, was based around a story of the Big L ship mv Galaxy being used for the purpose of smuggling stolen gems. A special two-page feature on the film with full cast list and foyer photos, is here.

		Low-budget 'B-movies' shown as supports to the main feature were an integral part of a visit to the 'flicks' in the Sixties. Live it Up came out in 1963, undergoing a change of title in the US to become Sing and Swing. The musicians directed on celluloid by Joe Meek, included The Outlaws (with Ritchie Blackmore on lead guitar) and Gene Vincent. Steve Marriott is also in Dateline Diamonds, this time as a member of the Small Faces, who perform four songs in the film. Click on the Live it Up or Be My Guest photos (left) for information on buying the films on DVD. Click on the Dateline Diamonds photo (right) to buy the DVD.
Be My Guest and Live it Up are included in an 8-film collection called 50's And 60's Films With A Beat. Other titles are, Dateline Diamonds, Every Day's a Holiday, The Primitives, The Golden Disc, Band of Thieves and Tell me Another.

Disc of the Week
Set Me Free	Kinks

Tune in next week for another Big L Fab 40!