for
Sunday 9th April 1967
Two new Fab Forty entries arrive with Pall Mall B-sides written by Barry Paterson, Ricky Kemp and Keith Herd. 'Empty My Heart' backs Jerry Page's 'Fortune Teller's Friend', while 'Life's a Gamble' backs Roger Bloom's Hammer's 'Out of the Blue'. The tracks for both singles were originally recorded at Fairview Studios in Yorkshire, but Harold Shampan at Pall Mall had insisted that they were rerecorded at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea. More on Roger Bloom's Hammer (left) and Fairview Studios is in a Fab Forty feature for 19/07/67 when the band reappeared in the Big L chart with 'Polly Pan'. |
Matters monetary dominate this week's Fab Forty, with Hi-Ho Silver Lining at #7, Bobby Goldsboro at #11, Sixpence at #35, Cash McCall #40 and a bit of Moonlight Saving at #39. You'll need a Fortune Teller's Friend, (#34), with a Crystal Ball, (#15), to predict the Ups And Downs (#22 ) of the stock market but Time Will Tell if The Laughing Gnome(s) of Zurich get the last laugh. You could win Twice As Much (#15), Win Again a Big Roll of Zoot Money on the Roulettes, or end up The Loser (With A Broken Heart) if you do Somethin' Stupid (#18). It's no good Beggin' (#5) the Inland Revenue, The First Cut Is The Deepest and they're Gonna Fix You Good (#20)! |
Last |
This |
Presented
by Ed Stewart |
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Week |
Week |
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2 |
1 |
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You | Monkees |
8 |
2 |
Ha! Ha! Said The Clown | Manfred Mann |
9 |
3 |
Bernadette | Four Tops |
10 |
4 |
I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun | Cat Stevens |
7 |
5 |
Beggin' | Four Seasons |
18 |
6 |
I Can Hear The Grass Grow | Move |
12 |
7 |
Hi Ho Silver Lining | Jeff Beck |
24 |
8 |
Yellow Balloon | Jan & Dean |
13 |
9 |
With This Ring | Platters |
- |
10 |
Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings | Tom Jones |
40 |
11 |
Too Many People | Bobby Goldsboro |
26 |
12 |
At The Zoo | Simon & Garfunkel |
34 |
13 |
Travelin' Man | Stevie Wonder |
1 |
14 |
Puppet On A String/Tell The Boys | Sandie Shaw |
- |
15 |
Crystal Ball | Guy Darrell / Twice As Much |
3 |
16 |
Jimmy Mack | Martha & the Vandellas |
28 |
17 |
The Return Of The Red Baron | Royal Guardsmen |
4 |
18 |
Somethin' Stupid | Frank & Nancy Sinatra |
32 |
19 |
Birds And Bees | Warm Sounds |
27 |
20 |
Gonna Fix You Good (Everytime You're Bad) | Alan Bown Set |
- |
21 |
Come Back Girl | Jackie Edwards |
35 |
22 |
Ups And Downs | Paul Revere & the Raiders |
- |
23 |
The Boat That I Row | Lulu |
29 |
24 |
Going Home | Normie Rowe |
- |
25 |
What A Woman In Love Won't Do | Sandy Posey |
37 |
26 |
What'll I Do | Peddlers |
- |
27 |
Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen By The Sea | David & Jonathan |
5 |
28 |
Because I Love You | Georgie Fame |
30 |
29 |
Walk Away Renee | Truth |
6 |
30 |
It's All Over | Cliff Richard |
- |
31 |
Out Of The Blue | Roger Bloom's Hammer |
23 |
32 |
One To Seven | Gates Of Eden |
- |
33 |
I Know You Love Me Not | Julie Driscoll |
- |
34 |
Fortune Teller's Friend | Jerry Page |
- |
35 |
You're The Love | Sixpence |
- |
36 |
Love Is A Beautiful Thing/Bert's Apple Crumble (*) | Quik |
- |
37 |
The Hand Don't Fit The Glove | Terry Reid & Peter Jay's Jaywalkers |
39 |
38 |
Tiger | Brian Auger |
- |
39 |
Moonlight Saving Time | Blossom Dearie |
- |
40 |
It's Wonderful (To Be In Love) | Cash McCall |
- |
36 |
Love Is A Beautiful Thing/Bert's Apple Crumble (*) | Quik | Deram 121 |
Although Love Is A Beautiful Thing was the side of the Quik single featured on last week's climber list, and Alan Field also heard it played as this week's #36, Brian Long records that the vinyl was 'flipped' in favour of Bert's Apple Crumble when it entered the Fab Forty.
Whether or not this decision to give preferential airplay to the B-side was influenced by the fact that the song was published by Radio London's company, Pall Mall, is unknown. However, Pall Mall songs generally tended to inhabit B-sides and as such, were seldom played on Big L. Written by David Hadfield, Bert's Apple Crumble surfaced again on the soundtrack of Gangster No 1, a film released in 2000 and set in the Sixties era.
DJ Climbers: | ||
Rhyme Boy, Rhyme | Roulettes | Tony Blackburn |
Show Me | Joe Tex | Chuck Blair |
The First Cut Is The Deepest | P P Arnold | Pete Drummond |
Don't Go Home (My Little Darlin') | Susan Maughan | Paul Kaye |
Nick Knack | Zoot Money's Big Roll Band | Lorne King |
Say You Don't Mind | Denny Laine | John Peel |
New York Mining Disaster 1941 | Bee Gees | Mark Roman |
Sometimes | Rockin' Berries | Keith Skues |
I Can Fly | Herd | Ed Stewart |
The First Cut Is The Deepest | P P Arnold | Immediate IM047 |
With Cat Stevens at #4, here comes another of his compositions, which became the second solo single from former Ikette, PP (Pat) Arnold. Pat had arrived in the UK with the Ike and Tina Turner Review in 1966, when they toured the country with the Stones. Recognising Pat's potential as a solo artist, Andrew Loog Oldham signed her to his Immediate label. The First Cut Is The Deepest was to bring Pat a #18 in the Nationals. Pat is still living in the UK and continues to work hard in the music business. News of Pat's current musical projects can be found on her website.
Six years later, The First Cut Is The Deepest brought ex-Caroline DJ Keith Hampshire a Canadian #1 (US #70), and in 1977, Rod Stewart took it to #1 in the UK (US #21).
The Cat Stevens website has a collection of all his lyrics.
New York Mining Disaster 1941 | Bee Gees | Polydor 56161 |
Town Of Tuxley Toymaker | Billy J Kramer | Reaction 591 014 |
As new boys in town, the Manx-born, but Australian-raised Bee Gees were making a big impression. Their ship literally came in in February when they were signed by Robert Stigwood to Brian Epstein's NEMS agency, which Stigwood was managing at the time. This signing occurred practically at the moment they stepped ashore from the Fairsky, after their return sea voyage from Down Under. The Gibb brothers' early recording career had centered around the St Claire recording studio, a former butcher's shop storeroom in Hurstville, a suburb of Sydney. Studio owner Ossie Byrne came with them to England and produced their Bee Gees First album.
New York Mining Disaster was about a fictional event, but the Gibb brothers say the song's inspiration was a real disaster. On 21st October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, had died when a coal waste tip engulfed the Welsh village of Aberfan.
Barry, Robin and Maurice not only had two songs 'wot they wrote' in this week's climber list, but their vocals enhanced Town Of Tuxley Toymaker, which was released on Stigwood's Reaction label. (Unlike Craise F(r)inton Kirk, the Bee Gees did not issue their own version of the song.)
NEMS stablemate, Billy J Kramer,
had previously enjoyed huge success during the 'Merseybeat' era, with former
instrumental group the Dakotas, recording
several Lennon/McCartney songs and enjoying
six national Top Twenty hits, two of which hit #1. Born William Howard Ashton,
Billy picked his stage name 'Kramer' from the phone book. The addition of
the 'J' was suggested by John Lennon,
in honour of his mother, Julia and son, Julian. Hits were drying up by the
end of the Mersey boom and Billy J split with the Dakotas to go solo in 1966.
Unfortunately, his Bee Gees collaboration did not bring him fame
and solo success continued to elude him.
Aboard the Galaxy this weekApril 15th Jonathan King made on-air appearances on April 15th and 16th, playing new records he had acquired on a trip to America. Ashore |
Climbers: | |
It Ain't Me Babe | Davy Jones |
Time Will Tell | West Point Supernatural |
The Laughing Gnome | David Bowie |
A Girl Without A Boy | Sheila Southern |
Can't Stop Now | Marmalade |
Town Of Tuxley Toymaker | Billy J Kramer |
Maroc 7/Bombay Duck | Shadows |
You Ain't As Hip As All That, Baby | Jay & the Americans |
Don't You Care | Buckinghams |
They've All Got Their Eyes On You | Chris Andrews |
The Loser (With A Broken Heart) | Gary Lewis & the Playboys |
Lazy Fat People | Barron Knights |
# You Win Again (# see note below) | Ray Charles |
The Magic Book | Gibsons |
Disc of the Week: | |
Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got | Jimmy Ruffin |
Album of the Week: | |
More Of The Monkees | Monkees |
It Ain't Me Babe | Davy Jones | Pye 7N 17302 |
Much more Monkees! While A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You holds the top slot and More Of The Monkees is Album of the Week, Davy Jones sings Dylan.
Ballad Box: | |
No One's Gonna Hurt You Anymore | Kathy Kirby |
Almost Persuaded | Crispian St Peters |
It Must Be Him | Vikki Carr |
Our Song (La Musica È Finita) | Ornella Vanoni |
# You Win Again | Ray Charles |
Making Memories | Frankie Laine |
Soul Set: | |
Something Good (Is Going To Happen To You) | Carla Thomas |
Day Tripper | Otis Redding |
Show Me How You Milk A Cow | Real McCoy |
Soothe Me | Sam & Dave |
Sweet Soul Music | Arthur Conley |
Cry To Me | Freddie Scott |
Raise Your Hand | Eddie Floyd |
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby | Sam & Dave |
Hip Hug Her | Booker T & the MGs |
Fab Notes (by Alan Field)
Vikki Carr's It Must Be Him begins its first of two separate
runs in the Ballad Box this week. The record eventually peaked at #2 in the
national charts 16 weeks later, at the end of July, but never featured in
the Fab 40, although it was frequently played on Radio London.
Ornella Vanoni's Our Song was also issued as a solo single by
an 18-year-old Robert
Plant in his pre-Led Zeppelin days, but his version was not picked
up by Radio London.
Sam and Dave have two songs in the Soul Set. When Something Is Wrong
With My Baby is actually their follow-up to Soothe Me, both on
Stax.
Fab Notes (by Mary Payne)
A two-week stint in the Soul Set appears to have been a last-ditch attempt on the part of Fontana to promote Show Me How You Milk A Cow. When it arrived on April 2nd, eight weeks had elapsed since its release date of February 17th. A publicity flyer issued at the same time as the single mis-titles it as Show Me How to Milk A Cow, as did a half-page spread in the Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough, dated February 16th and sponsored by local companies.
The Real McCoy, formerly (John McCoy and) The Crawdaddies were Tony Ayres, Ottie McLoughlin, John McCoy, Alan Fearnley, Ken Thwaites, Ray Dales and Terry Sidgwick.
The band's bio and publicity photos are on Stan Launden's website which houses a comprehensive selection of pages looking at the pop groups from Hartlepool and Teesside from the 1960s. Stan presented 'Country Time' on BBC Radio Cleveland for 21 years.
The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here
Green additions to the climbers indicate singles sourced from 'Monty's Diary'. (See Fab Forty for 010167). Monty has noted that one climber from last week, Lazy Fat People was retained for a second week.
# For a second week running, Monty has noted You Win Again as a climber, whereas the Curzon Street list placed it in the Ballad Box. As we're unable to draw a firm conclusion about its status, we are including it in both the climber list and BB.
Mauve additions to the climbers were kindly contributed by Hans Evers
Alan Field did not hear the records listed in green or mauve played or announced as climbers.
Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty