10 5 Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix Experience Polydor 56139 Radio London had its own 'Big L Theatre' at the Racing Car Show, Olympia. On January 12th, Tony Blackburn and Keith Skues co-hosted a show where Jimi Hendrix mimed to Hey Joe. We can only wonder what Jimi must have made of all the strange promotional appearances he was obliged to make, although motor racing surely proved more fascinating for him than his earlier appearance on the Boxing Day afternoon 'show for all the family' at the Upper Cut Club!

Unluckily for Jay and the Americans, despite being penned by the prolific songwriting partnership of Doc Pomus and Mort Schuman, (He's) Raining In My Sunshine, their thirteenth of eighteen US Hot Hundred entries, was to be their lowest ever (#90, Nov '66). Although their singles were frequently played on the watery wireless, the group never entered the UK Nationals. In the early '70s when Jay and the Americans were playing oldies shows, two of the band members at the time just happened to be Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who have since become somewhat better known as Steely Dan.

Besides climbers that were played at the time of the broadcast of the Sunday Fab Forty, Alan kept a note of others he heard later in the week and incorporated them into his list.

Climbers:
The Beat Goes On	Sonny & Cher
You Only You	Rita Pavone
Skip To Ma Loo	Vince Edwards
Backstreet Girl	Nicky Scott
That Can't Be Bad	Geneveve
Look At Granny Run Run	Howard Tate
All Kinds Of People	Fingers
The Trouble	Silvers
How Do You Catch A Girl?	Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Walk Tall	2 Of Clubs
Strange Light From The East / That'll Be The Day (*)	Tuesday's Children
Let It Be Me	Mick Tinsley
It Hurts To Say Goodbye	Vera Lynn
I Need Somebody	? (Question Mark) & the Mysterians
Ev'ry Street's A Boulevard (In Old New York)	Frankie Laine
Disc of the Week:
I'm A Man	Spencer Davis Group
Album of the Week:
Between The Buttons	Rolling Stones

Ashore this week Sunday 15th The Uppercut Club hosted the first Big L Discoveries of Tomorrow talent contest in association with the Philip Birch Agency. The second contest was January 22nd.

 

The blue additions to the climbers indicate singles listed in Brian Long's book 'The London Sound' based on information typed in the Curzon Street offices or other sources.
(*) Brian has noted only the 'A' Side of the Tuesday's Children single; Wolfgang Buchholz, however, notes hearing the B side played as a climber.

The green additions to the climbers indicate singles sourced from 'Monty's Diary'. (See Fab Forty for 010167).
Alan Field did not hear the records listed in blue or green played or announced as climbers.

The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here
This week's Radio City 'City Sixty' on the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is here
This week's Radio 270 Top 40 on the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is here

Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty