for Sunday 18th June 1967

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Presented by Tony Blackburn
Week
Week
2
1
Carrie Anne Hollies
3
2
Paper Sun Traffic
8
3
She'd Rather Be With Me Turtles
7
4
Strange Brew Cream
9
5
I'll Come Runnin' Cliff Richard
11
6
Respect Aretha Franklin
20
7
Seven Rooms Of Gloom Four Tops
10
8
What Good Am I Cilla Black
9
Alternate Title Monkees
19
10
She's Leaving Home David & Jonathan
39
11
See Emily Play Pink Floyd
26
12
Ain't No Mountain High Enough Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
14
13
With A Little Help From My Friends Young Idea/Joe Brown(#)
5
14
Night Of The Long Grass Troggs
4
15
Give Me Time Dusty Springfield
16
Tremblin' Swinging Blue Jeans
25
17
You Only Live Twice/Jackson Nancy Sinatra (##)
30
18
Morning Dew Episode Six
6
19
When You're Young And In Love Marvelettes
20
C'mon Marianne Four Seasons
21
21
Don't Sleep In The Subway Petula Clark
32
22
Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be? Paul Revere & the Raiders
23
Mr Abercrombie Taught Me Lady Murray
24
You Can't Come Home Again P J Proby
25
Too Much Of A Good Thing Shirelles
38
26
Windy Association
29
27
My Love Sonata Toys
40
28
So Much For Mary Jon
18
29
The Man I Love Chantelles
30
Every Single Day Two Of Each
37
31
The Candy Shop Is Closed George Bean
32
Your Love Is Everywhere Jackie Trent
33
Claire Paul & Barry Ryan
34
Matters Sons & Lovers
35
Here We Go Again Ray Charles
31
36
Can't Seem To Make You Mine Seeds
27
37
No Good To Cry Jimmy James & the Vagabonds
38
Riding With The Milkman Winston G
39
Daily Situation Simon Raverne
40
Daylight Saving Time Keith

(#) #13 – Alan lists the Young Idea alone this week, indicating that Radio London had stopped playing the Joe Brown version of With a Little Help..., however Brian Long continues to list both versions in this, the song's final week in the Fab 40.
(##) #17 – Brian Long starts to credit the b-side Jackson alongside You Only Live Twice from this week.

Jon – not a solo singer but 'four fun-loving guys', according to these two music paper adverts – was signed to the agency run by Radio London MD, Philip Birch.
"Lead singer is supported by ethereal chanting, handclaps, harpsichord and strings in this unusual rhythmic ballad," says a press review of So Much for Mary,
which holds this week's #28 slot.

DJ Climbers:    
Annabella John Walker Tony Blackburn
Down Thru' Summer Ross Hannaman Chuck Blair
Created By Clive Syn / Attack Tony Brandon
Hey There Little Miss Mary Whistling Jack Smith Ian Damon
Moanin' Chris Farlowe Pete Drummond
Sugar, Let's Shing-A-Ling Shirley Ellis Paul Kaye
Butterfly Unit 4 + 2 Mike Lennox
Shadows And Reflections Action John Peel
The Bramble Bush Trini Lopez Mark Roman
Take My Hand Montanas Keith Skues
Let's Pretend Lulu Ed Stewart
Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) Janis Ian Willy Walker


1966 publicity shot of The Action, whose Shadows and Reflections is this week's John Peel climber.
The Action were often credited as better live performers than the Who

Aboard the Galaxy this week:
June 18th
Hey There Little Miss Mary was the first climber allocated to Australian Ian 'Wombat' Damon, who also presented his first Big L show today. Ian had been introduced to listeners and interviewed on air by Tony Blackburn when he joined the station only two days earlier.

Ashore

June 12th
Promotions commence for the Disque Blu Discotheque, Ryde, Isle of Wight as a Big L disco. The Birch Agency and Fab 40 band Jon (see item above) have a week's residency there.

Mark Roman departed for Estartit on a 'Holidays With Deejays' package.

June 18th
The Radio London L.M.C. Car Races took place at Brands Hatch, with Mark Roman, Mike Lennox, Ed Stewart and Brenda Cogdell representing the station. The Roman Emperor presented the Radio London Trophy to the winner and dancing was allowed on the track - after the racing, that is! A full feature on the two major Big L 'music and race' meetings in 1966 and 1967 is here.

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:  
(No unallocated climbers noted this week)  
Disc of the Week:  
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) Scott McKenzie
Album of the Week:  
Happy Together Turtles


There is currently no Soul Set or Ballad Box information available for this week

Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty

This week's Radio 270 'Top Forty' on the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is here
This week's Radio Scotland Top 50 on the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is here


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