for Sunday 20th November 1966

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.

Alan Field reminds us:

This is the week that Dave Dennis's (Neil Spence's) record first appears. Apparently it was inspired by an 8-year-old girl's letter to the New York Sun in 1897, asking if Santa Claus really exists, and the gushing editorial that was published by the newspaper in reply. (The piece was subsequently reprinted every Christmas for the next 50 years!) Everyone says the song was written by Tony Windsor (under his real name Tony Withers). In fact he co-wrote it - the author credit on the record is Segal/Withers. You'll be amused to see that TW picked it as his own climber!!

On the Offshore Echoes The Deejays Sing section, the source of the story is listed as The Reader's Digest. The magazine probably retold the tale of the feature's annual appearance in the New York Sun.

The single remained in the December Fabs after Dave Dennis departed from Radio London on December 6th, to get married.

Climbers:
Louie Louie	Sandpipers
Call Her Your Sweetheart	Frank Ifield
No One Needs My Love Today	Samantha Juste
Don't Fight It	Transatlantics
Hello Stranger	Maze
Don't Ever Go	Valerie Masters
It's Not Easy	Normie Rowe
You Keep Me Hangin' On	Supremes
Knight In Rusty Armour	Peter & Gordon/Magic Lanterns
East West	Herman's Hermits
Never Knew Lovin' Could Be So Doggone Good	Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers
Rumors, Gossip, Words Untrue	Swinging Blue Jeans
Disc of the Week:
Save Me	Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich
Album of the Week:
The Art Of Chris Farlowe	Chris Farlowe

The Art of Chris Farlowe is available as a CD.

No One Needs My Love Today is on a 22-track RPM compilation, Dream Babes Vol.3 - Backcomb 'n' Beat (RPM233) alongside releases by Fab 40 acts the Chantelles, McKinleys, Julie Driscoll and Mary 'Perpetual' Langley. Full track listing is here

One reviewer describes the CD as, "like hearing a radio broadcast from a long lost world" (rather like Oldies Project, really). The RPM website states that, "Many of these tracks are highly collectable and 75% of the compilation has never been reissued. Plus bonus: Radio London ad spots by Perpetual Langley."

Unfortunately, in the clip the company has used as an example, Perpetual is giving her thanks to Dave Lee Travis and Radio Caroline, so exactly what 'Radio London ad spots' appear on the CD, is unclear.

The red 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. Alan Field did not hear them played or announced as climbers. Alan notes that the Cliff Bennett track is the B side of last week's Ed Stewart climber, while the Swinging Blue Jeans track is a UK cover of last week's Pete Drummond climber by the Knickerbockers.

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 (partially complete) is here

Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty