for Sunday 16th October 1966
Forty-four singles in this week's Fab 'Forty'!

Not many buildings have the distinction of reaching #1 on the charts! Very few UK singles were released in picture sleeves. This one was issued in Spain.

Left Banke was from New York, although drummer George (Justo Fabio) Cameron was born in London. The band's classically-trained keyboard player Mike Brown (Lookofsky) (d March 2015) co-wrote the song, a #5 in the US Hot Hundred, with Tony Sansone and Bob Calilli. The lead singer was Steve Martin, lead guitarist was Rick (Richard David) Brand and Tom (Thomas James) Finn played bass.

A dedicated fan site contains a wealth of information about Left Banke, personal reminiscences from people who knew them and links to the numerous references to the band which have been discovered on the Internet.

Walk Away Renee returned to the Fab Forty in March '67. Recorded by the Truth, this version climbed higher than the original, reaching #13. However, the song did not appear in the Nationals till December '67, when the Four Tops took it to #3.

Read the story behind the song inspired by a girl called Renee Fladen www.tsimon.com/renee.htm

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:
Rain On The Roof	Lovin' Spoonful
Emergency 999	Alan Bown Set
Stormy Weather	Cloda Rogers*
Just Walk In My Shoes	Billie Davis
Can't Get You Out Of My Mind	Pat Hervey with the Tiaras & Art Snider
What Would I Be	Val Doonican
Boulevard De La Madeleine	Moody Blues
Poor Side Of Town	Johnny Rivers
This Thing Called Love	Johnny Wyatt
Disc of the Week:
A Satisfied Mind	Bobby Hebb
Album of the Week: (courtesy of Brian Long)
As Is	Manfred Mann

•Prior to 1968, the Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers was billed on singles released on Decca and Columbia as Cloda Rogers.

Album of the Week

Poor Side Of Town

Johnny Rivers

Liberty LIB 66205

Last week's Tony Blackburn hit-pick, amazingly, remains firmly lodged in the climber list and subsequently failed to chart. Tell any American music enthusiast that Johnny Rivers never had a national chart entry in the UK and (having tried this on several American DJs and musicians) I guarantee they will be amazed. Between 1966 and 1977, Johnny reached the US Hot Hundred no less than 29 times, and Poor Side of Town topped the US chart in November 66.

Johnny was also instrumental in assisting the careers of many other artists. Alan Hardy tells us that Johnny gave Jimmy Webb his first break and it was Johnny who was the first to record a Jimmy Webb song – By The Time I Get To Phoenix.

Johnny's official website

Cliff Bennett, whose LP 'Drivin You Wild' was a recent Album of the Week, gets a 30-minute Saturday afternoon slot to himself, sponsored by Elida hair products and presumably recorded at the Marquee as part of the Radio London Club afternoon.

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 England 'Fun Fifty' 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
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame also has a Record Retailer comparison listing
for the charts broadcast on London, Caroline, City, England, 270 and Scotland, dated October 20th.

Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty!