Having climbed to #4 in the Radio London Fab Forty in November '65, with their first single, 'Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches', the Ryan brothers were aiming to repeat their Fab Forty success with 'Have Pity on the Boy', but this time they stalled at #12. On Caroline, 'Heartaches' had reached #10, but although the Dutch photosleeve, left, is faintly rubber-stamped with the famous bell and the words 'Radio Caroline. Not for Sale', we do not know how it fared in the station's charts. They are incomplete for the period shortly after the Mi Amigo ran aground. The twins' mother was no stranger to the charts herself. The well-respected Fifties' vocalist, Marion Ryan, had enjoyed a Top Ten national hit of her own in 1958, with 'Love Me Forever'. |
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Like A Baby | Len Barry |
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A Groovy Kind Of Love | Mindbenders |
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Don't Make Me Over | Swinging Blue Jeans |
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These Boots Are Made For Walkin' | Nancy Sinatra |
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Love's Just A Broken Heart | Cilla Black |
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You Didn't Have To Be So Nice | Lovin' Spoonful |
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Michelle | David & Jonathan / Overlanders |
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Second Hand Rose | Barbra Streisand |
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I Can't Express It | David Ballantyne |
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Midnight To Six Man | Pretty Things |
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Call Me | Lulu |
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Have Pity On The Boy | Paul & Barry Ryan |
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Tomorrow | Sandie Shaw |
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Sha La La La Lee | Small Faces |
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Girl | St Louis Union / Truth |
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This Golden Ring | Fortunes |
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Uptight (Everything's Alright) | Stevie Wonder |
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Mirror Mirror | Pinkerton's Assorted Colours |
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Little By Little | Dusty Springfield |
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My Girl | Otis Redding |
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When You Move You Lose | Keith Powell & Billie Davis |
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19th Nervous Breakdown | Rolling Stones |
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A Little Bit Of Soap | Craig / Exciters |
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Remember You | Zombies |
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A Must To Avoid | Herman's Hermits |
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Can't Help Thinking About Me | David Bowie & the Lower Third |
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Attack | Toys |
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Cry Cry Cry | Riot Squad |
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My Love | Petula Clark |
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The Same Old Room | Bobby Shafto |
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Flowers On The Wall | Statler Brothers |
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Barbara Ann | Beach Boys |
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This Man's Got No Luck | Gary Benson |
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You've Come Back | P J Proby |
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Baby Don't You Do It | Poets |
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Me And You | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
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Land Of 1000 Dances | Cherokees |
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Teenage Failure | Chad & Jeremy |
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Keep On Running | Spencer Davis Group |
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Something Beautiful | Adrienne Poster |
The much-recorded Burt Bacharach and Hal David song first appeared on the Big L playlist as Duncan Johnson's climber on 25th April 1965, by Bournemouth brothers the Dowlands. Their version failed to chart, but this week in February 1966, Liverpool's Swinging Blue Jeans (right) took Don't Make Me Over to #3. The band had recorded it in mid-1965 but their producer decided not to release it as a single - possibly because of the Dowland's failure. In France Don't Make Me Over was covered by 4 brothers and 2 sisters called Les Surfs, (left) under the title T'en vas pas comme ça. |
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Land Of 1000 Dances | Cherokees | Columbia DB 7822 |
This is the first of a four-week Fab Forty residence for the Cherokees. They had made an earlier appearance in the Caroline Countdown of Oct 3rd 1964, with 'Seven Golden Daffodils' but the simultaneous release of a version by the Mojos meant that a brief battle ensued at the lower end of the listings that nobody won. In June 1966, the band would reappear in the Radio London chart, renamed New York Public Library. See notes for 19/06/66.
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Good Hard Rock | Ian Whitcomb | Dave Cash |
There Isn't Anything | Gidian | Dave Dennis |
Let's Get Together | We Five | John Edward |
You Can't Love 'Em All | Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers | Duncan Johnson |
Spanish Eyes | Al Martino | Paul Kaye |
Broomstick Cowboy | Bobby Goldsboro | Mike Lennox |
What Now My Love | Sonny & Cher | Earl Richmond |
Lightnin' Strikes | Lou Christie | Mark Roman |
Under Your Spell Again | Johnny Rivers | Ed Stewart |
Jenny Take A Ride | Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels | Tony Windsor |
Fab Alan Field points out: "Unusually, this was Sonny and Cher's second week as a DJ climber. The single was John Edward's pick two weeks ago."
Disc of the week: | |
La La La | Gerry & the Pacemakers |
Album of the Week: | |
Michelle | Overlanders |
The Overlanders' Album of the Week 'Michelle', contains virtually every one of their Pye singles released to date. The cover photo depicts a quintet, but the album blurb explains, "The group is basically a trio consisting of Lawrie Mason, vocals, percussion, harmonica, etc. Peter Bartholomew, vocals and rhythm guitar and Paul Arnold, vocals and lead guitar, but it is augmented with Terry Widlake, bass guitar and David Walsh, drums, for personal appearances." |
Gidian a Scottish ex-fridge salesman, whose real name was James Frew Pollock was discovered by singer and comedian, Ken Dodd. Despite being heralded as 'Doddy's Discovery of 1966', (right) and despite There Isn't Anything (written by Larry Williams) being voted
a 'hit' on TV's Juke Box Jury, Gidian failed to find success. His single was picked as Dave Dennis's climber but did not make the Fab Forty. His follow-up in Gidian finally made the lower reaches of the Fab Forty in October 66, with his third single, Feeling, (recorded with Irish Showband Chris Lambe and the Universals) for which he had written both the A- and the Pall Mall B-side, Don't Be Sentimental. Sadly for Gidian, it was not a case of 'third time lucky' in the Big L chart and Feeling stalled at #31. Both There Isn't Anything and Feeling are regarded as Northern Soul collectables. |
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The PURPLE additions to the climbers indicate information kindly provided by Roy Taylor.
The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here
Tune in next week for
another Big L Fab 40!