Fab 40 number 26 meets Fab 40 number
15!
Tom Jones has this week's highest Big L chart entry at #26, with 'Stop Breaking My Heart', while Elvis is up ten places to #15, with 'Blue River', a track he had recorded in 1963. In the Nationals, Elvis fared less well than in the Big L chart, stalling at #22, while the unfortunate Tom's single failed to chart at all. |
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Sha La La La Lee | Small Faces |
4
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2
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Uptight (Everything's Alright) | Stevie Wonder |
8
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3
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Barbara Ann | Beach Boys |
10
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4
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This Golden Ring | Fortunes |
15
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5
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Jenny Take A Ride | Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels |
16
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6
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Lightnin' Strikes | Lou Christie |
18
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7
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Hold Tight | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
24
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8
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Backstage | Gene Pitney |
31
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9
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Me And You | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
1
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10
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19th Nervous Breakdown | Rolling Stones |
20
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11
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You've Come Back | P J Proby |
12
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12
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Land Of 1000 Dances | Cherokees |
22
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13
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Make The World Go Away | Eddy Arnold |
21
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14
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Under Your Spell Again | Johnny Rivers |
25
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15
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Blue River | Elvis Presley |
28
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16
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You Don't Love Me | Gary Walker |
19
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17
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What Now My Love | Sonny & Cher |
33
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18
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Woman | Peter & Gordon |
7
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19
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Tomorrow | Sandie Shaw |
6
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20
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Inside Looking Out | Animals |
26
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21
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I Can't Let Go | Hollies |
30
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22
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Shapes Of Things | Yardbirds |
5
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23
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A Groovy Kind Of Love | Mindbenders |
2
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24
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My Love | Petula Clark |
9
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25
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Little By Little | Dusty Springfield |
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26
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Stop Breaking My Heart | Tom Jones |
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27
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Hide And Seek | Sheep |
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28
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The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore | Walker Brothers |
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29
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Elusive Butterfly | Bob Lind |
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30
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Nowhere Man | Three Good Reasons / Settlers |
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31
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Running Round In Circles | Ivy League |
32
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32
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Never Let It Be Said | Valerie Mitchell |
39
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33
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Who Is Sylvia? | Honeycombs |
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34
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Red Hot | Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs |
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35
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Something I've Got To Tell You | Glenda Collins |
11
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36
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These Boots Are Made For Walkin' | Nancy Sinatra |
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37
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There'll Be Another Spring | Frank Ifield |
40
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38
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Why Don't I Run Away From You? | Kiki Dee |
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I Met A Girl | Shadows |
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40
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Dedicated Follower Of Fashion | Kinks |
Two appearances in this week's chart for Gary Walker, as a solo artist with You Don't Love Me up to #16 and a new entry with Scott and John with The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore occupying Gary's previous week's slot of #28. Left: Gary aboard the LV18 during the 2009 Pirate BBC Essex broadcast. |
DJ Climbers: | ||
I Got You (I Feel Good) | James Brown & the Famous Flames | Dave Dennis |
Invitation | A Band Of Angels | Duncan Johnson |
Working My Way Back To You | Four Seasons | Paul Kaye |
Ready Steady | Clockwork Oranges | Mike Lennox* |
So Much In Love | Herd | Mark Roman |
Baby Never Say Goodbye | Unit 4 + 2 | Ed Stewart |
Pop-Art Goes Mozart | Tornados | Tony Windsor |
Climbers: | |
Husbands And Wives | Roger Miller |
Love Me With All Your Heart | Bachelors |
Homeward Bound | Simon & Garfunkel / Quiet Five |
Like A Man | New Faces |
I See The Light | Five Americans |
Fly Me To The Moon | Sam & Bill |
In My Room | Julie Rogers / Verdelle Smith |
(Never More) Lonely For You | Ikettes |
Super Girl | Graham Bonney |
Disc of the Week: | |
Try Too Hard | Dave Clark Five |
Album of the Week: | |
Take A Ride... | Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels |
Ready Steady | Clockwork Oranges | Ember EMB S227 |
The mystery band from Erith in Kent is a mystery no more.
The Clockwork Oranges story
has its own page. *As mentioned on there, Svenn Martinsen in Norway (who had concluded from the outset that the band was British) noted Ready Steady as being Mike Lennox's climber. The record appears as a climber in Brian Long's 'London Sound' list for this week, but with no information as to which dj it was assigned to.
On Tuesday, March 1st, the Mindbenders, Bob
Lang (#105), Ric Rothwell
(106) and Eric Stewart (107) joined
the Knees Club at Wycombe Town Hall. Having parted company with Wayne
Fontana (who would be signing his knees up later in the year),
the Mancunian trio had enjoyed a #2 smash both in the Fab Forty and
the Nationals with A Groovy Kind Of Love. (Left) mind-bending: the band pictured in With the Beatles mode 1966 diary notes list the support band as The Crowd, presumably playing this time minus Peter Fenton. |
PURPLE indicates information supplied by Roy Taylor in 2020
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
Tune in next week for
another Big L Fab 40!