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Sunday 26th June 1966
Goin' Back is picked as Radio London Club Disc of the Week |
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River Deep Mountain High | Ike & Tina Turner |
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Nobody Needs Your Love | Gene Pitney |
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Hideaway | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
10
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Sittin' On A Fence | Twice As Much |
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I Need You (EP) | Walker Brothers |
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Sunny Afternoon | Kinks |
11
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Along Comes Mary | Association |
38
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8
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Bus Stop | Hollies |
4
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9
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Paperback Writer | Beatles |
27
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Get Away | Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames |
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Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me) | Four Seasons |
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Merci Cherie | Vince Hill |
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The Music Goes Round | Jeeps |
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Over Under Sideways Down | Yardbirds |
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I Am A Rock | Simon & Garfunkel |
12
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Lady Jane | David Garrick |
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Don't Bring Me Down | Animals |
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It's A Man's Man's Man's World | James Brown & the Famous Flames |
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Don't Answer Me | Cilla Black |
9
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20
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Sweet Talkin' Guy | Chiffons |
26
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Just Like Him | David Wilcox |
36
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You Gave Me Somebody To Love | Fortunes/Manfred Mann |
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Out Of Time | Chris Farlowe |
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Indication | Zombies |
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I Couldn't Live Without Your Love | Petula Clark |
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Excuse Me Baby | Magic Lanterns |
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Glendora | Downliners Sect |
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Have I Stayed Too Long | Sonny & Cher |
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I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore | New York Public Library |
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This Door Swings Both Ways | Herman's Hermits |
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Crazy Stockings | Marva Josie |
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Lovers Of The World Unite | David & Jonathan |
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Friday Night | Red Hawkes |
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Can I Trust You | Bachelors |
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To Show I Love You | Peter & Gordon |
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Younger Girl | Critters |
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When You're In Love With A Girl | Tony Barry |
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Black Is Black | Los Bravos |
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Shades Of Blue | Pirates |
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The More I See You | Chris Montez |
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Aggravation | Chris Curtis |
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Making Time | Creation |
1966 advertisement for Making Time from The London
Sound, courtesy of Brian Long |
Twice As Much – David Skinner (David Ferguson Skinner) (#314) and Andrew Rose Andrew Hugh Rose (#313) joined the Knees Club on July 9th 1966, at the Marquee Club. (Signatures and birth dates, below, left, as they appear in the Knees Club book). They were schoolfriends who were playing the London folk club circuit when Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham signed them to his Immediate label and they received the gift of a Jagger/Richards composition for their debut single. Sittin' On A Fence also made #25
in the Nationals, and the duo secured a prestigious Ready, Steady Go! slot on June 10th. They made promotional visits to
the Galaxy both in July and September. Subsequent Immediate singles Step Out of Line and True Story (both co-written by Skinner and Rose) and Crystal Ball all made the Fab Forty, but failed to impact the sales-based charts. They also released albums Own Up and That's All, but split in 1969. |
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I Need You (EP) | Walker Brothers | Philips BE 12596 |
Alan Field says:
My brother and I used to have the Walker Brothers EP. Apart from I Need You, I think there was also Looking For Me, Young Man Cried and Everything's Gonna Be Alright. Unfortunately, it was my brother who kept the record when we left home, and he got rid of it years ago.
Webmaster's note:
Moral of story: never trust siblings with your record
collection! (Click on small picture to read the sleevenotes)
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Just Like Him | David Wilcox |
DJ Climbers: | ||
Follow Me | Mark Leeman Five | Tony Blackburn |
Cloud Nine | Winston G | Chris Denning |
Oops | Neil Christian | Dave Dennis |
Turning Round | Wishful Thinking | John Edward |
A House In The Country | Pretty Things | Kenny Everett |
My Lover's Prayer | Otis Redding | Paul Kaye |
I Never Loved Her Anyway/You Got Too Much Going For You | Jimmy Beaumont | Mike Lennox |
Don't Come Running To Me | Madeline Bell | Keith Skues |
He | Righteous Brothers | Ed Stewart |
Love Letters | Elvis Presley | Tony Windsor |
Pastel Shades of Love | Lesley Dawson | Willy Walker |
Just Outside The Door | Frugal Sound | Duncan Johnson |
Send The People Away | Loose Ends | Mark Roman |
Willy Walker's climber is marked in green as it is an addition to Field's Fab Forty, because Alan's charts are based on what he heard played at the time. However, Harm Koenders of the Restoring Department of offshoreradio.org (the Offshore Radio Download Club) discovered a recording from June 27th, of Willy anouncing Pastel Shades of Love as his climber. This is the correct title, but in The London Sound, Brian Long has the single listed as 'Pastel Shades of Blue'. It is quite easy to speculatethat the title may have been mis-typed at the Curzon Street offices and that with 42 singles in the Fab '40' plus 21 climbers, Willy's hit pick may simply have been omitted - either accidentally, or because of time constraints. The song was penned by David Cummings and Peter Lee Stirling - the songwriters of the famous Kenny and Cash Knees single! David had by then added an 's' to his surname.
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Cloud Nine | Winston G | Decca F12444, released 8/7/66 |
Winston G's third release, which failed to reach the Fab Forty, was a Les Reed and Barry Mason composition enhanced by funky horns. The 1967 follow-up was called, intriguingly, Mother Ferguson's Love Dust. Winston also recorded as Winston G and the Wicked.
Turning Round | Wishful Thinking | Decca F12438 |
Turning Round which can command a price of £30+) was recorded by the band's original line-up
of Roy Daniels (vcls), Terry
New (lead gtr), Roger Charles
(bass) and Brian Allen (drms). Wishful
Thinking had two further excursions on the Big L playlists for
October 9th '66, and April 16th, 1967, (the second band line-up) but they
made no musical impression till 1969, when their forth line-up achieved an
overseas hit, Hiroshima. Taken from their album of the same name, the
single was a huge hit in Germany. Full Wishful Thinking
profile is on the Fab for April 16th, 1967.
Aboard the Galaxy
June
29th Mitch the Haitian Steward was one of the original crew who had sailed with the Galaxy from Miami. Concerned that he must be feeling homesick, TW had introduced Mitch to the Big L audience as a Coffee Break guest and encouraged listeners to write to him to help him to learn English. Mitch proved so popular that he went on to make regular Coffee Break appearances and was to become as much a star as the DJs. The letter to me (Mary) arrived from him a few days later. Mitch was to remain on board till the end of Big L, making lifelong friends with DJs and members of the crew. After the demise of Radio London, he would adopt England as his new home, obtaining British citizenship with the assistance of Tommy Vance and Duncan Johnson, who remained lifelong friends. (Right) Mich at Duncan Johnson's 70th birthday party, 2008 I always included 'Kneeland' at the bottom of my address when I wrote to people on Knees Club business and many perpetuated the joke by including it in the address when they replied. With his limited knowledge of English, Mitch might well have thought at the time that 'Kneeland' was a genuine place! I suspect any letter so addressed these days would be returned by the snail as 'unkneeliverable.' Mitch's letter begins: "Thank you so much for being so nice to write to me. It is always nice to hear from people who listening to Radio London and to find out more about their lives. I receive your member Knees Club card and could you send me a photograph of you please, if you don't mind." Mitch and I met for the first time many years later. I can't recall if I sent a photo and neither can he! |
Ashore:
June 30th I noted in my diary that I sunbathed in the garden, using TW's special recipe
for suntan lotion – a vinegar and olive oil mixture. It might have been popular
Down Under, but I doubt it, as it not only made me smell like a bag of chips, it attracted
flies!
Climbers: | |
A Little Lovin' Somethin' | Shapes & Sizes |
It's All Over But the Crying | Jimmy Witherspoon |
Something's Going On In There Behind My Back | Dick Jordan |
Nothing In The World | Geneveve |
The Sweet And Tender Hold Of Your Love | Peter Lee Stirling |
It's That Time Of The Year | Len Barry |
One By One | Mockingbirds |
Let's Go Get Stoned | Ray Charles |
Midnight Mary | Rockin' Berries |
Disc of the Week: | |
Goin' Back | Dusty Springfield |
Album of the Week: | |
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
One By One | Mockingbirds | Decca F12438 |
Graham Gouldman formed the Mockingbirds
in February 1965 with fellow members of The Whirlwinds,
Steve Jacobson and Bernard Basso.
Drummer Kevin Godley joined the line-up
from The Sabres. They were managed by Kennedy Street Artistes (aka Kennedy Street Enterprises) who also represented Herman's Hermits (new in this week at #30), Freddy and the Dreamers and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.
Ironically, the songs Gouldman penned for the Mockingbirds (they released five singles between 1965 and 66 on three different labels) failed
to meet with any success. However, even while his own band was spending just two weeks on the Big L climber list with this Decca release, this week's #8, Bus Stop, is a Gouldman composition. His songs brought fame to many other bands, including
the Yardbirds, Herman's Hermits and Hollies.
The Mockingbirds' entry on Manchesterbeat includes a music paper advert for their first release That's How (It's Gonna Stay), describing their music as 'The Bottle Sound' and depicts three of the four band members 'inside' a bottle. The advert gives no explanation, but site visitor Bill Tobelman informs us that the sound of a bottle being struck with a drumstick can be heard on the record.
Graham Gouldman official website.
Disc of the Week: | |
Goin' Back | Dusty Springfield |
Roger Waters writes: "I was a Radio London Club disc winner of the week I won Dusty Springfield's Goin' Back. I still have the single, my membership card and the badge but best of all the memories!" Big Rog.
How lovely to hear from a Big L winner – and to know that Rog still has his prize! There were an awful lot of winners during Lil's lifetime, and we would love to hear from more of you.
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.
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 Field's Fab Forty!