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Shotgun Wedding | Roy C |
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Pretty Flamingo | Manfred Mann |
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(You're My) Soul And Inspiration | Righteous Brothers |
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Love Around The World | David Ballantyne |
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Cheat And Lie | Miki Dallon |
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I Hear Trumpets Blow | Episode Six |
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Come On Home | Wayne Fontana |
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Daydream | Lovin' Spoonful |
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Sorrow | Merseys |
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Lies A Million | Roving Kind |
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You've Got To Learn | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
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Wild Thing | Troggs |
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Walkin' My Cat Named Dog | Norma Tanega |
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Come See Me | Pretty Things |
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I Love Her | Paul & Barry Ryan |
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Can't Live With You, Can't Live Without You | Mindbenders |
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How Does That Grab You Darlin' | Nancy Sinatra |
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Nothing's Too Good For My Baby | Stevie Wonder |
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Hey Girl | Small Faces |
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Frankie And Johnny | Elvis Presley |
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When A Man Loves A Woman | Percy Sledge |
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Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) | Cher |
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Monday Monday | Mamas & Papas |
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I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree | Just Us |
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Strangers In The Night | Frank Sinatra |
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I Do | Goldie |
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I Take What I Want | Artwoods |
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I Go To Sleep | Truth |
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Mother's Little Helper | Gene Latter |
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Promises | Ken Dodd |
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Under My Thumb | Wayne Gibson |
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Take It Or Leave It | Searchers |
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You Don't Have To Say You Love Me | Dusty Springfield |
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Sad Songs | Ed E Lynch |
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While I Live | Kenny Damon |
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I'm Gonna Put Some Hurt On You | Philip Goodhand-Tait & the Stormsville Shakers |
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Water | Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band |
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You Can Go | Valerie Mitchell |
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Message To Michael | Dionne Warwick |
Cardboard Shoes, Keith Skues, began his
sojourn on the Galaxy on May 3rd, after leaving Caroline South. While
participating in 1997's Summer of Love broadcast from the Yeoman Rose, Keith recalled that the
first record he played on Big L was Shotgun Wedding. Keith's first climber was I've Got So Used To Loving You by Marty Wilde.
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7 5Love Around The World David Ballantyne (Columbia DB 7896) Record Mirror review: "Very good song, might well hit the charts"
On Friday, March 18th, at the Target Club, High Wycombe, aka the Co-op Memorial Hall, Big L's Earl Richmond, Knees Club member #13, made a personal appearance. He introduced a couple of newcomer David Bs: Bowie and Ballantyne.
Nobody at the Target gig was interested in obtaining either of the Davids' autographs, except for the Knees Club Founder and her Club Official, Lynn. Bowie was duly signed-up as member #127 and Ballantyne, #129. Next to Ballantyne's name in my diary, I wrote: "Corr!" His looks obviously impressed me more than Bowie's, who was not awarded any compkneementarknee exclamations!
David Ballantyne's first single, I Can't Express It, had spent four weeks in the Fab earlier in '66, out-performing Bowie's Can't Help Thinking About Me, which charted around the same time January/February. I Can't Express It was also a Caroline Sure Shot, and David promoted it with a personal appearance on kids' TV show 5 o'clock Club - presumably meeting hosts Muriel Young and superstar owl Ollie Beak!David persued an acting career, which included several episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. David's IMDB entry
The story of David Ballantyne, his Discatron promotion in Trend magazine, and correspondence with David, who now lives in America, is so long that it has been allocated its own page.
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I Take What I Want | Artwoods | Decca F12384, released 29/4/66 |
The Artwoods feature, along with Knees
Club Luminaries, Episode Six and M15
in Pete Frame's Rock Family Tree
as a 'branch' (or maybe a twig?) of Deep Purple.
The group contained Art Wood, ex-Blues
Incorporated and brother of Ron,
Jon Lord and Keef
Hartley. For this reason, mint copies of the single fetch £50. The
single's 'B' side is a 'longest title' contender: I'm Looking for A Saxophonist
Doubling French Horn Wearing Size 37 Boots, which was written by someone
called Gump. Forrest, presumably....
The band started life as the Art Wood Combo:
Reg Dunnage (drm);
Derek Griffith (gtr); Jon Lord
(kbd); Malcolm Pool (bss);
Art Wood (vcl). When drummer Keef Hartley replaced Dunnage, they
became the Artwoods.
Brothers Ron and Art Wood briefly combined
their bands' names as the Artbirds (see
Fab Forty 241065).
Sadly Art died in November 2006 and Jon Lord in July 2012. Terence Towles Canote in his tribute to Jon Lord wrote:
"The Artwoods would be among the most respected English R & B bands to emerge in the Sixties, producing music to rival The Yardbirds, The Spencer Davis Group, and The (British) Birds Unfortunately, they would see little in the way of commercial success."
DJ Climbers: | ||
Hey Girl | Brian Poole & the Tremeloes | Chris Denning |
He Cried | Shangri-Las | Dave Dennis |
Gotta Find Another Baby | Force West | John Edward |
Look At My Baby | Sensations | Graham Gill |
Truly Julie's Blues/Remember The Rain | Bob Lind | Duncan Johnson |
Once There Was A Time/Not Responsible | Tom Jones | Paul Kaye |
Nothing Comes Easy | Sandie Shaw | Mike Lennox |
Twinkie-Lee | Gary Walker | Mark Roman |
I've Got So Used To Loving You | Marty Wilde | Keith Skues |
For A Moment | Unit 4 + 2 | Ed Stewart |
Paint It Black | Rolling Stones | Tony Windsor |
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Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35 | Bob Dylan |
Love's Made A Fool Of You | Bobby Fuller Four |
Why Can't You Try To Didgeridoo | Anthony Newley |
Theresa | Paddy Klaus & Gibson |
Wander Boy | Bruno |
Whatcha Gonna Do Now | Chris Andrews |
You'll Never Put Shackles On Me | Tony Hazzard |
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Look Before You Leap | Dave Clark Five |
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Kinda Latin | Cliff Richard |
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.
Alan Field did not hear them played or announced as climbers.
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Chart followers will be devastated to discover that Anthony Newley's ...Didgeridoo climber didgeri-didn't reach any charts. Born in Hackney, in London's East End, the actor, singer, composer and director was renowned for early Sixties pop hits (Why; Do You Mind; D-Darling) children's favourite novelties (Pop Goes the Weasel; Strawberry Fair; That Noise and apparently, a Christmas ditty called Santa Claus Is Elvis, which was never released. At the other end of the musical scale were power ballads (And the Heavens Cried; What Kind of Fool Am I). Why Can't You Try To Didgeridoo could be classed as a novelty/pop hybrid. Newley's surreal TV Series, The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1961, repeated 1963) is said to have been an early influence on young David Bowie. From this, it might be concluded that Gurney Slade was responsible for Bowie's Laughing Gnome. (Right) an EP of tracks from the movie. |
Tune in next week for another Field's Fab Forty!