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Barry McGuire cheers everyone up at #18. Alan Field points out that this week's Fab 40 is Brian Long's updated/corrected version of the chart originally published in his book 'The London Sound'. Brian writes about how he originally compiled the Fabs here. September 5th was also the date of the first time-checks sponsored by the Bulova clock and watch company (see item below the chart). |
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | Rolling Stones |
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5
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2
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Like A Rolling Stone | Bob Dylan |
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6
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3
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What's New Pussycat? | Tom Jones |
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2
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4
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I Got You Babe | Sonny & Cher |
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10
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5
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Just A Little Bit Better | Herman's Hermits |
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9
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6
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Whatcha Gonna Do About It? | Small Faces |
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4
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7
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Make It Easy On Yourself | Walker Brothers |
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13
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8
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Il Silenzio | Nini Rosso |
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11
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9
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Laugh At Me | Sonny |
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23
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10
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Look Through Any Window | Hollies |
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15
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11
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Universal Soldier (EP) | Donovan |
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31
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12
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Hang On Sloopy | McCoys |
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14
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13
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Take A Heart | Sorrows |
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14
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All I Really Want To Do | Byrds / Cher |
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15
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Hark | Unit 4 + 2 |
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16
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Zorba's Dance | Marcello Minerbi |
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17
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California Girls | Beach Boys |
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32
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18
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Eve Of Destruction | Barry McGuire |
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18
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19
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The Time In Between | Cliff Richard & the Shadows |
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27
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20
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Hurt Me If You Will | Mark Four |
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12
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21
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Help! / I'm Down | Beatles |
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22
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Don't Make My Baby Blue | Shadows |
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23
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Ju Ju Hand | Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs |
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24
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You're My Girl | Rockin' Berries |
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26
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25
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(It Won't Hurt) Half As Much | Them |
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26
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It's The Same Old Song | Four Tops |
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28
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27
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Baby Don't Go | Sonny & Cher |
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39
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28
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Save Your Heart For Me | Gary Lewis & the Playboys |
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29
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Run To My Lovin' Arms | Billy Fury |
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30
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30
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Try To Understand | Lulu |
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33
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31
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That's The Way I Must Go | Headliners |
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40
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32
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She Belongs To Me | Masterminds |
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Whenever You're Ready | Zombies |
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37
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34
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It's All Over Now Baby Blue | Leroy Van Dyke / Joan Baez |
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Some Of Your Lovin' | Dusty Springfield |
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Since I Lost My Baby | Temptations |
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Untrue Unfaithful (That Was You) | Nita Rossi |
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You've Got To Hide Your Love Away | Silkie |
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24
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39
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Unchained Melody | Righteous Brothers |
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I'll Never Get Over You | Everly Brothers |
A massive leap up the Fab Forty from #31 to #12 for Hang on Sloopy. Originally titled My Girl Sloopy the song was first recorded by the Vibrations in 1964. The McCoys' version, a huge hit on both sides of the pond, is now the official rock record of the Ohio State University. Unless things have changed since this feature appeared in 2008, Ohio is the only university to have an official rock song. |
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Aboard the Galaxy
September
5th
Courtesy of Hans Knot, we have a recording from Sept 5th of a Cema Bingo promotion. The backing music is The Dam Busters theme from the renowned 1955 film, starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave.
It was in 1954 that Eric Coates composed a march as a kind of exercise and a few days later he was asked to write a march to be the theme for the film 'The Dam Busters'. He had his new composition already on the shelf and so it was used for the British epic war film, which was mainly about 'Operation Chastise'.
In the late summer of 1965 Kenny Everett used the recording of The Dam Busters March by the Central Band of the Royal Air Force to produce a promotion spot for the sponsored Cema Radio Bingo Club which could be heard every Wednesday evening on 266.
(You'll hear Dave Dennis humming along to the tune!)
Also Today
Radio London broadcast the first of its
soon-to-be-famous time-checks sponsored by the Bulova clock and watch company,
a contract the station had won from Radio Caroline. The Bulova
Awards website reveals: