Not only were the Small Faces at #1 in the Fab Forty, (#9 on this week's Caroline Countdown of Sound and #4 in Radio City's Swinging Sixty), they were headlining Radio England's 'Swinging '66' tour. Clipping kindly supplied by Bert Bossink. |
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As Alan Field was on holiday abroad this week in 1966, all chart information is courtesy of Brian Long and Wolfgang Buchholz and Roy Taylor.
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13
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1
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All Or Nothing | Small Faces |
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3
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2
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More Than Love | Ken Dodd |
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1
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3
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Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby | Beatles |
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14
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4
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They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haa! | Napoleon XIV |
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16
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5
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Got To Get You Into My Life | Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers |
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23
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6
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Barefootin' | Robert Parker |
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10
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7
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Headline News | Alan Bown Set / Edwin Starr |
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9
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8
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Just Like A Woman | Manfred Mann |
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12
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9
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Big Time Operator | Zoot Money's Big Roll Band |
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30
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10
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Too Soon To Know | Roy Orbison |
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2
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11
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God Only Knows | Beach Boys |
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6
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12
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Hi-Lili Hi-Lo | Alan Price Set |
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38
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13
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Working In The Coal Mine | Lee Dorsey |
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18
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14
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Tell Her | Dean Parrish |
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20
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15
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So Fine | Santells |
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15
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16
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Warm And Tender Love | Percy Sledge |
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40
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17
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You Make Me Feel Like Someone | Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas |
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37
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18
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Cast Your Fate To The Wind | Shelby Flint |
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7
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19
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With A Girl Like You | Troggs |
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4
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20
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I Saw Her Again | Mamas & Papas |
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40
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21
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I Can't Turn You Loose | Otis Redding |
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37
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22
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Stop That Girl | Chris Andrews |
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8
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23
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I Want You | Bob Dylan |
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32
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24
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Tossin' And Turnin' | Dave Davani Four |
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11
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25
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Give Me Your Word | Billy Fury |
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26
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Step Out Of Line | Twice As Much |
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27
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If You Ever Leave Me | Jackie Trent |
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28
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(You Make Me Feel) So Good | McCoys |
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29
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Distant Drums | Jim Reeves |
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17
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30
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Summer In The City | Lovin' Spoonful |
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35
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31
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This Heart Of Mine | Jimmy James & the Vagabonds |
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32
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Just Once In My Life | Righteous Brothers |
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33
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Ashes To Ashes | Mindbenders |
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34
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My Heart's Symphony | Gary Lewis & the Playboys |
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35
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Sunny | Bobby Hebb |
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36
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How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) | Junior Walker & the All Stars |
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26
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36
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Out Of This World | Chiffons |
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34
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37
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Good Day Sunshine | Tremeloes / Glen Dale |
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38
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Is That A Ship I Hear | Tornados |
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38
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Here There And Everywhere | Episode Six |
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39
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See You In September | Symbols |
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33
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39
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Summertime | Billy Stewart |
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40
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I Dig Everything | David Bowie |
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40
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Never You Hurt (The One You Love) | Laurel Aitken & the Soulmen |
In an archive Radio London recording available on Azanorak, TW - sitting in on the Kenny Everett show on Saturday 20th August 1966 - announced that the Fab 40 show the following day (Sunday 21st August) would be presented by Tony Blackburn. Tony had been on the 3-6pm slot on the Saturday also. It's very likely that Tony did present today's Fab Forty, but with no recording of the show and no written evidence, we have been unable to verify this.
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Like the Small Faces, Twice As Much also featured in a large photo on the front page of the current edition of the NME. It promoted the release that day (19th August) of their new single Step Out of Line – new in at #26 in this week's Fab Forty. Step Out of Line and the biggest Twice As Much hit Sitting on a Fence can be found on the Sequel compilation Jimmy Page – Hip Young Guitar Slinger, comprising 65 tracks on 2 CDs. Although Jimmy played on so many sessions that it's impossible for him to recall them all, all tracks on these CDs are believed to have been enhanced by his musical talents. Click on the picture to see the track list. |
| DJ Climbers: | ||
| You Can't Hurry Love | Supremes | Tony Blackburn |
| Hey Nellie Nellie | Bob Lind | Dave Dennis |
| Land Of 1,000 Dances | Wilson Pickett | Kenny Everett |
| World Of No Return | Kenny Damon | Paul Kaye |
| I Guess I'll Always Love You | Isley Brothers | Mike Lennox |
| I'm A Boy | Who | Mark Roman |
| Run | Sandie Shaw | Keith Skues |
| Little Darling (I Need You) | Marvin Gaye | Ed Stewart |
| When I Come Home | Spencer Davis Group | Norman St John |
| I Don't Care | Los Bravos | Richard Warner |
| Beg Borrow And Steal | Rare Breed | Tony Windsor |
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| Thigh High | David Essex |
| Daytime | Hedgehoppers Anonymous |
| Angelica | Bobby Rio |
| Wade In The Water | Ramsey Lewis Trio / Graham Bond Organisation |
| Pack Your Bags | Brendan Phillips |
| Winchester Cathedral | New Vaudeville Band |
| Another Time, Another Place | Chippy |
| When The Ship Comes In | Folk Blues Incorporated |
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| We Love The Pirates | Roaring 60's |
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| Portrait | Walker Brothers |
Aboard the Galaxy
A recording that John Hutley has kindly shared with us captures a tiny portion of Dave Cash's little-known one-week return to the Galaxy to present live shows, four months after he'd originally left. There were particular staffing issues on Big L at the time, with djs on holiday or shore leave, or away for other reasons. Kenny Everett was in the States covering the Beatles' U.S. tour, and Paul Kaye was occupied with working on the UK end of Kenny's reports. With no direct communication to the ship available, Paul had to go ashore daily, in order to take telephone calls from Kenny at a designated time. He recorded the conversation, then returned to the ship to edit the recording for the tour report for broadcast at 1930. (Clips of Kenny's reports can be heard on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame)
Fortunately Dave Cash was on hand and only too willing to help out. (Sadly, he doesn't seem to have been allocated a climber.) On John's tape we hear him sitting in on the Roman Empire one evening this week. According to Norman St John's handover at 9pm, it appears Dave was also due to cover the 12-2am slot directly afterwards. The recording is from the actual day of Dave's return to the ship, as he talks about his journey, meeting TW in passing as the latter went off on shore leave, and he jokes about the dubious pleasure of getting reacquainted with Dave Dennis and engineer Russ Tollerfield. The date is almost certainly Tuesday 23rd August 1966, Tuesday being the regular weekly shift-change. I (Mary) did note in my 1966 diary on Wednesday August 24th that Dave had returned to the Galaxy for one week, but it's possible that I did not write the diary on the 24th, but updated it a few days later and misremembered the date of Dave's unexpected return.
Dave is heard playing the usual blend of Fab 40 hits and climbers that enable us to accurately date the tape, and in one particular link he reminisces fondly about the old Kenny and Cash days the previous year, as he plays an oldie they used to feature a lot back then, In The Misty Moonlight by Jerry Wallace.