Sunday 20th February 1966
(In 2010 new recordings of Dave Cash Breakfast Shows broadcast during the week 21 - 25 February came to light.
These enabled climber and other information to be added to the existing chart.)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich appreciating the meaning of 'Hold Tight' when applied to the constrictions of paisley pants! The tight gear had not prevented them from leaping 16 places up the Fab Forty, to #18 – even if it prevented them from sitting down! |
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19th Nervous Breakdown / As Tears Go By* | Rolling Stones |
8
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2
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My Love | Petula Clark |
9
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3
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Sha La La La Lee | Small Faces |
7
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4
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Uptight (Everything's Alright) | Stevie Wonder |
3
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5
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A Groovy Kind Of Love | Mindbenders |
23
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6
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Inside Looking Out | Animals |
6
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7
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Tomorrow | Sandie Shaw |
17
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8
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Barbara Ann | Beach Boys |
10
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9
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Little By Little | Dusty Springfield |
14
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10
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This Golden Ring | Fortunes |
2
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11
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These Boots Are Made For Walkin' | Nancy Sinatra |
16
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12
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Land Of 1000 Dances | Cherokees |
19
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13
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Think | Chris Farlowe |
21
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14
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Can't Help Thinking About Me | David Bowie & the Lower Third |
24
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15
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Jenny Take A Ride | Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels |
25
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16
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Lightnin' Strikes | Lou Christie |
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17
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You Didn't Have To Be So Nice | Lovin' Spoonful |
34
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18
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Hold Tight | Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich |
28
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19
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What Now My Love | Sonny & Cher |
35
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20
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You've Come Back | P J Proby |
29
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21
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Under Your Spell Again | Johnny Rivers |
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22
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Make The World Go Away | Eddy Arnold |
31
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23
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La La La | Gerry & the Pacemakers |
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24
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Backstage | Gene Pitney |
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25
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Blue River | Elvis Presley |
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26
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I Can't Let Go | Hollies |
12
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27
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Have Pity On The Boy | Paul & Barry Ryan |
36
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28
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You Don't Love Me | Gary Walker |
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29
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I'll Never Quite Get Over You | Billy Fury |
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30
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Shapes Of Things | Yardbirds |
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31
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Me And You | Diane Ferraz & Nicky Scott |
38
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32
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Never Let It Be Said | Valerie Mitchell |
37
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33
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Woman | Peter & Gordon |
11
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34
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Girl | Truth / St Louis Union |
39
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35
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Please Go | Trekkas |
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36
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634-5789 | Wilson Pickett |
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37
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Baby Don't You Do It | Poets |
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Accidental Love | Loving Kind |
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39
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Who Is Sylvia? | Honeycombs |
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Why Don't I Run Away From You? | Kiki Dee |
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The Coda website has a 2-page photo feature on this Hertfordshire band in its various incarnations and Webmaster Dave has kindly obtained permission from guitarist Martyn Day for us to reproduce the picture of the Trekkas line-up that recorded Please Go. (l to r) Ken Caylor (drums), Ron Baird (bass), Martyn Day (rhythm) Mick Casey (lead), Mick Simmons (vocals) and Angela Penketh (keyboards). Please Go was published by Radio London's company Pall Mall. but because its writer J Martin Pring was still a minor, the publishing contract had to be signed by his mother Anne, on his behalf. (Thanks to Brian Long). Both Dave and band members have attempted to resolve the mystery concerning the underage writer, whom it transpires was not connected to the Trekkas. Eddie was, however, unable to help. "As I recall, the guy who gave me the manuscript worked at Lincoln Electric, but I have had no contact since and do not know how to find him. I'm afraid that brain wracking has produced nothing from the fog of time!" Please Go is quite collectable – the highest price paid for it as of 2021 was £180 - but if you aren't desparate to own it on vinyl, it's available on Looking Back: 80 Mod, Freakbeat & Swinging London Nuggets. Among the 80 tracks are other Big L Fab Forty gems (and also one or two Caroline ones) including I'm Not Your Stepping Stone by the Flies, It's Not True – The Untamed, Just What You Want – Just What You'll Get – John's Children and The Birds – No Good Without You Baby. |
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19th Nervous Breakdown / As Tears Go By* | Rolling Stones |
Dave Cash played As Tears Go By during the ensuing week and announced it as a double-sided hit at number 1. It was probably listed alongside 19th Nervous Breakdown in other weeks too, but no accurate assumptions can be made, because such records were often not listed as double-sided hits throughout their entire chart run on Radio London.
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Think | Chris Farlowe |
Please see the notes from last week's Fab Forty concerning the placing for Think, which was originally listed here as new in at #13.
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Make The World Go Away | Eddy Arnold |
Make the World Go Away had somewhat strange journey up the Fab Forty. Eddy Arnold had entered the chart on December 19th 1965 and spent three weeks there, sharing the second two on equal footing with Dodie West's version of the song. The peak position shared on this occasion was #20. However, after a seven-week absence, Eddy Arnold's version of Make the World Go Away suddenly reappears in the Big L chart at #22, where it will remain for another five weeks, reaching #7 on March 20th. Dodie West is nowhere to be seen.
Make the World Go Away spent a total of 17 weeks on the UK National chart, peaking at #6. Eddy Arnold was, however, unable to follow this success in the UK charts, although he remained a best-seller in the US. His singles did, in fact, receive more airplay on Radio Caroline than on Radio London. Make the World Go Away spent its final week in the Caroline Countdown of Sound on April 23rd 1966.
Massively-popular country singer Eddy Arnold died in 2008, just one week short of his 90th birthday.
On Feb 25th (Friday), our Knees Club Official, Lynn, was the person responsible for signing-up the Swinging Blue Jeans at Beaconsfield Youth Club. Ray Ennis (#100), became our Vice-President at his own insistence, and also received the special award of a (plastic) knee for becoming our 100th member. (I think, and certainly hope, that this was an item removed from a doll!) Other group members were Terry Sylvester (101) (who in 1969 would replace Graham Nash in the Hollies), Norman Kuhlke (102), Les Braid (99), and Ralph Ellis. As far as can be established, poor Ralph was omitted from the KC book due to an 'administrative error' and unfortunely failed to get a membership number. He is perhaps the only unnumbered Knees Club member. Sadly, Les Braid passed away in 2005. Ray Ennis announced his retirement from the band in 2010. Such was the way of the Big L Fab Forty, that the band's latest single Don't Make Me Over, which last week had stood at #13, had already vanished from this week's chart. It was still selling sufficiently well to remain in the Nationals, although it climbed no higher than #31.
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Note: this somewhat dog-eared, or perhaps simply well-loved, autographed photo shows a four-man group. Terry Sylvester who is not pictured, definitely joined the Knees Club at Beaconsfield Youth Club, so this must have been a change-over phase in the band's line-up. | ||
Fast-forward 34 years to 2000 and the Brighton Summer Sixties Festival, where we found the Knees Club's Vice-President still indicating eagerness to display his patellae to all-and-sundry. Ray's years of dedication to knees prompted the Club Founder to promote him to the role of President, to take the place of the late TW. Ex-Caroline DJ Bud Ballou was also present at Brighton. Bud, who has proved an exemplary ambassador for knees, and has displayed them internationally, was immediately chosen to step into the role of Vice-President. More Knees Club history here. |
DJ Climbers: | ||
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore | Walker Brothers | Dave Cash |
Something I've Got To Tell You | Glenda Collins | Dave Dennis |
Super Girl | Graham Bonney | John Edward |
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion | Kinks | Duncan Johnson |
Baby Let Me Love You | Elkie Brooks | Paul Kaye |
Elusive Butterfly | Bob Lind | Mike Lennox |
There'll Be Another Spring | Frank Ifield | Earl Richmond |
Devil May Care | Ray Stevens | Mark Roman |
Nowhere Man | Settlers/Three Good Reasons | Ed Stewart |
Running Round In Circles | Ivy League | Tony Windsor |
Nowhere Man is the fourth cover of a Rubber Soul track to appear in the Radio London playlist. Three of those Beatles covers saw two rival versions sharing the limelight throughout, with the two releases of Girl having plummeted down the Fab Forty from #11 to #34 since last week, while both recordings of Michelle have disappeared altogether.
Super Girl by Graham Bonney was noted as Dave Cash's climber last week. It's back in the climber list again, this time as John Edward's pick. This is the second time recently that this has occurred. Sonny and Cher's What Now My Love, was John Edward's climber on January 23rd and was then picked as Earl Richmond's two weeks later.
John Hutley's tape includes fragments of two separate shows from that week, Mark Roman and Dave Cash. They both played Paul Kaye's climber, Baby Let Me Love You by Elkie Brooks. Interestingly, the day the Cashman played it, he announced that it was Elkie Brooks' 21st Birthday that very day - which means (if Dave had the same information as ours) the date of the broadcast was Friday 25th February '66, which by coincidence is the day that Elkie's record was released
Climber: | ||
Please Stay | Cryin' Shames | |
Disc of the Week: | ||
Stop Breaking My Heart | Tom Jones |
The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here
Tune in next week for another Big L Fab 40!