for Sunday 14th May 1967
A joint Number One for the Trems and the Kinks! The Tremeloes were the only band who twice shared a Fab Forty #1. They did so again in the final Radio London chart, 6th August 1967, when 'Even the Bad Times Are Good' was equal top with the Beach Boys' 'Heroes and Villians'.

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3
J1
Silence Is Golden Tremeloes
8
J1
Waterloo Sunset Kinks
9
3
24 Sycamore Wayne Fontana
2
4
Then I Kissed Her Beach Boys
25
5
The Happening Supremes
22
6
Finchley Central New Vaudeville Band
11
7
Say You Don't Mind Denny Laine
21
8
Tears Tears Tears Ben E King
16
9
You Gotta Stop / The Love Machine Elvis Presley
17
10
Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me Gladys Knight & the Pips
13
11
The Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix Experience
12
12
Get Me To The World On Time Electric Prunes
1
13
Pictures Of Lily Who
5
14
The First Cut Is The Deepest P P Arnold
31
15
Bowling Green Everly Brothers
30
16
Two Streets Val Doonican
23
17
My Old Car Lee Dorsey
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18
Love Eyes Nancy Sinatra
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19
Okay! Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich
7
20
Shake A Tail Feather James & Bobby Purify
35
21
Groovin' Young Rascals
20
22
I Got Rhythm Happenings
40
23
Fly Me High Moody Blues
15
24
Show Me Joe Tex
14
25
Children Pretty Things
–
26
Just One More Chance Outer Limits
4
27
New York Mining Disaster 1941 Bee Gees
38
28
I Can't Turn Back Time Vince Edwards
–
29
A Whiter Shade Of Pale Procol Harum
–
30
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Bob Dylan
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31
Tabatha Twitchit Dave Clark Five
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32
The Wedding Of Ramona Blair Mirage
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33
Walking In The Rain Walker Brothers
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34
I Love Everything About You Bobby Hebb
39
35
Day Time, Night Time Simon Dupree & the Big Sound
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36
Too Fast, Too Slow Unit 4 + 2
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37
Let Me Be Turtles
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38
I'm Under The Influence Of Love Felice Taylor
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39
Somebody To Love Jefferson Airplane
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40
My Babe Ronnie Dove

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35
Day Time, Night Time Simon Dupree & the Big Sound Parlophone R5594

Simon Dupree & the Big Sound were from Portsmouth and had previously been called the Road Runners. The line-up was brothers Derek, (vcls), Ray, (bs, vcls) and Phil (sax) Shulman, with Eric Hine, (kbds), Pete O'Flaherty, (bs) and Tony Randell, (drms). Simon Dupree was the stage name of Ray Shulman

Day Time, Night Time was the band's third single. It was their fourth, Kites, released in the autumn of '67, that brought them their biggest hit.

Written by Manfred Mann, Day Time, Night Time gave ex-Caroline DJ Keith Hampshire a Canadian #5 (US #51), in 1973.



DJ Climbers:    
When You're Young And In Love Marvelettes Tony Blackburn
Portrait Of My Love Tokens Chuck Blair
Holiday For Clowns Brian Hyland Tony Brandon
I'm All Ears Los Bravos Pete Drummond
Kansas City James Brown & the Famous Flames Paul Kaye
When I Was Young Eric Burdon & the Animals Lorne King
Paper Sun Traffic John Peel
Too Many Fish In The Sea & Three Little Fishes Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels Mark Roman
To Be Loved Casinos Keith Skues
There Goes My Everything Engelbert Humperdinck Ed Stewart
This Time Long Ago Guess Who Willy Walker

 

Aboard the Galaxy this week

May 15th
The Tremeloes celebrated being #1 in the Fab Forty by visiting the Galaxy. Record Mirror clipping and photo from Willy Walker's own collection. He is pictured, right, with Peter Walsh.

Ashore

May 15th
Tony Blackburn hosted a Big L show at the Rhodes Centre, Bishop's Stortford. The vocalist with the band that night, The Style, was someone who would become familiar to Caroline listeners in the Seventies and a veteran DJ of numerous later RSLs – Phil Mitchell.

The Style (in common with all the Radio London DJs and Episode Six) was one of many acts represented by the Philip Birch Agency, run by Big L's managing director.

The photo (right) from Beatwave magazine, neither identifies the band members, nor gives any information about them. Phil had previously fronted a band called CC Rider. Sadly, he passed away in March 2008, after a long illness.

May 20th
Kenny Everett finally gets to preview the Sgt Pepper album, but before he can play it in full, the Beeb bans A Day In the Life.

Alan Keen retaliates with the bold move of making the track #1 in the Fab Forty for June 11th. (Newspaper clipping provided by the late John Bennett. Click for legible version.)

Besides climbers that were played at the time of the broadcast of the Sunday Fab Forty, Alan kept a note of others he heard later in the week and incorporated them into his list.

Climbers:  
My Old Flame Nino Tempo & April Stevens (*)
Happy Rush
Night Of The Long Grass Troggs
My Back Pages Byrds
It's All In The Game James Royal
Use Me Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers
My Lady Troggs
Don't Come Back To Me Bunch
On My Life Bob & Carol
Gypsy Fred Koobas
My One Chance To Make It Beatstalkers
Chartbuster:  
Don't Sleep In The Subway Petula Clark
Disc of the Week:  
Give Me Time Dusty Springfield
Album of the Week:  
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles




There is currently no Soul Set or Ballad Box information available for this week


Green additions to the climbers indicate singles sourced from 'Monty's Diary'. (See Fab Forty for 010167). Monty has noted that Don't Come Back To Me, On My Life, My One Chance To Make It and Gypsy Fred continue to be played for a second week. The Troggs record My Lady had been Lorne King's climber last week, but was immediately withdrawn by Page One and replaced by Night Of The Long Grass, with the same B-side and exactly the same catalogue number. While the replacement enters the climber list this week, Monty does note also hearing the original track played as a climber again.
Alan Field did not hear the records sourced from Monty's Diary played or announced as climbers.

(*) Wolfgang Buchholz notes hearing this record announced as John Yorke's climber, but thinks that tag was withdrawn when Yorke left the ship.

The Caroline 'Countdown Sixty' chart (south ship) for this week is here
This week's Radio Scotland Top 50 on the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is here

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