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DISC and MUSIC ECHO is SEPTEMBER 28, 1968 USA 20c BARRY G1BB: This is why I AM leaving the Bee Gees Full story : Page 4 `People say Mary's shy but I don't think she is. She hates being fussed over.' How a new star was born : turn to page 15 VANITY FARE, seen living in the sun are, left to right: - Tony Goulden, Dick Allix, Trevor Brice and Tony Jarrett. Special interview with the "clean cut" boys of pop : Page 8.

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DISCand MUSIC ECHO isSEPTEMBER 28, 1968 USA 20c

BARRY G1BB:This is whyI AM leavingthe Bee Gees

Full story : Page 4

`People say

Mary's shy

but I don't

think she is.

She hates

being fussed

over.'

How a

new starwas

born :

turn topage 15

VANITY FARE, seen livingin the sun are, left to right: -Tony Goulden, Dick Allix,Trevor Brice and Tony

Jarrett. Special interview

with the "clean cut" boysof pop : Page 8.

2 Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968

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Clinton FordGive A Little - Take A LittleNPL 18240

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Ivor EmmanuelSings Ivor NovellaNSPL 18230

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The Secret Life OfHarpers BizzareW 1739

Sounds OrchestralWordsNSPL 18224

The Grateful DeadAnthem Of The SunWS 1749

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Leapy Lee, MCAGary Puckett and the

Union Gap, CBS

10 (10) ON THE ROAD AGAIN ... Canned Heat, Liberty

ART TOPPEI (I) HEY JUDE Beatles, Apple2 (2) THOSE WERE THE DAYS....Mary Hopkin, Apple3 (3) I'VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU

Bee Gees, Polydor

4 (7) JESAMINE Casuals, Decca

5 (5) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash, Regal-Zonophone6 (4) DO IT AGAIN Beach Boys, Capitol

7 (6) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Aretha Franklin, Atlantic8 (14) A LITTLE ARROWS9 (II) LADY WILLPOWER

Silver Disc for 250,000 British sales This week's TOP 30 Zoomers

HIGH INTHESKY Amen Corner, DeramDREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME

Mama Cass with the Mamas and Papas, RCA VictorTHIS GUY'S IN LOVE Herb Alpert, A. & M.CLASSICAL GAS Mason Williams, Warner BrothersHELP YOURSELF Tom Jones, DeccaICE IN THE SUN Status Quo, PyeHARD TO HANDLE Otis Redding, AtlanticI PRETEND Des O'Connor, ColumbiaSUNSHINE GIRL Herman's Hermits, ColumbiaI LIVE FOR THE SUN Vanity Fare, Page OneHELLO I LOVE YOU Doors, ElektraA DAY WITHOUT LOVE Love Affair, CBSTHE RED BALLOON Dave Clark Five, ColumbiaMY LITTLE LADY Tremeloes, CBSAMERICA Nice, Immediate

26 DANCE TO THE MUSIC Sly and the Family Stone, Direction27 LES BICYCLETTES DE BELSIZE Engelbert Humperdinck, Decca28 YESTERDAY'S DREAM Four Tops, Tamla Motown29 MONY MONY Tommy James and the Shondells, Major Minor30 KEEP ON Bruce Channel, Bell

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Doors' isa bit ofa let -down

I DIDN'T like 'Hey Jude' when I firstheard it, but I think both sides arejust great now-and those films theymade had tremendous atmosphere.Well, they had to be No. I, didn'tthey?

Mary Hopkin should be No. I

too-too much! I just can't under-stand why Sandie ever covered it,although I've not heard her version.

Casuals' was written by the samefellas as wrote ours, but it's notwonderful. Just nice, and it was niceby the Bystanders too. I don'treally see how it's moved up thechart.

Johnny Nash reminds me of theMonkees ... just nice again. Not abig record. Union Gap ... well, it'sbit, you know? It's so much like"Young Girl" and that doesn'tusually work, as we well know. It'sjust Gary Puckett's voice that'sselling these records.

Leapy Lee's record is a gas, andso is he. He's one of the greatestguys in the whole world-so easy toget on with. "Classical Gas" I neverseem to be aware of until it's finishedand then I realise it was quite good.Otis' is not one of his best, which isa shame.

Doors' is a bit of a let down after"Light My Fire" and "Love Me TwoTimes." Perhaps they're deliberatelytrying to be more commercial to sellrecords.

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I (3) HEY JUDE Beatles, Apple2 (I) HARPER VALLEY P.T.A....Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation3 (2) PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE Rascals, Atlantic4 (4) HUSH Deep Purple, Tetragrammaton5 (15) FIRE Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atlantic6 (8) THE FOOL ON THE HILL

Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, A & M7 (5) I, 2, 3, RED LIGHT...1910 Fruitgum Company, Buddah8 (9) I'VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU

Bee Gees, Atco9 (16) GIRL WATCHER O'Kaysions, ABC

10 (13) SLIP AWAY Clarence Carter, AtlanticII (I I) TIME HAS COME TODAY

Chambers Brothers, Columbia12 (12) REVOLUTION Beatles, Apple13 (10) THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

Aretha Franklin, Atlantic14 (14) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Aretha Franklin, Atlantic15 (7) BORN TO BE WILD Steppenwolf, Dunhill16 (18) ON THE ROAD AGAIN Canned Heat, Liberty17 (6) LIGHT MY FIRE Jose Feliciano, RCA Victor18 (21) MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS Grassroots, Dunhill19 (19) MY SPECIAL ANGEL Vogues, Reprise20 (27) LITTLE GREEN APPLES O. C. Smith, Columbia

I (2) HOLLIES GREATEST HITS Hollies, Parlophone2 (I) BOOKENDS Simon and Garfunkel, CBS3 (3) DELILAH Tom Jones, Decca4 (4) WHEELS OF FIRE (Double Album) Cream, Polydor5 (6) SOUND OF MUSIC Soundtrack, RCA Victor6 (9) MR WONDERFUL Fleetwood Mac, Blue Horizon7 (7) A MAN WITHOUT LOVE

Engelbert Humperdinck, Decca8 (8) BOOGIE WITH CANNED HEAT

Canned Heat, Liberty9 (5) IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD

Moody Blues, Deram10 (-) LIVE AT THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Seekers, Columbia

Bee Gee Burry ISleaving for films

EXCLUSIVE BYDAVID HUGHES

BARRY GIBB, leader of the Bee Gees,put an end to any speculation about hisfuture this week when he phoned me fromBrussels to say: "I have said that I shallbe leaving the Bee Gees, and I stand bythat. I don't know what all the confusionis about, for I have never said anythingdifferent.

"1 shall be fulfilling all the existing commit-ments with the group, which will take up aboutthe next two years. But the group scene is notan everlasting thing and in the pop businessyou can only go so far."

Barry stresses that although his personalambitions lie in the film acting field, he does notintend to stop making records; nor will he desertthe group entirely.

'I know that both Maurice and Robin sharemy ambition to break into films, but we willstill do occasional concerts and TV shows."

There is no ill feelings within the group, andBarry is also surprised that his fans should feelupset at him branching out on his own.

"In films I shall have as much contact withthe fans as in the group . . . more even. I couldthink of at least 20 big name groups who havefaded into obscurity simply because they havenot taken advantage of new career opportunities.

"I don't know whether or not I'll make a goodactor. I've never tried it. But in Hollywood Ipassed the screen tests, and ... well Clark Gableand Errol Flynn became big stars even thoughthey never had any acting experience."

And another knock on the head for Bee Geecritics comes this week in the form of a GoldDisc for world sales over one million of "GottaGet A Message To You"; and a Silver Disc,presented by Disc.

TONY TV BACK FOR ALLTONY BLACKBURN'S TV show "Time ForBlackburn" will be nationally -networked againfrom next Saturday, October 5.

The Southern TV pop spot was dropped fromits regular Saturday slot exactly eight weeks ago-when the new London Weekendcompany took over.

Producer Mike Mansfield toldDisc this week: "It came as agreat surprise to me. I didn't knowthey were trying to get us

Don flies outDONOVAN left Britainlast Saturday for his latestand most extensive Ameri-can tour, which will lastuntil mid -November.

Don will play dates inAmerica and Canada, rindhighlight will be a soloconcert at New York'sCarnegie Hall on October25.

Dave Dee

TO SEE!`national' again."

Guests on the half-hour show(5.50 p.m.) that week will beDusty Springfield, Dave Clark Five,Barry Ryan, the Marmalade andsongwriter Clive Westlake.

Said Mike: "Clive will talkabout his songs for Dusty.And I'd like to get him to playsome of his original demos. He'sgot a good singing voice andsometimes his versions sound bet-ter than those of the people whorecord them."

Mike also revealed that future

shows would feature film shot atLondon's "Revolution" club. Arecent clip of Terry Reid provedvery popular.

"They get some interestingpeople down there. And it's niceto have something different," heexplained.

Also planned for future showsare more singing spots by com-pere Tony Blackburn-"in res-ponse to many requests"; and an-other programme devoted entirelyto the Bee Gees-"in about fourweeks time."

Vanity Fare U.S. November tourTWO members of Vanity Fare-this week at No. 20 with -I Live ForThe Sun"-may fly to America next month for talks about a grouptour there in November.

The tour offers come as a result of reaction to the boys' hit in theStates.

Vanity Fare were in the studios this week completing their follow-upand starting work on an EP-one side featuringdrummer Dick Aiix playing the classic "Skin Deep"-for Christmas release.

Dave Dee showstopped by police

DAVE DEE, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich had torun for their lives in Switzerland last weekend whennearly six thousand fans went on the rampage aftera pop show was cut short.

Dave and Co had only been onstage for 15minutes at the Berne Festival Hall when authoritiesdecided the show had overrun and brought down thecurtain while the boys were still playing.

"The audience went berserk," reports Bill Fowlerof the Arthur Howes office. "They smashed about1,500 seats and started to tear down the walls. Inthe end 40 special riot police had to be called in.It was frightening."

Dave Dee was topping the bill at the Swiss PopFestival, which also starred the Small Faces, Flirta-tions, Deep Purple and the Koobas.

SOCKING

IT

TO

ROSKO!

"SOCK IT TO ME," cried Emperor Rosko on his Radio 1 showa few weeks back. And the idea was to send him embroideredsocks for a prize. As you can see. the response was somewhatoverwhelming, and the probtem now is . . . what to do with them?

Rosko has now moved base from Paris to London, though hereturns to Paris every week to tape both his French and Englishprogrammes.

Cilia's 'big hit' LPCILLA BLACK is to release an album of her biggest hits inNovember. Title will be "The Best Of Cilia Black," and "AnyoneWho Had A Heart," "Alfie" and "Step Inside Love" will beamong the 14 tracks.

Also included is her very firstsingle, the Lennon/McCartneysong "Love Of The Loved," re-leased exactly five years ago thismonth.

Cilia is now to turn her cabaret PEDDLERS have a new single andtrip to Australia into a round- album out next month. And thethe -world promotion trip-return- group has been signed by filming to Britain via America. producer Carlo Ponti to write

She leaves today (Thursday) for four songs for his new film.three weeks at Sydney's Chequers Single is "Comin' Home Baby,"Club (also appearing in two the number made famous by Melspectaculars) and flies home via Torme, released next Friday,America's West Coast and New October 4; and the LP "Three InYork for radio and TV dates. A Cell" is out a week later (11).

Peddlers releaseTorme hit

Six moreKing shows

JONATHAN KING, con-troversial Disc columnistand recently Radio 1 DJ,will do a series of six "Pick

iti Of What's New" from thisSaturday (September 28). t:.

The series comes as a re-sult of his success on the

f. show a fortnight ago, be-fore compering the weck-day spot "What's New."

Radio 1 boss RobinV Scott told Disc: "Jonathan

seems to have gone downvery well. We're verypleased."

And his American singlero "1968-A Message To The

Presidential Candidates" isreceiving favourable reac-tion from West Coast radio

' stations as a result of fearscaused by Chicago andGovernor Wallace.

LULU'S NEW SINGLE MAY BE MOVIE SONGLULU'S NEW Britishsingle may be "ThisTime" -a track shesings in the new PeterUstinov film "HotMillions."

The single is releasedin America this monthand was written byAcademy Award win-

ner Don Black (of"Born Free" fame).

Lulu will also play aleading part in a newU.S.-TV spectacular,"The Ugliest Girl InTown" starring PeterKrasner in October.Spectacular, which willbe shot in colour, willprobably be shown in

Britain early next year.Her second BBC -TV

series, still in the plan-ning stage, will not bescreened until 1969 be-cause of pressure ofwork.

She starts work onher second major filmthis year and opens in

cabaret at WakefieldTheatre Club for aweek from November10. And she goes onto do Manchester Gol-den Garter Civic Centre(November 24 toDecember 7) andMiddlesbrough (Decem-ber 15 to 20).

Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968 5

THIS WEEK

isSIDI°1at

15 colour picturesof Radio 1 DJs

. Colour feature onSandie Shaw

. And an announcementabout the formationof a Radio 1 Club

Radio TimesISSUE DATED SEPT. 26From your newsagentA BBC Publication

Congratulations

APPLEMay your orchardalways be fruitful

Proud to be associatedwith you

TRIDENTSTUDIOS

"HEY JUDE""THOSE WERE THE DAYS"

Mary Hopkin to sing

at St. Paul's CathedralMARY HOPKIN is to sing at London's St.Paul's Cathedral in "A Pop Experience" onOctober 2. Other artists appearing in the con-cert-part of a non -denominational festivalfor young people organised by the Dean-arethe Scaffold, Grapefruit, Jackie Lomax andprobably the Small Faces. Show will be corn -

IT'S Engelbert who is currentlysinging about bicycles with his

"Bicyclettes De Belsize"-butTony Blackburn offered Sandie

Shaw a lift on his bike whenhe was among the showbiz peopletaking part in a race at London's

Herne Hill track last weekend.Sandie acted as "starter" for the

event, which was won by "DrWho" actor Frazer Hines. Tony?

He was unplaced!

Ray Stevens hereRAY STEVENS, whose "Mr.

Businessman" has been getting alot of airplay here, arrived inLondon yesterday (Wednesday).

He appears on "Top Of ThePops" and "Late Night Line -Up"tonight (Thursday) and stars onBBC -TV's "Monday Show" (30).

pered by John Peel.Organisers of the festival received a letter

from Mary's mother, saying what an honourit was for Mary to sing at St. Paul's.

Mary's Record-"Those Were The Days,"still at No. 2 this week-has sold over 300,000copies.

Scott, Pala forTony Jackie IvHIT songwriting team of JackieTrent and Tony Hatch will star intheir own Yorkshire TV colourspectacular with Petula Clark andScott Walker as guest artists. AndFrank Sinatra is to record analbum of Hatch/Trent songs inHollywood this autumn.

The spectacular, titled "TheTwo Of Us," will be taped inearly November for showing laterthat month. Tony Hatch will con-duct the orchestra and join Jackiefor duets.

Jackie and Tony fly to Holly-wood in November for a week towork with Frank Sinatra on hisnew album. Plans were finalisedwith Sinatra in London last week-end.

The album will be completelydevoted to Hatch/Trent numbers-with five written specially forSinatra. Others included are"Joanna," "Beautiful In TheRain" and "If You Ever LeaveMe."

Tony Hatch will act as arranger,producer and musical director forthe LP.

Radio 1 isone year old !RADIO 1 is a year old this week-end. And on Saturday "SceneAnd Heard" will celebrate thestation's birthday with a specialshow devoted to the pop eventsof the past year.

On Monday (September 30) thefour top daily DJ's-Tony Black-burn, Jimmy Young, Dave Cashand David Symonds-mark the oc-casion by spinning some of therecords they played on their showslast year. Highlight of these willbe the Move's "Flowers In TheRain," first pop single played onthe station.

Supremesfor DublinDIANA ROSS and the Supremesplay an extra two concerts duringtheir November British visit-inDublin (November 21).

As already reported, other datesare Manchester Free Trade Hall(22) and London Palladium (23).

. . . and guestswith EngelbertE N G E L B E R T Humperdinck,whose latest single "Les BicyclettesDe Belsize" enters the chart thisweek at 27, is star of LondonWeekend TV's "Startime" nextSaturday (October 5) and thewhole show is being recorded thisSunday at Blackpool's ABCTheatre where Engel is currentlyappearing for the season.

Mary Hopkin is special guest inthe programme, with comediansTed Rogers and Jimmy Logan.Others guests are still beingbooked.

Jim Webb, RichardHarris hereAMERICAN hit composer JimWebb, who among other thingswrote "Macarthur Park," arrivedin London for a two-week visiton Monday.

And he brought with him thecompleted tapes of Richard Har-ris's second LP-cut in Hollywoodlast month. Harris himself returnsto Britain this weekend.

Jim is currently working on themusical score for the Mel Ferrerproduction of the film "PeterPan."

Affair 'no' to USALOVE Affair have turned down

an American tour-reputed to beworth £25,000 - next January.Reason: They feel they are "notyet ready" to undertake the three-week coast -to -coast trek. Instead,the group flies to America laternext year.

MICK MARIANNE MOVIEMICK JAGGER, who finishes filming "Performance," in Novem-ber, will probably star with girlfriend Marianne Faithful in aHollywood film to be shot in Africa at the end of the year.

The film, in colour, starts production in December. It may alsostar Stone's Keith Richard and Brian Jones.

Stones' new LP "Beggar's Banquet" which has been the centreof a tussle between the group and their record company, Decca,still has no release date. The Stones and members of the companywere meeting on Tuesday to try to finalise a date.

`Fever Tree' -a five -man group fromUSA's West Coast, with new progressivesounds.Rob Landes, group's anchor man and

composer of many tracks, plays piano,organ, clavinette, flute, harpsichord andcello, with Dennis Keller giving vocals.

UNL/S 102

'A splendid exampleof progressiveAmerican pop' -

Melody Maker

`A very good andcompetent L.P.,with vocalistof note -Disc & Music Echo

Tracks include:`Imitation Situation'`Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out'`San Francisco Girls'`The Sun also Rises'

mca

6 Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968

NOKSEMK:KOMMOK:MiEii

Cat's hack!CAT STEVENS makes his gfirst club appearance for ayear on November 29 atcliairbb:rough's "The Scene 2C

"Here ComeswhoseMy Wife"newseig

isgle

released on October 4,appearsda ovn "How It 11;1'.;rttlitit

(October'1) and "Time ForBlackburn" (October 12).

AMEN CORNER were deter-mined to prove that pop starsaren't always the scruffy ruf-fians the general public be-lieves when they went to awedding last week.

They were suitably attired intop hat and tails for the marri-age of :heir new manager,Terry Slater (pictured pointingin the background) to EveNorman, secretary to popagent Dick Katz.

Long John's`Mexico'

LONG John Baldry's new single-"Mexico"-released October 11,is being used by ITV as theme fortheir coverage of the OlympicGames.

He is compering a show forprisoners at Wormwood Scrubson October 6, when guests will in-clude Geno Washington, ChrisFarlowe and possibly Billie Davis.John starts a week's tour ofAmerica on October 14 to promote"When The Sun Comes ShiningThrough."

THURSDAYCrazy World of Arthur Brown

-Liberal Hall, Yeovil.Equals-Mecca Ballroom, Black-

pool.Love Affair/Vanity Fare - Ice

Rink, Paisley, Scotland.Pop North (Radio 1-1 p.m.)-

Idle Race.

FRIDAYDave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick

and Tich-Starlight; Belfast andFlamingo, Ballymena, Ireland.

Casuals-Corn Exchange, Brain-tree, Essex.

Marmalade-George Ballroom,H inckley.

Equals-Mecca Ballroom, Basil-don.

Canned Heat - Roundhouse,Chalk Farm, London.

Crackerjack (BBC -1-4.55 p.m.)-Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Michand Tich, Leapy Lee.

Vanity Fare-Waverley Market,Edinburgh.

Love Affair-Town Hall, Ar-drossan, Scotland.

Joe Loss Show (Radio 1 - 1p.m.)-Marmalade.

Tremeloes-Top Rank, Swan- sea.

NEW RELEASES: Hollies -"Listen To Me," Herb Alpert-"To Wait For Love," TommyJames and the Shondells - "DoSomething To me," Cream -

Jack Good Julie Driscoll Jerry Lee Lewis Tom Jones Lulu Flirtations Chris Farlowe Lonnie Donegan

luck Good: big names to rock

Shakespeare

Amen -GENTLEMEN

But all the boys - exceptsinger Andy Fairweather -Low-did a quick -change act forthe reception at London's Re-volution club later.

Andy? He had to stay

togged up-to cut the cake!Amen Corner, Love Affair,

Vanity Fare and Geno Wash-ington and the Ram Jam Bandstar on a special three-dayScottish package tour fromtonight (Thursday). Show willbe compered by Stuart Henry.

Dates are: Paisley Ice Rink(tonight), Edinburgh WaverleyMarket and Falkirk Town Hall(Friday) and Ayr Ice Rink(Saturday).

TOM JONES, Julie Driscoll and Jerry Lee Lewis may all starin an amazing stage musical version of Shakespeare's"Othello" in London next year-if plans by ace producerJack Good work out.

Jack, back in Britain this week to produce this Sunday (Sep-tember 29) the long-awaited top TV spectacular "Innocence,Anarchy And Soul" (for Octo-ber 12 screening)-with a castheaded by Lulu, Julie Driscoll,Brian Auger and EmperorRosko-told me:

"I staged the 'Othello' musicalfor a six -week run in Los Angelesunder the title 'Catch My Soul'earlier this year.

"On the first night, 300diamond -dripping people walkedout-and after that all the kidsflocked in and it really moved!,

"We have already booked thePalace Theatre in London justafter Christmas. I want to bringJerry Lee over again and reallybe much more wild than we wereeven in America."

Jack plans to cast Julie Driscollas "Desdemona" and Tom Jonesas "Othello," with Jerry Leeplaying his original part oflago."

"If I can't get them, I'd like totry someone like Chuck Jacksonor Jackie Wilson from America orChris Farlowe as 'Othello' andLance LeGault-a new American

CASUALS FOR TOMMY ONTOMMY JAMES and the Shondells are OFFthe Scott Walker tour of Britain due toopen in London on October 4. Their spotis being taken by current chart stars theCasuals on some dates: and by Cupid'sInspiration on others. Terry Reidhas also been added to the bill.

Tommy James-who had anumber one hit here with "MonyMony"-will not now visitBritain at all. They were set toarrive on Tuesday this week.

This is the second billing switch

"Sunshine Of Your Love," JoeCocker - "With A Little HelpFrom My Friends," Turtles -"Elenore," Love - "Your Mindand We Belong Together."

SATURDAYCasuals-Flamingo, Redruth.Marmalade-Dreamland, Mar-

gate.Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger Trin-

ity - California Ballroom, Dun-stable.

Crazy World of Arthur Brown-Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey.

Move - Hyde Park Open AirConcert, London, and Links Club,Boreham Wood.

Canned Heat - Roundhouse,Chalk Farm, London.

Presenting Nana Mouskouri(BBC -2-9.45 p.m.)-with Dono-van.

Vanity Fare - Ice Rink, Ayr,Scotland.

Love Affair-City Hall, Perth,Scotland.

Amen Corner - Seagull Ball-room, Ryde, Isle of Wight.

Saturday Club (Radio 1 - 10a.m.)-Roy Orbison, Troggs.

Status Quo-Belfry Hotel, Sut-ton Coldfield.

SUNDAYJulie Driscoll/Brian Auger Trin-

ity/Alan Price Set/Nice/SpookyTooth/The Alan Brown/Eclection-Fairfield Hall, Croydon.

SCOTT TOURfor the Scott show. A month agoit was exclusively revealed in Discthat Lulu would not do the tour.

Full line-up now is: ScottWalker, Love Affair, Paper Dolls,Casuals and CUpid's Inspiration,Terry Reid, and new group, the

Crazy World of Arthur Brown-Coatham Hotel, Redcar.

Canned Heat-Civic Hall, Barns-ley.

Vanity Fare - Top Ten ClubPalais, Dundee, Scotland.

Love Affair - Locamo, Mont-rose, Scotland.

Stuart Henry Show (Radio10 a.m.)-Jeff Beck.

Top Gear (Radio 1-3 p.m.)-Joni Mitchell, Fairport Conven-tion, Jeff Beck, Ten Years After.

Status Quo-Civic Hall, Barns-ley.

Casuals-Brittania Rowing Club,Nottingham.

MONDAYCanned Heat-Marquee, War -

dour Street, London.Vanity Fare-Caledonian Hotel,

Inverness.Love Affair - Chesford Ball-

room, Kenilworth.Amen Corner-Ice Rink, Streat-

ham, London.Radio 1 o'clock (Radio 1-I

p.m.) - Honeybus, Frank !field,Helen Shapiro.

TUESDAYSandie Shaw Supplement (BBC -

1 -9.55 p.m.)

WEDNESDAYDave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick

and Tich-Pavilion, Hemel Hemp-stead.

Gun. Scott will be accompaniedby a band led by jazzman RonnieScott.

And this week Maurice Kingsquashed rumours that Scott him-self would not do the tour-be-cause of recent illness. He toldDisc: "Scott Walker is alive andwell-and will categorically dothe tour."

Full dates for the tour are:London Finsbury Park Astoria(October 4), Manchester Odeon(5), Bradford Gaumont (6), Edin-burgh ABC (9), Newcastle CityHall (10), Birmingham Odeon (11), SLY and the Family Stone,Chesterfield ABC (12), Liverpool who flew back to America lastEmpire (13), Bristol Colston Hall Friday without making one "live"(14), Cardiff Odeon (16), Slough appearance, now hope to returnAdelphi (17), Ipswich Gaumont to Britain for a tour in February(18), Tooting Granada (19) and 1969.Coventry Theatre (20).

Casuals appear on all datesEXCEPT Chesterfield, Slough,Ipswich and Tooting-when theirplace is taken by Cupid's Inspira-tion. Neither group appears atManchester on October 5-a re-placement act is being sought.

A PENNYVALENTINEEXCLUSIVE

boy I found at an Elvis Presleyparty-as 'lino'," he told me.

Jack will also use new girlgroup the Flirtations throughoutthe show.

"We keep very much to theoriginal Shakespeare text, butsock it to the audience more. Forinstance, Jerry Lee was allowedto add asides from his piano on-stage like 'Wow, my soul!' to theaudience.

"We hardly sold any pro-grammes in America because theusherettes were all leaping aroundin the aisles!"

The show will be taped as anhour-long spectacular by Jackalso for Yorkshire TV during itsLondon run.

Also in Jack's "Innocence,Anarchy and Soul" show, to berecorded at Elstree, will be LordRockingham's XI, specially re-formed with Red Price, Don Langand Lonnie Donegan, plus theAlan Bown, the Breakaways,Chants, Dominic Grant, IanWhitcomb and Emil Dean.

and jack doesMonkees TVMONKEES will star in their ownhour-long TV spectacular inAmerica-with Julie Driscoll andthe Brian Auger Trinity this year.

The show-produced by JackGood-will feature "Julie as avery evil woman," Good told Disc.The Monkees, at present touringAustralia and the Far East, willbe doing a Harry Nillson num-ber-"Daddy's Song"-as theirnext single. A previous Nillsonnumber by the Monkees was"Cuddly Toy."

Sly back soon

TOP OF THE POPSPete Murray introduces "Top

Of The Pops" tonight (Thursday)when guests are: Leapy Lee, MaryHopkin, Cliff Richard, Hollies,Vanity Fare, Casuals and Beatles.

Elvis, Equals, Cut singlesSINGLES by Elvis Presley,Equals, Cat Stevens andHerb Alpert are amongnew rel set for nextFriday (October 4).Equals-"Softly Softly."Tony Bennett-"Husha-

bye Mountain."Peddlers-"Comin' Home

Baby."Cat Stevens-"Here

Comes My Wife."Lionel Bart-"Isn't This

Where We Came In?"Timi Yuro-"I Must Have

Been Out Of My Mind."Fifth Dimension-"Good

News"Bonzo Dog Doo Dah

Band-"Urban Space-man."

Barry Ryan-"Eloise."

Pop Tops-"Oh Lord,Why Lord."

Herd-"Sunshine Cot-tage."

Val Doonican-"If I KnewThen What I KnowNow."

Herb Alpert - "To WaitFor Love."

Tim Buckley - "PleasantStreet."

James Brown-"Say ItOut Loud, I'm BlackAnd I'm Proud."

Elvis Presley-"You WillNever Walk Alone."

Roger Webb - "SongWithout Words."

Lance Le Gault-"Billie".Singles for the following

week (October 11) include:Julie Driscoll-"Road To

Cairo."

DISCNEWS

IN BRIEFDONOVAN, Johnny Mathis andthe Incredible String Band are be-ing lined up for London and pro-vincial concert dates in the nearfuture.

And the shows are being ar-ranged by folk star Roy Guest,who joins NEMS Enterprises thisweek as concert promotion exe-cutive. In the past he has beenresponsible for shows here bySimon and Garfunkel, Judy Col-lins, Jacques Brel and Buffy SIMarie.

Playwri*ht Dominic Behan joinsNEMS with Guest.JANIE JONES appears on "TimeFor Blackburn" this weekend(September 28)."ONE Plus One," the film inwhich the Rolling Stones star, hasbeen chosen as "London FestivalChoice" for the London Film Fes-tival being held at the NationalFilm Theatre between November18 and December 4.JOHNNY CASH, whose Britishtour with June Carter, Carl Per-kins and the Statler Brothers opensat Manchester Odeon on October25, record a Christmas radio spec-tacular for Radios 1 and 2, to bebroadcast on Christmas Day.

Johnny Cash will be recordedlive for a new album during histwo London Palladium concerts onOctober 27.DAVE DEE, Dozy, Beaky, Mickand Tich will probably do a tourof Japan in February. The group,who tour Ireland and Belgium atthe end of this month, appear inpantomime - "Dick Whittington"-at Stockton over Christmas.ALAN BOWN!, currently filmingtheir part for Jack Good's "Inno-cence, Anarchy and Soul" TVspectacular, fly to Sweden at thebeginning of October for promo-tion on "We Can Help You."Group's LP "Outward Bown" isreleased on October 1.TIM ROSE Songbook, includingthe original versions of "Hey Joe"and "Morning Dew," is publishedthis week by April Music.RADIO Free London, London'sland -based pop "pirate" station,which began broadcasting againlast Sunday, now expects to trans-mit regular weekly three-hour pro-grammes on Sundays from noon -3 p.m.VINCE EDWARD sings the titlesong from the new musical "Hair"on BBC's "Late Night Line -Up"tonight (Thursday).LONDON group Fairport Con-vention, who began a two months'residency at London's famousMarquee club last week, headlinea Festival Of Contemporary Songat the Royal Festival Hall nextSaturday (28). Also on the bill:Al Stewart, Irish group the John-stons and Americans Joni Mitchelland Jackson C. Frank.JONI MITCHELL and Jeff Beckare on John Peel's Sunday after-noon "Top Gear" on September29.VANITY FARE, the Cymbaline,Billy J. Kramer, Alex Welsh andhis band and the Epics appear in"The Jimmy Young Show" allnext week.BRIAN AUGER and Julie Dris-coll, Charlie Woolfe, the Mud,Duster Bennett, Richard KentStyle, Amboy Dukes and the Sym-bols are in "The David SymondsShow" next week.MARMALADE guest on thelunchtime "Joe Loss Show" nextFriday.

Who-"Magic Bus."Kasenetz Katz Singing

Orchestral Circus -"Quick Joey Small (RunJoey Run)".

Long John Baldry -Mexico".

LP's out on October 4are:Connie Francis-"Connie

And Clyde.""A Tribute To Wes

Montgomery."Frank Zappa - "Lumpy

Gravy."Alan Bown - "Outward

Bown."Galt Macdermot -"Hair-

pieces."LP out October 4:

Lionel Bart-"Isn't ThisWhere We Came In." ELVIS PRESLEY

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NEW MAMAS 8 PAPASSINGLE:NEW GROUP DISCOVERY:BACKING SINGERGOES SOLO.

Out from RCA this week, three releases,all very different from each other, buteach one important in its own right.

THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS have abeautiful new single with "For The Love of Ivy"c/w "Strange Young Girls" (RCA 1744). The Atitle might well sound familiar. It is, of course, thetheme from the latest Sidney Poitier movie of thesame name, which is now on national release. Afterthe smash success of MAMA CASS's solo "DreamA Little Dream of Me" (RCA 1726) the groupshould do very well with this one.

And while we're on the subject of film themes, whatabout the latest in the 'Fistful of Dollars' series ?HUGO MONTENEGRO made the No. i spot inthe States with "The Good, The Bad, And TheUgly" c/w "There's Got To Be A Better Way"(RCA 1727). Now, the disc's climbing the Britishcharts. That B side, by the way, is yet another filmtheme-from `Bandolero'.

STOICS make their disc debut this week with"Earth, Fire, Air And Water" c/w "SearchFor The Sea" (RCA 1745). The A side waswritten by that highly successful team Richard Kerrand Joan Maitland (they wrote 'Blue Eyes'). But,who are STOICS ? Well, they're all twenty yearsold, very good looking and are-Jack Casey(drums); John Wynne (Bassguitar); James Doris (ex -student, now lead guitarist)and pianist Hugh McKenna.These guys have the kind oftalent to make Glasgow-their home town-anotherLiverpool!

HAPPINESS is

tree shaped.At least itwas for Dusty

Springfield who de -cided to swing fromone in Memphis lastweek-and promptlyfell off on to her head,blacking an eye, gash-ing her forehead andcovering herself inhuge blue bruises.

And thus she returnedto Britain after her firsthistory - making week ofrecording at Atlantic'sfamous little studios -where more great soundshave been born thanprobably anywhere elsein the world.

The gashes, bruises andpain were more than com-pensated for by 12 beau-tiful tracks out in six dayswith some of the finestmusicians around.

The swellings had gonedown by Thursday whenI met her at "Top OfThe Pops" and she wasunusually calm - despitetwo minutes of agonisedmuttering into the mirrorsaying the black eyewouldn't show up and itjust looked as though shehad too much eye make-up on.

Her first day at Atlan-tic, it turned out, hadbeen quite a strangeaffair - which was to beexpected since head re-cording man Jerry Wex-ler was in slight awe ofhaving Britain's top -re-cording star in his studio,and she was in awe ofbeing around the samepeople who worked withAretha Franklin.

"We walked aroundlooking at each othermumbling and sizingeveryone up," she said."And then suddenlyeverything clicked.

"It's an amazing placeto work. The studio isreally tiny tucked awaybehind a restaurant on aparking lot in Memphis.

"But I don't think I'veever worked with suchmusical people in my life.The musicians there areall young-in their 20s-and they really livemusic. They never gohome. I know it's hardfor musicians in Britainbecause they have to rushoff to other sessions allthe time. But Atlanticmusicians work solely forthe company and they'llwork 24 hours a day ifyou'll let them.

Dusty . fell out of a tree in Memphis

America comesto Dustywith songs

"They all come into the con-trol room and listen to the tapesand if they're not pleased withsomething they'll go back anddo it all again until they are."

When word spread that D.Springfield was on her way,America's top songwriters sud-denly emerged with specialmaterial for her and handed itto Jerry Wexler. Consequentlyshe cut tracks by Burt Bach-arach, Goffin and King, RandyNewman, Mann and Weil, anda couple of unknown young-sters who just marched in andsaid, "This is for Dusty," withsongs that have staggered her.

Another RCA debut is made by LESLEYDUNCAN with "Lullaby" c/w "I Love You,I Love You" (RCA 1746). Petite and viva-cious, Lesley has a terrific voice-which you'veprobably heard before, as backing for many topstars, including Dusty Springfield. Shecertainly has the talent to get her into the charts.What's more, Lesley wrote both sides of thenew disc herself. You'll hear a lot more aboutLesley Duncan, who's living proof of the oldsaying "good things come in small packages" !

"The atmosphere was reallyelated and I was very, verypleased with the outcome. It'sthe most casual and relaxedplace I've ever worked in. Imostly just sat about contribu-ting ideas to start with.

"The musicians were 'realSouthern boys to look at -you'd never imagine they wereso wrapped up and involved intheir music.

"Jerry Wexler - who takesall Aretha's sessions - was amarvellous, intelligent man witha great sense of humour. Imean where else in the worldwould your record producer go

and get hamburgers for you?"Atlantic is about the only

studio anywhere to work onsuch a closely -knit system.

"I've cut enough nearly foran American album and asingle. I've got to go back thisweek to cut the rest of thevoices and work with Aretha'sbacking group-The Sweet In-spirations, which I'm reallylooking forward to.

"No, I didn't meet her whileI was there-she records at theirNew York studios. Well, JerryWexler spoke to her on the tele-phone but that's hardly meetingher is it?"

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WHAT is happen-ing to the beatgroup image?

There are traitors in thecamp and, beware-theymay be changing thewhole face of pop!

For creeping up thechart, surrounded on allsides by hairies from Cas-uals to Status Quo; fromCanned Heat to Doors;and from Arthur's CrazyWorld to Bee Gees arefour veritably shaven,shorn and smart younglads by the name of Van-ity Fare.

Not a 'goody-goody'group

Immaculately attired in whitepin -stripe suits, with scarcely aside -burn and not a beard ormoustache among them, VanityFare are already engaged in apersonal fight to convince thehairies that they are not a"goody goody" group, and arecertainly not 1968's answer tothe Bachelors.

"Everyone's been going onabout the length (or lack oflength) of our hair," sighed TonyGoulden. "Originally we wereshort -hairs because we played alot of dances for debutantes andcoming-out parties. But beingsmart doesn't mean you're not araver, and we can rave as well asthe next group! Anyway you askmy mum. She doesn't think I'vegot short hair!"

Dick Allix, hardened profes-sional drummer, can speak fromexperience: "I went through thelong hair bit with the Gnomes ofZurich.

"But it got to a stage when myMum wouldn't be seen in publicwith me . . . and anyway I preferwearing suits which look a bit odd

Sad,sadnightatCliff'sshowIT WAS a sad night-Cliff's re-turn to the London Palladium forhis autumn season. Sad, becauseit marked beyond all shadow ofdoubt that the era of Cliff theteenage idol, has finally departed.

Not that there weren't manyspontaneous screamings. Therewere, but these must come fromthe truly devoted Cliff fan whomnothing will shake.

No, what is sad is to make Cliffthe star of a show and then com-plete the bill with two rather un-original comedians; a ventrilo-quist; numerous stereotyped danceroutines; Mike Yarwood (good inhis own right), the PalladiumOrchestra, all of whom must beat least twice Cliff's age; and atraditional jazz band.

In short the Palladium AutumnShow has almost turned Cliff intoa name from the past-as if he'snow struggling to survive alongwith the rest of yesteryear'smusic hall. The whole effect waslike listening to a scratchy 78 rpmrecord.

Cliff in his own spot was pro-fessional and superb as ever, mix-ing a medley of his hits with"When I'm 64"; "La, La, La, La,La"; "Shout"; "If Ever I ShouldLeave You" and "Manha de Car-nival" which left the three-quarters full first -night audienceshouting for more.

If you're prepared to wadethrough nearly two hours of bore-dom to see the man you paid tosee . . . well, you'll not be disap-pointed. Beware, though. TheShadows don't arrive until nextMonday. Meanwhile Chris Barberis filling their spot competently, ifrather incongruously.

A sad show.

Vanity Fare

Changing theface of pop!with hair sticking out all roundthem."

And Tony Jarrett (he's the onehiding mysteriously behind thedark glasses) adds: "We've alwayslooked like we do, and we didn'tsuddenly think 'Oh, we're turningprofessional; we'd better gethairy.' If groups want to be hairythat's their affair-hut I think theydo us more good than harm!

''We bath every day and wash

pretty normal!"Vanity Fare are of the opinion

that in the pop business it reallydoesn't matter too much what youlook like-it's what you soundlike that matters . . . and thesounds of Vanity Fare are pleasingenough to back up their philo-sophy.

Wider appealour hair two or three times aweek, but apart from that we're "Of course our appearance does

MRS. BROWN YOU'VE GOT ALOVELY DAUGHTER

Herman's Hermits, Lance Percival (U)IT'S A SORT of rags -to -rags storywithout the riches in between. Ourhero, Herman, loses the girl, theriches, a chance for his greyhound,Mrs Brown, to win the GreyhoundDerby, the chance for pop groupfame. Added to this he looks love-sick and thoroughly miserable allthrough the film.

Like Herman's records, the film is made tomake money. It would appear to be madeespecially for the American market, beingsomething of a travelogue showing backward'ol England, a touch of pageantry and royalty,and, of course, swinging London portrayedthrough last year's hippies.

The film fails to be the happy-go-lucky comedyit sets out to be, through nofault of Herman, the Hermitsor any of the actors. It failsby being too stilted, followinga comedy line so far thendropping it. And also havingtoo many characters with im-portant parts.

Herman's first big film,which was American -made inAmerica, succeeded throughbeing simple and building upto the punchline with maxi-mum songs and minimum cen-tral characters.

Lance Percival as the honesttramp with the very posh ac-cent was excellent but wasreally superfluous to the story.

The story: Herman has agreyhound left to him by hisgrandfather which he raceswith a little help from hisfriends (the Hermits)1 whohappen to be musicians in theirspare time.

They go to London to enterthe dog, Mrs. Brown, in thegreyhound derby. After shewins the first trial, they meetMr. and Mrs. Brown, and theirlovely daughter.

help to give us a wider appeal,"says singer Trevor Brice. "We'rehoping the adults who like ourrecord will approve of our ap-pearance as well.

"But there'll always be roomfor long-haired groups . end ofdiscussion."

Perhaps one reason for thevigorous healthy appearance ofVanity Fare is that splendid rosycomplexion -giving product yog-hurt . . . the whole group's ad-dicted to it!

"It's all our manager's fault,"says Dick. "He was on somestrange diet the other month andused to sit down to a meal of onepot of yoghurt. Of course we alltook the mickey out of him, buteventually he persuaded us totry it." He sucked another spoon-ful of mixture. "Mandarin -flavoured, that's my favourite.

"We have yoghurt eating -con-tests in the van to pass the time.The winner is the person who eatsthe most . . . and the prize iscleaning out the mess in the vanafterwards!!"

In fact, passing the time ingroup vans is a very refined art-an art indeed that has never beenfully explored.

Bird -spoilingVanity Fare, apart from eating

yoghurt, enjoy asking the way inway-out Australian accents, spot-ting birds (they refrain from speci-fying which variety) and drivingover mountains and along cliffedges! In explanation we shouldadd that their faithful roadmanager George is petrified ofheights-the group will rememberfor months to come the time hedrove along an Exmoor hill roadwith both eyes shut because hecouldn't stand the sight of thevalley hundreds of feet below!

"We also find that Disc is excel-lent for plugging up the numerousdraught holes in the van," saysTony Jarrett. "That's after we'veread it, of course!"

And a final note for the futurefrom Mr Jarrett.

"We like to look smart and welike to look masculine . . so weshall still be dressing the same."

Herman with greyhound Mrs. Brown, and Sarah Caldwell as thelovely daughter

Too many peoplein Herman's film

Although it isn't shown, weassume that Herman falls madlyin love with the daughter, who isa model.

On the night of their first clubdate the daughter leaves a heart-broken Herman at the station onher way to Italy for a two -monthmodelling job. While saying good-bye, Herman loses the dog,doesn't turn up for the club dateand the group lose the date.

When they have all returnedhome the tramp turns up with thedog, who is about to have pups,and we build up to the giganticclimax of Herman seeing thingsin a different light and singing thetitle song of the film to an hours -old puppy.

FIVE CARD STUDROBERT MITCHUM

DEAN MARTINFIVE MEN hang a cheat, oneman looks on and the profes-sional gambler tries to stop it.

One by one the men in thelynching party meet theirdeaths in the same way thecheat did - strangulation orsuffocation.

Dean Martin is the profes-sional gambler and RobertMitchum is the quick -drawtough -guy preacher in this ordi-nary western and bad "who-dunit."

Gavin Petrie

Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968 9

MASON WILLIAMS is 30years old, single, lives inCalifornia, has a quiet

chuckling sense of humourand doesn't strike you as thesort of person to throw type-writers out of car windows at90 -miles -an -hour.

But he is-and he has. Appa-rently John Lennon has the resultof this strange experiment-a littlebook peculiarly written up as asort of consumers' report onwhether a typewriter will stand theroad test!

It is just one of the seven booksof poetry and essays Mason Wil-liams has sped through in thepast six years.

"The book was given a verylimited print order-I was quitesurprised to hear Lennon had acopy. We took various typewriterson to the free way in a car andsolemnly threw them out of thewindow to see how they'd standup. Naturally none of them did!"

Placid

Mason Williams is placid andpleasant and highly intelligent. Hehas to be all three to stand up tothe incredible pressures he worksunder. When you consider thathe is head script writer for therenowned Smothers Brothers TVseries, has worked on the PetulaClark TV special, with Andy Wil-liams and Roger Miller and iscurrently putting together MamaCass' first solo cabaret venture inLas Vegas, you may well boggleat the fact that in the midst ofall this he has had time to record.

" 'The Mason Williams Phono-graph Record' - from which'Classical Gas' was taken was myfirst major album.

"Before that I did one of poetrybut nobody was interested enoughin me to approach me to recordon my own before last year.

"It was really Tommy Smotherswho got me started. I'd neverpushed my music but he alwaysliked what I did when I workedas their guitarist on records andone day he just said 'why not doan album' and gave me the moneyfor it.

Mason Williams: report on road-testing typewriters,

MASONWILLIAMSIg A GAS'.

"It took four months after workand I did it as an experimentreally, in bits and pieces withoutany of the usual recordingpressures that artists work under.

"Warner Brothers were verygood. At that time they had apolicy of signing unknown peopleto see what came of it. Theysigned me and Van Dyke Parks

and a few others which was reallybrave of them."

"Classical Gas"-the only in-strumental track on the album-was finally released as a singleafter it had become constantlyplayed by American DJ's.

"I didn't really think the publicwould take to it as they did,"admits Mason. "Basically it was,built round a sonata and I playedclassical guitar on it. Of courseI'm delighted by the response toit."

Before all this happened andMason Williams became a bigname in the TV/recording set-upof Los Angeles he had spent avery split eight years.

Folk singerHe started in 1959 as a folk

singer drifting around California,two years later he joined the Navyand two years after THAT wentback to folk singing again.

It was then that he met MamaCass-also slogging the folk sing-ing circuit.

"At that time nearly everyonewe knew was trying to make it onthe folk scene. I newer actuallyworked with Cass but over twoor three years we kept bumpinginto each other doing the rounds.

"It wasn't that I was a badfolk singer I didn't make it. I wasokay but too experimental. I wasalways trying out new things andI couldn't remember half of them.I finally gave it up because 1 wasmaking £3,000 a year and spend-ing £2,500 on petrol!"

Mason joined the SmothersBrothers to play on their recordsand work on special bits of script.They signed him for their TVseries and he has since workedhis way up as chief script writer.

Currently he's working on asecond album.

"I've repeated the idea on thisalbum-as on the other-of nothaving any two songs with thesame theme. The only thing that issimilar is another guitar instru-mental track they've just releasedas my new single. It's called'Baroquesnova' and is a Baroquetune with a Bossa Nova beatwhich may sound confusing, butit's worked out rather well!"

:.

Terry Stamp-the secondgeneration

hippy POP is pop and films arefilms and occasionally when thetwain meet it is usually a oneway traffic from pop on to thescreen. Terence Stamp, how-ever, prefers to be unconven-tional and cross from films toPop -

Now don't go off the deepend, Mr Stamp has no hiddenambitions to become a singer,he is just a very enthusiasticfan of the British pop scene.So enthusiastic, that he is tocompere the first of a seriesof pop spectaculars to befilmed shortly and sold tovarious TV companies.

When he is not awayfilming, Terry lives in Londonanxiously supervising his newKing's Road restaurant-TheTrencherman-and mixes withthat vast and nebulous "In"set of actors, models andphotographers. His brother,Chris, is a co -director ofTrack Records and conse-quently Terry has recentlybeen introduced to the worldof pop.

At 30 and untidily handsome,Stamp regards himself as "asort of second generationhippy."

Early one morning at Trackoffices in Soho, feet up ondirector's desk, the celluloidGod explained his interest inpop.

"I think pop is a moremodern industry than films.Films are very old-fashionedcompared to pop, and I canvisualise great strides beingtaken in the film business whenthey get into pop. The worldis changing and pop is one of

Terry Stamp: marvellous how pop'sgrown

the few things that is changingwith it. The structure of popis more modern and moresophisticated than either theCivil Service or politics, andso I think young people con-nected with pop are movingfaster than anybody else, and Ithink they are going to makea lot of the world obsoletebecause their thinking has somuch more clarity."

Terry admits that it isthrough his brother, Chris, hehas been able to meet peoplein pop (Arthur Brown and theWho through Track) and be-come involved in the new TVspectacular.

The first hour-long showwhich Terry has agreed to"compere" is due to be madein mid -October.

"You could say I'm com-pering," says Terry, "but Iuse the word 'compere' looselybecause the format of the showisn't going to be like any-thing that has been done be-fore. Kit Lambert and I arevery clear on what we aredoing. I think it's going to begood, otherwise I wouldn't beinvolved in it, and I haven'tdone any Tv before becauseI'm not crazy about themedium."

Caroline Boucher

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Everybody's talking blues, and one of the up andcoming names on the British 'blues scene isFEARNS BRASS FOUNDRY, a Midlands-

* based group with the big blues sound that's somuch in demand now. Their power -packed newsingle, Now / taste the tears' has a pouningbeat which builds up into a positive explosion ofsound. Could easily explode right into thecharts ! The number to ask for is Decca F 12835.

One of the most talented groups on the WestCoast scene, THE TURTLES have already en-joyed several successes in this country. Theirlatest single, Elinore", is one of their very best,and you can tell that they are enjoying everyminute of it! It's a great big happy sound thatyou just have to feel good listening to ! And forthose of you in the anti -fade brigade, this onedoesn't fade, it ends ... but beautifully! Numberis London HLU 10223.

ARTHUR SPINK is already very popular Northof the border, and he has come up with a discthat has universal appeal. Titled 'Beatles OchAye!', it's a medley of some of the best-knownLennon/McCartney songs given an entirely newtreatment. The result is both unusual and enjoy-able. You'll hear several of your favourites, in-cluding Yellow Submarine, She Loves You, andFrom Me To You. This is on the Beltona label,and the number is BL 2766.

Must say a few words of praise here about THECASUALS, who released 'Jesamine' way backin May. Everyone knew that this was a very goodrecord indeed, but for some time it seemed thatit just wasn't going to move. The fact that thegroup was based in Italy didn't help, becausethey had no opportunity to do Radio or T.V. -

dates, and their public performances were all onthe continent! Still, people kept right on buyingit, simply because it was good. Then after beingout for months, "Jesamine' started leaping upthe charts. Just goes to show, you can't hold agood disc down !

More inside info next week

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on this week's new releases from Decca

Everybody's talking blues, and one of the up andcoming names on the British 'blues scene isFEARNS BRASS FOUNDRY, a Midlands-

* based group with the big blues sound that's somuch in demand now. Their power -packed newsingle, Now / taste the tears' has a pouningbeat which builds up into a positive explosion ofsound. Could easily explode right into thecharts ! The number to ask for is Decca F 12835.

One of the most talented groups on the WestCoast scene, THE TURTLES have already en-joyed several successes in this country. Theirlatest single, Elinore", is one of their very best,and you can tell that they are enjoying everyminute of it! It's a great big happy sound thatyou just have to feel good listening to ! And forthose of you in the anti -fade brigade, this onedoesn't fade, it ends ... but beautifully! Numberis London HLU 10223.

ARTHUR SPINK is already very popular Northof the border, and he has come up with a discthat has universal appeal. Titled 'Beatles OchAye!', it's a medley of some of the best-knownLennon/McCartney songs given an entirely newtreatment. The result is both unusual and enjoy-able. You'll hear several of your favourites, in-cluding Yellow Submarine, She Loves You, andFrom Me To You. This is on the Beltona label,and the number is BL 2766.

Must say a few words of praise here about THECASUALS, who released 'Jesamine' way backin May. Everyone knew that this was a very goodrecord indeed, but for some time it seemed thatit just wasn't going to move. The fact that thegroup was based in Italy didn't help, becausethey had no opportunity to do Radio or T.V. -

dates, and their public performances were all onthe continent! Still, people kept right on buyingit, simply because it was good. Then after beingout for months, "Jesamine' started leaping upthe charts. Just goes to show, you can't hold agood disc down !

More inside info next week

DECCA group records

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A COUPLE ofweeks ago when Iwanted to have achat with pop'shappiest chappy,Leapy Lee, I simp-ly picked up thephone and dialled anumber - and thesame day we weretalking away forhours with not acare in the world.

That, of course, wasbefore "Little Arrows"pierced the chart andthe whole world sat upand took notice.

Last week I tried again. 1 hreeappointments were cancelled andI eventually caught up with theleaping gent in a New BondStreet recording studios whereGordon Mills was about to cutsome tracks for Leapy's firstalbum.

We'd had about two sentencestogether when Mr Mills inter-vened with orders for him to airhis vocal chords, and the meetingcame to an abrupt finish.

Eventually the following day I

tracked Leapy down to the endof a telephone at his flat moaning"I wanna sleep. Let me sleep!"

StardomIs making

Leapy

SLEEPY

LEE!

He pulled himselftogether: "I knewthis was a busy-ness,but never so busy.It's ridiculous. I canunderstand howthese new youngkids with a hitrecord end up eitherwith a nervousbreakdown or a

swollen head,"I mean I've

done 9,000 radioshows; TV shows,interviews, morerecordings -andno sleep. You

know what I mean.

Mario Lanza"It's only because I've been

around for so long and have gotto know what goes on, that I'vemanaged to survive the last fewweeks. If "Little Arrows" hadbeen my first record I'd bewalking around thinking I wasMario Lanza by now!

"But I'm getting to view thingsa bit objectively now. I've beengoing for eight years, and justbecause of a hit record everyone

Marty Wilde from 'rock'idol to hit writer

IN CASE you're under the illusion that Marty Wilde is a ghost of the past-Ihave news for you. Marty Wilde is alive and well with two records in the hit parade.

His current hits-"Jesamine" by the Casuals, and Status Quo's "Ice In The Sun"-are proof ofthe successful new turn of Marty Wilde's career as a song writer.

Only recently emerged from behind the pseudonym he used on the two songs, Marty Wilde at 29and nine years happily married, looks very un-ghostlike and little changed from his heyday of the1950's. Since his last hit, "Bad Boy," which he also wrote,and which won him a Silver Disc in 1960, Marty has been farfrom idle. True, he retired from the hit parade scene, but hassince been kept more than busy with cabaret, musicals andfilms.

It was only little over a year ago that he started song -writingseriously when he joined up with Ronnie Scott-manager ofValley Music. Marty took the name of Frere Manston andRonnie became Jack Gellar-these are the names that appearon "Jesamine" and "Ice In The Sun."

"I'd used the name `Frere Manston' on a few other things,"explained Marty, "so if the record didn't get anywhere it didn'tmatter. Paul McCartney used Bernard Webb with 'Woman,"

just to see. We chose names be-cause we didn't want images tostand in the way. We thought it

everybody's lips ... would be hard to convince someway-out group that I couldwrite songs for them. If some-one from the past came to mewith a song I wouldn't want toknow about it."

Lucky room

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Marty and Ronnie do mostof their compoSing in theminute box -room of Ronnie'shouse in Upminster becausethey think it has been a "lucky"room for their compositions inthe past.

"We haven't sat down andthought 'we'll write a song forsuch -and -such a group'," saidRonnie. "It doesn't work likethat. If one of us has an ideafor a song and we both like it,then we'll follow it through."

"Jesamine" took them halfan hour to write from a vagueidea Ronnie had. Originally itran "when Rosemary goes .. .,"but then they decided thatalthough "Rosemary is a niceEnglish name, Jesamine is moreunusual." They are still won-dering what would have hap-pened if they had left it as"Ros.emar,y.'!.

by CAROLINEBOUCHER

It's hard to categorise exactlyhow many songs they turn outa week, as they write inspasms, and often Marty isaway doing cabaret for a coupleof weeks.

Experiment"We've normally got eight to

ten ideas on the drawingboard," said Marty, "and wenever cut less than five demosat a time."

At present they have justfinished two numbers for theStatus Quo LP.

"With certain things you canafford to experiment," saidMarty, "on an LP you needn'tbe so market conscious."

Their ambition at present isto write a hit song for TomJones, who may consider oneof their songs for his nextsingle.

Encouraged"I think it's very hard, there's

such a good stock of Britishwriters that are writing suchgood stuff compared to Ame-rica. John Lennon and PaulMcCartney started it all off andencouraged people to startwriting.

"These two records mayfinish and that's it for us, butwe write stuff that we thinkis right. I'm convinced it's thesong, not the writer that countsnow. .There's a load of Burt

wants to know all of a sudden."Not that I mind that, of

course. It's fantastic and greatand the best thing that's everhappened to me. But the thoughtoccurs to me that there must behundreds of other singers andgroups about better than me-and let's face it I'm- not a greatsinger-who don't get anythingwritten about them.

"It's terrible really, but I

suppose it's only human nature."But what of the future now for

Leapy? In the past everythinghe's touched seems to have turnedto dust.

"Yes, well. I definitely won'tbe using the money to open anymore bingo halls. That scene'sdefinitely over!

Eternal pessimist"But I'm an eternal pessimist,

and I think it could still all foldtomorrow. But I'm not going tosay 'Got a hit record; I must leapout and earn as much quick lootas I can.'

"So now I'm leaving it all toGordon and Colin Berlin. They'vedecided that I should lay off workfor a while, and not suffer fromover -exposure.

"It's a great temptation to rushout, earn a lot of money and thendisappear, but this time I'vedecided to try and achieve some-thing a little artistically.

"I mean the record is every-body's success-Gordon's, theorchestra's, and everyone elsewho helped to make it a hit.Now I've got to try and make asuccess of myself-and I shall trythat on the comedy side.

"I've made a living on comedybefore, and let's face it, I can't

achieve much more on the singingside."

One thing that is makingLeapy Lee lose his chirp is Pye'sdecision to re-release his ''It'sAll Happening- single of fouryears ago.

Leapy: 'I'm not a great singer'"That's a bit much, that. But

they're always doing it. Properparasites. Still it did sell 20,000copies when it was first issued,but I'm not having anything todo with it.

I'll deny it!"If anyone asks me I'll deny

I had anything to do with it."And on that note he groaned

again: "Now let me sleep willyou. Oh no, hold on. There'ssomeone bashing at the door. OhGod! It's my publicist come todrag me off somewhere else.Who'd be a star? Only joking!"

David Hughes

Marty Wilde . . didn't give the pop scene up-it gave me up

Bacharach stuff in offices that'snot been touched.

"There's been so many songsthat you've heard it's difficultto know whether you've heardthem ten years ago when allthese melody lines are runningthrough your head."

Marty has no ,.regrets about

his fall from fame."I didn't give the pop scene

up-it gave me up when I didn'thave any more hits. But as faras I'm concerned I haven't anyregrets. I've learnt a lot of bitterlessons that have stood me ingood stead. It makes youwiser."

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NEWSPAPERSTHE BIGGER -AND -BETTER BATTLE towin the shopper is on,as Antique Markets,Supermarkets, Hyper-markets and Drugstoresspring up like overnightmushrooms. Last weekanother answer to thebewildered shopper'sprayers opened - Lon-don's Oxford Street Ar-cade - self-styled "theshop of shops" and de-signed to make shoppinga joy to execute.

Situated down theMarble Arch end of Ox-ford Street, I approachedthe Arcade with consider-able caution after mymishap with the mirroreddoors of the ChelseaDrugstore. Fortunatelythe Arcade's entrance isjust one gaping void,reminiscent of a rabbitburrow. Inside, thedouble - storied shoppingarea is large, light andairy. So far there are30 stalls.

The stalls - rented outweekly to holders - arepleasantly varied afterthe monotonous dis-appointment of the Chel-sea Drugstore. You canbuy wigs, cameras, car-pets, clothes, coffee,records, newspapers, In-dian, Grecian, Japaneseand Chinese things.There's a bank andforeign exchange-an ex-cellent idea if it's yourbank. There's a magicman selling rubber ear-wigs, a n d arrows -through -the -head, and theinevitable array of UnionJack mugs and match-boxes in the doorway tocatch the eye of the pass-ing tourist. Also a stallthat will trace your an-cestry back and make upan impressive shield,which was crowded withaspiring baronets when Iwas there.

On the whole, the Ar-cade makes interestingshopping. The jewellerystall had some supersolid silver rings from29s. which were reallyunusual. Upstairs, thefemale boutique had agood variety of reason-ably -priced clothes -striped jersey dresses for£2 1%. Ild., and cordu-roy suits for 54 gns.

The Arcade's manager,Peter Harris, says hewants to keep the stallsas varied as possible.

"It's not really influ-enced by the ChelseaDrugstore," he explained,"people seem to like toshop in a departmentstore atmosphere, but in-dependent retailers can'tafford it, so here theycan take a stall."

The Arcade is openuntil 8 p.m. in the even-ing, and worth a visit.I just tremble to thinkwhat proportions the nextemporium will reach.

Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968 13

LARRY TAYLOR

Instrument played: Bass guitar.Born: June 26, 1942, in NewYork.Present home: Los Angeles.Eyes: Brown.Hair: Brown.Family: One younger sister, andone older brother, Melvin, who'sthe drummer with the Ventures..Education: High school in LosAngeles.Previous jobs: All I've ever donereally is play music. I worked in adelicatessen one time, but it onlylasted about a month.How met group: I was doing re-cords and recording sessions forother groups. I was with LittleAnthony and Jerry Lee Lewis, andI did the first three Monkeealbums. Then I met Henry, Boband Al, and later they called meup so here I am. That was abouta year and a half ago.Musical education: Self taught.Career highlight: Coming here,and appearing at the MontereyPop Festival.Interests: Record collecting.Favourite singer: Jimi Hendrix.Ambition: To be successful atwhat I'm doing.

AL WILSONInstrument played: Harmonica,slide guitar and vocal.Born: July 4, 1943, in Boston,Massachusetts.Present home: Los Angeles.Eyes: Green.Hair: Brown.Family: One older sister, and onebrother and two sisters youngerthan me. They live in Bostonstilt.Education: I read music at BostonUniversity for a year and a half,but I lost my grant because ofpoor grades, so I couldn't affordto stay there.

Previous jobs: I was a bricklayerfor three years.How met group: I met Bob firstthrough his records, and we werethe only ones in the group tobegin with.Career highlight: Definitely com-ing here.Interests: Nature, apart frommusic, of course.Britain: I like it better than myown country. Perhaps I'll findsomething going on in Britain I

don't like, but I haven't found ityet.Favourite food/drink: Friedchicken. Gin and tonic.Ambition: To see all the worldat least once; then maybe I willbe able to understand people alittle more.

HENRY VESTINEInstrument played: Lead guitar.Born: Washington D.C. on De-cember 25, 1944.Present home: Los Angeles.Eyes: Hazel.Hair: Fair.Family: We all moved to L.A. in1957-I'm an only child.Education: A year and a half atLos Angeles City College.Previous jobs: I decided I'd ratherplay the guitar than go to school.I played with the Mothers of In-vention and in local bands andbeer bars.How met group: I knew Bobthrough record collecting. I quitthe Mothers of Invention, andI'd met the others at the AshGrove club in L.A., so I calledthem up and said I'd like to playwith them.Career highlight: Coming here.Interests: Collecting old records.Favourite singer: Albert Collins-he's a guitar player from Houston.Favourite food/drink: Steak andlemonade.Britain: I like it very much. Ilived here for three months when

in Cambridge. My

father was a geo-physicist and hewas working at the universitythere.Ambition: To play well and besuccessful. Maybe to do somerecord producing.

FITO DE LA PARRA

lnstniment played: Drums.Born: Mexico City, February 8,1946. I'm Mexican.Present home: Los Angeles.Eyes: Blue.Hair: Black.Family: One half-brother andthree half-sisters.Education: The French -Spanishcollege and University in MexicoCity. I read psychology at theuniversity and then decided I wasa drummer more than a psycho-analyst.How met group: I've played withmost groups in Mexico, and someAmerican groups. I was playingin a night club in L.A.-the TomCat-about nine months ago, andtheir manager saw me and likedme, so I was auditioned, and thatwas it.Career highlight: Coming here.Interests: Motor cycles. I had aBMW that I used to race, but Iwas too bad to make it.Favourite singer: James Brownand John Lee Hooker.Favourite food: Pork chops andsea food.Britain: I love it. I respect theBeatles, and I like the groups inEngland - I think they have agood thing going.Ambition: To play the blues aslong as I can.

BOB HITEVocalist.Born: February 26, 1943 (the dayafter George Harrison) in Tor-rance, California, which is practi-

Angeles.

CANNED HEAT (left to right) back: Fito

Present home: Los Angeles.Eyes: Brown.Hair: Brown.Family: One brother, Richard,who's 17 and plays bass, piano,tuba, guitar and organ.Education: High school in Tor-rance, then the family moved toDenver, so I finished there.How formed group: I had arecord playing session at myhouse, and a couple of boysbrought their instruments and westarted playing, and Al and I

de /a Parra, Al Wilson, Henry Vestine. Front: Larry Taylor and BobHite.

formed a group and Henry joinedus a couple of weeks later, andso it went on.Previous jobs: I was a dish-washer, and I worked in a groceryshop and with my father makingcomputers, and then I ran arecord shop.Musical education: I studied thetrumpet for seven years. I quitbecause I didn't like marching inthe band at school and becauseI played football and you couldn'tdo both.

Career highlight: Coming here.Interests: Music.Favourite food/drink: Tortillosand coke.Britain: I love it. Henry, Al and1 have almost decided that if thisband is a success we're going tomove here. The people are nice,they don't care how you dress,and the grass is so green.Ambition: To be some sort ofrecord producer, to have a recordcompany and go out searching fortalent.

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thenewL.Ps

TOMMYJAMES -A

GROUPTOMMY JAMES and the,:).Shondells-"Mony Mony"))(Roulette): If you're one of

@ those people who thinksTommy James began at

:..1"Hanky Panky" and ended%with "Mony Mony' . .

:::you're wrong. The group,0although not progressivegor super -talented, has;:::much more to offer, as

;:album debut shows.Apart from the title track

and a raving "I Can't Go%Back To Denver," the songsii1

are simple, unpretentious andg;for the most part, gentle and 5i

%tuneful and all self-com45.posed. Some like "Do Unto![::;:

%Me" have the Tamla fee1,0% others are almost ballads.

Tony Blackburn in his%sleeve notes calls them a%

% "fun" group, which is prob-%ably true. They're here to bt0ienjoyed and danced to.

BILLY ECKSTINE and::::;@QUINCY JONES should

a good mi7.ture, but "At;[:`:::Basin Street East" (Fontana%Special) has caught them on giion off night. Here is a "live"

:recording that hasn't comebut at the cheap price ::;<:'

you may like it to complete gcollection. We're told that the

iiiiiponkey is a new dance craze,:i:;and to prove it here comei)3110THER DAN ALL

%iSTARS (all three of them!) r:`:;with "Follow That Donkey' eii(Trojan). Perhaps we're ig-%:morant, but it just sounds like;;:):i:i:;average bluebeat with theg'cicld harmonica here and ::::

there. Nice, but unstunning."The PATTERSONS

:fare to Ireland what the ifi:)Trapp family was to Austria"%run the sleeve notes to F

"Travelling People" (CBS). a`:':::::Which should quickly settle

whether or not you'll like %this sugary selection of bal-

%lads from the Green country.% Like many another fine %

:%icomposer RANDY NEW-i!;MAN'S songs really do sound g::::::better done by someone

One reason is his voice, which;;:::be honest just doesn't%

make it. Some people can::;'no't sing and still sound great,::::but not Randy. Even the::::::'::massed orchestra of appar-%ently 100 -plus on his firstNReprise album don't do much 34g to make up for it. But he has;.,::};;written some very beautiful':'?

songs indeed, some on this%%album-for instance "I Think

Going To Rain Today.%It's just that Judy Collins'fl version was so great, and this:;::isn't. Pity.

LONNIE DONEGAN@g Showcase (Marble Arch)-N%just the album for those fans::::::%of Lonnie's whose 45's (and::?:g some 78's) of chart topping;;;;?@skiffie music of about ten@years ago have worn out.0fbThe best of the skiffle era on:

this, including "Alabamy@Bound" and "I Shall Not Be.

"CHRIS BARBERPlays (Marble Arch), hark- :?

zing back to the days when%%traditional jazz was king. An

album of the big numbers offl Chris Barber, well worth agEliSten to.

Latin" Overtones" by g"i0 BILL McGUFFIE (Phillips)'.;:`0' is excellent but strictly for g

fans and background music.Music to eat ice creams inthe cinema by!

Politics,America andthe Nice

"AMERICA is pregnant with traumas and anticipation,but is murdered by the hand of the inevitable" says theyoung voice of one of Pat Arnold's children at theend of "America", by the Nice.

And "America" has captured the imagination of British reco rd -buyers enough to persuade them to buy 50,000 copies. Strange forsuch an old, well-known song-but it is presented by the Nicewith such drama and excitement that it truly represents the spiritof Chicago riots, assassinations, fear and violence which seemsto be the feeling of America in 1968.

"Satire has done more," says Lee Jackson, Geordie singer and bass -playerwith the group, "to put politicians like Harold Wilson in their proper perspec-tive than any serious protest of outraged indignation."

Thus at the climax of "America" in their stage act the Nicehave been known to burn the revered Stars and Stripes-fordoing which they have been banned from ever playing in London'sRoyal Albert Hall again.

The Nice are thoroughly conscious of the times in which theylive-but they are anything but political agitators or angryyoung men concerned with nothing but improving society.

(Drummer Brian Davison laughed non-stop for four minuteswhen he heard someone had christened guitarist Dave O'List a"hot -tongued young radical."David is a charming guy, butone of the quietest, mostretiring people one could everwish to meet. Hence Brian'smirth.)

But the group is concernedthat its own form of protest isas valid as anyone else's, be itscuffles with policemen beforethe American embassy inGrosvenor Square, rallies inTrafalgar Square or a com-edian's impression of GeorgeBrown on television.ENGINE DRIVERS"We feel everyone has an

opinion on politics and theyshould express it any way theycan," said Lee. "Why shouldwe be prevented from express-ing our own beliefs?

"Everybody else does, fromdustmen to engine drivers toactors. Particularly actors-after all, Ronald Reagan, anactor, is Governor of Cal-ifornia, and you can't reallyget much more politicallyconscious than that can you?"

They know what they'retalking about too-the groupdid one highly successful tourof the States three monthsago, and, although then was arelatively quiet time in theaffairs of that troubled nation,they gained enough impres-sions to know what it was allabout

"American policemen areas much to blame for the vio-lence there as anyone " saidKeith Emerson the group'swild, wild organist. "When wewent to Haight Street in SanFrancisco all the kids had littlewhistles, and as soon as anyof them spotted a cop they'dstart to blow it.

"Then anyone else wouldjoin in and pretty soon a wholeblock would be whistling be-cause of one copper.

"But American policemenare pretty bad. Honestly, thosekids in Grosvenor Squaredidn't know how lucky theywere."

NICE: from left-Keith Emerson, David O'List and Lee Jackson with Brian 'Slinky' Davison in front

`Satire has done more toput politicians in their properplace than any serious protest'

If there was ever a groupto dispel the distressing popu-lar image of groups as hairy,unwashed louts who care fornothing more than makinglots of bread and getting drunkout of their minds in foulclubs, it must be the Nice.

ZEN BUDDHISTLee will quote Zen Buddhist

parables at the drop of a hatand reads Oscar Wilde adnauseum; Brian has a deepinterest in Indian music, re-ligion and mysticism; Davidtreasures an album whichfeatures the now unfashion-able Maharishi Mahesh Yogitalking about the untappedsource of power within us all,while Keith has a large col-lection of the works of JohannSebastian Bach.

What all four care aboutabove everything is music,their own and anyone else's.Thus there were only twotracks on their first (and sofar, only) album which thegroup didn't write, and what-'

production. One of those you'llbe able to play in ten yearstime and it'll still sound great.

Doris Troy made her namewith a song called "Just OneLook," which was a huge hit in1963. That, and the other best-known Troy track, "WatchaGonna Do About It," are avail-able on a double -sided goldenoldies single from Atlantic.

Also the 12 -track "Just OneLook" album, containing eightinson and the. Miracles. were songs Doris wrote with Gregorycompletely inspired .by the Carroll (including "Look" andChantels and. based their whole "Watcha") may be re-releasedvocal .styling on them. Golden later this year. Doris was born

Goodies One and Two - in New York City and first gotanother great record from turned on to R' n' B whilstMajor Minor. working as an usherette at theStill with the same company, famous Apollo Theatre. Re -

subsidiary label Toast have now mind me to tell you all abouton release one of my all-time, THAT place sometime.main, number one soul songs: Last slice of Toast-A and RDoris Troy's "I'll Do Any- director Vicki Wickham verything." Originally on Cameo excited about new RosettaParkway in 1965, this to me is Hightower - said to be supera soul classic in every respect: soulful. "Red Balloon" was thesong, vocal performance and previous single from Roz,

MAJOR MINOR! There. Done it. At long last. Aftersaying those two words about 300 million times I'vefinally got to actually write them. Why? Double M

have got some Double G. Golden Goodies Volumes One andTwo consists of some fabulous oldies from the late 50'searly 60's period.

The LPs are set for October release and contain tracks like"Fanny Mae" by Buster Brown (Mighty Sam has a more recentversion on Stateside), "Do -Re-Mi"-Lee Dorsey, "Goody,Goody" - Frankie Lymon andthe Teenagers, plus more well-known things such as "BarbaraAnn," "Itty Bitty Pretty One,"and "See You In September."

One of the most interestingtracks is on volume one, "I'mConfessin'," by the Chantels.Rhythm and Blues expert DaveGodin of Soul City Recordstells me that Smokey Bill Rob -

r - soIr.

Johnnie ae,vvalker

ok,

former lead singer of the Or-ions (remember "Don't HangUp"?).THANKS very much for

your many letters re theRay King Soul Band. Theyhave just returned from atour of France and are cur -

ever they're doing they aresuddenly liable to launch intodiscussions of the music theyplay and ways to make itbetter.

"America" was an importantpart of their stage act somemonths before they releasedit as a single, way back in June;and the version of "America"they play now is radicallydifferent to the single.

"What we play is the fusionof many different types ofmusic" says Lee. And that'swhat accounts for the Nice'sexplosively different sound.While Brian (whose very nameis spoken reverently by mostaspiring drummers) playsdrums in a style which wouldbenefit many technically per-fect jazzmen, Lee adds grind-ing bass and Davy plays guitarin a style which started out asstrongly Clapton - influencedand is now no one's but his own,Keith is quite likely to belooning about on top of it allplaying straight quotes fromJ. S. Bach's Brandenburg Con-

rently doing a week both onthe "David Symonds Show"and at the Playboy Club.This is a return gig for theband who, when last there,recorded their show for anew LP, just available on theDirection label.

"Live At The Playboy" in-cludes "Mercy," "Respect,""Save Me," "Knock On Wood,"Walita" (a Ray King original),"Funky Broadway," "Hold On,I'm Comin," etc., etc. Haven'theard it yet, but it should bevery good.

Maurice McCallister andMac McLaurin Green soundlike the new haggis -throwing,hammer -eating champions. Butas Maurice and Mac they be-come a fantastic soul duo, who,with their latest Chess release,"Why Dont You Try Me,"should definitely cause Sam andDave to lose some sleep. Noth-ing to say about this record.

Ain't no way I can do itjustice. Has- best of Detroit andMemphis. Tamla tambourineand strings, plus the funkiest,Stax-style rhythm groove ever,plus a churchy organ, plus greatRik Hall production, plus sockit type singing from M and M.You owe it to your soul to hearthis song.

certo No 4, or whatever.Their quest for new sounds

has led David to playingtrumpet-he did on "Cry OfEugene" on the album-andBrian to the tenor saxo-phone. "I can play along withthe riff on 'Hey Jude'," hesaid proudly after a week ofpractising.

WEIRD BOXAnd Keith now gets far

more sounds from his humbleHammond organ than themanufacturers could ever havedreamed was possible. Histechnique now includes stick-ing knives between the keysto keep certain notes goingwhile he plays others, andstrumming with his hands onsome weird box at the backof the instrument which en-ables him to walk off stagewith sounds still pouring outof it.

Music is the name of thegame-and the Nice are soexpert in the game that theycannot fail to capture theminds of all who care whatthey put into them. Thus"America"-for three monthsit's been bought steadily andonly now is it reaping thebenefits it deserves. And itwill do more....

Doris Troy: ex -usherette at the Apollo

YOU know how all areasof London have the WI,

EC4, type thingy? Well Kil-burn is NW, which stands forflocking on wood (what's a"K" between friends!) whichis what the soul brothers aredoing high up the EdgwareRoad. First cameth BeaconRecords, now John Abbeyhas started the Action RecordCompany who have alreadyone of their first four in theR 'n' B charts.

They've a Fantastic Johnny"C" album out on November 1called "Boogaloo Down Broad-way," after the hit single.

The Showboat Special-a Dover -Boulogne boat trip set for thisSaturday, with Johnnie Walker,Amen Corner and Cupid's Inspira-tion, has been cancelled. At presstime no reason was known for thecancellation.

"WELL, it's all right foryou. You're a star." 0Quote from uncouth

acquaintance over the week-end. Yet again, monumen-tal misuse of the word. Ofcourse, I ant not a star, andthe sad thing about theworld of entertainment atthe moment is that there arenone anywhere else either.

There are no stars. No film :::;or theatre stars, no pop or 4TV stars, no radio stars orstars of stage, screen and life. 4

Some while ago the Beatlestook it all away from Holly- A:wood. They became the firstglamourless stars, and in sodoing destroyed the era ofgold lame, greased kiss curls,pink leather Cadillacs and 4white ermine.

"And WHAT?" they wouldsay in incredulous scouse ac-cents, and the star world would 4ismile and laugh at the outrage- 4ous innocence of these frank,honest, unsophisticated new ;4entrants to the glitter society.

But glitter no more. Not forJohn, Paul, George and Ringo.They were down to earth,humorous, sarcastic. They hadno respect for the phony worldof film people. 0THE public loved the Beatles,

and followed them inevery way. They became thebiggest, and the last stars.Biggest because their starquality was entirely new, en-tirely different from that ofprevious generations. Remem-ber Tab Hunter, Fabian andBing? Frank Sinatra flew inand out of London last weekand who cared?

So they were also the last.For having destroyed glamour-having made an image outof hate for phoniness and pre-tention-there was no goingback. We - the public-couldn't built up any idols anymore, now that we knew.

And then the Beatles lostit too. In their own privateminds they tried to becomeglamorous. Flashy psychedelicRolls-Royces - mansions inWeybridge. Early fakes werecapped teeth, tiaras, feet printsin cement. Now they becamedrugs, Maharishi and flowerpower.

A few smaller names triedthe new anti -glitter style andbecame mini -stars for a while.

And now? There are nostars, of any kind, anywhere.

I, for one, miss them.Excuse me for being banal

but back to records.1" WISH you would buy Ray2- Stevens. Even now I canhear "Mr. Businessman" withenjoyment. Please go out ofyour way to listen to BobbyVee four times, Marvin andTammi (when I rave I reallyrave), Orbison's "Heartache,"Bob Brady and the Con -Chords. Peter Sarstedt. SimonDupree with a Komlosy specialhit. A magnificent lyric fromJeremy Taylor about velvetsteering wheel covers. Plus araving Martha.

Delighted by my sheer bril-liance on Radio (I may notbe a star, but I'm as closeas I can get, damn it!) RobinScott has booked me everySaturday 4.0 - 5.30 to do the"Pick of What's New." So ityou can hear me, please do,because I shall be highlightingthe best: attempting to makethe good-commercial.

A hard task but worthy ofattempt. King forever!!

MARYany

Mum'sideal!THE FACE is familiar, thename is almost a householdword, the song is at the topof the charts and Mary Hop -kin's career has been success-fully launched. It all lookedquite effortless. To find outjust how much preparationand coaching went on before-hand we took a look behindthe scenes at the puppeteerwho pulls the strings-Mary'smanager Terry Doran.

A fellow Liverpudlian andpersonal friend of the lateBrian Epstein, Terry, 28, be-came involved with Apple rightat the start and to this day isnot quite sure how he becameMary's manager. He was origi-nally on the publishing side ofApple, and when Mary ap-peared and was successfullyauditioned, Terry - vague inthe nicest possible way - justended up managing her; thereis still no paper contract tosay so, it is accepted fact. Heis also manager of Grapefruit.

Manage"Mary came along and there

was nobody to manage her.Apple's only interest in her was thelabel-so somehow or other hereI am," explained Terry.

We were at London airport, theonly place that Terry was able tohold a conversation that lastedmore than a hasty five minutes. Hehad just returned from Paris withMary that afternoon and set offto Ireland to see the Grapefruit inthe evening-luggage stuffed intoa dilapidated bag he had bor-rowed from Ringo to carry hiscat around in, and had never re-turned.

Managing the first artist to besigned to such a formidable labelas Apple might intimidate some,but Terry appears quite unruffledabout the whole thing.

"I had a lot of help from myfriends," he said. "Mary's very

Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968 15

MARY HOPKIN with admirers : 'her voice is so good . . . no matter what song she sings it's Mary Hopkin'

good - she can handle herself.People say she's shy, but I don'tthink she is. She's a mum anddad's ideal daughter-'Only speakwhen you are spoken to' -1 canremember being told that, andthat's exactly what she does. Shehates being fussed over, she getsvery embarrassed, which I thinkis so sweet.

"To begin with, I introducedher to a lot of people round Lon-don and receptions and so on, butthat's the normal thing anyonewould do with a new artist-makepeople aware that Mary Hopkinis a new artist."

InterviewsIn dealing with the press at in-

terviews-frightening for an 18 -year -old fresh trom school asMary was-Terry said he onlyhelped over a few points at thebeginning and then left her to saywhat she liked.

"If I had started restricting whatshe said and told her what to say,then you'd lose the real Mary,which I don't want to happen."

Likewise with buying Mary'snecessary wardrobe, Terry tookher around to the shops but letMary do the choosing and offeredhis opinion on dresses if she askedhim.

"I think the dresses that she'shad are very nice, very pretty. Sheisn't the sort of. person for spec-tacular Dusty Springfield typedresses. She had a limited amount

to spend at the beginning, butwith the work she's got now, themoney's in the bank and she canafford to get anything she likes."

Mary is still living in an hotelwhen she is in London at present,but Terry and his assistant JackOliver are busy looking for a flatfor her and her sister, Carol, whois coming up to London to go toart college.

"Her sister is very, very goodfor Mary," says Terry. "Shemothers Mary as much as is neces-sary, and I don't think Mary likesbeing alone. Carol is also runningthe fan club-`The Mary HopkinFriendly Assoc iat ion'."

Compared with the extensivegrooming and coaching Brian Ep-stein gave the Beatles, telling themexactly what to say at the earlyinterviews and what to wear, MaryHopkin has been relatively ne-glected.

Aware"People like Mary have read

everything that went on, so they'remore aware and there is thereforeno great necessity for me to say'Do this' or 'do that'," explainedTerry.

Terry admits that he feels veryresponsible for Mary. Six monthsago she was an ordinary school-girl about to take her "A" levels.Now she has given up everythingto pin her hopes on music andApple.

"It's like Engelbert with 'LastWaltz.' It was his voice that made

I OFTEN WATCH the begin-ning of "Dee Time" on a Sat-urday, 'cos it follows the LucyShow, which is a good laugh,and occasionally "Dee Time"have good musical acts on, likeJ. J. Jackson and Spanky andOur Gang, or a good chatter,like Tony Newley or DameEdith Evans. And the week be-fore last I watched 'cos theynearly had on, one of the best -ever American pop acts, Slyand the Family Stone.

But, apparently, 'cos one of theguys in the band was pulled toappear in court at a future dateon a drugs charge, "Dee Time"administered early "justice,"assumed him guilty and took thegroup off the show.

I also often watch the begin-ning of the show, 'cos there's arun-down of Who'S On, whichmeans you don't have to sitthrough the whole thing if thereare no faces on you fancy watch-ing. Actually, as an added attrac-tion, the cast -list is illustrated-but I guarantee that you'd neverrecognise anyone from theirpictures-tho' you might havespotted one and two halves ofDave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mickand Tich one week!

Anytime I do see all or part ofthe programme, I feel as I dowhen a well-meaning aunt givesme a gift I neither want nor like,

and I have to make appropriatetactful noises of thanks at thelumber. "Dee Time" has the sameeffect, but I find it harder to betactful, 'cos though it is well-meaning and inoffensive, it's sototally predictable and lacking inbite or imagination that you reallycan go off and make tea withoutmissing a thing.

But completely unforgivable arethe weekly casting goofs. Thereare weeks when "Dee Time"makes "Opportunity Knocks"look like "The Palladium." A fewweeks ago, two middle-aged,heavily toupee -d, bingo callers,clad in Carnaby Street gear com-pletely destroyed a nice ballad,and to add insult to injury, on thesame show, someone called Margohad to be seen to be believed.

And how about last week'sdeliberate mistake-the Carrolls?What! For the first few secondsthe lead girl was hysterical, 'cos ithad to be a great send-up (wouldyou believe, Marty Feldman?)-but it wasn't, she was serious! Butit's really both sad and infuriating,'cos there are so many good acts,who never get the chance Le beseen on television and when adiabolical act like the Carrolls getthe opportunity they blow it.

And then there's Simon Dee,who should know better. He hasa good basic, pop -music back-ground, from ex -Radio Carolinedisc -jockey to current Radio 1,and makes a good job of it. So

what on earth is he doing with astuffy television show, which is apretentious and poor imitation ofDavid Frost?

Simon has neither the person-ality nor the knowledge to com-pete with Frost, and, anyway whybother, when he could have amuch younger, early evening show,instead of constantly strugglingwith guests he knows little about,and who leave him with egg on hisface?

So what a terrible state pop -TVis in, when your only chance ofgetting television exposure on arecord is to be in the Top Twentyor Ceylonese for "Top of thePops," folky or freaky for "HowIt Is," an "International" namefor "Frost" or a tin of Heinzfor "Dee Time."

the song and that's the same withMary. Her voice is so good, nomatter what song she sings it'sMary Hopkin. We're looking formaterial for an album next andperhaps we'll choose a single fromit. If Paul and John write hersomething she'll be knocked outby it.

"At the moment she's not doingany gigs, and I'm being veryselective about what I let her do.At TV studios all I have to dowhen I go along with her is togo and stand in the control roomand see that they get the soundbalance right. In Paris yesterdayit was a joke. They had full echo,and it sounded as if she was ina cave."

Since Terry first met Mary, hesays that show business hasn'tchanged her and although hethinks it will make her more aware

of things, hopes she won't changetoo much.

'An old age pensioner sent herseveral letters with a pressedflower in each one while she wason 'Opportunity Knocks' and thenhe sent her a watch," said Terry.-She cried her eyes out over it.She gets very touched by thingslike that."

Following the success of "ThoseWere The Days" Mary is at pre-sent working very hard indeedwith appearances and shows,which worries Terry.

"She's still eighteen you know,she can't work twenty-four hours aday, it's not right. The amountof work she's been doing so faris too much. It's fantastic though.I don't think I've ever knownanyone enjoy singing as much asshe does."

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"Diddy" David Hamilton isthe announcer who appeared on"Daddy's Music Box" starringKen Dodd. Ken started callingDavid "Diddy" David -and thename stuck.

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TINY TIM...BIGGESTFRAUD INYEARS?

IT IS quite amazing how apparently sensible mem-bers of our society can be such easy prey for showbusiness hawks.

So the entire auditorium of London's exaltedRoyal Albert Hall is to be handed over to the 'uppercrust' so they can listen open mouthed to the greatestsinger since Caruso ... Tiny Tim!

And because of theclever way Mr Tim's pub-licity men are working,those same intelligentpeople will actuallyTHINK that Tiny'sinsane catawaulings arethe newest and best thingthat's happened to popu-lar music.

When will people withbrains of their own, learnto use them -instead ofstill being dictated to?It only takes brains torealise Tiny Tim is thebiggest fraud since thePiltdown man!SARAH TOWNSEND,7a Woodside Road, Sut-ton, Surrey.

CattyKennyEverett!

DOES Kenny Everett have tomake it so obvious that he doesn'tlike the Dave Clark Five?

I thought only women werecatty. It's about time somebodytold Kenny Everett what a loadof tripe his radio show is. Maybehe doesn't know there are othergroups apart from the Beatles. -MARION COLE, Filey Avenue,London, N.16. I was very annoyed at whatKenny Everett said about theDave Clark Five's new record,"The Red Balloon." I think therecord is very good, and hisFrench is first class. I don't likepeople who call records "rubbish."I like the record and so do a lotmore of their fans, so Kenny,don't say their records are rubbishagain. -MARY TRUSCOTT, 19

Booth Crescent, Bull -Farm, Mans-field, Notts. Welcome back Penny Valen-tine! Arthur Brown was intelligentand a very good critic, but thatloud -mouth Everett! Who is he totell us what to buy. Just becausehe can't stand John Rowles orSpanky and Our Gang, there isno need to be downright insultingabout them.

His zaniness is only a flimsycover for being rude to anybodyhe fancies. Somebody puncture hisego before it makes Radio 1

explode. - R. JACOL, 4 HollyBush Close, Church Village,Glamorgan.

Johnnie's commentsJOHNNIE WALKER'S commentson the "decline" of Motown (Disc14.9.68) in the main are grosslymisplaced.

Like so many he regards Mo-town as only the Four Tops andthe Supremes, but what aboutother Motown groups and artists?

I would like to hear Mr.Walker's comments on the lastthree Temptations', the last fourMiracles', and the last two Mar-velettes' singles, which comparevery favourably with the older"classics." - J. ECCLESON, 22Tweed Street, Birkenhead, Ches-hire.

Silent Mamasand Papas

FOR A YEAR the Mamas andPapas have remained in completeseclusion; their latest releases haveflopped totally and they have beenentirely ignored by our DJs. Wehear reports of a new LP and atlast the suspense has ended.

The "Papas and Mamas" LP isa gem - absolutely flawless andunique. Full credit must go to theMamas and Papas themselves -their vocal power is at its utmostpeak of sheer brilliance -and toPapa John and Lou Adler, for theoverall production is remarkablyoutstanding. -M. HAYWARD, 2Westlands Road, Hedon, Nr. Hull.

Isn't it about time that someof your readers woke up to thetruth that most of today's pop"artists" have absolutely no talentand have just jumped on to amulti -million pound bandwagon.

I never cease to be amazed bythe way your correspondents getso worked up about hundreds ofgroups and singers who lack notonly talent but voices. Very fewof today's idols will leave theirnames printed for ever on the

TINY TIM

pages of posterity, and these willbe real artists, with real talent. TheBeatles, Cream, Bob Dylan andScott Walker. -MARTIN BRAD-LEY, 1 Kingswood Road, Tad -worth, Surrey.AFTER ALL that has been saidabout the Doors I wonder howBritish groups like Jeff Beck,Cream, etc. go down so well inAmerica because they are so muchbetter musicians and singers. I

have known practically unknownBritish groups play better, withless equipment.

And Jim Morrison? He is noth-ing but a long-haired greasy rockercavorting about the stage like across between Little Richard, MickJagger and P. J. Proby and not

CLUES ACROSS1. Popular fashion designer (6, 4)

7. We can help you Bown (4)

8. It gets beaten -by amplifiers!7)

9. Show some interest - in anEastern Hill? (6)

12. A Stone, almost, in Birming-ham (5)

14. Looks invitingly (5)16. One of the Mamas? (6)18. Romantic happenings? (7)20. Put on record (4)

21. That inhabited by ArthurBrown? (5, 5)

CLUES DOWN2. See-through stuff? (5)3. She's in the variety show (3)4, Hell, what a place! (5)5. Those dishy women journal-

ists? (5, 5)6. Secluded nook in church? (4,

6)8. An optic, look you (3

10. One many adore (4)

11. Said to be a pop giant (4)

12. One with a lot of voice (4)

13. He's at the opposite end fromDave Dee (4)

15. That Doolittle dame (5)16. Robinson? (3)17. He'll learn you! (5)19. Merry man of music (3)Last week's LP winners

John McCafferty, 9 Carill Avenue,Heston, Manchester 9. Kathleen Park,110 Florence Avenue, Burnley, Lancs.Eileen Briggs, 43 Mineheat Avenue,Burnley, Lancs. Mrs. M. O'Connor, 6Kensington Road, Ellesmere Port,Cheshire. Terry Pollard, 2 ThamesideCrescent, Canvey Island, Essex. AnthonyKowalczuk, 229 Manley Road, Chorl-tcn-cum-Hardy, Manchester 21.

Last week's solutionACROSS: 1. Apple-pie. 7. Minutes. 9.Lead. 10. Impact, 12. Lynne. 13.Small, 15. Murphy. 17. Eton. 18. Scan-dal. 19. The Baron.DOWN: 2. Paula. 3. Ems. 4. lsley.5. Jimmy Smith. 6. Canned Heat, 8.Eat. 11. Cool. 12. Lulu. 14. Lynch. 15.Mac. 16. Rondo. 18. Sob.

a good one at that.Groups like the Nice, Family,

Cream are miles superior in everyrespect. - VALERIE EVANS, 13Glendarvon Street, Putney, Lon-don, S.W.15.

Taking into account HughNolan is a fine writer and I amone of the Doors biggest fans, I

fail to see how he can compareJim Morrison's poetry with Dylanand Lennon (Disc 14.9.68). True,Jim's stuff is sometimes nothingshort of brilliant, but he writessome pretty banal lyrics, too, asin "My Wild Love." Dylan andLennon are terrific and hardly everwrite badly.

Jim Morrison is certainly atalent at long last recognised, but

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please do no build him up to thesame heights as these two men. -SUSAN A.SHWELL, 81 TameStreet East, Walsall, Staffs.JONATHAN KING'S criticismof Pete Drummond amazed me.

Admittedly John Peel pioneeredthe broadcasting of progressivesounds, but he needs assistance as

ims ashe has limited time and there isso much to play.

Music is the most beautifulthing on this earth and shouldnot be talked about in such asmall, mean, petty manner. -NORMAN BARROW, 28 Drake -field Road, Tooting, London,S.W.17.

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NE * All the week s pop gossip *SCENENILSSON, who sang for the press at London's Washington Hotel,

claimed that was his first live performance.New group the Elusive Dream claim they will revolutionise

groups by replacing instruments with voices.Causing a lot of interest - the "B" side of Dusty's new single

"Colour Of Your Eyes" written by American Norma Tanega, who hada hit here with'"Walking My Cat Named Dog."

Clive Westlake so in love with his new song "Heart" he's going torecord it himself.

Kinks new single may be a track from their new LP-the first timethey've taken one from an album.

Bad sound for Dusty on "TopOf The Pops."

Love Affair tell interesting storyof group organist who, while play-ing a date in Scotland, had a steakand kidney pie thrown in his facebut played on regardless!

Ex -"Dee Time" producer TerryHenebery, injured in road accidentat Montreux TV Festival earlierthis year, producing new jazz seriesfor BBC -2.

PAUL McCartney reported tohave stopped his Rolls-Royceen route from Manchester to

London recently and phoned AlanFreeman at "Pick Of The Pops"after hearing Easybeats' new single"Good Times."MIIMI111111111111111M=1

Doesn't Leapy Lee remind youa little of soccer star GeorgieBest?

Impressive guest list for LionelBart party to launch his album"Isn't This Where We Came In,"a rather mysterious reflection oflife LP. Stars at Lionel's luxuriousLondon home included: DianaDors, Julie Driscoll and BrianAuger, Rolf Harris, Paul Jones,Stuart Henry, Emperor Rosko,Lulu, Leapy Lee, Andrew Oldham,Jess Conrad, William Rushton,Jonathan King, etc., etc.

Ewa Aulin

"CANDY," the original bookof the film, was a verybeautiful book indeed, butunfortunately not available inBritain (guess why!). Until acouple of weeks ago, that is,when amidst fanfares the firstBritish copy was issued, com-plete with pretty picture ofthe film Candy, Ewa Aulin.There's not a word on it to sayit is cut, but it is mutilatedalmost to the point where itdoesn't even make sense.

Incognito in London this weekSupreme Mary Wilson.

Amen Corner turned up intoppers -and -tails for wedding ofTerry "The Pill" Slater to EveNorman, secretary to agent DickKatz, last week.

Why IS a mouse when it spins?Marty Wilde's son, Ricky, is in

love . . . with Mary Hopkin. Onlytrouble is that he's 12 years tooyoung for Mary, as he's six. Hecarries two photos of her whereverhe goes.

Sly of the Family Stone com-ments: "Maybe we could buy aRadio Station in England, thenwe could put over exactly whatmusic we like."

Now he's in the song -writingfield, Marty Wilde reckons theyought to present Silver Discs towriters.

Terence Stamp wants a pair ofhand -knitted, bright red socks forhis size nine feet. Any offers?

Publication of Keith Skues' book"Radio Onederland" on October24 coincides with Radio 1 bossRobin Scott's birthday.

David Ackles friendliest, funni-est, most sympathetic Americanwe've met in months. A RegularGuy!

Everyone turned up to see Satur-day's free concert in Hyde Park-everyone, that is, but the groupsthemselves. Now they say that theconcert will (once again) be NEXTSaturday, with a fantasmorgoric-ally great line-up. One can alwayshope...

Didn't Alan Freeman feel acomplete buffoon attempting tointerview Stevie Winwood live on"Transatlantic Top Of The Pops"on Sunday?

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Five tracks from the Idle Race'sfirst album "Birthday Party" havebeen covered by other groups-and the LP's not even releaseduntil tomorrow (Friday)! Americangroup Left Banke are to coverthree tracks.

Were the Tremeloes happy withSammy Davis Jnr's impromptusinging spot on "Dee Time"-which nearly did them out of a"plug" for their new record?

Dr Who's "Jamie" (FrazerHines) won the showbiz cycle raceat London's Herne Hill last week-end. Second was Ed Stewart andEmperor Rosko came fifth. Prizewas a LIVE pig and the event wasstarted by Sandie Shaw.

David Ackles' "Road ToCairo" is an utter gas. Can't waitto hear it by Jools and Brian andthe boys.

A very bejewelled Eva Gabordancing energetically at London's"Revolution" last Friday night.Fifth Dimension also there.

What everyone says is true.Leapy Lee one of the nicest, mostcheerful and friendly people youcould wish to meet.

Jethro Tull proved themselvesone of our best new bands onJohn Peel's "Top Gear" on Sun-day.

Absent from Cliff Richard'sPalladium opening last Thursday. . . the usual glittering array ofstars.

"The Sandie Shaw Supplement"got off to too good a start. Lastweek's episode was pale in com-parison.

Who was to blame for Sly andthe Family Stone's great non-appearance tour?

Many club goers will be rootingfor Root and Jenny Jackson's firstsingle "Lean On Me," out on theBeacon label next Friday.

To mark their first official visitto Britain, the Fugs are holding atea-party (sic) to introduce them-selves to the press (and others).Group now scheduled to arrivenext Monday (30).

Gordon Mills an incredibly sen-sitive person when it comes toanything that might be vaguelyconstrued as criticism of eitherTom or Engelbert.

Tiny Tim, we love you too.Honestly. . . .

Record producer Tony Palmerdetermined to go on a diet aftertwo wheels fell off his car-butdenies rumour that he is to recordhimself with "Two Wheels OFFMy Wagon"!

American fans at the Hollywood Bowl became so enthusiastic at Jimi Hendrix's performance that they jumpedinto the moat surrounding the stage to get closer to him-see Judy Sims' column.

HollywoodCallingby JUDY SIMS

JIMI HENDRIX has done it again . . .

that is, he's still doing it. Driving crowdswild, playing guitar like a fiend, andgenerally leaving a trail of broken heartsand eardrums wherever he plays. At theHollywood Bowl several people jumpedinto the moat and swam up to him (en-dangering their lives, what with all thatelectronic equipment) while the Hendrixgnashed and bumped his guitar.

In Oakland that same weekend (Oaklandis near San Francisco) the crowds were calm;unlike the Bowl, which was sold out, Oak-land's Coliseum was only half full and Hen-drix was late to arrive, but he gave them fullvalue. That man certainly plays, yes indeed.

Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchellwill be working out of Los Angeles for the nextmonth or so, so they've rented a house in thehills (where else?); at a small press conferencefor the group Mitch told me he hoped to havetime to fly back to London for a week and finda flat there-says he doesn't have a home any-where!

Such an eventful weekend, it was. BesidesHendrix there was Big Brother and the HoldingCompany, who played their last set together inSan Francisco-they will continue playing togetheruntil November or December, but not in theirhome town-and the Fillmore was bursting forthat event. The line for tickets was stretchedaround the block, eight deep. After their Fillmoregig they appeared at a concert at the Rose Bowlin Los Angeles, where the audience mobbedthem affectionately.

In Los Angeles last week: Spooky Toothopened at the Whisky. Haven't seen so manyfamous faces there since the Hollies appeared inFebruary. Peter Tork, David Crosby, Hendrix,David Blue, Steve Stills . . . really liked SpookyTooth, but I wish they would play originalmaterial; I get easily bored when I hear old hitsdone not unlike the first hit . . .

Mama Cass begins her solo career by perform-ing at Cesar's Palace in Las Vegas, of all places.I say "of all places" because Cass has alwaysseemed too funky, too "hippie" to fit into theLas Vegas neon mould, but I'm sure she will doquite well. She's lost a lot of weight but stillcouldn't be called slim.

RICHARDROBINSONfrom New YorkRAFFIC arrived in New York lastTuesday on the S.S. United Statesat the rather questionable hour of

eight in the morning. Dave Mason, who'dbeen on the west coast, didn't come inby boat but the rest of them did lookingrather tired from the voyage.

As soon as they got off the boat, the planwas for them to ride across New York totheir hotel in horse-drawn carriages. Steve,Jim and Chris got in and then glanced at anearby limousine that had also come to meetthem. They picked the limousine, leaving thewhole press stunt sitting there on the dock.Jim talked to the horses for a while so theirfeelings wouldn't be hurt and then the groupwent off to their hotel.

This week Traffic, Spooky Tooth, Wind InThe Willows, Rhinoceros, Bunky and Jake, andElizabeth will all perform at a free concert inCentral Park. The event has been sponsored bythe top underground radio station in the city,WNEW, and a crowd of over 10,000 is expected.

Aretha Franklin and her husband, businessmanager Ted White seemed like a great 1, 2 com-bination. But now rumours are circulating that itis all over between them. Although no one wantsto make any comments, it seems that Aretha andTed have split, especially on a business level,and that Aretha's brother, the Rev. CecilFranklin, is handling her money affairs.EX-LOVIN' Spoonful leader John Sebastian hasdecided- to start performing as a solo artist. AfterJohn split from the Spoonful, "the magic wasgone," he said, he headed for Los Angeles tostart recording his own single and album.

Several weeks ago I mentioned that Joe Texwas claiming the title of "America's New SoulBrother No. 1." He even had that slogan paintedon his bus. Last week Joe and his bus rolledinto New York but the slogan was gone havingbeen painted over. Wonder what the politics in-volved were that persuaded Joe to stop advertis-ing his new title.

Rumours have been circulating around NewYork that Martha Reeves And The Vandellas maysplit with Motown Records. This would put icingon the already confusing state Motown is in,Ruffin suing them, they suing Holland -Dozier -Holland. There are predictions that the companywill crumble because of everything that'shappening.

Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968 19

BRITAIN'S TOP SINGLES REVIEWER

Hollies can be sureof a constantplace in the chartLISTEN To Me (Parlophone)-The Hollies really are cleverpeople. Whether they really like what they're doing I know not,but what I do know is that they are one of the very few groupsaround who are sure of a constant place in the chart because ofthe instant commerciality of their records.

This is a very strong Tony Hazzard song about the ignorance ofseeing love given a typical hard consistent Hollies treatment. It's verycompetent, very good and a very big hit. OUT TOMORROW

TOMMY JAMES ANDTHE SHONDELLSDO Something To Me (Rou-lette)-A very berserk piece byTommy James who is still re-covering from a mammoth hitand who should do very wellwith this, too, on sheer noisepower if nothing else.

It's very solid with chompinggreat whistling and yelling scenesin the background like a baseballmatch. It's not quite as catchy as"Mony," but I have an inbredliking for all the racket.

OUT TOMORROW

CREAMSUNSHINE Of Your Love (Poly-dor)-Very odd. This is a trackfrom the Cream's second albumand therefore if you're a Creamfan youll probably have itanyway.

Ah, well, record companiesmove in a mysterious way. If youhaven't heard it then it's a sneakyclosely -knit dark brown recordwith a great deal of Clantonguitar and I would say I've likedbetter.

OUT TOMORROW

Tommy James: very berserk piece

ALENTINESPINS THIS WEEK'S NEW DISCS

Bill Medley:a desperatelove song

BROWN -Eyed Woman(MGM)-This is certainlymy favourite record ofthe week and for a longlong time. But naturally itdoesn't stand a chance ofbeing a hit which is veryvery sad.

If you have taste andlove go out and buy it. Youwon't be disappointed.

Written by Mann andWeil it's the sort of des-perate and true love songI really like. In fact Ihaven't stopped playing itsince it came in. BillMedley, one half of theRighteous Brothers, singsit with more feeling andheartache than I've everheard him do before andsounds vaguely like RayCharles at the beginning.The backing is great, thechorus is great, the wholefeel is perfectly marvellousand ... words fail me.

OUT TOMORROWWIN

HERB ALPERT: not the greatest voice in the world-but such appeal!

Beautiful Herb Alpert'ssecond big hit .. .

Quick Spins"YOUR Mind And We Belong

.II. Together" is by Love whoare really to my mind the

best and nicest of all the WestCoast groups. It isn't up to"Alone Again Or" because I inmy innocence was waiting for thetrumpets and they didn t (Elek-tra).

"Jingle Down A Hill" is oneof the gentlest, prettiest songs fora long time. Dorian Gray sings itwell and I liked it. But it's goingto need a lot of plays to be any-thing like a hit e).

I like the Glass Menagerie andI particularly like "I Said Good-bye To Me" as a song, but I keptwaiting (again?) for them to climbup over the melody and I wouldhave liked it better if they had(Pye).

Someone I know better thanmyself will love Loa Rawls "DownHere On The Ground." I do too-which is good-it's half -writtenby Lola Schifrin and it's tooclassy to be a hit (Capitol).

Great-the Turtles' "Elenore"which made me laugh at thewords, so American and tonguein cheek are they. A very nicerecord (London).

WORTH listening to is "I AmA Cathedral" by Peter Sar-

stedt, who is nice, and it mustremind you of Simon and Gar-kunkel (United Artists).

David Garrick sings "A LittleBit Of This" and I rather wish hehadn't. Which will please nobody(Pye).

Tamla are coming up every sooften with some very un-themsounds. "A Little Bit For Sandy"by Paul Peterson is one such.Written by R. Dean Taylor andvery similar in that deliberate fast-ness to "Gotta See Jane." Goodthough.

Truly Smith sings in a highvoice on a rather ordinary songcalled "This Is The First Time"(MGM).

Chicken Shack have a great dealof solid guitar playing on "Wor-ried About My Woman." A verygood record of its kind, but notsingle material and not really thesort of thing I like listening to(Blue Horizon).

Rabbit Mackay has an appro-priately odd voice to go with hisname on "Hard Time Woman"(MCA).

Quotations do "Cool It" whichis like "Hang On Sloopy" and"Cool Jerk" rolled into one (CBS).

You'd expect a lot from NewInspiration and you'd be entitledto. But apart from a nice open-ing on "I See No Reason Why"nothing happen* (Parlophone).

"And Suddenly" by the CherryPeople has a "98.6" warmth andI liked the lead singer's huskyvoice (MGM)." GET So Excited" yell theI Real McCoy and they cer-tainly do-over the strangestthings (Pye).

"If I Didn't Have You" is anice love song. Roger James singsit gently and it's pleasant to listento (Nems).

Interesting whistling and tam-bourine on the opening of "SillyGirl" by Shades Of Morley Brown(Mercury').

"Jeremy The Lamp" is an ex-traordinary little song by theMoving Finger which has oddundertones (Mercury).

Roger Miller's "The SwissMaid" has always made me gig-gle and Frank Ifield's treatmentdoesn't help (Columbia).

"The Boy Who Never GrewUp" is an odd little song sungquite well by Penny Lane (CBS).

TO WAIT For Love (A & M)-It's funny because when Iwas on holiday I heard this on the radio and thought "Goodheavens, someone's sounding just like Herb Alpert." And itwas Herb Alpert. Poor girl ---confused again.

ANYWAY, it's going to be the beautiful Herb's second bighit. A very typical soft -sell treatment of Burt Bacharach's famoussong with some lovely trumpet and a nice chorus. It all fits likea jigsaw and even if he hasn't got the greatest voice in the worldhe has such appeal and wistfulness I love it.

OUT NEXT FRIDAY

Love: best and nicest of the West Coast groups

"Running By The River" isdrifting and un-solid and done byPhilimore Lincoln (Nems).

Kaplan is a gentleman withproblems and I don't really like"I Love It" (Philips).

Brenda Arnau is great to lookat but "Christian" is not great tolisten to-even though she has astab at sounding like Bassey(United Artists).

Mike d'Abo wrote "The DayThat War Broke Out" and it's

nice but rather oddly dated. KeithField sings it well (Polydor).

With swift cunning Larry PageOra. come along with "HeyJude" and use a sax as solo in-strument which sounds ratherweird (Page One).

If you lapped up "Old Shep"you'll love "Johnn's Eyes" byDavid H. Lee (Morgan).

Ernie K. Doe goes huk and yupon "Dancing Man" if you likethat kind of thing (Action).

BIG BROTHER ANDTHE HOLDING CO.PIECE Of My Heart (CBS)-I re-view this out of sheer senseless-ness. I must explain that afterlistening to this once I felt asthough someone had hit me inthe head and stomach -a fewtimes-which, you will gather, ishardly a pleasant sensation.

But it is A sensation and assuch cannot be ignored. It's in-teresting in a way, too, because Inever realised how much "South -em Comfort" Janis Joplin soundedlike a man and how much shereally does have amazing vocalpower.

Also it's their version of thelovely song Irma Franklin,Aretha's sister, did, though you'dhave a hard time recognising it.They beat it up and knock itdown unconscious. Staggering.

OUT TOMORROW

FEARNS BRASS

FOUNDRYNOW I Taste The Tears (Decca)-I'm getting a bit worried thisweek because there are so manyrecords, good ones too, that Idon't think are going to be hits.You see this is another one.

I must admit that I don't knowwho this group are, except thatthey're English and that in itselfis fantastic. They have a verygood sound and a lead voice ofutter croaking despair. A creep-ing high backing builds up andit's a very hard rough sound.Nice, nice, nice.

OUT TOMORROW

CAMEOSON The Good Ship Lollipop(Toast)-Everyone, apparently, isgoing mad about this and sayinghit, hit, hit.

W e . .1.. 1 it certainlybounces along with a rip-roaringbacking. But I HATE the song.But, on the other hand, I likethe funny little end which madeit worth listening to the rest. NowI'll just wait and see.

OUT TOMORROW

Joe Cocker: well worth waiting for

Joe Cocker

must be ahuge smash!WITH A Little Help From MyFriends (Regal Zonophone) - Iloved "Mariorine" and will neverunderstand why it wasn't a hit.

After that silence from Mr.Cocker, whose voice is amazing,came nothing. And now this. Thishas been worth waiting for. It's avery long, soul version of theLennon and McCartney song andvery, very good. He really doessound more Negro than any whitesinger I've ever heard and thegirls backing him are excellent. Iwould like to think this is goingto be a huge smash and it mustjust be that if it gets played andplayed.

OUT TOMORROW

NINA SIMONEAIN'T Got No-I Got Life(RCA)-The slightly awe-inspiringMiss Simone did this number onher recent TV spectacular. Visu-ally she's always fairly stunningand this came over as probablythe best number of all-so wiseto release it.

Actually it's from the newmusical "Hair," and having heardthe original version (where theyall leap around with their clothesoff) this is far, superior. It losesa bit by not seeing her, and Iwouldn't think for a minute itwas chart stuff.

OUT TOMORROW

20 Disc and Music Echo-September 28, 1968

DISCand MUSIC ECHO isSEPTEMBER 28, 1968 USA 20c

SLY and the FamilyStone paid Britain a

silent visit last week andreturned to America onFriday without havingplayed a single note tothe British public.

The group of seven werescheduled to do an 18 -daytour of the country start-ing on September 13, butwhen they arrived here thevast array of equipmentthat had been promisedwas itit.t.intpletc.

A dejected Sly told us:"There's the organ and aspeaker missing - it's a-special Hammond organ.Two other amplifiers theygave us aren't working now.We've played down at therecording studios and toprove we're not spoofing youcan ask the engineers whatwe sounded like-it wasawful."

Do or dieSly and the Family Stone

have allegedly one of themost exciting live acts inAmerica, and it was withsuch a reputation to live upto that they refused to playover here without properequipment.

"With our act we just tryto get it on," said Sly, "it'sjust do or die. It's so impor-tant that we do right overhere because we have heardso much about the Britishpeople. If we had the rightequipment we'd play fornothing-it's that bad.

"I hope we'll be backagain this year-maybe wecould buy a radio station.That way you'd be certainto hear groovy music!"

At 23, Sly is founder,composer, producer andarranger of the group. Heis the brother of the group'sguitarist, Freddy Stone, andRose who is vocalist andplays electric piano.Grisly grey

Other members of thegroup are Larry Graham(bass and vocals), drummerGreg "Handfeet" Errico,saxophonist Jerry Martiniand girl trumpeter CynthiaRobinson.

Two of the group, Gregand Jerry are white. "The

Sly andFamily split-but they'llbe back!only time we ever noticethere's a difference is whenpeople call it to my atten-tion," said Sly. "I couldn'tcare less if they were black,white, speckled or grislygrey-and American audi-ences don't mind."

Formerly a rani() discjockey in his home town ofSan Francisco, Sly - whohas had three years at col-lege studying musical com-position and theory - de-cided to form a group inhis spare time.

His brother Freddy, whohad also studied music atcollege was a "must" for thegroup, and his sister Rosejoined them as soon as sheleft Junior College. The restof the group Sly picked fromall the musicians he knew.

"It turned out very well,"he commented, "and to thisday we've never had an argu-ment."

Girl trumpeterThe group's girl trum-

peter, 22 -year -old Cynthia,is a feature in itself. Hermother was a concertpianist, and Cynthia whocan also play bass and saxplayed in the marchingband at High School. Slyreckons she is "one of themost talented trumpets alive,and that includes guys."

The group's follow-up to"Dance To The Music"-"M'lady"-was released inthis country on Friday, theday the group left. Their LP"Dance To The Music"came out on the same day."M'lady" is another Slycomposition and he admitsthat he does "quite like it,"but is sad that the groupcould not even play it whilethey were over here.

It was a dejected groupthat left England on Fri-day, but they're deter-mined to come back andtake us by storm.

THE phenomenon that isEngelbert Humperdinckhas struck another swiftblow on the chart-andwithin the next twoweeks we can expect tosee "Les Bicyclettes deBelsize" nesting comfort-ably in the Top Three.

But isn't this just a littlefrightening for Engel? Every oneof his singles seems guaranteedof a huge advance order, but thislatest one had "sold" over100,000 copies BEFORE ANY-ONE HAD EVER HEARD IT!!Such is the confidence that recordshops place in his selling capacity.

"I think this is a tremendouscompliment to any artist," saysa naturally cheerful Engel. Cheer-ful despite nearly sixteen weeksof "pretty diabolical" weatherin that swinging centre of funin the North-Blackpool.

"It's great and marvellous andI'm so pleased that my fans canbe so loyal."

But what if perchance anEngelbert single is released thatis below his normal standard.Surely all those people who hadordered copies without hearingit first would be disillusioned anddisappointed?

"Of course they would, but I

don't think that will ever happen."For a start I would never

record a song I didn't like. Andat every session I record about adozen songs, any one of whichwould have made a good single.So that's it really!"

With a "Talk Of The Town"season in London beginning inNovember, and a gigantic TVpush in America next month;offers of Las Vegas cabaretseasons, and more film scriptspushed through his front doorthan he cares to think about,Engelbert must yet again be atthe pinnacle of his career. Yetevery week seems to bring newachievements.

"This week I'm very excitedbecause I've just received my firstGold Disc for an LP-'Release Me,'which has sold one million dollarsworth in America . .. which isn'tbad at all," he adds modestly.

His Blackpool season whichends next weekend, has been asell-out for weeks, and he breaksattendance records wherever hegoes. Yet he is still nervous when-ever he appears on stage.

"I must say that mess-up on the'Frost Programme' the other weekwasn't my fault, but I do stillhave pre -performance jitters.

"It always happens just beforeI go on stage or in front of thecameras. I get cold hands! ButI don't drink or smoke at all now

100,000 people buyEngel's recordbefore they hear it

... except for the occasional cigarand glass of champagne. If youwant to make the best of everyperformance you must have a

clear head, no matter how greatthe temptation to drown yournerves in alcohol!"

"Mind you I don't want to bebranded as a pure person! Thetruth of it is, there's very littleI can drink which doesn't havean immediate nasty effect on me!"

So getting back to the point,what IS there left for Engelbertto achieve, bearing in mind the

old show business adage that ifyou lose ambition you've lostyourself?

"Well, if you look at all thesinging greats-like Sinatra-youfind that once they've doneeverything, they just do it allagain.

"My one unfulfilled ambitionof course is to make a film, butthere just doesn't seem to be thetime these days. Apart from thatI just want to keep going and tryand get better and better."

Surprisingly enough Engelbert

isn't fed up with the sight ofBlackpool-mainly because hereally hasn't seen it.

"I see the lights come up asgo to the theatre, and go out asI drive home again. The rest ofthe time is either spent in bedor in the garden fighting thewasps!

"I had intended to learn tofly while I was here, but theconcert promoters decided it wastoo great an insurance risk, soI'm left with golf and tiddly winksto pass the time!"

'The bottom is one of the most beautifulparts of the body, why hide it?'

Part of an exclusive interviewwith Yoko Ono, in Disc next weekPenny Valentine talks to Morgan Fisherthe new 'old boy' of the Love Affairin Disc next week.Lunch with Nilsson by Jonathan Kingin Disc, next week.

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