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THE HOLLIES-audiences listen appreciatively to their act.

Mr. R. Newall, 3 Sneddon St..Burnbank, Hamilton, Lanarks. Scot-land. - Can any overseas readershelp me to obtain imported LP's.EP's or singles of P. J. Proby.Jet Powers. Dusty. Sonny & Cherand Gerry Marsden. I'll pay well.Please write soon. Also any offersfor tapes and Tom Jones' firstsingle "Chills and Fever". Will alsoswap for any of above artistes.

P. Hazlewood, 53 Goldhey St..Blackburn. Lanes. - I am willingto swap my ''Temptations Live"LP for any LP on Tamla Motown.preferably Diana Ross and theSupremes. Please write to the aboveaddress stating which I.P you willswop.

V. Lambert, 16 Cambridge St..Hebden Bridge, Yorks. - Can anyreaders help me to get recordsby Orville Woods or Jet Powers. Ifso. please write stating price.

Nigel and Bill Allerton, 21Macauley Road. London. S.W.4. -We are starting to compile a com-prehensive Ryrds and Love scrap-book and would appreciate any cut-tings. articles. photos etc. - how-ever small - on the above twogroups. Thanks a lot.

Timothy Weller. 38 Tangley Drive.WoldnIcham. Berks. - I have a,

virtually unplayed copy of the KingCurtis LP "King Size Soul." thatI would like to swop for any recentLP by the Electric Prunes. TheIncredible String Band. JohnMayall's Bluebreakers. or theLovin' Spoonful. If any R.M. read-ers are interested in swopping orbuying this LP could they pleasewrite to the above address. Allletters of enquiry will he answered

MEET

DENIS!

Ex -leader of the Four Pennies.Lionel Morton by name, is a gooddarts player and member of ourteam. In his "spare time." he Isturning his talents to producingrecords . . . and one is that byDenis Couldry and Smile. Denis isa good nut who was horn In Leedsand started singing with semi -progroups from the age of twelve.He's an actor, too. and Lionel theDart says: "I think that Denis andhis brother Bob could emerge asthe most prolific songwriters sinceLennon and McCartney. The songsare simple. yet original. two of thehardest things to come by." Hispersonal quote: "Vietnam Is hor-rible. the world is In a mess, thebomb is horrible, and nobody caresexcept me and my manager!"

In brief ...Joy Brooker, 147 Greenwood

Avenue. Hull. Yorkshire. - If anyMonkee fan would like Numbers1. 4. 5. 6 and 7 of the MonkeeMonthlies I would gladly exchangethem for the Beatles Monthlies ofthe same number. All of myMonkee Monthlies are in good con-dition. and I'd be very grateful forany offers.

R. Burns, 16 Saint Nicholas Road.Radford Semele. Leamington Spa.Warwickshire. - I have pies ofevery group or solo artiste as wellas many DJ's which I will gladlyswop for pies of Jinn Hendrix Ex-perience. I will answer all letters.

Shriekin' Silas Grogbottle "HoundsLee Hop." 25 Garvary Road, Lon-don, E.16. - Just a line to let allthe Rockin' cats know that MCArecords are releasing a new LP bythe Johnny Burnette Trio in theautumn containing such gems as"Tear It Up." "Oh Baby Babe.'and "Eager Beaver Baby" as wellas four never before released tracks"Shattered Dreams". "Rock Ther-apy." "You're A Stranger" and-Please Don't Leave Me." Comeon you moth-eaten moggies let'sgive MCA our full support on thisgreat LP. They deserve it for un-leashing such a classic on us. Yup.if things carry on like this. wemight even get an R & R revival!

24089357 Pte. Barker, OfficersMess. A.C.C. Attached. 1st D.L.L.,Polymedia ('amp, UN1CYP, BFPO667. - There is an argument inour camp about who is the mostpopular, Cilia Black or Petula('lark. I am hoping that yourreaders can help to settle it bysending in your vote to the aboveaddress!

Maurice Savill, 6 Canning Road,Aldershot, Hants. - I have "StarsOf '68" by various artistes includingGeno Washington. Foundations.Kinks and Long John Baldry. Also."Well Respected Kinks" with someof their best singles as tracks. Bothare in very good condition and Iwould like to exchange for a Creamor a Jimi Hendrix LP. Pleasewrite soon enclosing a SAE.

Veronica and Derek Day. 74Roberts Rd.. Leicester. England.(President of the I.ittle RichardFan Club). - As publishers of thePenniman News we wish it to beknown that on May 20. 1968 wewere appointed agents on behalfof Robert A. "Bumps" Blackwellregarding articles and stories thathave and in future will be writtenby him. The first one of these hasbeen entitled "The Discovery ofLittle Richard." The copyright forthese articles and stories belongsto "Bumps" Blackwell and anyonewishing to print these should contact Veronica and Derek at theabove address and be prepared toPay publishing rights fee. Thisapplies to the whole of Europe asVeronica and Derek are agents forthis part of the world.

M. S. Browne, 34 BuckinghamHouse. Sefton Park, Liverpool, 17Lanes. - Wanted - Anything atall concerning the Beach Boys, Ras-cals, especially the Beach Boys. Ihave photos etc. of singersigroups.which I am willing to swop. Pleasesend to above address.

Elaine Squires. 21 Balfour St..Ralson Heath, Birmingham 12, -Has any reader 1965 pies and arti-cles on the Walker Brothers orFan Club macs. 1965 - 1966. I willbuy or swop pies and articles.

UPTIGHTOUTASIGHT!SINCE the feature in RM, glow-

ing with praise for theorganisation. there has been

but one stop press news -sheetforthcoming, containing a littleinformation on the club's Wednes-day night spot at She Flamingo.Aretha Franklin in Europe, andmore excuses for the delayedmagazine. This proposed bi-monthly Journal is now nearlythree months overdue from the datethe last issue should have appeared.Indeed. in a society of this nature.I would have thought a bi-monthlymagazine rather infrequent to givecoverage of current news andevents. which is surely the purposeof the society. According to theirmini -referendum. a In -monthlyjournal was more favourablyrequested than a monthly one -and they have fallen ahyssmallybehind in this respect No newsfrom Janet and Company on theAtlantic/Stax split, or the StasiParamount tie-up - perhaps oneis expected to read about suchthings in the WS. and Britishtrade papers rather than wait tohe informed by the people who areapparently "in the right place toknow the facts as they happen".

Never mind - maybe they'll getaround to pushing out anothermagazine some time this year, con-taining facts, information andreviews on a complete year in thelife of Atlantic. - Jay Charlton.83 Imperial Way. Chisiehurst. KentHR7 6JX.

MORE ROCK'N'ROLLWHAT do the B.B.C. Radio 1

D.J.'s think Rockers are?Firstly the Emperor Rosko

tells us that he is going to playone solid hour of R&R and thenplays one hour of soul and blueswith about five rock singles only.Next, Tony Blackburn insults usby saying that he is going to playfour rock singles per hour on hisshow and then plays two old non -rock singles per hour, with onlytwo real rock singles in the sametime. Come on B.B.C.! We wantsome of that real driving R&Rmusic with a real driving down toearth heat. pulsating through theear -shattering sounds. Music thatcan only be performed by thegreats such as Jerry Lee Lewis.Gene Vincent. Buddy Holly. EddieCochran. Johnny and the Hurri-canes. Bill Haley. Elvis Presley.and Duane Eddy. - Wild AngelJim. 91 Acres Hall fres.. Pudsey.Yorks.

'B' SIDE CAMPAIGNAM starting a "Let Us Hear

I More 'B' Sides" Campaign. Willthose who support this slogan

please write to DJs and record.show producers everywhere. Thisis the only way we will ever getbetter value for our money-twogood songs instead of one. Also theless successful songwriters who onlyget their songs recorded on "B"sides of records will get a chance tobetter themselves too. So come onall you song addicts-demand, ask.beg for more play for "B" sides.Any plans or suggestions to fur-ther this campaign are welcome!-Raid Martins, 84 Fordwych Road.London. N.W.2.

This 'different'approach topop tours wowsaudiences . . .

THEHollies, Paul Jones, Scaffold tour must surely be the most professional and refreshing

package tour of recent years. Using an entirely different approach, the show held spell-bound an appreciative audience and hardly a screamer was to be heard! Surely this alonemade it worthwhile to the Hollies, etc. The Scaffold have a very entertaining act and addedto the show the ingredient of humour that is usually feebly attempted by a D.J. compere.l'aul Jones must have one of the most energetic and visually dynamic acts in the countryand he certainly got the show going at a rip-roaring pace, and what more can be said ofthe Hollies. To me, though the highlight of the evening was Graham Nash singing "Butter-fly", backed very ably by Mike Vickers' Orchestra, it was a faultless performance by thewhole show. Thank you very much the Hollies, Paul Jones, Scaffold, for the Tour of '68.Your performance at Lewisham simply astounded me and I'm sure that I will still betalking of it ages from now!-Terence Redpath, 55 Bermondsey Wall East, London S.E.14.

THE HIP SOUNDS

IIECENTLY. I have read manyletters of appreciation for theWest Coast Groups like the

Doors, Country Joe & The Fish.Moby Grape and Love. This growthof popularity is most encouraging.because it is wrong to hide thetalents of muscians with such aflare for writing original compo-sitions. I certainly hope that thisstate of affairs is soon put rightas more groups are being estab-lished. Blue Cheer and StrawberryAlarm Clock are two of these newgroups who are just beginning tomake themselves known in thiscountry. One of the greatest prob-lems which faces the groups al-ready mentioned is the lack ofpublicity and record broadcasting.It is about time that more DiscJockeys realised that West Coastmusic is quickly gaining favour inBritain and that their responsibi-lities are to satisfy the public'swishes. instead of leaving the jobsolely for John Peel to attemptto bring these groups from thedepths of obscurity to the fore-front of popular music.-D. Gar-land, 107 Stronebow Crescent. El.!ham. London, S.E.9.

THE ANSWERWHY is there such misery and

bleating among critics andfans alike, because of the

disastrous state of the charts, andthe music scene in general? i.e.Engelbert, the other syrupy baled-eers and the ghastly rock revival.Sure. this is a bad scene, but whycan't people see that we have theanswers to all this mediocrity rightunder our noses. Exciting, thought-ful and creative music is beingmade and played by such groupsas the Nice, Pegasus, Tyranno-saurus Rex. the Family and manyothers. Let's hear less moaningabout the sad state of affairs andlet's go out and do something aboutit.-Peter Farren. S Ilchester Place.Holland Park, London. W.14.

SEEKERS SHOW

I HAVE just been to see theSeekers at the HammersmithOdeon, and what a great show!

I get fed up with some people say-ing the Seekers are a very squaregroup. and that only the olderPeople think them much good. I

nave been all over the country tosee the Seekers. and always theaudience consists of more youngerthan older people. I think theSeekers are the most versatilegroup today. I say this. becausewho else in their act, includes Pop.folk, rock'n'roll. ballad, gospel andtraditional jazz plus a comedy spot.They are also writing a great dealof their own music. I would even40 so far as to say that (takinginto account all age groups) theSeekers are one of the country'sbest liked groups. Why don't someof those people who don't like theSeekers and have never been toone of their shows. RO to one. Ibet they would get a very pleasantsurprise. - Keith Joy. 1 HalifaxRoad, Ipswich.

Paula, 43 Pleasant View, Cud-worth, Barnsley, Yorks. - Myfriend and I are organising a peti-tion to send to America to ask theMonkees to reconsider their planabout not making another T.V.series. We would like thousands ofsignatures on this petition and sowe would be very grateful to any-one who sends us their signatures.The address is as above.

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single in a yearfrom the Koobas is:

"First Cut Is The Deepest"(Columbia). Now I've madeno secret of the fact thatthe Koobas are high on mylist of "groups who shouldbe massively big . ." butwhen I heard they'd donethis particular number, I

also made no secret of thefact that they must havetaken leave of their senses.

Why? 'Cos P. P. Arnoldhad had a big -selling ver-sion of this number, thoughwithout making really bigchart impact, and I felt thewhole thing had blown out.Then I really got to listen-ing to their version. Sur-prise, surprise! The songactually suits an all -malegroup very well indeed.

In fact, their record isalready in the top five inSwitzerland, and I'm notsurprised in view of thefact that they recentlyplayed to audiences of20,000 in two days workingin support on the JimiHendrix bill.

THE KOOBAS-revive a P P. Arnold hit.

Truth is that the Koobashave been in that categorywhich is "so near, yet sofar." They haven't, to myknowledge, made a badrecord yet but things in thecharts aren't all down togoodness or badness.

So they went elsewhere.To the Continent. Andtheir successes there havekept them out of Britain formuch of last year. In thattime they've played 80 citiesin nine European countries,which is a mini -export driveleaving them looking evenfresher and more confidentthan ever before.

Their top French fan issinging star Michel Polna-reff, who describes them as

"the finest British groupI've heard in years".

So what happens now?Mainly the boys Stu Leath -wood, Roy Morris, TonyO'Reilly and Keith Ellis, arenow expecting to spendmore time in Britain. Theirattitude is: "Things arelooking good for us here".

And once again I stress:they are a good group, bothmusicianly and personality -laden, and they deserve tobe in the top flight. I don'twant to argue with youabout this . . but I mustinsist that you listen totheir version of a very finesong.

Kindly go out and buy it.PETER JONES

RECORD MIRROR, Week ending June 8, 1968

ILL NEVER TIREOF BILLY JOE'

STANDING around, waiting to meet BobbieGentry, I glanced through the two presshandouts about her. One wa'S from theredoubtable Leslie Perrin Associates andit began with a story about how she "nearlybecame dubbed the unlanded Gentry" (I'm

quoting, you understand) because she'd beenturned back at Los Angeles Airport-somethingto do with an out of date passport. Anyway,Perrin's publicity built from there and includedinformation about her many splendid forthcomingappearances on television and radio. And, ofcourse, there was a lot of reminiscing about herone huge hit last year, "Ode To Billie Joe".

Naturally enough, "Ode To Billie Joe" featuredprominently in the other, briefer, handout-fromthe EMI press office. Max Clifford began thisessay: "Accompanied by half -a -dozen violins, apair of cellos and her own guitar, Bobbie Gentrysimply barrelled into the studios of CapitolRecords one fine afternoon in mid -1967 and, underable supervision of recording manager KellyGordon, recorded a number that only two weeksafter release shot into America's Top 20." (Andthat's only the first sentence).

Well, Max's revelations made things sound abit too suspiciously easy. Note that bit about howBobbie "simply barrelled in".

So when Bobbie barrelled (barrelled? Undulated, morelike) into the reception, I asked her if her recording careerhad really got started quite that easily or whether there'dbeen loads of crafty work put in by agents, managers, lawyersand the rest.

"Yes, it happened easily-Capitol asked me to make arecord. I originally went along there to sell some songs,I took a whole bunch, and 'Billie Joe' was one I had in mindfor Lou Rawls to record. My songs were on demos becausethe time factor in the recording business these days is suchthat a producer would much prefer to hear a record thango through a pile of sheet music. It's so much easier toflip through discs. Anyway, they heard my singing andsuggested I make the record!"

Since then, Billie Joe's ode has kept on going. Thoughthe song's popularity has long since waned, Bobbie saidthere are now plans afoot to make a movie built aroundthe story suggested in the song. "The scenario hasn't beenwritten yet and I don't know how it will be done-BillieJoe could be dead before the film starts. I'll have an actingpart of some sort in the picture. No, I'm not tired of thesong, I think I'll always like it."

Bobbie's new record is a repetitive, catchy, "lovable -simple -country -folks" type thing titled "Louisianna Man".She's from Chikasaw County, Mississippi herself, a countrygal, but she doesn't give that impression. She's of Portuguesedescent (according to the handouts) and a university gradu-ate in philosophy. Quite a mixture, and it shows. She waswearing a bright red, very show-bizzy trouser suit whichshe designed herself. A knowing half -smile plays aroundher lips at all times, and her eyes are bright and attentive.A clever girl. Yet of her singing she simply says "I justsing Mississippi Delta South." Oh.

DAVID GRIFFITHS

PHOTO SERVICEyou can buy any black -and -white picture

in the Record Mirror marked "RM pic-ture". Just write to us, telling us the dateof the issue, the page, and the artiste (or cutout the plc from the RM) and we'll send youback any number of copies you require.Sizes and prices as follows:

6f in. wide by 8 i in. deep - 6/0d.8 in. wide by 10 in. deep - 8/0d.

10 in. wide by 12 in. deep - 10/6d.All colour pictures captioned RM are nowavailable to readers as a 10" x 8" full colour

print at £1.10.0 per print.Just write to "RM PHOTO SERVICE,20 Gerrard Street, London, W.1."

BOBBIE GENTRY - barrelled or undulated in?

efiseig(deviatariao, USA

AFTER a hectic month or so of tours by American artistesit seems to be settling down again. So it's time to get

back to the writing pads and files and send in lotsa lettersto "Disc/Info USA"! The address as always is Roy Simonds,"Disc/Info USA", Record Mirror, 116 Shaftesbury Avenue,London, W.1.78 (refer March 16, 1968) According to David Harley (Nor-

wich) the Shirelles' first disc was definitely "I Met HimOn A Sunday" for Decca. The other two Decca singlesthat were mentioned came after this one, in 1959, andbefore they joined Scepter in 1960. Art of the RecordMart magazine corroborates this with the catalogue num-bers: "Sunday" was 30588, "Slop Time" 30669 and "StopMe" 30761. Nicely wrapped up, fellas!

61 (refer March 16, 1968) Another disc by a group calledthe Rivierasis "Eleventh Hour Melody"/"Since I MadeYou Cry" on Co-ed. P. G. Pickering (Wyke, Bradford)would like to know if it's the same group of "CaliforniaSun" fame.

106 (refer May 25, 1968) John M. Wilson (Glasgow, S.1)advises that the pianist on the Bo Diddley tracks "LittleGirl" and "You Don't Love Me" is Henry Gray, and notOtis Spann. He adds that these are his only two record.ings with Bo, although he has recorded also with Howlin'Wolf, Jimmy Rogers, and Billy Boy Arnold. Info herewas also supplied by Jack Payne (Worcester Park) whocontradicts the above slightly in that he says HenryGray recorded a host of discs with Bo! Anyone confirmwhich is right?

19 (refer October 7, 1967) Regarding Marvin Gaye with the Moonglows:Geoffrey Carter (Ruddington, Notts.) says that Marvin Gaye joinedChess Records in 1958 and became a member of the Moonglows,whose lead singer was Harvey Fuqua. llarvey Fuqua left two yearslater to duet with Etta James, and later Marvin Gaye left to duetwith him. However, it is safe to say, Geoffrey reckons, that Marvinat least sang on all their releases between 1958 and 1960 on Chess.Geoffrey says that the question arises here as to whether he leftbefore or after the Moonglows recorded for Veejay . . don't thinkit does arise actually, because as Graham McKenzie (Enfield) rightlysays the Moonglows tracks on Veejay date from around 1955 sincethey were originally made for Chance.

105 (refer May 25, 1968) D. Rains (Southend-on-Sea) has another oddsingle on yet another Phil Spector label, that he'd like some infoon: "Kiss Me Now"/"We're Not Old Enough" by Florence DeVoreon Phi -Dan 5000. Anyone help?

99 (refer April 27, 1968) Bob Hazell (Gt. Yarmouth) gives some infofrom "Blues & Soul" magazine on these Otis Redding tracks.Otis joined Johnny Jenkins' Pinetoppers as pianist and vocalist in1959. They recorded for Bethlehem, at one session, "ShoutBamalama", "Fat Girl" and "She's Alright" and at a latersession, "Gettin' Hip". They have been issued in the following form:

THE DEL VIKINGS - See item 108"Bamalama"/"Fat Girl" - Bethlehem 3083, Confederate 135; "GetunHip"/"She's Alright" - Gerald 1001, Atlantic 2144.

64 (refer May 4, 1968) Regarding Dionne Warwick's family: (Okay, we'reoff the main subject, but what the heck!) Miss Chris Fry (Harrow)got some information from Gloria Marcantonio of the Scepter/WandAppreciation Society - Dionne Warwick has only one sister and thatis of course Dee Dee. But Emily Warwick does exist - she IsDionne's aunt, and sings with the Sweet Inspirations. As for JudyClay, she was raised by Dionne's mother, but is no relation. That'sstraightened this side track then - but we're still stuck on justwho does sing on these Wilson Pickett tracks!

108 (refer May 4, 1988) Roger Perry (Sidcup) has sent lots of info onthe Del Vikings, and although it doesn't completely clear up theproblem, it goes a long way towards it. His info came from "SoulMusic Monthly", which said that in 1955 five members of the USAFformed the original group which included Charles "Chuck" Jackson.In 1956 they signed a contract with the Pittsburgh -based Fee -Beelabel, and during this time cut more than a dozen sides including"Come Go With Me", "Whispering Bells", "Don't Be A Fool" and"How Can I Find True Love", the lead vocals alternating betweenKrips Johnson (the main lead), Chuck Jackson, and the white memberof the group, Gus Backus. These tracks were then leased to Dot.The group left Fee -Bees when their contract ran out although acouple more tracks were issued (as by the Original Del Vikings).Then the group recorded an album for L'Universe Records whichwas withdrawn after a lawsuit concerning the re-recording of "ComeGo With Me" that appeared in the album. After this Chuck Jacksonleft, and the group's line-up changed radically and often, whilstitems appeared on Mercury. Alpine and ABC -Paramount and Gateway,from whence they drifted into obscurity. However, it still doesn'treally suggest where the Crown recordings came from. Anyone knowthis fact?

124 Peter Burns (Edmonton, N.18) asks if anyone knows anything abouta singer called Jimmy Williams, who had a single on Atlantic overhere (whilst it was under Decca) called "Walking On Air". Any helpforthcoming?

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David Cumming ColumnANOTHER riveting exclusive! Readers of this

column are first to get the really irrelevant news.I have it from reliably uninformed sources thatcomedians Roy Hudd, Charlie Drake, Marty Feld-man and Joe Baker plan to take off Lulu's T.V.show when they return to the screen. Roy Hudd,

whose deadly accurate impersonation of Mike Yarwood wasthe hit of last year's Command Performance at the YoungConservatives' Sports Pavilion, Eltham, spoke to me aboutthis. "I'm polishing up my Scottish accent" he said, "and I'mgoing into training to lose over one foot in height. I like mytake -offs to be genuine, so instead of wearing a wig I'll begrowing my own hair and having it dyed red, like lovelyLulu's. Other parts of me will have to be faked," he addedwith a knowing wink.

Marty Feldman admitted that he would be wearing a wig.but no make-up. "Facially Lulu and I are very alike" hesaid, "I'm often getting mistaken for her in the streets."Charlie Drake is, of course, several inches shorter than Luluand will be doing his impersonation on stilts. Following hissuccess at Montreux he will appear as Lulu playing all theinstruments of the orchestra with a bunch of balloons aroundher neck. Joe Baker, speaking from his pad in London'sWest End (he'd been making notes on it) said: "I deny thatI plan to do a take -off of Lulu. I shall be concentrating onmy usual gallery of impressions: Rudolph Valentino, NikitaKruschev, Don Bradman, The Luton Girls Choir, Rupert Bearand other well loved figures on the current showbiz scene."Champion The Wonder Horse was unavailable for comment.

THIS IS MY SCENENew Italian song "The Bigamist" turns out to be the story

of a very dense fog . . . Comment overheard about new malesinger: "That boy's only hope in showbiz is for a relative todie and leave him some talent" . . . After a lot of snipingfrom inside the pop -world, The Love Affair have changedtheir name to The Just Good Friends . .. Here's a twist! Sawa girl in a discotheque last week who's dress was cut so lowshe spilled herself all over her drink . . . And talking ofdrinking in discotheques (and I was, even if you weren't),there's one such place I know that has such a boozy crowd. . . would you believe a Gents . . . with revolving doors?NEWS FLASH! Robinson Crusoe had his Man Friday, MikeD'Abo has his Man Fred, and now it's Andy Williams with hisMan Cini! (That item is in the running for The Tony Black-burn Award for the worst pun of the year) . . . Anybodyinterested in a song I've written about the water -fountain weused to have in the school playground: it's called "Old Face-ful".

CLASSIFIED AND SMALL ADS.I'm reviving my small -ads column for one week only, so if

you have the ready cash, DON'T DELAY, WRITE TODAY!(If you have to borrow, write tomorrow!)

SOUL RECORDS. Owing to unexpected decrease in fundsdue to recent world-wide apathy we are forced to sell somereally exciting SOUL RECORDS. They include Napoleon,Josephine, Fanny Hill, Lord Byron, Henry Tudor, etc. Sendfor lists to: St. Peter, Pearly Gates, Trinity House, Heaven.(N.B. These records are guaranteed accurate from the birthto the death of the soul in question.)

HURRY! HURRY! New club opens Tuesday. SUNDAY'SJOINT, Kings Road, Chelsea. Hurry! Hurry! Opens Tuesday.Rock 'n' Roll played by topless girl group. Hurry! Hurry!Closes Wednesday.

COMPOSER WANTED. Unsuccessful lyric writer from Budein Cornwall who has been with the fortunate name of BarryMason, seeks unsuccessful composer who is called Les Reed.Object: Collaboration to cash -in on current popularity ofReed -Mason songs.

PERFUME. "Temptation Harbour" is worth 25 gns. perounce. This week's special offer, 3s. 6d. per gallon drum. Thisperfume is so irresistible to men, we supply a police whistlewith every order. Send P.O. to Box 69.

ARE YOU LONELY AND UNWANTED? DO YOU HAVEHORRIFYING NIGHTMARES? Then write to us and we willhelp you to meet the girl (or boy) of your dreams. S.A.E.Vampire Introductions, Castle -On -The -Hill, Transalvania,Central Europe.

FORGED CUP FINAL TICKETS. A number of forged -tickets left unsold before the game on May 18, 1968, avail-able at bargain prices to anyone clever enough to convincefans that next year's final is between Everton and West Brom-wich Albion. Also European Cup Final tickets, and, for veryclever people, World Cup Final tickets.

TAILPIECEJimmy Young makes it work for him, why can't I make it

work for me? I am speaking, of course, of . . . recipes! Sonext week, have your pencil and paper ready won't you?Make sure you have your pencil and paper ready because I'llbe giving you a recipe for pencil and paper pudding.

P.S. I owe a big apology to Miss Janet Bushell. Sorry Janet,it was a clerical error.

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THE MIGHTY GARVEY FIGHTS

THE GOOD FIGHT!Tom McGuinness reports on the state of the Manfreds66 UMPIN' JACK FLASH rides again" quips Tom

McGuinness of mighty Manfred Mann abouttheir new single, "My Name Is Jack". Seemslike the new pop name is to be Jack with bothrecords destined to become chart toppers ofthe first water.

"I like the new Stones single" continued Tom, "it's niceand simple-and they're much better at that sort of thing.Ahd you can't really say it's a retrogressive step for thegroup, because they never did anything good that wasparticularly way-out from their normal style. This one's verygood, though.

"My Name Is Jack" is a Paul Simon number. I like it,and I think it's very commercial-but really I'm too closeto the record to be able to judge whether it'll be a hitor not. I hope it will, obviously.

"I was amazed to find out it was a Paul Simon song. Wegot it from a film called "You Are What You Eat"-it wasproduced by Bob Dylan's manager, Al Grossman, and allthe music for the film was done by Peter Yarrow of Peter,Paul and Mary. There was just this one song in it by PaulSimon, which was part of a really great sequence about alittle boy named Jack wandering through this large Ameri-can country house-called a Greta Garbo home, which isjust a nickname for this sort of weather-beaten whitewashedhouse. The place is full of hippies, and this boy is wander-ing through it saying things like "my name is Jack, andthese are my friends", and so on. It's what you'd call a,quote, art film, unquote.

"It's strange-it's a lot of disjointed sequences, but be-cause of the way it's put together, it looks great. It's avery good film-all about a sort of hip American Steptoe.

"We saw the film in this country when Al Grossman wasover here trying to arrange distribution for it. Because wehad a hit record with the Dylan number, "Mighty Quinn",I suppose he felt quite well-disposed towards us, and he

invited us along to see the film. The thing is that althoughit's good, it's not particularly commercial. Perhaps if ourrecord is a hit, people will start to show an interest in thefilm.

"As I say, I can never really judge our own records. Like"Mighty Quinn"-we liked it, but after we recorded it weput it to one side and forgot all about it. It wasn't untila few months later someone suggested we should releaseit-and we didn't seriously think it would do so well.

"It's funny that we should follow up a Dylan song with aPaul Simon song. All of us in the group admire Dylan-butwe'd never really thought of recording anything by Simon.We saw him on television two years ago when he came overto this country, and he sang "Richard Corey"-we wereall knocked out, and we rushed out and bought the Simonand Garfunkel LP. We didn't do any of the songs, though,because it was the time of "Pretty Flamingo". And wedidn't think about it again until we heard "My Name IsJack".

"Anyway, Simon records everything he writes virtually,so it's more difficult to find a song by him that we can do.Dylan, on the other hand, just does demo's of his material,and it gives us a much wider choice. We never set out torecord songs by people we like, so much as songs we like-and songs that are right for us.

"We never lay down hard and fast rules for the groupas to what we record or anything. In fact we rarely makeany plans- we just keep frootling along, all doing our ownthings as well as the group things. I think we're veryrealistic about ourselves-we never make concrete, excitingplans, and when anything does happen, it just happens.There's no big story about it. We all have our own particularinterests, anyway, and we all do different things.

"I can't generalise about whether this is a good way forall groups to work. But as far as we're concerned, it workswell. And having our own separate interests doesn't disrupt

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Tom switches to pop, slays on lager

0NCE upon a time, in the well groomed, sternlydisciplined land of Ivy League, there was an institu-tion known simply to the informed as Harvard.Inside this bubbling culture of creativity, a studiousyoung man toiled over his wealth of homework withan indescribable desire to be doing something else.

One day, he was approached and beseeched tograsp his guitar (which had for a long time been his sideinterest) and utilize it to replace one of his noted peerswhose forthcoming absence at a public performance wascausing some anxiety. Dropping his English books andwhipping out the old box, young Thomas Rush dashed tothe scene, and subsequently saw the last of his purposelessacademic tasks. Pinched by a representative of the newlyborn 'Flint' Records, earnest talented Thomas made the firstand last record to be released on that label. When 'Flint'disappeared, 'Prestige' adopted him. An impressive futurebegan here and was interrupted only by the quick switchto Elektra. At last, on a well run label, and with definitedirection, the colourful saga of folk artiste unfolded.

YEARS LATERStill very tall but just a trifle kinkier Tom Rush, veteran

of the Elektra folk group, popped into Britain for a quickbut meaty series of concerts. And popped is literally whathe has done, for according to the brown haired blue eyedman of 'No Regrets', one can go only so far before the urgefor personal progression demands a change.

"I wanted to experiment in pop, no one told me to, oradvised me that pop is the only road to commercial success.I haven't lost the inclination toward folk music, but nowI want to combine the two forms in my own way. Becausemy style is basically simple, I tend to drift toward the soundof 'Something In The Way She Moves' (his new release)rather than delving into deep, almost classical folk as quitea few others have done. My repertoire is still sparsed withthe occasional unaccompanied composition, and I make aneffort to hear people like Jansch and Renbourne. Paul Simonwrites good material as well, but I don't think I'm influencedby many of these due to this tendency to drift away fromcomplexity. Why do people think I'm strange because I onlydrink Lager?"

Tom's only London appearance was at the famed MarqueeClub where he skipped merrily through some of the finestselections from his current LP 'The Circle Game'. Theseranged from the lilting piano and bass backed 'Circle Game'to the beaty 'Hey Bo Diddley!' After the concert he hadthese stirring comments to make: "I felt like swearing aboutthe sound in there-ordinarily you've got a sound balancerhopping about to be sure the volume is correct from all

TOM RUSH - and this is only half of him

points. It must be controlled to allow the group on stageto hear one another and the audience to hear all of us inthe proper proportion. In this case, all the equipment wasborrowed, and no one could work it. I couldn't hear myselfor the guitar. All the concerts up north went well, but thisone annoyed me. I need a lager."

I felt almost as bad as he did about the sound, but beinga fanatical Rush enthusiast, I ignored the difficulties andenjoyed it anyway. It takes quite a lot to overpower thesound of Tom Rush. You can test for yourself around theend of July.

LON GODDARD

MANFRED MANN - new single is a Paul Simon song

the group at all-we tryunless it's a joint thing.

"We've just finished our new LP, "Mighty Garvey". We'renot really too happy with it-it's taken us too long to gettogether. We've been working on it for about a year or so,and we've changed a lot during that time. The thing isthat we're constantly thinking that we can improve things,and it just goes on and on. I think an LP should be recordedstraight off-a reflection of the group at the time of record-ing. With our next album we'll try and record the wholeof it in a couple of months. We'll probably still be dis-satisfied with it though.

and keep out of each other's way

EDWIN GARVEY"Mighty Garvey" features a bloke called Edwin Garvey,

who appeared on the B-side of our last record. He's acharacter we've devised to display different sorts of popmusic-it's our way of laughing at pop. There's a track onthe album called "Happy Families" which is done in differentways by three Garveys. There's rock 'n' roller Eddy "Fingers"Garvey, smooth night-club singer Ed Garvey, and Irish folksinger Edwin O'Garvey.

"We're not trying to make any snide comment about thepop scene or anything like that-it's just done for a laugh.It gives us pleasure - I don't know about anyone else. Wewant to do more Garveys in the future.

"I'm all for keeping pop music in perspective-keepingit simple. I think that in the past year it's become too over -intellectualised. There's room for all sorts of pop, it's justthat there's been too much emphasis on complicated sounds.Personally I'd rather go to the source of this sort of music,and listen to classical or jazz rather than West Coast.

"Pop music is now covering a very wide field, and I thinkthe simple things are being ignored a lot. Fight the goodfight, I say, and keep pop music simple."

DEREK BOLTWOOD

BEGGIN'...DERAM is different

45 rpm record Deram Records Decca House Albert Embankment London SE1

RECORD MIRROR, Week ending June 8, 1968

FIGHTING JIMAGREAT bloke and a horrible bloke

and the centre of controversy andan ogre and a star and evil andlovely and very talented and wealthy

and bankrupt.If you take a pencil and a piece of

paper and go into the street to do asurvey on P. J. Proby, you'd hear allthis and more. And if you built up acharacter picture of this larger than lifeTexan from the opinions given to you,it would be very confused.

And so would you.But cast confusion to the wind. All

the opinions about P. J. Proby melteddown and chopped up and grated intoa pot and boiled and stirred are a recipefor one fact.

P. J. Proby is a hell -raiser."My interests are drinking, fighting, and

singing, in that order," he said.But that's very much the image of P. J.

Proby talking - an image based on facts,but built up by stories about him.

"I don't get into so many fights now.I think perhaps I've calmed down a bit.But even in the early days I didn't havethat many fights - it's just that eventswere always played up a lot by the Press.I enjoy fighting - it's a thing I've beendoing since I was a kid. One of the goodthings of life - you know, like you cango into a pub in Camden Town, and there'd

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be a crowd of Irishmen having a fight. Theydon't pull their punches - they go all outto hurt one another, but it's not out ofanger or nastiness. It's just all good fun,and after the fight they're all pals again.

Herd worryaboutJimi..."L adeez and gentul-

men, on my right. . Andee Bown."On my left . .

Androo Steele."In front of each, a plate of Shepherd's

Pie and here beginneth a race as hasnever been witnessed before of gourmand-ising and may the best man win."

Unfortunately both contestants lostinterest in the epic event, and I didn'tsee who won as I was too busy talking.

In fact we were all too busy talking . . .

. . about the Herd.When we were chatting last time, just

before their single "I Don't Want OurLoving To Die' stormed the charts, theysaid that if it was a hit for them, they'dfeel fairly well established - as establishedas a group who've had five or six hits.

"We feel quite happy with our positionnow," said Andrew. "I think we still needabout six hits before we can settle downas an "established" group. But every recordthat's a hit is cementing us into positiona little bit more, and giving us that littlebit more confidence as well.

"We've been very lucky, because we'vehad a lot of exposure in the music papers,and that's helped us a lot too," addedAndy.

"We were lucky when we started,"Andrew continued, "because we appearedat a time when there weren't very many'teeny -hopper' groups around. It wasquite strange, really, because our first hit,'From The Underworld' wasn't at alla 'teeny-bopper' sound. But I think wewere labelled as that by the Press - agroup was needed to fill the space, andwe happened to be around with a chartrecord.

"In America" said Andy," they think we're anunderground group, They don't know anything aboutus-apart from having heard "Underworld"-andthey're judging us on that record. They'll getquite a shock when they see us.

"When they hear "I Don't Want Our Loving ToDie," they'll probably think it's a clever hit ofunderground music, made to sound like a poprecord, and full of hidden meaning! I hate to thinkwhat they might read into our stage act whenwe throw bananas at the audience - perhapsthey'll try to smoke them or something.

"We're going over there in about a month. I'mnot sure yet, but I think we'll be doing a collegetour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and SpookyTooth. I don't know whether that'll be good for usor not. Will the audiences for Jimi want to see us?And vice -versa, The thing is that Jimi is accepted

And that's a thing I found when I had areputation as being a bit wild - peoplewould try and provoke me into a fight,to see if I was as good as I said I was.And I was always ready for a fight. Butmore as a sport than out of any badfeeling.

"I remember there was one time - I thinkit was in Sweden - I was doing a concert,and when I finished my act a dozen guyscame up on stage out of the audience. Inaturally assumed they were looking for afight, so I started throwing punches, layingthem out all around me. And they still keptcoming forward. And then eventually Irealised that they just wanted to shakehands with me. So I stopped punching themand shook hands - and made a publicapology, explaining that it was all anunfortunate misunderstanding!

"But I never got involved in that manyfights. If the audience starts to shout at mewhen I'm on stage, then I'll shout back. Ithink that's fair, and all part of the game.The only thing I can make no excuses foris swearing at an audience when you'reon stage. I've done it a couple of times inthe past - but really I think it's a verybad practise, and there's no need for it.is only ever happened when I've had a

few too many drinks."But that's another of my pleasures I'm

THE HERD-America thinks they're an underground group (RM pic)

over there as an underground group, and althoughthey think that's what we are at the moment.what will happen when they see us?

"I don't think it really matters whether you areclassified as one thing or another. But there's sucha definite dividing line between the two sorts ofgroups in America, that I'm not sure which we'll beaccepted as. We play a different sort of music tothe .Jimi Ilendrix Experience, anyway. The problemis, will the contrast he good or bad? Especiallyconsidering how big Jimi's group is over there.-

-I think that whether this particular tour is goodfor us or not, it's worth doing," said Andrew, be-cause it's a way of getting to America-and we'reall quite impatient to get there. Even on a shorttour such as this would be, one could learn a lot-not only from a change of environment, but alsofrom seeing a greater variety of different musi-cians.

"I don't seriously think it could do us muchharm, though. In fact it would be nice to beaccepted over there as a "teeny-bupper" group.There seems to be a lack of them at the moment-especially among the British groups out there, Allthe groups from this country who are making itin America at the moment are classed as under-ground groups. I can only think of Herman, andperhaps Dave Clark, who have made it big on the"pop" scene in the States-and I think the timecould be right for a new "teeny hopper" group.We emerged in this country at just the rightmoment, and I hope we can do the same inAmerica.

"We haven't really had any time off since ourfirst hit-we've been working virtually every night.It doesn't leave us a lot of time for writing andrecording, and we'd obviously like to snenclmuch more time doing this. But we're still buildingup our position as a group, and it's important thatwe lay a good foundation, so that we can lookforward to the time when we can concentrate en acouple of good gigs a week, instead of working indifferent parts of the country every night."

'That's all very well." added Andy Bown, eyes -a -twinkle and gleaming behind his large glassesbuilt dark to hide the sun and the glare, "but %vimin fact finished their Shepherd's Pie First?"

DEREK BOLTWOOD

having to cut down on now. Four monthsago I was given a year to live by my doctor- and I've had to cut down on the amountI drink to about an eighth of what it wasbefore. So that cuts out the fighting andthe drinking - it only leaves me with thesinging! But, seriously, I think I'm a lotmore settled now than I ever was - despitethis bankruptcy thing hanging over me.

"When I came into the business fouryears ago I was very green. I'd hadexperience over in the States but, I wasnew to this country, and I was thrust inat the deep end. And I was so confused witheverything when I started, that I just hitout everywhere. And what's happening tome now is a result of that.

"For example, I'm still banned fromevery theatre just about, in Britain. Yousee, in America, monopoly is illegal - andI thought the same thing applied overhere. But I soon found out it doesn't, andthat almost the whole of this business -the theatre circuit, that is - is controlledby two people. And unfortunately I upsetthese two people by splitting my pants abit tco much on stage, among other things.So I was banned - and I'm still banned.

"And then there's this bankruptcy thing,where I have to pay back taxes. I think Istill owe them about fifty -thousand pounds,and at the moment every penny I earn goesstraight to the Official Receiver, who paysback my debts, and gives me enough pocketmoney to live on. Well, he say it's enoughto live on!

"But that tax thing happened. like ithappens to a lot of people in this business.I was quite happy thinking that my managerwas paying my takes, and that all themoney received was spending money. Buthe wasn't, and I was soon very much indebt. And, of course, I never saved anymoney - I believe the best thing to dowith money when you have it is to spend it.Supposing I'd invested my money in a lotof material things like property and housesand antique furniture and so on. With thisbankruptcy business over these taxes I owe,the Official Receiver could have taken allmy possessions to repay my debts. So what'sthe point in collecting a lot of materialthings?

"One of the things they said to me inthe court was that I was living way abovemy means. Well, I think that's ridiculous -at one point I was earning a lot of money,and spending it. I believe that if you'reearning twenty pounds a week, you livelike a person earning that much. And ifyou're earning two thousand, pounds aweek, as I was, then there's no reason whyyou shouldn't have chauffeur driven carsand luxury apartments. I suppose thehang-up was that I trusted my managertoo much.

" I seriously think that if everything hadgone right, and I hadn't loused my chancesup in so many ways, I could now be almostas wealthy as the Beatles. There were somany things happening for me when itall came to an end so disastrously.

"But I'm not really sorry about any ofthis - and I don't regret having come intothe business when, and in the way, I did.And at the moment I seem to be workingharder than ever so I can't complain."

DEREK BOLTWOOD

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ON 2GIANTLPGIN America, the long -player is the back-

bone". of the record industry, and despiteexcessive taxation a gradual swing from"the hit single" to the long-term L.P.policy is taking place here. I've selectedtwo potentially hitbound L.P.'s to reviewin more depth than usual, and althoughthey will occupy places in the samechart, the differences between them areconsiderable. They are unlikely, incident-ally, to sell to the same people, but bothare good examples of quality product.The first album is "Bookends", by Simonand Garfunkel, which has earned a golddisc in the States and is currently toppingthe charts there -a single taken fromthis L.P. ("Mrs. Robinson") is topping thesingles charts also. The L.P. is scheduledfor July release here. The other disc is"If No One Sang" by Dave Dee, Dozy,Beaky, Mick and Tich, who have had afantastic run of hit singles, and whoseL.P.'s are selling better with each release.

"Bookends" (US Columbia ImportSTEREO KCS 9529) opens with the instru-mental "Bookends Theme", a short,thoughtful guitar piece which goes straightinto the savage "Save The Life Of MyChild", a dramatic item, jerky, echo -filledwith Paul's urgent vocal set against ahorrific backdrop of screaming, franticacoustic guitar, grating fuzzbox. Lyrics aredesperate, frustrating and sometimesmeditative. This side follows a birth -to -death pattern in the songs.

"America" is gentle, with bouncy per-cussion and nice guitar work, and resignedtouch to the vocal. Lyrics have a pleasingpersonal quality and again there are con-trasts in shades of drama running through-out. "Overs" opens simply, vocal withguitar, and deals with a romance that'salmost broken up-Art effectively sings inand the relaxed quality has a kind ofLatin-American jazz feel about it. "VoicesOf Old People" was recorded by Art invarious locations in New York and LosAngeles and includes some poignantand faintly humorous comments, allbeautifully recorded with subtle stereoeffects. Obviously great care must havebeen spent selecting these bits from themass of dialogue that was collected.Surprisingly enough, it fits in with therather resigned, experienced, atmospherepervading throughout the album. "OldFriends" features an orchestral arrange-ment via Jimmy Haskell and an inquisitivelyric about old age, following on nicelyfrom the previous track. No pause betweenthe instrumental ending, and the prettyguitar opening of "Bookends Thome",which has a stark lyric at variance withthe melody.

Side Two opens with "Fakin' It", released astheir last single. Melodious, commercially -inclined(although it wasn't a hit here), and touches ofviolence which match the embittered lyric. "Punky'sDilemma" is an amusing light item, with a harm-less sound but a lyric that must mean somethingdifferent to everyone that listens to it. Soundeffects are coarse. but the whistling is fine.

"Mrs. Robinson" opens with a fast heat, andwordless semi -scat vocals from the duo. The solidtune and lyric soon intrudes, and everything isultra-commercial-a plaintive melody, and wordswhich could easily he a Beatle send-up (butaren't). A long song, beautiful acoustic work andthat familiar slapping percussion. It's from themovie -The Graduate" (opening today, Thursday)and should be a big hit here, too. I predict anumber one. in fact. "A Hazy Shade Of Winter"was flop topside here and has a savage intro witha thumping feel dominating everything, pluscastanets and a tune following their normal up -down format. I still like the lyrics here-incidentally.all the words are published on the reverse sleeveof the U.S. version. "Looking over manuscriptsof unpublished rhymes". what a line! No gap

between "Winter" and "At The Zoo", which is afamiliar song that builds into a fabulous folk-rockclimax. and a pounding, yet somehow subtle beatthroughout. Good stereo effects here, too. That'sthe last track on the album, which is on par withtheir last L.P., the superlative "Parsley, Sage.Rosemary and Thyme".

"If No One Sang" (Fontana MONO TL 5471)."If No One Sang" is a folk -tinged opener to the

L.P., with eerie sound effects and Dave singinga lone. melodious lead vocal. Lovely acousticguitar -work here, and this leads straight into"Where From Where To", an organ -based builderwith Dozy singing a languid lead, to a set ofthoughtful lyrics.

"I Got A Feeling" has a bright bossa novaflavour and an excellent Latin -combo backdrop,Jerky sort of song in their hit single style withlusty group vocals. Everyone sounds as thoughthey're enjoying what's happening here. "In AMatter Of A Moment" is a dreamy heat ballad.repetitive lyric and beat, but imaginative arrange-menta which saves the side from being over -syrupy: the vocal is nice, too. This sounds like thekind of song you hear when you're holidayingabroad (except it wouldn't be in English, ofcourse). "Mrs. Thursday" opens with limousinesound effects, and the jaunty song is based onthe TV character with a clear, send-up type vocalfrom Dave Dee. Beaky and Dozy. Amusing.gossipy and again, the backing arrangement soundsout. Original, but I preferred the company of thatother married lady, the beautiful "Mrs. Robinson".You've all heard their "Zabadak", so I'll skipthat and go on to the last track on side one-"Mama Mama" which has a rocking vocal fromDozy, set against a boogie -based piano and aSpanish -flavoured tune running hotly throughout-an exciting climax to the side. Side two commenceswith their version of Tim liardin's "If I Were ACarpenter", and their version is more subdued -rock. as opposed to the brash Four Tops treat-ment. or the folksy Darin -Hardin versions. Theyhandle it well, and credit must go to Dave forhis delicate vocal, which is attractive withoutbeing weak. lie brings out the lyrics towards theend and. although Hardin fans won't dig this, itbuilds to a tremendous climax, but I could havedone without the backing vocals.

I'll skip their chart -topping "The Legend OfXanadu" and go on to Dave's solo on "Look AlMe". a dramatic, but terrifically corny numberWell -performed with the building backdrop thatmarks this L.P. "The Tide Is Turning" featuresthe whole group on vocals, and is a fine plaintiveside with a good tune and harmonious vocalswhich blend well. All of the arrangements onthis L.P.. incidentally, are by Reg Tilsley and.John Gregory, while the production is by SteveRowland, and Roger Wake did the recording."Breakout" has a big backing, and is a strongballad, with Dave singing solo. Cellos intrudewell. and there's enough drama here to appealto their fans. Airport announcements open "TimeTo Take Off" (sounds like Byrds tune!), andthis is a fast-moving pacey teen -slanted numberwith a commercial flavour-it runs into "If NoOne Sang" again, but the whole group join inthe finale which ends with the same sound effectsas open the L.P.

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THE SMALL FACES "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake"-Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; Afterglow;Long Agos and Worlds Apart; Rene; Song Of A Baker; Lazy Sunday; Happiness Stan:Happiness Stan; Rollin' Over; The Hungry Intruder; The Journey; Mad John; Happydays-toytown (Immediate IMLP 012).IL FTER recovering from the initial shock of discovering that the latest Small Faces LP

I's- comes in a fold -out ROUND (yes, the same shape as the record) sleeve, which isextremely well designed and constructed, you'll discover that the music is almost as adven-turous. Songs range from the cockney -rock "Lazy Sunday" and "Rene" on side one, to theirmammoth "Happiness Stan", a collection of adventurous songs connected by the dialogueof no other than Stanley Unwin. The opener title track is a powerful psychedelic instrumen-tal, and one has the feeling the LP is full of "in" jokes. This is obviously "their thing" andfalls more into the underground class than for a teeny bopper audience-well produced withmenacing sounds throughout, and altogether everything fits together nicely. This puts theminto the really big league, not just a collection of pretty small faces.* * * *ERIC BURDON AND THE

ANIMALS "The Twain Shall Meet"- Monterey; Just The Thought;(loser To The Truth; No Self Pity;Orange And Red Beams; SkyPilot; We Love You Lii; All IsOne (MGM MONO C 8074)

PRODUCEDby Tom Wilson, this

progressive LP is blues -basedwith overlays of psychedelia,

and a selection of would-bePhilosophical lyrics. Eric's voicehas improved in a mellow way,and there is enough explorationand adventure in this LP to satisfythe hardest head. I like "We LoveYou Lil" and "Just The Thought",hut I can do without "Sky Pilot".* * * *

THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS"Standards" - That Lucky OldSun; That's All; My DarlingClementine; All The Way; CountryBoy; Without A Song; Since I FellFor You; Come Rain Or Shine;Secret Love; If I Ruled The World;Somewhere (Verve MONO VLP9204)

THIS marks the first stage ofI the Righteous Brothers split- they don't sing together on

this package, but Bill takes sideone, and Bobby side two. Theirvoices individually are good, butit was that blue-eyed soulful inter-twining that made them unique.Well produced, but somehow dis-appointing and slightly dull, unlessyou use it for late night listening.* * *

HANK WILLIAMS "And StringsVol. 3" - Window Shopping; MyBucket's Got A Hole In It; JustWallin': (Last Night) I Heard YouCrying In Your Sleep; Why ShouldWe Try Anymore; Be Careful OfStones That You Throw; I'll NeverGet Out Of This World Alive;Moonlit' The Blues; My Sweet LoveAin't Around; Why Don't You LoveMe; Crazy Heart (MGM MONOC 8075)

IF you like Worker's Playtimestrings dubbed on re -mixedHank Williams sides, try this

set. Personally, I think the countryatmosphere, whether it be jovialor meloncholy, is destroyed, butadmittedly the pop content (andtherefore the radio play potential)is enhanced.* * *

MANTOVANI "The MantovaniTouch"-On A Clear Day; Arne;Release Me; A Man And AWoman; Almost There; What NowMy Love; Edelweiss; A Day InThe Life Of A Fool; My Cut)Runneth Over; Days Of Wine AndRoses; Impossible Dream; PuppetOn A String (Decca STEREO SKI.4921).

rriHE gorgeous sound of Man-tovani is put to some veryfamiliar pop tunes here, which

range from Burt Bacharach's lush"Alfie" to the breezy "Puppet OnA String". Yet Mantovani doesn'tsteam -roller everything with lushstrings: the arrangements aresuperb, and a variety of instrum-ents and styles are used through-out to suit the mood of the tune.A very fine LP; try his souped up"Un Homme Et Un Femme" or anyof the versions of the AndyWilliams tunes here ("AlmostThere", Days Of Wine And Roses"."The Impossible Dream").****

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND"White Light/White Heat" - WhiteLight/White Heat; The Gift; LadyGodiva's Operation; Here SheComes Now; I Heard Her Call MyName Sister Ray (Verve VLP 9201)

AMENACING set of acid -rocktunes from the former AndyWarhol group, which range

from the behemoth "Sister Ray",to the rock recital "The Gift",which sounds like something fromDylan Thomas' "Linder MilkWood". All of the backings havethat repetitive growling bluesquality, and the vocals are dead-pan. A hippy must.* * * *

JOHNNY TILLOTSON "The BestOf Johnny Tillotson" - It KeepsRight On A Hurtin'; Send Me ThePillow You Dream On; I'm SoLonesome I Could Cry; You're TheReason; Worry; Talk BackTrembling Lips; Poetry In Motion;Why Do I Love You So; DreamyEyes; Without You; She Under-stands Me; Heartaches By TheNumber (MGM MONO C 8076)

MOST of Johnny's biggest hitsare here - either theoriginals ("Talk Back

Trembling Lips", "She UnderstandsMe") or else very good re -record-ings (''Poetry In Motion", -"It KeepsRight On A Hurtin' ") - thesmooth teen sound is temperedwith either rock or country, andthe effect can be quite gutsy, likein "Without You", or else poignant,as in "Send Me The Pillow". Apretty, nice, LP.* * * *

SANDY POSEY "Looking AtYou" - Deep In Kentucky; TheMeadow Of My Love; Just You,Just Me (And Love For Company);It's Not Easy; Silly Girl; Silly Boy;Something I'll Remember; Handy;Shades Of Gray; Will You LoveMe Tomorrow; One Man Woman(MGM MONO C 8073)

SANDY'S vocal standard is ashigh as ever, and her materialon this album has been care-

fully selected as good pop. Theproductions - by Chips Moman andJoe South - are fine, and thereare some more ambitious thingson this LP than her others - thesoul -tinged "One Man Woman" forexample.* * * *

ULTIMATE SPINACH "UltimateSpinach" (MGM C 8071)

ONE of MGM's many under-ground groups, this team isbased around singer -composer

Ian Bruce -Douglas, and the generalsound is clear-cut, with plenty ofmessage songs included. Everytrack sounds different, and rangesfrom the heavy ponderous "YourHead Is Reeling" to the lightnessof "Pamela", and the satire ''DoveIn Hawk's Clothing". Their firstalbum, and at least half of it isgood.* * * *

THE CHRIS McGREGOR GROUP"Very Urgent" (Polydor STEREO184137)

ALREADY selling well, thisprogressive jazz group fromSouth Africa come up with

some frenzied, but very interestingstuff. Way-out, and a law untothemselves, but a breath of freshjazz air.* * * *

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GLEN CAMPBELL "By The TimeI Get To Phoenfx/I Wanna Live" -By The Time I Get To Phoenix;Homeward Bound; Tomorrow NeverComes; Cold December (In YourHeart); My Baby's Gone; Back InThe Race: Hey Little One: BadSeed; I'll Be Lucky Someday;You're Young And You'll Forget;Love Is A Lonesome River; IWanna Live (Ember NR 5041)

THE neo-country style of GlenCampbell handles these songswell, but the best track is

undoubtedly the Jim Webb grammywinner "By The Time I Get ToPhoenix", which is far better thanhis newie "I Wanna Live". Hisvoice has been well recorded, andit is clear and atmospheric. Thiscould be a big LP.* * *

THE COWSILLS "We Can Fly" -(MGM MONO C 8077)

AMERICA's family group who sofar haven't meant too muchhere. Their style is pretty

and a lot of care has gone intothe production of this LP, whichhas some gentle moods interlacedwith vigorous stuff. Not a hithere though.* * *VARIOUS ARTISTES "Sound OfSoul" (President MONO PTL 1008)

AFUNKY slab of soul fromPresident, which includessome of their recent singles,

including Albert Washington'ssuperlative "Doggin' Me Around".There's nice gospel -tinged stuff on"Can't Stand It No Longer" by theKelly Brothers.* * * *

ORPHEUS "Orpheus" (MGMMONO C 8072)

MORE pop -slated than under-ground, Orpheus are a pretty --

sounding group who get some goodtunes on this LP. But its a bit TOOharmless for me, and they maymeet with the fate (so far at least)as the Association, who they canhe compared with.* * *

ROGER McGOUGII and MICHAELMcGEAR "McGough and McGear"(Parlophone MONO PMC 7047)

ASEMI comedy LI' here, rang-ing from the beat groupsend-up "So Much" (I hope it

IS a send-up) to the sadly humorousrecitations about Monika. Verylistenable, and interesting - pro-duction is nice and nothing here istoo pretentious, or too shallow.Could be a big selling LP.* * * *

CARL PERKINS "King Of Rock"-Levi Jacket (And A Long TailedShirt); Jive After Five; HollywoodCity; The Fool I Used To Be;trombone; Sister Twister; L -0 -V -E -V -I -L -1-E; Honey 'Cause I LoveYou; Pink Pedal Pushers; ThisLife I Live; Pop, Let Me HaYe TheCar; Too Much For A Man ToUnderstand; Highway Of Love;Forget Me (Next Time Around);Pointed Toe Shoes, Just For You(CBS 63309).ITIHE rock revival has certainty

brought to light some hithertounissued rock gems. CBS's

Perkins catalogue has now almostbeen fully issued what with thisand his "Whole Lotto Shakin' " LP.Much of this LP is country, andthe rocking tracks are somewhatmore sophisticated than the olderSun sound items. But CBS havealways been able to make goodcountry -rock records iviz JohnnyCash), and this LP will doubtlessbecome a rock classic. Inciden-tally, I wrote in the sleeve notesthat most of these tracks were re-corded about 1962-in fact only acounte of them were: all the restbeing cut earlier, in 1959.* * * *

SMALL FACES - "In" joke LP is obviously "their Thing" ... but well done

THE BEACON STREET UNION"The Eyes Of The Beacon StreetUnion" (MGM MONO C 8069)

AHARSH underground LP here.and apart from the recitations(by Tom Wilson) sounding

like a spoof from Kim Fowley, theLP is imaginative and entertain-ing. Their jazz -tinged version of thetraditional folk number "ThisSportin' Life" is nice, and theirlight-hearted "Beautiful Delilah"comes across well, but ChuckBerry might not like it.* * * *

VARIOUS ARTISTES "33 MinnsOf Blues And Soul" (Minit MONOMLS 40002)

mrINIT'S biggest claim to fameso far is the red plastic theyused to press their

"Hapshash" LP, but this one isappropriately in black. A finelyselected collection of funky R & Bsounds, with the accent on brass -laden backings. Makes a welcomechange from the Stax-Tamlastables, and the songs are freshand strong. Artistes include HomerBanks ("Hooked By Love"), JimmyMcCracklin ("Dog", "Let The DoorHit You"), and Jimmy Holiday("The Beauty Of A Girl In Love","We Got A Good Thing Going").Ex-Raelet Clydie King comes acrossstrongly. and this New Orleansbased sound deserves to do well.* * * *

CLAUDINE "Love Is Blue" (AML915).

YES, I appreciate that Claudineis the wife of Andy Williamswho is very popular at the

moment. But Claudine's voiceleaves much to be desired. Sheis very pretty and so are her re-cords, but her vocals lack charac-ter and are sung in a husky littlewhisper, with intricate arrange-ments and orchestrations proppingthem up. Might be nice late nightmusic-it'd send 1 ou to sleep.* *JACKIE TRENT "Yesterdays" -

On The Other Side Of The Track;It's Not Unusual; My ColouringBook; Somewhere In The World;Where Are You Now; Yesterdays;To Show !this I Love Him; HowSoon; This Time; Show Me TheWay To Go Home (Marble ArchMAL 790).MHIS set includes Jackie's chart -

'topping "Where Are You Now(My Love)", her magic song,

and although her voice is just asgood on the rest of the LP, noneof the other songs have that in-definable something which marksthat particular Trent -Hatch compo-sition. Good arrangements by TonyHatch, and altogether a worthwhilebudget LP. Try her "My ColouringBook" or "How Soon" (the Mancinititle).* * * *

CONNIE FRANCIS "The Incom-parable Connie Francis" - Be MyLove; Italian Lullaby; Try ALittle Tenderness; When The ClockStrikes Midnight; La Paloma; MyMan; Looking For Love; FuniculiFunicula; Tonight's My Night; TheLoveliest Night Of The Year (MusicFor Pleasure MFP 1219).

ACOLLECTION of tunes sungin English, Italian andSpanish by Connie. Her

voice is distinctive and sounds asgood as ever in its clear way,and this collection at the. reason-able price should appeal, and sellwell. "Try A Little Tenderness"and "Funiculi, Funicula" are stand-out tracks.

* * *ANTONIO PEDRO HATCH "The

Cool Latin Sound" (Pye MONONPL L8217).

NEARLY all of the great poparrangers have a go at theLatin sound sooner or later,

and Tony has attempted this in nohalf-hearted way. His arrange-ments are rather more fulsomethan most, and there's plenty ofgood jazzy sounds here too. Theessentially likely, hot, atmosphericquality of the Central Americashasn't been lost. Titles include "ICould Write A Book," "Too CloseFor Comfort," and the cover plc isexcellent too.* * * *

'WE'RE SWEATING(on TV exposure)' says Simon Dupree

WHEN I spoke to SimonDupree of The Big

Sound this week he seemednervous and unsettled.

"We're sweating on a tele-vision exposure for the newrecord" he explained.

"The week of a new re-lease is always a terribletime for us and for mostother artistes. Our song-writers have spent weeksworking out the song, andwe have spent days arrang-ing and recording it. Ouragents, record company andpublicists have spent a greatdeal of time and money ad-vertising and promoting it.The disc jockeys who like itare playing it, but in theend we know that to a largeextent it's the "Big 3" tele-vision shows that count-andthe biggest of them all is"Top Of The Pops". If youdon't get at least one of theseyour chances of a hit are veryslim. There are records thatmust make it because theyhave a very special magic butthese are rare. "Whiter ShadeOf Pale" and "Young Girl"are a couple of examples.There are artistes that mustmake it because of theirreputations - Beatles, TomJones, etc.-but for most ofus television is the onlychance of getting our recordacross to the bulk of the

SIMON DUPREE

public who don't listen to theradio but do watch 'thebox'."

With at least 70 records re-leased every week and withonly about 10 possible televi-sion slots Simon felt that atleast 60 artistes each weekwould probably be disap-pointed. I asked Simon whatthe producers should doabout it. "Nothing! What canthey do? They're probablyvery fair but they getbadgered to death. What ajob trying to sort that lot

out. The only thing is thatI'm sure a couple of themthink they're picking hitswhen quite often of coursethey're making them.

What was the answer then?"I think that the television

authorities have got to realisethe power that they have.They must be more aware ofthe commercial implications.Either they should only screenestablished hits or to giveeveryone a fair chance theyshould have a roster systemfor new releases or specialprogrammes for all newreleases or special pro-gramme for all new records.After all, unless somethinglike this is done they mustrealise that they are open toaccusations of advertisingone product and not adver-tising another. That's all tele-vising records is, let's face it-plain advertising.

"What chance did Simonthink he had with their newsingle "Part Of My Past"?

"We're lucky-we've gotone T.V. lined up for it.People will see it and if theylike it as they did "Kites"the sales will leap up fourdays after the screening. Ifthey don't we must try again.But from the reactions we'vehad from the first few daysit looks as though 'IV willmake this one."

RECORD MIRROR, Week ending June 8, 1968 9

new singles reviewed by Peter Jones reviewed by Peter Jones new singles

YOUR some TO THIS WEEK'S NEW SINGLESLINDA CLARKE

Rain In My Heart; Society'sChild (Decca F 12787). Not oftendoes a new girl talent get youractual chart -prospect tip, but I be-lieve that Linda is an exceptionaltalent. This is a fair enough song,but brought fully to life by herability to switch mood -to sing out,to whisper, and once the chorusstarts it becomes very commercialindeed. I'm not guaranteeing any-thing, but it could make it big.Flip: The Janis Ian song and it'sgood.

CHART POSSIBILTY.

CLIVE WESTLAKE100 Days; From The Beginning

To The End (Fontana TF 940).From Welsh Wales, I present thevoice of Clive in one of his ownsongs. Though he doesn't want par-ticularly to be a singer as he isa very successful writer, this songhappened to fit exactly his relaxed,yet sincere. style. He doesn'texactly do a Secombe, mind you,but there is something very, veryappealing about this song and per-formance. Flip: Another Westlakeoriginal, slow and moody and soft -tinted.

CHART POSSIBILITY.

JOHN FRED AND HISPLAYBOYS

We Played Games; Lonely AreThe Lonely ( Pye Int. 7N 25462).A very catchy record from JohnFred, not as strong as "Judy"but nevertheless a heavy con-tender for the charts. It's teen -slanted and could do things,especially as he's coming in totour. John Fred wrote both sides,and the flip is a bubbly bouncybeater with another catchy tune.

('HART POSSIBILITY

JOHNNY AND THEHURRICANES

Rocking Goose; Beatnik Fly(London HLX 10199). Catchytune and plenty of squawks onthis organ -led instrumental, oneof the last of the true rock hits.Sax and guitar Join in, and a

pounding backbeat runs through-out. This first hit in 1960. Flip.an adaptation of "Blue Tail Fly"follows the same format, butwith more percussion work -plaintive melody but not as com-mercial as side one.('HART POSSIBILITY

DEREK MARTINSoul Power; Sly Girl (Stax

601039). The "Daddy Rollin'Stone" man and a funky beaterbuilt along typical lines, but withauthentic sounds all round. I'mtaking a chance tipping this, butit has a certain party atmosphereand underlying power which couldsee it into the charts - danceabletoo. Flip is a typical sock it tome, hand -clapper sort of thing.with a Tamla type vocal.

CHART POSSIBILITY

1910 FRUITGUM CO.May I Take A Giant step: (Poor

Old) Mr. Jensen (Pye Int. 7N25458) A mediocre version of"Simon Says". More catchy teen -flavoured sounds throughout -loud percussion everywhere, andsome straightforward vocals. If thismakes it - they'd be lucky. Flip:Again culled from their LP. isa better song with an Imaginativelyric.

CHART POSSIBILITY.

DEL SHANNON Gemini; Magical Musical Box (Liberty LBF15079). A medium pace thumper here -style change from Del witha menacing quality but perhaps too repetitive for big sales. * * *

BILL MEDLEY I Can't Make It Alone; One Day Girl (MGM1418). A strong, powerful slab of emotion here from the soloRighteous Brother, which might make it with enough plugging.* * * *

DUANE EDDY Nikl Hoeky; Velvet Nights (Reprise RS 20690).A rather confused version of the Proby hit here -not enoughtwanging guitar, just sounds like a vocal -less backing track.* * *

FATS DOMINO Walking To New Orleans; Blueberry Hill(Liberty LBF 15098). Revival here -topside is the string -filled beatyslowie, with Fats' amiable voice mouthing the tramping lyrics.Flip is his best-known hit, from 1956. * * * *

THE MARVELETTES Here I Am Baby; Keep Off; No Tresspass-ing (Tamla Motown TMG 659). Bubbly Motown beat for thisdanceable item -typical song with nice smooth vocal work.* * *

ERMA FRANKLIN Open Up Your Soul; I Just Ain't Ready(London HLZ 10201). Rather a tense R & B sound on this medium -pace soul item. Good femme vocals, with lots of appeal -could bea minor hit here. * * * *

THE LEMONADE CHARADE San Bernadino; Hideaway Of YourLove (Bell BLL 1015). Soft, gentle male vocal group here. Goodharmonies, plaintive melody -builds up and could do well withenough exposure. * * * *

TEDDY NEELEY One More Tear; Autumn Afternoon (Capitol CL15550). A Bob Crewe song here -quite a feelingful ballad withstrong vocal work via Teddy and the powerful femme backdropand strings. * * *

THE FASHIONS I.O.U. (A Lifetime Of Love); When Love SlipsAway (Stateside SS 2115). Fast beater, husky girlie group with ateen appeal sound. A bit dated, but nicelm performed. * * *

BEN E. KING Don't Take Your Love From Me; Forgive ThisFool (Atlantic 584184). Soul all through on this powerful slab fromBen. Intense song, plenty of emotion throughout -a personalfavourite, but maybe not a chart contender. * * * *

MABLE JOHN: Able Mable; Don't Get Caught (Stax 601034).Nice swinging fast-ish blues here from Mable-a confident lyricwith her fine voice handling it well. * * *

JOHNNY RIVERS: Look To Your Soul; Something Strange(Liberty LBF 15078). Johnny's big US hit -slow building balladwith a mammoth amount of feeling put into. Just a good record.* * * *

THE GENTRYS: I Can't Go Back To Denver: You Better ComeHome (Bell BLL 1012). Loud, frantic beater here with loud vocaland just about everything thrown in -didn't like it. * *

B. B. KING: Paying The Coast To The Boss; Having My Say(Stateside SS 2112). A US hit here --fine guitar intro, nice relaxedsound with thorough blues all the way and strong vocal work.* * * *

OSCAR TONEY JR.: No Sad Song; Never Get Enough Of YourLove (Bell (BLL 1011). The recent Joe Simon song is revived hereby Oscar -in complete contrast to his usual slow soul -talk style.Femme chorus backs him shrilly. * * *

GARNETT MIMMS: I Can Hear My Baby Crying; Stop AndThink It Over (Verve VS 569). Label change from the soul legend -not a very strong song, but the vocals and R & B productionshould sell this slow pounding item. * * *

THE HAPPENINGS: Randy; The Love Song Of Mommy AndDad (B. T. Puppy BTS 45540). Loads of fresh -faced clean-cutAmerican sounds on this nice song-fast-ish with falsetto break-ing through occasionally. * * *

T.I.M.E.: Take Me Along; Make It Alright (Liberty LBF 15082).A bubbly teen beat item (how many times have I written that!)with nice changes throughout. Too indistinctive though. * * *

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND: Moon Child:Who Do You Think You're Fooling (A & M AMS 726). Loud echo -yhoarse -voiced item from Beefheart-this is pre -Kama Sutra stuffI think, but that power and voodoo feeling comes across. Beat -yand well performed. * * *

LOUIS ARMSTRONGThe Sunshine Of Love; Hell

Poppin' (Stateside SS 2116). In thesame mould as "Wonderful World."but at a faster tempo and with lessof the off -beat phrasing. in someways this is even stronger, in asing -along style, than "World".though perhaps more routine as asong. Louis in tremendous form,with chorus added, no trumpet anda straightforward arrangement.Filo: A scatty sort of song, tyingup with the show of the samename. Bouncy.

CHART PROBABILITY.

MANFRED MANNMy Name Is Jack; There Is A

Man (Fontana TF 943). This didn'tregister at the first play, come onstrong on the second, and now isestablished in my mind as a deadfavourite for the top five. A PaulSimon song attractively arranged,with off -beat little percussionmoments. Vocal side is strong, too.and they have again managed toOng the changes. Nothing boringabout the group. Flip: Tom Mc-Guinness wrote this one, and againIt is a good contrast.

CHART CERTAINTY.

BILL MARTIN: Private Scotty Grant (Peter Maurice); Singing VietnamItlues (Peter Maurice). Page One POF 067. Songwriter turns singer andhas some unusual material for himself here. A good song with a splendidatmosphere and lyrics well worth hearing. * * * *

THE MOJOS: Until My Baby Comes Home; Seven Park Avenue (LibertyLBF 15097). Re -united Liverpool group, wnth fine vocal work from StuJames here -a tough bluesy feel to it and it could stir up uncommoninterest. * * * *

TRINI LOPEZ: Mental Journey; Good Old Mountain Dew (Reprise 20687).(Reprise 20687). I fear me that Trini just isn't getting the right material.This lacks the vital spark, as they say, * * *

KIM AND KELLY BRADEN: Happiness Is; Sing A Rainbow (ColumbiaDB 8421). Established song, fair enough, and the two Braden gals give it acheery but innocuous performance. * * *

TAGES: There's A Blind Man Playin' Fiddle In The Street; Like AWoman (Parlophone R5702). This is one of my Records of the Week.Group get a great sound going on an unusual-subiect song, and thesturdy beat could make it a big seller. Simple, but dead catchy and welldone. * * * * *

JAMES LAST AND ORCH: Theme From Elvira Madigan; Mornings AtSeven (Polydor 56537). Big promotion coming up on this lush, string -filledorchestral -and the theme itself is strong enough to do well. * * * *

THE WALHAM GREEN EAST WAPPING CARPET CLEANINGRODENT AND BOGGIT EXTERMINATING ASSOCIATION: Sorry Mr,Green; Death Of A Kind (Columbia DB 8426). This is a mixture of theurgent and the amusing, and 1 have a grudging admiration for thegroup in their selection of moniker which is more gimmicky than therecord. * * * *

ALAN RANDALI.: The Meditating Hindoo Man; Why Don't Women LikeMe (Electratone 1002). On a G. Formby kick, Alan adds his own lyricsto the Formby song to include the Beatles. Ukelele break-catchily in withchances. * * * *

THE MGM STUDIO ORCHESTRAdress up "Lara's Theme" (MGM1417) with suitable lavishness andstyle - a truly excellent theme.Front pianist NICKY HOPKINS: ATop Pops No. 1 medley, incorpo-rating current biggies (MGM 1419)and dead right for a good old sing -along evening. THE RUMBLERStackle "Hey Did -A -Da -Da" (KingKG 1021) with a keen sense ofspirit - nothing very different,though. From THE CROWNS: "IKnow It's Alright" (Pama PM 725),a soft -edged, guitar -backed itemwhich builds a rather pleasant andconfident atmosphere. THE SUPER -BOYS, on "You're Hurtin' Me"(Giant GN 31), blue -beat happilyat mid -tempo, with some interest-ing vocal work - but specialistmaterial.

MOIRA ANDERSON is bothattractive and talented and hersuper -smooth soprano reading of"Charlie Is My Darling" (Pye17558) will delight her many fans.And another talented lass: ETNACAMPBELL, singing "Kiss Tomor-row Goodbye" (Pye 17539), and shereally builds the emotion . . . verygood indeed, this. SCRUGG's 'Lavender Popcorn" (Pye 17551)builds well enough - strong pointhere is the incisive vocal frontline . . . catchy. SVANTE, newto me, does the Tamla song "BabyI Need Your Loving" (UnitedArtists UP 2224) with a commendedsense of intensity-bluesy edge tothis one, if a little strained in

DUTCH enquire "What Isparts.

THEni" (Philips BF 1673) and comeup with a fair old answer - aspirited sort of production whichcould catch on. "Lonely MountainAgain" by THORINSHIELD(Philips BF 1672) is hardly a sing -along song, but it's above -averagelyrically and the boys tackle itwell. The oldie "Blue Skies"dressed up in an extract from the"Here Comes Summer" album byPRIMO SCALA and his accordionband (Decca F 12791). Anotheroldie revived: the still -commercial"Oh! What It Seemed To Be"(United Artists UP 2220), andJIMMY ROSELLI's treatment couldsurprise us all, sales -wise.

THE FREEDOM, on "Where WillYou Be Tonight" (Mercury MF1033), work well but somehow thesong doesn't get into full strideuntil it's too late - or so I thought.SMOKEY MOUNTAIN RAMBLERSon "Ballad of Amelia Earhart"(Dolphin DOS 5) get a happy hoe-down sort of sound going - quiteinfectious. "Only When I Larf" isa film theme and WHISTLINGJACK SMITH tackles it in high -bright style (Deram DM 189) butI really doubt whether it is poten-tial chart material this time. Avery, very good LP track: "NoReply" (Decca F 12792) by JOHNMAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS -and this should add to his stackof followers. The MORGAN-JAMES,favourites of mine, are in typicallymagnificent form on "The Dreamer"(Philips BF 1675) and if there werejustice, it'd be a smash.

From The VAMPIRES: "Do YouWanna Dance" (Pye 17553), theBobby Freeman number given afair amount of revitalised treatment- but no hit, I suspect. "BabyWhat I Mean", by THE SPIRALSTAIRCASE (CBS 3507), powersalong well enough but somehowdoesn't find the sort of target thatadds up to hit material. Can't helpliking the name of the RISINGSONS, and their record "Just ALittle While Longer" (Pye 17554)is a slightly pedantic sort of popnumber, but with plenty of excite-ment vocally and instrumentally. . . like it! Instrumental versionof "Captain Of Your Ship" by

J.S.O. (Pse 17545), with spirited

rapidstn 1.

sounds, curious tempo, and theold melody retained.

THE CHORDS FIVE, on "SameOld Fat Man" (Polydor 56261), isone of those nostalgic- type songswith good lyrics and a matey sortof approach. LP track extractedfor a single: "Walk Away Renee"by THE CHAMBER POTENSEMBLE (Decca F 12789), inother words the Pots play theTops! A lot of style in RAYSTEVENS, but his rather frenzied"Unwind" (Monument MON 1020)may not make the grade here."I've Got Time" by THE SILVERBYKE (London HLZ 10200) is allbrassy and powerful without reallygetting anywhere, I felt.

THE IDLE RACE on their thirdsingle. underline that rather unusualsound they get - "The End OfThe Road" (Liberty LBF 15101)may not actually make it, butit'll do them some good. DENISCOULDRY AND SMILE, an off-beat name, and a rather off -beatsong "Penny For The Wind"(Decca F 12786), tastefully producedby ex -Four Penny lead singerLionel Morton, "Jesamine", byTHE CASUALS (Decca F 22784),drags on a bit but even so thegroup could prove interesting.

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DUANE EDDY -not enough of his guitar on "Niky Hoeky".

THE TEMPTATIONSI Could Never Love Another

(After Loving You); Gonna GiveHer All The Love I've Got (TamlaMotown TMG 658). Pitter-patterbeat on this tormented soul itemfrom the powerful Motown group.It's a bit too much like theMiracles in parts, but is beauti-fully arranged and performed.Addicts will approve. Flip is theold Jimmy Ruffin hit, againnicely put together.

CHART PROBABILITY

REPERATA AND THEDELRONS

Saturday Night Didn't Happen;Panic (Bell BLL 1014). A gentlerItem from this good femmegroup, which has shades of powerrunning throughout. This is aborderline case - if it gets theplugs it'll happen, but it isn'tas strong as their last. Gimmicks,strong vocal work on the beatballad. Flip is much faster, witha good exciting sound.

CHART POSSIBILITY

BRENDA LEELet's Jump The Broomstick; All

Alone Am I (MCA MU 1021). Arocking re -issue from Brenda,with a fabulous vocal on a catchysuggestive song with a somewhat put it in the charts. Flip, herweak backing which sounds dated. biggest hit, is a beautiful balladYet the effect is good, and the with a voice more mature thancontinual hand -clapping helps side one. One of the classic tear -things along - there is something ierkers.mean about the song which could CHART POSSIBILITY

AMERICAAwAkESr:

CANNED HEAT On The Road Again; World In A Jug (LibertyLBF 15090). American blues group with a wierd Slim Harpo-Incredible String Band feel on an unusual song. A great record,but can't see the BBC buying it. * * * *

INEZ AND CHARLIE FOXX I Ain't Goin' For That; Undecided(Direction 58 - 2712). A strong beater from the duo, with Inezshreiking out the lyric in a very funky way. Femme backdrophelps shrilly, and Charlie actually sings out loud on this one -great. * * * *

NINA SIMONE Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead) Pts. 1 & 2(RCA Victor RCA 1697). Nina's touching tribute to Martin LutherKing, bluesy, gospelly, primitive, and very moving. Flip is similar.equally good. * * * *

THE BANDWAGON Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music; OnThe Day We Fall In Love (Direction 58-3520). A groovy slab ofsolid R & B, with a smooth quality underlying the R & B beat.Falsetto backdrop, good lead vocal. * * *

LITTLE RICHARD Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On; Lawdle MissClawdie (President PT 201). Despite the frenzied quality of this,I don't find it as exciting as most of his stuff. Vocal is good, butsomehow there is a too -hurried quality. Sorry. * *

HOMER BANKS 60 Minutes Of Your Love; A Lot Of Love(Minim MLF 11007). Two potent re -issues from Minit's strong R & Bcatalogue - top side is a Hayes -Porter number with lots of power- but the flip is stronger. Could do well in clubs. * *

THE BEACON STREET UNION Blue Suede Shoes: Four HundredAnd Five (MGM 1416). A loud revival of the Perkins/Presley oldie.Rock 1968 - sounds like a British group, and not too good, butguitar work is interesting. Could be a send-up. * * *

BOBBY WELLS Let's Copp A Groove; Recipe For Love (Beacon3-102). More of the philly sound from Beacon - this one is a

percussion -filled lump of falsetto soul with lots of effective dancesounds. OK, but not spectacular R & B. * * *

FRIEND AND LOVER Reach Out Of The Darkness; Time OnYour Side (Verve Forecast VS 1515). Duo here, with a gentle flowerPower type of song, good tune, shrill femme vocal, I liked it.* * * *

MERRILEE RUSH Angel Of The Morning; Reap What YouSow (Bell BLL 1013). French horn intro for this building ballad.from the US thrush. Catchy song, delicately performed. A pityslow songs don't get plugged so much. because this is a finerecord. * * * ik

JOE SIMON (You Keep Me) Hangin' On; What Makes A ManFeel Good (Monument MON 1019). The cool soul voice of Simonon a medium -tempo ballad with loads of emotion. Not the Supremestitle, but a very good ,soul record. * * * *

THE HESITATIONS The Impossible Dream; Nobody Knows YouWhen You're Down And Out (London HLR 10198). From "TheMan Of La Mancha" comes this strong R & B -tinged version ofthe "Quest" song, which builds up to a frantic climax. * * *

JEAN CARTER No Good Jim; And None (Stateside SS 2114).A femme beater here with vibrant vocal work, danceable beatbut limited market I'd imagine. * * *

FLORENCE BALLARD It Doesn't Matter How I Say It (It'sWhat I Say That Matters); Goin' Out Of My Head (Stateside SS2113). This is rather Supremes-y, a catchy ballad with good dancebeat and fine production work. * * *

THE AMERICAN BREED Ready, Willing And Able; Take MeIf You Want Me (Dot 106). Typical teen -slanted effort from theBreed, with a good set of vocals on the catchy song, which stilldoesn't get away from their 'Bend Me Shape Me" thing. * * *

10 RECORD MIRROR, Week ending June 8, 1968

AI Daviss, 20, 6 Cypress Crescent,Dunston, Co. Durham. Stars andHubbies - Rondells, Link Wray.Travis Wommack. Travelling, anysports, collecting rock instrumentalrecords.

Roger Tryggestad, 151, Haugeevelen56, Haugesund, Norway. Stars andHobbies - Beatles, Move, Herd,Procol Harum, Kinks, Dream.Troggs, Scott Walker. Films, draw-ing, pop records, clothes.

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Paul Jones, 18, 38 'Foster Street,Stairfoot, Barnsley, Yorkshire.Stars and Hobbles - Elvis, JimReeves, Bee Gees, 1910 FrultgumCompany, Otis, Tremeloes, SmallFaces. Motor -cycling, films, taperecording, music, girls, records.

Andrew Cooper, 20. 49 Supply Com-pany RAOC, BFPO 17. Stars andHobbies - Otis Redding, CarlaThomas, Arthur Conley, PercySledge. Collecting soul records,Photography, girls, dancing.

Tony Sharpies, 20, Lofthouse Farm.Harewood. near Leeds, Yorks. Starsand Hobbies-Otis, Supremes, Temp-tations, Miracles, Prince Buster.Drifters, Showstoppers. Dancing,collecting records, girls. Would likegirl pen friend In Yorkshire orFrance.

Ray Ward, 17, 51 Pedlar's Way,Market Road, Islington, London,N.7.Stars and Hobbles - Manilas dePlata, Snooks Eaglin, Beach Boys.Horse riding, athletics, gymnastics.Would like correspondence fromScandinavian countries.

Mehrada Rezai, 17, 192 Grove EndGardens, Abbey Road, London,NWS. Stars and Hobbies-SandyShaw, Lulu, Tom Jones. Films andrecords. I would like to haveblonde girl pen friend.

N. Bhagwanani, 27, 53 St. ThomasRoad, Finsbury Park Road, Lon-don. N.4. Stars and Hobbies-Elvis,collecting Elvis items, seeing Elvisfilms, watching TV, Record Mirror,collecting Sun and HMV labelElvis records.

Bert Hansen, 161, Alokkevcenget 22.5000 Odense, Funem, Denmark.Stars and Hobbies-Top pop stars.Gymnastics, records, reading, anysort of sports. I would like Englishgirl pen friend.

Vasfi Akulun, Ginharlik Meydani10/8, Degirmendere - Koe a el.Turkey. Star s and Hobbies -Beatles. Rolling Stones, Elvis,Sinatra, Adamo, Marlon Brando.Dancing, reading. I speak Englishand German.

John Taylor, 24, 28 Elysian Gardens,Tollesbury, Maldon, Essex. Starsand Hobbies - Johnny Cash, JimReeves, Hank Locklin, Country andWestern music, football, walking,films.

Janusz Ulberall, 26, Krakow. Wis-lisko 12/6, Poland. Stars and Hob-bies. Beatles, Sandie Shaw, TomJones. Artistic photography andrecords. Will answer all letters.

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PETER TOMES

This is Isabel Bond. She's 22.Scottish. And judging by all thegood things being said about herby people in the know, one of thebiggest talents to come along inYears. "A great, great voice-anabsolute must for BBC -TV," saysBill Cotton Jr. (Head of BBC -TVLight Entertainment); "An inter-national star on the Americanlevel," claims "Saturday Club" pro-ducer Bill Bebb. Top Scottish en-tertainer Jimmy Logan is equallyimpressed. "I never believed suchtalent existed," he stated recently.Perky Isabel justifies all theseplaudits for her first Major -Minorsingle "Cry," a revival of the oldJohnnie Ray hit. It's a fine show-case for her big, powerful voice,and will pave the way for her firstI,P, set for July release.

The Hollies' "Here I Go Again" . . Dusty's "Losing You" and "AllI See Is You" . Kathy Kirby's better "Big Man", if You will pardonthe expression on the last phrase. All written by Welsh composer CliveWestlake and now Clive takes his actual Welsh chances in the singinggame. His song "100 Days", out on Fontana. He says, and I'm nottoo sure he's not Joking: "I did it for a giggle, but there are timeswhen I feel I can do my own songs the way I want to . . . the wayI feel them. It's no raver of a song, Just a nice song, with a nicemelody," he says. "But I'm mad about the Beatles. Without them.there would hardly be a British scene." So happens Clive is a mateof mine who doesn't pull on old mateships to make his pop progress.It's just that I'm glad to help . . .

Fine new album from the Chicken Shack-it's called, since You ask."Forty Blue Fingers Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve" . . . thethird album so far on the ambitious CBS Blue Horizon label. ChickenShack made its debut most successfully at last year's Windsor Jazz andBlues Festival. Material on the album ranges from Hooker's "KingOf The World" to Freddy King's "San-ho-Zay" and pianist ChristinePerfect and guitarist, Stan Webb, have each contributed two numbers.Christine also sings and plays organ; Stan also sings; Andy Silvesteris on bass; Dave Bidwell is the drummer. On some L.P. tracks, theoutfit is augmented by tenor, alto and trumpet.

Chris McClure is 23. At 17, he could have becomea professional footballer, goalkeeper with GlasgowRangers. He's a good dancer. He was once interestedin becoming a doctor. Instead, he became a singerand is now with Polydor, managed by Bob Stigwoud,has his second record out-"Answer To Everything".a suitable follow-up to "Country Boy", which washighly rated by the critics. You may recall him asone of the resident singers on "Stramash". He's veryprofessional.

We all know the old stories about how hard it is fora new girl singer to make the grade in the charts,but one thing's for sure: there's no shortage ofup-and-coming chicks trying. One such is LindaKendrick, whose first record is "Grey Sunny Day",out now on the Philips label. She is a likeable lass,strong on personality - and when she recentlycelebrated her birthday she sent me a cake. Forwhich I say: "Ta."

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TIGHTEN UP* 272 19) Archie Bell (Atlantic)MACARTHUR PARK8 (4) Richard Harris (Dunhill) 28MONY, MONY*5 (7) Tommy James & TheShoodells (Roulette)

YUMMY, YUMMY*6 151 Ohio Express (Buddah)

THIS GUY'S IN LOVEWITH YOU12 131 Herb Alpert (A & 111)

A BEAUTIFULMORNING3 (91 Rascals (Atlantic)

THE GOOD, THE BADAND THE UGLY4 (9) Hugo Montenegro (RCA)

AIN'T NOTHING LIKETHE REAL THING*11 (81 Marvin Gaye &Tammi Terrell (Tamla)

THINK*15 ID Aretha Franklin(Atlantic)

MASTER JACK10 (5) Four Jacks & A Jill(RCA)

ANGEL OF THEMORNING*

(31 Merrilee Rush (Bell)

LIKE TO GET TOKNOW YOU'14 (61 Spanky & Our Gang(Mercury)

HONEY'13 (111 Bobby Goldsboro' oA(United Artists) 40I COULD NEVER LOVEANOTHER' 4116 (51 Temptations (Gordy)COWBOYS TO GIRLS7 (91 Intruders (Gamble)

17 MY GIRL, HEY GIRL* 4217 1,1 Bobby Vee (Liberty,

18 ,SH00-11E4/00.11E- 43/ DOO-DA.DAY

9 (9) Stevie Wonder (Tomlin 4419 THE UNICORN

18 (10) The Irish Rovers(Decca) 45A MAN WITHOUTLOVE" 4628 (3) Engelbert Humperdinek(Parrott)

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HOW'D WE EVER GETTHIS WAY36 (3) Andy Kim (Steed)

UNITED:7 (2) Peaches & Herb (Date)

IF I WERE ACARPENTER*22 (6) Four Tops(Tamla Motown)

30 LICKING STICK, LICKINGSTICK (Part 1)48 (2) James Brown (King)

CHOO CHOO TRAIN49 (2) Boxtops (Maio)

I WILL ALWAYSTHINK ABOUT YOU33 (91 New Colony Sax(Mercury)

YOUNG GIRL*g (15) Union Gap (Columbia)

34 TIPTOE THROUGH THETULIPS- (1) Tiny Tim (Reprise)

THE HAPPY SONG'24 (6) Otis Redding (Volt)

JELLY JUNGLE45 (2) Lemon Pipers (Buddah)

THE HORSE- (1, Chris Nobles & Co.(Phil & Soul)

THE LOOK OF LOVE- Sergio Mendes &Brazil 66 (A & MI.

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I LOVE YOU30 (4( People (Capitol)

25 18) Wilson Pickett GOOD°7a SHE'S LOOKING

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DARKNESS"39 (2) Friend & Lover(Verve/Forcast) 50LOVE IS ALL AROUND26 (11) Troggs (Smash)

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INDIAN LAKE- Cowsills (81.G.M.)

TAKE TIME TO KNOWHER*21 (10) Percy Sledge(Atlantic)

SHE'S A HEARTBREAKER- (I) Gene Pitney (Musieorl

SOUL SERENADE'51 (13) Willie Mitchel (Hi)

UNWIND41 13) Ray Stevens (Monument)

NEVER GIVE UP- (I) Jerry Butler (Mercury)IF YOU DON'T WANTMY LOVE17 (51 Robert John (Columbla

FRIENDS'4'5 (4) Beach Boys (Capitol)

I'LL NEVER DO YOUWRONG- (11 Joe Tex (Dial)

DOES YOUR MAMAKNOW ABOUT ME*44 (4( Bobby Taylor & TheVancouvers (Gordy)

YOU DON'T KNOW WHATYOU MEAN TO ME- 111 Sam & Dave (Atlantic)

*An asterisk denotes record released in Britain.AMERICAN BUBBLING UNDER

BROOKLYN ROAD - Neal Diamond (U.N.I.)I GOT YOU BABE - Etta James (Cadet).YES TO LOVE - Smokey Robinson (Tamla).SLEEPY JOE - Hermans Hermits (M.G.M.).LOVE IN EVERY ROOM - Paul Mauriat (Philips).STILL SOUL PICNIC - The Fifth Dimension (Soul City).SOME THINGS YOU NEVER GET USED TO -

Diana Ross and Supremes (Tornio).JUMPING JACK FLASH - Rolling Stones (London).

---- SAFE IN MY GARDEN - Mamas and Papas (Dunhill).YOU KEEP ME HANGING ON - Joe Simon

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TOPL.P.'s

JOHN WESLEYHARDINGI Bob Dylan (CBS)

2 SCOTT No. 22 Scott Walker (Philips)HISTORY OF OTISREDDING7 Otis Redding (Atlantic)

4 SMASH HITS10 Jimi Hendrix Experience(Track)

5 LOVE ANDY8 Andy Williams (CBS)FLEETWOOD MAC6 Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac(Blue HoriZOn)

7 JUNGLE BOOK9 Soundtrack (Walt Disney)TOM JONES LIVE ATTHE TALK OF THETOWN16 Tom Jones (Decca)

9 SOUND OF MUSIC3 Soundtrack (RCA)

10 THE HANGMAN'SBEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER5 Incredible String Band(Elektra)

9/ DOCK OF THE BAY27 Otis Redding (Stag)

12 GREATEST HUTS4 Supremes (Tarnla Motown)

13 BUDDY HOLLY'SGREATEST HITS15 Buddy RORY(Ace of Hearts)

14 NOTORIOUS BYRDBROTHERS17 Byrds (CBS)

15 VALLEY OF THE DOLLS18 Dionne Warwick (Pye Int.)GREATEST tors13 Four Tops (Tamla Motown)

17 GIFT FROM A FLOWERTO A GARDEN14 Donovan (Pye(

8 THIRTEEN SMASHHITS10 Tom Jones (Decca)OTIS BLUE

20 BEST OFOtis ReddTHEing (Atlantic)

BEACH BOYS VOL IJi Beach Boys (Capitol)

21/ OTIS REDDING IN/ EUROPE

24 Otis Redding (Stax)22 WILD HONEY

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24 'HER -0019 Cilia Black (Parlophone)BEST OF THEBEACH BOYS VOL.23 Beach Boys (Capitol)

26 BRITISH MOTOWNCHART BUSTERS21 Various Artistes(Tarnla Motown)

GOLDEN HITS34 Drifters (Atlantic)2 IN 325 Esther & Abi Ofarim(Philips)IN JAPAN38 Cliff Richard (Columbia)DOCTOR ZHIVAGO29 Soundtrack (MGM)LAST WALTZ33 Engelbert Humperdinck(DecCa)LADY SOUL35 Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)REACH OUT32 Four Tops (Trunla Motown)ROCK AROUND THECLOCK36 Bill Haley (MCA)OPEN- Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger(Marmalade)

36 RELEASE ME31 Engelbert HumperdinckI Decca)

37 FREEWHEELERS39 Peddlars (Philips)

38 GREATEST Errs28 Temptations(Tamla Motown)

39 FOUR TOPS LIVE30 Four Tops (TamM Motown)

40 MOVE40 Move (Regal Zonophone)

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LOVE THAT- Burt Kaempert (Polydor)DOING OUR THINGS- Booker T & The MG's (Stack)JAMES LAST GOES POP- James Last (Polydor)DIARY OF A MAN VOL I& VOL II- John Mayall (Decca)SHE WEARS MY RING- Solomon King (Columbia)MEMORIAL ALBUM- Eddie Cochran (Liberty)

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DO YOU WANT TOKNOW A SECRET2 Billy J, Kramer & TheDakotas (Parlophone)WHEN WILL YOU SAYI LOVE YOU7 Billy Fury (Decca)SCARLET O'HARA3( Jet& Tony Meehan

TAKE THESE CHAINSFROM MY HEART14 Ray Charles (HMV)TWO KINDS OFTEARDROPS6 Del Shannon (London)I LIKE IT- Gerry & The Pacemakers(('olumbia)LUCKY LIPS4 Cliff Richard (Columbia)DECK OF CARDS10 Wink Martindale (London)CAN'T GET USED TOLOSING YOU5 Andy WilliamsIN DREAMS8 Roy Orbison (London)IF YOU GOTTA MAKEA FOOL OF SOMEBODY16 Freddiethe Dreamers(c.hiYOUNG LOVERS9 Paul & Paula (Philips)NOBODY'S DARLINGBUT MINEII Frank (field (Columbia)

15 HOW DO YOU DO IT?13 Gerry And The Pacemakers(Columbia)PIPELINE19 Chantays (London)FROM A JACK TO AKING15 Ned Millar (London)

18 LOSING YOU12 Brenda Lee (Brunswick)FALLING- Roy Orbison (London)HE'S SO FINE17 The Chiffons (Stateside)

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THINK1 Aretha Franklin(Atlantic 584184)

THE HAPPY SONG9 Otis Redding(Stag 601 NO)

TRIBUTE TO A KING2 William Bell (Sfax 601038)

YOU LEFT THEWATER RUNNING3 Maurice and MacChess (CRS 8)74)

5 THE SON OF HICKORYHOLLERS TRAMP5 0. C. Smith (CBS 3313)

MEMPHIS TRAIN16 Rufus Thomas ?fr(Stag 601 037)

7 SHE'S LOOKING GOOD.13 Wilson Pickett(Atlantic 594 183)

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MELLOW MOONLIGHTII Roy Docker (Domain D3)

BABY COME BACK- Equals (President PT1351

SIIOOBEDLL- Steve Wonder(Tamla Motown TMG 6531

RIDE YOUR DONKEY- The Tennors (Island WI3133

MONY MONY- Tummy James and TheShondells (Major MinorMN 567)

GO NOW17 Bessie Banks(Soul City SC 105)

FUNKY STREET15 Arthur Conley(Atlantic 584 175)

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2 Aretha Franklin(Atlantic 587 099)BLUEBEAT SPECIAL6 Various Artistes(Coxsone CSPI)HISTORY OF OTISREDDING4 Otis Redding(Volt Import 418)

6 DOIN' OUR THING7 Booker T. & The MG's('lax 230 0021

TELL MAMA5 Ella James(Chess CRL 45361

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3 HONEY2 (81 Bobby Goldsboro'(United Artists)JUMPING JACK FLASHt8 (2) Rolling Stones (Decca)

RAINBOW VALLEY7 (8) Love Affair (CBS)

I DON'T WANT OURLOVING TO DIE6 19) Herd (Fontana)

7 JOANNA8 (6) Scott Walker (Philips)

8 DO YOU KNOW THEWAY TO SAN JOSE9 (4( Dionne Warwick(Pye Int.)

9 LAZY SUNDAY5 (8) Small Faces(Immediate)

10 WHEELS ON FIRE10 (81 Julie DriscollBrian Auger(Marmalade)

11 WONDERFUL WORLD4 (181 Louis Armstrong(Stateside)

12 SLEEPY JOE12 (6) Herman's Hermits(Columbia)

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30 SON OF HICKORYHOLLERS TRAMP45 (2) 0. C. Smith (CBS)

31 LOVIN' THINGS43 (31 Marmalade (CBS)

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WHITE HORSES14 (91 Jacky (Philips)

BLUE EYES32 (2) Don Partridge (Columbia)

IF I ONLY HAD TIME 4317 (13) John Bowles (mcAl

BABY COME BACK20 (41 Equals (President) 44HURDY GURDY MAN13 (21 Donovan (rye)

CAN'T KEEP MY EYES 45OFF YOU13 (131 Andy Williams (CBS)

22 IPRETEND22 (5) Des O'Connor(Columbia)

DELILAH19 (151 Toni Jones (Decca)

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25 TIME FOR LIVING26 (3) Association (I've)

SUMMERTIME BLUES36 (71 Eddie Cochran (Liberty)

TRIBUTE TO A KING50 (2) William Bell (Stas)

QUANDO LN'INNAMORO- (to Sandpipers (P)'el

37 RAINBOW CHASER34 (4) Ninana (Island)

38 DEBORAH37 (51 Tyrannosaurus Rex(Track)

39 JENNIFER ECCLES29 (II) Holiles (Parlophonel

40 IT'S MY TIME41 (5) Everly Bros.(Warner Bros.)

41 NOTHING CAN STOPME- (1) Gene Chandler(Soul City)

42 I CAN'T LETMAGGIE GO42 (12) Honey Bus (Deram)

SOMETHING HERE INMY HEART39 (13) Paper Dolls (Pyei

ROCK AROUND THECLOCK35 1101 Bill Haley (MCA)

ANYONE FOR TENNIS- (1) The Cream (Polydorl

46 HELLO HOW ARE YOU34 (12) Easybeats(United AMMO)

47 YOU AIN'T GOINGNOWHERE- (1) The Byrds (CBMI

MONY MONY- (1( Tommy James &Shondells

CRY LIKE A BABY38 412) Box Tops (Bell)

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records wantedWE BUY LP's 45's, Write or call,176 North End Road, Kensington,London, W.14.POP 45's, 78's, L.P's (1950-68)Wanted. Up to 5/- paid for your de-leted 45's. Send any quantity forcash by return.-Moore, 16 LeightonRoad, Linslade, Beds.

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12 RECORD MIRROR, Week ending June 8, 1968

A RETHA FRANKLIN tipped to record "See Saw", the DonCovay tune, for her next single . . . John Rowles newie

"Hush . . . Not A Word To Mary" better than his last hit . . .

over two million copies of "Honey" sold in USA . . . Americangroup the Paupers burn their guitars in kerosene on stage. . . talking about 'soul', Curtis Mayfield of the Impressionssaid "I can't dance and I'm black!" . . Face's disc of theweek - Simon And Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" . . . in theSpanish charts, Cliff's "Congratulations" takes over fromMassiel's "La La La" . . The Incredible Kim Fowley told RMin a forty -minute phone call from California that he may becoming to Britain soon . . Cliff still top in Belgium, Den-mark and Norway . . . tipped for the charts in America BurlIves version of Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight".

Johnny Mathis "Greatest Hits" LP has been on the US LPcharts for 483 weeks (9f years) . . . watch out for big changesin American label outlets here soon . . . Cilia's new single"Where Is Tomorrow" penned by Umberto Bindi, who wrote"You're My World" . . . "Best Of The Lovin' Spoonful" LPVol. 2 contains five tracks from their "Everything Playing"LP . . . President Johnson (not an avid moviegoer) went tosee "The Graduate" . . Robert Knight (original recorder of"Everlasting Love") has "My Rainbow Valley" out as a singlein USA . . . rumour says Gram Parsons has quit the Byrds tobe replaced by Ron Dillard, whose brother Doug plays banjowith them . . . Oscar Toney Jr. arrival delayed due topassport difficulties" . . . doesn't Ewa Aulin (Ringo's "Candyco-star) remind you a little of Brenda Lee?

Soul -type discs figuring in Luton's Top Twenty includeAretha Franklin's "Think", William Bell'o "Tribute To AKing", Ike and Tina Turner's "So Fine" and Bessie Banks'"Go Now" . . . A21 (a) The Astors, (b) The Four Seasons,(c) Roy Orbison, (d) Eddie Holland, (e) Candy and TheKisses . . . rumour says Lou Adler bidding for Ode releaseof Doors . . . the practice of using American sleeves, Britishpressings, and charging import prices just isn't on . . .

Mozart theme from 'Elvira Madigan' in Deutsche Gramma-phon could just be the first real classical LP in the TopForty albums . . . astonishing shake-ups in recent RM R. &B. charts . . . sickest disc of the month-"The Gift" onVelvet Underground "White Light, White Heat" LP . . .

Dylan fact-a clause written into his recording contractgives him the right to censor or approve anything he recordsfor release in any form-hence the large number of un-issued songs he is known to have recorded . . Q.22-Which British record label completes the following sequence-Philips, Fontana, Parlophone, Columbia, Stateside. . . .?

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THE EMANCIPATIONOF COUNTRY MUSIC

Four faces associated with country music, but whose actual con nection with real C. & W. is doubted by serious enthusiasts-I. to r. GLENN CAMPBELL, EDDY ARNOLD, TOM JONES and ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK.

THE Man In The Street (Joe Public, Mr. Average,call him what you will) has very vague ideas aboutCountry and Western music. He'll attach that nameto any form of music that has the slightest cowboyorigins or flavour, and to plenty of things whichhaven't. The C & W label is branded on to hitsfrom Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones, slow

songs by Irish Showbands, "Home On The Range" materialby corny music hall type artistes, and anything by peoplefrom Hank Williams to Roy Rogers, Walter Brennen, GlenCampbell and Eddy Arnold.

But despite the constant simmering of interest in countrymusic (the pot never seems to quite boil over), you'llseldom find one name on the American country charts whoeven has a current single or LP on release here, let alonea hit record. We hear all about how Elvis, or the Byrdsor someone, is singing country material: but the true blueU.S. names (and after all, America is the home of countrymusic) just don't seem to exist here. Yet there is a strongundercurrent of country music lovers existing all overBritain-during the last few weeks I've been visiting pubswhich use British country groups, record shops, and talkingto authorities on the music, and everyone seems convincedthat something CAN be done to make C & W into a money -spinning proposition, with the American greats leading andBritish groups making plenty of money into the bargain.But this unfortunately isn't happening yet . . .

A parallel-though not a completely accurate one-canbe drawn to the state of R & B some years ago: it was onlythe 'underground' interest, leading to attempts by Britishgroups, which paved the way for national acceptance of amusic which is still going strong here.

I talked to John Burns, a well-known authority on countrymusic and asked him what could be done to help countrymusic here.

"It all depends on the record companies releasing theproper material," he told me. "The two biggest countrycatalogues-those of U.S. Decca and RCA are full of un-released country material, with 'true country gems by greatartistes like Charlie Pride, Waylon Jennings, Vernon Oxford,etc., only obtainable here through importing, and as thatcosts nearly 13 per LP it's out of the question for mostcountry fans. Of the LP's which the companies do issue,very few are collectors items, and representative of trueauthentic country music. If these records were issued here,and adequate money spent on their promotion then interestwould be bound to grow. Of course it would be necessaryto have these LP's plugged on the radio, but there cannotbe any kind of real country breakthrough until these countryrecords are released.

"Naturally you can't start off with the most authenticof all country material, because people won't accept it

straight away. But there are commercial sounds-rememberEngelbert and Tom Jones had big hits with country songslike "Am I That Easy To Forget" and "Green Green GrassOf Home". Those same songs were originally written andsung by authentic country artistes. It's doubtful whetherthe old steel guitar -and -fiddle sound is commercial forBritish tastes-in the States Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnoldused to sing in this old style, but they had to change tomake their money.

The reason why the record companies don't issue morematerial is, I think, no one who works there knows aboutcountry, or is bothered. Only John Palmer of RCA is anauthority, and he isn't in a position to release material."

John once booked British groups into pubs, and wassuccessfully doing this almost ten years ago. The Britishgroups who do play country music are on the whole enthusi-astic, and although serious country fans don't rate themtoo highly, they do appreciate how difficult it is for a Britishgroup to play this essentially American music. Certainly, ifthe U.S. records were issued, and interest in country in-creased, then the earning power of these groups wouldincrease proportionately.

The only British agency to deal only in C & W is theForde-Sands outfit. I spoke to Alan Sands about the stateof C & W in Britain.

"We have only been in full scale operation since January,but our business started a year earlier," he said. "Duringthis time we've witnessed the emancipation of the musicfrom the minority taste which it undoubtedly was, to thepopular medium . it is now. I think this is due to severalfactors: firstly, the British artistes themselves have evolveda country style of their own, rather than playing watered-down copies of American hits. Also, the frequent chartentries of songs such as 'Green Green Grass Of Home','Release Me', etc. have made the general public realisethat C & W does not necessarily mean truck -driving songsand interminable dirges totally irrelevant to the British wayof life. Interest has also been created by visits to this countryof several U.S. country stars backed by our own bands suchas the Tumbleweeds.

"We recently promoted a concert at the Albert Hall in which C & Wwas heavily featured-this was well received by a near -capacity audience.This, together with the constant increase rf booking for country bandsleads us to believe that C & W is definitely accepted and enjoyed by theBritish public as a popular entertainment and will he with us for along time to come."

Certainly, the promoter's view is more optimistic than the view of theauthority. But facts bear out that there is still only one country recordshop in England-The World Of Country Music in Leytonstone-and muchof their business is done with imported American LP's which are con-stantly in demand.

OK then-it seems what is needed is more genuine country recordingsissued here, with someone who knows the music guiding the strings.This will lead to greater interest, more bookings for bands, and asnowballing money -making future for C & W.

It could happen. WESLEY LAINE

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