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THEFour Pennies, whose

first hit, "Juliet" hasclimbed to number two inthe Record Mirror Chartthis week, are expected tomake their fourth attempttoday (Thursday) at cuttingtheir first album.

On three occasions in asmany weeks, the 'pennies,who hail from Blackburn,have been prevented frommaking the recording studiobecause of illness.

First, leader Lionel Mortoncontracted tonsilitis, thenbass guitarist Mike Wilshgot trouble with his throat,and the last time, Lionel,who is also the group'sspokesman, suffered morepain from his throat.

FINGERS

CROSSEDIt's a good job that the

other members of the'pennies, Fritz Fryer (leadguitarist) and Alan Buck(drummer) were in goodhealth or the delays mighthave been even ;longer.They're still keeping theirfingers crossed, however.

At the time of going topress, the numbers for theLP-there will probably be12-were still undecided. Itis likely, though, that theywill all be ballads with abeat, much in the style oftheir current hit.

Personal appearances thisweek are at Birmingham(Friday), Wisbech andPeterborough (Saturday),Manchester (Sunday, Mon-day, and Tuesday), andBrighton (Wednesday).

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WE'RE always being toldthat the 'Big Beat' is

back with us again-but Ibeg to differ. It may havebeen quite recently but nowthe pop scene has changedcompletely. The concentra-tion now is not on beat buton melody-and I'm surethat it is from the currentspate of melodic songs thatthe 'standards' of tomorrowwill come. New releases fromIfield, Gerry, Cliff, Fury,Merseybeats, Searchers,Brian Poole, etc. give weightto my assumption.-WilliamMarston, 5 Longslow Road,Market Drayton, Shropshire.

R & B CHART ?IHAVE had the most fabulousidea. Why not have an R andB chart? Just the R and B

records. After all, we never seea lot of R and B discs in 1.1v:.

charts . . . just the odd occa-sional one like Tommy Tucker.But a full chart would let us seehow our favourite artistes arcdoing-I'm sure that Booker T..the Isley Brothers, the Marvelettesand Bo Diddley wouldn't be far'from the top each week. -S. Brooks, The Maples, CorbettRoad, Carterton, Oxon.

James Craig writes: A greatidea. But unfortunately it justwouldn't work out. For one thing,the lack of R and B releases weekby week. And retailers are alreadycontrbuting their individual TopTwenties from which the finalchart is created. Sorry!

FANTASTICCONGRATULATIONS and thanks

to Jack Good. This brilliantProducer ca me back to

Britain from the States and puton a fantastic "Around TheBeatles" production last week. Itproved that it IS possible toPresent pop in a different way.And it made the other musicshows on television look sick, weakand puerile. - Lee Daniels, 114Whidbourne House, King's Cross,London.

WOW!THE fact that Elvis has sold

100,000,000 records is hard tovisualize, but broken down

it is incredible. It means thatsince he began eight years ago,he sells an average of 12,500,000discs a year. Over a million amonth. Over 250,000 per week;36,000 a day: 1.500 an hour-or oneElvis disc sold every two seconds.-Kim Hollett, 7 Holmdene Avenue.Mill Hill, London, N.W.7.

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James Craig writes: This COULDconceivably happen but there aremany problems. However, there isthe new double -album of the oldSpringfield hits now available onPhilips. But Tim, who left thegroup because of his wife's

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PETER ANDGORDON

BREAK

THE NEWS!BY PETER JONES,.

AS"World Without Love" zips up the American Hit Parade,Peter and Gordon break the news about their so -im-

portant follow-up. It IS another Beatle song . . . "Nobody IKnow," penned by the Paul McCartney -John Lennon songTsmithery.

Which puts an end to a lot of theorising. Fact is thatthe boys DID want to record one of their own songs. Infact, three were up for consideration-"But," Peter toldme this week, "we weren't surprised to find that John andPauls' was better . . .

"In a way, it's a difficultsituation. We know peoplesay we got a Number Onewith our first disc becauseit was a Beatle composition.We wanted to get away fromthat. But at the same time,'Nobody I Know' was so rightfor us that it outweighed thepossible stories about usleaning on the Beatles.

BLASE"Anyway, one of our songs,

'You Don't Have To TellMe,' is on the 'B' side of thedisc. Maybe next time we'llbe promoted!

"We've finished the L.P.now and it'll be out aroundthe end of the month. That's

got a lot of original materialon it. It'll be releasedaround the same time asthe new single-May 29.

"Of course, we're delightedwith the way the first onehas gone in America. It nowlooks as if we'll be goingover during the second halfof June-we're fully com-mitted here until then. ButI understand there is achance of us going over forjust one day before then.

"How's the touring goinghere? Fine, thanks. Yousee, before we had a recordout, we really only did theclubs and coffee -bars and so

PETER AND GORDON In front of the panel at E.M.I's recording studios in St. John's Wood. (RM Pic Dezo Hoffman)on. I don't think we'veconsciously changed any-thing for the one-nightersbut having a hit disc cer-tainly does wonders for ourconfidence.

"It's a bit difficult some-times in the clubs up North.They get about four big -name stars in a week there,so they can be a bit blasé.But in Scotland-well, thatwas fantastic. They had toget the police in for someof the shows because of thescenes. You know, being

mobbed and so on."Actually we keep chang-

ing our minds about whatwe're going to do. Sometimeswe find that the one folksong we include doesn't gotoo well-they don't particu-larly want to listen. So youwonder about it. Then, thenext evening, you can switchfrom an R and B number tosomething folksey and every-body is perfectly quiet.

Peter gave up his studiesat university as soon asthings started happening on

the disc scene. I asked himif he had thought of goingback to them at any fixedtime-his sister Jane Asherhad told me she hoped hewould carry on studying.

ON TOPSaid Peter: "No. I don't

think I could do any study-ing while the show businessside is doing well. I don'twant to miss any of it. Afterall, life can be pretty com-fortable if you are success-

ful. But I don't suppose acouple like us can stay ontop for all that long. Some-times I think it'll be just acouple of years. So I canalways go back to my study-ing then. If we do keep ongoing well . . . then singingwill definitely take pride ofplace."

Two very nice men -about -song, Peter and Gordon. I'mlooking forward to seeinghow "Nobody I Know" willshape up in the charts.

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Negotiations are being finalisedby the Rik Gunnell Agency andR & B Discs Ltd., for Georgieand his Blue Flames to play inLas Vegas clubs for at least twoweeks, and probably as long as amonth, next February.

Georgie's trans -Atlantic trip isin return for the visit to thiscountry of U.S. singer, Louie Prima,who will be here at about thesame time. Prima, ex-husband ofsongstress Keely Smith, willspend about a month here as partof a three-month tour.

Meanwhile, Georgie will be in -the recording studios today (Thurs-day) to complete his new single,due for Columbia release in July.The disc, with orchestrations byAndrew Oldham.

The Dave Clark Five are allset for their second tour of theStates. But first, they play en-gagements in Scandinavia.

The group fly out from Lond6n onSaturday, for one night stands inSweden until May 23.

On May 25, they fly from Copen-hagen to New York for concertsin Newark, Philadelphia, New York,Carnegie Hall, the Ed SullivanShow, Washington, Boston,Chicago, Pittsburg, Cincinatti,Milwaukee, and two dates inCanada.

There will be little rest for theFive on their return on June 11.Four days later they start theirsummer season with Dick Emery atthe Central Pier, Blackpool, untilSeptember.

Then, the first location shots ofhe Five's first film will be shot

in London. In the film, drummerDave plays the part of a PT in-structor. No title of thefilm, which is being produced byAnglo - Amalgamated, has yetbeen chosen.

"DORMER West Indian cricketer and diplomat, Sir Learler Constantine, is writing a song especially for Millie.

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Tuesday:Rockin' Berries, Wednesbury

Youth Centre: Chuck Berrypackage, Plymouth ABC; Scream-ing Lord Sutch and The Savages,Queens Ballroom, Cleveleys;Rolling Stones, Freddie and TheDreamers, Dave Berry and TheCruisers, Peter and Gordon, atAberdeen Capitol; Manfred Mann,Five O'Clock Club, Rediffusion;Tony- Sheridan, Scottish TV "Round -

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OS at Manchester's n e wasis club had a personal

preview of Little Richard'snext record when he played fivenew recently recorded tracks onSunday.

All five, recorded in Hollywoodunder a new Speciality contractonly a month ago,; go back toLittle Richard's original image ofa rock 'n' roll singer.

He's bought lots more new stagesuits, dispensed with the sax inhis band, and introduced moreguitars and drums. Even the star'spiano is not heard on the tracks,at which Little Richard was hisown A & R manager.

The first new single will bec alled "Bamalamabamalaloo"backed with "Annie is back". Theother three tracks are "Miss Ann","Poor Boy Paul", and "Well Al-right", Little Richard's own catch -phrase.

Little Richard's scheduled ap-pearance on "Ready Steady Go"on Friday was postponed at thelast minute because the rock 'n'roll star couldn't get into thiscountry. His passport had expired,and he had to apply for a newone in New York!

His place was hurriedly takenby the Animals and Wayne Fon-tana and the Mindbenders, whohad to journey 160 miles fromDoncaster, which meant that DaveBerry and the Cruisers had tostep into the Animals' place Inthe. Roy Orbison package.

Little Richard will now be onRSG next Friday, May 22nd. Hisperformance will be a unique stepfor the programme, as he willnot be miming to a record butsinging the numbers live. Hisplanned appearance at GrimsbyGaiety for the 22nd has been can-celled.

Billy Takes A Punch AtThe Charts

ABEAUTY contest at Ilford, in Essex. The judges: actress Kim Tracy, boxer -extraordinaryBilly Walker . . . and me. After the judging, I quizzed Billy on the lines of: "You've

got an enormous following among the female half of Britain, ever thought of pop singing?"Said Billy, who'd only just turned professional boxer: "Is there any money in it?" And he

grinned with amiable grin.In fact, nothing was set up.

He went to America totrain and anyway got highlyinvolved in the business of PETER JONEScreating box-office sell-outs at '*boxing promotions. His tele-vision appearances pulled instaggeringly high viewingfigures.

SCRAPBut now Billy IS on- re-

cord. The session took placeat Decca's West Hampsteadstudios on Saturday after-noon, just three days beforehis important scrap WithBilly Neilson this week. Mar-cel Stellman took the ses-sion, Ivor Raymonde wasmusical director along withfour top guitarists, rhythmsection and vocal group-and the star of the showstood broad -shouldered andslightly overwhelmed: Billyworked through a few popstandards ... and now awaitsto hear which one is beingpicked out for the "A" sideof his first release.

Let's hear how it went

More From Beat CityCONTINUING its policy of booking big names in an effort to build a

reputation as Britain's biggest beat club, Beat City, on the cornerof Oxford and Dean Streets, Soho, has engaged more top stars for

the week -end sessions.This Saturday, Marty Wilde and the Wildcats with the Duffy Power

group will be playing, and the following day, Joe Brown and theBruvvers, and Alexis Korner's Blues. Inc. are lined up.

Future dates are May 24th for the Red Price Combo and Pat Wayneand the Beachcombers; May 31st for Tony Orlando and the Pets; June 7thfor King Size Taylor and the Dominoes; June 13th Kenny Lynch andthe Laurie Jay Combo; with Brian Diamond and the Cutters; June 20thfor the Tornadoes; and June 21st, John Lee Hooker with John Mayall'sBlues Breakers, Kicks & Co.

Club booker, Peter Burman,at the club on May 30th.

promises a really big American name

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CHAPPELL'S FIRE

1HE largest music publishers inthe world - Chappell's - wasreduced to a shell by a fire

that destroyed every floor of thefirm's New Bond Street premises,causing the death of one man andresulting in the injury of adirector.

Pianos and original manuscripts-among them, many compositionsof the late George Gershwin, werecompletely destroyed.

As 120 firemen arrived to fightthe blaze, staff were hustled outby a rear exit. But one man, lateridentified as Mr. William Mann,head of the amateur productions'.department, failed to escape, andwas killed.

Another, Mr. Edward Holmes, adirector, fell from a second -floorwindow whilst trying to escape.He was taken to hospital sufferingfrom back injuries.

Damage is estimated at £250,000.Chappell's will carry on their

professional business at 52 MaddoxStreet, and the administrative,executive, and publishing officesare now at 13, 14, and 15 St.George Street.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *from Marcel Stellman."Someone on a magazinefirst told me about Billy.Then he came round and weran through a few numbersat a private studio test. Ithought he had a jovial per-sonality-and his voice?Well, it's a natural sort ofvoice. A sort of 'singing inthe bath-I'm enjoying my-self' type of voice.

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was all over.I know that Billy has sung,

just for his mates, in someclubs in the East End ofLondon. His mates havebeen duly impressed.

COLOSSALBut the fantastic point to

remember is the colossal"fan club" Billy has createdsince his successful days as

"I wouldn't like to com- an amateur heavy - weight.pare him to anybody else. Millions remember his de -It's impossible. But I livering the K.O. punchreckoned that you see so which gave Britain a 10 -nilmany people around with win over the Americanfar fewer advantages than amateurs. And his pro.Billy so that it was worth fights have pulled in anmaking a record right away. estimated audience ofIf it goes well-fine. He's around 17,000,000 every timecertainly an uninhibited they are televised ... apartsort of character and, of from the "live" crowds atcourse, he DOES have this the sell-out stadiums.enormous following. This means the potential

saleability of Billy on disc isenormous-even if it's onlyon novelty value for thefirst release.

On the other hand, reportssuggest he will surprise thenon -boxing fans with his un-suspected vocal talents.

"I'm always interested infinding unusual people toput on record ... and thisblonde bombshell certainlyfits that description."

Billy was obviously a bitnervous-who wouldn't beon walking into a studio forthe first time and facing abattery of musicians who'dseen -it -all -before? But hewas soon relaxed, happy andgagging around with every-body, especially his brotherGeorge-his boxing manager.

"Well, it was quite an ex-perience", said Billy after it

COLOUR portraits of Tl;c Beatles are being troddenupon daily in the streets of London. Anti -Beatles

demonstrations? No. Just the work of pavement artist,Ken Williams. On his kerb -side pitch just offTrafalgar Square, Manchester -born Ken spends about90 minutes on each portrait, while he listens to thetinkle of coins dropping into the hat. Then down

comes the rain, and Ken starts all over again.

* * *MORE than 600 fans crowded

the Marquee, London, onSaturday to enjoy the music

of the all -African R & B group,"The African Messengers".

Line-up is Humphrey Akoh (altosax), Peter King (tenor sax),Mike Falana (trumpet), HappyWilliams (electric bass), DickRushton (p i a n o), Paul Edoh(congo drums), James Meane(drums). Unorthodox by most R& B standards but providing asound which was stimulating.

With vocalist Mel Turner, theyput over a dozen numbers withskill and enthusiasm, the goodsolid drumming of James Meanealways very much in evidence.

Nice phrasing from vocalist Melin "Work Song" had the audienceclapping rhythmically in an ex-cellent offering.

* * *MIRE Animals have just gone

through a tough spell of badluck.

Bass guitarist Chas Chandler fellasleep on the 'plane down fromNewcastle to London recently, andcaught sunstroke on the back ofhis neck through the window .

Lead guitarist Milton Valentinehad 'flu for three days . . .

Organist Alan Price had ton-silitis . . .

. . and to top all this, thegroup's band wagon was brokeninto twice on the same day-lastFriday. On the first occasion, whenit was parked outside a Londoncafe, a tin box containing £200cash was taken from a brief -caseinside the van. Later, in the even-ing, when it was parked in Har-row, the brief -case was stolen!

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Next number one tip: "A LittleLoving" by the Fourmost . . .

Stones' LP not selling well inMidlands and North . . Peterand Gordon new single, Lennonand McCartney number "NououyI Know" on DB 7292 . . . Wolver-hampton group, The Montanas mak-ing LP for limited distribution. . .

Beatles' newie at end of June.

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Yardbirds' record sold 17,000 infirst week -f . . Sales of Pye TopSix soared when EMI's Hot Six ad.campaign started . . . Neil Chris-tian and the Crusaders changedname to Christian's Crusaders . .

Asking for "Urn, Urn, Urn, UmUrn Urn" was bad enough but GeneVincent's newie is "La - Den - Da -Den - Da - Da" . . . Chris Curtisreally a searcher now . . . USDJ Ed Morino to compare "Break-fast time with Caroline" on 199. .

Jimmy Page joined Micky Finnon mouth organ and lead guitar...Slimmer Tubby Hayes had threeTV dates last week . . DaveClark Five exit London Saturdayfor a week of Scandinavian one -

nighters. . . Louis Prima first LP ina fortnight. Title "Sam Meets Sam"(Sammy Davis and Sam Butera).Micky Finn's £300 guitar stolen. . .

Chas McDevitt and Shirley Doug-las have beautiful home, com-pletely furnished at Datchet. Butit's been empty since May lastyear, and they won't be able tomove in during the foreseeablefuture. Just returned from a tourof Far East, they have learned ofsummer season, variety season,panto all in Scotland and Austra-lia tour next February . .

Granada TV relates tale of fourPeople, asked if they had heard ofLenin, replied "Yes. ,He's one ofthe Beatles. The married one". .

Pretty ballad with restrainedbeat is "The Girl With The Laugh-ing Eyes" written by Max Diamondfor the Aristocrats. Points to morethan just a pop future . . . PollyPerkins "Young Lover" on Oriole,May 22 . . . "Best band I'veplayed with" said ChampionJack Dupree after first session withJohn Lee and the Groundhogs inLondon . . Overlanders' "Yester-

day's Gone" doing well in States. Manfreds preparing new single

for EMI release next month . . .

Top West Indian bluebeat groupthe Vagabonds flew in . . 18 -year -old recording of "My Baby LeftMe" being re - issued tomorrow(Friday), on RCA - Arthur "BigBoy" Crudup is the man . . . In-spired by RM's Norman Joptins.the Manfredi have all orderedAntonio twist boots from Pinetsshoe shop in Bond St. . . Whathappened to Murray the K on"Around the Beatles". . . CharlieDrake's newie recorded last week"I'm Too Heavy For The LightBrigade" with "The ReluctantTight Rope Walker". . . Shades of"Oh Boy" last Wednesday . . .

Various DJ's have attributed theApplejacks hit "Tell Me When"to Gordon Mills, Le Stirlingand even Lennon - McCartney. Infact, written by Geoff Stevens. . .

American King label about tosign contract with important GBindependent . . Migil 5 clat.c nr

Marquee didn't draw expectedcrowds . . . Chris Barber cele-brating 10th birthday of his band. . Doing broadcast from BrandsHatch on the day of the BritishGrand Prix. . . Cavern DJ BobWooler to be co -director of newcompany formed in Liverpool tohandle beat groups and artistes.First signed: The Clayton Squares

. . Why doesdrtab- P. J. Probygo whole hog and get buckleshoes, tight breeches, and swash-buckling sabre . . Publicist GuyStevens says the RM's Gestetnerhas the blue beat . . . JimmyPowell and the Five Dimensions'record "That's Alright" out June9 . . . Alex Harvey's Soul Bandon Polydor tomorrow, title: "IAin't Worried Baby". . Ex -

solo performer Danny Davis(rhythm guitarist) left The Maraud-

ers to form own group. His re-placement - 21 - year - old ChrisRenshaw . . . Vic Cooper now onorgan with Johnny Kidd's Pirates. . Gene Pitney, on tour of NewZealand, plans short rest inHawaii before going on to Peruand Argentina.

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ITis not often that you see a skyscraper actually walking around the streets of London.

Unless, that is, you visit the Marquee Club, in Wardour Street, when you can almostalways see just that . . . the perambulating six feet seven -and -a -half inches of Long JohnBaldry.

He towers above the rest of our blues singers. Come to that he towers above everybody!The body is long and angular, topped by a thatch of fair hair.For a few years, Long

John has built a big follow-ing on the club scene. He'sbeen through the folk bit,with groups like the SteveBenbow Four - and throughthe trad bit, with just abouteverybody. All a bit special-ist - taste, though.

But now, suddenly, it's . . .

LONG JOHN BALDRY! Hisappearance on the Beatlestelly -spectacular last weekmeant that umpteen millionshad sampled his talents. Hestuck to his usual material:but he impacted himself ona much wider audience.

STANDARDSIn fact, it was producer

Jack Good who wanted LongJohn for the "Around TheBeatles" show. He had takensome Baldry discs to theStates with him and reports:"People liked them a lot -and wanted to hear more ofhim". The Beatles' show is, ofcourse, being shown in theStates.. .

Says Long John: "I'm grate-ful to Jack. This show gaveme a chance to sing on amajor pop programme with-out having to give up any ofmy own musical standards.."

Long John and the HoochieCoochie Men will soon be on

record. But the fantasticthing is the way they'refully booked for monthsahead without having had ahit disc. Long John himselfis a dedicated blues man,but goes for a subtle ratherthan biting style - the rave-up work with the groupgoes to 19 - year - old Rod"The Mod" Stewart, the othersinger.

Says Long John: "Trends?Well, I think the time iscoming now for the colouredartistes to get right in thelimelight. Sure it's happeningalready with people likeChuck Berry and Bo Diddleybut I think that's more thepity. They have this com-mercial approach but I per-sonally don't like them much.They just stand up and roar.There's no subtlety in it.

"Of course, 1 rememberthe Beatles from way back.I often played Liverpool inthe days when the Cavernwas a jazz club . . . and Iwas singing with Ken Sims.I know this sounds like beingwise after the event, but thefact is I just knew they'd bevery big one day. Naturally

I didn't realise just HOWbig!

"On the blues side, I'vebeen collecting records sinceI was eleven. And there area lot of American artistes I'dlike to see get more credit.Stars like B. B. King-BluesBoy King. He's great withthe coloured audiences butwe don't know much abouthim here. And Jimmy With-erspoon. Their day will come,I hope."

While he was talking, LongJohn tucked away a man -

sized lunch. There is a lotof him to fill. . . and a longdrop for the large sirloinsteak.

SURE-FIREHe had to nip away to take

delivery of a new van for thegroup. When Long Johnrises from a chair, he seemsto stand up - then standup all over again! Likeopening a double - jointedjack - knife. .

I'll tell you this. I reallydo look up to Long JohnBaldry, sure - fire star betfor 1964. But then everybodyHAS to look up to him!

LONG JOHN BALDRY was voted number two in the Record Mirror R & B Poll a fewweeks ago. He used to be with the late Cyril Davies at the old Marquee togetherwith the Velvettes and the Hoochie Coochie men. John made considerable impact on

the Beatles show on ATV last week.

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IS THIS MAN THE NEWSIX weeks ago, James Marcus Smith had no idea he would

be the most talked -about man on the British discscene. He was enjoying a comfortable time in the States asa minor recording star, a maker of demo discs for ElvisPresley and a friend of a certain Jack Good.

Then Jack was commissioned by the Beatles to producetheir TV show-that sensational fast moving show thattook everyone aback. Jack decided that James MarcusSmith was suitable for inclusion in the show. For onething his hair was worn long and swept back with a bowto keep it in place-Tom Jones style. Reason for thatwas in direct contrast with the Beatles' forward -swept hair.

His voice was great, actwas great and looks weregood. Only thing which mayhave been wrong was thatJames, who recorded underthe name of P. J. Proby,had an Elvis Presley image,rather than a Beatle image.

PUBLICITYBut that didn't matter. For

when P. J. Proby hit Britainhe had more publicity in twoweeks than most stars havein a year. And by the waythings are snowballing P. J.Proby looks in the runningfor becoming the logical sue--cessor to Elvis, Cliff and theBeatles. The thunderboltentry of this man broughtscores of questions by fansabout him - all they knewwas that he is American andhe is great.

P. J. talked to me abouthimself.

"In the States I recordedfor Liberty - my discs didn'tdo too badly, and they soldenough for me to tour with

-V- -V- -V- -V-people likelike Andy Williams. I

made demo discs from El'sfilms for him to learn thelyrics, since Kid Galahad. Mydisc "Hold Me" was madeprivately by Jack Good withCharles Blackwell, and soldto Decca. There was a loadof confusion about my con-tract with Liberty, but it'sall been cleared up. My discIS to be released on Decca,and I have signed a three-year contract with them-avery good contract too.

"People go on about theclothes I wear. They tend tocall me names but thatdoesn't bother me. Man, I likethe wild gear."

P. J. was proving his point,by his blue boots, purpletrousers, and blue cordjacket.

"Why have I had so muchpublicity? Well the reasonis probably Brian Epstein

"I also try my hand atsongwriting. Not manypeople know that I penned

"Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya". Ithit it big for the Searchershere, but it wasn't so bigin the States, when a groupcalled the Ribbons recordedit."

"I hope that I'll be stayinghere in Britain after myHollywood film commitments-I like this country verymuch indeed. Everybody hasbeen real friendly here, andalthough y o u may notbelieve it, the climate agreeswith me."

P. J. Proby himself isaged 25, and was born inHouston, Texas. He movedto Hollywood in 1957 and itwas there that he met Elvis,whom he became friendlywith at once, and after acouple of years started mak-ing the demo discs. He likesrain, steak, girls, big cars,and dislikes people whobend the truth. His favouritesingers are Frank Sinatraand Kay Starr.

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And let's face it, it IS theElvis Presley image that heputs over.

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been a long time buthere I am" were Chuck's

own words as he opened hisact at the Finsbury ParkAstoria on Saturday last.

Chuck arrived on Satur-day morning when he visitedSound City in ShaftesburyAvenue and after came tothe Record Mirror offices,for a rest from the hordesof fans. With Chuck was nothis road manager-but hislawyer. Nevertheless he wasin a happy mood, posingamiably for photographs al-though he was obviously'shaken up by recent fast-moving events.

DRAMATICIn the evening at Finsbury

Park, the atmosphere wastense and dramatic. Theshow opened with the Nash-ville Teens, a competentbeat group wearing leatherrailwaymen's hats and waist-coats. They provided a driv-ing start to the show andwere followed by a femmevocal duo who called them-selves the Other Two. Theywere two lasses dressed inblack slacks and sweaterswho sang a variety of num-bers including "Walking TheDog" and "You Can't JudgeA Book By Its Cover". Theywent down fairly well, andthey were followed by theAnimals. Currently in thelists with "Baby Let Me TakeYou Home" they ploughedthrough this, and severalother items including "House

Of The Rising Sun", "Talk-ing About You" (The RayCharles version) and, ofcourse, their hit. They wentdown well, but the audiencewas already shouting forCarl Perkins. Cries of 'Wewant the King Of Rock'filled the air, and Carl wasgreeted enthusiastically. Hewent through numbers like"Matchbox", "Mean WomanBlues", "Hi Heel Sneakers"and of course "Blue SuedeShoes", but his voice wasrather country tinged owingto the years he has spentsinging C & W. After Carlcame the Blue Jeans-butthe audience just didn't re-spond well to them.

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Kingsize Taylor and theDominos pr o v e d to theaudience that their reputa-tion from Hamburg wasfully justified. "She SaidYeah", "Sherry" and "HeebieJeebies" were a few of theirnumbers and Kingsize wasreally on fine form. It's apity this artiste hasn't yetclicked with a disc release-certainly he's one of thebest beatsters we have inBritain.

Then came Chuck. Dressedsoberly in a dark grey suitand swinging his guitarChuck went through a loadof his hits like "Schoolday",

"Johnny B. Goode", "SweetLittle 16", "Wee Wee Hours","Guitar Boogie", "Nadine"and "Maybellene". He was inexcellent vocal form, asclear and precise as on hisdiscs, and the Dominos of-fered him reasonable sup-port - although the twosaxes were probably un-

necessary. But the highlightwas probably Chuck's superbguitar work-he proved him-self to be a master of theinstrument ere the perfor-mance was out.

If the rest of the showsare as good as this one, thenBritish audiences are in fora wow of a load of shows ...

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DIONNE WARWICK iscurrently shooting up withher delicious "Walk OnBy", while Cilia, who roseto fame on Dionne's "Any-one Who Had A Heart" isalso riding high with heroriginal "You're MyWorld". Kathy Kirby, the"Stars & Garters" song-stress is doing well withtier "I'm The One". (Cilia

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ET THE CHART CHICKS!PETER JONES TAKES A LOOK AT THE

SUDDEN INFLUX OF THE BIG HIT GIRLSNOT so long ago it was dead simple. With a distinct lack of gallantry, the experts

of pop music laid down the ruling: "Girls are useless. Girls buy most of therecords, therefore they won't buy discs BY girls. While girls may be very nice to lookat, the fans do not regard them as being worth the money to listen to."

Ungallant, yes! And right now it's inaccurate, too. For the girls are having anextremely fair share of chart success. Not just new girls, either-old girls as well, ifthe great Ella Fitzgerald will pardon the expression.Take last week's Top Fifty.

An eye-opener, if you askme. Anyway, without beingasked I must point out thatthere were TEN discs in-cluded by solo girl singers.If you wish to be pernickety,you can add Megan Davis,bassist of the Applejacks, andMary, of the folknik Peter,Paul and Mary line-up.

Now, what about the men?The groups, obviously, comein a different category. If wetalk about solo girl singers,we must talk about solo malesingers.

FAVOURAnd there were only ten

of them. Level p e g g i n g!Bully for the birds, say I.Three "yeah, yeah, yeahs"for the fair sex, exclaim I.So let's just have a quicklife and the life -and -times ofthe ladies who are so chartconscious these days . .

Like little Millie. "My BoyLollipop" has plunged h e rinto the hundreds -a -weekmoney class. The 16 -year -oldfrom Jamaica was wined andlunched last week by PhilipsRecords to mark sales of250,000 -plus on the single. Herfirst for Fontana: "D o n ' tYou Know" sold a mere hand-ful of thousands. What'smore, Millie has producedvirtually the only big chart -hitting blue -beat record.

Then there is Dionne War-wick. The lovely coloured lasssuffered pangs of disappoint-ment when "Anyone WhoHad A Heart" failed herethrough Cilia Black competi-tion. But she is knocked outby the success of "Walk OnBy." So knocked out that shecabled: "I want to take thisopportunity to thank every-one in Britain, the dee jays,producers and most of allthe record -buying public forthe help and interest youhave all shown in my record-ing. I'll look forward to meet-ing as many of you as pos-sible during my visit to yourcountry, week of May 20.-Sincerely, Dionne Warwick."

Doris Day? Incredible re-turn to favour, this. The CBSstar had hit after hit about

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *eight years ago. Then sheturns up with "Move O v e rDarling," from a comedymovie of the same name.Even before the film was ongeneral release, the discstarted moving . . . over!Out of all the good songsDoris had recorded (a n dflopped with) THIS one cur-ried favour. Says Doris: "I'dalmost given up thoughts ofhit -parade success . . ."

Then comes a piece inItalian, no less. "Non Lo L'etePer Amarti," by Gigliola Cin-quetti, arrives on Decca . . .

having won the charmingyoung lass first prize inthe Eurovision Song Contest.A nice little song; cleverlyperformed. Song first, artistesecond - that's for sure. Butthere it is in the Top Thirty.

On then to Cilia Black. Thegal who sang with the Beatlesin the early days had aroughish opening with "LoveOf The Loved" . . . despitethe Brian Epstein manage-ment bit. But "Anyone WhoHad A Heart" had Miss Blackfeted as singer, model, mod -speaker, fashion expert, poppanellist. Now she's well est-ablished: with "You're MyWorld" fair crashing up thecharts.

SWINGINGLittle Miss Consistency,

alias Brenda Lee, is the onegirl who is rarely out of thecharts. Her "Think" has hada fair stab in the listings,without being as big as Ipersonally thought it shouhlbe. Brenda has varied hermaterial and her style suf-ficiently to get over obstacleslike (A) getting married; (B)having a baby; and (C) beingan aforementioned bird.

When Ella Fitzgerald getsinto the charts, it is indeeda matter for the raised eye-brows. All right - let's befair. She's done it' on thestrength of singing a Beatlecomposition. But she'sbrought a touch of the swing-ing singings in to charts thatnormally overlook this side

of the vocal art. Said Ella, onher recent trip: "People thinkI sneer at the Hit Parade be-cause of the material I sing.Well, I can tell you, Peter,that EVERY singer likes tobe up there in the best-sellers."

CONSISTENTKathy Kirby, our "Girl Of

The Year" for 1963, continuesher winning ways. "You'reThe One" is good material. . . and shows that there isno need for a girl to be justa one -hit wonder.

Next comes Cilia Black.Again. Her "Anyone WhoHad A Heart" has hoveredextremely well for nearly fivemonths. Including that spellat number One.

And there is ShirleyBassey. Of course! "Gone"isn't her biggest by a longchalk, but Shirley is certainlythe most consistent of theBritish girls, taken over along period.

By some freak, DustySpringfield isn't in the charts.Had she finalised a newsingle before she went to theStates and other world widepoints, she'd most certainlyhave been included. Whichwould add another point tothe score for the ladies.

And there are some otherswho I think should have bigbreak - throughs in the best-sellers. Still, more about thatanother day . . .

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THAT STAR SOUND

How Merseybeats

get their hit

ballad soundWHEN Old Chelsea and Young Liverpool met in Middle -

Aged Bayswater the other week the results were start-ling, to say the least. The occasion was a Merseybeat LPsession at Fontana's London studios.

Included was My HeartAnd I, one of the lateRichard Tauber's throatieritems from his operetta 'OldChelsea'. Having driven thisone home with a pulse evenDave Clark would have heard,the Merseys solemnly assuredeveryone that their versionwas just the same asRichard Tauber's, except "heused to take it a bit faster."

HASTEBut though they might

give pomp the brush - off,they still take their record-ings seriously. Due inCheltenham a little overthree hours later, they didn'tallow any trace of haste toshow in their work. A and Rman Jack Baverstock didn'thave to pull that "One more- just for us" routine; theyknew instinctively when andwhere improvements couldbe made.

For in the world of beatmusic they are naturals. Thishas its disadvantages, becauseit means that their in-struments are part of them.

by

PATRICKJAMES

Asking the Merseybeats totalk about them for anylength of time is like askingsome guy to tell you thestory of his left foot.

I'd just taken a few noteswhen they had to dash off.Perhaps it was as well, be-cause soon after, during ariotous Saturday morning inSelmer's Charing Cross Roadshop, they acquired a set ofcompletely new Gibsonguitars.

TWANGERYSo now lead guitarist Tony

Crane is the proud possessorof what I believe is the onlyGibson Firebird V in thecountry. Aaron Williams,rhythm guitar and no re-

lation to the G - string of thesame name, now has the newGibson Firebird III. Third

Gibson Boy is Johnny Gustaf-son, who uses the Thunder-bird IV bass guitar and, lasttime I heard, was wonderingwhether to keep or trade inhis old Fender Precision.

All this is in addition tothe Gibson B 45 12 -stringacoustic (with De Armondpickup) that Tony Crane isusing more and more.

With this new twangerycame new amplifiers - aGibson Titan I for Tony, aMercury I for Aaron, and aSelmer Goliath, about as bigas a junior wardrobe, for thebass guitar.

John Banks' Premierdrums, which he's been us-ing since the beginning ofthe year, are unchanged.Needless to say, he's no in-tention of getting rid of his

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Zildjian cymbals and hi -hat,though when I saw him hespoke about getting bongosin the near future. One ex-otic item of percussion thegroup has are of courseTony's maraccas (he alsoplays cornet, by the way, butnot nowadays).

NO ROOMWhen they're not playing,

they seem to have a positivemania for drinking milk orCokes, which they never

order at less than two glassesat a time. So wherever theystop for refreshment, 16glasses appear immediately,and it's not unusual to seethe four of them sittinground a table on whichthere is literally no roomfor any more glasses.

"We seem to drinkgallons", Tony told me, "butwe just sweat it all out onour next job."

I only hope they don't allleave their money at homeone day. All that washing up.

THE MERSEY -BEATS are one of thefew big beat groupsto have clicked withballads as opposed tobeat numbers. Thesecret of their starsound is revealed here

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HIT SOUNDSIS it just coincidence - or is it

that Brian Epstein has got aneven Golder -than -Gold touch?

I'm talking about Sounds Incor-porated, that splendid group, andtheir hit disc "The Spartans" sForafter years (three) of hard trying,they get chart success with theirfirst release AFTER signing withLiverpool's magic -man.

The six boys, clearly chuffed,gathered round for a chat. Andthe theme was (a) how cleverBrian Epstein is and (b) howamiable he is to work for..

Seems the boys were in a dazewhen he first took over thisSouthern -based group. They felt:"He won't want much to do withus-not considering he has theBeatles, Gerry, Cilia, Billy J. andso on. We'll just keep quiet. . . " But Brian made aspecial trip back -stage to assurethem: "We're all together in ourorganisation. Everybody is as im-portant as the next one."

Even more chuffed, the boys dida great show. Which is the point:they ALWAYS do a great show.Musically, they can blow most ofthe other groups off-stage. Whichmakes it difficult to understandwhy big -selling discs have eludedthem until "The Spartans".

There's no doubt that the Beatle'stelly -spectacular helped SoundsInc. get across to a really bigaudience. And there's no doubt thatthis is only the start of somethingvery big for them.

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ADAM -GOOD BALLAD

DAVE NOT AS GOODTHE DAVE CLARK FIVE

Can't You See That She's Mine;Because (Columbia DB 7291).

LATEST from the Five isn't aspowerful as their last two,but there's a powerful back

beat throbbing all the way throughon this wild very danceable disc.Glimmerings of a tune showthrough and there's an excellentsax solo. Must be a top three effortwe imagine. Flip, penned by Daveis a gentle beat ballad with aPleasant tune and loads of appealof course. An entertaining flip.

TOP FIFTY TIP

ADAM FAITHI Love Being in Love With You;

It's' Alright (Parlophone R5138).ri-IL,GETHER with the Roulettes,I Adam launches - off into this

plaintive number which hasmore than a touch of the BuddyHolly's nice tune, good beat andexcellent backing. Of course Adam svocal work is on top of form, andthe whole disc is very good in-deed. Penned once again by Chris

Andrews, the flip is a bluesier num-ber with wailing harmonica, andsome wild beat work from all con-cerned.

TOP FIFTY TIP

NINO TEMPO & APRIL STEVENSTea For Two; I'm Confessin'

(London HLK 9890).

irriHE hit making duo get goingI on their latest effort which

is a lively version of the oldieperformed with loads of verveand gusto. The rather confusedsound adds rather than detractsfrom the appeal and this couldbe a small hit. Flip is the sameas the Frank Ifield hit of a shortwhile back, and is performed intheir "Blue Velvet" style.

TOP FIFTY TIP

RICK NELSON

The Very Thought Of You; IWonder (Brunswick 05908)

trilHE intoxicating beat is hereI again on the new disc from

Rick which moves along wellat a relaxed yet beaty pace. Thebacking is great, the performancegood, and of course the idea ofcontinually reviving these oldtunes just can't go wrong. Goodstuff. Flip is a jerky beater, whichisn't the same as the Brenda Leeor Crystal songs. Medium pace,good number with appealing lyricsagain.

TOP FIFTY TIP

P.J. PROBYHold Me; The Tips Of My

Fingers (Decca F 11904).

MUCH publicised P.J. starts offslowly on this revival of awell -tried oldie, and then

bashes on with a forceful inter-pretation of the number. There'sa strong heavy backbeat on theslow -to -medium paced item, andplenty of good solid danceablebeat. Must be a hit, on the numberof plugs this lad's had. Flip is asolid number again, with P.J. ontop of his vocal form. A strongflip.

TOP FIFTY TIP

SINGLES IN BRIEFETHNA CAMBELL: Girls LikeBoys; Five Minutes More (MercuryMF 816). An unusual song with avery jerky flavour. Well performedand could do well.

THE RAINDROPS: Book Of Love;I Won't Cry (Fontana TF 463).The old Monotones hit is given abeaty danceable treatment by thepop group. Not their best.THE FOUR SEASONS: Ronnie:Born To Wander (Philips BF 1334).Lovely tune, beautiful treatmentfrom the Seasons. Not terribly com-mercial though.JOHN BARRY & ORCHESTRA:Theme From Man In The Middle;Barney's Blues (Stateside SS 296).From the pic comes this bold in-strumental with a typical filmflavour.THE WHIRLWINDS: Look At Me;Baby Not Like You (HMV POP1301). Group give the old Hollynumber a good beat, and treat itwell. Could score.

THE JOHNNY MANN SINGERS:Cotton Fields; Sheandoah (LibertyLIB 10156). The old gospel song isgiven a gentle beaty flavour by thevery smooth singers. More for theolder set.THE WILD ONES: Bowie Man;Purple Pill Eater (Fontana TF468). Drum beats open this, andcontinues to a Bo Diddley beatyitem. With commercial appeal -could make the charts,JOHN ADDISON: Girl With GreenEyes; The Love Theme From TomJones (United Artists UP 1053).Orchestral bit with some appealfor the strict tempo fans.VIC DANA: Shangri-La; Warm &Tender (Liberty LIB 92). The origi-nal "I Will" and a tender big -bal-lad vocal version of the lovely tune.ARTHUR 'BIG BOY' CRUDUP:I Don't Know It; My Baby LeftMe (RCA -Victor 1401). Good blueseffort from the vet singer -a mustfor R & B fans.THE WAILERS: Tall Cool One;Road Runner (London HL 9892).Re -issue of the subtle instrumentalhit that's doing so well in thestates.THE EAGLES: Write Me A Let-ter; Wishin' & Hopin' (Pye 7N15650). Pleasant vocal effort fromthe formerly instrumental team.Good but not chart -worthy.

BOBBY HENDRICKS: Itchy TwitchyFeeling; Thousand Dreams (SueWI 315). Old time rock disc, re-vived from Sue, with a good dancebeat and quite a bit of appeal.

HOWLIN' WOLF: SmokestackLlghtnln'; Goin' Down Slow (PyeInt. 7N 25244). Single release ofthe great R & B classic after itwas voted number one in RM Poll:BOBBY RYDELL: Make MeForget; Darling Jenny (Cameo -Parkway C 309). Lively numberfrom Bobby with a good tune, andplenty of appeal, but there isn'tmuch room for this sort of thingin the charts.

PAT THOMAS; Stranger On TheShore; C'est Si Bon (MGM 1234).Vocal version of the great AckerBilk hit by the smooth songstress.Maybe a little too early for arevival.

THE HI-FI'S: Will Yer Won't Yer;She's The One (Pye 7N 15635). Agood beat and a good tune on thisone, a well sung little ditty.JOHNNY OTIS: Baby I Got NewsFor You; Hand Jive One MoreTime (Ember S 192). Strong beaton this bluesy number, but there'sa feeling that this doesn't quitemake it.

DARLENE PAUL: Act LikeNothing Happened; A Little Bit OfHeaven (Capitol 15344). Pleasantbig ballad from Darlene, a newname to us. Builds up and hasa fair amount of appeal.CHERYLE THOMPSON: Tear-drops; Black Night (Stateside SS291). Gentle beat ballad withouttoo much commercial appeal.

LEON YOUNG STRINGS: ThisBoy; Glad All Over (Pye 7N 15646).Orchestral number with a subtlebackbeat on the Beatles' number

LANCE HARVEY & THE KING-PINS: He's Telling You Lies; HowDo You Fix A Broken Heart (Pys7N 15647). Frantic beat on thisone, plenty of gimmicks and araverage chance of success. Well -performed.ANDEE SILVER: Too Young ToGo Steady; Sleeping Beauty (HMVPOP 1297). Lyric is a bit hack-neyed on this -and the whole thingis rather out of date. She singswell, that's about all.BOB MILLER: Hullabaloo &Custard; Peridot (Ember S 194) -With the Millermen. Bob gets tstown on this excellent bowiesinstrumental number.

THE CRESTERS: Put Your Arm!Around Me; Do It With Me (HMIPOP 1294). Slow tortuous itemgood ballad sound which could be

a surprise hit. And it's differentTHE ARISTOCRATS: The Gh'With The Laughing Eyes; I PicketYou (Oriole CB 1928). Gentlesmooth number with loads oappeal that could make the chartsJULIE LONDON: I Want To FinsOut For Myself; Guilty Hear(Liberty 55666). String filled balladwell -performed but without theusual subtlety of her style.BRUCE FORSYTH: The MysteriousPeople; You've Just Found Ou(Pye 35189). Popular comediaiBruce should sell well to his fan:with this corny affair, but iprobably won't do anything chartwise.BOOTS RANDOLPH: Hey Mr. Sa)Man; Baby Go To Sleep (LondorHLU 9891). Girl chorus on thenovelty fast-moving sax effortGood instrumental work, a sort osexy "Guitar Man."

JULIE GRANT: You're Nobody TitSomebody Loves You; I Only Car,About You (Pye 15652). Pleasiniballad from Julie who deserves 4

hit with this one.THE REDCAPS: Funny ThingsMighty Fine Girl (Decca F 11903)Loads of pounding beat and appeafrom this team -could makechart -wise.GARY MILLER: The Way YO1Look Tonight; Dear Friend (Pr'15651). Revival of the beautifenumber given a commercial treatment by Gary. Could be a hit wit!enough exposure.

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El-thiTONY SHERIDAN

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF .Just A Little Bit; Kansas City;Save The Last Dance For Me;Unchained Melody; Get On TheRight Track, Baby; You'd BetterMove On; Skinny Minny; Jam-balaya; Mary Ann; Will You StillLove Me Tommorrow; My Babe;Sweet Georgia Brown; I Got AWoman (Polydor 46 429).ITIONY, at last, is making the

break -through in this country-his own country. This lively

collection, featuring the BeatBrothers, shows that he's a violentsinger and a fine guitar technician.Good sax here and there and areal party atmosphere going. Andthe numbers are well selected.Definitely worth having for thebig -beat shelf.

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FLOYD CRAMERCOUNTRY PIANO, CITY

STRINGS; Heartless Heart; Bona-parte's Retreat; Streets of Laredo;It Makes No Difference Now;Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy; YouDon't Know Me; Making Believe;I Love You Because; Night TrainTo Memphis; I Can't Stop LovingYou; Cotton Fields; LonesomeWhistle (RCA Victor RD 7622).

DISTINCTIVE piano, plus abattery of expensive strings,plus arrangements from Anita

Kerr, Bill Justis, Bill McElhiney.Fine arrangements, too, sufficientlyvaried to make sure there's noboredom. And yet . . and yet-this musicianly set may not garnerhuge sales because its for listening,not dancing.

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HANK LOCKLINIrish Songs; Country Style (RCA

Victor RD 7623)."[TANK IS Irish by background,

which helps when he applieshis Country "feel" to songs

like "Danny Boy", "When IrishEyes Are Smiling" and "GalwayBay". Hank has the Jordonaireswith him and a great, lush stringsection. Somehow it falls betweenseveral "stools" but it's pleasantenough without being all thatchartworthy. The indelible stampof Chet Atkins is on the session.

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GEORGIA BROWNSINGS GERSHWIN: Summer-

time; It Ain't Necessarily So; ILoves You Porgy; I Got PlentyO'Nuttin'; My Man's Gone Now;Oh Lawd I'm On My Way;Fascinating Rhythm; But Not ForMe; Blah-Blah-Blah; Slap ThatBass; How Long Has This BeenGoing On; Strike Up The Band(Decca LK 4586).

WOW! Some fine Ian Fraserarrangements swell thewonderful Brown vocal tones

of Georgia. Remember her KurtWeill collection on a recent LP-.this is even better. Gershwin wroteall kinds of song, most of themgood. Georgia is brilliantly inven-tive on such as "Slap That Bass"and the important "PlentyO'Nuttin'." An artistic, but stillraw -edged, performance through-out. Recommended . . . but notfor the big beat fans.

* * * *VARIOUS ARTISTES

BRUM BEAT: What A Way, TheStrangers; You Left Me Alone,The Mountain Kings; Clap YourHands, Dave Lacey And The Cor-vettes; I Saw You Yesterday, TheBlue Stars; So Glad, The KavernFour; Don't You Know, TheMountain Kings; Stop Your Cryin'Little Girl, The Kavern Four;Yours Forever, The Blue Stars;There'll Be Time, The MountainKings; It's Not Too Late, TheStrangers; School Day, The BlueStars; I Want To Dance, TheKavern Four; Bye Bye Johnny,The Strangers; Unlucky AmDave Lacey; Return To Mary,The Strangers; Can't You See, TheMountain Kings (Decca LK 4598).

A BUNCH of smooth, well per-formed beat numbers fromsome various unknown Brum

beat groups. There are severalvery good originals on this value -for -money set (8 tracks per side),and there's a great cover plc. It'sa good album-a pity it wasn'tissued some months earlier duringthe height of the beat craze.

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DUANE EDDYLONELY GUITAR: I'm So Lone-

some I Could Cry; Long LonelyDays Of Winter; Along CameLoinda; Someday The Rainbow;Gunsmoke; Home In The Meadow;Londonderry Air; Shenandoah;Summer Kiss; My Destiny; Cryin'Happy Tears; Annie Laurie (RCA -Victor RD 7621).

THERE are a great manyDuane fans who over theyears have made this man the

world's top pop guitarist. But onlythe staunchest will really dig thiscollection-not because it is bad,but it happens to be so different.All slow tracks, string filled, andmoving blue guitar work. Veryvery different.

***XAVIER CUGAT

CUGAT PLAYS CONTINENTALHITS: Mack The Knife; PetiteFleur; Apache; Volare; Never OnSunday; Calcutta; Sucu Sucu;Third Man Theme; Wonderland ByNight; Poor People Of Paris;Come Prima; Fuaglione (Mercury20008 MCL).A PLEASANT collection of latin-

ish band stuff from Xavierwho sells very well to the

older set. Danceable, with a solidset of tunes and lots of salespotential.

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THE RATTLESTWIST AT THE STAR CLUB

HAMBURG: That Is Rock AndRoll; The Stomp; Go To Him; Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah; Mashed Potatoes;Hello; Cryin'; Waitin' Hopin';Sticks And Stones; Hippy HippyShake; Ain't She Sweet; Bye ByeJohnny; Twist And Shout; DreamBaby; PS I . Love You (PhilipsBL 7614).SOLID beat gear from the most

popular German group. AllEnglish lyric. loads of drive

and a batch of good songs. Onlything wrong is that no-one twistsanymore.

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ELVIS PRESLEYELVIS' GOLDEN RECORDS

VOL. 3: It's Now Or Never; StuckOn You; Fame And Fortune; IGotta Know; Surrender; I Feel SoBad; Are You Lonesome Tonight;His Latest Flame; Little Sister;Good Luck Charm; Anything That'sPart Of You; She's Not You(RCA -Victor RD 7630).

WHAT a fantastic achievement-his third volume of million -sellers. This set consists of

about three years of Elvis singles,from 1960 to 1963, and since thenEl has earned two more gold discsfor "Return To Sender" and"Devil In Disguise". A very widevariety of material here, rangingfrom the latin-tinged "It's NowOr Never" and "Surrender", thecountry styled "Anything That'sPart Of You," beat ballads like"She's Not You", and "Good LuckCharm" and of course the out-and-out rockers like "Feel So Bad" and"Little Sister". He's still SO great.* * * * *

ANTHONY NEWLEYIN MY SOLITUDE: It's All

Right With Me; I See Your FaceBefore Me; Solitude; The WinterOf My Discontent; I Didn't KnowWhat Time Is Was; For All WeKnow; So Far; Rain, Rain; LikeSomeone In Love; Guess I'll HangMy Tears Out To Dry; I'll TeachYou How To Cry; The Party'sOver (Decca LK 4600).

ANewley. Some great songs andSAD, brought -down Tony

a sort of sepulchral atmos-phere created by the Ray Ellisorchestra. Tony's voice is stillreedy and thin, but he brings theactor's talents t o interpretinglyrics. Of course he HAD to do"The Party's Over" but stillmanaged to bring somethingdifferent to it. As Tony says: "It'sdifficult to find songs that FrankSinatra hasn't recorded."

* * *BRIAN POOLE AND THETREMELOES: 20 Miles; ComeOn In; Swinging On A Star;Yakety Yak (Decca DFE 8566)Great set from the boys-a certhit.

MILLIE: My Boy Lollipop; Some-thing's Gotta Be Done; Don't YouKnow; Until You're Mine (Fon-tana TE 17425) A hit single anda don single bundled together onwill be a minor hit EP.

ELVIS PRESLEY from "Love Is Las Vegas"

GREATEST COUNTRY ANDWESTERN HITS: Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean; Shake Me I Rattle-Marion Worth; Devil Woman -Marty Robbins; Pride-Ray Price;Live For Tomorrow-Carl Smith;Ballad Of Jed Clampett-Flatt andScruggs; Ring Of Fire-JohnnyCash; Wolverton Mountain-ClaudeKing; Forbidden Lovers-Lefty Friz-zell; Waterloo-Stonewall Jackson;Running Into Memories Of You-Little Jimmy Dickens; Don't LetMe Cross Over-Carl Butler (CBSBPG 62254)

ABUNCH of pop flavoured coun-try hits, many of which passedthe million sales mark. Good

solid stuff, maybe not for thepurist so much as for the casualcollector. Good value, and a loadof genuine entertainment here.

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LOS PARAGUAYOSFELICIDADES: Felicidades; Me

Siento Feliz; La Le Le; Eh Figues;Entre Silvero, Facundo y a Luna;Causa Ne Nana; Porque To LoQuires; Yo No Me Imports; MiMunequeta; Atenas; Ven Rosita,Ven; Tomando, Tomando (PhilipsBL 7610).

LATIN music appeals very muchmore to the older set, and thisset is no different. It's a

lively atmospheric lot of gay dance-able music with everything thatyou could want. Maybe not asstrong as some of their other L.P's,

but all their fans must take alisten. With Luis Alberto leadingonce more, this set must be a bigseller.

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HEAR dem bells? Those bells that play a strictly"square" melody! Wedding bells, in fact. The tune

they play in the ears of fans when they herald the weddingof a pop idol is a pretty sour melody indeed. More likea dirge, in fact.

The national papers have been having a field -day. Almostevery week, the "secret" marriage of a pop star is revealed.Almost every week, the engagement of a top group memberis dug out . . . and headlined. And the implication is thatit ALWAYS affects an artiste's popularity.But does it?

We've spent weeks check.ing on the views of fansAnd it is clear from our investigations, from Liverpoolto Lewisham, is that the at-titude of fans varies verymuch according to the statusof the artiste.

Let's take the "sex -symbol"type of male entertainer. Thesolo stars. There's little doubtthat the marriage of MartyWilde, coming at the heightof his popularity, did badlyaffect disc sales. And we nowrealise that it was verycourageous of Marty toopenly declare his love forJoyce . . despite the adviceof many friends.

It affected Tommy Steele,too. He married, with consid-erable flourish . . and im-mediately became unattain-able. Bobby Darin, too, had asex -symbol image which wentfor the proverbial Burtonwhen he wed Sandra Dee.

There are others, of course.

POPULAROn the girl soloist side it

really doesn't matter. Where-as if Cliff, or Elvis, or Adamgot spliced it would be atragedy for millions, the girlsdon't have that sort of imagefor the boy fans. Brenda Lee?Well, she was admired forher voice and singing, not forher appearance. So when thisnon -glamour type married-it just didn't affect her pop-ularity one iota.

But it raises the interest-ing question of what wouldhappen if Cilla Black, orKathy Kirby, or DustySpringfield took unto them-selves a husband.

Would they lose pop-ularity? Chances are theyWOULD. Reason is that theyare glamorous, they'reBritish . . and they're seena lot on television. BrendaLee is rarely seen here,whereas Cilla, Dusty, Kathyare all continually exposedthrough different mediumshere.

Girls in groups really don'tcount. There aren't enough ofthem anyway.

Now we come to the ques-tion of male groups. Almostcertainly, if there is a groupimage . . as with the Four -most, or the Rolling Stones. . . it doesn't much matter.One can be married (or en-gaged), or even two or three.As long as there is oneSINGLE member, then fanenthusiasm doesn't flag.

And, of course, we've hada load of group members sud-denly becoming married orengaged. The list goes on.Ray Ennis, of the SwingingBlue Jeans, is engaged. Two

Norman Jopling and Peter

Jones take a look at the pros

and cons of pop star marriages

THE BEATLES with Ken Dodd (RM Pic).

Bachelors are married. TwoSearchers are married andone, John McNally, is en-gaged. Les Maguire, of thePacemakers, is married. Fred-die Garrity, front -man of the.Dreamers, is married and afather. Allan Clarke, of theHollies, is married. BillWyman, of the Rolling Stonesis married.

Bern Elliott is married . . .

and has twins. Ray Jones, ofthe Dakotas, is engaged. Allof the Shadows, less n e wbassist John Rostill, are mar-ried.

ENTHUSIASMBut there isn't a case now

of the whole of one groupbeing married. And it's thesingle ones who really holdon toy the mass popularity.

This now leaves theBeatles. The biggest of themall. It took a long time, forJohn Lennon's marriage toCynthia, a fellow art student,was kept quiet for a longtime. Obviously this was feltto be something which wouldharm _the image of the long-haired foursome.

But has it harmed thatimage . . . now that it isknown? We'd say it hasn't.Disregard those bannersshown in New York - ban-ners which urged John to getUNmarried. Fact is that thefans don't really mind. That

is, as long as Messrs. George,Paul and Ringo are not mar-ried.

In the eyes of a lot offans, of course, Paul is notin the ATTAINABLE classany more because of hishighly - publicised romancewith Jane Asher. Now we'vealso got the fact that Ringogoes on holiday with Mau-reen Cox, an 18 -year -old hair-dresser. And that George isdoing a touch of the world -travelling with actress -modelPatti Boyd.

The Beatles ARE different.Their position is so strongthat their fans could copewith any amount of shocksbefore they lost allegiance.

National newspapers LIKE

to think of the pop scenebeing damaged. But o u rtheory, after all our inter-views, is that the fans onlyworry about marriages or en-gagements if it happens tobe a solo male "sex -symbol"sort of performer.

For the rest they're gladto share the happiness en-joyed by their favouritestars.

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It's the Aristocrats!1.1rAX DIAMOND is what they call "a character". Publisher, song -writer11. manager, memory -man about the music business-and high-class

teller of anecdotes about the stars. Now he has a new interest-he above -pictured AristocratsSays Max: "These five boys used to be the Meltones. I met up with

hem at a 'Find The Recording Star' contest I helped organize in South -'fast London. They didn't win . . . but I could see something there."go he signed them. They chancedwer to four-part harmony. Andqax wrote a song, with Bob Haifa!). electrical draughtsman, on bass and:alled "Girl With The Laughing vocals: Jack Gardner, insuranceWyes"-and that's the one they official, on drums.:hose for their Oriole debut this They all come from Plumstead,seek. The change of name? Well. London, S.E., and share a lot oft was thought that "Aristocrats" interests, including sketching, paint -

:tided their style of singing-and ing and sailing. And their musicalslax hustled round to get them "likes" range from the Hi-Lo's,iuitable stage attire. the Lettermen and the Mills

He says: "The boys are all 20- Brothers to Sammy Davis, Peggygears -old and very keen. I took Lee, Buddy Greco and Ella.hem to a big exhibition in London Said Max: "They originallymd, believe me, they were mobbed started as Mel James and thew the tans. That's when I felt Meltones back in December, 1959.lure they really did have something But the main thing about them isatra," how they have shown consistent

Line-up of the group is: Mel improvement through the years.lames, War Office clerk, on lead Give the Aristocrats a spin.meals; Rusty Brown, display man. They've managed to get away fromm lead guitar and vocals: Dave the normal run of group sounds-c.;raham. insurance clerk, on and that four-part harmony idea-hythm and vocals; Chris Roberts. really does come off.

DANNY THE GREATDISC COLLECTOR

HOME. for new song -star Danny King, is really just somewhere tostore his records! He's got nearly 2,000 singles stashed away inAston, Birmingham, home-and so many E.P's and L.P's that

he's genuinely lost count.They're stored in an unused larder, a large bureau. in boxes, stacked

on either side of the stairs and in his bedroom. He's also got two recordplayers, two guitars, a piano and a selection of harmonicas.

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yloRESENTING John Mayall.I: leader of the Bluesbreakers,a group which has fast built

a name round the clubs in London.Manchester born John, aged 25, isthe character (married with threechildren) who lived in a tree -topat the bottom of his grandfather'sgarden at Cheadle Hanle, inCheshire.

He'd probably still be up in thattree had he not been erticed toLondon by bluesman Alexis Korner.And there are a whole lot ofother oddities about the quiet -spoken John.

PATENTFor instance, he eats only one

meal a day-in bed at night! Hedrinks four or five pints of milkthen, and supplements it withvarious health foods. He doesn'twant a car, prefers to ride asmall -wheeled bicycle: but hastaken off the handlebars, pre-sumably in the interests of stream-lining.

He carries an old kit bag where -ever he goes. And, nowadays, healso totes a portable harmonicarack, with a built-in pick -up --oneof his own inventions on whichhe has a patent pending. Johndoesn't smoke. or drink.

And, of course, he achieved theremarkable feat on his first record"Crawling Up A Hill" of playingelectric piano. organ and har-monica all at the same time. Plussinging lead voice!

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But the latest addition to Danny'scollection brings no complaintsfrom his mum. It is the DannyKing debut for Columbia-a bluster-ing revival of the old Bobby Lewischart -topper "Tossin' and Turnin'."

HORRORMany of Danny's collected discs

are rareties imported from Americaand he talks enthusiastically aboutpeople like Eugene Church andYoung Jesse-and Glenn Miller"everybody should have hisrecords," he says. Ask him if heever gives a record away and hisface clouds with horror. "Wouldyou consider giving away a PennyBlack stamp? I put all my recordsin that category . ."

Danny plays guitar, sax, drumsand piano, His group is the Jesters.He says: "I hate them to listento an original record, otherwisethey tend to copy what they hear._So I prepare my own arrangements.But 1 don't touch Top 50 stuff-just American songs which nobodyhas heard, or R and B standards."

ACCEPTEDHe formed his group at 15, won

a Carroll Levis talent contest,started touring-and did a summerseason at Butlins, Ayr. They fol-lowed the Beatles into Hamburg'sTop Ten Club. And after turningdown three offers from other com-panies, he finally accepted acontract from Columbia recordingboss Norrie Paramor.

"I used to be a cross-countryrunner," says Danny. "Now I getmy exercise by playing the pinballmachines." He has fair hair, blueeyes, and is 5ft. nin. tall.

"Making this disc was a bigthrill," he says. "Now I'm hopingit'll do well. I've got rather expen-sive ambitions-to own a big whiteThunderbird car and to visit MiamiBeach."

Next week:

THE PICKWICKS

THIS is Johnny Christian, 24-year - old balladeer f r o mJamaica. A quality singer,

this young man-as you can tell.from his debut disc on Columbia"Whispers In The Night". It's aBrook Benton quality-no coinci-dence because Johnny idolisesBrook and Sam Cooke. He's beenin England since June 1962, whenhe arrived with £105 in his pocketand a whole lot of hope for abolo career. Back in Jamaica, he'dhad several big -selling hits.

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A LOOK AT THE U.S. CHARTSFAST rising U.S. hits include-"Viva Las Vegas"-Elvis Presley;

"Whard 1 Say"-Elvis Presley; "Tears & Roses"-Al Martino;"Too Late To Turn Back"-Brook Benton; "Yesterday's Gone"

-Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde; "Giving UP"-Gladys Knight & Pips;"Milord"-Bobby Darin; "Tell Me Mama"-Christine Quaite; and"My Boy Lollipop'-Millie.

New Roulette L.P.: "Good Guy-Jack Spector presents 22

original winners" must be one of the greatest multi -hit L.P'saround. Tracks are "Bristol Stomp"-Dovells; "Watusi"-Vibrations; "Loco-Motion"-Little Eva; "The Fly" - ChubbyChecker; "Silhouettes"-The Rays; "See You In September''-TheTempos; "Uptown"-Crystals; "Kansas City"-Wilbert Harrison;"Ya Ya"-Lee Dorsey; "Let The Good Times Roll"-ShirleyLee; "Earth Angel"-Penguins; "What Kind Of Love Is This"-Joey Dee; "Charlie Brown"-Coasters; "Long Tall Sally"-LittleRichard: "Tossin' & Turnin' "-Bobby Lewis; "You Talk TooMuch"-Joe Jones; "Barbra Ann"-Regents; "Bo Diddley"-BoDiddley: "Easier Said Than Done"-Essex; "There Goes MyBaby"-Drifters: "We Belong Togethpr"-Robert and Johnny:"Maybellene"-Chuck Berry. N.J.

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HELLO DOLLY2 (12) Louis Armstrong(Kapp)

LOVE ME DO.7 (5) The Beatles (Vee Jay)DO YOU WANT TO KNOW

A SECRET*3 (7) The Beatles (Vee Jay)

MY GUY5 (6) Mary Wells (Motown)

BITS AND PIECES*4 (5) Dave Clark Five (Epic)

RONNIE*8 (5) Four Seasons (Philips)

CAN'T BUY ME LOVE*1 (8) The Beatles (Capitol) -

CROOKED LITTLE MAN6 (9) Serendipity Singers(Philips)

SHANGRI-LA*10 (7) Robert Maxwell/VicDana (Decca/Dolton)

in WHITE ON WHITE*12 (7) Danny Williams(United Artists)

11 DEAD MAN'S CURVE*9 (9) Jan & Dean (Liberty)

12IT'S OVER*14 (4) Roy Orbison(Monument)

3 ROMEO & JULIETI 15 (4) Reflections

(Golden World)

1A LOVE ME WITH ALL-* YOUR HEART

18 (3) Ray Charles Singers(Command)

CHAPEL OF LOVE36 (2) Dixie Cups (Red Bird)

SUSPICION*11 (10) Terry Stafford(Crusader)

LITTLE CHILDREN*24 (2) Billy J. Kramer &Dakotas (Imperial)

18 WISH SOMEONE WOULDCARE*19 (6) Irma Thomas(Imperial)

I'M SO PROUD*16 (5) Impressions (ABC)

20GLAD ALL OVER*13 (13) Dave Clark Five(Epic)

THE VERY THOUGHT OFYOU29 (3) Rick Nelson (Decca)

COTTON CANDY*26 (4) Al Hirt (RCA)

WALK ON BY*23 34 (2) Dionne Warwick

(Scepter)

DO YOU LOVE ME*24 43 (2) Dave Clark Five (Epic)

THE SHOOP SHOOP SONG*21 (10) Betty Everett(Vee Jay)

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P.S. I LOVE YOU*37 (2) Beatles (Tollie)

KISS ME SAILOR*30 (4) Diane Renay(20th Fox)

WRONG FOR EACH OTHER*32 (3) Andy Williams(Columbia)

MY GIRL SLOOPY33 (5) Vibrations (Atlantic)

DIANE*40 (3) Bachelors (London)

TWIST AND SHOUT*20 (10) The Beatles (Tollie)

THAT'S THE WAYBOYS ARE`17 (7) Leslie Gore (Mercury)

I DON'T WANT TO BEHURT ANY MORE*41 (3) Nat Cole (Capitol)

FOREVER*22 (7) Pete Drake (Smash)

MONEY*27 (8) Kingsmen (Wand)

YOU'RE A WONDERFULONE*28 (9) Marvin Gaye (Tamla)

CHARADE*31 (4) Sammy Kaye (Decca)

PEOPLE- (1) Barbra Streisand(Columbia)

40 THREE WINDOW COUPE49 (2) Rip Chords (Columbia)

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BE ANYTHING (BUT BEMINE)- (1) Connie Francis(MGM)

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WHENEVER HE HOLDSYOU- (1) Bobby Goldsboro(United Artists)

EVERY LITTLE BIT HURTS- (1) Brenda Holloway(Tamla)

ONCE UPON A TIME- (1) Marvin Gaye &Mary Wells (Motown)

(THE BEST PART OF)BREAKING UP- (1) Ronnettes (Philles)

49 NEEDLES AND PINS.25 (10) Searchers (Kapp)

50 TODAY- (1) New Christy Minstrels(Columbia)

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IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE(2) Buddy Holly

IT'S LATE/THERE'LLNEVER BE ANYONE ELSEBUT YOU(3) Ricky Nelson

SIDE SADDLE(5) Russ Conway

I'VE WAITED SO LONG(8) Anthony Newley

COME SOFTLY TO ME(6) The Fleetwoods

DONNA(4) Marty Wilde

PETITE FLEUR(7) Chris Barber

I GO APE(12) Neil Sedaka

COME SOFTLY TO ME(10) Frankie Vaughan

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WHERE WERE YOU ONOUR WEDDING DAY(17) Lloyd Price

SMOKE GETS IN YOUREYES(15) Platters

WAIT FOR ME(-) Malcolm Vaughan

C'MON EVERYBODY(11) Eddie Cochran

GUITAR BOOGIE SHUFFLE(-) Virtues

HEY LITTLE LUCY(-) Conway Twitty

BRITAIN'S TOP LP'sTHE ROLLING STONES(1) The Rolling Stones(Decca)

WITH THE BEATLES(2) The Beatles (Parlophone)

WEST SIDE STORY(3) Sound Track (CBS)

SESSION WITH THE DAVECLARK FIVE(4) Dave Clark Five(Columbia)STAY WITH THE HOLLIES(6) The Hollies (Parlophone)

PLEASE PLEASE ME(5) The Beatles (Parlophone)

A GIRL CALLED DUSTY(8) Dusty Springfield(Philips)

BLUE GENE(7) Gene Pitney(United Artists)ELVIS' GOLDEN RECORDSVOL. 3(11) Elvis Presley (RCA)

WITH THESHADOWS(14) The Shadows (Columbia)

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MEET THI. SEARCHERS(10) The Searchers (Pye)

IN DREAMS(12) Roy Orbison (London)

SOUTH PACIFIC(9) Sound Track (RCA)

BLUE SKIES'(15) Frank Ifield (Columbia)

IN THE WIND(13) Peter, Paul & Mary(Warner Bros)JAZZ SEBASTIAN BACH(18) Les Swingle Singers(Philips)THE SHADOWS GREATESTHITS(19) The Shadows (Columbia)GENTLEMAN JIM(20) Jim Reeves (RCA Victor)OUT CAME THE BLUES(-) Various Artistes(Ace of Hearts)AT THE DROP OFANOTHER HAT(17) Michael Flanders &Donald Swann (HMV)

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THE ROLLING STONES1 (1) The Rolling Stones

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") ALL MY LOVING' (2) The Beatles (Parlophone)

ON STAGE3 (4) Merseybeats (Fontana)

LOVE IN LAS VEGAS4 (6) Elvis Presley (RCA)

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THE DAVE CLARK FIVE(5) The Dave Clark Five(Columbia)

HUNGRY FOR LOVE(7) The Searchers (Pye)

8I THINK OF YOU(8) Merseybeats (Fontana)

9ANYONE WHO HAD AHEART(13) Cilia Black (Parlophone)

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BACHELORS VOL. 2(10) The Bachelors (Decca)

I'M THE ONE(11) Gerry and the Pacemakers(Columbia)

24 HOURS FROM TULSA(12) Gene Pitney;United Artists)

I ONLY WANT TO BEWITH YOU(-) Dusty Springfield (Philips)LAWRENCE OF ARABIA(19) Soundtrack (Colpix)PINK PANTHER(-) Henry ManciniSHAKE WITH THESWINGING BLUE JEANS(17) Swinging Blue Jeans(HMV)

CHUCK AND BO(18) Chuck Berry &Bo Diddles, (Pye)JAZZ SEBASTIAN BACH(-) Les Swingle Singers(Philips)

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The National Chart

BIGCHALLENGE from the Four Pennies for the top Spot, as

they move up into the second place with "Juliet". And RoyOrbison is doing very nicely too with his big ballad "It's

Over", also a hit song in the States. Gerry slips, surprisinglyenough and on the whole none of the Mersey groups make muchprogress this week. Newie Freddie only makes 45 with his "ILove Yon Baby", the old Paul Anka song. Cilia shoots into thetop 20, closely followed by the Shads with their latest offering, theweird "Rise And Fall of Flingel Bunt". Other fast movers thisweek are Chuck Berry with his "No Particular Place To Go".and Brian Poole with his tender Crickets -penned ballad "Some-one". Terry Stafford continues to make progress with his excellent"Suspicion", but his inspiration for this song, Elvis, falls lowerwith his "Viva Las Vegas", which is commg up fast in the States,together with the flip "What'd I Say".

Out this week are Shirley Hassey, The Merseybeats ("I ThinkOf You"), Adam Faith, Peter, Paul & Mary, and the Shads'"Young Lovers". Two re-entries "I Want To Hold Your Hand"and "I Love How You Love Me" prove that sales potentials onthese two aren't exhausted yet, while Buddy Holly & The Cricketscreep in with their "You've Got Love", culled from their "Chirp-ing Crickets" L.P.

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HUBBLE BUBBLETOIL AND TROUBLE15 (5) Manfred Man (HMV)

IF I LOVED YOU18 (5) Richard Anthony(Columbia)

THE RISE AND FALL OFFLINGEL BUNT37 (2) The Shadows(Columbia)

TELL ME WHENn 19 (11) Applejacks (Decca)

BABY LET ME TAKEYOU HOME23 (5) Animals

NON LO L'ETE PER AMARTI28 (4) Gigliola Cinquetti(Decca)

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LITTLE CHILDREN22 (12) Billy J. Kramer andThe Dakotas (Parlophone)

NOT FADE AWAY21 (12) Rolling Stones(Decca)

BABY IT'S YOU24 (3) Dave Berry (Decca)

YOU'RE THE ONE36 (2) Kathy Kirby (Decca)

HI -HEEL SNEAKERS26 (7) Tommy Tucker (Pye)

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY *27 (9) The Swinging BlueJeans (HMV)

SOMEONE, SOMEONE49 (2) Brian Poole (Decca)

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THE SPARTANS34 (4) Sounds Incorporated(Columbia)

JUST ONE LOOK29 (12) The Hollies(Parlophone)

THINK31 (6) Brenda Lee(Brunswick)

DIANE33 (17) The Bachelors(Decca)

CAN'T BUY ME LOVE35 (3) Ella Fitzgerald (Verve)*

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SUSPICION45 (2) Terry Stafford(London)

ANYONE WHO HAD AHEART47 (15) Cilia Black(Parlophone)

SHOUT- (1) Lulu & The Luvvers(Decca)

VIVA LAS VEGAS40 (10) Elvis Presley(B CA-ViCtor)

NEW ORLEANS41 (9) Bern Elliott &The Fenmen (Decca)

THAT GIRL BELONGSTO YESTERDAY32 (11) Gene Pitney(United Artists)

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I WANT TO HOLDYOUR HAND- (22) Beatles (Parlophone)

YOU'VE GOT LOVE- (1) Buddy Holly & TheCrickets

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The Paul Jones Mann"UH-HU, it's the Manfreds" yells Paul Jones, who is, to use the most overworked cliche

in the book, last but not least in our series about Britain's hot R & B group.Paul Jones is the lead singer, and generally approved by the rest of the Manfreds as a

suitable front image for the rest of the closely knit group."I was first interested in

music in the days of skiffle.I formed my own group atschool at the tender age of15. We used to wear ourhair long then too, and havea vague uniform of bluejeans. Our first big surprisecame when we discoveredthat Lonnie Donegan didn'tstart folk, skiffle and R & B.In about two weeks ourrepertoire trebled in number.with songs from the authen-tic U.S. talents like Big BillBroonzy and Leadbelly beingperformed by us. After thismy tastes went throughblues, jazz, and on to R & B.

clan remember liking peoplelike Bessie Smith and JimmyWitherspoon, who I can'tstand now.

ROCKER"My hair styles changed

as often as my music. Afterthe skiffle phase I went toUniversity and it was thething to wear one's hairreally long then. So I cutall of mine off, and had acrew cut, which developedafter some years into anordinary semi -long sweptback rocker cut. I had thathair style until about a yearago.

"I don't wear my hair longnow to be like another Rol-ling Stone-in fact I justcan't be bothered to have itcut. I seem to be able tofind better things to dowhen I have time . . .

"Whenever I meet up withmy old mate Mick Jaggerwe always end up having adig at each other's hair. Isay ". . . and that must have

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been when you had shorthair." And he always says". . . no, that was whenYOU had your hair short."

But the Manfreds fansdon't seem to like Paul'shair too Icing. I saw a cardfrom a group of fans whichtold Paul to get his haircut as "he'll soon be lookinglike a Rolling Moan."

"We had various R & B set-ups at Oxford," continuedPaul, "but we didn't thinkthat there would ever be anR & B craze. The first timeI saw any indication waswhen I visited the club atEaling where I met BrianJones and Keith Richards.We used to go down theMarquee-me with my rockerhair and Brian in his smartItalian suit and smart fairhair and hang around AlexisKorner who was then thebe all and end all. He evenlet us wide eyed kids do spotsafter many months oflapping round him. In themeantime the Stones hadformed and moved to Lon-don, telling me to go theretoo. They hit it big aftera while but I still couldn'tbelieve there would be aboom.

BLUSH"I did move after a while

and had various jobs withvarious groups. One I'll neverlive down was as a singer

with one of these dance -bandgroups forced to play thetop twenty to the kids. Ihad to wear a scarlet jacketand all the gear, and singstuff like "I Remember You,"I blush every time I thinkof it.

"Eventually I joined upwith the Manfreds-I'vebeen with them 16 monthsnow-through Bill Carey thatwas, who recommended meto them. But neither he noranybody else thought I wasmuch good. I was a sort oflast resort. I sang hopelesslyout of tune then-so I'mtold, but I don't know. I liketo think though that I've losta little 'white sound' in myvoice. I don't believe anywhite singer can sing theblues exactly like a colouredsinger but it is possible forthem to get a soul sound.

BLUE BEAT"I strive for this all of the

time. I think the musicscene is pretty good at themoment with the exceptionof Blue Beat which I detest.

"When I joined the Man-freds, half of the groupthought they might havebeen able to tolerate me,and the others didn't wantme at any costs. But I gotin, and the anti -Jones onesleft after a while."

I told Paul that I DIDN'Tthink it was because of him. PAUL JONES in front of the original "His Master's Voice" painting.

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