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Great Britain's Best Seliers This Last Wee Week Week On Cl 1. (1) 6. I’m Confessin’—Frank Ifield (Columbia) Francis Day & Hunter 2. (3) 4. Sweets For My Sweet—The Searchers (Pye) Hill & Range ‘National Record Fortnight,’ originally planned for October, has been post- 3. (2) 6. Devil In Disguise poned until May 1964 in order to ensure fuller co-operation both financial and —Elvis Presley (RCA) West One 4. (4) 3. Brian Tremeloes (Decca) promotional from the record manufacturers. It is felt that the retailers, — Poole & also Sherwin whose full support is an essential part of the campaign, would prefer a sales 5. (5) 7. Da Doo Ron boost in May rather than in October when sales start climbing towards the Ron—The Crystals (London) Aberbach 6. (6) 9. Atlantis Christmas peak. Sponsored by The Record Retailers Association —The Shadows (Columbia) Francis Day & Gramophone Hunter ‘National Record Fortnight’ is designed to promote overall record sales, in- 7. (7) 11. I Like It Gerry crease the teenage turnover and attract the estimated 73,000 non-record — & Pacemakers (Columbia) Dick James 8. (10) 4. Sukiyaki buying members of the community. —Kyu Sakamoto (H.M.V.) Welbeck 9. (8) 11. Take These Chains From My Heart Ray Charles The next long term project by Argo Records is the recording of works by — (H.M.V.) Acuff-Rose English poets from Chaucer to Yeats, and his contemporaries. Like the label’s 10. (9) 6. Welcome To My 'World — Jim Reeves (R.C.A.) 142 recently completed cycle of Shakespearean plays the new program is being Music undertaken in association with the British Council. Each of the major poets 11. (11) 7. It’s My Party Lesley Gore (Mercury) A. Schroeder will be recorded on one or more LP. Seven or eight LP’s will be released — 12. (15) 4. You Can Never Stop Me Loving You Kenny Lynch annually and it is complete anthology will occupy some — expected that the (H.M.V.) Klynch sixty albums. The Oxford University Press will be publishing the text. Many 13. (12) 13. Deck Of Cards Wink Martindale (London) Campbell top flight actors and will heard including Ashcroft, — actresses be Dame Peggy Connelly Margareta Scott, Max Adrian, Derek Godfrey, Alan Bates and Richard .John- 14. (16) 3. Legion’s Last Patrol—Ken Thorne (H.M.V.) Filmusic son. First seven releases, due this month, include the works of Browning, 15. (19) 3. I Wonder Brenda Lee (Burnswick) Leeds Byron, Keats, Pope, Tennyson and Wordsworth. — 16. (20) 2. In Summer—Billy Fury (Decca) Skidmore Allied Records has just recorded a 12" LP “This Is Music” by Sidney 17. (— 1. Wipe Out The Surfaris (London) Ambassador-Pincus Harrison, well known broadcaster, TV personality and authority on music. A — 18. (13) 8. Bo Diddley (Coral) Good ‘must’ for the library of gramophiles and concert goers, the record, at once — 19. (— 1. I’ll Never Get Over You Johnny Kidd (H.M.V.) Leeds instructional, amusing and entertaining, covers the basic essentials of rhythm, — 20. 16. From harmony, (14) Me To You— (Parlophone) Northern counterpoint, fugue, sonata, etc. The narration traces the historic Songs development of music from Palestrino through Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Bee- thoven, Chopin and up to the moderns Stravinsky, Britten and the 12 note (serialism) school of Shoenberg and Webern. Release is scheduled for the Great Britain Great Britain autumn. Allied Records has also brought out a ‘guitar tutor’ by John Pearse in co-operation with The English Folk Dance And Song Society. The package Top Ten LP's Top Ten EP's comprises a 12" LP and a 40-page booklet lavishly illustrated and housed in an album box. Available in September. Same company has a second release 1. (1) — The 1. (1) Twist And Shout — The 12" of LP’s in their low priced ‘Heritage’ recordings from The Golden Age. Beatles (Paxdophone Beatles (Parlophone Besides additions to the list of famous artists previously featured in the . It — 2. (2) The Shadows Greatest 2 (3) How Do You Do series, one LP is entirely devoted to a singer of a later period one-time — Hits The Shadows (Co- Gerry & The Pacemakers star of the Vienna State Opera Maria Cebotari. — — lumbia) (Columbia) Frank Ifield has his second for the million selling won Gold Disk “Lovesick 3. (4) Frank Ifield Hits—Fx-ank Blues,” follow up to his first award winner, “I Remember You,” which last 3. (4) Cliff’s Hit Album — Cliff Ifield (Columbia) year took him to the No. 1 slot consecutive for 6 weeks. Richard—Columbia 4. (6) Jet And Tony—Jet Har- The only other British artist to win two Gold Disks is fellow EMI and ris- (Dec- “ 4. (5) Reminiscing—Buddy Hol- Columbia recording star Cliff Richard with Livin’ Doll” and “The Young ca) Ones.” ly (Coral) 0 . (2) Holiday Carnival — Cliff Since “I Remember You” (published by Famous-Chappell) shot to No. 1, 5. (3) Summer Holiday — Cliff Richard (Columbia) in July 1962 Frank’s three Richard (Columbia) successive singles “Lovesick Blues” (Lawrence 6. (7) Dance On With The Wright), “The Wayward Wind” (Lafleur) and his current release “I’m 6. (6) It Happened At The Shadows — The Shadows Confessin’ (Francis Day & Hunter) have achieved the same rating. ” World’s Fair — Elvis (Columbia) “I’m Confessin’ ” was the first single by a solo artist to occupy the top Presley (RCA) 7. (8) Hits From Summer Holi- spot since ‘Groups’ took over from Cliff Richard’s “Summer Holiday” 16 day — Cliff Richard (Co- weeks ago! Presentation of the Gold Disk was made by Mrs. Tess Sutton, 7. (7) West Side Story—-Sound- lumbia) one of the ‘back-room girls’ the result of a staff ballot at factory track (CBS) as the EMI 8. (4) More Frank Ifield Hits at Hayes. 8. (8) I’ll Remember You — Fx-ank Ifield (Columbia) Manufacturers sales of records continue to rise. Figures for May, valued Fx'ank Ifield (Columbia) 9. (10) BiUy Fury & The Torna- at £1,329,000 were 12% higher than in May, 1962. Home sales were again dos—Billy Fury (Decca) at a high level last 9. (9) Billy — Billy Fury showing an increase of a quarter on the same month 10. (9) Facts Of Life From year. Export sales fell by about a third. Production of 45 rpm records con- Decca Steptoe & Son—Wilfred tinues to expand and were a quarter up on last year. Output of 33 1/3 rpm iO. (— Concert Sinatra — Frank Bramble, Harx-y H. Coi'- records fell by over one fifth compared with May ’62, but taking the first Sinatra (Reprise) bett (Pye) five months of 1963 as a whole, production of records of this speed was a little higher than a year earlier. Although banned by the BBC and Radio Luxembourg, “Christine” by GREAT BRITAIN (Continued) Miss X (Joyce Blair), the highly topical single released by Ember Records of viols capturing an authentic Elizabethan atmosphere. Another Philharmonic Ensemble conducted International, has already sold over 10,000 copies and looks like it will be LP “18th Century Military Music” by The London Bach recently been used in the firm’s biggest & fastest selling record of all time. It is also being re- by Trevor Sharp, Band Master of Kneller Hall, has leased in Australia and throughout Europe. Published here by Essex Music. two Granada TV productions Tolstoy’s “War And Peace” and “A Camera Essex also has “If I Had A Hammer” first i-eleased here a short time ago Goes To War.” Your Lucky by Peter, Paul & Mary and about to reappear with the version, now on the Cliff Richard and The Shadows topped ABC TVs “Thank Cash Box Top 100 by Trini Lopez on Reprise. Same pubbery has British Stars” last week strongly supported by Billy J. Kramer, The Searchers, line up of stars composition “It’s Time We Parted” by Johnny Worth and waxed by Bobby And and Alma Cogan. Future Wynter, Rydell on Cameo-Parkway as a follow up to his recent chart entry “Forget for lucky viewers includes Chubby Checker, Susan Maughan, Mark Adam Faith, , Petula Clark and Bobby Rydell. Him” . . . also British. to Peter Sherwin Music happy to see British group, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, Official change of name for the show’s resident compere from Pete shooting up the Top 10 with their first smash hit on the Decca label “Twist Murray. Johnny and Shout.” Meantime, The Beatles’ EP of the same title is selling like a EMI A & R manager Wally Ridley reports American release by single. Tillotson (Cadence) of current British charter by Kenny Lynch “You Can include a A1 Brackman, partner in Howie Richmond’s world wide publishing houses Never Stop Me Loving You.” Meantime Ridley’s recent waxings twist Hollis and Ludlow, an-ived in town for a holiday in the British Isles. new Ronnie Hilton single “Kisses Can Lie” published by Aberbach; a Pye celebrates the fourth anniversary of the popular Golden Guinea series version of “Steptoe And Son” by Joe Loss and one of EMFs fastest selling this month with 16 LP releases. singles of the week “I’ll Never Get Over You” by Johnny Kidd published by Highlights include: “Golden Hits” by Kenny Ball, “Chain Gang Songs” by Leeds—all on the HMV label. Earl Gospel singer Josh White, “Country Style” with contributions by top Pye Following the signing of And The Mindbenders and Liverpudlian artists including Lonnie Donegan, Miki & Grifif and The Countrymen, etc. Preston and The T.Ts. Fontana has inked and recorded its third and Soundtrack themes from “Cleopatra” by The Cinema Sound Stage group The Mersey Beats. First single “It’s Love That Really Counts” is set Orchestra. for August 23 x'elease. musical Single releases on the Pye Label include Kenny Ball’s “Acapulca 1922,” David Platz of Essex Music busy with the score of the successful original cast traditional jazz version of the popular tune, published by Burlington Music. “Oh What A Lovely War,” of which Decca has released an interest is the revue debut disk by 15 year old star of the Judy Garland picture “I Could Go LP. Another show in which Essex has a substantial A Septem- on Singing,” Gregory Philips, written by Tom Springfield and entitled “Six Of One” stan’ing Dora Bryan due to open in the West End in “Angie.” Published by Klynch Music. ber. Essex also has the current American charter “This Is All I Ask” by “Like The Big Boys Do” by Harry H. Corbett, currently in the EP charts Tony Bennett on CBS and Burl Ives on Decca. Gordy stable since with “Facts of Life From Steptoe & Son,” a comedy disk that could take Oriole’s first major release from the Motown, Tamla & American chart topper, him into the singles charts as well. On Pye International comes the American its agreement last autumn is with the current Little Stevie Wonder. Published here by hit “Lollipops, Lace & Lipstick” by James Gilreath, published by Joy Music. “Fingertips” by the 12 year old Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen have accepted an invitation to visit New Or- Belinda. of Pye Records, recently leans in September for a series of concerts as part of the cities “British Quickies: Les Cox, assistant general manager five-week cabaret at Talk Of The Town Week” festivities. The visit has been arranged by the New Orleans English married Joan Turner, who opened a bells this week fox’ comedian-singer Speaking Union in conjunction with the N. O. Jazz Club and the British on Bank Holiday Monday . . . Wedding production of “Sound Board of Trade. Roy Castle who maxuded a dancex* from the London United States. . . . A delegation from the English Speaking Union arrived in London to meet Of Music.” The couple plan a honeymoon tour of the the States in the autumn for Kenny and honor him with two official presentations. A framed letter con- The Springfields to make a x-eturn visit to . . . Scheduled for September veying greetings from the Mayor of New Orleans and its citizens and a radio, TV and another session at Nashville. Dance Music packaged by certificate giving him honorary citizenship of New Orleans. The latter in six more Silver Dollar EP’s of Strict Tempo Records and . . . of Ember recognition of his services throughout the world to the music eminating Allied Records in four-color sleeves. Jeff Kruger Barry have extended an open door policy to all from that city. his new A & R Chief John in quest for new and suitable As well as New Orleans, he hopes to visit Memphis and Los Angeles, before indie px'oducers and music publishers their siixger from . . Epstein x-eports another solo flying to Australia for his autumn tour. matex’ial. . Brian Paxdophone label. . . . Comedian-singei’ Unusual featui-e of a 12" LP put out by Philharmonic Records “Elizabethan songstress Cilia Black signed to EMI’s “Still” Columbia. Songs and Music’’ is the fact that the singers are accompanied by a consort Ken Dodd has recox’ded on

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