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.s; *DEL SHANNON-his "Two Silhouettes" rises to No. 27 this week, continuing his steady run of hits.(NRM Picture by DEZO HOFFMANN.) Well, they've done it again."She Loves You" has hit the No. 1 slot this week and the wagers among the NRM staff have been settled. (NRM Picture by DEZO HOFFMANN.)

SAM COOKE-is succeeding very nicely with his version of the * RAY CHARLES-as "Take These Chains" goes slowly out, in HOUSTON WELLS-a well -deserved success with "Only The oldie "Frankie And Johnny".This week he's climbed another comes "No One", at No. 47. Heartaches", No. 23 this week. twelve places to reach No. 34. 2 - NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963.

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Why El Won't Come ;.= .,. PHOTO SERVICE RE'®D HAVING noticed thecontrover- -- . We can supply copies g_ sialissuessurroundingElvis Presley,getting him to come to ; of all photographs marked Britain, Ifeel that the answer lies "NRM Picture" i.: RROR la_ in the British contingent of Presley EVERY THURSDAY Prices: 6in. x 8in.-3s. 6d. -- fans. wi 10in. x 8in.-Ss. EDITOR: JIMMY WATSON Presley claimsthat his fear for i.-... flying prevents him coming here. If 12in. x 10in.-7s. 6d. 4. ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR: NORMAN JOPLING a the Presley fans boycott his records Send to: i4 - FEATURES: PETER JONES I am sure he will find some way of getting here. After all,if he has a NRM Photo Service, ADVERTISING & CIRCULATION: ROY BURDEN host of devotees who will continue 116 Shaftesbury Avenue, getting him into the Top Three, why London W.1. -. 116,SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON W.I. should he endanger his life to come :=. a Telephones: GERrard 7460, 3785, 5960 over here?How would a visit at 711/1111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1:111111111111111111111e thistimeboost hispopularity further. Only when heis on his SMALL way out will he come. ADVERTISEMENTS SONG -SMITHS THOSE GIRLS When "Broken Heart" failedto ALWAYS WANTED,recent LP DOES the FIRMthink that the WITHregard to your article inmake the Top Ten (by the narrow- records,Classical,SoundTrack McCartney -Lennonsong -writ- the NRM entitled" What'sest of margins) there was a huge Shows, Popular, Jazz, any quantity ing team are the only twosome inwrong with girl singers?" (Sept. 71,gap before "Devil In Disguise" was bought.-Sendlist'TheRecord existence? Have you suddenly for-theansweris,inmy opinion,released. This shows howmeticu- Exchange", 46 South Clerk Street, got the great song -writing twosomesnothing. The only reason why manylous he wasinchoosinghis Edinburgh. material. of: Leiber-Stoller;Goffin-King;female vocalists do not make the ASPIRING VOCALISTSrequired Pomus-Schuman;Domino -Bartho-charts is because the record shops If his next five discs, good or had, for Coaching /Management / lomew;Holly -Petty;Sheeley-Dedo not have their records in stock.failed to reach the Top Thirty,I Recordings-Chiswick 4895. Shannon; Cochran-Capehart, etc.?JustrecentlyItriedto purchasethink the chances of seeing Elvis in in- Orisitthatthesetwosomes"Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home"Britainwouldbe much brighter. BARGAINLP's:2 for 27/6 haven't had the honour of beingby Beverly Jones, but having triedThere is no other possible solution. cludingRayCharles;Nat Cole; born on the MERSEY -SIDE! -many nearby shops, I was unable Tommy Roe; Ral Donner; Ritchie I don't dislike Presley, but I have Valens; Jimmy Dean; Marvin Rain- BARRY HOWSON and ALLENto get it. noticed that his last five discs have ELVIS Westgate Road, Also, in your article you stated water; John Lee Hooker; Howlin' CURTIS, 68 been much worse than the five pre- Wolf; Etta Janes; Lightnin' Hop- Barrow -on -Furness, Lancashire. that "Brenda Lee seems to be hold-ceding those. Just a thought. ing the fort alone".This is very kins; many others . . . For full EDITOR'S NOTE-We are soontrue, as she has had a record in the If anyone has any alternative sug- PRESLEY detailssend1/-to:-"Advance starting aseries about prominentTop Fifty every week since enter-gestions toget him over here.I Record Agency";664, Aylestone songwriters and songwriting teamsing the charts with "Speak To Mewould like to hear them (through Road, Leicester. - includingallthosementionedPretty" on April 7, 1962. No otherthe NRM) becausePresley owesAgain areader presents a point of view regarding ElvisPresley's above. failure to visit our shores. CHARLIE CHESTER CLUB. Ser- artistcanequalthis-noteventhe British fans plenty.-ALFRED Several theories have been put forward but wanted Elvis. - BARRY MILLYARD, 17RILEY. 110 Richmond Hill Street,one of the main reasons is lack of time with another being finding thevicemen aged 18/22 ideal venue with a large enough capacity. urgentlyasPenpals.Particulars: DULL BIRDS Park Rise, Hove 4, Sussex. Accrington, Lancs. Josie Veen, 72 Clarence Avenue, Clapham Park, London, S.W.4. INreply to the article in last week's NRM,I think the reason why CHUCK BERRY Appreciation girl singers don't make the charts Society:5EatonPlace,London, consistentlyis the lackof talent. S.W.1, send S.A.E. for details. Let's face it,the majority of girl The Musical Hotline. . CRAIG DOUGLASFan Club. - singers turn out the same dull per- Details from TheSecretary,58 formances record after record. Two Holmwood Rd., Ripon. Yorkshire. exceptions are Brenda Lee and Pet BUSY NELSON TAMLA-MOTOWN EDDIE COCHRAN FAN CLUB. Clark who deserve moresuccess '208BLUE, JEANS NE WS FROM Newlyformed club forthe late thanthey get.-JOHN GRAY, 6 FOUR LP's. FOR E.M.I. greatrockster. SendS.A.E.27 OakleyRoad,Islington,London SERIES ALL OVER Spendlow Gardens. Leicester. N.1. NELSON RIDDLE has been EMI have acquired the rights FOR ALL YOUR Music Require- keeping busy under his newTHE Swinging BlueJeans to the Tamla-Motown- ments,music tolyrics,piano contractwith Reprise. He'sI(whose next disc, Do YouGordy catalogue of American THE PLACE arrangements, etc., write or call, MARTIN YALE AGENCY represented on four LPs comingKnow?, comes outnext weekhitmakers. Musical Services, 2 Denmark Place, out September 17. on HMV) are the first Mersey- Itincludes Mary Wells,the W.C.2. 30a St. Peter'sAve., There's Sinatra'sSinatra, an More on Cleethorpes side group tohave their ownMiracles, Little Stevie Wonder, LYRICS WANTED.Allkinds,by album of songs especially asso-Radio Luxembourg show. theMarvellettes,Martha and MusicPublishingHouse. 11 St. Representing:- ciated with Frank. He sings: I've It'sa 13 -weekseriestitledthe Vandellas,and Marvin Page 6 Albans Avenue,London W.4 CARTER-LEWIS Got You Under My Skin;InSwingtime running on SundayGaye. NRM BACKNO'S WANTED. KEITH KELLY The Wee Small Hours Of Thenights from September 29. DetailsS.A.E.124, HenleyRoad, Morning; TheSecondTime Firstrecord(anAmerican Reading HOUSTON WELLS Around;Nancy;Witchcraft; The sponsors are Lybro. Theymajor hit) under the new deal By ...ern:: "RECORDS BOUGHT" Singles and the MARKSMEN Young At Heart; All The Way;make jeans. is Heat Wave by Martha and 1/6-2/-,EP's 4/6,LP'singood THE SOUND OF Pocketful Of Miracles; Oh What This Thursday the group arethe Vandellas on October 11. condition-Detailsto "PopPar- THE ECHOES It Seemed To Be; Call Me Irres-at the Domino Club, Manches- DAVID lour"4,SkinnerSt.,Gillingham, ponsible; How Little We Know; Kent. with PAUL KEENE ter,Tomorrow, Friday, they are Put Your Dreams Away. at Worthing. Other dates:Sep- MARAUDER RECORDSBOUGHT, 45s,EPs, JAMIE LEE and the Nelsonalsowroteallthetember14,Walthamstow ;15, GRIFFITHS LPs.-Fowler. 264 Vauxhall Bridge ATLANT!CS arrangements for RosemaryHampstead; 16, Newport, Mon- LOCKED IN Road, S.W.1. (Callers only.) RICKY WILSON and Clooney'salbum,Love,andmouthshire; 18, BBC'sBeat RECORDS from 3/- each through Record Collectors' Club, Lyndum the YOUNG ONES Keely Smith's Little Girl Blue,Show. IN therecordingstudiosat Little Girl New. Decca last week, Bry Martin, House, Petersfietd. - S.A.E. ERIC LEE and the ThefourthalbumonRe- leader of the Marauders,went BIRMINGHAM Details. 4 ACES prise, Getting Sentimental Over HERE COME to phone his dynamic publicist, RECORDS WANTED. Frank The SHELL CARSON Tommy Dorsey, has three Keith Goodwin. There was no 'field's"Life'sAHoliday"and DISCS OUT "HappyGo Lucky Me".-Write COMBO arrangementsbyNelson, four THE GIRLS lightinthe phone booth but byBillyMay andfourby Bry managed todial anyway.THE firstof EMI'smanyBir- BerylAnn Sansome,113. Wey- IVERPOOL hasitsfirstall - moor Road,Birmingham17. and many other attractions Benny Carter. Jo Stafford is theL Somebody came along with a minghambeatgroupsre- forstageandballrooms. singer throughout. girl beat group! cently signed come out next week RHYTHM & BLUES GAZETTE They are the Liverbirds (andpile of packing cases and, not 2/6d..USALPCatalogue,272 Also out this month is Dean seeinganybodyinthedarkon Columbia. They are Keith "Tex" Martin Rides Again, athey've alreadybeen photo- PoweH and the Valets and their pages5/-.Eitherfrom Lyndum booth, put them down outside House, Petersfield bunch of standards arranged forgraphed with the Beatles-cap-thedoor.Bry waseffectivelynumber is Come On And Join STRICTLY Dean by Marty Paich. tioned"TheBirds And The The Party. ROMANCE / PENFRIENDS or Beatles" in the Merseyside press)sealed in and had to bang for Marriage? Tell us which, interests half -an -hourbeforeasearch The following week Colum- you! Membersall ages every- and they are playing fairly regu-party fromthestudio found FAB TOMMY ROElarly at the Kubik Club. bia'ssecondBirmingham new where! Society World Friendship, him. One man was sulkingartist,Pat Wayne, has his Go MC, 74 AmhurstPark.London, BARGAINS ! Theyarealsobookedformore than Bry:Keith Good-Back To Daddy released. N.16.Detailsfree,S.A.E. FAN PARTYsome dates in Birmingham in thewin, who moaned: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BEAT LPs AT TWO of Tommy Roe's keenestfirstweekof November. The "Bry, should have called me Friendship / Marriage. Brochure British fans, Veronica Webbgirls have been practising for theback. I. like to make myself use- PATSY'S REAL free.(Established1943.) Friendly BEATIER PRICES and Joyce Richardson held a fanlast six months, are semi -pro atful - and,besides,Icould Folk Association, Torquay club party at the Duke of York,present but will- turn fully pro-have got a news photographer Brentford, for Tommy last Fri-fessionalifthey gettherightthere." ACCIDENT breaks. The Marauders can be heard IT'S FABULOUS ! day. About 50 fans turned up ACCIDENTS Will Happen AUTUMN and heard Tommy sing Sheila, The group consists of Valerieinthe September 17Pop Go The Book EVERYONEWants Gell,17,leadguitar; The Beatles.They start a four - sings Patsy Ann Noble on accompanied by a local group, Sheila her latest Columbia release. the Hellbeats. Saunders, 16, drums, Maryweek tour of Rank ballrooms THE BEATLES RECORD McGlory,17, bass guitar; SheilawiththeHolliesaudShane She's right. IN COLOUR McGlory, 16, rhythm guitar. Fenton andtheFentones on Send PostalOrder2/9P.P. September 29. On Saturday,inthe kitchen BOX 1,NRM, 116 SHP FTESBURY SALE CRAIG SINGS The McGlorys are cousins. ofher Hampsteadflat,Patsy AVENUE. LONDON, W.I. They are seeking a singer for spilta pan of hot fat on her JAMES ASMAN'S WITH CRAIGthe group. THE CHANTSfoot. FAMOUS CRAIG DOUGLAS is the The next day Patsy hadto Britain's Brightest Twist & latest to try the self -duetting hot -foot it to Binningham to re- TEMP. 7 US RELEASE Teen Package RECORD CENTRES trick on records. His latest, I'm cordherappearanceinthis So Glad I Found Her, has Craig BRITAIN'Sfirstnativecol-Saturday's Lucky Stars. The pain THE WEST END CITY singing along with himself a thirdTO SWEDEN oured group (all Liverpool -in her foot was so intense that 23a New Row, 38 Camomile St., apart. THE Temperance Seven fly toborn), the Chants, have heard ashe couldn't stand it when stand- BARRIE JAMES SHOW St. Martin's Lane 8ishopsgate The discison Decca Ritz, ing on it,sothe studio men (opp. New Th.),(nr. Liverpool St. Sweden on October 12 togreat piece of news just as their with Gary & Lee coupledwith Love Her Whilerepresent British pop music (!)first disc is released by Pye. rigged up a stool on a trolley London, W.C.2 Station), Tania Day (COVent Garden London, E.C.3 She's Young-which Craig des-in a British and Commonwealth The number,IDon't Careandhauledhertowardsthe 1380) (AVEnue 7791) cribes as: "a pretty ballad thatFestivalbeing heldinStock-(backed withCome Go Withcameras. The Strangers Or write for Free Mall Order Lists. should do better in the Stalesholm. They'll play TV dates,Me), has been bought by Cameo - The recording went off with- Southampton 20795 than here at present." cabaret and dances. Parkway for release in USA. out an accident. NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963. -3 HE TIRED TREMELOES.

"All Right!" yells Brian Poole... Shout" and "Do You Love Me" numbers that appeal to us." IN THE CHARTS WITH 'TWIST AND SHOUT' AND WITH "All Right!" yells back the audience. Brian knows he has competition And then Brian Poole and the Tremeloes launch into theiron this number but he's nottoo 'DO YOU LOVE ME' CRASHING IN AT No, 33, BRIAN latest better "Do You Love Me" frantic rock just about tailor-worried. "What might worry us is ifthey startre -plugging the fabu- made for all the latest dances like the Blues, the Blue -Beatlous Contours original," he replied. and the Monkey -Climb. ButIdon't think that Brian hasAND THE BOYS BEGIN TO FEEL THE PRICE OF BEING "Do You Love Me" was cut at the same session that pro-much to worryaboutwiththe hugefollowinghehasamassed LONDON'S HOTTEST GROUP duced Brian's first great hit "Twist And Shout" - and it'sduringthelastfewmonths. very much in the same vein.But many - including myself - reckon that "Do You Love Me" (a million seller one year ago DISCS for the Contours) is their best and most commercial disc to Record -wise things are definitely date.It's been performed by the boys for ages now andswinging for the boys. Apart from audience reaction has been as great as it was to "Twist Andthe new singlethey have a new Shout". L.P. issued by Decca titled appro- priately enough "Twist And Shout". "But we justhaven't had time It contains such numbers as "Da toinclude anything newinourbut in the end we think we'll haveDoo Ron Ron", "If You Gotta stage act", Brian told me. "We'veto have one-as we'll probably be suffering from exhaustion by thatMake A FoolOfSomebody", been on the go so much lately that "Alley Oop", "Peanuts" andof there has been no time to rehearsetime!" course "Do You Love Me" and and rehearse any new numbers to The stage act of the boys hasn't"Twist And .Shout". perfection". been altered for quite a while but the boys findthey are stillgoing ..V..W..Weat down just as well as ever. Nowa- TIRED OUT days they don't even need totell7. by the audience the titles of the next NORMAN Brian himself is just about tirednumbers theyare about tosing. out now-both he and the Treme-They justyell"Right". And then JOPLING Ices have been working forbang crashinto thenext rip - 1:10.WVs%V.V.V.W.ii months now non-stop-and they'reroarer. just about beginning! All that Brian and the boys want AftertheirtourofNorthern OUR SOUND to do now is to cut an E.P. And as they have severalrecording dates clubs and ballrooms last week they Brian and The Tremeloes are still went toIrelandfor a couple ofexceedingly pleased that they havescheduled atthe Decca recording days to play in a new club at Bel-made their name through a beatstudios they hope to record a lot fast. And then they have the Roydisc and not through a beat -ballad.more material which may be O.K. Orbison tour lined up. Quite a bit forafutureE.P.topleasethe "This beat music is our sound",group's many fans. eh! said Brian. "And consequently we Mind you, they do just happencan reproduce it perfectly-or even And certainly the group that is to have atour with Freddie andbetter than on our discs-on stage.probably the hottest in London has The Dreamers and theSearchersAnd we thinkitpleases people toloads and loads of fans-and looks after that, but they prefer not tohear us singing as good as we dolike getting even more what with think aboutit! IquizzedBrianon disc when they pay to see us,the coming discs and coming per- sonal appearances. about holidays forthe boysthislive. We can'thonestlysaythe The oh -so -busy, oh -so -weary BRIAN POOLE and the TREMELOES are really hot popsters these days. year. same thing about our other beat - All we can sayisthatthey But they love being tired out with overwork and hope it keeps on flooding in.With their first big hit "No", he said, "None of us hasballaddiscs,for they weren'tsodeserve it,after the long wait that safely tucked away and their follow-up leaping into the charts,it looks like they have no worries had a holiday this year. And wemuch the sort of thing we reallythey had for this chance of whatsoever workwise now! don't expect one for a while eitherlikeddoing.It'sthe "Twist Andfame LE is proud to BILL HARRY'S COLUMN... EMI congratulate THE GREATEST RECORDINI., ORGANISATION IN THE WORLD BAT '63 As a new publication has appearedT.T.'s receive a good reception fromwho will command my respect... The withthesametitleas mynew audience inthe South when"Beechwood" byIan and the column "Northern Beat Scene"Ithey tour with Eden Kane in theZodiacs and "It's Love That Really have decided to change the title ofnear future. .. Hope to have someCounts' by The Merseybeats are in my NRM contributions. Also,ofmore news for youinthenextthe Merseyside charts-also Tommy course,I am eager to report onissue regarding the BBC documen-Quickley's "Tip Of My Tongue" the Beat Scene generally, thanks totary on The Beatles . . . I hope . .. Eden Kane will be at Liver- the correspondence I now receivethebeat movement brings morepool's Cabaret Club on October 7 from various groups . . . I hearwidespread recognition of such-I wonder if Earl Preston and the that Hereford's Lee Starr and thesuperbartistes asThe Contours,T.T.'s will be backing him?. ..I AstralswillshortlyberecordingThe Isley Brothers, The Miracles,am knocked out by The Marauders for Joe Meek . . . Incidentally,Chuck Berry and Mary Wells ... disc . . . Dakotas new single "T/te latest Meek group with record on Magic Carpet"pennedbytheir the market-Wigan's The Beat I hear Lee Curtis will be record-A & R man George Martin re- inghisthird Decca discintwo eates Boys . . . New singer on the scene leased September 27 - theirasso- weeks time . . .Granada's nightly is Paul Eden from Hanwell . . . ciation with Billy J....is similar to Reader IanChasetellsme that"Scene At 6.30" features many topthat of Cliff and the Shadows and beat groups. It was my honour to Gosport's The Classics always play BillyF. and the Tornados . . . appear withTheBeatles onthe to packed houses . . . Contrary to Swinging Blue Jeansrelease "Do opinions in some quarters-there'sprogrammerecently,andIwasYou Know?" out on September 20 equally honoured a few days later still a lot of talent in Liverpool yet . . . Big Three for "Lucky Stars" -Jackie Martin (female vocalist);when Itelerecorded for the BBCon 28th-also Sheffield's spectacu- The Willows (coloured vocal duo);"Beatles" programme . . . High-laroutfitDaveBerryandthe lightof Decca's recording session DerryWilkie andthe Pressmen; Cruisers . . . I'd love to hear from at the Cavern with The Big 3 was Vic and the Spidermen, The All The Rolling Stones ... Stars, Chick Graham cold the Coas-a powerful rendition of "What'd I ters etc... Say?". I hear an EP of the session will be released shortlybefore RECOMMENDED POTENTIAL Christmas . . . B sides of Mersey PLEASE PLEAS[ ME groups records always interesting- Recommended discs-"Mickey's A pity that the female vocal group,The Merseybeats "Fortune Teller"Monkey" by The Miracles; "Your The Contrasts disbanded-they had Old Stand By" by Mary Wells; die Beatles . PCS 3042 (sfereo IT) for instance . . . The Dennisons in "Money" by BuddyBrittaitzand great potential .. . Liverpool's firstIrelandthis week . . . When is PMC 1202 (mono LP) all -girl group-The Liverbirds haveGerry andthePacemakers' newthe Regents and "Bad Boy" by The Donays . . I hope Dave Berry emerged and are seeking a femalesingle due? .. . Manager of Liver- front lute vocalist...It was almostpool'sLocarno Gordon Knowlesand the Cruisers' "Memphis, Ten- a "battle of the girl singers" whenhas introduced Big Beat to the lar-nessee" enters the charts, according TVVISTAND SHOUT recording artiste Beryl Marsden andgest venue in the "Pool". To cele-to my friends in Sheffield, they de- die Beatles new fifteen year old singer Jackiebrate a year of success, Gordon isserve to "make it" . . . I do not believe that the British group scene G EP 8882 ( mono EP) Martin appearedattheLocarnoholding a special anniversary show recently. Beryl won on vocal merits,on Thursday, 19th September feat-is a short lived "craze"-the charts but surprisingly a far more dynamic,uring Ian and the Zodiacs, Roryindicate the public's feelings. . - professionaland polishedperfor-Storm and the Hurricanes, DerryOne of Gerry Marsden's first groups mance from the newcomer ... Wilkie and the Pressmen, Sonny-The Mars Bars, incidentally, con- SHE LOVES YOU Surely no pop stars have had soWebb and the Cascades, The Dele-gratulationsGerry on your21st much publicity in such a short timemeres and The Nat Allen Show -birthday on September 24 . . . %eBeatles still think that the two best versions as The Beatles? . . .The Remoband ... R5055 Four backing Tommy Quickie), on of "Do You Love Me" onthe the Tommy Roe tour . . . Cilia IdaHollywhocompered atmarket are by The Contours and RECORDS PARWPHONE Black'sdebut disc, a Lennon!Jazzshows recent Mersey Beat BoatFaron's Flamingos . . . Groups, 111111 McCartney number "Love of thealso compered on "B Day" . . . managers, agents, readers who wish Loved"releasedSeptember 27 -I'm tremendously interested into comment or provide news of roarigmeNdaiiparcoaapilto the same evening she will appeargroups from Manchester, SheffieldBeat music can write to me-BILL and Birmingham and wonder whatH A R R Y, 14a CHILDWALL on AR TV's "Ready, Steady, Go"

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AN UNEXPECTED

U.S. HIT FOR ROY But although he's clicking with a rocker, he's recording with 'Those Great British Strings'

CURRENTLY climbing the charts in the States is a disc Andtheinterestingpoint is whether or not the rock disc will called "Mean Woman Blues".Many readers may re-emulateitssuccessinthisnotor- member this song as recorded by Elvis Presley and Jerry Leeiously un-beat country ... Lewis some five years back in the golden days of rock 'n' roll. Last night (Wednesday) Roy was It's byrecording at an all-night session in Well this version isn't by an established rock star. British studios. The reason? an established BALLAD singer. None other than Roy Orbison "I wanted to record with that himself, the man who is currently one of the most popularwonderfulBritishstringsound", U.S. singers in Britain today. said Roy, "it makes a change from The frantic beat number marks aof his last tour, Roy will have everythe usual type of thing for me." complete change of style for Roy,reason to be grateful. On Tuesday, Roy went to the who has just had two big hits with Funny thing about his new discWalthamstow Stadium to watch dog "Falling" andthe mammoth "Inisthat the original topside "Blueracing. He may well buy a grey- Dreams". Before then?Well, RoyBayou", an Orbison original,isn'thound to be kept and trained in wasn't too consistent with numbersso far as big as "Mean WomanBritain. If he does, he intends nam- Hit star ROY ORBISON arrived in London tiiis week prior to setting out on another British tour. like "Workin' For The Man" andBlues" in the States. ingit "In Dreams" .... "House Full" notices have already been posted at several venues.It looks like he's got another hit "The Crowd" whichwereonly up his sleeve, too-see page 8. small top fifty entries. But before he clicked with such huge hitsas "Dream Baby", "Runnin' Scared",CONNIE FRANCIS "Cryin' ", "Blue Angel", "Today'swas voted top Teardrops","I'mHurtin' ",andfemale singer in the his fabulous number one disc "Only1963 CASHBOX The Lonely". disc -jockey poll. CHANGES And in all that time Roy has had MUT THE Ns THU more changes of style than prob- ably any other pop singer. His first of the "Lonely" quality might have PETER JONES ANALYSES THE RESULTSOF THE ANNUAL been describedas"exotic", what withloadsof"Dum-Dum-Dum- Top male singer in the World today? Sinatra, with Ray Charles Dummy Doo-Wah's"thrown in second. And the top gal? Connie Francis, with Brenda Lee runner-CASHBOX D.J. POLL everywhere. up. No, it's not MY opinion ... but it's a couple of the ratings in the annual "Cashbox" dee-jay poll results. -AND UNCOVERS by As ever, this breakdown of world talent by a host of American disc putters -on makes for interesting reading. Specially when you get down to the up-and-coming ratings where, for instance, Mr. SOME FACTS NORMAN Acker Bilk is rewarded (?) with seventh place for instrumentalists. JOPLING But there's another oddity run- OF INTEREST ning throughit.Eydie Gorme is,Wade(tie),Adam Wade,Jack for instance,thirdinthefemaleJones and George Maharis (tie) and Then he changedto the slow, vocalists'department,yetplaced(1963) JackJonesand BobbyRolf Harris was number twenty, throbbing, build -and -build type bal- 15th in the "up-and-coming" spot.Vinton. Anthony Newley twenty -opt.. lad like "Runnin' Scared". His only Most played single through the Up-and-comingvocalgroups: Vocal group nominated for 1963J'sandJamie,Peter,Pauland up -beat number was the country - year in the States was "I Left Myis J's and Jamie-it was the Letter- flavoured ballad "Dream Baby", a Heart In San Francisco", by Tony Mary, Ruby and Romantics, Chif- men last year and the Limelitersfons, Paul and Paula, Beach Boys, big twist hit. Bennett.Theylist 42ofthesethe year before that. singles. ElvisPresleyis NOT Four Seasons, Rooftop Singers, New Apart from a few early discs, this Christy Minstrels, Cascades. was the only disc that can be called among them. He's fifth in the male CLOSER LOOK arock disc. "Mean Woman Blues" singers'list. Up-and-coming instrumentalists: was penned by someone named De- But now let's have a closer lookChantaysandBillPurser!(tie), Top album was "First Family",at the actual poll ratings, taking the metrius for the Presley film "Loving the sales -buster by Vaughn Meader. Peter Nero, Joe Harnett, Martens, first ten names where available. Routers,Mr.AckerBilk,Bent You" and included on the L.P. But And thereitis,again,no Elvis it was later put on the Clip of Jerry Malevocalists:FrankSinatra,Fabric,VinceGuaraldi,Jimmy L.P. listed in the 35. Smith, Duane Eddy. Lee Lewis's million -selling "Great Most Programmed male singer isRay Charles, Tony Bennett, Andy Balls of Fire". Jerry had the lyrics Mr. Sinatra, which comes as noWilliams, Elvis Presley, Steve Law- Up-and-comingorchestras:Joe slightlychangedforhisversion, rence, Nat Cole, Chubby Checker,Harnett, Si Zenter, Mongo Santa- though, and interpreted the number surprise as he's been top since 1957,Bobby Darin, Dion. maria, Bert Kaempfert, Bob Moor, El. so both versions sharing the title with Elvis last year. Bill Pursell, Bill Justis, Henry Man- differently to Ray Charlesissecond and Tony Female vocalists:Connie Fran- are pretty good. Bennett third. cis,BrendaLee,EydieGorme,cini, -Tony Martel, Steve Allen. Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Skeeter Davis, Dee Dee Sharp, CAPTIVATING GOING BACK Little Eva, Julie London. The Roy Orbison disc though is also pretty good, and the odds are Top programmed galis Connie Vocal groups: Four Seasons and that it will click in Britain, even to Francis, as she has been non-stopKingston Trio (tie), Peter, Paul and the extent of strengthening his al- since 1959. Brenda Lee and EydieMary,Four Freshmen,Shirelles, ready great hold on British record - Gorme arethefollow-ups.BillyRay Conniff, Beach Boys, Orions, Limeliters, Four Preps, Crystals. buyers. Vaughnisthe most programmed orchestra ;Lawrence Welk the top Roy himselfis one of the few programmed band ;and the Four ORCHESTRAL performers who sells discs purely on SeasonstiedwiththeKingston the sound and not on the person. Trio is the vocal group section, fol- Orchestras: Billy Vaughn, Henry For Roy is the complete antithesis lowed by Peter, Paul and Mary andMancini, Lawrence Welk, Si Zen - of the pop singer, being a bespec- the Four Freshmen. ter, Les Elgart, Percy Faith, Nelson tacled un-hip looking gent inhis Riddle, Ray Conniff, David Rose. Igetapersonal kickoutofGlen Gray. thirties. browsing back through these poll And not only that, Roy happens Bands:Lawrence Welk,Si results in the "most promising" sec-Zenter, Les Elgart, Count Basie, to be one of the most popular stars tions...just to see how far the to appear in Britain. On stage he's predictions come true. LesBrown,RayAnthony,Bill one of the most captivating and en- Black, Glenn Miller, Ted Heath. thathave Take the girls first. Starting with tertainingperformers 1954, the nominated "most likely Instrumentalists:DuaneEddy, come from the States. And an inter- future star" tags have gone to KittyPeterNero,FloydCramer,Bill esting point is that the same section Pursell,Mr. Acker Bilk,George of fans who go for the Beatles, etc., Kallen,JayeP.Morgan,GogiShearing, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, also go a bomb on Roy. Grant, BettyJohnson, Connie Francis (1958), Dodie Stevens,Chet Atkins, Roger Williams. Connie Stevens, Linda Scott, Up-and-coming girls: Little Peggy TOUR JoanieSommersand(thisyearMarch, Lesley Gore, Barbara This was proved by the fabulously Little Peggy March, currently visit-Streisand,SkeeterDavis,Joanie Sloane,Nancy successfulOrbison / Beatles / Gerry ing Britain. Sommers,Carol tour when more loot was mopped Now the men ;1953 producedWilson, Barbara Lewis, Ann - up than for a long time. For at the Bob Manning at the top of the list,Margret, Jackie de Shannon. time of the tour, all three artists followed by annual ratings for Lou Up-and-coming men: Jack Jones had discs in the top ten! Monte, Sammy Davis,Jnr.,Patand Bobby Vinton(tie),Robert Johnny Currently Roy is touring Europe, Boone (1956), Johnny Mathis andGoulet, Lou Christie, TONY BENNETT rates highly and after that he will be coming Tommy Sands (tie), Jimmie Rod-Cymbal, Bill Anderson, Kyu in the results.He is now a gers, Bobby Darin and Brook Ben-Sakamoto,Al Martino,Jimmy very established artist. here for a twenty-two day tour. IfThe "Master", FRANK SINATRA, is voted into first place in the poll. Soul, Dicky Lee, James Gilreath. itrepeats anything like the success He is undoubtedly the perennial favourite around the world. ton (tie), Jimmy Jones and Adair 6 - NEW RECORD MIRROR,Week ending 14 Sept., 1963. NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963.-7

BO DIDDLEY TOUR DATES frff0 DIDDLEY - top r & BLUEGRASSSOUND WHY DIG UP THE OLD performer farigthathg memmm-meemmmmxmonmmmem., LATEST craze on the record scene ,seentes.1:01.7,1014:1,,1,etsz bigfollowing in Britoil) - atrives Englandon SM.°. S 0 By WESLEY Igruv,Wcealiool'in!tIgTepaernin'o'd1 1 11 'sl:ebrItenhave there been so many of her22andgoesstraightto SPOTLIGHT ON A POPULAR C & W MUSIC FORM the forgotten songs dug up and re-recorded. Or even just dug up Birmingham torecord an LA I N E andre -issuedby the original artist. appearance in Lucky Stars for what Is Bluegrass ABC TV. The next day he tapes SON EriemmomemmemmessmmmxxxxxxvE Just look at the charts now. "It's All hi The Game" is an old FIRSTLY, an appearance in BBC's Satur- music?Bluegrass consists of style,fivestring standard but was a big hit and a million seller for one Tommy day Cob nodthengoesto three -finger banjo in a string hand of electrically, SPATE OFEdwards some five years back.Now, Cliff does another hit ver- Manchesteronthe24thfor WHAT'S THE REASON FOR THE ion of it. "Sweets For My Sweet" was a big U.S. hit for the Drifters Granada Television's Scene At unatoplified instruments. most cases theto usedare: fiddle, guitar, dobro guitar, mando- REVIVALS-COULD IT BE BRITISH SONGS ;27t,to=bnert,==em:= HisBritishtoutstartsSep- lin, five string banjo and string bass. topfiftyinclude"Dance On 'Twist And tember 29 at the New Victoria, Shout","Still", Although in some early recording "Searchin'", and "Deck Of Cards". The latter was first issuedsome London. On OctoberIhe's at by Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe the JUST AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH? Streatham and on October2, four years ago but a few plays on the radio recently sent it rocketing harmonica and accordion have been hack into the charts. Edmonton. featured.The songs used in thaw The other dates: Southend 3; normally folksongs or old Ow the big question is WHY are tame writerhad come up with Guildford 4; Watford 5; limearereaps closely coonec.d with these discs revised, The answer. oranother Monet? Cardiff 6; Cheltenham 8; Wow thefeelandspiritofAmerican at Imo the obvious answer is not A lot sec rester9;Wolverhampton10; traditional muic. a nlennant one.It isthat British of record companies Derby 11; Doncaster 12; Liver. 00, oj ooy good ono., Aod advantagesinthis and reweleasc One can compare the working notboon onolddiscs.Pye forinstancehave pool 13; Manchester 16; Glas- of Bluegrass music to Mat of New haveto gow 17; Newcmrie 18; stieds Ina lot of 001.just issued two Bo NMI, sides, Orleans jazz.Each instrument has 000,a, not we 0000 that "Pretty Thing/Road Runner". One Bradford 19; Hanky 20; Shef- a specific role, strictly adhered 10. it is field22; Nott.gbam 23;Bits For backing and rhythm, the how copied. The Whole arrangement andside "Pretty Thing" was a million - nringham 24; Taunton25; backing areMereare for the pluck-55J.IPT Elf 001 1550e1here, and the and guitarsre used, while other -here some Bournemouth 26; Sathhure 77; dstrumentssuchasthethedobro. and ina. lot of cases they areother side was issued Southampton29;StAlbans mandolin, fiddle or are used definitelyplucked. few years back on London where 30;Lewisham31;Rochester, forleadorsolo. Both New hardly got any radio pl.. November 1; Ipswich 2; Ham OrhormjazzandBluegtess are OBSCURE' mersmith 3. assembly forms.They me a front And the revive, disc is e hit in RE -PLUG rye International base Mee. lineof solo instruments, trumpet. Britain where the superior original released Bo's latest Pretty trombone and clarinet in Dixieland. wasn't because the artist on the disc And what alotof disc corm coupled with Road and five stringbanjo,fiddle end Thing, 0halcsat.okhe,Br.gish,,A,igd, appears tre-tohdoe.;isgi re-release The COAblEgR,S;.7.e.fo:4110,..tvoij,sot.J.,Snleia02;aLeoLlnbiloiongtheir hits Runner. guitar, etc..Bluegrass,with solos and lug 04 'E... iv both, 0e altin5jr'jjThe work of LESTER FLATT andARL SCRUGGS has often been dth US Ft k Men. , praised by JAMES ASMAN, the NRM's C&W expert. Now another obscure performer who no-one over"Twist And Shoot" bythe Id, from the solN over R B The people' who are rubbing their BERT TOURS enthusiast, BRIAN CHALKER, expo ads on their background and talks saw apieofletalone saw overBrothers,and"SweetsFor My fans.Boothey too overstepped theirhands together of course are the WH2.:iswT.o.rqua...summer RECOGNISED about the "Nu grass Sound". here Sweet" bytheDriftem. When markwhentheRollingStoressongwriters who Pen these nom "Mot the Mule thingIs,time Clyde Irterhatter revivedthe oldversion of "Come On" was issued.bers. They are raking in doublethe on September 2ft, Ben Weedon Thename "Bluegrass"became At thebeginningofthe201h toBritishSongwritersmore thanThurston Harris hit"LittleBlltyFor the Chuck Berry din moal tolllllies, anyone eke," say a lot of people.PrettyOne",the originalwasbath. been issued single form no do dod 0, 0,, m tour of rmional TV recognised mrly inthe IPS., tocentury a decline in popularity set JIMMY JUSTICE, picturedat stations and one night rimds. actitaside from other forms ofIn,possibly due to the advent of That imtisn'tso.Britishartistspluggedtruetoform.but mm- 0,40AFTER theRolling Eton. onoo,, ,00j,0. London'sPiccadilly is diw. And Pye decided to issue the0,0 010401 At theend ofthe month he country music.It is not, I repeat, . Jan musicians droned the Circus, don't want half of the British songsfortmartly it had been deleted and not also stark work on a new LP not the music. of Kentucky or thefifth string, shortenedtheneck and pleased with his new single-- nat. bemusetheyjustaren'tno copies wear available much toon "o month-but j for HMV. American Bluegrass area, althoughenlarged the head.The old banjo good enough. Mtits are simplythedisgustofiratefeeswhountilabout two monthsAFTERnt W°05 .YL7 in we are tool (NRM Picture by Fad oar neB-Irid numbers the 11 is 00, popular these arms.sound hadthen virtuallydis- The HOLLIES.a..rentit win.vsg the Thurston the The name was thought to have beenappeared. DEZO HOFFMANN.) t'IrRrg ICPurrb;i1gEloO"r0Fglith/l.1!)'rchin' " " 'jtirglia00:1 re:Ortle'd"ePtorfrirril Cdet "'is' 8'" 'n SONG TEAM given by a fan, it seemed to suit the style, anditwas accepted. The In1930eventhefourstrmg recording artists banjo began to wane and by 1940 FOUR Bluegrass undisdifierent from Andy Cavell, Roy Phillips thatofanyotherform of countrythe instrument was no longer being (he'swiththeSaiM), Date usic. manufactured. Adams and Burr Bailey -have Thenames,BillMonroe and However, in 1945, Earl Scruggs' teamed up to write material for Mari and Screggs are EY...YR...time lingerstyle made an other artists. n bigappearance on the Grand OleJIMMY 'MY NEW DISC IS LIKE THE GREAT UNKNOWNS Theycanthemselv.Cap 71.1rt;'4:10V":::, Opry, America's famed Saturday Creations Ltd. They have writ- his famous threelinger stk. wasnight country music show. ItAFTERsome time in the proverbial doldrums, Jimmy Justicetreinendorn success too. Ever since ten Everybody's TM.' for the commerciallyintroducedtothemade ahit with the fans. The ems like coming back with a bang due to his single "You'rehis disc "Li. Lonely One" clicked NUMBER THIRTEEN - SOLOMON BURKE Puppets (recorded on PH and masses.There isa rniria en con.banjo was onthewayback:Gonna Need Sly Lovin'". Jim himself it pretty confident about thisin Sweden, Runny has notched up featuredontheOctober 5 ceptIon among many country Folk songs began to appear Inone-which is more lban he could say for his last few discs! maay many hitsthere and he re Hielatest, "Can't Nobody Loth Lucky the record charts, recorded with (INE of the most succeed. R&Bpair of Mot Iater appeared on the Stars)and That's My The RtelYtE makes a change for the boy who hit the lop with suchmains faithful to his large Swedish You"isthefollow-upto Oak the five string banjo. Soon, folk following 100000 7. -"stars in the Stales at the momentStem Allen Show, Plan, recorded an Dema by the Moocoes1y However, this its not discs as "When Mn, Lillie Gin Is Smiling" and sounds, hat FunoY". by constantly A TONIC' he forthe is Solomon Burke, hilmaker °Wray Solomon didn't record very much Cuff°'' one 00 the itt." Beat BOR, ,or in ...r of his olderfanswere clamouring Forthisone doesn't feature the usual hocking sounds, but Jimmy'sthere. nkamdes.,,,M,T0helatates,,,b;ii,..t in sec°ings Monroe had usedtheauthentic and traditional songs, ordinaireandcurrentlyhoveringfor Apollo and later on his contram own group the Excheckers for a change. And a right thumping beat Jim has also been touring Ger- immediately banjo played in the old style. as opposed tothe commercialthey lay down too about at the bottom of the U.S.expiredand he was D-merpiute the fart that discs like "Lei accepted the up -beat munber which Jim penned binemany, where he has hadafairJIMMY JUSTICE FEELS style. Bluegrasswas arnomn of success to. And he has charts with the double-header HEINZ ASKS: ontside of country music. pastime, labelling everything. May- 1Orthde Uggig, VT. tcref2,1;;;-.000 Be 90-6" -. T ° I asked Jinn how he came to write foursongsinGerman "Can't Nobody Love M.'SThat was 1960. His di n.7 . rum 5 -STRING the number. be I DO sing like Ben abit, butescordedpeciallyforreleasethere.AndBETTER FOR HIS DISC 'Please return that's no resod to becompletely "Stupidity". for them "Flow Many Earl threghti style of banjo pick - "Well," he told me, "I was Justunoriginal with the criticism. After But although many of 00100100'°Times" and it sold reasonably well, sincethey and so did the next few thou fob can. onand Standing around and ithappened.all."Spanish Harlem" hadbeen So at them oment Mr. Jimmy'YOU'RE GONNA NEED MY have .en vet,' NM), some my pen!' Mgonroe has used this style. Scruggs By I've nevm been muM of songout by Ben E. King for nearly two1.1ice is feeling io Roe fettle-and But By in the meantimeof together with writer before, but just recendy EveHMS beforeIrecordedit. Andhe's keeping his fingers crossed dud of them have been extrmely com-11,171ea. k(07YWOartilw.r0. °Pet Lester Matt and formed the Foggy LOVIN' HEINZ needed police Notre- BRIAN written quite a few which have justeven when it wax outitwas the"You're Gonna Need My Lorin'" mercial,endmanyAmpleare sum NORMAN Mountain Boy.Strictly speaking, appeared from nowhere-and in thetiside anyway; Theme makes the charts ProtHr Ht.. If I thei" U.Sdu'000101'rntm7tydrt0dthawithhe .. lion to get away from the people nay op there in the chartswhere prisol that he hasn't yet managed wecan thank San88s for the origin CHALKER most unlikelycircumstances. I'vecall Ray Charles a balladsingerbe-do., it could mean a boost t tales to dick here in Britain. The careerdeserved. ABC Midi.afterrecording of the basic five string banjo pick- just written one which, if anything, for Jimmy's album, which has al-it d.erv. to be.For no matter JOPLING thisSatreday'sLuckyStars. cause he records 9 Can't Slop Low what the critics my, theplainis of Mr. Burke is rather a colourful ing sound of ...gross music. alth 'Mt u' bra Tod, or 'Take These Chaimready sold its fair Mare of cop.. MORE HITS Even so, he lost a gold -topped Gonna Need My Lavin'". But it'sFrom My Hear, thatJimmyJustice is one of the and extraordinary one toe fountain pen given him by the Big Monroe achievedthefirst most ORIGINAL singersaround Another of thegrInat.,AzTnria;cniztiz to breakthrough Solomon has appeared on au commercial success with Bluegrass, a bit slower without so much of a BURKE.0.00Lite.mahney ItrdolLuMr,r,,R4I1 He followed up this with more Saints and bearing the insc lwould liketo recommend Abroad, Jimmy has been having"You're 'Nettn%tyltvir!Britain today! is smashes inthe shape M "Cry ToTV shows as the Dick Clark slio tiou "Good look (Irina". featuring the banjo played "Scruggs Clay Cole show, Ruddy Deanmil style".MOriroerecentlyreceivedsoe Bluegrass Albums, E.P.s vocal training in a church. He solo'dMe", and the power.' "Down Ill and singles to you. The Valley". Then M10fell M for aMilt Grant, etc. And been toni(1 The pen wastakenby m en encores at Carnegie the church gospel choir at the alleged fan when Heinz pained The Bluegrass Sound ofBill age of nine but he went on to farfew months until he made an ex.about all Me biggest clubs intl. which is no mean feat for a countr.y to sign votgraphs. Say, Heim: styleofmusicthatuntilquiteClifton" London HAB 8020. DREAD more ambitious things. cellent cover version of a song by a certain Wilson Pickett who had hap. FnBriMin though his vh90roc "What Nod of a On would recently had eery limited appeal. "Sacred Songs from the Hills", Jimmy's discs have been beardon MEWilL A ---9e %MIN psned to record fora label owned stealathinglikethat,which The Stanley ri -1* =Ai ale =-Prt- W----91 =1-t a111111. TEMPLE MHon has been nil, despitethefa Other groups who have arede004 Bros. Melodistsuch shows as "Ready-Steady.G, by none other thanvet, Mester theL.P."SolomonBurke has considerablesendmental succere of late are those oft TheMEP 12-122. and of course Juke Box Joy. at value to me since it was given When hewastwelvehe hadLloyd Price. Greatest Hits" has mid pretty we* St.).Brothers,JingleMartin, "Songs of the famous Carter Very interatingthat on the old gainedsucha And London have just issued a new) to me at Me start of my solo Don Reno and Red Smiley, The THREE LET'SGET reputationinhis The song was "If You Need Me", career, Family", Flatt and ScruggsLB.', I askedJimmy what It birth -place of Philadelphia that heand both Solomon and Wilson hadE.P. by him. It cant give anybody Country Gentlemen,BillClifton,Philips BBL 7516. much satisfactiontoown felt Me to sit there while the 1.0 COUNTDOWN was known far anti wide as "The with So even if he doesn't ever mak it. Hylo Brown, The Osborne Brothers, Soy what they hon.tly think shoat SCHOOL IS IN DO YOULOVE ME Wonder Boy -Preach, and he even Anyway,ifanyonefinds "BluegrassMusic", The Os- TOGETHER whichforaprettybi ring trtte'elTtb,l,r;the c.o. his farts have the Pleas. the The Stoneman Family, Mac Wino - your record-and you: ROWS OVER had his own church called "Solo- pen I'd be very, very grateful ad T. LonesomePineborne Brothers. MGM C 914. RHET STOLLER & POOLE top of the U.S. R & IS charts. of knowing that M discs arc issued, ifitmold he sent "I was absolutely dreading what JOHNNY B. GREAT mon's Tem.". to me at "Golden Bluegrass Hits", The BOBBY CURTOLA& TONIGHT NM & the Record Mirror." BarrierBrothers.Philips BBLthey were sari' aeswered HIS ECHOES THETREMELOES The Temple was located in South DONT FORGET TO PLACE A REGULAR ORDER TR at, AND THE GOOD MEN Philadelphia and was a prominent Heinz'sfirstOh, Farewell 7559. THE MARTELLS THECLASSMATES WITH YOUR NEWSAGENT FOR YOUR COPY OF Prformance gam out in HISTORY harrassMg hearing some of them placeforgospel meetingsin the "Big Bluegrass Special" Glennsaying that they didn't woolly like area, and of youngpeople THE NEW RECORD MIRROR November on the Rank circuit Campbell, Capitol T1810. Mere., and his second filmLive It Up Now tosometactual history. In my s.gingbedthey liked this disc) inthis sort of thing. the19400atwenty-two years old "Folk songsof ourLand", DECCA DECCA DECCA DECCII (which also contains Kenny Boll ."Lockily, for me itwas voted a DECCA Then, when he wasstillin Ms CUT HERE and the Jazzmen, the Outlaws, Canninan named Earl RCHRRE re-FkittandScruggs, CBS BPG teens, Solomon was discovered by Gene Vincent and the Saints), vived the then almost extinctfive62095. b.ve'fel, 114er zyw.m:v!.z7T, the wife of a prominent Philadelphia opens at the New 'Victoria, Lau- stringbanjo, a.m.,' the only "BluegrassExpress", McCor- iss. For voting ithit really made disc jockey, MC. Kae Williams, She don, on December 6. musicalinstrumenttohaveorbmick Brothers (single), me feel good afterwards." had a lot of faith m Solomon and RHYTHM & BLUES RECORD SESSION gine. in America. Polydor PAJAMA I (WHO STRAIGHTENUP AND Newby NH 66986. ANY BLUE 8X10 A 00GA wasinstrumentalinhavinghim The banjo was originally thong,. "Country and Western Jane signedto Apollo records and the totheUnited States asafour handing ofof a contract. totooree(1.113:10 lryieElna COPYING PARTY HAVE NOTHING) YOURHEART BILL THE ROUTERS enringedinstrument. In1830 CBor,,oz His MR disc was a hit and it was Rehearsal Club thusiastnamed doe Sweeney made OLD IRON BAYOU BRUCE 6.0.1. BEN E. KING LEWIS hih the third"ChristmasPresentsFrom evolutionarymodigootion,he ManypeoplecompareJimmy BARBARA ANDERSON TM -DELIS THE SCENE added a fifth string, higher in pitch "The Banjo Boys," The Os-with Ben E. KMg. And many others TSAI CHIN ROY OBBISON JOHNSTON COMBO Heaven". That was the disc that be- Drest winamin sirniq Hem yard) A'rnnnert "IT.nrw= -0, n WS ne came thewe to spread his name Listen or dance to records by - Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Lamle Morton Group, Winston andto the other four, and next theborne Brothers (Single) MGM 45accuse Jimmy of deliberately copy- E ttt o .77 MGM 1184. ing Bethis?n. What does HMI, think of '`""' through. the Stat., aMough his Jimmy Reed, john Lee Hooker, Nowlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Wayne, Scan Peters, humanlowest pitchedstring. Americans biggest success. were yet to follow Laverne and Willie Roo.. winliked the new banjo and throughout all 4( DO Comoro Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Larry Williams, I hope in the not too distant DECCA I.10 DO ...f., While he was with Apollo Solomon be appearing on Smday night at thethenineteenth century ColDok The Coasters and many other R and Bartistes. the banjofutureto be ableto give 100 "There are some people," he told met heavyweight boring champion TAM TICKET ADMITS MAE ANOMPAIMMFOR 1/6 EACH AND Rehearsal Club, Amber Street, fromhelditsplace intheaffectionofmore articles on country musicme, "who have to stick a label on till midnight. the American people. THE DECCARECORD COMPANYMUTER DECCA HOUSE ALBERTEMBANBIMEST LONDON911 Ire Louis, and together they wrote and the artists whet perform it everything. In a way ifs a national number which he recorded. The CR. 6 - NEW RECORD MIRROR,Week ending 14 Sept., 1963. NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963.-7

BO DIDDLEY TOUR DATES frff0 DIDDLEY - top r & BLUEGRASSSOUND WHY DIG UP THE OLD performer farigthathg memmm-meemmmmxmonmmmem., LATEST craze on the record scene ,seentes.1:01.7,1014:1,,1,etsz bigfollowing in Britoil) - atrives Englandon SM.°. S 0 By WESLEY Igruv,Wcealiool'in!tIgTepaernin'o'd1 1 11 'sl:ebrItenhave there been so many of her22andgoesstraightto SPOTLIGHT ON A POPULAR C & W MUSIC FORM the forgotten songs dug up and re-recorded. Or even just dug up Birmingham torecord an LA I N E andre -issuedby the original artist. appearance in Lucky Stars for what Is Bluegrass ABC TV. The next day he tapes SON EriemmomemmemmessmmmxxxxxxvE Just look at the charts now. "It's All hi The Game" is an old FIRSTLY, an appearance in BBC's Satur- music?Bluegrass consists of style,fivestring standard but was a big hit and a million seller for one Tommy day Cob nodthengoesto three -finger banjo in a string hand of electrically, SPATE OFEdwards some five years back.Now, Cliff does another hit ver- Manchesteronthe24thfor WHAT'S THE REASON FOR THE ion of it. "Sweets For My Sweet" was a big U.S. hit for the Drifters Granada Television's Scene At unatoplified instruments. most cases theto usedare: fiddle, guitar, dobro guitar, mando- REVIVALS-COULD IT BE BRITISH SONGS ;27t,to=bnert,==em:= HisBritishtoutstartsSep- lin, five string banjo and string bass. topfiftyinclude"Dance On 'Twist And tember 29 at the New Victoria, Shout","Still", Although in some early recording "Searchin'", and "Deck Of Cards". The latter was first issuedsome London. On OctoberIhe's at by Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe the JUST AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH? Streatham and on October2, four years ago but a few plays on the radio recently sent it rocketing harmonica and accordion have been hack into the charts. Edmonton. featured.The songs used in thaw The other dates: Southend 3; normally folksongs or old Ow the big question is WHY are tame writerhad come up with Guildford 4; Watford 5; limearereaps closely coonec.d with these discs revised, The answer. oranother Monet? Cardiff 6; Cheltenham 8; Wow thefeelandspiritofAmerican at Imo the obvious answer is not A lot sec rester9;Wolverhampton10; traditional muic. a nlennant one.It isthat British of record companies Derby 11; Doncaster 12; Liver. 00, oj ooy good ono., Aod advantagesinthis and reweleasc One can compare the working notboon onolddiscs.Pye forinstancehave pool 13; Manchester 16; Glas- of Bluegrass music to Mat of New haveto gow 17; Newcmrie 18; stieds Ina lot of 001.just issued two Bo NMI, sides, Orleans jazz.Each instrument has 000,a, not we 0000 that "Pretty Thing/Road Runner". One Bradford 19; Hanky 20; Shef- a specific role, strictly adhered 10. it is field22; Nott.gbam 23;Bits For backing and rhythm, the how copied. The Whole arrangement andside "Pretty Thing" was a million - nringham 24; Taunton25; backing areMereare for the pluck-55J.IPT Elf 001 1550e1here, and the and guitarsre used, while other -here some Bournemouth 26; Sathhure 77; dstrumentssuchasthethedobro. and ina. lot of cases they areother side was issued Southampton29;StAlbans mandolin, fiddle or are used definitelyplucked. few years back on London where 30;Lewisham31;Rochester, forleadorsolo. Both New hardly got any radio pl.. November 1; Ipswich 2; Ham OrhormjazzandBluegtess are OBSCURE' mersmith 3. assembly forms.They me a front And the revive, disc is e hit in RE -PLUG rye International base Mee. lineof solo instruments, trumpet. Britain where the superior original released Bo's latest Pretty trombone and clarinet in Dixieland. wasn't because the artist on the disc And what alotof disc corm coupled with Road and five stringbanjo,fiddle end Thing, 0halcsat.okhe,Br.gish,,A,igd, appears tre-tohdoe.;isgi re-release The COAblEgR,S;.7.e.fo:4110,..tvoij,sot.J.,Snleia02;aLeoLlnbiloiongtheir hits Runner. guitar, etc..Bluegrass,with solos and lug 04 'E... iv both, 0e altin5jr'jjThe work of LESTER FLATT andARL SCRUGGS has often been dth US Ft k Men. , praised by JAMES ASMAN, the NRM's C&W expert. Now another obscure performer who no-one over"Twist And Shoot" bythe Id, from the solN over R B The people' who are rubbing their BERT TOURS enthusiast, BRIAN CHALKER, expo ads on their background and talks saw apieofletalone saw overBrothers,and"SweetsFor My fans.Boothey too overstepped theirhands together of course are the WH2.:iswT.o.rqua...summer RECOGNISED about the "Nu grass Sound". here Sweet" bytheDriftem. When markwhentheRollingStoressongwriters who Pen these nom "Mot the Mule thingIs,time Clyde Irterhatter revivedthe oldversion of "Come On" was issued.bers. They are raking in doublethe on September 2ft, Ben Weedon Thename "Bluegrass"became At thebeginningofthe201h toBritishSongwritersmore thanThurston Harris hit"LittleBlltyFor the Chuck Berry din moal tolllllies, anyone eke," say a lot of people.PrettyOne",the originalwasbath. been issued single form no do dod 0, 0,, m tour of rmional TV recognised mrly inthe IPS., tocentury a decline in popularity set JIMMY JUSTICE, picturedat stations and one night rimds. actitaside from other forms ofIn,possibly due to the advent of That imtisn'tso.Britishartistspluggedtruetoform.but mm- 0,40AFTER theRolling Eton. onoo,, ,00j,0. London'sPiccadilly is diw. And Pye decided to issue the0,0 010401 At theend ofthe month he country music.It is not, I repeat, . Jan musicians droned the Circus, don't want half of the British songsfortmartly it had been deleted and not also stark work on a new LP not the music. of Kentucky or thefifth string, shortenedtheneck and pleased with his new single-- nat. bemusetheyjustaren'tno copies wear available much toon "o month-but j for HMV. American Bluegrass area, althoughenlarged the head.The old banjo good enough. Mtits are simplythedisgustofiratefeeswhountilabout two monthsAFTERnt W°05 .YL7 in we are tool (NRM Picture by Fad oar neB-Irid numbers the 11 is 00, popular these arms.sound hadthen virtuallydis- The HOLLIES.a..rentit win.vsg the Thurston the The name was thought to have beenappeared. DEZO HOFFMANN.) t'IrRrg ICPurrb;i1gEloO"r0Fglith/l.1!)'rchin' " " 'jtirglia00:1 re:Ortle'd"ePtorfrirril Cdet "'is' 8'" 'n SONG TEAM given by a fan, it seemed to suit the style, anditwas accepted. The In1930eventhefourstrmg recording artists banjo began to wane and by 1940 FOUR Bluegrass undisdifierent from Andy Cavell, Roy Phillips thatofanyotherform of countrythe instrument was no longer being (he'swiththeSaiM), Date usic. manufactured. Adams and Burr Bailey -have Thenames,BillMonroe and However, in 1945, Earl Scruggs' teamed up to write material for Mari and Screggs are EY...YR...time lingerstyle made an other artists. n bigappearance on the Grand OleJIMMY 'MY NEW DISC IS LIKE THE GREAT UNKNOWNS Theycanthemselv.Cap 71.1rt;'4:10V":::, Opry, America's famed Saturday Creations Ltd. They have writ- his famous threelinger stk. wasnight country music show. ItAFTERsome time in the proverbial doldrums, Jimmy Justicetreinendorn success too. Ever since ten Everybody's TM.' for the commerciallyintroducedtothemade ahit with the fans. The ems like coming back with a bang due to his single "You'rehis disc "Li. Lonely One" clicked NUMBER THIRTEEN - SOLOMON BURKE Puppets (recorded on PH and masses.There isa rniria en con.banjo was onthewayback:Gonna Need Sly Lovin'". Jim himself it pretty confident about thisin Sweden, Runny has notched up featuredontheOctober 5 ceptIon among many country Folk songs began to appear Inone-which is more lban he could say for his last few discs! maay many hitsthere and he re Hielatest, "Can't Nobody Loth Lucky the record charts, recorded with (INE of the most succeed. R&Bpair of Mot Iater appeared on the Stars)and That's My The RtelYtE makes a change for the boy who hit the lop with suchmains faithful to his large Swedish You"isthefollow-upto Oak the five string banjo. Soon, folk following 100000 7. -"stars in the Stales at the momentStem Allen Show, Plan, recorded an Dema by the Moocoes1y However, this its not discs as "When Mn, Lillie Gin Is Smiling" and sounds, hat FunoY". by constantly A TONIC' he forthe is Solomon Burke, hilmaker °Wray Solomon didn't record very much Cuff°'' one 00 the itt." Beat BOR, ,or in ...r of his olderfanswere clamouring Forthisone doesn't feature the usual hocking sounds, but Jimmy'sthere. nkamdes.,,,M,T0helatates,,,b;ii,..t in sec°ings Monroe had usedtheauthentic and traditional songs, ordinaireandcurrentlyhoveringfor Apollo and later on his contram own group the Excheckers for a change. And a right thumping beat Jim has also been touring Ger- immediately banjo played in the old style. as opposed tothe commercialthey lay down too about at the bottom of the U.S.expiredand he was D-merpiute the fart that discs like "Lei accepted the up -beat munber which Jim penned binemany, where he has hadafairJIMMY JUSTICE FEELS style. Bluegrasswas arnomn of success to. And he has charts with the double-header HEINZ ASKS: ontside of country music. pastime, labelling everything. May- 1Orthde Uggig, VT. tcref2,1;;;-.000 Be 90-6" -. T ° I asked Jinn how he came to write foursongsinGerman "Can't Nobody Love M.'SThat was 1960. His di n.7 . rum 5 -STRING the number. be I DO sing like Ben abit, butescordedpeciallyforreleasethere.AndBETTER FOR HIS DISC 'Please return that's no resod to becompletely "Stupidity". for them "Flow Many Earl threghti style of banjo pick - "Well," he told me, "I was Justunoriginal with the criticism. After But although many of 00100100'°Times" and it sold reasonably well, sincethey and so did the next few thou fob can. onand Standing around and ithappened.all."Spanish Harlem" hadbeen So at them oment Mr. Jimmy'YOU'RE GONNA NEED MY have .en vet,' NM), some my pen!' Mgonroe has used this style. Scruggs By I've nevm been muM of songout by Ben E. King for nearly two1.1ice is feeling io Roe fettle-and But By in the meantimeof together with writer before, but just recendy EveHMS beforeIrecordedit. Andhe's keeping his fingers crossed dud of them have been extrmely com-11,171ea. k(07YWOartilw.r0. °Pet Lester Matt and formed the Foggy LOVIN' HEINZ needed police Notre- BRIAN written quite a few which have justeven when it wax outitwas the"You're Gonna Need My Lorin'" mercial,endmanyAmpleare sum NORMAN Mountain Boy.Strictly speaking, appeared from nowhere-and in thetiside anyway; Theme makes the charts ProtHr Ht.. If I thei" U.Sdu'000101'rntm7tydrt0dthawithhe .. lion to get away from the people nay op there in the chartswhere prisol that he hasn't yet managed wecan thank San88s for the origin CHALKER most unlikelycircumstances. I'vecall Ray Charles a balladsingerbe-do., it could mean a boost t tales to dick here in Britain. The careerdeserved. ABC Midi.afterrecording of the basic five string banjo pick- just written one which, if anything, for Jimmy's album, which has al-it d.erv. to be.For no matter JOPLING thisSatreday'sLuckyStars. cause he records 9 Can't Slop Low what the critics my, theplainis of Mr. Burke is rather a colourful ing sound of ...gross music. alth 'Mt u' bra Tod, or 'Take These Chaimready sold its fair Mare of cop.. MORE HITS Even so, he lost a gold -topped Gonna Need My Lavin'". But it'sFrom My Hear, thatJimmyJustice is one of the and extraordinary one toe fountain pen given him by the Big Monroe achievedthefirst most ORIGINAL singersaround Another of thegrInat.,AzTnria;cniztiz to breakthrough Solomon has appeared on au commercial success with Bluegrass, a bit slower without so much of a BURKE.0.00Lite.mahney ItrdolLuMr,r,,R4I1 He followed up this with more Saints and bearing the insc lwould liketo recommend Abroad, Jimmy has been having"You're 'Nettn%tyltvir!Britain today! is smashes inthe shape M "Cry ToTV shows as the Dick Clark slio tiou "Good look (Irina". featuring the banjo played "Scruggs Clay Cole show, Ruddy Deanmil style".MOriroerecentlyreceivedsoe Bluegrass Albums, E.P.s vocal training in a church. He solo'dMe", and the power.' "Down Ill and singles to you. The Valley". Then M10fell M for aMilt Grant, etc. And been toni(1 The pen wastakenby m en encores at Carnegie the church gospel choir at the alleged fan when Heinz pained The Bluegrass Sound ofBill age of nine but he went on to farfew months until he made an ex.about all Me biggest clubs intl. which is no mean feat for a countr.y to sign votgraphs. Say, Heim: styleofmusicthatuntilquiteClifton" London HAB 8020. DREAD more ambitious things. cellent cover version of a song by a certain Wilson Pickett who had hap. FnBriMin though his vh90roc "What Nod of a On would recently had eery limited appeal. "Sacred Songs from the Hills", Jimmy's discs have been beardon MEWilL A ---9e %MIN psned to record fora label owned stealathinglikethat,which The Stanley ri -1* =Ai ale =-Prt- W----91 =1-t a111111. TEMPLE MHon has been nil, despitethefa Other groups who have arede004 Bros. Melodistsuch shows as "Ready-Steady.G, by none other thanvet, Mester theL.P."SolomonBurke has considerablesendmental succere of late are those oft TheMEP 12-122. and of course Juke Box Joy. at value to me since it was given When hewastwelvehe hadLloyd Price. Greatest Hits" has mid pretty we* St.).Brothers,JingleMartin, "Songs of the famous Carter Very interatingthat on the old gainedsucha And London have just issued a new) to me at Me start of my solo Don Reno and Red Smiley, The THREE LET'SGET reputationinhis The song was "If You Need Me", career, Family", Flatt and ScruggsLB.', I askedJimmy what It birth -place of Philadelphia that heand both Solomon and Wilson hadE.P. by him. It cant give anybody Country Gentlemen,BillClifton,Philips BBL 7516. much satisfactiontoown felt Me to sit there while the 1.0 COUNTDOWN was known far anti wide as "The with So even if he doesn't ever mak it. Hylo Brown, The Osborne Brothers, Soy what they hon.tly think shoat SCHOOL IS IN DO YOULOVE ME Wonder Boy -Preach, and he even Anyway,ifanyonefinds "BluegrassMusic", The Os- TOGETHER whichforaprettybi ring trtte'elTtb,l,r;the c.o. his farts have the Pleas. the The Stoneman Family, Mac Wino - your record-and you: ROWS OVER had his own church called "Solo- pen I'd be very, very grateful ad T. LonesomePineborne Brothers. MGM C 914. RHET STOLLER & POOLE top of the U.S. R & IS charts. of knowing that M discs arc issued, ifitmold he sent "I was absolutely dreading what JOHNNY B. GREAT mon's Tem.". to me at "Golden Bluegrass Hits", The BOBBY CURTOLA& TONIGHT NM & the Record Mirror." BarrierBrothers.Philips BBLthey were sari' aeswered HIS ECHOES THETREMELOES The Temple was located in South DONT FORGET TO PLACE A REGULAR ORDER TR at, AND THE GOOD MEN Philadelphia and was a prominent Heinz'sfirstOh, Farewell 7559. THE MARTELLS THECLASSMATES WITH YOUR NEWSAGENT FOR YOUR COPY OF Prformance gam out in HISTORY harrassMg hearing some of them placeforgospel meetingsin the "Big Bluegrass Special" Glennsaying that they didn't woolly like area, and of youngpeople THE NEW RECORD MIRROR November on the Rank circuit Campbell, Capitol T1810. Mere., and his second filmLive It Up Now tosometactual history. In my s.gingbedthey liked this disc) inthis sort of thing. the19400atwenty-two years old "Folk songsof ourLand", DECCA DECCA DECCA DECCII (which also contains Kenny Boll ."Lockily, for me itwas voted a DECCA Then, when he wasstillin Ms CUT HERE and the Jazzmen, the Outlaws, Canninan named Earl RCHRRE re-FkittandScruggs, CBS BPG teens, Solomon was discovered by Gene Vincent and the Saints), vived the then almost extinctfive62095. b.ve'fel, 114er zyw.m:v!.z7T, the wife of a prominent Philadelphia opens at the New 'Victoria, Lau- stringbanjo, a.m.,' the only "BluegrassExpress", McCor- iss. For voting ithit really made disc jockey, MC. Kae Williams, She don, on December 6. musicalinstrumenttohaveorbmick Brothers (single), me feel good afterwards." had a lot of faith m Solomon and RHYTHM & BLUES RECORD SESSION gine. in America. Polydor PAJAMA I (WHO STRAIGHTENUP AND Newby NH 66986. ANY BLUE 8X10 A 00GA wasinstrumentalinhavinghim The banjo was originally thong,. "Country and Western Jane signedto Apollo records and the totheUnited States asafour handing ofof a contract. totooree(1.113:10 lryieElna COPYING PARTY HAVE NOTHING) YOURHEART BILL THE ROUTERS enringedinstrument. In1830 CBor,,oz His MR disc was a hit and it was Rehearsal Club thusiastnamed doe Sweeney made OLD IRON BAYOU BRUCE 6.0.1. BEN E. KING LEWIS hih the third"ChristmasPresentsFrom evolutionarymodigootion,he ManypeoplecompareJimmy BARBARA ANDERSON TM -DELIS THE SCENE added a fifth string, higher in pitch "The Banjo Boys," The Os-with Ben E. KMg. And many others TSAI CHIN ROY OBBISON JOHNSTON COMBO Heaven". That was the disc that be- Drest winamin sirniq Hem yard) A'rnnnert "IT.nrw= -0, n WS ne came thewe to spread his name Listen or dance to records by - Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Lamle Morton Group, Winston andto the other four, and next theborne Brothers (Single) MGM 45accuse Jimmy of deliberately copy- E ttt o .77 MGM 1184. ing Bethis?n. What does HMI, think of '`""' through. the Stat., aMough his Jimmy Reed, john Lee Hooker, Nowlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Wayne, Scan Peters, humanlowest pitchedstring. Americans biggest success. were yet to follow Laverne and Willie Roo.. winliked the new banjo and throughout all 4( DO Comoro Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Larry Williams, I hope in the not too distant DECCA I.10 DO ...f., While he was with Apollo Solomon be appearing on Smday night at thethenineteenth century ColDok The Coasters and many other R and Bartistes. the banjofutureto be ableto give 100 "There are some people," he told met heavyweight boring champion TAM TICKET ADMITS MAE ANOMPAIMMFOR 1/6 EACH AND Rehearsal Club, Amber Street, fromhelditsplace intheaffectionofmore articles on country musicme, "who have to stick a label on till midnight. the American people. THE DECCARECORD COMPANYMUTER DECCA HOUSE ALBERTEMBANBIMEST LONDON911 Ire Louis, and together they wrote and the artists whet perform it everything. In a way ifs a national number which he recorded. The CR. 8 NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963. DOUBLE -SIDED HIT FORROY AND AN UP -BEAT POWERFUL NUMBER FROM ADAM ...

Blue Bayou; Mean WomanBOBBY VINTON ADAM FAITH ROY ORBISON Blues (LondonMonument 9777) Blue Velvet; Is There A Place TheFirstTime;So Long (Where ICan Go)(Columbia Baby (Parlophone R 5061) ROY ORBISON iscurrentlyDB 7110) APOWERFUL beat for Adam one of the biggest U.S. hit -CULLED fromhis"Blue On Faith on thisbeaty num- makers on the scene. This one Blue" U.S. LP comes this ten- ber which marks a slight is a semi-slowie that features ader ballad sung beautifully by L.S. changeinstylefor him.It's sort of amplified heart-beat ashitmaker Bobby. It's a lovely song very very commercial and a backing, later on the femmegiven a lovely delicate treatment and shouldseehim intothetop chorus and guitar joins in onwe'd like to seeitin our charts. twentywithease.There'sa the sensitive number with RoyBut we don't honestly think that it'll good backing supplied by on top of vocal form. A verymake it-mainly because he's made Johnny Keating, and the Rou- atmosphericdiscandaverybetterones thanthis,and they lettesworkovertimeonthe goodone. haven't made it either, number, A good disc with lots Flip is the old rock number. Flip is a bit beatier and there's and lots of hit potential. And it really sounds good whensome good jerky beat -ballad sounds Flip side is very much in the Roy rocks the joint up with theon the number which moles along veinoftheearlierFaithhits fast beat classic. We likeditaprettywell. A good flip,but not like "Poor Me," etc. It's very lot, anditcould easily be asterribly commercial. commercial again, and could be big as the "A" side. just as big as the top side. It's FOURsss4 different and plaintive and very FOUR 'W%f very appealing. We liked both sides a lot. just about to commence an- NICKY JAMES othertourofBritain, ROY ORBISON turns out a two- My Colour Is Blue;Take Me FOUR rWS sided hit. TOP 20 TIP Back (Pye 15560) STRONG beatonthisdeep - voiced effort from Nicky who TOP 20 TIP BILL ANDERSON DANNY STORM has quite a country tinge about his 8 By 10; One Mile Over-TwoSay You Do; Let The Sun Shinestyle. There's some fair old back-THE ROUTERS Miles Back (Brunswick 0 5893)In (Piccadilly 35143) ing work from the guitars and the A-Ooga; Big Band(Warner "ALL that's left of our love now had a hit with hisfemme chorus on this up -beat num- 1-1 is your little picture -8 by 10"DANNY once ber which features some good lyricsBrothers WB 108) version of "Honest I Do", andand some 'tuneful deliveries from allCURRENTLY at the bottom of sings (or talks) Bill on this ultra -this one is a fast -tempo hard-hitting commercial weenie which follows up concerned.Commercial but prob- the U.S. charts isthis effort number with a "Just Like Me" flav-ably not a big chart disc. from the team that had hits with suchotherweeniesofhislikeour and some pretty good vocalis- "Let's Go" and "Sting Ray". It's "Mama Sang A Song" and "Still".ingfromboth Dannyandthe Flipis another reasonably com-a powerful, hard-hitting, tuneful in- He puts it across very well and is mercial number with a bit of appeal, Avery fine portraitof ADAM FAITH byartistCHALKER ... and a group. We have a vague suspicion strumentalthat's punctuated with very fine new single from Adam, too. genuinely sincere on the U.S. hit.that this catchy fast -tempo thing willand Nicky's deep voice handles thewhat sounds like a locomotive horn Well performed in the country veinbe a hit. thing very well.Much the same lushystrings and a femme here and there. Sax and hand -clap- form-but he's always on top there. with format as side one, but maybe notping add to the spice. JOHNNY B. GREAT chorus. Chorus backs him up well againso commercial. It'sgot agreat lyric and goodly Flipisa heavier type of thingfor the flip, Danny's version of the Repetitive beat on the flip, withSchool Is In,She'sA Much Bet-tune, maybe not quite commercial with some fair old vocal work fromTeddy Randazzo number.Rather THREE a femme chorus screaming along,ter Lover Than You (Decca Fenough to make the top twenty. everyone concerned. Good stuff withRay Charles-ishbutwithoutthe and loads of everything including11740) But a good seller-yes. moreofan authenticflavour.same appeal as the original. the kitchen sink thrown in.Good HERE seems to be a revisal on Not so good is the flip, but it's Could do well, the story of a bloke BEN E. KING stuff, but not for the charts. still an entertaining sort of number. THREE S old U.S. Bonds numbers lately who's been wronged, as they say. I (Who Have Nothing); The Be- THREE *SS what with "Not Me" by the OrionsNice atmosphere but nothing spec- and now "School IsIn"by Johnnytacular. THREE S ginning Of Time (London At- BERT KAEMPFERT lantic HLK 9778) BARBARA LEWIS B. Great and The Goodmen.As might be expected, it's a lively num- FOUR 448 Danke Schoen; Give And TakeFROM the U.S. charts comes thisStraighten Up Your Heart;If THE CLASSMATES (Polydor 66988) You Love(LondonAtlanticber with good vocal, and raucous strangely atmospheric disc with sax halfway along.Ultra -commer- Let's Get Together Tonight; It'sMR. "Wonderland By Night" getsan inunensely sad quality and some9779) BOBBY CURTOLA No Game (Decca F 11736) cial with a good chance of hitdom. his teeth into a delicate littlefair backing work that sounds moreTHE girl who made rather a goodLeadvoicethatactuallysoundsThree Rows Over; Indian Giver BEATY sounds open this groupnumber that has been recorded bylikesomething fromtheclassics record with"Hello Stranger"adult for a change. (Decca F 11725) vocal disc with more thana apopdisc. It'sdifferent Craig Douglas among others.Thethan comes from the same mould. It has Apart from the dubious title, the the boy who had a big hit chance of chart success. Vigoroushaunting treatment doesn't appealand unusual but we don't imaginean organ and male chorus intheflipis a pretty good ballad with aFROM and virile with a strong beaty ap-toeverybody,however, and weit'llsell. May be good for an L.P.background plus a bit of thumping with "Fortune Teller" comes good set of lyrics.Itisa gentle -this extremely teen effort about the proach. Not spectacular but enter-can't imagine that it'll make muchbut this type of thing doesn't meandrum beat. Not as commercial astype thing with a jaunty approach taining nevertheless. Frantic guitarimpression. Very much for a special-a thing inthis country yet. her last but nevertheless it's pretty lad who fancies a girl in the same and a goodly sort of atmosphere.class. He's madly in love with this work on the middle break. ist market. Flip is more of a "How Can Ifair and has a grow -on -you quality. Flip is another medium pace num- chick in the same class-but unfor- One lead voice on the flip, which Flip is a jauntier little piece withForget" kind of thing, and there's FOUR Fr(rn tunately he doesn't get on with his is a gentler ballad with some good ber with all the same ingredients as plentyofnicelittleinstrumentala jerky sort of a backing to it. Ben'sthe top side, with a bluesy quality work. Good tune, good lyrics, ex- backing sounds again. Not bad, butsounds on it. Not too bad but notmade some good records and this TSAI CHIN tremely good singing from Bobby. not commercial either. about it. Quite a good lyric on this too good either, is one of them-pity he doesn't sell.one. Could do pretty well. Any Old Iron: School In Chel- Flip is another teen type number THREE %F THREE FOUR Pits',W THREE SS tenham (Decca F 11737) with Bobby's heart broken by the CAN'T help laughing at the soundnaughty girl. Again he sings well-a of pretty Tsai Chin singing thepity he can't get his teeth into a great 'classic' in Chinese. But afterreally commercial song, for there's theinitialoutburstofthemosta whole stack of potential here. peculiar sounds she sings in pure The Golden Goodies GameCockney. And then we have alter- THREE %SS nate bursts of Chinese and Cock- ney. Good band backing and a most IN the States thereis a huge And now Roulette records have Other labels have also brought interesting if un-chart type of disc.RHET STOLLER boom in the sales of old beatbrought out no less than TWELVEout this kind of LP in the past withNORMAN Flip is frotn 'The World Of TsaiCountdown; Over The Steppes music singles, whether they beLPsinthe" Golden Goodies "much success. The Original Sound Chin' and is a very appealing bal-(Decca F 11738) classed as rock, R & B or justseries.Here's a typical selection-label has a series of these LPs, all lad with a good lyric. Off -beat and plain pop. The fact is that therefrom Volume Two in fact. ofwhichhavedoneverywellJOPLING a much -requested radio programmeRHET had a mildhitwith is an increasing demand for the " Why Do Fools Fall In Love "indeed. Their latest," Oldies But disc. "Chariot"some yearsback. good, old stuff. Goodies," Vol.5,isatnumber and this one is a Shadows -flavoured -Frankie Lymon and Teenagers; LOOKS AT THE FOUR instrumentalwith a goodly tune, And over there, unlike here in" Look In My Eyes "-Chantels;eighteen in the U.S. LP charts. " Charlie and a very commercial sound. Not Britain they've found an answer Brown " - Coasters; VINCE HILL too bad, and a repetitive drumming to their problem. Obviously the" Crying In The Chapel "-Sonny. IGNORING U.S. TREND sound all the way through. Could manufacturersaren'tgoingtoTill and the Orioles; " Tears On Blue Velvet;LikeAnythingmake it in a small way, we think. re -press hundredsofdeletedMy Pillow "-Little Anthony and On the Scepter label the Dee -Jay (Piccadilly 3514$) MurrayKauffman - knownasOF BUNDLING More of a Latin-ish beat on the singles which won't make thethe Imperials; " I Only Have Eyes VINCE has a go at the oldie thatflip, a faster number with a fair old charts again anyway. So what doFor You "-Flamingoes;" LittleMurray The K, had hadextra- tune and some good guitar playing they do ? Girl Of Mine"-Cleftones; " Gee "ordinarysuccesswiththiskind LD BEAT HITS is currently a big U.S. hit for ofalbum. Two ofhisalbums Mr, Bobby Vinton.It'sa gentlefrom Rhet who certainlyknows -Crows; "A Thousand Miles what he's doing. Away "-Shep and the Heartbeats;include " Murray The K's Golden number with a commercial flavour, SELL RIGHTS Gassers " and " Murray The K's and some good lyrics, and of course " ForSentimentalReasons " - INTO THREE They sell the original rights. TheyCleftones, and severalothers. GoldenGassersForSubmarine fine singing from Mr. Hill. Not an- sell them to any bidding label which Race Watchers." other of the "River's Run Dry" isinterested, thus making a profit ALBUMS... sort of thing, but a gentle balladROY CLARK But what the main questionis, out of discs which are defunct, but that couldeasily catch on-espe- DANCE HITS happenstobewhyis Britain" OurSignificantHits,"onthe The Tips Of My Fingers; Spooky for which thereisstill a demand. And another deals only with hitsignoringthispotentialmarket ? ciallywithalltheexposureit'sMovies (Capitol CL 15317) Also they still maintain the rights to London label had three tracks eachbound to get. foradance party-" PeppermintWith the revival of the big beatbyLittle press these singles themselves if they Richard, Sam Cooke, Flip is another ballad. but with-CURRENTLY big in the States is Twist " and " Hot Pastrami " fromcompanies like London AmericanLloyd Price and Larry Will:ams. this country -type number - it like. JoeyDee andtheStarliters;orStateside,couldputtogether out the same commercial approach. " The Blues " on the ColumbiaGoodly tune, and well sung. may not be authentic but it's pretty But what does the other company" Bristol Stomp " - Hovel's;scores of these LP's without any well flavoured and it want with the singles, you may well" Bongo Stomp "-Little Joey andtrouble. labelfeatures Jimmy Reed, John definitely has Lee Hooker and a host of other THREE a very commercial approach. It's time ask.That's where the clevernessthe Flips; " The Loco -Motion "- And Columbia probably have the comes in. The other label packagesLittle Eva; blues stars. sort of thing that really sticks in " Watusi " - Theright to issue the Roulette discs. your mindafterjustoneplay. the top side on to albums and sellsVibrations;" Let's Pony Again " But compared with the States weNAT 'KING' COLE themas"Golden Roy's deep voice, and the delicate Goodies"cr- TheVibrations;" DoYou are sadlylacking on this goodlyThat Sunday That Summer; Mr.girlie vocal work sounds just great. " Original Hits." Wanna Dance "-Bobby Freeman; A FEW scheme which- would prove veryWishing Well (Capitol CLWatch it creep into the charts. " Dance With Me Henry "-Etta useful Do they sell ? That's a question Albums of this kind HAVE been to anyone wishing to buy15316) Gimmicky sort offlip,without you should ask yourself. Would youJames;" TheFly " - Chubbyissued here. " Stars Of Liberty " onuppasthitswithouthavingto LATEST from Nat is a tender sortone iota of C & W quality about it. buy them ? With a minimum ofChecker, etc. Not bad, eh ? the London label featured not onlysearch through second-hand record of ballad with assistance fromIt's a beaty rock number with some twelve hits by top artists on the And to capitall, no less thansome bighits from Liberty,butstalls all day long. a girlie chorus and perhaps more ofgood lyrics about the girl who loses same disc, these albums are burningTHREE of these albums have leaptmany other beat hits on other labels. Come on EMI, Decca, Pye andan adult quality than on his last fewthe horror films. Not bad. along the U.S. LP charts like any-into " Billboard's Top LPs " chart.The two volumes of that can bePhilips, get cracking and search thenumbers. It's a medium -tempo bal- thing. And the others are rising fast 1 obtained in some shops here now.archives. lad with Nat on top of his vocal FOUR NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963. -9 ShadowsBest For A Long Time TWO BEST -EVER BO DIDDLEY

BO DIDDLEY is SIDES ON highlypraisedfor his latest single release. NEW SINGLE TO COINCIDE WITH HIS TOUR

The SHADOWS: a new single which is rated one of their best yet! (NRM Picture by BILL WILLIAMS.)

BO DIDDLEY THE SHADOWS SANDRA BROWNE Pretty Thing: Road Runner Shindig;Ms Been ABlueYou'd Think He Didn't Know (Pye International 25217) Day (Columbia DB 7106) Me; Mama NeverTold Me JERKY guitar work opens this CHANGE of pace from their(Columbia DB 7109) six-year-old million -seller by Bo last one onthisveryin- a big -voiced ballad Diddley. It's probably the most fectious number from theALMOSTfrom Sandra who bemoans the commercial disc he's ever made Shadows. Probably the best andfact that the boy who she was with "NNNN'NNV" XN" W""``...`XNV..."N '''''SWN-SNW.NV"`NNNW `NW NXWW" \NNW VS -NNW C.'XS \'`NNWNV"'"Ws\NNVY and theinfectiousbeatand themostdifferenttheyhavelast night doesn't even speak to her. lyricsplus thewailinghar- madefor a longtime.TheShe obviously hasn't much experi- monica and the thumping guitar sounds are different onenceofboys,Never mind.she insistent R and B beat makes thisone,andfasttempo issings well, and there's a good tune and a fair set of lyrics on the num- Jazz For The Fringe this a very likely contender for maintained throughout without chart honours. Especially with any majordeviations.Catchyber. WOODY HERMAN SPECKLED RED the R and B rage so strong at and commercial, watch out for it Flip isa faster -type number with 0/ /, THE THUNDERING HERDS: AppleTHE DIRTY DOZENS: TheDirty 0, the moment. Rated by many as at the top of the charts. alotofbeat,anda fairlyric. I 0, Honey; Laura; Caldonia; Happiness Is A Dozens; TheRight StringBut The Bo's best disc we tend to agree Plenty of life and zest, this one is I' Fan ThingCalledJoe;GooseyGander; I Wrong Yo -Yo;If You've Ever Been 0, Flip is a slowie with a pleas- / Wonder; A Kiss Goodnight; NorthwestDown; Wilkins Street Stomp 1; Cow 9 -this is one of the great R and ing tune,andquitea lotofas good or better than side one. LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS Passage; The Good Earth; I've Got TheCow Blues; Red's Boogie Woogie 1; B classics that fans have at last atmosphereconveyedonthe LIGHTNIN' STRIKES:Got Me AWorld On A String; Bijou; Gee It's GoodGoingDownSlow; Highway 61 / a chance of buying over here. FOUR StfrVI Louisiana Woman; Want To ComeTo HoldYou;Put That Ring On MyBlues; After Dinner Blues1; Cryin' side.It'sgot a goodsound, Home; Please Don't Quit Me; DevilFinger;Blowin'Up AStorm;Yourin My Sleep. (ESQUIRE 32-190.) Flip is also one of Diddley's andstringsjoininfor good Father's Moustache; Wild Root. (Volume Andprobably Is Watching You; Rolling and Roll- SPECKLED RED, born Rufus 0 bestnumbers. measure. ing; War Is Starting Again; Welkin' 1, CBS BPG 62158.) one of the most off -beat discs JACK NITISCHE Around In Circles; Mary Lou; Heavy Perryman backinOctober Steps; Igor; Nero's Conception; Pam; / -a- FOUR Is ever made inthe R andB UU; The Lonely Surfer; Song For A Snow; Coon HardTo Catch.Fan It; Someday Sweetheart; I Surrender1892 inMonroe, Louisiana, 5; (STATESIDE SL.10031.) Dear; Lost Weekend; Let It Show!; Wel-made aseriesof exciting and 0 idiom. A Duane Eddytype Summer Night (Reprise 20202) come To My Dream; Sidewalks Of Cuba; guitar twangs away while Bo DURING theearly'forties distinctlyfolksyBlues "Race" 5 RATHER a slow-ish atmospheric RomanceInThe Dark;Panacea;Lady screams out the off -beatlyrics Sam Hopkins recorded aMcGowan's Dream; Woodchopper's Ball.discsbetween 1929and19385 TOP 20 TIP instrumental on this big-ish U.S. fewtracksfor theshort-lived(Volume 2, CBS BPG 62159.) and,inthe manner of many 5 inhisinimitableway.Plenty hit that sounds as though it's been Gold Star label which hadits Everywhere;Back Talk; With Some-talented Negro Blues per- 0 of down-to-earth beatwith a deliberately slowed down. It's one headquarters in Houston, Texas. one New;Wrap YourTroubles Informers, vanished into obscurity 5 load of commercial appeal. ATHE CRICKETS of those grow -on -you things that Dreams; Non -Alcoholic; Summer Fortunately for us,this was among the coloured"circuits" 0 great double sider and one of tends to build and build. Very well Sequence; I Told Ya I LoveYa, Now thebest R and B discseverRight Or Wrong: You Can't Be designedatthe timefortheGet Out; Keen And Peachy; Lazyof taverns, tonks and dives. In -Between (Liberty LIB 10113) arrangedandprettycommercial, local Negro "Race" marketLullaby; The Goof AndI;P.S.I Love He visited this country a year issued. but not, we think, for our charts. You;I've You;Four around Texas and the West and Got News For or soago and delightedthe ARATHER faster number from Brothers. (Volume 3, CBS BPG 62160.) FIVE V'WW Much gentlersortofflip.with South -Western Statesanden- hard core of bluesicologists. His 0 the Crickets in their usual styleplenty of everything thrown in, in- joys the absence ofthe noisy,ANOTHER ofthoseexcellentlyappearance, however - he is aj here.It's not released as a singlecluding piano, and soprano sax with vulgar electricguitar which packaged collations from CBS.Negro albino with a white skin in the States, butit has a prettya nice airy quality about the whole linksLightnin'sferventfolk -These three LPs present highlightsprinkledliberallywithlarge 0 TOP 20 TIP good chance of success althoughthing. Pretty tune. Blues music to the prevalent Rrecordingsfrom the firstthreefreckles and doesn't see too wellj the fattish number lacks the plain- & B -cum -Rock 'n'roll rubbish.Woody Herman Herds.In 1945,-weighed against him. The proof 0, tive impact of most of their discs. THREE S Anexcellentrelease by thewhen the story opens., Woody hadin this honestand moving 0 BRUCE JOHNSTON COMBO A Sharon Sheely-Jackie De Shan- always interesting EMI Statesidejustabout thebest bandinthealbum is that Speckled Red hasjPajama Party;The Originalnon composition it's a goodly song, label which already has Starday,world.There's excitement enough arich, dancing Blues style of Surfer Stomp (London HL 9780)anditwillhe interestingto findBOBBY COMSTOCK Commodore,Vee-Jayand ato remove your breath in such num-pianoand a croakingvoice 0, out whether or notitmakes the SAX -LEAD rock instrumental on Susie Baby; TakeA Walk host of profitable smalllabelsbers as "Apple Honey" and "Wildwhich hasgrownrustywith 0 this tuneful, wild number withlists. J.A. time."TheDirty Dozens",a (Stateside SS 221) on its roster. Root."(If you already have some just about everything thrown in. It's Goodguitarworkonflip,a suggestive tall -story musical 0 BOBBY COMSTOCK andhis of these on 78s, you willfind,I bit of musicifever werather more typical number with BIG jOE WILLIAMS marathon with hundreds of a virile team the Counts just missed our think, that these are in some cases jheard one, and completely fitsinone lead voice more than the lot BLUES ON HIGHWAY 49: Highwaydifferent takes).The story closes-verses, is his particular speciality with the title.It builds and builds,of them. There's a good tune ontop fifty with their last disc "Let's 49; Poor Begger; Blues Left Texas; and it loses little in the telling.0 Stomp".This one has adefinite 13 Highway; Down in the Bottoms;on this set-with the 1947 record- and big beat fans should like thisthis one and we can't help think- Good, earthy Blues by a veteran "Stomp" flavour, and there's a re- Overhaul Your Machine; That Thing'sing ofJimmy Giuffre's"Four jone. A good 'un for juke boxes andingithas a similarity toallthe In Town; Walk On, Little Girl; Tia-Brothers," a modest masterpiece ofwhichwillpleasetheserious petitive lyric with some pretty wild juana Biues;Highway45 Blues; collector. J.A. of course pajama parties. Northernvocalgroupeffortsof big band arranging with highly in- Great crashing drums on this one, rock sounds penetrating all the way Arkansas Woman; Four Corners of late. through. Rather a hoarse approach the World. (ESQUIRE 32-191.) fluential solos from Stan Getz and and awild flavour with avocal IDA COX but not a terribly commercial disc. LIKE hisfellow bluesmanfriends. Volume 1 isthe most thrown in somewhere along the line. THREE recommendable, but BLUES FOR RAMPARTSTREET: Speckled Red, Big Joe allthree areBluesforRampartSt.;St. Louis 0 It's a wild rock disc once more, and Flip is not another old-time rock Williams comes from St. Louisessential listening (and this band isBlues; Fogyism; Wild Women Don't 0 has good flavour. number and is very interesting. to not a dated curiosity :the music isHave the Blues; Hard Times Blues; 0 TOMMY ROE but the country -basedstyle of Cherry Pickin' Blues; Hard, Oh0 say the least.It's different but we singing and strumming his oldfrequently just as valid now asitLord;Lawdy,Lawdy Blues;Death0 THREE U%S Everybody; There's A Great Daydon't reckon it's chances much. 9 -string guitar was more success-was then) for the collector.D.G. LetterBlues; Mama GoesWhere 0 A -Coming (HMV POP 1207) Papa Goes. (RIVERSIDE RLP 374.) ej THREE US ful around the rural Delta coup - DESPITE somebighits,and FIVE Wrr%% OIDTIMER Ida Cox, one of 5 JULIE DRISCOLL try where Joe travelled until the some big misses, Tommy Roe 'sixties when he the grand school of vaude- Take Me By The Hand;Stay was "dis- is stillprettypopularin thisEDDIE CALVERT covered" and began a new ville -Blues singers which 0Away From Me; (Columbia DB BENNY GREEN country.Thisisa high-powered included such names as Bessie 57LL8) career as a Negro folk artist. GLIDIN' ALONG: African Dream; Sweet effort with loads of good guitarVelda; Girls Are (Columbia DB Smith, Clara Smith and Chippie opens 71073) Tragedy cameintohislifeSucker;Glidin'Along; Green's Scene; SLOW gentleharmonica work, and some franticshouting whenhis Milkshake; Stardust; Expubidence. Hill, makes a comeback with a 0, wifediedbackin this softish number with Julie the male vocal group. BOTH sides of this are from the (JAZZPLAND JLP 43.) distinguished mainstream accom- from Texas while he was planning to singingprettywellon theslowMedium -fast tempo with anoff- "Girl Hunters" film. And the NO, darling, not the lovablepaniment of Coleman Hawkins5 bring her and his small son to tender number which has a sub-beat commercialappeal. Tommyman with the golden trumpet gets Chicago, where he was working Britishcritic. Thisistrom-on sax, Roy Eldridge trumpet, 0 dued backing for a change. There's isoffof the Holly kick on thishis teeth into a tuneful hit of dra- regularly enough to settle down.bonistBenny Green andfriendsBlues pianist Sammy Price, 5 a good tune and lyric on this rather one,butinpatcheshisnaturalmatics with a good backing supplied having a bassist Milt Hinton and drum-5 By 1962 Big Joe Williams had higholdtimeon a hymnal number which has a goodsimilarity shines through. A goodby the orchestra of Frank Barber. pleasantly casual date. Johnnymer Jo Jones. moved onandno-onenow grow -on -youappeal. Watchfordisc with pretty good chart chancesIt's entertaining and the Mums and Griffinblowswithhiscustomary Itis a pitythattheyears 0 seems to know just where he is. this highly emotional one to crop- watch it.Self penned. Dads should go forit - not teen Not to be confused with thefluency, and Junior Mance makeshaven't dealt more kindly with 5 up in a lot of radio request pro- meat though. famous Basie vocalist, Big Joesomecharmingpianostatements.Ida's voice for she made some grammes. Flip is from his LP and it's an isa powerful, hollering singerGreen's slippery horn is as mellowbrilliant recordings inthe past 0 Faster stuff on the flip, a lighterup -beat number with him on top Rather a lighter approach on the with a hoarse delivery and anas ever.With alittle more careandnow,withwobblesand and less important number withoutof vocal form, and some fair oldflip,anotherpre -rocktypething equally strong guitar style.andinspiration.thiscouldhaveshortage of breath, makes heavy much to distinguish it from loadsbeat work laid down by all con-without any pretensions tochart- Anotherrewarding albumforbeep a top-quality LP. D.G. weather of a well arranged, welliof others. She sings well but thecerned. Rather aspiritual"feel"dom. Not bad, but not as appearing the collector of native Blues. chosenrepertoire,whichisa song doesn't mean too much. about it. as side one. J.A. THREE SSS pity, indeed. LA. 0 FOUR THREE NNXNNNNNN%%%%%NNNN\\\\\\\NXNaNNW,N.N.\\NNV.VONVONVOAXt\\%\\NNN\NNN\NNNNV% NWONNN\NNXNXNNNVONN.\\\\\\\NNNNNNNVONNWN\NN.4 THREE P4 10 - NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963. Good LP News For Beat Fans NEW BAT CH OF R & B LPs INCLUDES FATS DOMINO, MARY WELLS AND TWO FROM LITTLE STEVIE WONDER luirspothanakarlismiummumnitgrammillummuluinazzilusamm LP REVIEWS by Jimmy Watson

FATSDOMINO MARY WELLS

WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS: HowBYE BYE BABY: Come To Me;I Don't CanIBe Happy; One Of These Days;Want To Take A Chance; Bye Bye Baby; SoGlad;Oh Wee;SailorBoy;LazyShop Around; I Love The Way You Love; Woman; Walking To New Orleans; MyI'm Gonna Stoy; Let Your Conscience Be LoveForHer;What's Wrong;LittleYour Guide; BadBoy;I'm So Sorry; Mama; I Guess Be On My Way;Please Forgive Me. (ORIOLE PS 40051.) Goin' BackHome. (LONDON HA -P she comesagain the 8084.) HERE COULD be that Fats Domino will talentedyoungMaryWells. anything, hitthesingleschartsagainThis album, if is better allround than her previous one. soon. Basically he's from the R&BAnd here we get a little confused as school and thatstyleispopular right now. Mind you,he's neverthis was her first release in America been far away from the charts andbuther secondinBritain. You many an artist would envy the salesfollow? of his every record. Well, releases apart, the music is This album, for example, shouldright up thebeat streetand de- notch up a very healthy turnover.serves to be heard as widely as pos- Mr. Domino is also a very prolificsibleby poprecordfansevery- where. Hearit writer;he hada hand inevery yourself and help track here, and his self -written hitspread the good word. songsmustcoverhundredsand FOUR hundreds of manuscripts. ,S.SSS An album you should never tire of. LITTLE STEVIE WONDER TRIBUTE TO UNCLE RAY: Hallelujah, FOUR SUS (,r, I Love Her So; Ain't That Love; Don't You Know; The Masquerade;Frankie And Johnny; Drown In My Own Tears; MARTHA AND THE Come Back Baby; Mary Ann; Sunset; My VANDELLAS Baby's Gone. (ORIOLE PS 40049.) COME AND GET THESE MEMORIES: Come And Get These Memories; LITTLE STEVIE WONDER Moments To Remember; Can't Get UsedRECORDED LIVE, THE TWELVE YEAR ToLosingYou; ThisIs When I NeedOLD GENIUS: Fingertips; Soul Bongo; You Most; A Love Like Ours; Tears On LaLoLaLaLa;The MasqueradeIs My Pillow; To Think You Would HurtOver; HallelujahILove Her So; Drown Me; There He Is;I'll Have To Let HimIn My Own Tears;Don't You Know. Go; Give Him Up; Jealous Lover; Old(c ..,LE PS 40050.) FATS DOMINO has an LP released on London from his old ImperialLove. (ORIOLE PC 40052.) label-and all except the title song are brand new titles. FORGETthe fact that his pitching ONE of the talented teams now might be alittle short of per- available to Oriole through theirfect.Forgethis tender years and deal with the lively Motown com-don't hail him as a child prodigy.Album number two from the talented MARY WELLS -it's abeaty pany in America. The label puts hitRemember rather that he is an un- beauty. afterhitinto the US charts anddoubted talent whether it be vocally must eventually break through inorinstrumentallyonharmonica, HOOTENANNY And thisisfirstclass humour, Britain with the current increase inbongos, drums or piano. IN LONDON: Barnyards orDeigarteyfriends,firstclassalltheway. popularity towards R&B and simi- (ALEX CAMPBELL); End Of Me OldExcuse me while I go and spin the lar beaty pops. Hisdebut singlein Britain,Cigar (REDD SULLIVAN/MARTIN "Fingertips",hasstilltohittheCARTHY);CruisingRound Yarmouthalbum again, and again. The public may have to have a hit (LOU KILLEN); Girls (M. CARTHY); chartsbutOrioleareobviouslyLittle Chance (BOB DAVENPORT); Not FIVE Wir4;-SSS single from this team before theyprettywellconvincedthatheisToday (R. SULLIVAN); Your Baby'as voen masse for an LP ofthissomething, inthe making as theyGorn Dabs The Plug 'ole (M. VARIOUS STARS nature but there are enough con- CARTHY); Pleasant And Delightful(L. have followed up with TWO albumsKILLEN); Boron O'Brackley(NIGELA GROUP OF GOODIES: Bobby's Girl firmed fans around to make this aon simultaneous release. DENVER); TheLeavingOfLiverpool(MARCIE BLAINE); Monster Mash more than worthwhile release. KILLEN); Friendless Mary (NIGEL DEN- (BOBBY 'BORIS' PICKETT); Foot The firstis a studio -recorded set (L. Stompin' (THE FLARES);IUnderstand Hearit-could be you'll like it. VER); Wild Rover KILLEN). (THE G -CLEFS); Easy (THE ALTECS); paying tribute to Ray Charles and(DECCA LK 4544.) Asia Minor (KOKOMO); White Silver THREE the second is recorded live in frontHOOTENANNY isupon us.ItSand (BILL BLACK'S COMBO); Good- of a most appreciative and receptive was spotlighted in the NRM asbye Jimmy Goodbye (KATHY LINDEN); Shout Shout, Knock Yourself Out BILL BLACK'S COMBO audience. The atmosphere on thea huge US craze recently andis(ERNIE MARESCA); Tuff(ACE CAN- THE UNTOUCHABLE SOUND: Joey'slatter iselectric. You MUST hearcurrently being tipped to do like-NON); MagicMoon (THERAYS); Song; Castle Rock; Red Top; Tipple' In;it-then you'll buy the other one toowise in Britain. StringOf Trumpets (THE TRUMPET- Skokiaan; Woodchopper's Ball; So What; EERS). (LONDON HA -U 8086.) Night Train; Your Cheatin' Heart; Ain't Folk artist Wally Whyton super- That A Shame; Little Brown Jug;I Can't FOUR SVW% vised the session-you may remem- ALIVELY package of American StopLoving You (LONDON HA -U ber him as a prominent member of hits,not allof which clicked 9080.) the Vipers during the Skifflecraze,this side of the Atlantic. It should THEalbum title is, I am sure, un- THE LIVELY ONES and more recently for his currentstill, however, have acertain intentionally ambiguous butSURF DRUMS:TuffSurf;Rik-a-tik;work on children's television shows.amount of mass appeal to the pop whatcountsisthemusic.ThisWild Weekend; Bustin' Surfboard; The atmosphereisgay and thepublic. combo has had hit after hit afterStoked;SurferBoogie; Surf Drums; mood infectious. Each artist demon- Outstanding beat tracks are "Foot Shootin' The Pier; Mr. Moto; Rumble; hit in America but, despite healthyFortyMilesOfBad Road;Hillybillystrates his talents to warm responsesStompin' "and"Shout,Shout" saleshere, missed the top of theSurf. (LONDON HA -8082.) from the friends gathered around.which must be enjoyed by any beat charts. MAYBEthesportofsurfingIf Hootenanny hits then this albumfan. However, they have a strong fol- hasn't caught on in Britain asshould do likewise. The set is certainly worth a listen lowing in Britain who will thoroughlyyet, mainly because Mother Nature's FOUR asitmakes for good party spin- enjoy this album and, I hope, spreadbeaches around our shoresdon't ning. the good word around among theirreallylendthemselvestoit.But ALLAN SHERMAN THREE friends. even if the closest to surfing you'veMY SON, THE CELEBRITY: Al 'n Yetta; Barry IsThe Baby's Name; Horowitz; LITTLE STEVIE WONDER with two albums on simultaneousrelease. Good for practically every formever beenisrollingyourslacksGet On The Garden Freeway; Mexican WERNER MULLER ORK. of listening. ' above your knees and indulging inHat Dance; The Bronx Bird Watcher; 1,` `91611.1/10. HAWAIIAN SWING: Blue Hawaii; the good old British sport of padd- TheLet'sCall Up The A.T.&T. AndHawaiianWar Chant;The Moon Of Protest To The President March; HarveyManakoora; Pagan Love Song; Bali Ha'f; FOUR SS ling, the music should still appeal toAndSheila;Won'tYou Come Home Hawaiian Eye Theme;SweetLeilani; AT THE "TALK OF THE TOWN "- you. Disraeli;No One'sPerfect;When I Was A Lad; Me; Shticks Of One AndNow IsThe Hour; Aloha Oe; On The PAUL ANKA Yes, the music style which came Beach AtWaikiki;My LittleGrass Half A Dozen Of The Other. (WARNERShack; Adventures In Paradise.(DECCA PAUL ANKA'S 21 GOLDEN HITS:about because of the sport craze hasBROTHERS WM 8131.) PHASE FOUR STEREO PFS 4022.) Diana; Put Your Head On My Shoulder; I CHUCKLED frequently at Allan JACKIE MASON Lonely Boy; Time To Cry; Puppy Love;reallycaughtoninternationally. MORE of that lush Phase Four ILove You In The Same Old Way; YouThis will do better than most. Sherman's debut set, "My Son, ONE ofAmerica's recordingact as intimate as the comedian's Are MyDestiny;CrazyLove;Don't The Folk Singer", but I roared out- sound again and this time the Ever Leave Me; Summer's Gone; Adam emphasis is onHawaiianstyle ll comedians openeda seasonessentially is. FOUR S'S rightatthisfollow-up.It'sas at London's "Talk of the Town" However, the audience And Eve; Don't Gamble With Love; I'm music.ButtheWernerMuller Still Waiting Here For You; I Love You, though the talented amateur has sod-Orchestra add a little something of theatre restaurant on Monday ofappreciatedMr. Mason'swit, Baby; It Doesn't Matter Any More; To- denly emerged as the brilliant pro- this week. andthelaughs came a -plenty nightMyLove, Tonight;My Home their own to the familiar melodies. COZY COLE ORCHESTRA fessional. isJackieMason, . .. but again the comedian Town; Cinderella; Love Land; Dance On There's a decided swing about His name LittleGirl;TheLongestDay. (RCA -DRUM BEAT FOR DANCING FEET: I Forget his voice and concentratethe collection which should prove and his recent LP, with the cuteprobably didn't get the full im- VICTOR RD 7573.) Could Have Danced All Night; Dream; on the dazzling lyrics.Perhaps someattractivetomost. One thingis title "I'm the Greatest Comedianpact of this support due to the IT'S more than six years since PaulYou're The Top; I Love Paris; Night And inthe World - Only Nobodyvast surroundings. Day; You Do Something To Me; Smokeofhis cracks are pure American,certain, however, and thatisthat Apkafirsthitthetopinter-Gets InYour Eyes;I'll Get By; Begintoo pure to mean a lot to the aver- Knows It Yet 1 " (available on Hadthesetting beenof the hi-fi bugs will be buying . . . nationally with "Diana". And he isThe Beguine; Once In Love With Amy;age Briton but the general struc-and buying big. Verve), proved a healthy seller.greater intimacy,Ibelieve that DancingInTheDark;WhatIsThis I am delighted to report thatMr. Mason would havebeen still just twenty-one years of age. AThing Called Love. (CORAL LVA 9213.)ture of the album is international fantastic career whichisretraced he didn't give us his album wordcompletely overwhelmed by his ACE drummer Cozy Cole bringsin that humour is for everyone. FOUR VM for reception.I even noticed some vocally on this album of twenty- word.Just an occasional one hits associated with the singer in three friends with their drum glimpse of the situations thereonofthe harder -bitten gentlemen kits to get that solid beat rolling. to bring back happy memoriesof the press unashamedly belly - all freshly re-recorded. * PYE RECORDING ARTISTES * In recent times Paul has not beenThey are Gene Krupa, Ray Mc- ...for audience and performerlaughing during his routines ... Kinley and Panama Francis. And alike,1 would think. and thatispraise indeed, Mr. such a frequent visitor to the charts as before. Tastes and trends in popthe resultant beat is certainly most I thoroughly enjoyed his per-Mason. that is praise. danceable. formance, which was smoothly I most certainly recommend a music changedaily.Buthehas Johnnie SondonThe timed but with perhaps too manyvisit to see and hear this artist maintained a tremendous and loyal I would think that the album was throw -away gags for the British ... and I eagerly look forward following of fans who buy his everymainly designed for Stereo listening and the audience. to reviewing his latest LP, also record. Nowadays heappealstobut the monaural version I received Anotherdrawbackforanyfrom Verve.Don't forgetto adult audiences as much as to theis certainly good enough for those CHANTS comedian is the vastness of themake a note of his name-and younger pop fans but I wouldn't bewho enjoydancingathome,at Remo 4 surprisedifthisset brought himparties and such. Good tune selec- "TalkoftheTown",whichthe venue Direction DEAnsgate 5601-2 doesn't really lend itself to an back into the charts limelight. tion, too. JIMMY WATSON. TED ROSS, 6 SOUTHERN STREET, MANCHESTER 3 FOUR SFE',/S THREE S'S NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963. -11

CASHBOX TOP 50NRM Chart SurveyBRITAIN'S TOP 50 AIR MAILED FROM NEW YORK COMPILED BY THE RECORD RETAILER MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK* I WANT TO STAY HERE* 1 1 (6) Angels 2831 (5) Steve & Eydie A LOOK AT THE U.S. CHARTS AND there's some pretty fast -risersthis week. Buddy moves up to BLUE VELVET* A WALKIN' MIRACLE eighteen with his newie "Wishing" - more in the usual run of 2 29 rising U.S. hits include: "Mean WomanBlues"-Roy Orbison;things for him after such rockers as "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" and 4 (4) Bobby Vinton 40 (2) Essex FAST"Bust Out"-Busters ; "Fools Rush In"=Rick Nelson ; "Two Tickets To IF I HAD A HAMMER "Bo Diddley". This time last year by the way he was having another 3 30JUDY'S TURN TO CRY* Paradise"-Brook Benton; "Donna The Prima Donna"-Dion; "Atop twenty hit with "Reminiscing". Brian Poole and the Tremeloes shoot 3 (6) Trini Lopez 17 (9) Lesley Gore Love So Fine"-Chiffons;"Confessin'"-Frank Held;"Septemberup to thirty-three with their version of the fabulous "Do You Love Me" HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO MAKE THE WORLD GO Song"-Jimmy Durante;"That's How It Goes"-George Maharis;- this one could even be bigger than their "Twist And Shout". And 4FADDUH* 31 AWAY* "Down The Aisle"-Patti LaBelle and The Blue -belles; "Don't Let Itthey'restavingoffallcompetitors sofar. 2 (6) Allan Sherman 23 (6) Timi Yuro Happen"-The Shirelles. Merseyside still holds the big share with "She Loves You" etc., all doing HEAT WAVE WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE 5 32 Recent U.S. hits include: "Don't Think Twice It's All Right"-Peter,verywell.Fast -riseris"Searchin' " by the Hollies. New boy Trini 6 (5) Martha & Vandellas ME* Paul and Mary; "Point Panic"-Surfaris; "Red Sails In The Sunset"-Lopez clicks with his live performance on "If I Had A Hammer". It's 6SURFER GIRL 41 (2) Duprees Fats Domino; "Ching -A -Ling Baby"-The Rocky Fellers; "Monkey-good, but we can't help feeling the Peter, Paul and Mary performance 10 (6) Beach Boys PLEASE DON'T TALK TO Shine"-Bill Black; "You Gave My Number To Billy"-Marcie Blaine;was better one year back. MONKEY TIME* 33THE LIFEGUARD* 7 "Toys In The Attic"-Jack Jones; "Don't Let Me Go"-Little Esther SHE LOVES YOU ACAPULCO 1922 12 (7) Major Lance 35 (4) Diane Ray Philips;"That Boy Of Mine"-Sherrys;"StrangeFeeling"-Billy 28 THEN HE KISSED ME* GREEN, GREEN* 3(3) The Beatles 27 (4) Kenny Ball and 8 34 Stewart; "A Story Untold"-Emotions; "Detroit City No. 2"-Ben (Parlophone) His jazzmen(Pye) 16 (4) Crystals 29 (9) New Christy MinstrelsColder ;"Hide Go Seek"-Honeys; "Rock -a -Bye Baby"-Fiestas; "I SALLY GO 'ROUND THE WIPEOUT* IT'S ALL IN THE GAME WELCOME TO MY WORLD 9 35 Can't Stop Crying For You"-Johnnie Ray ;"Nobody Can Do The 2921 (14) Jim Reeves ROSES 28 (17) Surfaris Dog Like I Do"-Sebastian; "Michael"-Steve Alaimo; "You Can't24 (4) Cliff Richard 26 (2) jaynetts PART TIME LOVE (Columbia) (R.C.A.-Victor) Make Me Doubt My Baby"-Bunker Hill. DEVIL IN DISGUISE HEY GIRL* 3644 (2) Little Johnny Taylor 10 Now, the Miracles, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye; the Marvellettes and BAD TO ME 3020 (11)Elvis Presley 13 (7) Freddie Scott LONELY SURFER* Little Stevie Wonder are having 'Live' discs released. And they really 31 (7) Billy J. Kramer with WONDERFUL! 37 (R.C.A.-Victor) 39 (4) Jack Nitzsche are live too! "Please Don't Talk To The Lifeguard" star Diana Ray the Dakotas (Parlophone) THE GOOD LIFE 11WONDERFUL! (YOU'RE THE) DEVIL IN N.J. collapsed from nervous exhaustion. 31 31 (9) Tony Bennett 20 (3) Tymes 38DISGUISE* I'LL NEVER GET OVER YOU 45 (8) Johnny Kidd & The (C.B.S.) MICKEY'S MONKEY* 25 (10) Elvis Presley SEARCHIN' 1218 (3) Miracles WHAM! Pirates (H.M.V.) 32 39 BRITAIN'S BRITAIN'S I'M TELLING YOU NOW 38(3) The Hollies 13CANDY GIRL* - (1) Lonnie Mack 5 ( Parlophone) 8 (10) 4 Seasons ONLY IN AMERICA 2 (6) Freddie & The DO YOULOVE ME? MOCKINGBIRD 40 Dreamers (Columbia) 33 14 50 (2) Jay & The Americans TOP LP's TOP EP's - (1)Brian Poole and 7 (9) Inez Foxx 41 HEY THERE LONELY BOY* YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE The Tremeloes (Decca) FINGERTIPS 43 (3) Ruby & Romantics 6 FRANKIE AND JOHNNY 15 PLEASE PLEASE ME ITWIST AND SHOUT A BABY TO CRY 5 (12) Stevie Winder TREAT MY BABY GOOD 1 7 (6) The Caravelles 34 46(2) Sam Cooke MARTIAN HOP* 42- (1) Bobby Darin (1) The Beatles (1)The Beatles 16 (Parlophone) (Parlophone) (Decca) (R.C.A.-Victor) 22 (4) Ran-Dels DESERT PETE ATLANTIS 43 SHADOWS GREATEST HITS 9 HOW DO YOU DO IT? I WANT TO STAY HERE FRANKIE & JOHNNY* 36 (4) Kingston Trio 2 7 3525 (13) The Shadows 1715 (7) Sam Cooke WAIT 'TIL MY BOBBY (3) The Shadows " (2) Gerry and the 10 (4) Steve Lawrence/ 44 Pacemakers (Columbia) Eydie Gorme (C.B.S.) (Columbia) YOU CAN NEVER STOP GETS HOME (Columbia) IF I HAD A HAMMER 18 HITS ME LOVING YOU 30 (6) Darlene Love MEET THE SEARCHERS 3FRANK !FIELD'S 8WIPE OUT 36- (1) Trini Lopez IT'S TOO LATE 3(2) The Searchers (Pye) (3) Frank Ifield (Columbia) 8 (8) The Surfaris (London) 21 (5) Johnny Tillotson 45 DANCE ON WITH THE (Reprise) MORE* 32 (4) Wilson Pickett CLIFF'S HIT ALBUM 4 9JUST LIKE EDDIE STILL 1911 (8) Kai Winding HELLO HEARTACHE, 4(4) Cliff Richard SHADOWS 9 (6) Heinz (Decca) 3740 (3) Ken Dodd THE KIND OF BOY YOU 46GOODBYE LOVE* (Columbia) (4) The Shadows (Columbia) THEME FROM THE (Columbia) 20 MORE OF FRANK IFIELD'S 10LEGION'S LAST PATROL CAN'T FORGET* - (1) Little Peggy March WEST SIDE STORY SURFIN' U.S.A. HITS 11 (9) Ken Thorne & His 38 27 (4) Raindrops TRUE LOVE NEVER RUNS 5(5) Sound Track (CBS) 36 (7) TheBeach Boys BLOWIN' IN THE WIND* 47SMOOTH (8) Frank Ifield (Columbia) Orchestra (H.M.V.) (Capitol) KENNY BALL'S GOLDEN AHITS FROM THE FILM 219 (10) Peter, Paul & Mary 34 (7) Gene Pitney 6 DANCE ON YOU CAN NEVER STOP HITS aa SUMMER HOLIDAY 11 CRY BABY DROWNIN' MY SORROWS 14 (5) KathyKirby (Decca) 39ME LOVING YOU 22 48 (15) Kenny Ball (Pye) (6) Cliff Richard and The SWEETS FOR MY SWEET 33 (2) Garnatt Mimms & 38 (5) Connie Francis 12 28 (13) KennyLynch MAN'S TEMPTATION STEPTOE & SON Shadows (Columbia) 6 (12) TheSearchers(Pye) (H.M.V.) The Enchanters 7 TORNADO ROCK BE MY BABY 49- (1) Gene Chandler (12) Harry H. Corbett & 7 STILL BY THE WAY Wilfred Brambell (Pye) a (11)The Tornados (Decca)13 2342 (2) Ronettes STRAIGHTEN UP YOUR 17 (4) Karl Denver (Decca)4030 (10)The Big Three 50 8JET AND TONY IN SUMMER DANKE SCHOEN HEART* 8REMINISCING 14 (Decca) 2419 (7) Wayne Newton - (1) Barbara Lewis (6) Buddy Holly (Coral) (5) JetHarris and 13 (8) BillyFury (Decca) BLUE GIRL DENISE* I'LL REMEMBER YOU Tony Meehan (Decca) CONFESSIN' 4143 (6)The Bruisers (Firstfigure denotes positionlast 9 IN DREAMS 15 25 14 (9) Randy & Rainbows (7) Frank Ifield 12 (12) Frank Ifield (Parlophone) week; figure in parentheses denotes (Columbia) (10) Roy Orbison (London) (Columbia) I WONDER PAINTED, TAINTED ROSE* weeks in chart) 26 CONCERT SINATRA 10 FACTS OF LIFE FROM APPLEJACK 42 32 (9) BrendaLee 24 (7) Al Martino 10 STEPTOE & SON 16 LITTLE DEUCE COUPE (10) Frank Sinatra 49 (2) JetHarris &Tony (Brunswick) Asterisk denotes a record issued in (9) Wilfred Brambell and Meehan (Decca) 2737 (3) Beach Boys Britain (Reprise) SO MUCH IN LOVE SUMMER HOLIDAY Harry H.Corbett (Pye) TWIST AND SHOUT 4337 (8) The Tymes 11 HOLIDAY CARNIVAL 17 'E DUE TO REASONS BEYOND OUR CONTROL THE TOP (8) Cliff Richard & The 11 15 (11) Brian Poole &The (Cameo -Parkway) TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO HAS HAD TO BE MISSED THIS Shadows (Columbia) (7) Cliff Richard (Columbia) Tremeloes(Decca) IT'S LOVE THATREALLY WEEK. BUT WE WILL PRINT TWO LISTS IN OUR NEXT HITSVILLE! 12DEL SHANNON NO. 2 WISHING 44COUNTS 12 (17) 18 35 EDITION TO BRING THE FEATURE UP TO DATE. (19) Various Artistes (Pye) Del Shannon (London) (2)Buddy Holly(Coral) - (1)The Merseybeats 12ALL ALONE AM I THE CRUEL SEA BILLY 19 (Fontana) 13(11) Billy Fury (Decca) I'(13) Brenda Lee 18 (10)The Dakotas TAKE THESE CHAINS (Brunswick) (Parlophone) 45 14IT HAPPENED AT FROM MY HEART WORLD'S FAIR 14DECK OF CARDS 20DADOO RON RON 34 (18) RayCharles (9) Elvis Presley (14) Wink Martindale 16 (13) The Crystals (H.M.V.) (R.C.A.-Victor) (London) (London) HELLO HEARTACHE OUT OF THE SHADOWS WHISPERING 46 15SOUTH PACIFIC 15 21 GOODBYE LOVE (14) Sound Track VOL. 1 29(3) The Bachelors - (1)Little Peggy March (R.C.A.-Victor) (19) The Shadows (Decca) (RCA -Victor) (Columbia) COME ON 16PICKWICK 22 47NO ONE (13) The Original Cast ig ON THE AIR 24 (8) The Rolling Stones - (1)Ray Charles (Philips) "'(12)The Spotnicks (Oriole) (Decca) (H.M.V.) 17TRIBUTE TO BUDDY ONLY THE HEARTACHES 17BUDDY HOLLY STORY 23 BE MY GIRL VOL. 1 HOLLY 22(7) Houston Wells 4848 (3)The Dennisons (16) Buddy Holly (Coral) (20) Mike Berry (H.M.V.) ( Parlophone) (Decca) 18I CAN'T STOP LOVING I WAN NA STAY HERE 18THIS IS MERSEY BEAT 24 49HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO Vol. 1 YOU 23 (4)Miki andGriff (Pye) FADDAH (17)Various Artistes (16) Ray Charles (H.M.V.)25SUKIYAKI - (1) AllanSherman (Oriole) 19SHADOWS TO THE FORE 19 (12) KyuSakamato (Warner Bros.) THE BEST OF RADIO (-) The Shadows (H.M.V.) HELLO LITTLE GIRL 19 CITY 50 LUXEMBOURG (Columbia) 26SURF - (1) The Fourmost (-)Various Artistes 20WEST SIDE STORY VOL. 1 26 (5)Jan and Dean (Parlophone) (Pye) (-) Broadway Cast (C.B.S.) (Liberty) That teamteam of hit -makers, JET HARRIS and TONY MEEHAN, zoom THIS IS HANCOCK (Firstfiguredenotes positionlast27TWO SILHOUETTES (Firstfigure denotes positionlast back into the Twenty this week with "Applejack", snugly situated at20(-) Tony Hancock week; figure in parentheses denotes 33 (4)Del Shannon week; figure in parenthesei denotes weeks in chart) No. 16. ..a jump of 33 places. (Pye) weeks in chart) (London) 2 HIT RECORDS No. 1 -To. RECORD IN U.S.A. ONE PLAY MUST SELZ MY LET'S GET BOYFRIEND'S TOGETHER STILL BACK TONIGHT No. 13 No. 37 by THE ANGELS b/w It's No Game KARL DENVER KEN DODD THECLASS MATES MERCURY AMT 1211 DECCA F.11720 COL. DB 7094 DECCA F 11736 M KEITH PROWSE, 21 DENMARK ST, W.C.2 KPAIusiC PETER MAURICE MUSIC COMPANY, 21 DENMARK ST., W.C.2 12 - NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending 14 Sept., 1963. Gerry and the Pacemakers.... TOO BUSY FOR RECORDINGS !

been a bit quiet on the recording front for Gerry and Says IT'Sthe Pacemakers - and the main reason is that the effer- vescent Mr. Marsden and his merry men have been too darned PETER busy to get to the recording studios in London. But it'll all be happening in the next week or so. A new L.P. - the group's first - will be out.Plus the new single. JONES moves on for a week at the Gau- In the meantime, the last hit "I Like It" is only now droppingmont, Ipswich, and thelast week out of the frame - and the EP, containing both hit singles,of the run isat the Odeon, Chel- rides hugely high in the charts. tenham. With two number -one hits to his Gerry has been tacklingvariety But the thing that has knockedcreditalready, Gerryisnaturally weeks in seaside resorts during thehim out most, having studied thekeeping hisfingers crossedfora summer, packing 'emin,butlastfinished results, is the George Mar-hat -trickwith hisnew single. week he spent several hours at thetin experiment of adding strings onChances are he'll make it in double- EMI studios with recording man-"You'll Never Walk Alone" andquick time.Afterall,the Beatles ager George Martin. "Summertime". have now replaced Billy J. Kramer Hisvoice soundingdistinctlyat the top-and the initial burst of SECRECY hoarse from alltherecent work,"She Loves Me" will be over by There'saveilof secrecy aboutGerry told me: "Honest, I thoughtthe time Gerry's oewie arrives en it was fab. I'd never heard us be-the scene. A recent shot of GERRY and the PACEMAKERS. (NRM Picture by DEZO HOFFMANN.) the actual titles for the new single. A Mitch Murray item was highlyfore with a string section. Fab! Just Must be quite a job for Brian touted:thenaGerry(withLeshope the fans'll go for it, that's all."Epstein, manager and "gov'nor" of Chadwick) original came through as It has become, we thought,acaseall three groups, deciding precisely probable hit potential. Decisions areof "Gerry-aldo and the Augmentedwhen is the right moment to hit the The Blackpool Scene Bygoing on right now . . Pacemakers"! market with the new ones. But the LP WAS finishedand Now here's an important foot- wrapped up, It's called "How Do HOLIDAY note for all Gerry fans. The smiler - You Like It?" It has fourteen tracks Gerry's had his holiday this yearin -chief celebrates his 21st birthday and not one of them has been re-- a week in Dublin and anotheronTuesday,September24.No MARTY WILDE corded by Gerry before-a value -week boating round doubt,he'llbeinundatedwith the Anglesey for money bit, then. cards, presents and the like. MARTYhere;alllitup. Nextweekwehaveourbig area. For the next month or so, it's charity show, withCliff and the It'saprettyvariedbunchofjust one long round of hard work. And here's an even more impor- Yes, the illuminations have been turned on in Blackpool. TheyShadows, Karl Denver, Eden Kanetitles. Included is "Here's Hoping", Right through to pantomime time.tant foot -note for allGerry fans. really are fantastic.I drove all the way round and saw someand myself and the Wildcats. Itwhich is more or less Gerry's signa-Yes, Gerry and the Pacemakers arePlease don't inundate the New Rec- amazing scenes-Walt Disney characters, rocket ships, Russian andruns from 12 midnight to 3 a.m.ture tune-he usually plays it as thenow confirmed for "Babes In TheordMirroroffices withcards, American astronauts-all sorts of things on a modern internationalI've no idea what _kind of audiencecurtains open on stage. Also inisWood" which opens atthe Gau-presents and the like for him! - kick. Believe me, it's worth a trip to Blackpool just to catch thoseit'sgoingtobe,butI'vegota"Pretend". And "A Shot of Rhythmmoat, Hanley, from Christmas time We haven't yet recovered from lights. hunchtheyareunlikelytobeand Blues". to January 4. The production thenPaul McCartney's "coming of age". ravers.Never mind, I'll make up I caught the Beatles' act on Sunday night, and so did a lot of for that :I'm going to put on a IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII mates.In the back of the theatre, in the dark, I recognised Bruceraving show for them.IfIdie Welch, Eden Kane and my own Wildcats. thedeath,it'llbe just too bad- I'm going to enjoy myself The 'Compact' Popster BY The Beatles put on a fabulous show.They've got one really My last tip for the top five was great advantage over many recording stars.They manage to makeHeinz with " Just Like Eddie," and LANGLEY their on the stage have exactly the same sound as theiritlooks as thoughit'sgoing to records. They went down a storm. make it.My tip this week is for semi -pro., and was in a talent com- ALANDREW JOHNSON Jet "Applejack." Funny thing, a lot of the audience and Tony with 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111' petitionin London,upagainstMost other groups (the Shadows are -all under 25-started rushing outChas and Nancy Wiskey. They WROTE theNewRecord 1p " Ward 10," Alan played theand after that I did my 'Compact' before the end of the last number, an honourable exception) tend to won-with " Freight Train." Mystick to the tried and true stuff on MirrorDiscJuryaboutpart of a person going blind. Heaudition on crutches, too !" " Twist And Shout." When Igotgroup(which was released to tackle a couple of hadtwobeat -uprecords, but Jet and Tony are never"Always The Only One": "Don't Since January,1963,Alan has outside. I saw the reason ; thousandsguitars, a Salvation Army drum kit playsinthe West End-the idea of girls were running to the stage afraidto experiment with a newbesurprisedtoseeitinthe been in " Compact." Recent and a tea-chest bass) came second,style.This time it's the use of an being that he'd go back into the door totrytosee the Beatlesin charts". They dug the singing of developments had him making a and we were well pleased with our-acoustic guitar.I think their adven- series later to undergo the opera-record, and through that Columbia case they made a quick getaway. selves. one Alan Drew; combined withtion. turousness is going to pay off.Jettheorchestralbackingofthe put out the song and the singer on Also on the bill were Gerry and Chas andShirleynow haveaand Tony will be around a long, But heactually ever -excellent Johnnie Spence. brokehislega commercial basis. the Pacemakers, but I'm sorry tovery nice and friendly act, and theylong time. playing Rugby football.So he went It strikes me as a pretty shrewd say I missed them.I did get therewent down very well.Chas is a I was sickened to read that bunk If it does register in the charts,for hisaudition as ablind manmove to get Alan Drew on record in time to hear Chas McDevitt andbitlikeFrederik,ofNinaandby Denis A. Powis in last week'sit'll cause a few surprises in thewho'd also broken a leg. for the benefit of his mass of fans. his wife, Shirley Douglas, though,Frederik.I if reckonthat ChasNRM letters column. He said thatcareer of one Basil Moss. "They wereverygood. TheyAnd I'llline up with the usually - andtheycertainlybroughtbackfindstheright number he couldthe Everly Brothers have not been wroteitinthatI'dfallen downright NRM DiscJury and say : memories.When Iwas a youngeasily have a hit record. making the charts because they got For Basil IS Alan Drew. Hesome stairs, so I was able to appear" Don't be surprised to see him in married.That's idiotic. wasBasil M. longbeforeheon crutches,get my 'operation'-the charts." became "Alan Drew" in the long - z A FEW running, ten -million -viewed BBC I've been a Ian of the EverlysTVseries "Compact". for some years, and it is obvious to The character he played became me that their records haven't beenbetter known than his own name. making the charts because they haveSo, from now on, he's Alan Drew, Kenny notbeen uptotop commercialinthisstory and elsewhere-and standard.That's all there is toft.thatgoes on evenif"Compact" You used to be able to rely on thecomes off the small screen. Everlys-like Elvis in his early days -turning out two good numbers per disc. One side might be great, AMIABLE Lynch but the other would still be good. Sometimes the pluggers over here Alanisanextremelyamiable would reverse the American decisionsort of actor -turned -singer, with the and make the U.S. "B" side thesort of looks that sets heads a -turn- British "A" side.These days theing. He comes from a family of Everlys have not been so lucky withactors-his father, Basil Moss, had their material. a Hollywood film contract inhis Eydie Gorme andSteve Law-pocket when he was killed in a car renceare both married(toeachsmash two weeks afterBasilJnr. other) and they are doing all right.and his twin sister were born. Bobby Vee is going to get married. Alan has written quite a lot of So what ?If he continues to makesongs, though only recently has he good records,they'llsell. Ifhetakenitparticularlyseriously. At doesn't, they won't. school in Hammersmith, he I've had this marriage nonsenseappeared in school plays, also writ- thrown at me many times and it'sing for revues. And he learned to time somebody sorted out peopleplay trumpet and piano. with views like Denis A. Powis. I ran into a friendly Scot called "I joined the Royal Marines after Archie on the South Pier, and heleaving school", he said. "Had a was kind enough to ask about mybitof timein Hong Kong, then next record.Well, my manager hasthought hard about this acting busi- decided to scrap the recent record-ness. My mother and my stepfather ing of " Save Your Love For Me "triedto talk me out ofitand I and I'm doing another couple ofagreed . . . for a time. I joined a numbers as soon as I get back tocosmetic firm for three months pre- London in the first week of October.cisely. Then I went to the Royal We're keeping quiet about the titlesAcademy of Dramatic Art." at present. Rep. followed.Then the Tony That ends my light-hearted and,Newleyfilm" Jazz Boat," about I hope, illuminating report for thiswhich Alan says little !Then telly MARTY WILDEcontinueshislivelyreporting from Blackpool.(NRMweek. seriesincluding"DeadlineMid- Picture by DEZO HOFFMANN.) Marty. night" and "Emergency Ward 10.' Printed by Merritt & Hatcher Ltd., High Wycombe and London, for Cardfont Publishers Ltd,, 116 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.1. (Telephone: Gerrard 7460. 3785 &5960.) Sole Distributing Agents for Great Britain, Surridge, Dawson & Co. Ltd.. 136-142 New Kent Road, London, &E1.