Page 10 RPM Weekly NILSSON COMEBACK VIAMIDNIGHT COWBOY" I'm proud to say we came off with a ver ADULT good price and our agent was most pleased, A very interesting point about the record chart of that particular issue is reproduced - although I wish we had asked more from the 1 1 JEAN that has the distinction of being #1 here. Oliver-crew...3344A agent. He received the lion's share that on the RPM 100 chart this week is the fact Today it is the top record on the RPM was quite apparent. Ah! well let's not have 25 EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' that approximately one year ago, "Every- 100 chart and came into. prominence because Nilsson -RCA -74-0161-N regrets now. body's Talkin" by Nilsson was a record of of the motion picture "Midnight Cowboy" It would be very hard for me to average 3 4 I TAKE A LOT OF PRIDE IN WHAT I AM considerable action in Canada. which is receiving the acclaim of critics all Dean Martin -Reprise -0841-P a day in this tour as there seemed to be so over the world. many changes in schedule and the distance 42 WORKIN' ON A GROOVY THING In its first chart entry in 1968, it was 5th Dimension -Soul City -776-K varied so much.It was never regular work. 35 40 so EVERYBODY'S NlIsson-RCA9544-NTALKIN not as widespred a hit as it is today. However our busiest day to my muffle( Although it is the original version that is 57 IT'S GETTING BETTER te, .44,44.44faiN,"V Mama Cass -RCA -4195.N tion was Sept. 16/68. We were to travel frc today at the top of the charts, the industry Danang in the Northern part of South Viet - has come up with another mystery that 63 THIS GIRL IS A WOMAN Gary Puckett/Union Gap Nam even further North to Qua Viet which i On August the 19th 1968 it showed as doesn't answer the question . .."Number Columbia -4-44967-H three miles from the D.M.Z. There we were #67 on the RPM 100 with its first entry. It one now, but not number one then ..."It is 7 12 IS THAT ALL THERE IS to do a one hour show for seamen at the subsequently rose to #35 on the RPM 100 of either a question of timing or manipulation, Peggy Lee -Capitol -2602-F Qua Viet -Navy Base. September 16th, 1968. A part of the RPM 100 or it grew in the grooves. Our day started at 6 a.m. when we were 813 MAH-NA MAH-NA Original Soundtrack-Ariel-500-H picked up by truck and driven to an airfield then we loaded into a C117 aircraft which FOR OLIVER 99 HURT SO BAD PACKED OPENER by Stan Lepka Lettermen -Capitol -2482.F took us to "Dong Ha" the closest airfield t "Qua Viet". After being deposited on this Toronto: The Colonial Tavern has always did a great job on "Both Sides Now", "Ruby 106 TRUE GRIT been regarded as a showplace for the finest Tuesday", "Mr. Tambourine Man", and' "If Glen Campbell -Capitol -2573-F airfield we were again picked up by truck al driven to a dock on the Qua Viet River. We international jazz talent, but it became a pop You Ever Go", among others. 118 LAY LADY LAY music showplace on September 29th with the Oliver is obviously most effective with Bob Dylan.Columbia-449268-H unloaded again and after a four hour wait wi the slow stuff.Perhaps his greatest strong - boarded a freight utility boat and with two appearance of Crewe recording artist Oliver, 12 14 MOONLIGHT SONATA who has set new house records during his point is that he can communicate the warmth Henry Mancini-RCA.0212.N patrol boats as escort we sailed down to tour of North American colleges and night and meaning of a song to an audience of any Qua Viet.Upon our arrival a group of 13 15 SEPTEMBER SONG seamen each picking up one piece of gear clubs. generation. For this reason, his audience Roy Clark -Dot -17299-M Oliver first received widespread recogni- isn't limited to the young people, as started on a safari across an acre of sand t 14 18 KEEM-O-SABE the building we would entertain in. tion with "Good Morning Starshine°°, a disc evidenced by the action his discs receive Electric Indian-UA-50563.J which has earned him a gold record. More on MOR stations. So far all this took eight hours of waitin 15 19 ETERNITY and loading. After setting up changing and recently, he has attracted attention with The sidemen who backed Oliver were also Vikki Carr -Liberty -56132.K Rod McKuen's "JEAN" and his "Good impressive, namely Seth Evans on guitar, washing, we did our show. The guys were 16 10 I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN great and made every mile and bead of swei Morning Starshine" album. Both are currently Victor King on bass, and drummer Ethan Fein. Tom Jones -Parrot -40018-K riding high on the international charts. During an acid,rock selection featured in the worth while. We then packed up and retrace 17 22 TRACY our steps exactly until at three a.m.the n( Until recently, Oliver has been biding second set, each musician was given an Cuff Links-Decca-32533.J his time with such rock groups as the opportunity "to do his thing". The attention morning we fell exhausted on our beds back 18 20 A TIME FOR US Danang. Virginians and the Good Earth, but has gone given this number and the applause at its end Johnny Mathis -Columbia -4-44915-H on his own to cultivate his creative talents indicated the audience's enthusiastic At nine the same morning we did a show more deeply. WhenI saw his opening approval. 19 25 YOUR GOOD THING (Is About To End) in the open at China Beach for the Marines Lou Rawls-Capitol.2550-F performance at the Colonial, my only regret Oliver and his group are professionals in 120° temperature. On that particular WI was that he didn't go it alone sooner. in the true sense of the word.It is little 20 24 DADDY'S LITTLE MAN to Qua Viet we heard a radio broadcast from o.C.Smith-Columbia-4-44948-H His repertoire was superb, combining wonder that they have played to capacity North Viet -Nam over Hanoi radio.During th some of his own compositions with those of crowds throughout North America, enjoyed 21 17 I'M A BETTER MAN broadcast "Hanoi Hanna" (who is like Toyl Engelbert Humperdinck.Parrot-40040-K such notables as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, great recording success, and created a great Rose was during the 2nd world war) came or Rod McKuen, Mick Jagger, and others, He deal of interest among producers of 22 30 WEDDING BELL BLUES the air and told the men, we were going to p 5th Dimension -Soul City -777-K showed his versatility by performing rock, television variety programmes. for, that she was going to have them shelled again and she knew they were going to have folk/rock, and showtune selections, some =1111111 23 26 LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Winstons-Metromedia-142-L o, which appear on his Crewe album. a show. Undoubtedly his best efforts were "Good PHONODISC RELEASES 24 28 YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' This was amazing to us but the commas Dionne Warwick -Scepter -12262-J Morning Starshine" and "JEAN", but he also er of the base assured us this happens all t IFIELD DECK 25 --- WHICH WAY YOU GOIN' BILLY time and not to worry. So we worried. Poppy Family.London-17273-K Toronto: Phonodisc Records, who distribute Especially when we found out we would be Hickory in Canada, announce the release of 26 29 SMILE A LITTLE SMILE FOR ME doing our show in the mess hall because the Frank 'field's latest single "It's My Time". Flying Machine-Pye-17722-L club had been blown down by North Vietnam A giant plus for the release is the current 27 27 THE LADY IN THE PICTURE artillery two weeks before.Of course nothi two week engagement of 'field at the Hook Michal Vincent-Polydor-540011-0 happened to us as I said before. We were lucky. We also learned later that the boat by the and Ladder Room of the Beverly Hills Motel. 28 -- MAKE BELIEVE Wind -Life -200-N which returned us to Dong Ha from Qua Viet MAGIC was hit and sunk killing six crewmen. CYCLE 29 YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE Subscribeto RPM Weeklyfor three Brooklyn Bridge-Buddah.139-M Actually we were very lucky throughout our tour in that it seemed we would arrive a 1169 - CKDM - DAUPHIN years at a reduced rate. 30 JE T'AIME..MOI NON PLUS Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin a camp after it had been hit or it was hit ju: .GR-r OF Fontana -260196-K after we left.