moNKEE NewR DA *HOLLILES*SUPREMES PETERI Great P Break-up 6° When he was very poor SMASH HIT ! P. P. ARNOLD Musical MUSIC TO 1 4tril POPWORD MICKIE MOST'S New s gles by Express hit -making secrets SMALL FACES WhIC,11,9,11,Sm!i CLIFF RICHARD on CBS 2675 K P.M., 21 DENMARK STREET, W.C.2 No. 1064 Week ending June 3,1967 TEM 3856 WORLD'S LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY MUSIC PAPER .4zoluem46 New Parlophone LPonsalenow Parlophone PMC 7027(m) PCS 7027(s) E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) E.M.I. House. 20 Manchester Sq. London W.1 [1.1111 DR.14.10111111 MI WOAD vit. iv..osAjoivras. saiar itiw7J On sale Friday, week ending June 3, 1967 Hit -maker MICKIE gets MOST from the stars MICKIE MOST owns a £45,000 house, a £42,000 yacht moored at Cannes, and an elegant £3,500 Rolls-Royce. "Money is for spending," he says. "I'd spend the last penny I had." Four years ago he was selling parts of his record collection to By Alan scrapetogether theprice ofa meal. Then he got a singing job Smith ina Newcastle club, heard the Animals, recorded them with a number called "Baby Let Me Take You Home" and started himselfso in touch with the pop scene he on a trail of hit discs stretchingcan virtually predict the highest posi- around the charts of the world. tion discs will reach. Today you'll find the name Mickie He is la blaze of energy: attacking Most on hits by Lulu ("The Boata meal of fish and chips, arms waving ThatIRow"), Jeff Beck ("Hi Hotoexpress a point, talking rapidly Silver Lining"), Herman ("There's Aabout anything and everything-from KindOfHush"),theYardbirdspoverty in India to why Lulu missed ("Little Games"),andDonovanhit records for a while. ("Mellow Ye/low"). He was offered the job of record- "Me energetic?" he asks. "I wish ing the Monkees, but turned It down I was! I sat in the office yesterday because it meant spending too long reading comics." Nevertheless,this recording in the States. manager with the Most isstill able You won't find weird, way-out in-to turn out hit discs at the rate of struments on the discs Mickie pro-one every few weeks, as well as comb Above: MICKIE MOST, wileis torim has made a twice tam -- aim, ma INUrdlinAll. duces."Making good,commercialAmerica for hit songs and currently Centre: HERMAN, who relies completely on Midde's advice. Right: LULU went without hits for some time hits" is his aim and he claims to bework on the 'soundtrack album for until Mickie took over her recording. She's a great talent, he says. the Herman movie,"Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter." I was so intrigued by the energy and efficiency he puts Into his work, I asked him if he could reel off all the hits he had ever made. He'llevenpredict their chart position " What !" he exclaimed." All of States, ' Sun- "I've always had this thing about"Songs are the king," he says,"the them ? " the that), Donovan's spotting a hit iscord. Look at Lulu-mostimportantiteminbuilding an shineSuperman','Mellow Yellow','Boat That I Row' is the first recordartist.That's why I spend so long in 'Epistle To Dippy', plus 25she's done with me and it'sinthetheStates combing music publishers' Reeled off albums . ." charts. At Decoa, they were giving heroffices for numbers. all the wrong stuff.Tragic,because "I'm not sayingIcan't find good Then he thought a moment, and He attacked another piece of theshe's a fantastic artist. numbers in this country; it's Just that said:"Okay - theAnimals'Babyfish on his plate. "WhenIwas a kid and Frankiein the States the field and the choice Is Let Me Take You Home', 'House " Herman's Hermits rely on me oneLaine was all the rage,I remember I'dso Wide. Over there you cam go around Of The Rising Sun',Don't Let Mehundred per cent." he. volunteered.always be the filetto pick out whatand find guys at the piano day and BeMisunderstood','BringItOn"Donovan is . well . a littlewould make the charts. I'd have boughtnight, turning out songs like a way or Home To Me', Got To Get Outadifferent. He still wants to be inde-a coming hit record long before any of pendent. the other kids. "Lulu has such a terrific feel for her This Place','It's My Life', 'Boom "I don't like any other music butmusic, As Isear,this'BoatThatt.I Doom' (in the U.S.), the Nashville " But Don has the good sense togood,commercialpop.That's whatRow'hitis the first we've done to- Teens' Tobacco Road' and `Googletake advice and 'if he writes 15 songsmakes me succiestsful.All other kindsgether, so there isn't that much I can Eye', Brenda Lee's 'IsIt True' . and Idon't like 'any of them, he'llof music must become rubbish. I don'tadd. Rut she's a real professional. marrielloudy *rood voice, and I mite Herman's 'I'm Into Somethingprobably shrug and do some more. wantto know about other kinds of him sing very close and down to the Good', 'Show Me Girls', 'Silhouettes', 'It's more of a 'performance' Itomusic. Idon't watt totaste what mike, to give him warmth." `Wonderful World', 'Just A Little Bitrecord Donovan than some of mypeople called better music because I feelResented Mickie would welcome an opportunity other artists.Jeff Beck is the same.there isn't any better." Of the ANIMALS - with whom he isto wax TOM JONES . an artist he Better', 'Mrs. Brown You've Got A Stickle works with the theory thatnolongerassociated - hesays:"Iadmires intensely for hisfeeling and LovelyDaughter','ListenPeople',He thought 'Hi Ho Silver Lining' was every recordin the chart must bethink they resented some people feelingvocal power. "He is a great singer," 'Must To Avoid', 'You Won't Bea funny song and he didn't want to good of its kind simply because it'sthat much of their success was due tohe says. "And he has a lot more soul Leaving','This Door Swings Bothdo it. there. me. than many of these Negro so -Called Ways', another oneIcan't remem- " The troubleis most artistssee Buttitdoesn'tstop him disliking "Did you know they didn't want tosoul chars." ber; 'No Milk Today', 'Dandy', 'Eastthemselves differentlyIto how Iseerecords like "Release Me," or 'Puppetrecord any of the songs that were their Finally, as recording manager for the On A String," which he describes ashits - 'House Of The Rising Sun' andYARDBIRDS, Mickie realises that JEFF BECK: wheat be drat beardWest', 'There's A Kind Of Hush' ... them. They've got a private image of"a joke song." and mosttimesit's so on? They didn't like any of 'em!they've slipped in Britain recently, and "Silver Lining " he thought ita ". the new Lulu, the new Jeffthemselves "Another thing you have to rememberhefeelsitmight bebecausetheir joke song. Beck, the Yardbirds' (a big one inwrong. isthis.If someone is a group, he'drecords have been too way-out. Money matters never get rich. seven If the group makes "Little Games' is half and half," he amilliondollars,it'llstillvirtuallytold me. "A good number, with some For a few minutes the conversationdisappear- by the time it's shared out,of the YardlbirdS style thrown in as seemed to veer between the spendingand expenses and the tax man have hadwell." habits of the English("the meanesttheir bite. That could well have some- We leftthe restaurant and walked in the World," says the man with thething to do with their split -us." through the noise of Oxford Street to Most); Aden ("we shouldJust take How come an out -of -work singer- Woolworth's, where Mickie intended to over and show them"), poverty in Indiawhich is what Mackie was at on& timebuy a copy of "The Boat That I Row", and Africa ("'don't kid me, they're not- has risen to a point where he canin order "to boost sates" and because Your second that bad") and money in general ("didtalk almost casually about a million he needled a copy in a hurry. you know Iearn more thanPyedollars? Aftera long wait and a browse Records?"). "Luck,"SaysMickie."'Whenthethrough their records-most of which About HERMAN, Miokie says:"IBeatles opened the door to She U.B.Seemed to be Mickie Most productions saw a picture postcard of him takendisc market, I was lucky enough to be-no one came and we left again. in Manchester. With a face like that heright behind them with the Animals "That's the trouble with this oouldn'tfail so I signed him.lit'sand Herman. country," he said sorrowfully. "No in- the cutest face in the world. "Before the Beatles, the .Americansterest. Me, I hustle for every penny." chance to "I'm not saying anybody could be-looked on England as a Joke. Now the He does,too.Miokie may be too come a hit on records. But with theEnglish products are a very, very bigblunt, honest and straightforward for character and appeal Herman has inmarket many people,but he's got gallons of his face, he just has to win." "DONOVAN is very big in the Statesgo-go and he knows how to go farthest LULU, according to Mickie, was aand he'll get bigger. He is a very mod,on them. And that's what his artists - greattalentwasted onpoorsongs.improved artist.rthink he's got aand the charts-need plenty of! `Hold downaChord'From -1L7-41a1C.T to "W.TM RON TURNBULL (Edinburgh): I PAUL BARRETT (Holcaimbe, Lanes.): cannotunderstand Jeff Beck's Edited by Why isitthat many ofthebest attitude to his record "Hi Ho Silver Americanrecordsarenotreleased Lining".