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mance being smoother and more polished D11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111:: MET than any other duo inthe business.- VAL CLARKE, JENNIE BROWN, EDNA WRIGHT, 26 St. Michael's Ave., DON and PHIL EVERLY: seen here comparing notes (1) JET HARRIS Hemel Hempstead. with JACK ('Maverick') NEW r--- KELLY. I WAS very pleased when you asked in CORRECTION I RECORD last week's issue of NRM HIT KILLERS ATE would draw your attention to the Readers' ifanyonehad a personalanecdote WHY areBritishdee-jays on BBC fact that in the centre page articles !MIRROR about a meeting with a favourite star. concerning the Frank Sinatra recordings I am lucky enough to be able to meet record shows so prejudiced against Letter Bag American hits ? Dee Dee Sharp, Freddy in London, you state that these sessions my favourite star, Jet Harris, quite fre- Cannon, TheDovells,theLettermen, took place at Lansdowne Studios. 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I had been unable to get tickets for 12in. x 10in. - 7s. 6d. a show at Wembley and I was extremely disappointed. but nevertheless I went to SONG NOT SINGER Send to: Wembley on the day on the off chance MILLIONS DIG NRMPhoto Service, that there would be a cancellation. WHEN istheBritishrecord -buying public going to recognise the talent 116 Shaftesbury Avenue, Of course it was out of the question of Gene Pitney? Gene has had three 1=-7 London W.1 E.- and I had almost given up all hopes of great records issued here. seeing the show when I found Jet, who bad walked through the milling crowd The first, "I wanna love my life away" THIS FOLK DUOS 51111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111E completelyunrecognised,standingbe- attracted good sales, as did the second CHARLIE CHESTER CLUB.Service- side me. I just couldn't believe my good "Town without pity", but they were no- men aged18/22 wanted urgentlyas where near as successful as they should RECENTLY on the BBC's top folk singers by virtue of two and a fortune. He took me into the entrance half years in "Tonight" or 78 tele- penpals.Particulars:JosieVeen,72 hall, as the fans were beginning to re- havebeen.Thethirdone isrea'ly rating radio show "Easy Clarence Avenue, Clapham Park, Lon- fabulous, "The man who shot Liberty Beat" a singing duo garnered more vision and radio appearances so far cognise him, andI explained everything this year.Even chart toppers would don, S.W.4. to him. Valance", and should have had the chart applause than other names on the CRAIG DOUGLAS Fan Club.-Details success itis having in the States. show. What's more they sang folk find this hard to beat. He was really marvellous about it and from The Secretary. 58 Holmwood Rd., Also, why isitthat Mike Berry, who songs with a Scottish Accent and They did have a hit record once, Ripon, Yorkshire. proved, what isoften said about him, were completely against the nor- "Football Crazy" which embarrasses that he has a heart of gold. After find- has made two great discs has not re- DEANNA DURBIN Photographs ceived the popularity he should have. His mal run of activity that snakes up them and they now refuse to sing it. wanted. Top price given. Box No. 36. ing itimpossible to get a ticket for me today'shitparade and a great They didn't really want to do this- he came back with what I thought was group The Outlaws, to my mind, is the "EasyBeat"pro- DICK JORDAN Fan Club, 105 Sheen best group this side of the Atlantic.It dealofthe even more so they didn't want to do far better-a star'spass. Road, Richmond, Surrey. goes to show that record buyers buy grammes. the follow up, a song concerned with DON GIBSON OFFICIAL F.C. I la, With this passIwas sneaked inas the name and not the record.-DAVID Names? Robin Hall and Jimmie the Loch Ness monster. Homelands, Leatherhead, Surrey.S.a.e. a backing -singer to John Leyton. I had CORNE, 4 Southgate Grove, London, MacGregor, below (NRM picture), So theretheysit,on thefence, details. a terrific time backstage, tea and biscuits N.1. who must be 's best known midway betweenthefolk audience FOR ALL YOUR Music Requirements, with nearly allthe personalities on the who grow beards andsiton hard musictolyrics,piano arrangements, show-The Shadows, Cliff Richard, chairstolistenandthepop fans etc., write or call, Musical Services, 2 Adam Faith, , Billy Fury, etc. who are too young to grow beards Denmark Place, W.C.2. This gave me the chance of seeing what and like to stand up and scream. GLAMOROUS YOUNG LADIES they arc all like off-stage and I must say And both sides attack them-one wanted as amateur singersfor vocal thatIwas most impressed, they really group. Send photograph.-Write Mr. are a wonderful bunch of boys and full for not being folky enough and the other for being too folky. C. E. Shaw, 241 Barnsole Road, Gilling- of fun. ham. Kent. Jet made sure thatI had an excellent But if being folky or pop means LIBERACE CLUB. Freephotographs, view of the show. I was able to watch it turning out some of the items that penfriend service. Write: Jean Burgess, topthechartsasfolksongs then 91 Rookery Road, Handsworth, with the stars before they went on stage Robin and Jimmie don't want to Bir- andwhen they came offagain,thus know. Their opinion of "Michael" mingham. gettingtheir opinions of the individual NINA AND FREDERIK APPRECIA- by the Highwaymen was "great tune TION SOCIETY, only just formed.- acts.It was a most thrilling experience boring treatment". and althoughIhave had others since, Kathleen Kelly, 102 Farm Ave., Wemb- thisisoneIwillalways remember. They don't regard Karl Denver as ley, Middx. Thank you Jet for a wonderful day.- a folk singer-as some do-but as a OFFICIAL RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN MAUREEN .1. OLNEY (Miss), 56 colourful addition to the scene. They FAN CLUB. Write Carole & Andrea Carroll Crescent, South Ascot. knew him years ago as "Wee Gus" Lansdown, 150 Bromsgrove Road, Red - inGlasgow andconsiderthathis ditch, Worcs. singing voice is pushed out through SPRINGFIELDS Fan Club. Details: his nose and a small hole in the top PatriciaBarnett, 316a Queenstown RECORD RECORD ofhishead ... whichisfair com- Road. S.W.S. ment. STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.Friend- ship/Marriage Brochure free.(Estab- READER Burt Adams (NRM recently) Robin and Jimmie would like a hit record of course, but it would have lished 1943.) Friendly Folk Association, expendsrather an unconstructive to be on their terms. Naturally they Torquay wrath against the recent attack on teen- THE NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP EX- agers' records.Since I'm in my early have changed since the time when a luckyaccidentputthem onthe CHANGE-an organisation for the pro- twenties, I'm not an old fogey, nor do I motion of friendships throughout the have a chip on my shoulder. "Tonight" programme but the change has been natural, not commercial. British Isles welcomes enquiries, However, myears willnolonger They would have changed if they especially from London, Surrey, Devon, stand the American pop rubbish and the were still singing to audiences of 25 Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Gloucester- Britishimitations. My family therefore in smoky clubs in Scotland. shire and Scotland.-S.a.e. for particu- listens to the more diversified and musical lars from Administrator, N.F.E.. 1 Pages pops of continental radio stations and we They don't like being called Close. Stowmarket, Suffolk - import discs from Amsterdam. The old traditional Scottishfolk singersbe- WHY NOT TRY theCountry and crowd of Vera Lynn and company are cause to them it conjures up a vision Western Roundabout Membership? 10/ - stillunbeatable. of a man in a kilt with a deep voice per year.106 Gretton Houses, Globe singing solemnlythesoniFofthe Road, Bethnal Green, London, E.2. Also: one big blush for British record Scottish poet, Robert Burni. companies: Vera Lynn's 13 -week Num- YOUR FAVOURITE Film, Record or ber One chart entry in the States of He wasn't reallya solemn man, TV Star. Real Photos. 10in. x 8in. at "Auf Wiedersehen"stillremainsun- they say.In fact, he wgs one of the 2/6, postcard size 6d. 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"THANK Your Lucky Stars", "Big Night Out", "Spot the Tune", "Melody Ranch", "Dora BryanShow","RequestTime", "Jimmy James Show", "Peggy Lee BOOT! Show" and last, but by no means I least, "This Is Sinatra",all have (which has just completed a season) has one thing in common as television brought him closer to the music scene shows. than ever before. Allhave beendirectedby Mr. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Philip Philip Jones. Jones when you first meet him strikes As you can see the accent has beenyou as being a City type.The neat, on music inhistelevisioncareer and dark suit of medium weight cloth and probably "Thank Your LuckyStars" dignifiedcut, thediscreettie, the fashionablystripedshirt,cuffs just edging out of jacket sleeves, all rounded off with a solid looking pipe. Although encasedinthisquietex- ADAM FAITH left,rightand centre: one ofthe many top stars who have appeared on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars'.(ABC-TV terior Mr. Jonesisobviously bursting Picture.) with enthusiasm for his job.Wandering round the sets atthe ABC-TV studios at Teddington he was avidly interested in what was going on in other productions, mentally assessingthepotentialitiesof various set ideas for future presentations. He took me to seethe, as yet, un- TO THE FANS, IT'S MR. opened, new studio -a vast arena of cathedral -likeatmosphere-and, though jobs had been simple ones.I'dun on he must have wandered through it several behind the star of the show, moutha times beforeIcould sense the excite- few words and then get out of camera ment in this quiet architect of the tele- range.It didn't exactly tax me. vision screen. CHAMBERLAIN "But now I scarcely find time to eat The Philip Jones career started very nR.KILDARE," alias Richard tions with a 20 -minute phone talk with or sleep I work so hard. And now with close to music.He worked at Radio -"Chamberlain, finds his fans, gained Richard as the winner, with the tag line the song being a big hitit'sworse.I Luxembourg's London headquarters for both from his top rating television series " You don't need a pain in the tummyhave to turn down requests to tour and seven years from 1948 and be remembers and his first considerably successful hit to talk to Dr. Kildare." everything because I'm busy in the TV the days when they used to nip round disc, strangely subdued. studios. to the local record stores to buy the Mr. Chamberlain believes in working latest hard. "Doing Kildare for about three years releases sothatthey could put They insist, he says, on calling him PHILIP JONES:from producing Frank a good up-to-the-minute programme on Mr.Chamberlainwhereverhemeets His " Dr. Kildare " break opened his (which Iwill be it the series lasts that the air. long) is a good and a bad thing. You getSinatra to worrying about car break- Nowadays, of course, the disc - them. eyes to how much experience in acting downs on the Ml. jockeys are serviced by the record com- that he LACKED." I knew that I'd typed so fast in this business and I'd hate panies and music publishers. " It must be the part," he reckons. to go throughlifewithastethoscope "IguessthepartofDr.Kildare have to slave with this part," he said. " Before this my television and moviearound my neck all the time. They soon As the television system, then rapidly keeps He isn'ta pop pick on new faces in this business, use expanding, seemed tooffer something singeroraprivatedetectiveor any- it, wear it out and then throw it in the he was seeking Philip Jones enrolled in thing like that. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1L2 = ash can. a course for television directors and won " Idon'treallymindnotbeing _..=- through to a contract with Granada -TV. mobbed and chased by fans.I think = By = "I don't want that to happen to me." It was there that he handled "Spot The = _ AnygirlwilltellyouthatMr. Pm a little square really." = Chamberlain is a good looking boy and Tune"andothertopshows-music Mr. Chamberlain now lives in Holly- = this sort of adulation worries him! "I again you'll notice. wood, where the "Dr. Kildare"series IAN DOVE don't want to be a 'pretty -boy' actor at isfilmed, and Hollywood isstill con- = all.I'd really like to have a face like sidered to be a town where it's possible nowioninifitillifillowinionoirnowirnimiwilig Raymond Massey." MASS APPEAL if need be. to whoop it up a little MasseyplaysDr.Gillespieinthe Butnot Mr. Chamberlain.He is Kildare shows! He waswithGranadatillaround hardly ever seen at parties, and when be 1959-60 when he spent about a year at does he leaves early.Part of this he Tyne -Tees -TV butthenhisnext step blames on the TV part. BATTLE took him to ABC-TV and his crowning glories to date. That'sMr.Chamberlain,6ft.lin., These are "Thank Your Lucky Stars", 11,000 LETTERS aged 26 - and that figure will remain a top favourite show with teenage record valid for several years, he says, amateur fans and also a mass appeal programme " Dr. Kildare was my firstbig part, painter,terrible cook,likes to meddle for all ages-you can't have it any better you know.I did a few bit parts and a with car motors and polish his car. And than that. few proposed television shows that never a hit record first time out of the stable. And, of course, there were the chances got into the action stages, but it wasn't In America the battleis on between untiltheKildare thing came up and to direct such great talents as Peggy Lee, Richard and actor Vince Edwards, who Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. The someone just remembered my name that plays Ben Casey, another good looking Iwas given the chance." SinatrapresentationisoneofPhilip member of the medical profession. Jones'sproudest achievements - not Mr. Chamberlain took that chance and InBritainBenCasey'sserieswas because he rates it as a top show, but is now possibly the best known doctor dropped by the BBC - who also have because he feels that the sheer profes- inBritain since Mrs. Dale's husband, Dr. Kildare - but has now been bought sionalism of Mr. Sinatrais something Jim.From being completely unknown by Southern television for screening. thatallshouldexperience.And,of eight months ago-he received his first course, the star's talent speaks for itself. two fan letters last September, just before In America an instrumental version of " Dr.Kildare"started - Mr.Cham- the theme from 'Ben Casey' is doing well Anything exciting happen during the berlain cops an audience running into in the US charts. And Vince Edwards - runof "Thank Your Lucky Stars"? the millions. who starred with Bobby Darin in "Too "Not really", says Mr. Jones, "we had Late Blues" - hasalso started to lock Adam Faith into the boot of He also received 11,000 fan letters a recording. Decca here say that the record his car backing it into the studio after week, which shows how his rating has will be issued but can't say exactly when. shot up.His studio says there has been the show one night-otherwise he'd prob- nothing likethis deluge of mail since It looks like the battle of the doctors ably still have been held besieged by his the days of Clark Gable and Robert - Kildare or Chamberlain - may begin eager fans.A couple of miles down Taylor. here. But right now MR Chamberlain is the road we could let him out." And now the theme from the series, well in the lead. " Three Stars Are Shining Tonight," has earned him fresh honours. Especially SEPTEMBER impressiveishisEnglish successwith the record, because he followed an in- Anything else?"Well, as we do the strumental hit (by Johnnie Spence) with RAY'S show from Birmingham and most of the a vocal version, not generally reckoned AMERICANmagazine Billboard artists come from London, car break- to come off. In fact, the only other per- reportsthat Ray Charles'"I downs on the MI cause a little appre- son to have brought off this difficult feat Can't Stop Loving You" has nearly hensionattimes. But usuallyit'sfan is Andy Williams, currently doing well reached the million -and -a -half mark belttroubleorsomeothersimple withAckerBilk's"Strangeronthe and is still selling at the rate of more fact.I turned my own car over one Shore". than 100,000 a week. week-but no serious damage done." Mr.Ohamberlain has worked on his And his new album "New Sounds In Quiet,unassuming,quiteunlikethe singing. On and off during thepast CountryandWesternMusic" has bright -spirted,be-chokered,Bohemian couple of years he has been studying touched the half -million sales and is con- types in dark glasses that one conjures voicealongwithactingattheLos tinuing well. up whenthinkingofproducersand Angeles ConservatoryofMusic. He directors. Sticka bowler hat on Mr. made hisfirstprofessional singing Charles' new singles will come from Philip Jones and he could pass for a the album. His next album will be a City executive any time. appearance on an American television compilation ofhissuccessfulsingles, show that earned him a recording con- under the title "Ray Charles' Greatest Incidentally,"ThankYourLucky tract with M -G -M. Hits" and the one to follow that will be DANNY WILLIAMS: another 'Thank Stars" will be returning to your screens M -G -M went to town in America on MR. CHAMBERLAIN:TV doctor, hit called"TheSoulOfCountryAnd Your Lucky Stars' regular.(ABC-TV on September 23 next-so make a note the " Theme."They organised competi- singer. Western Music". Picture.) in your diaries.-JIMMY WATSON. Page Four NEW RECORD MIRROR. Week -ending June 30. 1962 THE 'HOLE IN THE GROUND' TEAM AGAIN

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RELUCTANT IT took some time to would buy records of him singing, get over his disbelief. He just would "But heisless so now. He did a not,couldnotbelievethatanybody 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' show last week would buy a record of Bernard Cribbins and we think he enjoyed it. singing. "But he'd still rather go fishing." It wasn't until "Hole In The Ground" Bernard Cribbins hasa new record reached its peak sales position-No. 5 in out this week-"" and the charts-that he came round to think- "QuietlyBonkers". Againthewriters ing that possibly people might. areDicks and Rudge, who admit to At least thisis the opinion of song- losing a lot of perspiration over it. writers and - "It's most difficult to try and follow who composed "Hole In The Ground"- up a hit because it has to be the same about Cribbins the Reluctant Pop Singer. only different if you see what we mean. Said Myles "1 don't think heisas "We wrote the two numbers in Feb- reluctant now as he was. Bernard just ruaryand Marchthisyearbut we couldn'thonestlybelievethatpeople couldn't get hold of Bernard because he was on tour withhismusical'Little Mary Sunshine'. Above: "Either that or he was fishing," added MYLES BUDGE, Myles. Pianist TED DICKS Fishing is something of an obsession run over 'Right Said with Cribbins who is known to rise very early and sit by river banks. He also, Fred' with Bernard. when on tour, tends not to consider the quality of the theatre but the nearness of good fishing waters.

Right: Cribbins LP SOON hears Cribbins. Myles added: "We are doing an LP in September and Bernard has said he'd (NRM Pictures.) like a number on fishing on it. "But they won't all be larky numbers of weeks before going into the record- a piano but I'm not sure what itis," like 'Hole In The Ground' or 'Right ing studio. said Myles, who writes the lyrics. "Ted Said Fred'. Sonic will be ballads. "Mind you,"saidMyles,"with a did have a great deal of trouble once "Totellthetruth Ted andIare song like'Right Said Fred' you can't getting his piano into his basement flat- getting alittletired of larky numbers. dash it off in five minutes. It's a terribly they had to take it to pieces and erect We'rehad one recorded by Leslie difficultsongbecausethere'snowhere cranes and thaT sort of thing-so may- Phillips and thinkthatBruce Forsyth for the singer to breathe. be that's where it came from." will do one. "A lot of breath, effort and perspira- Both Rudge and Dicks are amazed tion went into the number. We scrapped stillatthesuccess commerciallyof "So now we want to get some songs "Hole In The Ground". thatarenotmeanttobefunnyre- one session because we weren't satisfied. corded. We've written a couple of ballads Alltheeffectshave been dubbedin Said Myles: "Amazed, flabbergasted with in mind, already." afterwards by . We tried and delighted is really how we feel. We Cribbins when trapped and away from justbanging apieceof board butit don't know why it was successful. his fishingtackle works likea trojan, didn't work." according to Myles and Ted. "RightSaidFred"dealswiththe WHY ? "He doesn't sing songs so much as efforts of removal men dealing with an un-named object. "In fact when it was in the Top Ten GEORGE MARTIN has a few words with his pop singer-Bernard Cribbins! performs them and he always likes to the people at EMI kept saying-though (NRM Picture.) rehearse a great deal, at least a couple "A lot of people think the object is not in so many words-'we don't know why it's successful either'. "In the end they did a breakdown on the record to find out why but I don't NUMBER 29 IN THE TOP FIFTY think they came to any conclusion." And if "Right Said Fred" gets into the charts - aslooks mostlikely - then neither Bernard Cribbins, Myles Rudge, Ted Dicks or EMI will be any the wiser, Isuppose. Anyway Bernardwillprobablyjust A CRICKETS" COMEBACK carry onfishing ...as apop idolhe LOUD were the lamentations and cries of woe around September last year with a hit record in the Holly style. may not be as reluctant as he was, but What happened then ? he's not that eager to embrace the life from that militant body of people known as Buddy Holly and/or The either. I.D. Crickets fans.For it looked as though The Crickets had finally broken up Well, things went very quietly for the for good. next two years-so quietly that the pre- Happily this wasn't the ease-as a glance at position number 29 in the NRM viouslyprolificrecordinggroupwere Top Fifty will prove. reduced to bringingoutonly four JOE MAUDLING: still there. For The Crickets, amazingly, have a hit on their collective hands. records One of them, an LP " In Style," be- by the Drifters also made the charts at WATER JAll Isay amazing because (a) the last hit came a hit, and two sides were issued the same time! TOR SEVERAL years, Jazzshows have that thetrio had was in March, 1959, from the LP inBritain by Coral after "Sharing You" now steered into the laid on a Floating Festival of Jazz when their version of "Love's Made a much lobbyingofofficialdombythe Top Twenty by Bobby Vee isa G -K from London. This year, on Sunday, August 19, they are organising a similar Fool of You " crept into position No. 20 by aforementionedmilitantfansof the composition. Bobby has probably done and (b) because " Don't EverChange " = group. better out of thispair than most be- event in the North, the Merseysippi Jazz has been acknowledged by the critics (in- Boat,whichwill make areturntrip, IAN DOVE Nothing happened. cause his smash "Take Good Care Of to cluding the NRM) as being their worst My Baby" was penned by the duo. Like- over 12 hours, fromLiverpool yet. Then came the news of the break-up, wise "Rubber Ball", "How Many Tears" Douglas, Isle of Man. So much for critics, say The Crickets which wasn't permanent.Sonny Curtis, and "Please Don't Ask About Barbara". There will be12 bands aboard. Lined fans. same time . They also had a young leadguitarist,broughtintoreplace up are: Kenny Ball,Mr. Acker Bilk, with them called Buddy Holly, was drafted into the army, The.BigComeback trailforThe Texan singer -guitarist Terry Lightfoot and his NewOrleans Buddy Holly. and Earl Sink went out on his own as Jazz Band,Monty Sunshine's Jazz Band, Cricketsisa long way indeed, because As far as we are concerned BILLY TOO they have been no ordinary rock group. BuddyHollyleftTheCricketsin a singer. Bob Wallis, MikeCotton, Mick Once upon a time (actually only four December, 1958, following an immensely on this side of the Atlantic, Sink sank. Mulligan,BruceTurner,threefrom years ago, but the pop scenemoves at successful tour of Britain by allfour, Now Sonny Curtis is out of the army's Billy Fury too has reason to be grate- Manchester (the Saints Jazz Band,the a tremendous rate), The Crickets'records and three months later died in a plane clutches, but fellow guitarist Jerry Alli- ful:"Halfway To Paradise",hisfirst Red River Jazzmen, PeteHaslam's sold by the million, and they once had crash. son has been drafted in his place. Top Ten disc and the beginning of his Collegians) and one from Chester(the four records in the Top Twenty at the period of big chart success, bore the Wall City Jazz Band). " Don't Ever Change " has the hus- names Coffin -King aswriters.So did band and wife team, Coffin and King, as "I'll Never Find Another Yon". BREAK UP writers. They have produced material that became big hitsinthe hands of "Bless You" recorded by Tony people like Bobby VeeandTony Orlandowas alsoone of theirs. Meanwhile The Crickets had got them- Orlando. Itlookslikethey've struck There's news too of Nikky selves a new lead singer and cut a couple lucky with The Crickets, too. of sides.The singer.Earl Sink, sang one-time rhythm guitarist of the in the Holly style and the discs turned Crickets, who left the group just before outtobethe nearest thing to Buddy Buddy Holly did, to go back to college. Hollyyetrecorded. (And eventhen LUCRATIVE He is forming a new group shortly to Buddy had his imitators). make their firstdisc.

" Love's Made a Fool of You" was InfacttheCoffin -King partnership He hascalled them .. .theHolly - one track. must currently be the most lucrative on Hawks! It was written by Buddy himself, and the pop music scene. Meanwhile,newsforthatmilitant in some record shops was advertised as They wrote "When My Little Girl Is band of BuddyHollyand/orThe by Buddy and The Crickets.So that Smiling" which isstill in thecharts and Crickets fans: There is supposed to be was it at the beginning of 1959,Deeply had TWO hit versions by Jimmy Justice a new record out soon in America. JERRY ALLISON: drafted. hit personally by the death of Holly, and and Craig Douglas. And a third version By Buddy AND The Crickets! SONNY CURTIS: out. NEW RECORD MIRROR. Week -ending June 30. 1962 Page Five FATLAST...! EYDIE MAKES IT AS -AND WITH -A HONEST! - I thought it would ' never happen. Eydie Gorme getting in the charts, I mean. But her roistering version of "Yes, My SINGLE Darling Daughter" has done it ... just as faith was fading fast. Bandleader Tommy Tuckerlater Consider the Gorme career. Few heard a demonstration disc she had girlartistesdirectlyoutsidethe made. He hired her - and gave her jazzscenehavehadasmany two daystolearn20songs,buy albums releasedinBritain. She's clothes, pack and travel to Virginia tackledsuchawidevarietyof Beach where she began a two -month styles that she must be lined up for road tour. the "most versatile singer" tag. Thenhermanager, Ken Green - grass,heardthat Tex Beneke was looking for a vocalist. An audition RAVE was arranged. "This was a special night", Eydie Folk IN the business talk about told me. "It was August 6, my birth- her. Folk who could affordtosee day. Ijust feltit would be lucky." her, with hubby Steve Lawrence, in It was. She sang "Bewitched", "The cabaret in London's West End EYDIE GORME: flanked by two top RAVED ABOUT her. She pulled in ManILove","SomebodyLoves a stack of appreciative mail ... and Me" and "I'm In The Mood For pop stars-husband Steve Lawrence Love" .. Males from her telly appearances . and Beneke had found a (left) and Matt Monro. (NRM Pic.) I MIDNIGHT DECISION too. new vocalist. Via "Tonight", Steve Allen's tele- But single success has eluded her. vision show, she built her name. "She'sjust an albumartist",they time, teaming up professionally in the said. Well, now she ain't. Then, one night in February, 1956, tall of 1960. ON HELEN'S DISC Billy Daniels was unable to cope with Look back on her career -lines. One And therein lies the ironic bit. pROBLEM facing : Helen) and "I Don't Care" emerged as hisheadlining spotat New York's how tochoosethenext Helen the top two. American producer went on record as togo, Some three years after they start I saying 'livewire' Copacabana. With an hour Shapiro single to be issued. And quickly "I Don't Care" comes from the Billy "The expression Eydie was rushedinandwithout workingtheclubcircuitsasa was undoubtedly coined to describe dynamic double -act team, Eydie looks because Helen wanted to featureit on Fury film "Play It Cool" and is penned proper make-up, costume or I her London Palladium television show.' Miss Gorme". likebreaking through... AS A by Norrie Paramor and . rehearsal, she scored such a hit that But which side should be the main Dead right! she was immediately re -booked. As SINGLE on disc. So they called up a large crowd of I teenagersfromofficesneartothe side? Eydie'sa New Yorker, bornof headliner of her own show. Same goes for Steve, who swings Stillnodecision. went with every bit as much determination Columbia Records headquarters and had So home Turkishparents.Her careerreally Eydie made news headlines again I a secret ballot. HelentoHackneywithNorrieand started at the age of three. She wan- in December. 1957, when she married as his wife. For his last, "The Lady Alan Paramor to wake up the family dered away from her parentsina Steve Lawrence in Las Vegas. Wants To Twist", proved a big -seller I Around ton new titles were played to and friends for a midnight voting cere- department store and found herself in - and a highly -plugged commodity. the audience and they were askedto mony. "We met on that 'Tonight' show vote for the top two, line with other kids waiting to per- series," she recalled."Sure you can Duets on a single would seem to Eventually at 2 a.m. the decision was form on a radio show. call it love at first sight. We couldn't be the next profitable step forward I Eventually whenthe votes were made-"Little Miss Lonely". And ... On the swinging C.B.S. label. counted "Little Miss Lonely" (written She toddled on stage and gave out take our eyes off each other." I arranger Frank Barber was woken there with a winsome warble ... But they worked apart for some by Mike Hawker and John Schroeder, and then to start work arranging them PETER JONES who composed "Don't Treat Me Like for the Palladium TV. Record will be moo onn, MIN OMNI INN WM MEM 116.1 A Child" and "You Don't Know" for released on July 6.

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RCA Victor Records product of THE DECCA RECORD COMPANY LIMITED DECCA HOUSE ALBERT EMBANKMENT LONDON S Et RCAVICTOR Page Six NEW RECORD MIRROR. Week -ending June 30, 1962 6MY MAIN FEAR IS BEING TYPED' FRANK IFIELD AND SUCCESS

YOU could call the young,good- contradiction interms-andit bighit record.That he's too big- stage,Icantella few gags,play looking Australian pop singer MUSTdo-well, considerthe headed tobother. Well, thatisn't some diabolical piano or sing some- Frank Ifield an "unsuccessful situation. true. thinglike'Cigareets,and Whusky success". And ifthat sounds a Frank arrived here in Novem- "A hit record means added status and Wild Wild Women'-anything to break up the act. ber, 1959, having been on records . . . and added money," hesaid. in Australia since he was 14 and "That is the same for everybody, even "if I was new to the business and havingbecome convinced that a young lad who has only been in made a disc withsomegimmick on FRANK there was little else he could gain the business five minutes. it, I'd be lumbered with that for the in terms of success or experience rest of my life.I'd hate it." IFIELD. "Theonlydifference isthat a "down under". performer who has experienceisin (NRM He arrivedin London practically a better position. He pulls the people Picture.) unknown. An early Press conference in and then knows how to go about RECORD helped him because he met up with entertaining them.With the one-shot Infact, Frank's latest record. "I TOMMY STEELE, then due to debut successes,itis frequently the lower - in Australia-and the"one-coming-in- Remember You", has the gimmick on -the -bill artists who score the big of a yodelledbit.But ifit whips the-other-going-out"routineearned successes. straight to the top. I doubt if he will plenty of newspaper space. "Take theDallasBoys,forin- yodel his way through the rest of his Frank's way had been paved by stance. No hit record.. .but they career . PETER GORMLEY, now manager always go well on stage." Contrary to supposition, Frank is to CLIFF RICHARD and the not an Australian. .. and was born Shadows.Record testshad been al111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111L-', arranged in advance, plus introduc- in .His first memories of dons to the radio, TV and journalist By singing are from air-raid shelters, at worlds. school, belting through "Ten Green Bottles". ButFrank was stilltaking a PETER JONES chance ... In 1946, he went to Australia with hisparents. "Ihad a three-mile His firstdisc, "Lucky Devil", hit 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111i711111111T walk to school every day and I used the charts.Since then he has had Frank certainly has that experience. to sing the hill -billy songs to myself seven singles released and, while they At 13, he was yodelling for pocket - Eventually, I sang at school concerts, haven'thitthe Top Twenty, they money in Australia.At 14, he was accompanying myself on ukelele. have had uniformly good praise from on the old Regal-Zonophone label- "I'd like to go back to Australia reviewers and from disc -jockeys. and one old 78 rpm isstillselling sonic time," he told me. "Like to do For the factisthat Frank isa each week. He was a hill -billy singer a tour there.But Ithink Britain is darned good singer, with a wealth of then and he believes that there will one of the most important centres experience behind him. He has done soon be a Country 'n' Western sweep of show businessand,since1959, most of the major television shows inthis country.KARL DENVER, I've hardly had time to think about and had worked the principal halls he thinks, has pointed the way. leaving." = over the country. And, by now, Frank has made over That's the point, again. Frank has JAN BURNETTEDoes My Heart- But NOT as a star. 50 singles. worked solidly and consistently, with- ache Show; All At Once(Oriole CB Other people nip into the charts, Now this is where the "unsuccessful out having the "burden" of a big hit record. 1742) SINGLE make itbig for a short while . .. success"bit comes in.For Frank, AS we've noted before, with her first then fade.Frank is THERE, a good without that top single, works hard Ifhegetsthatbig hit-and "I solid,well -performing release, Jan Burnettereally CAN secondtop. and consistently.He's not instantly Remember You" could easily be it - Records selling well, personality recognised in the street, sure-but he he'll be able to cope with the new sing.She has a lightly -huskyquality, pleasing, money on the up and up, has a large, steadily -growing follow- statusrequirements astop,instead Phrases with a whole lot of confidence all happening! REVIEWS ing. of second, on the bills. and sounds as if she really does believe Now this could he interpreted as "My mainfearisaboutbeing And we'll be headlining the next meaning that Frank doesn't need a in the lyrics. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) typed," hesaid. "Nowadays, on story ... "The Successful Success". "Does My Heartache Show", written byJohn D. Loudermilk,is a good song, dressed up with an imaginative arrange- ment and is well worth hearing. Touches of double -track vocal, all very effective. Predicting Hitsville for a newish girlis tricky.But Jan really does deserve to make it big. Talent will, eventually, out. TOMMY BRUCE: "All At Once" is an oldie that requires 'Horror Movies' aconsiderable amount of singing. Again is the title Jan isnot lackingin any department. What's more,ithas another fetchingly of his attractivearrangement.Quality. But new disc commercial. so he FOUR SS%S takes himself off to THE COUNTRYMENEnchanted see some. Sea; The Road To Anywhere (Piccadilly 35034) (NRM Picture.) BIG instrumental hit Stateside for The Islanders someyearsback, "The Enchanted Sea" gets a set of lyrics by the Countrymen. The "I Know Where I'm Going" team look like going even further with this one. Not so obviously commercial as most but with a strange quality that grows on you. Slowish and polished, the group sound like they've been making discsof this standard foryears. Faster tempo for "The Road to Any- IN YOUR SHOPS TODAY where"anotherpolishedperformance BRENDA withinterestingpianobreakinthe 111AUREE1V RETURNS AFTER fivemonths middle. away,during Said Maureen: "It's great to be back. LIPSTICK TRACES Troubleisinthelyric.Itstartsoff which time she had her first baby But I've kept in trim back home in LEE as a highly philosophical piece of prose, daughter, Lynette, Cardiff -born Maur- Wales, because a local pianist took me BENNY SPELLMAN HLP 9570 but ends up on the usual boy -and -girl eenEvans returnedtotheOriole through rehearsals more or less every HERE COMES THAT FEELIN' BF kick. Disappointing. recording studios last week. THE WRONG GIRL day. Will being a mother affect my 05871 CH THREE She recorded "Never In A Million THE SHOWMEN HLP 9571 Years" and "We Had Words", under work?No. Idon't even mind the the supervision of recording manager travelling.I've got a wonderful baby- EMILIO PERICOLITheme From John Schroeder. sitter for Lynette-my own mother!" OH YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL .,(.9k.VON" grua.twick "Lovers Must Learn";GINO PAOLI DONNIE BROOKS HLN 9572 SassiiWarner Brothers WB 69) TWO artists for the price of one here. Emilio Pericoli has the hit version COMPOSERS IN THE SUN of the movie theme inthe States. He WEST singsinItalianinasofter -than -usual ABRITISHhit musical -producing of Girl",said: "WhenTony Newleyand way, compared with the manned Roma - teamis basing itself next week first Iwere writingStop the World-I Wan based tenor. All very nice, very smooth on San Tropez, and then for two months To Get Off,'we thought itbest to ge ANGELA (theme -but we don't think it will rate high in in an Italian seaside villagejust south away from London and the telephone OF THE WALL Britain. "Volare" DID ...but this one of Pisa. We wrote that musical in New York.' just isn't as good. The trio concerned are writer Wolf While Bricusseisinthesouth of EN France, he will be visited by Tony New - TONI fISHER IAY& TOMMY SCOTT Flip opens oh -so -gently.Single note, Mankowitz,composerLeslieBricusse ley.They intend taking out the British F 11474 then choir, then harmonica. Gino Paoli and conductor -composerCyril Ornadel. FILX 9564 singsinItalian,but thoughitscores political references in " Stop the World" And they will be working on theBernard and preparing new American material for on a haunting sort of atmosphere itis musical,"Pickwick,"which not as commercial as the Pericoli side. Delfont the Broadway opening of the show in DECCA opens in the West End in the autumn, September. Nicely sung and it builds well, vocally starringHarry Secombe. and instrumentally. Newley starts work next month on a Why work abroad ?Bricusse, recent new film," Sammy,"andthenim- THREE %%S Novello Award winner for his "My Kind mediately leaves for America. NEW RECORD MIRROR. Week -ending June 30. 1962 Page Seven HORROR ON RECORD TOMMY BRUCE has wrapped his 1 gravelcoatedchops arounda hymn of praise to "Horror Movies"; Whispering Paul McDowell, of the Temperance Seven, but without them on this disc, pays tribute to Frank N. Stein and that scion of the nobility Count Dracula. Seems there's a market for some- one on the horror kick. CLIFF (NRM Picture) AND ... BRENDA (NRM Picture) AND ... ELVIS AND Whispering Paul McDowell says that he wrotehis horror story," Frankie," while doing a summer seasonatSt. Tropez . . . a summer season, note, as a car park attendant! ALL THESE SINGERS Jobs appear to be a hobby of Whis- pering Paul, who has held his job as residentvocalistwiththe Temperance Seven longest of all. ON ONE ALBUM!! JUST imagine it! Imagine you could CLUMSY take the top twelve artists in the Hit Parade, singing their current hits, -WELL, IT He has been gardener ("I broke all and get them all on one long -player the flower stems-I'm clumsy"), recep- forabouthalf-a-crown more than tionistat the Polish Embassy ("Sacked the cost of one single! HAPPENS IN because I didn't speak Polish"), a carpet No worry about the fact that the beater, railway porter, dishwasher ("Who artists are all on different labels. You HONG KONG hasn't ? "), costing clerk ("I lasted one get the LOT! morning "), postman, holidaycamp photographer, and car park attendant. Impossible? Not in the Far East Disc -wise, the scene has changed He turned down a job washing loco- ..in Hong Kong. in the Far East. Hong Kong is very motives. The news was broughtbyMike American; Singapore is very British. WHISPERING PAUL McDOWELL: Dracula with the latest Whispering Paul gives" Frankie " a Ellery, who isEnglish programmes' There was trouble over the Twist line in cloaks takes a trip around the graveyard ... looking straight ballad treatment involving gypsy manager forRediffusioninSinga- inSingapore, where the craze was PAT ... ALL ON for material for his next record? violinists, which he says is warbled " in pore, and who returns home to Lon- officially "discouraged" by the Min- ONE PIRATE LP. my monster ballad voice " and concerns don just every three years. istry of Culture. So it didn't get the a 300 -year -old " ya ya " girl. He said: "You get these albums plugs on radio but they wiggled Mike reportedthat Russ Hamilton, sold openly in the shops. Made in to it anyway in the clubs. And there Edmundo Ros and Mantovani were " Monsters have beenneglectedfor are a lot of clubs. the big disc -sellers there. Now itis too long," says Paul. Nationalist China, they were badly Cliff, Helen principally in Singapore packaged but no matter. Stereoispopular in Hong Kong -Elvis, Pat Boone, Connie Francis MEET A Tommy Bruce thinks so, too . .. only where you can get Japanese equip- hisparticularfieldofendeavouris "Some people were sued. But they in Hong Kong. started up again." ment, replete with short and medium horror movies.But there is another side radio, for 200 -dollars (local dollars). Thingsarelookinguponthe to Tommy Bruce because the top side It was worth taking the risks to That's not much over £11. "live" entertainment scene, too. of the disc, " It's You," is a pretty love get Presley, Boone, Brenda Lee, Cliff BobbyRydellandFrankSinatra GRUESOME ballad. all on the same album. BeforehislastvisittoBritain, have been that way .. but the odd What's more, Tommy singsitina L NMI NUM MI thing isthat there are few requests nice, normal voice which you don't ex------for Sinatra discs. pect from this ex -Covent Garden fruit I Cliff Richard and The Shadows, porter. too, were over there and helped push TWOSOME "Why shouldn't I sing this way?" he up their own sales. Adam Faith and maintains." Igot fed up with people John Ley ton go over later this year. saying my voiceisjust a gimmick, so I And there are two Top Twenties I decided to show them. going the rounds. One is by Redif- fusion as a result of incoming mail " But the Horror Movies side . .. andtheotherbythedisc -sellers. well.Ifigure my rough voice suited the About 5,000 isa good seller figure material better." for Hong Kong and you can double that figure for Malaya. I Two boys who do well over there OSCAR WINNER are The Blue Diamonds, who started Itheir career in Holland by making TIOMKIN has been signed "cover"versions ofthe Everly by Samuel Bronston Productions to Brothers. Now theyvisittheFar compose and conduct the music score I East regularly ...and do the pro- verbial bomb because of their Indo- for " 55 Days atPeking," astory of Inesian ancestry. the Boxer uprising in China, co-starring And among visitors to Rediffusion CharltonHeston,AvaGardnerand MME IVI GIRLS Ithere have been Benny Hill, Hughie David Niven. Green, Harry Secontbe, Lonnie IDonegan, Shirley MacLaine and Des- Tiomkin is a four -time Oscar winner mond Lane, forhisfilmmusic,notably" Giant," I But most of them call in on their "The Old Man and the Sea," " The Sun - TOMMY BRUCE:amore normal picture, as fans see him at Great Yarmouth. way to and from Australia...P.J. downers " and" Guns ofNavarone." Picture depicts "It'sYou", which is other side of latest record. (NRM Picture.) L. His song hits include " Do Not Forsake Me," from " High Noon," and " Green ------II Leaves of Summer," from " The Alamo." FIRST JAZZ11112313111 DOC COOK featuring FREDDY and every piece as fresh as the day they were made. KE P P AR D-1923-1928 JET KARI. Forceful Chicago Negro jazz complete GEORGIABROWN Classic Jazz Masters with all the real spirit and exoitement of Doc Cook and his Dreamland the Roaring Twenties. And they never PETE FOUNTAIN HARRIS with Ted Heath & his Music DENVER Orchestra roaredmoreeffectivelythaninthe BourbonStreet HereComesthe Old Tamale Man fabulous gangster -ridden Windy City. FarewellBlues St. James Infirmary SAME MUCH; A BROKEN DOLL A LITTLE LOVE, A LITTLE KISS Spanish Mamma Brown Sugar FIRST JAZZ RECORDING 1917 MarchoftheBobcats March HighFever SidewalkBlues. Through theStreetsof their City LLS AND FEVER F 11482 F 11470 Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra Classic Jazz Masters At the Jazz BandBall Blueson F11,166 Bourbon Street Jazz Me Blues Cutie Chinaman Blues. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band Blues Indiana TheDarktownStrutters Lazy River. CORAL LVA 9154. DECCA DECCA Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Ball. THIS iscertainly not a modern jazz Syncopation The Louisiana Five record,but I include it be- causeitdoes AlligatorCrawl Brainstorm havearelevance to Slow and Easy IAin't En Got -em modern jazz. In the last fifteen years the Williethe Weeper Slue Foot I No Time to Have the Blues. PHILIPS Got andStrum. clarinet has virtually disappeared from Worry Hum BBE.12488. YOU KNOW ME TIARA PHILIPS BBL.7520. thescene,eitherdismissedbythe DI LA THE HOARY old controversy of who modernists or battened ontoby the NOW this album has all the advantage andwhatstartedjazz,whiteor professional amateurs (No need to men- 'ram 'Lovers must learn') of surprise and discovery thatthe coloured, is again with us but we can tion names after all this time). Today if MUCH TOO WELL TAHITI reissue of extremely rare, almost legen- forgive the obvious partisanship of dis- you were askedtothinkof modern dary material must offer to the discern- cographical expert Brian Rust (who co- clarinettists,you mightlickyourlips ingcollector. Freddy Keppard'sfierce, operates on the editing of this EP withnervously for two or three days and 11110 PERIC011 hard hornsparkseveryside andthe RAY PETERSON FRANiiroCigkiFIELD PaulOliver)when welistentothe then suggest Jimmie Guiffre and Tony WB 69 music is often magnificent to a degree. I vintagesoundofthe ODJB and the Scott.Guiffre seems to me tomisuse remembertreasuringoneortwoof Louisiana Five. completelytheclarinet,whileScott these tracks a quarter of a century back, Putting aside the chicken and the egg sounds so inept thatIcan hardly be- DECCA on the battered old 78'sIcollected as business, this record is a must for col-lieve the man is serious. eagerly as a miser hoards gold. Now, lectors who harken back to the good old Pete Fountain plays clarinet in a way with the help of modern recording tech- days and still enjoy the fresh vitality ofthat ought to be an object lesson for niques, here they are again, with even jazz being born. Fine, moving Dixieland thz Scotts and Guiffres of this world. more sidesIhave never heard before,-the best you'll ever hear. J.A. B.G. Page Eight NEW RECORD MIRROR. Week -ending June 30, 1962 TYPICAL EVEN SLOWER CRIBBINS

BERNARD CRIBBINSRight, Said Fred; Quietly Bonkers (Parlophone R.4923) DONEGAN... THE "Hole In The Ground" man looks likedoingitagain with another bright and breezy story which ends in the aforementioned Fred be- JOHNNY CRAWFORD Cindy's ing buried in a ton of rubble. Taken LONNIE DONEGAN I'll Never Birthday; Patti -Ann (Pye Inter- at a fast clip, the song is jerky and FallIn Love Again; Keep On national 25145) really suits Bernard. What's more it The Sunny Side (Pye 7N 15446) Tins is an American hit for Johnny is entertainingly witty and the EVEN slowerthan "The Party's that has been covered by Shane arrangement sounds amusing. Over"isthelatest from Mr. Fenton inthis country. Strings accom- "Quietly Bonkers" is probably the Donegan. Called. "I'll Never Fall In pany Johnny's attractive deep voice in nearest Cribbins has yet come to a Love Again" it bears no relation to a way thatrecalls chamber musicat love song. Again the Cockney voice the last hit by Mr. Johnny Ray. times. Here welded with a bit of echo conies over to great effect. andadrummer workingovertimeit Sung with that great feeling that comes off though.It's hard to predict FOUR SSSS Lonnie injects into all his songs, it's whether or not it will be a hit but itis a lovely slowie with a delicate string a good side. and piano backing.Lyric, as sug- gested deals with a guy disillusioned Johnnyhasswitchedaffectionsto GRANT TRACY The Painted Smile; by his old love affairs. Patti on theflip.Today's most used Taming Tigers (Ember EMB s155) gimmick is present on this side-double GRANT nearly made it with his last, Slightly off -beat with places where tracking. The tune isn't so strong but "The Great Matchmaker" and our Lonnie gives little screams, it should drums and strings are well to the fore guess is he can do at least as well with be a hit. But ...too many people again, his latest "The Painted Smile". Grant's will think it's just a cash -in on "The got a good voice and handles a good Party's Over". THREE S S S song competently, and sincerely. Brighter stuff on the flip to please Stringsfillthe middle break before those who like Mr. Donegan in this ROY CASTLEAc-Cent-Tchu-Ate Grant comes back powerfully. mood.Can't say much about this The Positive; On A Slow Boat To exceptthatitisgood.Typical China (Philips BF 326529) Watch this one-it could be bigger skiffle-yarrangementwithfrenzied than most would think. Pseudo growls ROY CASTLE,thecomedian -singer open "Taming Tigers"aratherlight- shouting at the end by Lonnie. Could isin be more commercial thanthetop that America recognised first, hearted dittyin which Grant tellsof side. fine form and fettle here as he swings thegirl who you'dbetterstayaway his way through the old Mercer -Arlen LONNIE DONEGAN: sings with great feeling. (NRM Picture.) from. Unless he adds, you like taming FOUR SS SS standard - verseandall-comfortably cushioned by a big brassy band organised tigers. NATHANIEL MAYER Village Of slightly in parts, growls here and there Good performance from Grant, and by WallyStott.Nice to hear British Love;1 Want A Woman (HMV and otherwise keeps things interesting. a competent backing. MIKE BERRY EveryLittle singersattemptingand managingthis POP 1041) Kiss; kind of BIG approach.Swings some- Theflipsideisfasterpaced,again How ManyTimes (HMV POP what too. Good work, Mr. Castle. WITH eight weeks so far in the Ameri- features harmonica and was written by THREE SS 1042) can Top 50 Nathaniel proves that Frank. Like the top side it leans more "QHA-DA-DA'S" open "EveryLittle Roy's"Slow Boat"istakenata his particular village is a pretty wild and towards the country and western grass- CLAUDE KING Wolverton Moun- " Kiss" by Mike Berry who isoff mediumtempo,sungmoreorless rocking place. The actual quality of the lands than the rock. A worthwhile flip straight, again with the big brass behind. tain; Little Bitty Heart (CBS AAG ofhis double -track kick on thisside. lyricisn'tanything toyell about and to a worthwhile disc. 108) Fast-ishballad with plenty of appeal. Again the swinging side of Roy comes Nat's voiceslides about barely under through strongly. Two first-class quality control. The backing group who are " WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN "is Butwe fearithasn'ttheimmediate FOUR SSSS w already a sizable hit for Claude in commercialsoundtoputitinthe sides. calledtheFabulousTwilightsgroan charts. away in unison. One of those tunes and America where they go for this type of FOUR SSUS treatmentsthatfollowonfromthe BURT BLANCA WITH THE KING folknik gear rather more than we do on A good song well sung, but somewhat Marcels. CREOLES TexasRider;Shamash this side of the Atlantic. Claude has the lackingdistinction.A few playswill THE SHOWMEN The Wrong Girl; I (Zodiac 004) right accent-he pronounces 'Honey' as definitelyimprove though. The flipside has Nathaniel singing a We don't Love You, Can't You See (London "TEXAS RIDER" isa galloping in- 'Horn-ee'. Mr. King has it hard because really think Mike Berrywillhave to HLP 9571) fairly standard blues in which he rhymes he hastobravethedangers ofthe wait much longer for a real big 'un if "Treat me right" with "Hold me tight". strumental, done in much the same mountain to get the girl he loves. Need- THE SHOWMEN are oneofthose way as some ofthe he keeps on making discs up tothis Again no prizes fbr literary merit. Some earlier Shadows lessto say he does. But "Wolverton" standard. lead -voice -and -rhythmgroupsthat guitar work is heard. numbers. Some parts seem to be taken probably won't replace "Old Smokey" are an excitingpart of the American has straight out of "Apache", while others among the folk songs, although the tune "How ManyTimes" is one of scene today. The Showmen aren't one TowardstheendMr.Mayer show patches of originality. Mike's owncompositionsandwill trouhle pronouncing his words, content- is nearly as familiar. of the best but they are a long way from Good for dancingto, appealtothefans who haveliked being the worst. Good swinging beat is ing himself with something midway be- but notfor Since Mr. Burl lye's tearful song, the Mike's previous discs. Double, or is tween humming and groaning. pureentertainment.Burt'sa weebit it established and everything sounds happy, behind the times. phrase "Little Bitty" has been enjoying treble,tracked with a sound justlike although itis a sad song of heartbreak. THREE S S S a minor vogue. Here Claude milksit Bobby Vee's. Perhaps the more com- Lead singerdoeshisnutquietlyon "Shamash" is a powerful number with again with a pleasant folk song that jogs mercial side. certain phrases. more impact than the top side. And we along. Two good-if not hit potential- CHRIS BARBER It Looks Like A think more commercial appeal. sides. THREE S S The flipside is slower but the emotion Big Time Tonight;Cottage Crawl is still poured all over the listener. The (Columbia SCD 2170) THREE S SS THREE USS JULIE GRANT So Many Ways; group sound more like a spiritual unit FAIRLY AVERAGE clean cuttradi- Unimportant Things (Pye 7N on this side. The lyric of course is not religious. tional arrangement of a traditional 15447) tune that never really moves anywhere. AHIT for Brook Benton a long time THREE S Playingisprofessional and competent back, Julie makes the best version but the whole thing lacks any real spark. we've heard of the song. Everything COL JAMES Doesn't Anyone Make "Cottage Crawl" is better. A slow blues about this disc is good-song, backing, Short Movies Anymore; Ain't She with a back -beat that allows everybody and, most of all-Julie. Pretty (Oriole CB 1736) toplayfine and mellow with Chris's SAM COOKE RCA -I296 She handles the somewhat adult song trombone taking first solo. Ian Wheeler in an equally adult fashion and comes N AMUSING novelty from Colin- switches from clarinet to alto saxophone ". now Col James-about the length of but keeps well in the era. Title is dedi- HAVING A PARTY RCAVICTOR out on top of the backing whichis some ofour super Biblicalepicsall extremely good and off -beat. cated to awell known hostelry where sung in a mock hill -billy accent with a jazzmen congregate and stagger, as Mr. This could be a really big one for touch of double tracking. Col apparently Eddie Condon puts it. Julie. We hope so, she deservesit. considers that he sees more of Charlton Slowertempoontheflip,"Un- Heston than Mrs. Heston, Well turned THREE SS importantThings"aslowishballad out disc that could go places if the right which is good enough to he a top side. plugs are gained. Arrangement isinter- DONNIE BROOKS Oh You Al DI LA One of those "Little Things Mean A esting and starts off with a good silent BeautifulDoll;Just ABystander (theme from 'Lovers must learn') RCA -1294 Lot" type of songs, but with plenty of treatment. (London HLN 9572) originality. "Ain'tShePretty"isaveryfast "BEAUTIFUL DOLL" is an old song AL HIRT RCAVICTOR Once again a good performance from treatment of the old standard with Col " from the days when people wore all concerned. giving fullreintohistalents.Biggish strawhatsandtriedtopushsongs band and tenor sax jump inbehind. across by being exuberant and terribly FOUR W%SS Complete contrast to the top side. Jolly. Mr. Brooks has taken it and added a fast shuffle rhythm plus a fairground JOE DOWELL Little Red Rented THREE S S organ and a spot of double tracking. The Rowboat; The One I Left For You result collies out in a very ordinary way. ADIOS AMIGO (Mercury AMT 1180) BENNY SPELLMAN Lipstick This is a song that countless singers have RCA -1293 10E, the man who had the "Wooden Traces; Fortune Teller (London HLP recorded. Mr. Brooks adds nothing new JIM REEVES Heart"hitin America, sings one 9570) and we've heard better. RCAVICTOR of those tongue tripping tunes in which VAGUELY RHYTHM 'N' BLUESY For theflipside Mr. Brooks, with a he has girls in his little red rented row- isBenny Spellman,adeepvoice girl chorus, turns in a song of loneliness boat which isn't much better than no reminiscentofFatsDomino.Girlie which has him watching everybody else boat. He loses them one by one to far chorusrespondstohisentreatiesat with girls and all that. superior river craft. This all goes on to times andthebacking group sounds a banjo clanking out a fast rhythm and brassy.Fasttempo songisn'tofa THREE S theshrillestgirls'chorus we've heard reallybight standard though. Unusual PAUL ANNA in a long time. Incidentally Joe gets his sound achievedinthe arrangement by FRANK IFIELD I Remember You; IListen To My Heart (Columbia RCA -I292 own back in the end-as if we didn't using trombones. A STEEL GUITAR know. Already starting to move in the Tambourines areused ontheflip, DB 4856) American Top 100, 78 in one week. which isinthe same style as flipside. GUITAR DOMINATEDrhythm RCAVICTOR The flipside is not one for Mr. David About a guy who pays a visit to the section, harmonica wails pleasantly, AND A GLASS OF WINE Jacobs who ison recordasdisliking fortune teller and ends up getting married liltingtempo and Mr. Ifieldworking talking on discs. Joe talks his way with to her. His only real reason is that he his way around, in a very workmanlike RCA Victor Records product of pseudo sincerity and heart through a sad gets his fortune told for free, but there way, an old Johnny Mercer song. The Decca Record Company Ltd Decca House Albert Embankment LondonSE tEl story.. nothing to rave about must be more to it. So withguitars, mouth organs,old song, Frank has the basis of a hit on THREE S THREE S S his hands and not before time. He yodels NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending June 30, 1962 Page Nine Refed. Wheat TALENT CONTEST YOUR CHANCE TO BECOME A

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BRITAIN'S BUNDLE OF CUTE TALENT! TOP LP's. HAYLEY MILLS TIMI YURO LETS GET TOGETHER SOUL! WEST SIDE STORY leepers Creepers; Green And Yellow Basket; Be Anything; A Lovely Way To Spend An (1)Sound Track (Philips) Sentimental Sunday; Ding Ding Ding; Side By Evening; IfI Had You; There Goes My Heart; Stardust;You I CranberryBog;LittleBoy;Cobbler Belong To My Heart;If BLUE HAWAII Sid; Didn'tCare;ThenI'llBe Tired Of You; 2 Cobbler; Johnny Jingo; Pollyanna Song; Jimmie Nothing. In The World; Don't Take Your Love (2) Elvis Presley (RCA -Victor) Bean;Let'sGetTogether.(DECCA LK-R From Me; Once In A While; Somewhere Along BLACK & WHITE MINSTREL 4426.) The Way. (LIBERTY LBY 1042.) 3 WHAT is it about Hayley Mills? She'sTHERE'S an aura of awareness sur- SHOW a rounding Miss Timi Yuro. This is no (3) The George Mitchell no great shakes as a singer yet she Minstrels(H.M.V.) romps into the world's best selling chartsfresh, vague youth without a carein with the cute "Let's Get Together" andthe world. There's also a strong maturity SOUTH PACIFIC follows up with this album which must in her voice in the way she interprets her 4(4)Sound Track (RCA -Victor) lyrics. also sell strongly. IT'S TRAD, DAD! I guess it must be the fact that she's This is no assembly line vocalist-Miss 5(5) Sound Track (Columbia) such a bundle of cute talent herself thatYuro is custom-tailored talent all along anything she does will be enjoyed by the the way. Note the name. 6THE ROARING TWENTIES masses. More please Miss Mills. (6)Dorothy Provine (Warner) FOUR S SS S THE YOUNG ONES THREE S SS' 7(7)Cliff Richard (Columbia) JIM TYLER THE SHADOWS JERRY LEE LEWIS TWIST 8(8) The Shadows (Columbia) GREATEST! Hallelujah,1 Love Her So; Fever; Mary Ann; STRANGER ON THE SHORE "Grrr"; Alright, Okay, You Win; Ain't That 9 Money; As Long As 1Live; Country Music Is Love; Ain't That JustLike A Woman; La (10) Acker Bilk (Columbia) Here To Stay; Frankie And Johnnie; Home: Busca; One Mint Julep;IGot A Woman; SINATRA AND STRINGS Baby;Let'sTalk AboutUs; BargainBasement;Time ToTwist.(TIME Hello,Hello ORIOLE OT 2516.) 10(9) Frank Sinatra (Reprise) What'dISay; Breakup; Great Balls Of Fire; Cold,Cold Heart;Hello Josephine.(LON- MORE twisting and this time a line-up TOPS WITH ME DON HA -S 2440.) of star musicians, many from the 11(12) Helen Shapiro (Columbia) great, but what's the use ofR &Bfield, has been got together for THISis the session. Top titles too-again many SOUND OFMUSIC raving-Jerry just isn't the force he 12(13)London Cast(H.M.V.) was once with the disc fans. from theR &B scene. If you enjoy this one as much as I 13HONEY HIT PARADE A showman allthe way Jerry Leedid then I bet you'll be worn out after (16)Various Artistes plays a knocked out piano (if that phrase (Pye Golden Guinea) isn'ttoo archaicinthese "hip" days) a couple of playings-you just can't keep and turns in a frantic (even older) vocal.still while the discis playing. 14TIME FURTHER OUT Yes, I'm a Jerry Lee Lewis man all (17)Dave Brubeck (C.B.S.) the way-care to join the club ? FOUR SSSS, ANOTHER BLACK & WHITE 15MINSTREL SHOW THREE SSS GENE PITNEY (11)The George Mitchell THE MANY SIDES Minstrels (H.M.V.) PEGGY LEE, ELLA FITZGERALD Town Without Pity; (I Wanna) Love My Life BUDDY HOLLY STORY Vol. 1 Away; I Laughed So Hard I Cried; Dream For 16 PETE KELLY'S BLUES Sale; Twenty Two Days; Today's Teardrops; (18)Buddy Holly (Coral) Oh Didn't He Ramble; Sugar; Somebody Loves Hello Mary Lou; Take Me Tonight; Harmony; A Greater Love; Every BreathITake; Sure HAYLEY MILLS: follows on her hit singles with an LP. I REMEMBER TOMMY 1 17 Me; I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now; Fire Bet; A Chance To Belong. (HMV UNITED (-)Frank Sinatra (Reprise) Never Knew; Bye Bye Blackbird; What Can I ARTISTS CLP 1566.) THE MODERNAIRES JERRY LEE LEWIS Vol. 2 Say AfterISayI'm Sorry; Hard Hearted A RECENT and welcome visitor to the 18 Hannah; Ella Hums The Blues; He Needs Me; SING THE GREAT GLEN MILLER (15)Jerry Lee Lewis(London) NRM office was Gene Pitney and his INSTRUMENTALS Sing A Rainbow; Pete Kelly's Blues. (DECCA latest album is no less welcome. Gene is MY FAIR LADY ACE OF HEARTS All 26.) presented here as singer, songwriter and Tuxedo Junction;String Of Pearls;Sunrise 19(-)Original Broadway Cast AREN'Ttheresomegreatreissues Serenade;Pennsylvania Six -FiveThousand; musician -arranger.He didn'tcompose Sleepy Town Train; In The Mood; St.Louis (Philips) among these Ace Of Hearts discs ?all the titles but enough to ensure that EARTHY This is probably one of the best bunch. BluesMarch;LittleBrownJug;Stardust; HANCOCK you won't think him an amateur in that Adios; Caribbean Clipper; Moonlight Serenade. 20(-) Tony Hancock (Pye) The film was good but the album evenfield. He sings nicely too. You'll likeit (HMV CLP 1547.) better as you can play it or take itoff if you think young. at will. When the mood takes me this ANOTHER look at the Glenn Miller rates as one of the top albums in my FOUR SSSS hits of a couple of decades ago, SNOOKS collection-late evening sets the perfect but this time the accent is on the vocal mood. JIM McHARG, SCOTSVILLE side. SNOOKS EAGLIN BRITAIN'S JAZZMEN The re-formed Modernaires singthe New Orleans Street Singer FIVE Careless Love Come Back Baby ForgottenDreams;Blue Matilda(Waltzing items in bright, modern manner, and the Matilda);St.Thomas;Duff Campbell's Re- album should have a wide sale despite High Society Let Me Go Home venge; J.P. Blues (John Peel); The Ghost Of the fact that the numbers are revivedWhiskey Trouble in Mind St. TOP EP's Glencoe; Everybody Loves My Baby; Swingin' James Infirmary IGot My Ques- Seamus;LazyRiver; SaySiSi;Downtown everyother monthin some form of Blues; The Banks Are Made Of Marble; Yellow Miller tribute or other. tionnaire DrifterBlues Rock C. -8c W. SPECIALISTS Dog Blues; Zing Went The Strings Of My Island Line Every Day I Have the FOLLOW THAT DREAM JAZZ STOCKISTS Heart. (PYE JAZZ NJL 39.) Blues Sophisticated Blues SeeSee (1) Elvis Presley (RCA -Victor) FOUR SS4S Rider One Scotch One Bourbon LATEST POP HITS nEBUT album from one of the newest A Thousand Miles from Home I'm 2HITS FROM THE FILM 'THE k. AT TWO ADDRESSES 1" bands on the trad. jazz scene.Led YOUNG ONES' bytalented Scots bassist Jim McHarg, Looking for a Woman Look Down thatLonesomeRoad.STORYVILLE (2)Cliff Richard and The the boys prove that they are no new- ALBUM REVIEWS Shadows (Columbia) JAMES ASMAN'S comers as far as talent and capabilities SLP.119. go. by JIMMY WATSON FOUR HITS AND A MR. SNOOKS EAGLIN 3(5)Acker Bilk (Columbia) RECORD CENTRE Some popular tunesaretreatedto That'sAllRight IHad alittle trad. to good effect and, as I learned PLAY IT COOL 23(a) New Row38 Camomile St. Woman Rock Me Mama Death 4(6) BillyFury (Decca) St. Martin's Lane Bishopsgate several years ago in my native Glasgow, JOHNNY WILLIAMS ValleyBlues.STORYVILLE SEP.386. London WC2 London EC3 the name Jim McHarg is synonymous RHYTHM IN MOTION SHADOWS TO THE FORE (COVent Garden(AYEnue 7791) with good jazz music. SNOOKS EAGLIN 5 1380) Fascinatin'Rhythm; TheVarsityDrag; The (4)The Shadows (Columbia) Surrey With The Fringe OnTop;Let's Do It; Country Boy Alberta.STORYVILLE THREE S SS' HELEN'S HIT PARADE Put On A Happy Face; Whatever Lola Wants; A.45056. 6(8)Helen Shapiro (Columbia) Johnny One Note; An Occasional Man; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; Life Is Just A Bowl TWO years ago there was a com- SPOTLIGHT ON THE Of Cherries; Sunny Disposish; Buckle Down plete dearth of genuine Ameri- 7SHADOWS Winsocki. (PHILIPS BBL 7545.) can Negro Blues music on record (3) The Shadows (Columbia) g000em000em0000sem0000000soos000e)osoos000sootvoos in this country-now the situation o o THIS is great stuff for those disc fans KING OF TWIST o is quite the reverse. So many good 8(7)Chubby Checker (Columbia) o o A who, like myself, enjoy the sounds Blues records are flooding into the oo o of an arranger being let loose with a market that is almost impossible BUTTON DOWN MIND OF o oo allthatlovely 9 o cowUPFAST! studioorchestraand to review them in any detail. BOB NEWHART No. 1 O o recording equipment. (9) BobNewhart (Warner) o o The gimmick sounds abound, and the " Champion "JackDupree," Big o o Bill"Broonzy,"Snooks"Eaglin DREAM resultant album will make any genuine 10(11)Cliff Richard (Columbia) enthusiast leap about ecstatically. and " Memphis Slim " are among hi-fi listed,asample ofthe KENNY BALL HIT PARADE OrangeBlossom But it won't sellto many other than releases 11 0 pianorolling,guitar picking and . 0 those enthusiasts, more's the pity. (12)Kenny Ball (Pye) strumming sounds which, together WEST SIDE STORY Vol. 1 . o. withtherichnessandpoetic 12 o. 0 FOUR SSSS beauty of the real Blues singers' (13) Original Broadway Cast o 0 (Philips) 0 art,are nowfillingthecurrent 0. Special 0 CATERINA VALENTE record lists. BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL o 0 13SHOW o 0 WERNER MULLER I am not complaining aboutthis CLASSICS WITH A CHASER (15)The George Mitchell o highly satisfactory state of affairs, Minstrels(H.M.V.) Theme From Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. but it does seem to me that, in this § E 1in B Flat Minor, Op. 23; Tonight We Love; strange industry of ours, we either HELEN THE spourN acs PianoConcert 14 . 0 Theme FromRachmaninoff's sufferenormousgapsin our (-)Helen Shapiro (Columbia) . 0 No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 18; Full Moon And libraries, or we have them suddenly . 0 Empty Arms; Polonaise No. 6 In A Flat, Op. CLIFF'S HIT PARADE . 0 filled with a flood of recordings out 15 Cliff Richard (Columbia) 53; Till The End Of Time; Theme From Polovt- of allproportion to the original (14) 0 fOR/OU CD p724) o stan Dances; Stranger In Paradise; Tchaikov- THE SHADOWS 0 o sky's Melody, No. 3, Op. 42; The Things demand. 16 o (17)The Shadows (Columbia) o Love. (RCA VICTOR RD -2740.) Snooks Eaglinistheearthiestof 0 o TOP Germansongstressandtop singers and guitar players, slightly LITTLE PIECES OF HANCOCK o o ofthelateLeadbelly, 17(10)Tony Hancock (Pye) o 1musicaldirectorfromthesame reminiscent o ORIOLE RECORDS LTD. o countryshould add uptoquitean and of Big Bill. The LP, EP and ANDY SINGS o o entertaining combination. They do. single devoted to his exciting Blues 18(19)Andy Stewart (Top Rank) 30oo o making are all worth having and 104, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.I. Only five of the ten tracks feature the TAKE FIVE °0 o°o the Storyville single would, I sug- 19 0 o vocal stylings of Miss Valente. The entire gest, make a rewarding titbit for (16) Dave Brubeck (Fontana) O o album, however, is listen worthy. o the reader who isn't yet convinced. 20THE SHADOWS No. 2 v00000ss000ss000sem000ssosoos00000ssos00000sosoe FOUR SSSS JAMES ASMAN. (18)The Shadows (Columbia) NEW RECORD MIRROR. Week -ending June 30, 1962 Page Eleven NEW BRENDA LEE'S LEAP RECORD BRENDA LEE'S Week, that's for sure. Good to seetwo British boys at the BRITAIN'S TOP SO A Britishin -persontourofone topwhosenamesdon'tbeginCliff, nighters helped to push her "Speak ToAdam, Karl or Billy. Mike Same has Me Pretty" to the top and the comeback finally made it which must please every- COMPILED BY THE RECORD RETAILER MIRROR: trailhas been consolidatedbyaleap one wholikessomethingoriginalin of 22placesbyher new disc "Here pop music. CHART SURVEY Comes That Feeling". His follow-up problem will be difficult COME OUTSIDE A LITTLE LOVE, A though! 1 19 As far as we're concerned it's a wel- New in the Top Ten, as predicted are 2 (8) Mike Same LITTLE KISS come feeling. Jimmy Rodgers who has overtaken sur- (Parlophone) 23 (4)Karl Denver prisinglyRayCharles.Whileonthe (Decca) subjectnotethatthefantasticBilk A PICTURE OF YOU "Stranger" isstill with us in the TOP 2 4(8) Joe Brown YES MY DARLING TEN after 34 weeks in the charts. Did 20DAUGHTER wesay "Stranger"? (Piccadilly) 34(2) Eydie Gorme The so called follow up to this Bilk GOOD LUCK CHARM hit,"Frankie and Johnnie" didn't get 3 (C.B.S.) very far and now looks as if it's stopped 1 (8) Elvis Presley LONELY CITY CASHBOX TOP 50 selling. Meanwhile the "Stranger" keeps (RCA -Victor) 21 on walking ... 15 (9) JohnLeyton(H.M.V.) AIR MAILED FROM NEW YORK New in the Top Twenty as predicted I'M LOOKING OUT THE22HERE COMES THAT FEELING isEydie Comic and her Dixiestyle 4WINDOW/DO YOU 44 (2) Brenda Lee (Brunswick) "Yes My DarlingDaughter"witha SOLDIER BOY large leap and "Sharing You" by Bobby WANT TO DANCE 23 28(5) The Shirelles(H.M.V.) THE STRIPPER* WEST OF THE WALL* Vee. All those who predicted dire things 3 (8)Cliff Richard 1 24 2(6) David Rose 27(3)Toni Fisher for Mr, Vee after the lack of success of FAR AWAY "Please Don't Talk About Barbara" Fol- (Columbia) 2427 (5) Shirley Bassey (Columbia) I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU* HAVING A PARTY* lowing as it did a very successful British 2 25 Cooke GINNY COME LATELY JEZEBEL 1 (7) Ray Charles 30 (3) Sam tour, must be going around saying that 5 2520 (6) Marty Wilde (Philips) theonlycertainthing about the pop 5(8)Brian Hyland ROSES ARE RED 26THAT'S OLD FASHIONED* scene is its uncertainty. (H.M.V.) WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE 36 (3) Bobby Vinton 15(6) Everly Bros. It's been a big week for chart new- 26YOUNG comers headed by Craig Douglas who LAST NIGHT WAS 24 (12) Danny Williams (H.M.V.) PALISADES PARK* 27SECOND HAND LOVE 4 12(7)Connie Francis isn't really any stranger to the charts. 6MADE FOR LOVE LOVE LETTERS 3 (7) Freddy Cannon Probably the most unusualis"Old 27 THEME FROM DR. KILDARE* 6 (9) Billy Fury (Decca) 22 (11) Ketty Lester (London) IT KEEPS RIGHT ON Rivers" which is a simple piece of nar- 5 28 32(3) Richard Chamberlain rativeaboutaploughman whodies LOVER PLEASE A-HURTIN'* 7 ENGLISH COUNTRY 2817 (7) Maureen andthe Vernon 5 (7)Johnny Tillotson and goes to the Great Ranch House in 29JOHNNY GET ANGRY* the Sky. Hardly one would have thought GARDEN Girls (Decca) 40 (2) joanie Sommers hit material. The only certain thing, etc., STRANGER ON THE SHORE* 21(3)Jimmy Rodgers DON'T EVER CHANGE 6 etc. 29 4 (14) Mr. Acker Bilk/ I LOVE YOU* (Columbia) 38 (2) The Crickets (Liberty) Andy Williams 3020 (7) Volumnes Due to go higher: Vince Hill, Roy Orbison, Pet Clark's French twist disc, 30STRANGER ON THE SHORE FOLLOW THAT DREAM* and "Al Di La" by Emilio Pericoli (an I CAN'T STOP LOVING 32 (3) Andy Williams (C.B.S.) 7SNAP YOUR FINGERS* 31 7 (6) Joe Henderson 18(7)Elvis Presley Italian Peri Como?) which is the theme 8YOU ORANGE BLOSSOMSPECIAL song from "Lovers Must Learn"-and 3130 (3)The Spotnicks (Oriole) AL DI LAS THEME FROM BEN CASEY maybe "Palisades Park" which would 16(3)Ray Charles 8 3237(3) Val -Jean (H.M.V.) WONDERFUL LAND 9(5) Emilio Pericoli see Freddy Cannon back withahit. 32 I'LL TRY SOMETHING NEW And mean thefirstone forthe new 261(9) The Shadows (Columbia) PLAY -BOY 33 STRANGER ON THE 9 33(5) Miracles Stateside label. DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS 8 (8) Marvelettes 9SHORE 3319 (6) Duane Eddy (London) 34LOVERS WHO WANDER* WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN* 17 (10) Dion A LOOK AT THE 11 (34)Acker Bilk FOLLOW THATDREAM 1021 (4) Claude King (Columbia) 34 37(2) Elvis Presley (R.C.A.) 35TWIST AND SHOUT (THE MAN WHO SHOT) 50 (2) Isley Bros. U.S. CHARTS NUT ROCKER 35OUR FAVOURITE MELODIES 11 LIBERTY VALANCE* TWISTIN' ANNIE rising U.S. hits include-"Little10 - (1) Craig Douglas (Columbia) 36 FAST 9 (10) B. Bumble 11 (7) Gene Pitney 38 (4) Dovells Red Rented Rowboat", Joe Dowell; (Top Rank) FUNNY WAY OF LAUGHIN' "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"-Neil 3633 (7) Burl Ives (Brunswick) ANY DAY NOW* SPEEDY GONZALES 12 37- (1) Pat Boone Sedaka;"SteelMen"-Jimmy Dean; I DON'T KNOW WHY 14 (11) Chuck Jackson "Never Years"-Linda CONSCIENCE In A Million 11 3749 (2) Jimmy Darren (Pye) 38WHERE ARE YOU? Scott;"Seven Day Weekend"-U. S. 7 (9) Eden Kane (Decca) CINDY'S BIRTHDAY* 39 (3) Dinah Washington Bonds;"AhabTheArab" - Ray SESAME MUCHO 1316 (5) Johnny Crawford GREEN LEAVES OF 38 I NEED YOUR LOVIN' Stevens; "Limbo Rock"-Champs; 12 31 (6) Jet Harris (Decca) THE ONE WHO REALLY 3942 (2) Don Gardner & "Bongo Stomp"-Little Joey and The SUMMER DRUMMIN' UP A STORM 14LOVES YOU DeeDee Ford Flips. 10 (8) Kenny Bal! and his3941 (4) Sandy Nelson (London) 10(U) Mary Wells New U.S. releases include-"Things" 40VILLAGE OF LOVE* Bobby Darin ;; "Mary's Little Lamb"- Jazzmen (Pye) OLD RIVERS 31 (8) Nathaniel Mayer James Darren; "Nothing New"! "Dance 40- (1) Walter Brennan (Liberty) 15WALKON THE WILD SIDE* THEME FROM 19 (5)Jimmy Smith YOU'LL LOSE A GOOD THING WithMr.Domino"-FatsDomino; 13 RIVER'S RUN DRY 41- (1) Barbara Lynn " Ballad Of Palladin " - Duane Eddy ; DR. KILDARE 41 "You Should 'A' Treated Me Right"- - (1) Vince Hill (Piccadilly) 16THE WAH-WATUSI LITTLE BITTY PRETTY ONE 12(4) Richard Chamber- 29 (2)Orions 42 Ike and Tina Turner; "Down On The lain (M.G.M.) THE CROWD - (1)Clyde McPhatter Beach"-Ernie Maresca; "La Bomba" 42- (1) Roy Orbison (London) 17DON'T PLAYTHAT SONG 43MASHED POTATO TIME* - Tokens;"The BirdMan"/"Cindy AS YOU LIKE IT LET'S TWIST AGAIN (YOU LIED)* 23 (17) Dee Dee Sharp Oh Cindy"-Highwaymen; "MakeIt 14 4350 (25) Chubby Checker 13(9) Ben E. King Easy On Yourself"-Jerry Butler; 8 (9) Adam Faith DANCIN' PARTY (Parlophone) (Columbia) 44- (1) Chubby Checker "What's A Matter Baby"-Timi Yuro; 18SEALED WITH A KISS "I'mTossin'andTurnin'Again"- YA YA TWIST 34 (2) Brian Hyland BONGO STOMP Bobby Lewis: "Cry Myself To Sleep"- AIN'T THAT FUNNY 44- (1) (Pye) 45- (1)Little Joey & Flips Del Shannon; "Shout And Shimmy- 15 18 (3)Jimmy Justice CRAZY WORDS, CRAZY TUNE 19GRAVY (FOR MY MASHED 45 POTATOES) TEACH ME TONIGHT* JamesBrown ;"Kilimanjaro" - Del (PYe) - (1) Dorothy Provine 35 (2) Dee Dee Sharp 46 Vikings; "It Started All Over Again"/ (Warner) 45 (7) George Maharis "Heart In Hand"-Brenda Lee ;"Little HOW CAN I MEET HER SHARING YOU* JOHNNY LOVES ME AL DI LA 20 47 Diane"-Dion; "This Is It"-Jay and 16 13(7) Everly Brothers 46- (1) Emilio Pericoli (Warner) 22 (5) Bobby Vee - (1) Shelly Fabares The Americans: "Sometimes I Wonder" -Drifters; "Call Me Mr. In -Between" (Warner) ADIOS AMIGO 21I'LL NEVER DANCE AGAIN BORN TO LOSE* 47- (1) Jim Reeves (R.C.A.) 25 (4) Bobby Rydell 48- (1) Ray Charles -Burl Ives ;"Tear After Tear"-Blue- SHARING YOU bells. 17 48KING OF CLOWNS 22A STEEL GUITARANDA 49SOLDIER BOY* New English releases Stateside include 25(4)Bobby Vee 45 (11) Neil Sedaka GLASS OF WINE* 26 (14) Shirelles "Twistin' The Trad"-David Ede: (Liberty) (RCA -Victor) 24 (5) PaulAnka "Come Outside"- Mike Same; "The 50I DON'T LOVE YOUNO UNSQUARE DANCE 49WHEN LOVE COMES ALONG 23THE CROWD* MORE River's Run Dry"-Vince Hill :"What 18 46 (3) Matt Monro (Parlophone) 28 (4) Roy Orbison - (1)Jimmy Norman More CanISay?"-Al Saxon ;"Tell 14(7) Dave Brubeck PALISADES PARK Tale"-Brook Brothers ;"Silver Threads (C.B.S.) 50 (First figure denotes position last week; figure in parentheses denotes weeks in chart) and Golden Needles"-Springfields. - (1) Freddy Cannon (Stateside) Asterisk denotes a record issued in Britain. NJ. (First figure denotes position last week; figure in parentheses denotes weeks in chart) o iv! Tips For The Top ! BRENDA LEE's Dave Clark Fiveirs you THAT'S WHAT II I HERE COMES THAI FEELING SAID (IT MUST BE YOU) I KNEW IT ALL Everybody Loves Me But You THE TIME TOMMY BRUCE (BRUNSWICK 05871) (Pye Piccadilly 7N 35500) ON COLUMBIA D.B. 4850

KEITH PROWSE,21 DENMARK ST., W.C.2KPM PETER MAURICE MUSIC COMPANY, 21 DENMARK ST., W.C.2 MUSIC Page Twelve NEW RECORD MIRROR. Week -ending June 30, 1962 BERT WEEDONwrites for theNRM:-Iliii-n-g-s1 NMI 1=1= MINIM IMMI MIMI IMIN WIWI MN MEIN - MI= MEM MME I I I arebuzzing in I

I Blackpool!' THINGS are buzzing here in Black- I am at the North Pier with a fine bunch of friends including Ted Hock - I poolandtheNewRecord ridge and already Ted has filled his Mirror has asked me to drop you all dressing rooms with paintings and he Ia line each week to help you to keep is looking forward to chatting with in touch with events this summer. I my son shortly who is also mad keen Ace funny man Tommy Cooper on the art work. dropped in on a barbecue party with Incidentally we are all thrilled that me and walked off with a top tom- our showatthe NorthPierhas BRUCE CHANNEL (right): with Cliff bola prize of a camera .. . since then broken all previous records for that Bennett and Delbert McClinton Ihe's been snapping everyoneright, theatresofar soitlookslike (centre). left and centre. this is going to be a bumper season If you see a bright red Mercedes all round. CONNIE FLIES TEMPS FILM IN sports car nipping along the front Bumped into Danny Williamsat chances are thatit'sthe one just the stationery counter of a depart- purchased by that lovely vocal lass ment store the other day and by the IN... look of the huge amount of writing CHANNEL ISheila Buxton ... and, incidentally, SINGING star Connie Francis ITALY apart from beingacarenthusiast materials he was buying his fans are Sheilaissomewhat ofatellyor in for some quick answers to their flies into London this Satur- AFTER hasty, last-minute negotiationsIgogglebox addict. The other night she letters. day for a disc date with musical over the weekend, the Temperance gnearly missed her cue to duet with That wonderful person and pianist director andarranger,Norrie Seven flew out to Rome on Monday me when she got really absorbed in Mrs. (Glad) Mills pops up every Sun- SUMS UP Paramor. this week to appear in,playing three a programme in her dressing room. day for a concert and she is getting Connie, at present filming a sequel numbers, anItaliancolourmovie, How unlucky can you be? Harry terrific receptions every time from the "V ES, sir,it took us some time to get to "Follow The Girls"-"Fol- "Europe By Night". Worth arrived in Blackpool for the Blackpool crowd. A our feet off the ground, but we low The Boys" will record six While there, they expect to appear onIshow and hadn't been there a day My own leisuretimehasbeen finally made it." titles from the film at the EMI television and do two broadcasts. They before he was pinched for parking spent dashing down to London to will also talk over prospects of return- I ... Just like the lovable character The speaker was American rhythm and studios. rehearse and tape my nextsingle blues singer, Bruce Channel, summing ing to Italy late in the year for concert he portrays on television. record. You may have heard the song up his current British tour. The choiceof Norrieas MD - dart es. I Clinton Fordisdoing abitof when I played it as the music for the Just why was it that the tour got off to arrangerforthesessionwas This will be their third film appear- parking too - but in Clint's case play "Some Other Love" screened by such a poor start ? made by Connie herself. ance-the others were "It's Trad Dad" Ihe parks himself at a restaurant table AR -TV recently. Apparently the tele- Although the songs are from and "Take Me Over". Itis also their andgorges onthelocalseafood visioncompany was floodedwith "The main reason," said Bruce, "was inquiries about the thefilmtheyare not sound- second trip abroad and their third will Idelicacies at every opportunity. over 600 initial that everything was so rushed. Only a be avisittoHollandfortelevision song and letters are still pouring in- few hours after arriving in England track items. appearances on July 17. Amongrecentone-night stand people are saying it could be another we were on stage, doing our first show. Ivisitors were my friends The Shadows Straight after the recording ses- Through the summer they will play "Stranger On The Shore". Anyway Those first nights were spent finding sion Connie flies out again to who did a most successful concert my record company are going all out out what the audiences wanted. Well concert dates at seaside resorts ;July 1, ...nice to see them all again. re -join the film unit. She is on Blackpool; 11, Bexhill -on -Sea; on the record. This will be the first we did find out, and changed the act 15, Alsovisitingwas top popstar locationtouringtheMediter- Great Yarmouth ;19, Folkestone ;21, time I have used strings on a record accordingly. Now everybody is happy Prestatyll; 22, Blackpool; 26, Worthing; Eden Kane and we had quite a chat -no, not guitar strings...violins and things are running real smoothly. ranean region. about his recent American trip... 29, Scarborough ; August4, New I and all that non -jazz. he looksjustgreat,girls,witha JudgingbyBruce'sreceptionat two Brighton; 5, Blackpool; 18, Southend.I Well, that's it for now ... look Birminghamballroomsthatnight. marvellous tan. forwardtomeeting youallagain there could be no denying that state- Just opened here are Danny Wil- next week ...till then have a nice ment.At both places his " pruned " liams and Arthur Haynes to a first- holidayifyou're away and enjoy performance was a resounding success. rate reception ... looks like they've yourselves at work and home if you Between shows, Bruce, who returns to got a winning show on their hands. are still waiting. the States on July 2, told me that he would probably be touring here again SINN MIMI MIMI MEM =M MEIN MN IMO Mel.11. this autumn.He has learned a great deal about British audiences on this trip and is determined to be a success from the word "go" next time. BIG PERFORMERS... Oneextremelyinterestingview ex- pressed by Bruce isthe form which he would like his next visit to take. "It should be a much longer tour," he said, " with a lot less engagements. Handsomely finished in every detail, Decca transistor portables give "The first week would be spent gettingyou big set performance everywhere. In a wide choice of colours to know the country and the people we'll be playing to.Rehearsals wouldand at prices you like these are small sets but big value! be taken at a more leisurely pace and be much more thorough. Iwould alsobringoverallofmy own musicians. " By far the biggest changes, however, would be made in the form of the con- certsthemselves. The band would perform for about an hour to get the New6-e-6197-zezite_. atmosphere, then Delbert (McClinton, Medium and long wavebands; internal aerial and Bruce's harmonica player) would do car aerial input; 5' high flux density speaker; his spot.I would follow, spending at least an hour on stage, working as 500-600 playing hours from one pair of batteries; much with the audience as for them." finished in blue, pigskin and mushroom. These are indeed revolutionary ideas for 17 GNStax paid excludingbatteries a British tour, ideas which,iftried now, would almost certainly result in disaster.However, to a country which has accepted rhythm and blues like JOE BROWN (right)appeared on 'Parade of the Pops' last week with Marty America has, this type of concert is Wilde (centre) and BobMiller. (NRMPicture.) an essential part of the music scene. if,as Bruce Channel predicts,r. and BROOK BROS. SCOTS TOUR b. does become really big over here, JAll BENEFIT THE Brook Brothers,stillnegotiating thenhis" Ray Charles " stylecon- TWO of the four Mike Cotton per- atripto America forlaterthis cert may well become reality.If so, 251.e..6o-i-teree- sonnel injured in a bad car crash year, return to Scotland for a four -day the performance of the young man tour on July 6, appearing at Dumfries, who this trip turned near tragedy into Medium and long wavebands; internal aerial and at Stanmore, Middlesex, early last week car aerial input; 31' high flux density speaker; two Newton Grange andFrazerbar,with success should be quite fantastic. have returned to the group . .. but the one date still to be fixed. Vidor 9v T6004 batteries; colour finishes: rowan red, news about the other two isstill not ALAN STINTON. powder blue, jonquilyellow, mushroom, juniper On July 24, they make two appear- good. green, black and gold. ances for Tyne Tees TV's "One O'Clock Band road manager Dave Backhouse is Show". They have "Easy Beat" shows SHANE TOURS 15+ GNStax paid excluding batteries detained in hospital with a broken back lined up for July 22 and August 19 and and head injuries and is paralysed from are on "Saturday Club" July 14. FOLLOWING theirrecentsuccessful thelungsdownwards.DerekTearle, Instead of a lengthy season this sum- tours of Ireland and Scotland, Shane bassist,has oneleg brokeninthree mer, they are making one-shot appear- Fenton and the Fentones undertake a TRANSISTOR places and his other ankle is broken. ances at seaside resorts. Dates include: short Midlands tour in July. A benefit performance in aid of the July1 and 22, Blackpool South Pier; They play Tamworth (July 2), Stoke Portable Radios injured men islikelyto be arranged July 15 andAugust5, Blackpool (3 and 7), Congleton (5), Sutton Cold - in a London jazz club. Queen's;July4,MorecambeFloral field (6), Redditch (10), and Whitchurch Decca Radio & Television Ingate Place Queenstown Road London Sw8 Hall; July 11, Cleethorpes Winter Gar- (14). dens; July 29, MorecambeWinter Shane's series of Sunday summer pro- ALEXIS KORNER'S Blues Incorpor- Gardens; August 6, Southport; August grammes in Great Yarmouth begin on ated make their radio debut on July 12, Torquay, Princess; August 19, Skeg- July 8. 2 in the BBC's "Jazz Club". ness. 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, S.E.L.