a -a1 Coast Capers By JACK DEVANEY SINGLES COMING Ease My Mind" with 1 TOMMYP JONES 26 MERCY MERCY MERCY "Gotta (Comilla, BMI) (Zawinul, BMI) L.A. group the Sound Machine Johnny Tillotson-MGM 13684 Larry Williams & Johnny Watson- Okeh 7274 for release on Canterbury Rec- 2 DON'T TIE ME DOWN 21 ALL STRUNG OUT OVER YOU ords . Capitol's new piano (Razzle Dazzle, BMI) Anthony & Imperials-Veep 1225 (T.M., BMI) star Rubin Mitchell into the Chambers Bros.-Columbia 43957 Hong Kong Bar of the Century 3 ALONG CAME JONES (Tiger, BMI) 28 GIVE IT TO ME Plaza sharing Righteous Bros.-Verve 10479 (Dick James, BMI) bill with Fred- Troggs-Fontana 1576 4 SUMMER WINE die Bell and (Criterion, ASCAP) 29 SHE TOOK YOU FOR A RIDE Roberta Linn. Nancy Sinatra-Reprise 0527 (Orlap, BMI) )tike Clifford Grace Markay Aaron Neville-Parlo 103 Harry Gold- 5 JUST LIKE A MAN 30 RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP stein report- (E. H. Morris, ASCAP) Margaret Whiting-London 106 (Dijon, BMI) ing that the Standells-Tower 314 orders on the 6 MY SPECIAL PRAYER (Maureen, BMI) 31 BREAK ON THROUGH West Coast Joe Simon-Sound Stage 7 2577 (Nipper, ASCAP) the best Doors-Elektra 45611 are 1 TELL ME TO MY FACE Jack ever for the (Marilus, BMI) 32 IT WAS A VERY Devaney Keith-Mercury 72652 new Rusty GOOD YEAR Warren album, "Rusty Rides 8 AT THE ZOO (Blue Horizon, BM!) Three Sounds-Blue Note 1928 Again" ... Liberty's new group (Charing Cross, BMI) Simon & Garfunkel-Columbia 44046 33 EXCUSE ME, DEAR MARTHA Band the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are Nitty Gritty Dirt 9 WHOLE WORLD IS A STAGE (Pocket Full of Tunes, Noma, BMI) so on 44041 hot the Coast that their (Myto, BMI) Pozo Seco Singers-Columbia first release "Candy Man" be- Fantastic 4-Ric Tic 122 Johnny Mathis and Our 34 GIRL I NEED YOU came a best seller locally be- 10 FRIDAY ON MY MIND (Jalynne, BRC, BMI) Young Generation into New Artistics-Brunswick 55315 fore it was heard on the air ... (United Artists, BMI) York's Copacabana for three Mike Clifford held over indefi- Easybeats-United Artists 50106 35 BLUES THEME weeks, followed by engage- (Dijon, BMI) nitely at Ye Little Club in Bev- 11 MARRYIN' KIND OF LOVE Bos- David Allen & Arrows-Tower 295 ments in Puerto Rico and erly Hills Wink Martindale (Kama Sutra, Rumbalew, BMI) college ... Critters-Kapp 805 36 MAKE LOVE TO ME ton and a two-week feted at a luncheon before on before returning (Melrose, ASCAP) campus tour entering a full-time TV career 12 MR. FARMER Johnny Thunder & Ruby Winters- to Los Angeles ... Gerry Cur- (Meils, Purple Bottle, BMI) Diamond 218 ... Mel Bly at Challenge send- Seeds-Crescendo 383 land has produced a single ing out tambourines to promote 31 LEVITATION 13 IT'S A HAPPENING THING (Tapier, BMI) new disk "Wondering" by Sis- Floor (Four Star, BMI) 13th Elevators- International Artists 113 ter Rachel and Her Salvation Peanut Butter Conspiracy- Army Band Little Richard Columbia 43985 38 GREATEST LOVE Two Songs of our Times, ... at the 14 GIVE YOU TIME (Marsaint, BMI) previewed his new show I'LL Willie West-Deesu 306 For ALL Times Lazy X before taking package TO 1HINK IT OVER 39 SOMETHING STUPID (Beechwood, BMI) on an extended road tour. (Greenwood, BMI) Outsiders-Capitol 5 843 "Dear Tower Records artist Ray Nancy & Frank Sinatra-Reprise 0561 Chafin has joined Don Kenneth 15 TOUCH ME, HOLD ME, 40 COME ON DOWN KISS ME (Regent, BMI) Mom Productions as an associate Jackie De Shannon-Imperial 66224 (Jobete, BMI) heading the talent division . .. Inspirations-Black Pearl 100 41 FEEL SO GOOD and Actor Robert Mitchum has (Vapac, BMI) a contract 16 SO GOOD Alvin Cash-Mar-V-Lus 6015 signed recording (Acuff-Rose, BMI) Dad" with Monument Records with Roy Orbison-MGM 13687 42 UP AND DOWN first single coupling "Walker's (Su -Ma, BMI) 11 I WANT TO TALK Fred-Paula 259 by Marty Woods" and "Little Old Wine John Drinker Me" Brook ABOUT YOU 43 GONDOLIERS, DV 103A ... Victor's (St. Louis, BMI) Benton set to headline an 11 - Ray Charles-ABC 10901 SHAKESPEARES, Breaking C&W and POP. Appearing on: day engagement at Ciro's open- OVERSEERS Ciay Cole Show 3/18; N.Y. T.V. Joe 18 BIGGEST MAN (Borscht, BMI) First of the ing March 8. Appearing with (Vee Vee, Franklin Show 3/10. show BMI) Dr. West's Medicine Show- Tommy Hunt-Dynamo 101 year at Palisades Amusement Park. Benton is the Fifth Dimension, Go Go 00102 - Soul City artists ... Chet Gier 19 DON'T YOU CARE 44 THE WAY I FEEL lach, Music Music Music Inc. (Beechwood, Macbeth, BMI) (Nardello, BMI) President, in town for two Buckinghams-Columbia 44053 George Nardello-Spontaneous 1000 "Who Knows" weeks of A&R meetings . 20 THE LOSER 45 IF YOU'RE THINKIN' New songstress Grace Markay (Russell -Carson, ASCAP) WHAT I'M THINKIN' by Tony Sansone Peter Courtney-Viva 609 bows on Capitol with her first Dino, Desi & Billy-Reprise 0544 21 HERE, THERE & DV 101B LP released this week ... Robin 46 THE BEGINNING OF Hemmingway, producer of the EVERYWHERE LONELINESS ASCAP) Re-released by Popular Demand!! -Blues for Randy (Northern, Jac, BMI) Afro Quintet Claudine Longet-A&M 832 (Blue Seas, Wood's Mira Records, rang the Dionne Warwick-Scepter 12187 Domino Dist., N. Y. wedding bells with songwriter 22 ON A CAROUSEL 41 MERCY MERCY MERCY Tri-State Dist., Ft. Wayne (Maribus, BMI) (Zawinul, BMI) Jane Jarest at the Other Place Hollies-Imperial 66231 Marlene Shaw-Cadet 5557 Campus Dist., Florida in Beverly Hills Tony Mar- ... 23 SOMETHING INSIDE ME 48 AS TIME GOES BY tin, whose latest is "The Theme (Versil, Racer, ASCAP) Mei Carter-Imperial 66228 Distributors contact: From Sand Pebbles," checks in Ray Charles-ABC 10901 this month to Dunhill Records 49 365 DAYS Di Venus Records, Inc. 24 STORMY WEATHER (Web IV, BMI) to record an album of the great Donald Height-Shout 208 Ave. (Arko, Musicor, ASCAP) 1122 Rhinelander movie themes ... Johnny Tillot- Magnificent Men-Capitol 5812 Bronx, N. Y. 10461 50 A WOMAN SEES A son and manager Mel Shayne YELLOW BALLOON (212) TY 2.3645 25 (Song City, ASCAP) HARD TIME (Continued on page 74) Jon & Dean-Columbia 44036 Joe Tex-Dial 4055 22 RECORD WORLD-March 11, 1967 .