No. 178 Week ending August 8, 1964 Every Thursday 6d.Registered at the G.P.O. as a newspaper THIS WEEK, THE FACE, THE BRIGHTEST COLUMNIST IN MUSIC BIZ TAKES PRIDE OF PLACE ON RM'S FRONT PAGE THE 'kFvE THINGS WE HEAR BEATLES' American spur, which writing. wife ofPretty Things' opens on Wednesday week, also manager Jimmy Duncaninfantici- features Bill Black'sCombo, Dating. President Johnson's elec- Jackie De Shannon, Righteous Broth- tioncampaignsong:"HelloLyn- ers and Exciters.. first release on don". Platters'latest"P.S.I BurtBacharach'sown American Love Your" the Hilltoppers hit, not label,U.S.Songs,is"Show You the Beatles. followingLonnie MeantIt"byBritain'sMeand DoneganandBobbyVintonnow Them - . Pat Boone's first on Dot Bobby Rydell considered for Broad- here likely to revive Huey "Piano" way musical "Kelly". before Smith's "Don't You Just Know It" negotiations with Oriole, CBS' Har- Gerry Freeman and Megan veyScheintalkedbusinesswith DaviesofApplejacksnamedSep- Ember's Jeff Kruger . tember 19asthe happy day. Ten years ago Johnny Ray had RCA waxed Allan Sherman con- bestsellerwith"Such A Night", cert with Boston Pops Orchestra . five and a half years ago Conway happy birthday today to Mike Sarne Twitty topped RM chartforfive . isDorisDay'ssonTerry weekswith"It'sOnly MakeBe- Melcher one of the voices on recent lieve", four years ago Jimmy Jones RipChords'singles? Cliff "Handy Man" reached No.3; can Richard's discovery Dave Sampson now works forajeweller . in Elvis Presley,Billy Fury and Del Lionel Bart's "Maggie May" Mar- Shannon do as well?. Nashville Teens' "Tobacco"atopfivetip: garet Howe playschild -titlerole, Kingsize Taylor should have covered with Rachel Robertsinadulttitle it!. Billy Fury banned from driv- Part ing. will success of Sounds In- corporated encourage Brian Epstein BrendaLee'sSeptembersingle to resume recording Dakotas?,. "WhenYouLovedMe"coupled inJanuaryJohnBloomformed withanotherJackiedeShannon Rolls Records company with f100... composition "He's Sure To Remem- Johnny Kidd has never had an LP berMe" . Londonreleased P. J. Proby's "Hold Me" in America released . "BandOfGold"hit -maker FourPenniesfallingflatwith JamesGilreathbackwith"Keep theirlatest. newU.S.singer Her Out OfSight" . Robert Bobby Jamesonresembles new Stigwood spending small fortune on SearcherFrankAllen, Brian promoting Simon ScottlikeLarry Epstein hopes "No Reply" by John Parnes did with Daryl Quist cam- will Lennon andPaul McCartney paignlastsummer . oneof atlastgetresponseforTommy "Big Four" record companies con- Quickly. Sam Katzman wise to sidering stopping all radio advertis- rush release Dave Clark's movie... ing . Millietries arhythmandblues No love lost between Tony Jack- . number on her next. Bill Haley son and ChrisCurtis . Brian revives Frankie Vatigtlan's "Green Epstein puttingplentyofbusiness . Door"hit theYardbirds'way . Joe Public kept well away from Patsy Brown more popular than the num- Ann Noble's"PrivateProperty"... bers he chooses to record . Ken TommySteeleappears to have Dodd's "Happiness"a big surprise abandonedrecording. in two inteenage -dominatedchart . years Britain's top d-i will he Tony Gigliola Cinquetti heading for same Hall or Don Wardell. Tony Jack- obscurity here as Kyu Sakamoto? sonhasinvitedfamousguitarist . Frank Meld and Applejacks andunder -rateddrummer tojoin willfindpotentialsinglesifthey histrio. Freddie Garrity would listen to new Lonnie Johnson Story- liketodevote more time to song- ville LP DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - A fabulous pie of the lovely songstress by Dezo Hoffman. CiliaBlack PARLOPHONE IT'S -FOR RECORDS you R5162 EMI RECORDS LIMITED EMI HOUSE 20 YANC-ESTER SLiARE - LONDON W1 2 RECORD MIRROR, Week ending August S. 1964 ...want to let off steam? Any questions about the scene? YOUR PAGE Then just drop a line to JAMES CRAIG, LETTERS EDITOR. Record SEND US WHO YOU LIKE! Mirror SAYS A U.S. READER.. AFTER seeing Peter and Gordon in Chicago, we've come to the conclusion that though the U.S.A. shunned King EVERY THURSDAY George III in the past, we welcome all the It and B groups 116 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W.I. from England with open arms. We've done so for the Dave Telephones GERrard 7942/3/4 Clark Five, Beatles', Stones' . now P and G. We invaded Peter and Gordon's well -guarded suite at 1a.m., garnishing them with our favourite pizza. Too bad-they became very ill! But in spite of that, they cameoutoftheirsuite, rackedwithpain,tosign P.J. SNUBS. autographs fortheadoring masses. And they then put IWAS at theAtticClub, Houns- on another marvellous show low,onthat day when P.J. Proby refusedtoappear.This the next day. You can send isby no means thefirsttime he usanybodyyoulike.-ex- has, atshortnotice,refused to eludingChristineKeeler.- appear duringhisbrief careerin Marianne McKee and Judy Britain.Surelyhe must stopthis John lee repeated snubbing of fans - those Ryeszutko, 5741, South Moody who've brought him sudden fame. Avenue, Chicago,Illinois. He haschosen to workinthis countryandmust accept contract conditions and our ballrooms. a fabulous which he considers too small.- PeterWood, 65 Lismore House. SHANNON REPLIES Linden Grove,London,S.E. 15. Hooker .111V121 REGARDINGthatletterofB. NPL 28042 Green about Del Shannon and his "fall". Before he con- TRUE CHIN SING PETER & GORDON in the States with JERRY LEE demns Del Shannonforhis"con- LEWIS. stantdouble -tracking", heshould READING the witty Chinese Top House Of listen more carefully. Out of Twentyinyourcolumns. I thirteen singles, he would find that thoughtyou'dbeamusedat double -tracking is used on only some genuine titles ofcontem- NOT YOU PHIL! three. Anyway there are not The Blues porary folk songs in People's LIFE'S MISSION many artistes who had eleven out China.-"WholeheartedDevotionto SINCE the Ronettes'"Baby I of thirteen discs in the Top the Collective"HanChi-Hsiang- Love You" leftthe R.M. Top Thirty. Anydoubts about Del's a blindminstrel, vice-chairman of 50 on April11, we've waited IN a record store, a tall, feminine - to ability sing would bedispelled theNationalFederationofStory- forthefollow-up. Now "The Best looking"mod"came inand bylisteningto his high -standard tellers and Singers; "Ten Thousand Part Of BreakingUp",after a asked for a copy of the flit, sides- . specially "The Time Years of Life For Chairman Mao" typicalPhil Spectordelay,isout. Beatles' "Long Tall Sally". I was Of The Day" and "Kelly". - -TsedenDrolma, a graduateof But where isit getting?It has the bursting with rage and asked him D.Fintayson, 19 IneheapeRoad, ShanghaiConservatoryofMusic; usual high-performance quality. Arbroath. Angus. ifhe'dheardtheLittleRichard "Red GuardsofLake Hunghu"- But to Phil Spector, probably version. He replied he thought James Craig: Del defenders rush Wang Yu-chen; "Socialism Is wondering why the disc hasn't to write. Others furious "Bamalama" was Richard's FIRST with Good",Professor WuChing-Luch. madeit, Isaythis: Peoplebuy disc.We asked the shopkeeperto reader Green include: B. D. Wilson. of theTraditional Music Research forthe Ronettes,notyou.Ifyou . Zedrnan. playtheLittle Richard version . CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS D. Me. A. Victor Tim- Institute; And that swinging insist on putting yourself and iazz andthe"mod"boughttheL.P. mons. P. Chalk, J. R.Foster, "rocker","Everybody Praisesthe on the flipside, as with the Crystals containing the song.I came outof FrankPerham. M.Lyons,Philip Commune's Vegetables", Huang and Ronettes, it's obvious that the shop convinced that my mission Barlow. B. Worsley, T. W. Wilson. Hung.I quote from the May, 1964. saleswillsubsequentlydrop. How in life is complete. - "Rock MissJ.Tibble,MikeLancaster, edition of China Reconstructs.- about giving us our money's worth Fanatic". Mike Pembleton, 1 ANNOUNCING THE NEW BarryEvans, T. Launders, Del Tony Papard. 39 Golden Dell. onthenext? - P. G.Knipe, 27 Wordsworth Road, Daybrook, Notts, NATIONAL FOURNIOST FAN announcements Meirs.ILSeymour.IanHusband. Welwyn Garden City,Herts. Farrar Lane, Adel. Leeds16, CLUB. 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