| No. 699 | 3 June 1960 | |
| n.a. | Cliff Richard Proves He Can Pick Talent | 2 |
| n.a. | Edith Piaf Makes Disc History | 2 |
| n.a. | The Singer from Covent Garden – Vegetable Section! (Tommy Bruce) | 2 |
| n.a. | Songstress Recall (Connie Frances and Rosemary Clooney) | 2 |
| n.a. | A Star Pleads – Don’t Grow Up Too Soon, Girls | 2 |
| Nat Hentoff | Jimmy (‘Handy Man’) Jones | 3 |
| n.a. | From the Desk of Sammy Davis Jr. | 3 |
| Derek Johnson | Four Boys ‘Got a Girl’ – and a Hit! (The Four Preps) | 3 |
| n.a. | Sammy and Carmen – hit duettists | 4 |
| n.a. | Bobby Rydell Has a Cert Winner | 4 |
| NME | Best Selling
Pop Records in Britain: 1. "Cathy’s Clown," Everly Brothers (Warner Bros.) 2. "Cradle of Love," Johnny Preston (Mercury) 3. "Handy Man," Jimmy Jones (MGM) 4. "Sweet Nuthin’s," Brenda Lee (Brunswick) 5. "Someone Else’s Baby," Adam Faith (Parlaphone) |
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| NME | Best Selling
Sheet Music in Britain: 1. "Cathy’s Clown" (Acuff-Rose) 2. "Do You Mind" (Macmelodies) 3. "Summer Place" (Blossom) 4. "Standing on the Corner" (Frank Music) 5. "Looking High High High" (Robbins) |
5 |
| n.a. | Sammy Davis,
Louis Armstrong, Gene Kelly in London film project [Tommy] Steele Wedding Plans Forming 208 D-J Picked for ‘Club’ Host Mono and Stereo Sounds on Same Disc Soon PRS Open New HQ Beat Show with Newley? Manager to Promote Our Talent in U.S. [Irving Chezar] Twenty Years of ‘Work Music New Names in ‘Sugar Beat’ U.S. Writer Coming [George Dunning] Bands Signed for ATV’s Pop Series Dragon on T.V. No ‘Travellin’ Home’ on Vera Lynn TV Show Craig Douglas Has Scandinavian Plans Variety Debuts in Hometown Robert Horton’s British Drama Debut Fixed ‘Pick of Pops Extended’ Ronnie Carroll in ‘Tempo 60’ |
6 |
| n.a. | Eddie Fisher
to Wax in Britain this Summer Dalli Has 3,000 film for Maria Lanza Role ABC-TV Has No Teen Plans after ‘Wham!’ BBC to Screen Summer Shows Playboys’ Dates Cliff Richard’s ‘Tease’ Disc Date Latin Guests Third ‘Sing It Again’ Album to Be Waxed ‘Pops Parade’ in Torquay| Conway Twitty Flies to Rome Shani’s Return Frankie Vaughn Gets New Pianist Song Festival Team Lita Roza Tour to Be Extneded |
7 |
| n.a. | Billy Fury – Can He Be Britain’s Paul Anka? | 8 |
| James Wynn | Actor Faith Shows Great Promise | 8 |
| Keith Goddwin | Jazz | 8 |
| Derek Johnson | Catchy Tunes, Big Laughs in ‘Lil Abner’ | 8 |
| Derek Johnson | Bert Weedon Comes Up with a Guitar Gimmic for Fans | 9 |
| Sharon Sheely | Dates with Elvis | 10 |
| Jim Rich | Everythings OK-K-K! It’s Three Kaye Sisters Again! | 10 |
| n.a. | Star disc-makers record-breakers? | 11 |
| Tim Rosenman, March 2004 | ||
| No. 700 | 10 June 1960 | |
| n.a. | Life-Lines of Sammy Davis, Junior | 2 |
| Keith Goodwin | Ray Charles | 2 |
| Derek Johnson | Question Time with Freddy Cannon | 3 |
| Bruce Charlton | Moe Gale Has Helped Many Stars Find Fame, Including Ella Fitzgerald. Now He’s Making Jimmy Jones into a ‘Handy Man’ | 3 |
| Tom Lehrer | Pat Boone’s Spring Rain’ Is Romantic | 4 |
| Kitty Kallen | Compelling ‘Starbright’ by Johnny Mathis | 4 |
| n.a. | Gene Vincent Rocks ‘Pistol Packin’ Moma’ | 4 |
| Allen Evans | Album of the Week (What Every Girl Should Know – Doris Day) | 4 |
| NME | Best
Selling Pop Records in Britain: 1. Cathy’s Clown- Everly Brothers 2. Cradle of Love – Johnny Preston (Mercury) 3. Handy Man – Jimmy Jones (MGM) 4. Sweet Nuthin’s – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) 5. Three Steps to Heaven – Eddie Cochran (London) |
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| NME | Best
Selling Sheet Music in Britain 1. "Cathy’s Clown" (Acuff-Rose) 2. "Do You Mind" (Macmelodies) 3. "Summer Place" (Blossom) 4. "Cradle of Love" (Good) 5. "Standing on the Corner" (Frank Music) |
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| n.a. | Tommy
Steele Limits TV to Christmas Day: Thriller Film Made in Ireland Three of Bing’s Boys in Como Show Soon ‘Rainbow Room’ Returns for New Series on Monday Holiday Radio Series Filming, Not Variety for Anthony Newley Harmonica-Accordion Disc Series Frankie Vaughn: No Time to Tour After Brighton Savoy Reception After Steele Wedding Freddy Cannon’s Quick ‘Saturday Club’ Return ‘Elvis Back’ LP on July 1 Robinson in U.S. Johnny Kid on ‘Cool’ Emile Ford in first ‘Tin Pan Alley’ Show Andy Williams’ Britain Visit 500 – Not Out |
6 |
| n.a. | Frank
Sinatra Invited to Sammy Davis Farewell and to Do Own Season! ‘Gigi’ Ends – For Now David Whitfield in ‘Rose Marie Returning to Jury Adam Faith Film Premiere Off Date of MacRae ‘Spectacular’ First Mantoviani Radio Series in Three Years Tommy Bruce May Lead Beat Show BBC Guest Leader Rebooked to Australia Rosemary Squares Off Radio, TV, Despite Rush to Hospital |
7 |
| Keith Goodwin | Lonnie Donegan Tells Why He Doesn’t Rush into Movie-Making | 8 |
| n.a. | Cameraman Thought Russ Conway Was Clapper-boy | 8 |
| Derek Johnson | Not Enough Cliff, but Toni Dalli Dazzles Blackpool Show Very Good | 9 |
| Nat Hentoff’s | Purely from Hunger | 9 |
| Vernon Franks | New Star (Brian Budge) | 9 |
| Bernard Farrant | Mudlarks Score | 9 |
| Andy Gray | What Darin and Presley Talked About When They Met | 10 |
| Derek Johnson | Azzam Group True United Nations! | 10 |
| Keith Goodwin | ‘Lil’l Abner’ Big Thrills – Thanks to Nelson Riddle | 10 |
| n.a. | Sammy’s Hoping… | 12 |
| Tim Rosenman, March 2004 | ||
| No. 701 | 17 June 1960 | |
| Johnson, Derek | Jim Reeves Means to Stay ["He’ll Have To Go"] | 2 |
| Rich, Jim | Michael’s First Triumph [Michael Cox, Triumph label] | 2 |
| Fullard, Jack | Film and Show Reviews: Conway Twitty, Paul Anka make Film Debuts | 2 |
| n.a. | Who’s Where [listing of upcoming performances] | 2 |
| Johnson, Derek | The Name Sinatra Is Magic [Frank Sinatra] | 3 |
| Evans, Allen | Review of LP’s: Wild One-Tommy Rydell, Crazt Times-Gene Vincent, The Sound of Fury-Billy Fury, Mr. Dynamo-Ronnie Hawkins | 4 |
| Fordyce, Keith | Review of Current Singles: Paul Anka song has calypso tempo, Marty Wilde, Bobby Darin, Jacqui Chan, Buddy Greco, Jimmy Jones, Vera Lynn, Potted Pops, Jo Stafford, Peter Wlliot | 4 |
| n.a. | NME Music
Charts 1. Everly Brothers, "Cathy's Clown" 2. Johnny Preston, "Cradle of Love" 3. Eddie Cochran, "Three Steps to Heaven" 4. Jimmy Jones, "Handy Man" 5. Lonnie Donegan, "I Wanna Go Home" |
5 |
| n.a. | New This Week | 5 |
| n.a. | U.S.
Disc Stars in Musicals Royal Show’s Top View Figure Pop Stars in New Film Radio-gram in Your Car Names in the News Tommy Bruce Takes Gene Vincent’s Place in Blackpool Show Connie Francis Star of Film Music Ace Is in London [Dimitri Tlomkin] Mantovani Starts Series [Paolo Manotvani] Sinatra Tour in Early ‘Go Man Go’ New Double Act- Joe and Dickie [Joe Henderson and Dickie Valentine] Visit Put Back [Les Paul-Mary Ford] Carmen Dragon to Join Disc Jury New Platter Is Chosen [Sonny Turner replaces Tony Williams] To Be Freddy Cannon’s Guest [Ian Samuel visits with Fred Cannon] Como, Sinatra, Crosby TV Guest Interchange [Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby] Malcolm Mitchell ITV Farewell |
6 |
| n.a. | Sammy
Davis Offered Palladium Season TV Series for Carol Carr E.R. Lewis on LP’s Michael Cox Leads Seaside Package Pianist in Valley [Richard Allen] Cliff Richard Glasgow Christmas Attraction Palladium Party Planned Presley’s Next Funny Western [Elvis Presley] Jane Morgan Is Back Next Week for Major TV More Variety for Newley [Anthony Newley] Jo Stafford TV Postponed Peter Kraus to Wax London Coward with Steele? [Noel Coward and Tommy Steele] U.S. Musical Star in ‘Startime’ [Featuring Anne Heywood] Bournemouth Teen Shows [Pier Theatre at Bournemouth] ‘Deeps’ in Club [Harry Douglas and the Deep River Boys] Jazz Singers Coming Tommy’s Brother Returns [Tommy Steele] |
7 |
| Hellicar, Mike | NME Survey on New Faces ‘Newcomers of Today, Stars of Tomorrow?’ | 8, 9 |
| n.a. | The Lifelines of Billy Fury | 9 |
| Hentoff, Nat | Elvis Is De-moted [Elvis Presely] | 9 |
| Hentoff, Nat | Dean Was Born too Soon [Dean Martin] | 9 |
| V.F. | Ruby Murray’s Surprise Duet | 9 |
| n.a. | From You to US | 9 |
| Conway, Russ | My Palladium Thrills | 10 |
| n.a. | Sammy Davis praises stars | 10 |
| n.a. | Classified Ads | 11 |
| Alley Cat | Tail-Pieces: Decca’s Decade of LP’s | 12 |
| Steven Schoenfeld, February 2004 | ||
| No. 702 | 24 June 1960 | |
| Goodwin, Keith | Home from Hollywood, His Ambition Fulfilled: Frankie Vaughn Looks Forward to Live Audiences Once More | 2 |
| Plomley, Roy | Marty Wilde Chose Tchaikovski as an Island Mate | 2 |
| Evans, Allen | EP’s | 2 |
| Hellicar, Mike | Britain Holds No Jinx for Me- It’s a Grand Place [Gene Vincent] | 3 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Jazz | 3 |
| Johnson, Derek | A Top Marke for Anthony [Marke Anthony] | 3 |
| Fordyce, Keith | Pops Page Reviews: Ray Pilgrim, Roy Castle, Mitch Miller, Sam Cooke, Paul Beattie, Garry Mills, Hollywood Argyles | 4 |
| n.a. | Mike Holliday Sings Weepie with Happy End | 4 |
| n.a. | Bobby Darin Spiritual Is Jubilant Success | 4 |
| Evans, Allen | LP’s and Album of the Week | 4 |
| n.a. | NME music
charts: Best Selling Records in Britain 1. Everly Brothers, "Cathy’s Clown" 2. Eddie Cochran, "Three Steps to Heaven" 3. Connie Francis, "Robot Man" 4. Jimmy Jones, "Good Timin’" 5. Tommy Bruce, "Ain’t Misbehavin’" |
4 |
| n.a. | NME music
charts: Best selling sheet music in Britain 1. "Paper Roses" 2. "Summer Place" 3. "Love Is Like a Violin" 4. "Cathy’s Clown" 5. "Cradle of Love" |
4 |
| n.a. | New pop
Stars Get Big Break at Bournemouth [Dave Sampson, Cliff Richard] Pete Murray Celebrates His Hundredth ‘Party’ Belafonte Wins Top Television Honour [Happy Belafonte] Adam Faith U.S. Visit Likely in Autumn |
5 |
| n.a. | Winnie
Atwell tour plans completed Richard, Faith, Ford in ‘Saturday Club’ [Adam Faith, Cliff Richard, Emile Ford] |
5, 6 |
| n.a. | ‘Tin
Pan Alley’ TV Series Captures More Top Names [The King Brothers, Michael
Holiday, Roy Castle, and Tommy Bruce] Four Russ Conway Shows in a Week Tommy Steel’s Opening Date at Old Vic ‘Spectacular’ Date Revealed [Ron Conway- ‘Saturday Spectacular’] |
6 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Doris Day Still Gives Lots of Happiness to Thousands of Fans | 7 |
| n.a. | From You to Us | 7 |
| Johnson, Derek | These Stars Have Recorded Tunes by Lionel Bart, Who Admits: "I’ve Taken a Dickens of a Liberty with “Oliver Twist’ [Anthony Newly, Shirley Bassey, Max Bygraves, Alma Cogan, Ted Heath] | 7 |
| n.a. | Life Lines of Emile Ford | 8 |
| Hentoff, Nat | From America | 8 |
| Wedge, Don | Oh, What a Wonderful Wedding [Tommy Steel] | 9 |
| n.a. | Hello Again to Jane Morgan | 9 |
| D.J. | And Tommy [Steele] Hits the Charts with Another Cockney Song | 9 |
| n.a. | Classified Advertisements | 10 |
| n.a. | Most Enjoyable for Connie Francis | 11 |
| n.a. | Bruce Forsyth Sparkles | 11 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Jazz on the Riverboats | 11 |
| Steven Schoenfeld, February 2004 |
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