| No. 947 | 5 March 1965 | |
| cover | The Supremes/ Roy Orbison | |
| Sampson, Gordon | Own Tunes Is Del's Secret [Del Shannon] | 2 |
| Epstein, Brian | Reports from the BAHAMAS All about the Beatles | 3 |
| n.a. | Post-Script [Gerry and the Pacemakers] | 3 |
| n.a. | You've Never Heard Cliff Like This! [Cliff Richard] | 4 |
| n.a. | Dave Clark Five | 4 |
| Clark, Dave | What I Think | 4 |
| n.a. | Platter Chatter: Janie Mardin [Bacharach-David], The Langleys, Joe Brown, The Exceptions, Monty Babson, Rick Wayne, Roy Castle | 4 |
| Johnson, Derek | Singles: Them, "Here Comes the Night" (Decca) Yardbirds, "For Your Love" (EMI) Matt Monro, "Without You" (Parlophone) West Five, "Congratulations" (HMV) Jackie Trent, "Where Are You Now" (Pye) Lorne Lesley, "Where My Heart Has Never Wandered" (Philips) |
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| NME | Potted Pops: Max Bygraves, "Time and Tide" (Philips) One, Two & Three, "Black Pearl" (Decca) Lonnie Mack, "Sa-Ba-Hoola (Stateside) Mike Preston, "Till Then My Love" (Decca) T-Bones, "Won't You Give Him" (Columbia) Paul Griffin, "Down at Corrinas" (Pye-Int.) Messengers, "When Did You Leave Heaven" (Columbia) |
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| n.a. | Elvis—frenzied but a bit dated | 4 |
| n.a. | Round the World | 5 |
| NME | NME Top Thirty: 1. Tom Jones, “It'’s Not Unusual” (Decca) 2. Seekers, “I'll Never Find another You” (Columbia) 3. Herman's Hermits, “Silhouettes” (Columbia) 4. Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, “Game of Love” (Fontana) 5. Sandie Shaw, “I'll Stop at Nothing” (Pye) |
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| NME | Best Selling LPs
in Britain 1. Rolling Stones, No. 2 (Decca) 2. Beatles, Beatles for Sale (Parlophone) 3. Sandie Shaw, Sandie (Pye) 4. Jim Reeves, Best of Jim Reeves (RCA) 5. The Voice of Winston Churchill (Decca) |
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| n.a. | Sir Joseph Lockwood
reveals: Big Boost For EMI Producers New Disc Signings: Billie bows with Bacharach song [Billie Davis, Burt Bacharach] Label Switch [Robby Royal] Pop-Liners: Fran Jeffries, Eartha Kitt, Marianne Faithfull, Chad Stuart, Stubby Kaye, Tony Martin, Animals Dusty, Pet, Cilla – Cabaret Plans [Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Cilla Black] Radio dates for Them, Animals, Freddie and the Dreamers Pitney Returning? Seekers Run Extended Bob Dylan to tour Britain Herman May Film His Life Story [Herman's Hermits] Dodie West Joins Del Shannon Tour Bachelors' Sunday Concerts Cancelled Billy Fury's opening night cancelled Proby's permit renewed Hawgood quits RCA Barron Knights for Palladium Shadows and Kenny May Meet Princess Animals-Mann Concert Jones and Stones Waxing Shows CBS Signs John Barry |
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| n.a. | Moody Blues, Twinkle and Them on "Ready" Singles from Supremes, Kinks, and Bachelors |
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| n.a. | Jones in spastics
show Shirley's Grove Date [Shirley Bassey] Stones on Granada TV Kinks-Mann tour off new dates Newley Musical a big U.S. hit? Gadzooks – it's all continuing Jones ‘A Gogo' Sinatra Film Opens ("None but the Brave") Beatles Back at No. 1 In America Dreamers may go back to America Jimmy Smith's bow Julie's Night Out Righteous Bros. Film Freeman Signs Pet-Clark Working For Cliff [Cliff Richard] Searchers on ABC-TV Hatch Writes TV Show Score |
7 |
| n.a. | Life-lines of The
Ivy League From the NME 5 Years Ago From the NME 10 Years Ago |
8 |
| Hentoff, Nat | Will Elvis Be Killer? | 9 |
| Altham, Keith | Keith Altham meets the Animal Who Found Goldie | 9 |
| Wells, John | Unit 4+2 Hit Charts | 9 |
| Evans, Allen | EPs: Brian Poole/Tremeloes Pinky and Perky Julie Felix |
9 |
| Evans, Allen | LPs: Sandie Shaw, Sandie **** Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry in London **** |
10 |
| Dove, Ian | Flashback for Gene Pitney to… the Most Ridiculous Session Ever | 10 |
| Bromley, Tony | From You to Us | 10 |
| David Stern, February 2006 | ||
| No. 948 | 12 March 1965 | |
| Cover | Donovan 'Catch the Wind' | |
| Advertising | New, New, New LP
Releases The Pretty Things (Fontana) Timi Yuro, The Amazing Timi Yuro (Mercury) Betty Everett, It's in His Kiss (Fontana), Julie Rogers, The Sound of Julie (N.A.), Lennon & McCartney Styled by Alan Haven (Fontana), Les Swingle Singers, Anyone for Mozart? (Phillips) [Albums are not reviewed] |
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| Keith Altham | Startling Stones
Discovery [Its that they don't have one] Four New Tunes in the Act ["Pain in My Heart", "Down the Road Apiece", "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love", "Last Time"] |
3 |
| Advertisement | Tito Burns Presents: Stockton, Odeon; Newcastle, City Hall; Doncaster, Gaument; Liverpool, Empire; Worcester, Gaument; Birmingham, Town Hall; Bradford, Gaument; Bristol, Colston Hall; Colchester, Odeon; Salisbury, Odeon; Taunton, Odeon; Cardiff, Sophia Gardens [Dusty Springfield, The Searchers, The Echoes, George Meaton, Tony Jackson and the Vibrations, Heinz and the Wild Boys, Zombies, and Bobby Vee] | 3 |
| Keith Altham | "??-Time with Tom Jones" | 4 |
| Philips | Advertisement [New Cartridge Loaded Pocket Tape Recorder] | 4 |
| Tom Bromley | "From Us to You" | 4 |
| Decca | Advertisement [Dave Berry's new single "Little Things"] | 5 |
| N.A. | Advertisement for CBS "Today's Exciting Releases" [Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Marty Robbins, June Christy, Don Di Muci, The Rogues | 5 |
| Derek Johnson | Del's Song Story Gerry & the Pacemakers, "I'll Be There" (Columbia) Shangri-las, "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" (N.A.) Mary Wells, "Use Your Head" (Stateside) Troy Dante, "I Wish I Knew" (Fontana) Downliners Sect, "Wreck of the Old ‘97" (Columbia) Johnny Tillotson, "Angel" (MGM) Dionne Warwick, "You Can Have Him" (Pye-Int.) Ray Charles, "Cry" (HMV) Francoise Hardy, "All Over the World" (Pye) Julie Rogers, "Hawaiian Wedding Song" (Mercury) Del Shannon, "Stranger In Town" (Stateside) Jackie De Shannon, "She Don't Understand Him Like I do" (Liberty) Murray's Monkeys, "Gipsy" (Pye) |
6 |
| Derek Johnson | Potted Pops Donovan, " Catch The Wind " (Pye) Kenny Rankin, " Knowing I Won't Go Back There " (CBS) Alan Drew, "What It Is To Me" (Columbia) Blendells, "Dance With Me" (Reprise) Beatmen, "Now the Sun Has Gone" (Pye) Bobby Dean, "More and More" (Columbia) Top Six, "Its Not Unusual" (No.14) First Impressions, "Looking for Her/I'm Coming Home" (Pye) Lee Dorsey, "Do-Re-Mi!" (Sue) Anna King & Bobby Byrd, "Baby, Baby, Baby" (Phillips) Little Darlings, "Little Bit O Soul" (Fontana) |
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| N.A. | "Platter Chatter" | 6 |
| N.A. | Advertisement [Timi Yuro: "You Can Have Him"] | 6 |
| EMI | Advertising: "Hit LPs from EMI" [The Animals, Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, I Am P.J.Proby, Cliff Richards and the Shadows] | 7 |
| N.A. | NME Top Thirty 1) Rolling Stones, "The Last Time" (Decca) 2) Tom Jones, "Its Not Unusual" (Decca) 3) Seekers, "I'll Never Find Another You" (Columbia) 4) Herman's Hermits, "Silhouettes" (Columbia) 5) Sandie Shaw, "I'll Stop At Nothing" (Pye) 6) Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, "Game of Love" (Fontana) 7) Marianne Faithfull, "Come and Stay With Me" (Decca) 8) Animals, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Columbia) 9) Gene Pitney "I Must Be Seeing Things" (Stateside) 10) Searchers, "Goodbye My Love" (Pye) 11) Hollies, "Yes I Will" (Parlophone) 12) Ivy League, "Funny How Love Can Be" (Piccadilly) 13) P.J. Proby, "I Apologise" (Liberty) 14) Pretty Things, "Honey I Need" (Fontana) 15) Val Doonican, "The Special Years" (Decca) 16) Georgie Fame, "In the Meantime" (Columbia) 17) Roy Orbison, "Goodnight" (London) 18) Jim Reeves, "It Hurts So Much" (RCA) 19) Keely Smith, "You're Breaking My Heart" (Reprise) 20) Kinks, "Tired of Waiting For You" (Pye) 21) Shadows, "Mary Anne" (Columbia) 22) Unit 4 Plus 2, "Concrete and Clay" (Decca) 23) Zephyrs, "She's Lost You" (Columbia) 24) Petula Clark, "I Know a Place" (Pye) 25) Cliff Richards, "The Minute You're Gone" (Columbia) 26) Twinkle, "Golden Lights" (Decca) 27) Dobie Gray, "The ‘In' Crowd" (London) 28) Elvis Presley, "Do the Clam" (RCA) 29) Moody Blues, "I Don't Want to Go on Without You" (Decca) 30) Yardbirds, "For Your Love" (Columbia) |
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| EMI | Advertisement. [Judi Johnson and the Perfections: "How Many Times"] | 7 |
| Decca | Advertising: "New on Sale Today" [The Bachelors: "True Love for Evermore", Dave Berry: "Little Things", Nicky Hilton: "Give Us Your Blessing", Robby Royal: "Within My Lonely Heart", The Cruisers: "It Ain't Me Babe", The Van Doren-Hawksworth Collection: "Pin Ball", Formula 1: "I Just Can't Go to Sleep"] | 7 |
| N.A. | Beatles Greatest U.S. Show to be Filmed | 8 |
| N.A. | Beatles Single Out Next Month | 8 |
| N.A. | Wayne Hits U.S. Charts | 8 |
| Paul Davies | Bachelors Score | 8 |
| N.A. | New Disc Signings: "U.S. Song Doug's First" | 8 |
| N.A. | Peter and Gordon
to Visit Japan Dusty's Ballrooms Fury Film on ABC Animals to West Coast Pacemakers on Granada Pennies tour Scotland Pet Clark Bows on Sullivan TV Paul Jones on "Jury" Kinks Shows Off Stones Wax ‘Live' Miller for London Judi on ‘Gadzooks' New U.S. Plans for Herman and Freddie Bennett Here Next Month David Jacobs' Disc Series Fury Back to America |
8 |
| N.A. | Cliff to Receive Award on Palladium TV | 9 |
| Wayne Gibson | Bobby Vee to Record
Here Presley's Next Film in April Bo Diddley Sought Cabaret Dates for Cilla and Pet Teens-Zephyrs Film Release Yardbirds to Record an EP Ivy League in Song Festival Louis Postones Trip Tamla on 208 Mann's Agreement Ends Domino Tour Put Back Wayne to Oxford More Dates for Proby Hollies and Freddie on Loss Show U.S. Tour for Gerry Seekers Concert Clark ‘Lucky' Again Gerry Aids Charity |
9 |
| N.A. | Stones and Animals Live on ‘Steady Go' | 9 |
| Derek Johnson | Things, Poole, Zephyrs to Join Fury | 10 |
| Derek Johnson | Doris Troy Injured, Sounds on ‘Shindig', Del and Mann Set for ‘Gear', Lonnie for Bermuda, EMI Producers Get New Boss, Dates for Unit, ‘Dolly' for London, Pre Spector Righteous!, Diahann Carroll, David John, Keely Smith, Dave Berry…and the Cruisers, Quick Spins, |
10 |
| Allen Evans | EPs Animals: "Boom Boom," "Dimples," "Around and Around," "I've Been around" (Columbia) Temptations: "My Girl," "I'll Be in Trouble," Why You Wanna Make Me Blue," "The Girl's Alright with Me" (Tamla-Motown) Cliff Richards: "Havin' Fun," "I Could Easily Fall" (Columbia) Shadows: "Me Oh My," "Friends," "Genie with Light Brown Lamp," "Little Princess" (Columbia) |
11 |
| Derek Johnson | Tracking Down the Searchers | 11 |
| Cordell Marks | Pretty Thing Viv Recalls [Viv Prince] | 11 |
| Advertising | "New Fabulous EPs" [Sinatra, Dean Martin, Trini Lopez, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Dionne Warwick, The Newbeats, The Shangri-las, London Philharmonic Orchestra] | 11 |
| N.A. | ‘Life Lines of ‘The Seekers' | 12 |
| Ian Dove | New to the Charts…but Keely Smith is No Newcomer! | 12 |
| N.A. | New Disc from Rolling Stones, "The Last Time" | 12 |
| Keith Altham | John "Ivy League" Carter Tells Us about Waxing with Proby | 13 |
| Allen Evans | LPs [Supremes, Beach Boys, Nat King Cole, Shangra-las, Little Richard, Belafonte, Tamla, Newly Delivered] | 13 |
| Advertisement | 6 New Hits [The Righteous Brothers, Francoise Hardy, The First Impressions, The Dunning Brothers, Glo Macari, Bobby Rio] | 13 |
| Derek Johnson | More Controversy [Should Stones Tidy Themselves Up?] | 14 |
| N.A. | Adverts. [Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, The Who plus The Candles, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, The Animals] | 14 |
| N.A. | Classified | 15 |
| The Ally Cat | Tailpieces | 16 |
| Cilla | Knees Up | 16 |
| Gordon Rampson | Billy Fury's New Look | |
| N.A. | Record of the Week: Donovan "Catch the Wind" | 16 |
| N.A. | Number 4 in the U.S. Charts! ‘King of the Road' by Roger Miller | 16 |
| N.A. | The Best Version of ‘I Don't Want to Go On Without You' by The Escorts | 16 |
| Sarah Stevens, February 2006 | ||
| No. 949 | 19 March 1965 | |
| Cover | Julie Rogers "Hawaiian Wedding Song" | 1 |
| Althan, Keith | Sandie and Marianne | 3 |
| Johnson, Derek | Singles: Different
Bachelors Barron Knight, "Pop Go the Workers" Detergents, "Leader of the Pack" (Columbia) Billie Davis, "The Last One to Be Loved" Applejacks, "Bye Bye Girl" (Decca) Bobby Rydell, "Stranger in the World" Little Anthony, "Goin' Out My Head" Crickets, "Now Hear This" Helen Shapiro, "Tomorrow Is Another Day" Jimmy Nicol, "Clementine" (Decca) |
4 |
| Evans, Allen | LPs: Righteous Brothers, "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin" (London) Kinda Kinks, "Kinda Kinks" (Pye Popular) Trini Lopez, "Folk Album" (Reprise) |
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| n.a | Platter Chatter | |
| NME | Best Selling Pop
Records in US: 1. "Eight Days a Week," Beatles 2. "Stop in the Name of Love," Supremes 3. "Birds and Bees," Jewel Akens 4. "King of the Road," Roger Miller 5. "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat," Hermans Hermits |
5 |
| NME | Best Selling LPs
in Britain: 1. The Rolling Stones No 2 (Decca) 2. Kinda Kinks (Pye) 3. Beatles for Sale (Parlophone) 4. Sandie (Pye) 5. The Pretty Things (Fontana) |
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| NME | NME Top Thirty: 1. "The Last Time," The Rolling Stones (Decca) 2. "It's Not Unusual," Tom Jones (Decca) 3. "Silhouettes," Herman's Hermits (Columbia) 4. "I'll Never Find another You," The Seekers (Columbia) 5. "Come and Stay with Me," Marianne Faithful (Decca) |
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| n.a | Beatles Booked for
Six Grammies NME Poll Concert on TV Again Mann to Televise from the Cavern Sandie for US- as a visitor New Singles from Adam and Herman Proby tour off Zombies on tour Pop_Liners Valentine's TV Double 'Gadzooks' -Now Twinkle Gene's Operation Gerry on "Andrews Show" Hermans On 'Club' |
6 |
| n.a | The Beatles Booked
for Three Shows |
7 |
| Altham, Keith | Donovan in Genuine | 8 |
| Bromley, Tony | From You to Us | |
| n.a | Zephyr Don't Like Their Other Name | |
| The Drifters- Big Influence | ||
| Dove, Ian | A Warning to the Tamla- Motown Visitors | 9 |
| n.a | NME Quiz | |
| Johnson, Derek | Presley Mystery | 10 |
| Evans, Allen | EPs: Chuck Berry, The Promised Land (Chess) Dean Martin, We'll Sing in the Sunshine (Reprise) Sonny Boy Williamson, Help Me (Chess) Frank Sinatra, The Way You Look Tonight (Reprise) Shangri-Las, Leader of the Pack (Red Bird) New Beats, Ain't that Lovin You Baby (Hickory) Donnie Warwick, Wishin' and Hopin' (Pye) Sammy Davis, Don't Shut Me Out (Reprise) Bing Crosby, Adventure in Paradise (Reprise) |
10 |
| Alley Cat | Just the Little Things | 12 |
| Hentoff, Nat | Pet Clark Scores on Sullivan TV | |
| n.a | Seekers Top Ten | |
| Michael Stiller, February 2006 | ||
| No. 950 | 26 March 1965 | |
| Altham, Keith | A Kink a Week [Mick Avory] | 2 |
| Evans, Allen | EPs [Roy Orbison, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Jerry Lee Hooker] | 2 |
| Altham, Keith | ?-Time with Herman | 3 |
| Jones, Tom | Tom Jones' Top Ten | 3 |
| n.a. | New Style Honeycombs | 4 |
| n.a. | Big Show Business Names on Discs | 4 |
| Johnson, Derek | Reviewing the Singles The Kinks: "Everybody Is Gonna Be Happy" (Pye) Chuck Berry: "Lonely School Days" (Chess) Beach Boys: "All Summer Long" (Capitol) Bob Dylan: "Times They Are A-Changin (Live)" (CBS) FrankIfield: "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Columbia) Adam Faith: "Hand Me Down Things" (Parlophone) Naturals: "Blue Roses" (Parlophone) Jack Jones: "The Race Is on" (London) |
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| n.a. | Potted Pops Peter & Gordon: "True Love Ways" (Columbia) Impressions: "People Get Ready" (HMV) Chad & Jeremy: "If I Loved You" (Ember) Joey Page: "Cause I'm in Love with You" (Fontana) Marty Robbins: "A Whole Lot Easier" (CBS) Countrymen: "So This Is How It Feels" (Piccadilly) Lonnie Donegan: "Get Out of My Life" (Pye) Stan Getz-Astrud Gilberto: "Telephone Song" (Verve) LesSwingle Singers: "Eine Kleine Nacht Musik" (Phillips) |
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| n.a. | NME Top Thirty 1. The Rolling Stones: "The Last Time" 2. Herman's Hermits: "Silhouettes" 3. Tom Jones: "It's Not Unusual" 4. MarianneFaithfull: "Come and Stay with Me" 5. Searchers: "Goodbye My Love" |
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| Best Selling LP's
in Britain 1. The Rolling Stones No. 2 (Decca) 2. KindaKinks (Pye) 3. Beatles for Sale (Parlophone) 4. Sandie, Sandie Shaw (Pye) 5. TheFreewheelin Bob Dylan (CBS) |
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| n.a. | Sandie Leads ValDoonican Stones on Sullivan Show Everly Bros. Here in May Kinks and Donovan in the new ‘Lucky' Elvis as Girl When You can see Our Poll Concert Manfreds, Wayne, and Ivy League set for concerts Polle revives Reeves Number Ball For States and ‘Down Under' Seekers Set to Tour Australia Beatles' Engineer Sings [Glyn Johns] Don't Miss out on Who's Who Merseybeats Dates Who Live on Loss show Scottish Tour for the Teens Animals ‘AGogo' Delany Band Folds Signed for ‘Jury' Yardbirds on Light |
6 |
| n.a. | Singles by Tom,Cilla and Manfreds Kinks on Cavern TV Ex-Shadow plays on Donovan LP |
6-7 |
| n.a. | Dylan Sell-Out ;
TV Plans, New Single Shirley Bassey Concery Venues Crickets Disband The New Yardbird [Jeff Beck] British Groups Leap U.S. Chart Frank at Work on Film Songs Stones EP Title Cliff's BBC-2 Show Mathis; Palladium set Mann Sought for Four Countries Epstein-James Music Deal Kinks on ‘Saturday Club' Poole Misses Show Twinkle Waxes Contest Song Freddie on ‘Scene' Eartha in Charity Show League Tour North Millie Martin's show for Montreux Festival Judi's Show Repeated Marianne in Festival Freddie Due Home Ella's Return CarlesLockyer Dies |
7 |
| n.a. | Life-lines of Donovan | 8 |
| Hentoff, Nat | American Airmail | 8 |
| Bromley, Tony | From You to Us | 8 |
| Gray, Andy | The Sound of Motown Plus Georgie Fame—Great! | 9 |
| n.a. | NME Readers Quiz the Stars | 9 |
| Hutchins, Chris | Roy Orbison's Heartaches | 10 |
| Evans, Allen | LPs by Allen Evans | 10 |
| Mautner, Sue | Sue Mautner Takes You on a Visit to Brian Jones' New Pad | 10 |
| The Alley Cat | Tail-Pieces | 12 |
| Dove, Ian | Dylan Gives Label a Boost | 12 |
| n.a. | Additional Section Pop Stars Who's Who | |
| Brian Taggart, March 2006 |
| NME | 1965 |
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