| No. 1063 | 3 June 1967 | |
| Cover | Remember: Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Is the Beatles- New Parlophone LP on Sale
Now Hollies- Great LP Monkee Peter When He Was Very Poor New Singles by Small Faces, Cliff Richard Supremes- Break-up? |
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| Alan Smith | Hit-maker Mickie Gets Most from the Stars | 2 |
| Tony Bromley (editor) | From You to Us | |
| Advertisement | The Young Idea, "With a Little Help from My Friends" (Columbia) | |
| Alan Smith | A Very Poor Peter Tork | 3 |
| Advertisements | Cliff Richard,
"I'll Come Runnin' Babe" (Columbia) You Can't Miss Three Lennon & McCartney Compositions by The Young Idea, David & Jonathan and Bernard Cribbins on Columbia and Parlophone |
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| NME | Top Ten of the Top
Group The Tremolos Dave Munden: The Young Rascals, "Groovin"; The Hollies, "Carrie Anne"; Alan Blakely: Sam and Dave, "You Don't Know Like I Like to Know"; The Beatles, "Rain"; Chip Hawkes: Elvis Presley, "Old Shep"; The Beatles, "We Can Work It Out"; Rick West: The Four Seasons, "Silence Is Golden"; Django Rheinhardt, "After You've Gone" Group Choice: The Righteous Brothers, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"; Procol Harum, "A Whiter Shade of Pale |
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| Derek Johnson | Top Singles Reviewed Cream, "Strange Brew" / "Tales of Brave Ulysses" (Reaction) The Small Faces, "Here Come the Nice" / "Talk to You" (Immediate) Gerry Marsden, "Please Let Them Be" / "I'm Not Blue" (CBS) Eddie Cochran, "Three Steps to Heaven" / "Eddie's Blues" (Liberty) Freddie and the Dreamers, "Brown and Porters (Meat Exporters) Lorry" / "Little Brown Eyes" (Columbia) Normie Rowe, "But I Know" / "Sunshine Secret" (Polydor) John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, "Double Trouble" / "It Hurts Me Too" (Decca) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" / "Give a Little Love" (Tamia-Mowtown) Joe Brown, "With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Show Me Around" (Pye) David & Jonathan, "She's Leaving Home" / "One Born Every Minute" (Columbia) Bernard Cribbins, "When I'm Sixty-Four" / "Oh My Word" (Parlophone) Frankie Valli, "Can't take My Eyes Off You" / "The Trouble with Me" (Phillips) |
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| NME | Top Thirty 1. Tremeloes, "Silence Is Golden" (CBS) 2. The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset" (Pye) 3. Procol Harum, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Deram) 4. Mamas & Papas, "Dedicated to the One I Love" (RCA) 5. Beach Boys, "Then I Kissed Her" (Capitol) |
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| NME | Britain's Top 15 Lps 1. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone) 2. Soundtrack, Sound of Music (RCA) 3. Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced (Track) 4. Monkees, More of the Monkess (RCA) 5. Dubliners, A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Major Minor) 6. Lulu, Lulu! (Ace of Clubs) |
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| NME | Parker Not Managing
Jones Judy Not to Quit Seekers Beatles Plan New Single Monkees Arrival: Paris, U.S. Reports Fury, Hump- Pop Radio Cat Stevens TV Documentary Cilla TV Guest Spots Procol- Billy Cotton TV British and Irish Tours Who's Drummer Ill, Paris Trip Off Dave Dee Dates Ray Davis to Direct New-Concept TV Film Troggs Tour Abroad, New EP Dates Kinks Home and Away Who's Where |
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| Advertisement | New from Decca this
Week Billie Davis, "Wasn't It You" John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, "Double Trouble" Stu Phillips, "Angel of Love" The Turtles, "She'd Rather Be with Me" Roger Williams, "Love Me Forever" Nigel Hopkins, "Chelsea Bun" The Les Reed Orchestra, "Imogene" O.V. Wright, "Eight Men, Four Women" |
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| Advertisement | Beatles Monthly Book,
A Sgt. Pepper Special Georgie Fame, "Four Great Songs One EP" (CBS) |
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| Alan Smith | “Marriage before Twenty Should Be Illegal,” Says P. P. Arnold Who Wed at 16 | |
| Alan Evans | Track-by-Track of Hollies' Evolution | |
| NME | Charles Lloyd Says His Sound Is Brand New | |
| Andy Gray | Let's Hope There Is a Denial about... Supremes Break-Up | 9 |
| Norrie Drummond | Solo-Thinking from Gerry | |
| Tracy Thomas | Hollywood Calling | |
| Advertisement | Cilla, "What Good
Am I?" (Parlophone) NME Summer Extra Special Out Now |
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| Advertisement | Royal Navy Make Your Car Swing Round the Clock, Stereo Tape Units from Go Electric Ltd. |
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| NME | NME Popword | |
| The Alley Cat | Tail-Pieces | |
| Advertisement | Gerry Marsden Goes Solo on CBS | 12 |
| Adam Kelly, Spring 2008 | ||
| No. 1065 | 10 June 1967 | |
| Drummond, Norrie | Bruce—The Lone Beach Boy | 2 |
| NA | Top Ten Reveals Taste “Secret Love,” Doris Day “Mood Indigo,” Duke Ellington “Searchin’,” The Coasters “Only the Lonely,” LP Frank Sinatra “The Lord’s Prayer,” The Beach Boys “Boogie Woogie,” Dizzie Gillespie “Girl from Ipanema,” Stan Getz and Astrud Gillberto “Moonlight Serenade,” Glen Miller “Sunny Afternoon,” The Kinks “Michelle,” The Beatles |
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| Bell, Jimmy | It’s No. 1 Decca’s Fastest Selling Single Ever! But…: Procol Just Want to Eat and Sleep! | 3 |
| Johnson, Derek | Singles Cilla Black: “What Good Am I” / “Over My Head” [Parlophone] Music Explosion: “Little Bit o’ Soul”/ I See the Light” [Stateside] Otis Redding: On-stage “Shake” / “634-5789” [Stax] Four Tops: “7 Rooms of Gloom” / “I’ll Turn to Stone” [Tamla-Motown] Aretha Franklin: “Respect” / “Save Me” [Atlantic] Harpers Bizarre: “Come to the Sunshine” / “The Debutante’s Ball” [Warner Bros.] New Faces: “Lace Covered Window” / “The Life that I Lead” [Pye] Gary Lewis and The Playboys: “Girls in Love” / “Let’s be More Than Friends” [Liberty] Association: “Windy” / “Sometime” [London] Lionel Morton: “What to Do with Laurie” / “I’ll Just Wait Around” [Philips] Nancy: “You Only Live Twice” / “Jackson” [Reprise] Sorrows: “Pink Purple Yellow and Red” / “My Gal” [Piccadilly] Elvis Presley: “Loving You” / “I’ll Go Along with It” [Parlophone] Paul Revere and the Raiders: “Him or Me—What’s It Gonna Be?” / “Legend of Paul Revere” [CBS] |
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| Johnson, Derek | Potted Pops Donald Peers: “Somewhere My Love” [Columbia] Nita Rossi: “Misty Blue” [Piccadilly] Glories: “I Stand Accused” [CBS] Sherwoods: “Here’s to You Sir Francis” [Major Minor] Jonathan Ward: “Fools Parade” [Eyemark] John Scott Orch and Chorus: “Stranger in the House” [HMV] Ruby Murray: “I Can’t Get You Out of My Heart” [Fontana] Luke & Blake: “Big Day” [CBS] Jason Dean: “Down in the Street” [King] Pennsylvania Sixpence: “Love of the Common People” [Pye] Gallagher-Lyle: “Trecs” [Polydor] Vernon Garrett: “Shine It On” [Stateside] Charles Kennedy: “A Scrap of Paper” [Columbia] Picadilly Line: “At the Third Stroke” [CBS] Mojo Men: “Me about You” [Reprise] |
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| Evans, Allen | LPs Vince Hill, Edelweiss [Columbia] Frank Sinatra, The Early Years [CBS] Peaches and Herb, Let’s Fall in Love [CBS] Jose Feliciano, Bag Full of Soul [ROA Victor] |
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| NME | Top Thirty 1. “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum (Deram) 2. “Silence is Golden,” Tremeloes (CBS) 3. “There Goes My Everything,” Engelbert-Humperdinck (Decca) 4. “Waterloo Sunset,” Kinks (Pye) 5. “Dedicated to the One I Love,” Mamas & Papas (RCA) |
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| NME | Britain’s Top 15 LPs 1. Sgt. Peppers lonely Hearts’ Club Band, The Beatles (Parlophone) 2. Sound of Music, Soundtrack (RCA) 3. Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix (Track) 4. More of The Monkees (RCA) 5. A Drop of the Hard Stuff, Dubliners (Major Minor) |
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| n/a | Monkees: Davy Exempt, New Disc Supremes: Florence Stays Paul Jones, Lulu, Buddy Rich BBC-2; Procol, P.P., Price, Dee, Lulu Radio Seekers, Procol, Faces, Sinatra Jnr. TV ‘Blow-up’ Director for Beatles? –and Big Cartoon with New Songs Bassey West End Date Monro Steps Aside Walker John, Paris Return |
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| n/a | New Records from—Pink, Beck, Ryans, Proby, Elvis, Sandie
sequel, Price, Turtles Faces in Legal Row with Decca Galaxy of Pop Stars for Summer Sunday Concerts Hollie Hicks Operation—Live TV is Scrapped Procol on the Way to a Million; Tour Plans Hump Colour TV; Life Threatened—Off to America |
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| Drummond, Norrie | Bad Shows Bring Jimi Down… but He Needn’t Have Worried about Sunday’s | 8 |
| Harris, June | New York: It’s Beatlemania Again! | 8 |
| Thomas, Tracy | Hollywood: Mama, Papa Latest | 8 |
| Walker, John | Solo Success Made Me Cry for Joy | 9 |
| Bromley, Tony | From You to US | 9 |
| Drummond, Norrie | NMExclusive: Don’t Call Me Engelbert | 10 |
| Altham, Keith | New to the Charts: Winwood’s Traffic Won’t be Diverted | 10 |
| The Alley Cat | Tailpieces | 12 |
| Dodd, Ken | London Palladium | 12 |
| Torme, Mel | Talk of the Town | 12 |
| Morgan Levey, Spring 2008 | ||
| No. 1065 | 17 June 1967 | |
| Cover | Monkee Visit and Film Plans Procol Harum Life-lines Why Cilla is so ashamed Young Rascals talk about their life together Hollies: Four-year gad is a problem |
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| Allen Evans | LPs Buddy Holly’s Greatest Hits (Ace of Hearts) Shani Wallace. I’m a Girl (London) Bobby Bare. Streets of Baltimore (RCA) P.J. Proby. Enigma (Liberty) |
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| NA | Life lines of Chart-Topping Procol Harum | 2 |
| Keith Altham | The Young Hollie (21) and the Old Hollie (25) | 3 |
| Derek Johnson | Singles Review Monkees, “Alternate Title” / “Forget that Girl” (RCA) Sandpipers, “Glass” / “It’s Over” (A & M) Jackie Trent, “Your Love is Everywhere” / “It’s Not Easy Loving You” (Pye) Del Shannon, “ Mind Over Matter” / “Led Along” (Liberty) The Cyrkle, “We Had a Good Thing Going” / “Two Rooms” (CBS) Judith Durham, “The Olive Tree” / “The Non-Performing Lion Quickstep” (Columbia) Pink Floyd, “See Emily Play” / “Scarecrow” (Columbia) Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen, “When I’m 64” / “Goodnight Irene” (Pye) Ray Charles, “Here We Go Again” / “Somebody Ought to Write a Book about It” (HMV) P.J. Proby, “You Can’t Come Home Again” / “Work with Me Anne” (Liberty) |
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| NME | Top Thirty 1. “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum (Deram) 2. “There Goes My Hero,” Engelbert Humperdinck (Decca) 3. “Silence Is Golden,” Tremeloes (CBS) 4. “Waterloo Sunset,” The Kinks (Pye) 5. “The Happening,” Supremes (Tamla-Motown) |
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| NME | Britain’s Top 15 LPs 1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles (Parlophone) 2. Sound of Music. Soundtrack (RCA) 3. Are You Experienced. Jimi Hendrix (Track) 4. More of the Monkees. The Monkees (RCA) 5. Fiddler on the Roof. Topol and London Cast (CBS) |
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| NA | Monkees Two Month Stay in
Britain Immediate sends ‘pop ambassadors’ abroad Dave Dee Men Pen Karlin Debut Move—Mothers Swop ‘British Monkees’ Plan Cliff Richard, Paul Jones TV Clash New Discs on the way from Lulu, Orbison, Fame, Sinatra, Posey |
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| NA | Beatles Wax New Songs for
Cartoon Movie Troggs Concerts in Spanish Bullrings Trems British, U.S. tours with Young Rascals? Hollies, Hill, Hump, Dave Dee TV Spots Who’s Entwistle Wedding Date, LP On Again Kinks, Faces, Fame Fest Del Shannon return Host of stars wax Bee Gees titles, LP, single Vaudeville Film |
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| Andy Gray | Why Cilla Is ashamed! | 8 |
| NA | America Calling | 8 |
| Reg Presley | Question-time with Trogg | 9 |
| NA | From you to us | 9 |
| Young Rascals | Group Life by the Young Rascals | 10 |
| Keith Altham | No beards for Dave Dee & Co.! | 10 |
| NA | New to the charts | 10 |
| Alley Cat | Tailpieces | 12 |
| Kertin McClure | Summer Seasons Get Going ‘Dad’ Ifield in top form | 12 |
| Peter Bagshaw | Val Packs ‘Em In | 12 |
| Gordon Irving | Eve’s Strong Return | 12 |
| Andy Gray | Blackpool Flashes | 12 |
| David Phelps, Spring 2008 | ||
| No. 1067 | 24 June 1967 | |
| cover | Monkees Concert at Hollywood Bowl: (Wembley Rehearsal?) Pics and Fill Review | 1 |
| Norrie Drummond | Vince Hill Gambles on Follow Up | 2 |
| N.A. | Little Freddie Steps in for Bingo [Freddie and the Dreamers ] | 2 |
| N.A. | Monkee- Beatle Battle | 2 |
| N.A | Elvis Slated Again | 2 |
| N.A. | Herman Marathon [Herman and the Hermits] | 2 |
| N.A, | Welcome Monkees! And Here is a Preview of What You May See at Wembley | 3 |
| John Wells | Singles Reviewed (Derek Johnson Is on Holiday) Lulu, “Let’s Pretend” / “To Sir with Love” (Decca) Chris Farlowe, “Moanin’” / “What Have I Been Doing” (Immediate) Lesley Gore, “Summer and Sandy” / “I’m Falling Down (Mercury) Nola York, “Photographs” / “He’s Looking at Her” (Phillips) The Dubliners, “All for Me Grog” / “I know My Love” (Major Minor) Stevie Wonder, “Was Made to Love Her” / “Hold Me” (Tamia-Motown) Keith, “Daylight Saving Time” / “Happy Walking Around” (Mercury) Unit 4 Plus 2, “Butterfly” / “A Place to Go” (Fontana) Easybeats, “Heaven and Hell” / “Pretty Girl” (United Artists) John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, “I’m Your Witchdoctor” / “Telephone Blues” (Immediate) Toys, “My Love Sonata” / “I Close My Eyes” (Phillips) Sandy Posey, “I Take it Back” / “The Boy I Love” (MGM) Whistling Jack Smith, “I Take it Back” / “The Boy I Love” (MGM) Paul and Barry Ryan, “Claire” / “I’ll Make it Worth Your While” (Decca) The Syn, “Created by Clive” / “Grounded” (Decca) |
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| N.A. | POTTED POPS [The Action, Australian Playboys, Samantha Jones, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Serendipity Singers, Salena Jones, Swinging Blue Jeans, The Shirelles, and Sergio Franchi] | 4 |
| NME | Top Thirty 1. “A Winter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum (Deram) 2. “There Goes My Everything,” Engelbert Humperdinck (Decca) 3. “Carrie Anne,” Hollies (Parlophone) 4. “Silence Is Golden,” Tremeloes (CBS) 5. “Waterloo Sunset,” Kinks (Pye) |
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| NME | Britain’s Top 15 LPs 1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles (Parlophone) 2. Sound of Music, Soundtrack (RCA) 3. Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix (Track) 4. More of the Monkees, Monkees (RCA) 5. Fiddler on the Roof, Topol and London Cast (CBS) |
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| N.A. | Traffic Tour Shows in Stereo; Aretha? [The Traffic
play first British dates] Kinks Ray, Dave Plan Solo Discs [Ray Davies and Dave Davies plan solo singles] Gees, Lulu, Trems, Hendrix Radio [The Bee Gees, Lulu, the Attack, and Jose Feliciano] Procol Film Score All Ill, Dates Off [Procol Harum members ill] Seekers with Big Orchestra Bachelors Try Dubliners Kick Elvis Gets New Live Show Offer Pop Invasion of Israel [Tom Springfield, Frankie Vaughan, Paul and Barry Ryan, and the Searchers entertain Israeli troops] Hank Locklin Due Dave Dee Turns A-and-R Man [Dave Dee forms record company] Paul Jones Spec, New Williams TV [Paul Jones stars in show on BBC-2] Brenda Lee U.K Autumn Visit Cathy McGowan Movie Plans TV, Radio Series? Hermits 40 Days [Herman’s Hermits tour 40 days in the U.S. and Canada) |
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| N.A. | Monkee Flight Mystery; More Show Seats Monkees ‘Title’ Spot, Fan Club Jamborees More Names for Blackpool Nights [Val Doonican added to Blackpool Opera House concert] Walker John’s Solo Radio, TV Blitz Donovan Song for Herman, Another Bachelors Oldie [Herman’s Hermits next single] Deutsche Vince Small Faces Venue Aretha, Richard Trips [Aretha Franklin visits Britain] Royalties- A New Move [new campaign of America’s National Committee for Recording Arts] Yards to U.S. [The Yardbirds tour] Pop for Export [“Pop ambassadors to Europe” tour] Borge Tour [Victor Borge, pianist comedian] Cliff’s Mother [Dora Bryan co-stars with Cliff Richards in film] Pop at the Palace [Manfred Mann, Dave Dee, and others appear at Blenheim Palace] Troggs, Kinks, Jack Date [The Troggs, the Kinks, Whistling Jack Smith] Peter, Gordon Abroad Warhol Visit [Andy Warhol visits Britain with group, the Velvet Underground] Donovan Poetry [Donovan appears on BBC-1 poetry-with-music show] Vince, P and G, Eric Burdon Movie Songs [Vince Hill, Peter and Gordon] Felix Concerts, Film [Julie Felix] Secombe Concerts [Harry Secombe] Hip Group for Cat [Cat Stevens forms eight piece group] |
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| Andy Gray | Andy Gray Goes East to Czechoslovakia and… Pop Could Lift Iron Curtain | 8 |
| Keith Altham | Planes West to Cover America’s Monterey Pop Festival and Cable this Day-by-day Report – New York Rave with Jimi, Eric (Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon) | 9 |
| Allen Evans | LPs Tom Jones Live (Decca) Donovan: Sunshine Superman (Pye) Sammy Davis Sings Laurindo Almeida Plays (Reprise) Jack Jones Sings (London) David Bowie (Deram) Sandy Posey: Single Girl (MGM) |
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| Carolyn Raider, Spring 2008 | ||
| grtedit, 16-Apr-2008 |