SINGLES
BARCLAY
JAMES HARVEST-Early Morning/ Mr Sunshine (Parlophone)
THE BARRIER-Georgie Brown/ Dawn Breaks Through (Eyemark)
DAVE BERRY-(Do I Figure) In Your Life/ Latisha (Decca)
CREATION-Midway Down/ The Girls Are Naked (Polydor)
CUPPA T-Streatham Hippodrome/ One Man Band (Deram)
ZION DE GALLIER-Winter Will Be Cold/ Me (Parlophone)
JULIE DRISCOLL AND BRIAN AUGER TRINITY-This Wheels On Fire/
A Kind Of Love-In (Marmalade) #5
ELASTIC BAND-Think Of You Baby/ Its Been A Long Time Baby
(Decca)
CHRIS FARLOWE-The Last Goodbye/ Paperman Fly In The Sky
(Immediate)
FLOWERPOT MEN-A Man Without A Woman/ You Can Never Be Wrong
(Deram)
STEVE FLYNN-Your Life And My Life/ Come Tomorrow (Parlophone)
FOX-Hey Mr Carpenter/ Seek And You Find (CBS)
FUZZ FACE-Mighty Quinn/ Voices In The Sky (Page One)
GLASS MENAGERIE-Shes A Rainbow/ But Thats When I
Start To Love (Pye)
GRAPEFRUIT-Yes/ Elevator (RCA)
THE HERD-I Dont Want Our Loving To Die/ Our Fairy Tale
(Fontana) #5
JASON CREST-Juliano The Bull/ Two By The Sea (Philips)
THE KINKS-Wonder Boy/ Polly (Pye) #36
MARMALADE-Lovin Things/ Hey Joe (CBS) #6
THE MEDIUM-Colours Of The Rainbow/ Edward Never Lies (CBS)
MY DEAR WATSON-Elusive Face/ The Shame Just Drained (Parlophone)
ORANGE SEAWEED-Stay Awhile/ Pictures In The Sky (Pye)
PETER AND THE WOLVES-Julie/ Birthday (MGM)
PINK FLOYD-It Would Be So Nice/ Julia Dream (Columbia)
TONY RIVERS AND THE CASTAWAYS-I Can Guarantee Your Love/
Pantomime (Polydor)
SCRUGG-Everyone Can See/ I Wish I Was Five (Pye)
SIGHT AND SOUND-Ebenezer/ Our Love (Is In The Pocket) (Fontana)
SIMONS SECRETS-Naughty Boy/ Sympathy (CBS)
SMALL FACES-Lazy Sunday/ Rollin Over (Immediate) #2
TANGERINE PEEL-Solid Gold Mountain/ Light Across The River (CBS)
TASTE-Blister On The Moon/ Born On The Wrong Side Of Time (Major
Minor)
THE TROGGS-Surprise Surprise/ Marbles And Some Gum (Page One)
THE TRUTH-Sueno/ Old ma Brown (Decca)
TYRANNOSAURUS REX-Deborah/ Child Star (Regal Zonophone) #34
MARK WIRTZ-Knickerbocker Glory/ Mrs Raven (Parlophone)
ZOMBIES-Time Of The Season/ Ill Call Your Name (CBS)
ALBUMS
INCREDIBLE
STRING BAND-The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter (Elektra) #5
PLASTIC PENNY-Two Sides Of A Penny (Page One)
ZOMBIES-Odessey And Oracle (CBS)
HAPPENING!
Syd
Barrett is asked to leave Pink Floyd as a result of his ongoing (and
worsening) drug and mental problems. Barrett heads back to his mother’s
home in Cambridge while the group continue as a four piece. Bassist Roger
Waters becomes Floyd’s main song-writer. Meanwhile, the group make a promo
film for their latest single "It Would Be So Nice".
John
Lennon and George Harrison finally leave Rishikesh. Ringo and Paul left
earlier.
Dantalion’s
Chariot disbands. Zoot Money joins Eric Burdon and The Animals, as does
guitarist Andy Somers in July, following his stint with Soft Machine.
Tomorrow
break-up after their delayed album fails to sell. Vocalist Keith West
intends to establish a solo career. He announces that he has severed his
working relationship with producer Mark Wirtz and will no longer be
associated with the Teenage Opera project.
Bassist Junior Wood and drummer Twink issue one single as
"Aquarian Age" before Twink replaces Skip Allen in the Pretty
Things. Wood becomes a croupier. Guitarist Steve Howe forms Canto with
former members of Roundabout Dave Curtis and Bobby Clarke (AKA Woodman).
The
Speakeasy Club in London is destroyed in a fire.
Fairport
Convention appear on French TV show "Bouton Rouge" (27th)
Julie
Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity and Blossom Toes are among artists
featured at a concert promotion by Marmalade Records at Paris Olympia (22nd)
Montreux
TV Festival, Switzerland (27th) features Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Brian
Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity, The Who, Blossom Toes, Fairport
Convention, Sharon Tandy and Kaleidoscope.
BBC1
TV “Dee Time”-Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity (6th), The
Hollies, Roy Harper (13th), The Herd (20th)
BBC1
TV "Whistle Stop"-The Herd (26th)
Southern
ITV “Time For Blackburn”-Joe Cocker, The Honeybus (6th), Kinks, Status
Quo (13th), Honeybus (27th)
German
TV "Beat Club"-Procol Harum, Bee Gees, David McWilliams, The Move,
The Hollies, Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity, Manfred Mann
(6th), Small Faces, Bee Gees, Big Boy Pete (27th)
BBC
SESSIONS-Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll (14th, Top Gear),
Alan Bown (7th,
Top Gear-8th-12th, David Symonds), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (28th, Top
Gear), Bystanders (8th-12th, Pete Brady-15th, Ray Moore Bank Holiday
Special-22nd-26th, Jimmy Young-29th-3rd May, Pete Brady), Circus (24th,
Night Ride), Cymbaline (8th-12th, Pete Brady),
Easybeats (13th, Pete’s
People-19th, Joe Loss Show), Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (22nd-26th, David
Symonds-29th-3rd may, Pete Brady), Episode Six (22nd-26th, David Symonds),
Fairport Convention (1st-5th, David Symonds), Family (21st, Top Gear),
Flowerpot Men (13th, Saturday Club-15th-19th, Jimmy Young-22nd-26th, David
Symonds), Grapefruit (15th-19th, David Symonds),
The Herd (5th, Joe
Loss-6th, Saturday Club-8th-12th, David Symonds), Ice (15th, David Symonds),
The Lemon Tree (15th-19th, David Symonds-29th-3rd May, David Symonds),
The
Loot (22nd-26th, David Symonds), Love Sculpture (21st, Top Gear),
Mabel
Greer’s Toyshop (4th, Night Ride), Marmalade (8th-12th, Jimmy
Young-15th-19th, Pete Brady-29th-3rd, Jimmy Young), Mindbenders (27th,
Pete’s People), The Move (15th-19th, Jimmy Young-29th-3rd May, Jimmy
Young), Orange Bicycle (1st-5th, Jimmy Young-15th-19th, Pete Brady),
Plastic
Penny (6th, Saturday Club-8th-12th, David Symonds-13th, Pete’s
People-18th, Pop North), Procol Harum (12th, Joe Loss Show),
Simon Dupree
& The Big Sound (29th-3rd May, Pete Brady), Small Faces (14th, Top
Gear), Spectrum (1st-5th, Pete Brady-8th-12th, Jimmy Young),
Spencer Davis
Group (1st-5th, David Symonds-20th, Pete’s People), Status Quo (20th,
Saturday Club-22nd-26th, David Symonds-29th, Pop North), The Symbols
(1st-5th, David Symonds-4th, Pop North-15th, Ray Moore Bank Holiday
Special), Ten Years After (7th, Top Gear), Tremeloes (5th, Joe Loss
Show-8th-12th, Jimmy Young), The Troggs (1st-5th, Jimmy Young-29th-3rd May,
Jimmy Young), Yardbirds (8th-12th, Pete Brady)
WATCHING!
Roundabout
have by now morphed into Deep Purple. They play their first live show in
Denmark (20th).
The
“Barn Barbecue Dance” is held at Thurmaston, Leicester on Easter Monday
(15th). The musical fare advertised includes John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac,
Soft Machine, Alan Brown (sic), Fairport Convention, Legay, Pesky Gee etc
etc
Out
on a 28 date UK tour (Apr 5th-May 7th) are The Status Quo, Amen Corner and
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound-all in support of overwrought U.S crooner
Gene Pitney!
The
Kinks begin a UK tour (6th-28th), supported by The Herd, The Tremeloes, Gary
Walker and Rain and The Life ‘n’ Soul. Date list is: Mansfield Granada
(6th), Walthamstow Granada (7th), Bedford Granada (8th), Exeter ABC (9th),
Gloucester ABC (10th), Cardiff Capitol (11th), Newcastle City Hall (13th),
Leicester De Montfort Hall (14th), Birmingham Town Hall (15th), Northampton
ABC (16th), Peterborough ABC (17th), Chesterfield ABC (18th), Chester ABC
(19th), Liverpool Empire (21st), Manchester Odeon (22nd), Cambridge ABC
(24th), Slough Adelphi (25th), Chatham Central Hall (26th), Bournemouth
Winter Gardens (27th), Coventry Theatre (28th)
Marquee-
The Nice (1st, 11th, 26th), Glass Menagerie (1st, 29th), Skip Bifferty (4th,
25th), Ten Years After (5th), Timebox (6th, 13th, 20th), Nite People (8th,
22nd), Jeff Beck Group (9th), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (13th), Bonzo Dog
Doo-Dah band (15th), Marmalade (18th), Granny’s Intentions (18th), The Who
(23rd), Al Stewart (24th), Fairport Convention (24th), The Exception (25th),
Pandemonium (27th), House Of Lords (28th)
Middle
Earth-Family (6th), Spooky Tooth, Blonde On Blonde (12th), Dantalion’s
Chariot (13th, last London appearance), Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (14th),
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity (19th), Savoy Brown (26th),
Pretty Things (27th), Sam Gopal Dream (28th), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
(29th)
The Status Quo, Amen Corner and Simon Dupree & The Big Sound are among the support acts on a month long package tour bill topped by American Gene Pitney, beginning at Lewisham Odeon on the 5th.
Royal
Albert Hall-Pink Floyd (14th)
The
New All-Star Club-Timebox (13th)
Pink
Flamingo Club-Katch 22 (14th)
100
Club-Mike Stuart Span (18th, a special preview presentation of “Cycle”-a
Science Fiction Fantasy of man’s evolution and ultimate self-destruction)
Klooks
Kleek-The Gass (11th), Family (16th), The Nice (23rd)
Whisky
A’Go Go-Mr Mo’s Messengers (4th)
Beckenham
Mistrale-Manfred Mann (17th), Dantalion’s Chariot (19th), Mr Mo’s
Messengers (19th, 26th), Shiralee (27th)
Birmingham
Hippodrome Theatre-Bee Gees (7th)
Railway
Hotel, Bishop's Stortford-Jethro Tull (18th)
Rhodes
Centre, Bishop's Stortford-Honeybus (20th), Tony Rivers & The Castaways
(29th)
Bolton
Top Rank-Bee Gees (20th)
Cambridge
ABC-Bee Gees (4th)
Cardiff
Top Rank-Bee Gees (27th)
Carlisle
ABC-Bee Gees (10th)
Cleethorpes
Winter Gardens-Jeff Beck Group (1st)
Star,
Croydon-Small Faces (1st), Jethro Tull (22nd)
Dunfermline Kinema- The Move (28th)
Dunstable,
California Ballroom-Alan Bown (5th), Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
(27th)
Edinburgh
ABC-Bee Gees (12th)
Exeter
Top Rank-Bee Gees (26th)
Folkestone
Lees Cliff Hall-The Move (13th)
Glasgow
Playhouse-Bee Gees (11th)
Grantham,
Cat Ballou Club-Marmalade (28th)
Hanley
Top Rank-Bee Gees (19th)
Haverfordwest
City Hall-Easybeats (20th)
Hemel
Hempstead Pavilion-Honeybus (18th)
Hull
ABC-Bee Gees (21st)
Hull
Skyline Ballroom-Alan Bown (18th)
Kensington,
Cromwellian-Jigsaw (25th), My Dear Watson (26th), Timebox (30th)
Lancaster
University-Barclay James Harvest (24th)
Leicester De Montfort Hall- Bee Gees, Grapefruit (1st)
Liverpool
Dino’s-Easybeats (19th)
Liverpool
Empire-Bee Gees (14th)
London
School Of Economics-Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Fairport Convention (27th)
Loughborough
University- Marmalade, Alan Bown, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Elmer
Gantry’s Velvet Opera (26th)
Magic
Village, Manchester-Tyrannosaurus Rex, Van Der Graaf Generator (??-2 nights)
Manchester
Riverboat-The Move (14th)
Manchester
University-Barclay James Harvest (27th)
Narbeth
Queen’s Hall-The Move (15th)
Hatchetts
Playground, Piccadilly-Moon’s Train (23rd), Penny Peepshow (25th), Unit 4
Plus 2 (30th)
Portsmouth
Guild Hall-Bee Gees (17th), Honeybus (28th)
Purley
Orchid Ballroom-Small Faces (1st)
Raven
Club, RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire-Pink Floyd (20th)
Romford
Top Rank-Bee Gees (25th)
Ross-on-Wye
Top Spot-Honeybus (19th)
Salisbury
Top Rank-Bee Gees, Grapefruit etc (24th)
Sheffield
Oval Theatre-Bee Gees (6th)
Sheffield
University-Honeybus (27th)
Slough
Adelphi-Bee Gees (5th)
Stockton
ABC-Bee Gees (13th)
Stockport
Tabernacle-Honeybus (26th)
Silver
Blades Ice Rink, Streatham-The Move (8th), Small Faces (22nd), Manfred Mann
(29th)
Sutton
Coldfield Belfry-The Move (1st), Procol Harum (13th)
Top
Rank, Swansea-The Herd (3rd)
Tooting
Granada-Bee Gees (28th)
Uxbridge,
Burton’s-Alan Bown (20th)
Warrington
Carlton-The Move (12th)
Top
Rank, Watford-The Who, Free Expression (29th)
The
Park Hall Hotel, Wolverhampton-Kaleidoscope (1st)
Fishmonger’s
Arms, Woodgreen-Jethro Tull (16th), The Gods (30th)
REVIEWS
Barrier
Georgie Brown: Curiouser and curiouser. More mirth and merry making, but not, we gather, at the expense of our ex-Foreign Secretary, but about folks like me, having difficulty getting up in the morning and going to work etc. Perhaps, in some subtle way, it is a suggestion that even politicians are human--or perhaps in some subtle way, it is nothing of the kind, merely a bright, cheerful ditty that could conceivably earn a seat in the chart.
Cuppa T
Streatham Hippodrome: A sort of New Vaudeville cheerfulness permeates this tribute to an ice cream girl who is the object of their affection. She walks down the aisle and the Cuppa T spill over with enthusiasm at the sexy way she sells Tutti-Frutti. Well, it's original and could make a reasonable impact.
Grapefruit
Yes : To be honest I never really understood why 'Dear Delilah' was a hit. But that's in the past, and certainly on the strength of the fans they picked up during that record and considering this is far more commercial. 'Yes' should take them straight into the charts without a worry. In a funny way this reminded me of The Beatles and The Crystals - work that one out. A very, very solid record. I'm not sure if this wasn't the Grapefruit whether I'd give it a big review - on second thoughts, when that piano comes rolling in - yes, I would have done anyway.
Kinks
Wonder Boy: Before moving into the realms of heated discussion, let us establish one fact--this must be a hit. Jolly jangling piano, la-la vocal backing, and what is described in some circles as a "jog-along" tune will easily capture the national lughole. The lyrical content is a bit harder. More obscure than the usual Davies words, Ray seems to be offering advice to a newborn boy about the life that lies ahead. He sings as if he was recently stunned by a heavy blow from a blunt instrument, and one can almost imagine his head wobbling and his eyes rolling. A most curious, but not unattractive effect. Ray, the Boy Wonder once more smites evil from the chart, and looks set to powee and zonk to the top.
Sight And Sound
Ebenezer: Pretty guitar leads into a piece of overpowering good-time high spirits, but while everybody has a ball, including the clarinet and skulls player, the average record buyer may well stifle yawns on hearing their jollity. Unfair, but that's the way the single crumbles.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Deborah: Marc Bolan has been around for some time, recording infrequently, but always producing interesting sounds. This has all the simplicity of production and sound that gave the early Buddy Holly records their appeal--just a 12-string and bongo backing driving along Marc's peculiar and highly distinctive voice. It is the voice of a small gnome or Hobbitt, and one can imagine Marc dancing about on a toadstool. It's not too way out, even for those who don't like Top Gear, and the combination of Marc's intriguing vocal style and the odd tune should help Tyrannosaurus into the chart.
The Zombies
Odessey & Oracle (album): It's rather tragic that The Zombies are splitting. But what a momentous last album they are leaving behind-quite the most outstanding record of the month for creativity, originality, sensitivity and sheer dimension. "Rose For Emily", a song that is related by implication to "Eleanor Rigby" or "Lady Jane", and has the same texture, is so tender, so sweet, that it should have been issued as a farewell single. All the songs were written by Rod Argent and Chris White; and they're a long way from "She's Not There", the song that shot The Zombies to the top of the international charts years ago. Their writing is now poetic and observant, sad and wistful. And if you like music with meaningful lyrics, it's joyful. Hear The Zombies-they're so good!
Time of The Season: The very last single from The Zombies before this talented group disbands. And this disc makes us realise just what we're going to miss, because it's a very good farewell offering. Pity is that it isn't the sort of thing one can confidently tip for the charts but the discerning listener will enjoy it immensely.