SINGLES
THE
BEATLES--Yellow Submarine/ Eleanor Rigby (Parlophone) #1
DAVID BOWIE-I Dig Everything/ Im Not Losing Sleep (Pye)
SPENCER DAVIS GROUP-When I Come Home/ Trampoline (Fontana) #12
EPISODE SIX-Here There And Everywhere/ Mighty Morris Ten (Pye)
THE EYES-Good Day Sunshine/ Please Dont Cry (Mercury)
THE GAME-Gonna Get Me Someone/ Gotta Wait (Decca)
THE IN BETWEENS-You Better Run/ Evil Witchman (Columbia)
THE KOOBAS-Sweet Music/ Face (Columbia)
LOOSE ENDS-Taxman/ Thats It (Decca)
THE MICKEY FINN-I Do Love You/ If I Had You Baby (Polydor)
M.I. FIVE-Youll Never Stop Me Loving You/ Only Time Will
Tell (Parlophone)
SMALL FACES-All Or Nothing/ Understanding (Decca) #1
THE SORROWS-Let Me In/ How Love Used To Be (Piccadilly)
AL STEWART-The Elf/ Turn Into Earth (Decca)
TREMELOES-Good Day Sunshine/ What A State Im In (CBS)
TUESDAYS CHILDREN-When You Walk In The Sand/ High And
Drifting (Columbia)
TWICE AS MUCH-Step Out Of Line/ Simplified (Immediate)
THE VOGUES-Younger Girl/ Lies (Columbia)
THE WHEELS-Kicks/ Call My Name (Columbia)
THE WHO-Im A Boy/ In The City (Reaction) #2
ALBUMS
THE
BEATLES-Revolver (Parlophone) #1
THE TROGGS-From Nowhere-The Troggs (Fontana) #6
HAPPENING!
The Beatles play their final concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco. Their US tour is overshadowed by the controversy surrounding John Lennons remarks comparing The Beatles popularity to Jesus. He is forced to issue an apology.
The Small Faces film a 30 minute TV special in Manchester.
Decca Records formally announce the formation of a new label, Deram.
Pete Quaife of The Kinks injures his hand in a car crash. John Dalton replaces Quaife on bass, initially as a temporary measure but his appointment is made permanent the following month.
The Bee Gees, having already had ten Australian hits, record "Spicks And Specks" which hits #1down under and encourages the group to try their luck back in the UK.
Robert Wyatt leaves The Wilde Flowers. Drummer/vocalist Wyatt had helped to form this legendary Canterbury band in 1963 with the Hopper brothers, Brian & Hugh, Kevin Ayers and Richard Sinclair. Their love of jazz and the Beatnik lifestyle, gradually combined with the influence of The Beatles and Soul music had made them the founders of the "Canterbury Scene" (dozens, if not hundreds, of bands would be formed over the years from this original nucleus of musicians and their collaborators). By 1966 Wyatt wished to spread his wings. He moved to London and formed Soft Machine (the group were called Mister Head for a few weeks with guitarist Larry Nolan a fifth member) with Ayers (who had left The Wilde Flowers in July 1965) on bass. Organist Mike Ratledge and Australian hippy Daevid Allen on guitar completed the line-up. Their jazzy, avant-garde influenced psychedelia, coupled with the already idiosyncratic song-writing talent of Ayers, quickly made them favourites at UFO and other psych haunts, alongside Pink Floyd. Unlike the Floyd, they failed to turn this notoriety into recording success.
Soul/ R&B group The In-Crowd (formerly known as The Syndicats) change more than their drummer when they replace Ken Lawrence with John "Twink" Alder. They change musical direction as singer Keith West begins to write songs, and they embrace the burgeoning scene by playing at the new underground clubs.
Swansea combo The Eyes Of Blue win the Melody Maker National Beat Group Contest at the London Palladium, thus earning themselves a recording contract with Decca amongst other "fabulous" prizes.
BBC1 TV "Hey Presto, Its Rolf"-Manfred Mann (24th)
Rediffusion ITV "Ready Steady Go"-Small Faces, Troggs (5th), The Who, Manfred Mann, Twice As Much, Cliff Bennett (19th), Mindbenders, Spencer Davis Group (26th).
Rediffusion ITV "Five Oclock Club"-Manfred Mann (5th), Troggs (12th), Wayne Fontana (19th)
ATV ITV "Action"-Manfred Mann (8th)
ABC TV "Mike & Bernie Winters Show"-Pinkertons Assorted Colours (27th)
BBC SESSIONS-Artwoods (13th, Saturday Club), Cliff Bennett (27th, Saturday Club), Hollies (5th, Joe Loss Show), Manfred Mann (19th, Joe Loss Show-20th, Saturday Club), Overlanders (21st, Easy Beat--27th, Saturday Club), Small Faces (13th, Saturday Club), Twice As Much (20th, Saturday Club)
Download Radio Caroline South Rick Dane Show 29th August
The Mickey Finn, who released their "I Do Love You" single this month.
WATCHING!
The Walker Brothers headline a British Tour supported by The Troggs and The Creation.
Also on tour are American pop personalities Sonny and Cher who top a bill that includes Sharon Tandy, Fleur De Lys and The VIPs.
The Small Faces play on Radio Englands "Swingin 66" package tour. In Glasgow the audience riots, the groups hotel is besieged and Ian McLagen spends the night in a police cell "for his own safety". Among the supporting acts are Dave Berry and The Koobas. Date list: Lewisham Odeon (12th), Finsbury Park Astoria (13th), Birmingham Odeon (15th), Sheffield Gaumont (16th), Leeds Odeon (17th), Glasgow Odeon (18th), Newcastle Odeon (19th), Liverpool Odeon (20th), Manchester Odeon (22nd), Cardiff Capitol (23rd), Exeter Odeon (24th), Southampton Odeon (25th)
Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead-Cream (2nd), Shotgun Express (16th), Dave Anthony's Moods (18th)
Blaises-Creation (3rd)
Marquee-Al Stewart (3rd), The Move (4th, 11th, 18th, 25th), Sands (4th, 18th), Tony Rivers & The Castaways (7th), The Factotum (7th), Graham Bond Organisation (8th), VIPs (12th, 19th), The Game (13th), Cream (16th), David Bowie & The Buzz (21st, 28th), The Herd (22nd), The Action (23rd), The Syn (26th), Episode Six (27th), Alan Bown Set (29th)
Tiles Club-Pinkertons Assorted Colours (1st), The Checkmates, The Riot Squad (5th), The Klubs, The Eyes Of Blue (6th), Wild Uncertainty (12th), Profile (13th), The Creation (15th), Merseys (19th), Johnny Gustafson & John Banks (20th), Felder's Orioles, The Warriors (21st), Mindbenders, Wynder K Frog (22nd)
Flamingo Club-Zoot Money (12th, 13th), Shotgun Express (19th, 20th), Cream (27th/ 28th All Night Rave)
Ram Jam Club-Dave Anthony's Moods (13th), Amboy Dukes (14th), Alan Price Set (18th), Shotgun Express (20th), Amboy Dukes (21st), Cream (27th)
Palais, Ashton-Troggs (25th)
Banbury Town Hall- Chris Farlowe (12th)
Barnstaple Queens Hall-Kinks (17th)
Memorial Hall, Barry-The Hollies (26th)
Bath Pavilion- Small Faces (8th), Pretty Things (15th), Nashville Teens (22nd)
Bedford Corn Exchange- Chris Farlowe (18th), Zoot Money (25th)
Bexley Black Prince- Shotgun Express (21st)
Rhodes Centre, Bishops Stortford-The Creation (20th), The Mooche (22nd)
Locarno, Blackburn-Pretty Things (15th)
Blackpool Opera House- Troggs, Alan Price, Chris Farlowe (14th)
North Pier, Blackpool- Hollies (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th)
South Pier, Blackpool-Small Faces (28th)
Gliderdrome, Boston-Kinks (13th), Small Faces (27th)
Bournemouth Winter Gardens- Tony Rivers & The Castaways (14th)
Bridlington Royal Hall-The Hollies (20th), Kinks (27th)
Brighton Metropole- Paul & Barry Ryan, Graham Bond, Mike Stuart Span etc (19th)
Corn Exchange, Bristol-The Creation (30th)
Bristol Mecca-The Merseys (11th)
Bromley Court Hotel- Cream (12th), Alan Price (17th)
Burnley Locarno-Kinks (25th)
Bury Palais-The Merseys (6th)
Cardiff Top Rank-The Troggs (15th)
Cheltenham, Blue Moon- Action (6th), Cream (13th)
Clacton Town Hall-Merseys (27th)
Midsummer Revels, Coombe Springs-Soft Machine (??-their first gig)
Coventry Locarno-The Troggs (18th)
Cromer Royal Links-Merseys (20th)
IOM, Douglas Palace-Kinks (11th), The Who (18th)
ABC, Dover-Mindbenders (27th)
Dunfermline Kinema- Pinkerton's Assorted Colours (16th), Chris Farlowe (23rd)
Edinburgh, Mr Magoo Club-Kinks (28th-30th)
Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton-Cream (5th)
Folkestone Tofts- Amboy Dukes (13th), The Senate (14th), Zoot Money (20th), The Gass (21st), Scots Of St James (29th)
Lotus Ballroom, Forest Gate-Alan Bown (30th)
Grantham Town Hall- Chris Farlowe (13th)
Britannia, Great Yarmouth-Wayne Fontana (14th), Merseys (28th)
Greenford Starlite- The Move (12th), Zoot Money (19th), Midnights (20th), The Action, The Mode (21st)
Grimsby Gaiety-Kinks (19th)
Grimsby Mecca-Merseys (12th)
St Georges Ballroom, Guernsey-Spencer Davis Group (27th)
Hampstead, Witches Cauldron- Vincent Crane (11th)
Harpenden Public Hall- Chris Farlowe (11th)
Hastings Pier-The Who (21st)
Public Hall, Heacham-Small Faces (29th)
Hereford, Hillside Club-The Hollies (19th)
Hounslow Ricky Tick- Shotgun Express (13th), VIPs (20th), Zoot Money (21st)
Cellar Club, Kingston-upon-Thames-Jo Jo Gunne (12th), Cream (19th)
Leicester Corn Exchange- Alan Price (13th)
Leicester Granby Hall-Small Faces, Merseys (5th)
Leicester Il Rondo- Cream (26th)
London, Finsbury Park Astoria- VIPs, Sharon Tandy, Les Fleur de Lys (26th, supporting Sonny & Cher)
Malvern Floral Hall-Kinks (23rd)
Winter Gardens, Malvern-The Action (30th)
Manchester Belle Vue-Kinks (26th)
Oasis,Manchester-The Montanas (9th)
Manchester, Princess & Domino-The Troggs (19th)
Dreamland, Margate-Pretty Things (18th), The Who (25th)
Winter Gardens, Morecombe-Troggs, Walker Brothers (28th)
Nelson Imperial Ballroom- Chris Farlowe (20th)
Newcastle Mayfair- Troggs (11th)
Memorial Hall, Norwich-Troggs (27th)
Norwich Orford Cellar- Cream (17th)
Nottingham Beachcomber- Cream (28th)
Nottingham Sherwood Rooms-The Hollies (17th), The Who (23rd)
Memorial Hall, Penrhyn-Pretty Things (26th)
Birdcage Club, Portsmouth-The Hollies (25th)
Guild Hall, Portsmouth-Troggs (29th)
Preston Top Rank-Troggs (21st)
Orchid Ballroom, Purley-Troggs (3rd), The Who (24th), The Hollies (31st)
Ramsey Gaiety-Merseys (13th), The Troggs (20th)
Redruth Flamingo-Kinks (18th)
City Hall, Salisbury-Syn (6th), Pretty Things (11th), Mojo's (26th)
Sheffield Mojo Club- Cream (20th)
Odeon, Southend-Troggs, Walker Brothers (26th)
Locarno, Stevenage-The Action (31st)
Streatham Locarno-The Hollies (18th)
Sunderland Mecca-The Merseys (4th)
Town Hall, Torquay-Cream (6th), Pretty Things (12th), Kinks (16th), The Who (20th)
Twickenham Eel Pie Island- Cream (24th)
Welwyn Garden Centre Community Centre- Cream (29th)
Winter Gardens, Weston-Super-Mare-The Hollies (27th)
Winter Gardens, West Hartlepool-Merseys (26th)
Wimbledon Palais-Pretty Things (19th)
Windsor Ricky Tick- Graham Bond (13th)
Fishmongers Arms, Wood Green-Cream (9th)
Worthing Assembly Rooms-Merseys (18th)
REVIEWS
Koobas
Sweet Music: Here is that British copy of the Tamla sound, and naturally enough it's a bit crude in comparison, but it's a sterling piece of vocalising by The Koobas, and a lot of work has gone into the production. Pity the beat has to be so ham-fisted. It's no good playing heavy fours unless they swing a bit.
Loose Ends
Taxman: Backing is rather confused and messy drowning the effect of the words, but the instrumental part when an organ solo takes off is exciting and could have been made more use of. The overall effect is of a non-hit shambles.