SINGLES
THE
ACT-Cobbled Streets/ One Heart (Columbia)
THE BEATSTALKERS-My One Chance To Make It/ Aint Got No Soul
(CBS)
THE BRAIN-Nightmares In Red/ Kick The Donkey (Parlophone)
ERIC BURDON/NEW ANIMALS-When I Was Young/ A Girl Named Sandoz
(MGM) #45
CHORDS FIVE-Im Only Dreaming/ Universal Vagrant (Island)
DAVE CLARK 5-Tabitha Twitchit/ Man In A Pin-Striped Suit
(Columbia)
JULIAN COVAY AND THE MACHINE-A Little Bit Hurt/ Sweet Bacon
(Island)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE-The Wind Cries Mary/ Highway Chile
(Track) #6
HOLLIES-Carrie-Anne/ Signs That Will Never Change (Parlophone) #3
JOHNS CHILDREN-Desdemona/ Remember Thomas A Becket (Track)
THE KINKS-Waterloo Sunset/ Act Nice And Gentle (Pye) #2
THE KOOBAS-Gypsy Fred/ City Girl (Columbia)
MANFRED MANN-Sweet Pea/ One Way (Fontana) #36
THE MIRAGE-The Wedding Of Ramona Blair/ Lazy Man (Phillips)
MONOPOLY-House Of Lords/ Magic Carpet (Polydor)
MOODY BLUES-Fly Me High/ Really Havent Got The Time (Decca)
THE ORIGINAL DYAKS-Got To Get A Good Thing Going/ Would You Love
Me Too (Columbia)
PROCUL HARUM-A Whiter Shade Of Pale/ Lime Street Blues (Deram) #1
SMALL FACES-Patterns/ E Too D (Decca)
TOMORROW --My White Bicycle/ Clearmont Lake (Parlophone)
TRAFFIC-Paper Sun/ Giving To You (Island) #5
THE TROGGS-Night Of The Long Grass/ Girl In Black (Page One) #17
UNIT 4 +2-Too Fast Too Slow/ Booby Trap (Fontana)
ALBUMS
EASYBEATS-Good
Friday (UA)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE-Are You Experienced? (Track) #2
THE KINKS-Live At Kelvin Hall (Pye)
PRETTY THINGS-Emotions (Fontana)
HAPPENING!
Brian
Jones is arrested on drug charges.
The
new Beatles album, “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is premiered
at a party held by manager Brian Epstein. Paul McCartney meets his future
wife Linda for the second time at this party, having been introduced four
days previously at the Bag O’Nails club.
The
tapes of the Move album are found on a building site by labourer Fred Lynch. Meanwhile, Stevie
Winwood apparently mislays the only tape copy of tracks intended for the
first Traffic album. The tape disappears while Stevie is at Wembley
appearing in the NME Poll-winners concert.
The Move are in trouble again after a show in Nantwich where they threw bananas into the audience and a man slipped on one, cutting his head and spraining his wrist. He was said to be taking legal action over the incident. The group had only just served out a five month ban from the Marquee Club, imposed after they had set fire to the stage.
The
Zombies split with Decca and sign to CBS. Their new deal gives them complete
artistic control over their releases.
The Spencer Davis Group begin work on an hour long Documentary for German TV.
Bassist
John Stax leaves the Pretty Things. Wally Allen replaces him and John Povey
also joins the group on keyboards.
Ex-T
Bones members Keith Emerson (organ) and Lee Jackson (bass) put together a
group to back American soul singer PP Arnold. Guitarist Davy O’List and
drummer Ian Hague are recruited and the group are soon playing their own
featured spots at Arnold’s gigs.
Warm Sounds have reportedly signed up for a French TV series, to be shown in July.
Pink
Floyd appear on BBC 2’s “Look Of The Week” (14th)
BBC
TV “Joe & Co”-Warm Sounds (12th), Tremeloes (19th)
BBC
TV “Dee Time”- The Move (11th), Warm Sounds (16th), Kinks, Paul Jones (18th), Cream
(22nd), Troggs (23rd)
BBC
TV “Mickey Dunne”-The Koobas (15th, in ‘acting and singing roles’)
Southern
ITV-“As You Like It” (compered by Pete Murray)-Manfred Mann (9th), Cat
Stevens, The Herd (16th), Paul Jones (19th), The Kinks, The Move (23rd)
German
TV “Beat Club”-The Who (1st), Small Faces, The Kinks, The Who, Cream,
Bee Gees (20th)
BBC SESSIONS-Artwoods (13th, Saturday Club), Jeff Beck Group (15th, Monday Monday), Bee Gees (29th, Monday Monday), The Bunch (Saturday Club, 20th), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (7th, Easy Beat--20th, Saturday Club--26th, Joe Loss), Chris Farlowe (Monday Monday, 8th-Pop North, 25th), The Herd (1st, Monday Monday--11th, Pop North), Paul Jones (22nd, Monday Monday) Spectrum (25th, Pop North), Manfred Mann (14th, Easy Beat), Mirage (13th, Saturday Club), Moody Blues (13th, Saturday Club), Searchers (6th, Saturday Club), Tremeloes (21st, Easy Beat), Troggs (6th, Saturday Club--21st, Easy Beat--22nd, Pop North), Warm Sounds (2nd, Pop Inn--8th, Pop North--14th, Easy Beat) Yardbirds (21st, Saturday Swings-29th, Monday Monday)
Download
"Where It's At" special 20th May HERE
WATCHING!
“Barbeque
67” takes place at the Tulip Ball Auction Hall in Spalding, Lincolnshire
(29th). Attractions are Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Pink Floyd, The Move
and Zoot Money. Admission cost £1.
The
new line-up of The Spencer Davis Group, now featuring organist Eddie Hardin
and guitarist Phil Sawyer, makes it’s live debut at the NME Poll Winners
Concert at the Empire Pool, Wembley (7th). The concert also features The
Small Faces, The Yardbirds, The Move, The Troggs, Cat Stevens and Cream.
The
Jeff Beck Group now has its act together and begins a UK tour of clubs and
ballrooms (7th).
Soft Machine begin a Sunday residence at London's Theatre Royal, Stratford.
St
Michael’s Hall, Golders Green is the venue for the live debut of Fairport
Convention, (22nd)
UFO-Soft
Machine, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (5th), Tomorrow, Crazy World Of Arthur
Brown (19th), The Move, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (26th)
Manor House Bluesville- John Mayall featuring Peter Green (5th), Jimi Hendrix Experience (12th), Savoy Brown (19th), Jeff Beck Group (26th)
Marquee-The
Herd (1st, 15th), Skip Bifferty (1st), Alan Bown (2nd), Marmalade (4th,
11th, 18th), The Tribe (4th), Creation (5th), Studio Six (5th), The Syn
(6th, 13th, 27th), Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (7th), Neat Change (8th, 22nd),
1-2-3 (12th, 25th), Nite People (15th, 22nd), Family (16th, 23rd), The Web
(19th), Cream (23rd), Timebox (25th), Terry Reid (26th), The Bluesyard
(after this gig they changed their name to Ten Years After) (27th), Spencer
Davis Group (30th)
Roundhouse,
Chalk Farm- Jeff Beck Group 12th), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (13th) Winston’s Fumbs, Sam Gopal
(support acts 12th & 13th)
Saville
Theatre-Jimi Hendrix Experience, Denny Laine, The 1-2-3 (7th, Laine pulled
out an hour before show time as his bass guitarist had left 3 days earlier
and it hadnt been possible to fully rehearse a replacement)
Speakeasy-The
Web (2nd), Soft
Machine--Pictured right at the club (3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st), Brian Auger & The Trinity (8th),
Amen Corner (12th)
Tiles
Club-Eyes Of Blue (5th), Amen Corner (10th, 24th), Amen Corner (17th), Moody Blues,
Denny Laine & his String Band (19th), Yardbirds (26th)
Upper
Cut, London-Herd (4th), Wayne Fontana (6th), The Afex, The Jokers, The Army
(11th), Merseys, Warm Sounds (12th), Terry Reid with Peter Jay's Jaywalkers
(13th), Art Movement, Five's Company, The Sweet & Sour (18th), Kinks
(20th), The Troggs (27th)
Whisky A Go Go- The Bunch (11th, 18th)
Blaises- The Web (1st, 16th, 30th)
Cromwellian- The Web (4th, 17th, 22nd, 31st)
Ram Jam Club- Crazy World of Arthur Brown (20th)
100 Club- The Web (15th)
Happening 44- Social Deviants (13th)
Pink
Floyd play the Queen Elizabeth Hall “Games For May” (12th)
Aberystwyth University- Family (13th)
Moulin
Rouge, Ainsdale-Pink Floyd (3rd)
Aylesbury Assembly- Small Faces (12th)
Baldock unknown Venue- Family (15th)
Bath Regency- Family (5th), Wages Of Sin (14th)
Bayswater Holyground- Mike Absalom, Ron Geesin(17th)
Birmingham, Cedar Club- Denny Laine & The Electric String Band, Band Of Joy (3rd, 10th), Cat Stevens (15th)
Birmingham
Town Hall-Donovan (19th)
Rhodes
Centre, Bishop’s Stortford-Tony Rivers & The Castaways (20th), Episode
Six (22nd)
Blackpool Opera House- Tremeloes (28th)
Winter
Gardens, Blackpool-Pink Floyd, The Koobas (26th)
The
Shoreline, Bognor Regis-Jeff Beck Group (27th)
Bolton Cromwellian- Family (14th)
Bournemouth Ritz- Family (2nd), Wages OF Sin (13th)
Bournemouth
Winter Gardens-Donovan (27th)
Brentwood St Thomas' Parish Hall- Julian Covey & The Machine (13th)
Brighton La Trap- Mike Stuart Span (18th, 25th)
Brighton
Metropole-Dave Dee etc, The Herd, Creation, The Kult etc (26th)
Corn
Exchange, Bristol-Jeff Beck Group (16th)
Brize Norton RAF Base- Nite People (19th)
Bromel
Club, Bromley-Pink Floyd (24th)
Bromley Tech College- Merseys (20th)
Bury Palais de Danse- Small Faces (13th), Tremeloes (27th)
Cambridge
City Football Club-Wages Of Sin (12th), Yardbirds (29th)
Cambridge Victoria- Wages Of Sin (6th, 29th)
Canterbury
Technical College-Soft Machine, Graham Bond Organisation, Wilde Flowers
(6th)
Assembly
Rooms, Carlisle-Bee Gees (27th)
Market
Hall, Carlisle-Jeff Beck Group (20th)
Bal
Tabarin Club, Catford-Tremeloes (13th), Manfred Mann (20th)
Chester Quaintways- Family (1st), The Web (8th)
Royal
Agricultural College, Chippenham-Cream, Yardbirds, Mindbenders (6th)
St
Osyth’s, Clacton-Manfred Mann (19th)
Locarno,
Coventry-Pink Floyd (4th), The Move (11th)
Grosmont
Wood Farm, Cross Ash, Monmouth-Pink Floyd (25th)
Dunfermline Kinema- The Herd (22nd)
Dunstable,
California Ballroom-The Move (13th), Chris Farlowe (19th), The Warm Sounds (20th)
Quebec,
Durham-Manfred Mann (29th)
Feathers
Club, Ealing-Jeff Beck Group (15th)
East Ham Central Hall Guitar Club- John Renbourn (2nd), Davy Graham (9th), Savoy Brown (23rd)
Eastleigh Imperial- Nite People (21st)
Folkestone,
Tofts-Wilde Flowers (12th, 14th)
Galashiels
Town Hall-Bee Gees (26th)
Golders Green Refectory- The Web (5th)
Greenford Big Brother- Jeff Beck Group (7th), Troggs (21st)
Grimsby Winter Gardens- Family (11th)
Hampstead Witches Cauldron- Savoy Brown (14th)
Pier
Ballroom, Hastings-The Move (27th)
Southern
Holiday Camp, Hayling Island-Tremeloes (26th)
Higham,
Chequers-Wilde Flowers (13th)
Highgate Old Crown- Ron Geesin (18th)
Town
Hall, High Wycombe-Jeff Beck Group (12th), Pink Floyd (23rd)
St
George’s Ballroom, Hinckley-Pink Floyd (13th)
Hermitage
Club, Hitchin-Wages Of Sin (27th), Episode Six, The Spectrum (28th)
Drill
Hall, Kingston-upon-Thames-Jeff Beck Group (13th)
Kitson
Hall, Leeds-Pink Floyd (6th)
Leicester Evington Club- Family (12th)
Nite
Owl, Leicester-Pesky Gee! (6th, 20th), Family (24th)
Christ
College, Liverpool-Bee Gees (25th)
Liverpool
University-Jeff Beck Group (25th)
Imperial
College, London-Jimi Hendrix Experience (13th)
London Royal Festival Hall- Pentangle (debut concert appearance), Ottilie Patterson (27th)
Londaon Soho Les Cousins- Incredible String Band (12th, 20th), Al Stewart (12th)
London, Stratford, Unknown venue- Yardbirds (14th)
Belle
Vue, Manchester-Jimi Hendrix Experience (14th)
Manchester
Tech College-Manfred Mann (6th)
Margate
Dreamland-Tremeloes (20th)
Public
Hall, Meacham-Jeff Beck Group (7th)
Civic
Hall, Nantwich-The Move (6th), Pink Floyd (27th)
Imperial
Ballroom, Nelson-Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Movement (6th), Manfred Mann
(13th)
Club
A Go-Go, Newcastle-Pink Floyd (19th)
Newcastle Gray's Cabaret Club- Warm Sounds (22nd-27th)
La
Dolce Vita, Newcastle-Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (29th)
Cellar,
Norwich- Family (22nd), Jeff Beck Group (31st)
Nottingham Beachcomber- Family (7th)
Britannia
Rowing Club, Nottingham-Jeff Beck Group (10th), Bee Gees (14th)
Thing
Club, Oldham- Family (21st), Bee Gees (28th)
Oxford Oriel College- Family (19th)
Pembroke
College, Oxford-The Who, Cream (27th)
Poole Malibu- Nite People (24th)
Ramsgate, Supreme Ballroom- Yardbirds (27th)
Rochester
Corn Exchange-Wilde Flowers (22nd)
Rugby Benn Memorial Hall- Family (20th)
Salisbury City Hall- Pretty Things (13th, 27th), Talismen (27th)
Victoria
Hall, Selkirk-Jeff Beck Group (19th), Bee Gees (26th)
Sheffield Intake WMC- Wages Of Sin (18th)
King
Mojo Club, Sheffield-Pink Floyd (7th)
Trend
’67 Festival, Derbyshire Miners Holiday Centre, Skegness-The Kinks (27th)
Southampton University- Family (6th), Nite People (20th)
Floral
Hall, Southport-Pink Floyd (20th)
Auction
Hall, Spalding-The Move (29th)
Locarno
Theatre, Stevenage-The Who (17th), The Move (24th)
Tabernacle,
Stockport-Jeff Beck Group (28th)
Stockton Fiesta Cabaret Club- Spencer Davis Group (21st-27th)
Silver
Blades Ice Rink, Streatham-The Move (8th)
Sunderland El Cubana- Family (10th)
Top
Rank, Swansea-The Tremeloes (24th), The Move (31st)
Ace
Club, Wakefield-Young Idea (30th)
Adelphi,
West Bromwich-The Move (1st)
West Hartlepool Queen's Rink- Tremeloes (19th)
Weymouth Steering Wheel- Family (4th)
Whittlesford "May Rave"- Wages Of Sin (19th)
George
Hotel, Wilby-Family (30th)
Wolverhampton, Queens-Tremeloes (8th)
Wolverton Palace- Wages Of Sin (26th)
Wood
Green Fishmongers Arms- Amboy Dukes (16th)
REVIEWS
Eric Burdon
When I Was Young: Oh Wow! An extremely powerful return from Burdon who sounds as though he's got a lot off his mind and is now settling down to make lots of good sounds. It's an extremely impressive, truthful, and overpowering performance, from Vic Briggs' mind-shattering lead-in, Eric's hard and then lyrical wailing to the mystical hovering of the whole sound. An original, refreshing, yet right in the groove record which will be a big hit.
Dave Clark 5
Tabatha Twitchit: I can't see this one making it. It's rather on the negative side (BBC DJ Pete Murray)
Hollies
Carrie Anne: Yet another sure fire hit! This displays the group's excellent vocal ability to its fullest while the strolling backing is kept well in place. What else can you say? Again a finely produced record, full of harmonies, atmosphere, climax, interest, charm, thought...the lot.
John's Children
Desdemona: It's very repititious with just enough lyrical content to make you think "Aye, aye". I like it. The member of the group who answers the lead singer has a great voice. I'd like to hear more of him. (DJ Alan Freeman)
Julian Covey and The Machine
A Little Bit Hurt: A bit disappointing after the glamorous build-up it was getting. The riffs and concept of the song are rather old-hat. It's a very pleasant groovy record to listen to and it's well put together but there's no hit potential whatsoever. Covey must go out on a longer, more original limb, and lay something a bit newer down.
Kinks
Waterloo Sunset: There's a sort of Winchester Cathedral feeling about this. I like the way they have toned it down. Even in the climaxes it never gets out of hand. It's nice to hear them in tranquil mood. It's a very hummable song (DJ Alan Freeman)
Moody Blues
I love this! They always get such a great feel. Oh what beautiful harmonies! Fabulous! Notice how they establish it very quietly and build without making a big fuss. The rhythm is very subtle, so cool and so definite. It's a fascinating record altogether. If they don't get right up the charts then there just isn't any justice (DJ Alan Freeman)
Pretty Things
Emotions (album) : This top group has faded out of the limelight of late, but this LP should bring it back. With instrumental additions of trumpet, tenor sax, trombones, harps and cellos, they put over their rocking numbers in a low key, striving for, and getting, more intricate sounds without losing the beat-appeal on the arresting vocals by Phil May. On "Tripping" they build up the excitement without raising the volume, and the soft, haunting "Growing In My Mind" has a fascinating Oriental-sounding backing.
Procol Harum
A Whiter Shade Of Pale: Tremendous first record from a new group. A beautiful, sighing ballad which is really too much to take in all at once. Mainly featuring a distant angelic organ the record has a swinging, heavenly feel sweeping soulfully and ecstatically through your bones. Everything about the record is an overwhelming gas and carries all of the signs of a smash hit. Just listen to the knockout lyrics!
A Whiter Shade Of Pale: I know this...it sounds like hip-type chart music. It's a record that has atmosphere. Now the vocal's started it doesnt sound like chart music. I don't think this is going to be a hit. It's not a bad record but it's rather negative (DJ Pete Murray)
Tomorrow
My White Bicycle: This is one of the most exciting and commercial and catchy records to have come out of the new school of pop music. Tomorrow attack the auditory senses with a backwards spinning, cymbal-smashing, guitar chanting ditty about a carefree youth cycling the streets Provo style. It whips along with a whispering charm and an urgent, climactic atmosphere.
My White Bicycle: If it was a question of personal taste I'd say take it off after the first second! It's not my cup of tea at all...or my cup of anything. It's pretentious and a great drag (BBC DJ Pete Murray)
Troggs
Night Of The Long Grass: This should put them straight back into the Top 30. Typical Troggs hypnotic effects but the arrangement is a little more complicated than usual from the rushing wind at the beginning to the girl choir gently oo-ing in the background. Reg sings as threateningly as ever but the lyric is rather difficult to decipher over the monotonous guitar figure. Must be a hit!