SINGLES
TIM
ANDREWS-Your Tea Is Strong/ (Something About) Suburbia
(Parlophone)
AQUARIAN AGE-10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box/ Good Wizard Meets
Naughty Wizard (Parlophone)
MIKE BATT-Mr Poem/ Fading Yellow (Liberty)
BOZ-I Shall Be Released/ Down In The Flood (Columbia)
ERIC BURDON/ANIMALS-Monterey/ Anything (MGM)
THE BYSTANDERS-This World Is My World/ Painting The Time (Pye)
THE CASUALS-Jesamine/ Ive Got Something Too (Decca) #2
CATS EYES-Smile Girl For Me/ In A Fantasy World (Deram)
CATS PYJAMAS-Camera Man/ House For Sale (Direction)
CHORDS FIVE-Same Old Fat Man/ Hold On To Everythin
Youve Got (Polydor)
HANS CHRISTIAN-(The Autobiography Of) Mississippi Hobo/ Sonata Of
Love (Parlophone)
THE CORTINAS-Phoebes Flower Shop/ Too Much In Love
(Polydor)
CREAM-Anyone For Tennis/ Pressed Rat And Warthog (Polydor) #40
CUPIDS INSPIRATION-Yesterday Has Gone/ Dream (NEMS) #4
A.P.DANGERFIELD-Conversations (In A Station Light Refreshment
Bar)/ Further Conversations (Fontana)
DONOVAN-Hurdy Gurdy Man/ Teen Angel (Pye) #4
SIMON DUPREE AND THE BIG SOUND-Part Of My Past/ This Story Never
Ends (Parlophone)
BOEING DUVEEN AND BEAUTIFUL SOUP-Jabberwock/Which Dreamed It
(Parlophone)
ANDY ELLISON-You Cant Do That/ Casbah (SNB)
THE EXECUTIVE-Tracy Took A Trip/ Gardena Dreamer (CBS)
FINDERS KEEPERS-Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)/ Without Her
(Fontana)
FLEUR-DE-LYS-The Gong With The Luminous Nose/ Hammer Head
(Polydor)
FOCAL POINT-Love You Forever/ Sycamore Syd (Deram)
WAYNE FONTANA-The Words Of Bartholomew/ Mind Excursion (Fontana)
ELMER GANTRYS VELVET OPERA-Mary Jane/ Dreamy (Direction)
GENESIS-A Winters Tale/ One-Eyed Hound (Decca)
GILES, GILES AND FRIPP-One In A Million/ Newly-Weds (Deram)
TONY HAZZARD-Sound Of The Candymans Trumpet/
Everythings Gone Wrong (CBS)
IDLE RACE-The End Of The Road/ The Morning Sunshine (Liberty)
GORDON JACKSON-Me And My Zoo/ A Day At The Cottage (Marmalade)
JIGSAW-One Way Street/ Then I Found You (MGM)
THE KINSMEN-Its Good To See You/ Always The Loser (Decca)
THE KOOBAS-First Cut Is The Deepest/ Walking Out (Columbia)
THE MARIANE-As For Marionettes/ You Know My Name (Columbia)
THE MIRROR-Gingerbread Man/ Faster Than Light (Philips)
THE MONTANAS-Step In The Right Direction/ Someday (Youll Be
Breaking My Heart Again) (Pye)
A NEW GENERATION-Smokey Blues Away/ Shes A Soldier Boy
(Spark) #38
ORANGE BICYCLE-Jenskadajka/ Nicely (Columbia)
PANDAMONIUM-Chocolate Buster Dan/ Fly With Me Forever (CBS)
RAINBOW FFOLLY-Go Girl/ Drive My Car (Parlophone)
TERRY REID-Better By Far/ Fires Alive (Columbia)
THE ROKES-The Works Of Bartholomew/ When The Wind Arises (RCA)
ROLLING STONES-Jumping Jack Flash/ Child Of The Moon (Decca) #1
SHUBERT-Until The Rains Came/ Let Your Love Go (Fontana)
THRESHOLD OF PLEASURE-Rain Rain Rain/ He Could Never Love You
Like I Do (Decca)
TIMEBOX-Beggin/ A Woman Thats Waiting (Deram) #38
TINKERBELLS FAIRYDUST-Twenty Ten/ Walking My Baby (Decca)
MARTY WILDE-Abergavenny/ Alice In Blue (Philips)
WILD SILK-Poor Man/ Stop Crying (Polydor)
WORLD OF OZ-The Muffin Man/ Peters Birthday (Deram)
ALBUMS
DONOVAN-A
Gift From A Flower To A Garden (Pye) #13
JULIE DRISCOLL AND BRIAN AUGER-Open (Marmalade) #12
McGOUGH AND McGEAR-McGough And McGear (Parlophone)
RAINBOW FFOLLY-Sallies Fforth (Parlophone)
SMALL FACES-Ogdens Nut Gone Flake (Immediate) #1
HAPPENING!
The
Small Faces release their new album "Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake" in
circular packaging.
The
Move play at the Rome Pop Festival, however riot police storm the stage
after the group let off explosives and the show is abandoned.
Dave
Mason re-joins Traffic. During his time away from the group he has produced
the debut album by Family (the startling "Music In a Doll’s House),
released a solo single and played on various sessions (including with Jimi
Hendrix).
Fairport
Convention sack singer Judy Dyble, Seeking a more powerful female voice,
they replace Dyble with ex-Strawbs vocalist Sandy Denny.
Ace
Kefford , having recently left The Move, begins recording some of his own
compositions with a view towards a single release ‘as soon as possible’.
Tales
Of Justine main man David Daltrey takes the lead role at the premiere of the
musical "Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat".
Plastic
Penny part company with lead singer Brian Keith. Guitarist Paul Raymond
takes on the vocalist role.
Timebox
are arrested in Paris during the student riots. The group, in Paris on a
3-day promotional trip, were travelling to a TV studio when their van was
damaged and equipment smashed. A subsequent struggle between the group
members and demonstrating students resulted in Timebox spending 24 hours in
prison.
BBC1
TV “Dee Time”-Honeybus (11th)
BBC1
TV "Whistle Stop"-The Tremeloes (17th), Honeybus (24th)
BBC2
TV “Esther & Abi Ofarim Show”-guests include Donovan (18th)
ATV
“The Golden Shot”-Grapefruit (12th), Eric Burdon & The Animals
(19th), The Herd (26th)
ATV
“Dusty Springfield Show”-guests include Donovan (22nd)
Southern
ITV “Time For Blackburn”-Tremeloes, Dave Berry (4th), Bee Gees (11th), Eric Burdon
& The Animals, The Troggs (18th), Episode Six (25th)
BBC
SESSIONS-Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll (20th-25th, David Symonds),
Barclay James Harvest (5th, Top Gear), Bee Gees (4th, Saturday Club),
Bonzo
Dog Band (5th, Top Gear), David Bowie (26th, Top Gear),
The Bunch
(13th-17th, Pete Brady), Eric Burdon & The Animals (26th, Top Gear),
Bystanders (6th-10th, Jimmy Young-13th-17th, David Symonds-27th-31st, David
Symonds), Cymbaline (13th-17th, David Symonds),
Eclection (12th, Top Gear),
Episode Six (16th, Pop North-18th, Pete’s People-27th-31st, David Symonds),
Flowerpot Men (6th-10th, David Symonds-27th-31st, Jimmy Young), Glass
Menagerie (6th, David Symonds), The Herd (13th, Radio One
O’clock-13th-17th, David Symonds), Hollies (4th, Saturday Club),
Honeybus
(3rd, Joe Loss Show), Idle Race (6th-10th, David Symonds),
Katch 22 (10th,
Joe Loss Show), The Loot (6th-10th, David Symonds),
Marmalade (6th-10th,
Pete Brady-20th-24th, David Symonds-23rd, Pop North-27th-31st, Jimmy
Young-31st, Joe Loss), Mike Stuart Span (26th, Top Gear),
Montanas
(6th-10th, David Symonds-13th-17th, Jimmy Young-27th-31st, Pete Brady),
Moody Blues (13th-17th, David Symonds-25th, Pete’s People-27th-31st, David
Symonds), The Move (13th-17th, Pete Brady-20th-24th, Jimmy Young, 27th-31st,
Jimmy Young), Orange Bicycle (13th-17th, Jimmy Young-20th-24th, Jimmy
Young), Pentangle (29th, Night Ride), Plastic Penny (6th-10th, Pete Brady),
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (6th-10th, David Symonds-11th, Pete’s
People-20th-25th, David Symonds-25th, Saturday Club), Spectrum (6th-10th,
Jimmy Young-27th-31st, David Symonds), Status Quo (2nd, Pop North),
Al
Stewart (29th, Night Ride), The Symbols (11th, Pete’s People-20th-24th,
Jimmy Young-27th-31st, David Symonds), Tremeloes (4th, Saturday
Club-6th-10th, Jimmy Young-13th-17th, David Symonds-20th-24th, Pete
Brady-27th, Radio One O’clock-27th-31st, David Symonds-31st, Joe Loss
Show)
WATCHING!
The
Rolling Stones play at the NME Poll Winners’ Concert in London, their
first live appearance in over a year. Also playing: The Herd, The Move, Amen
Corner, Procol Harum, Status Quo, Tremeloes etc etc
International
Pop Festival, Rome (5th)-Ten Years After, The Move, The Nice.
The
Zurich "Monster-Konzert" Rock Festival in Switzerland boasts a
bill of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Eric Burdon and The New Animals,
Traffic, The Move, Koobas and Eire Apparent (30th-31st-Jam
session pictured above).
Attractions
at Middle Earth include Uriel (soon to become Egg after their guitarist
Steve Hillage quits to attend college) supporting Captain Beefheart (3rd),
Fairport Convention and The Deviants (4th), Family, The Action, Juniors Eyes
(10th), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Juniors Eyes (13th), Pink Floyd, Free (17th),
Eric Burdon & the Animals, Spice (18th), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Juniors
Eyes, Hapshash & The Coloured Coat, Edgar Broughton Band, David Bowie,
Third Ear Band, Tales Of Justine etc (19th-Gandalf’s Garden Benefit),
Fairport Convention (20th, Sandy Denny’s debut gig), Tyrannosaurus Rex,
Hapshash & The Coloured Coat, Third Ear Band etc (22nd-Celebration For
Albion), Blossom Toes (24th). The 26th is a Benefit for Oz magazine and
features Pink Floyd, Pretty Things, Deviants, Blonde On Blonde etc.
Blaises-Spooky
Tooth (23rd)
Klooks
Kleek-Time Box (9th), Ten Years After (14th-released on album
"Undead")
Marquee-
The Nice (2nd, 21st), Mabel Greer’s Toyshop (2nd), Jethro Tull (3rd, 17th,
31st), Timebox (4th, 18th, 25th), Nite People (6th, 20th), The Breakthru
(6th), Manfred Mann (7th), Glass Menagerie (7th), The Gods (9th, 30th),
Granny’s Intentions (9th, 16th, 23rd), Clouds (11th), Neat Change (13th),
The Exception (13th), Traffic (14th), Joe Cocker (16th), Circus (19th),
Marmalade (23rd), Ten Years After (24th), Spooky Tooth (27th), Juniors Eyes
(30th)
Cromwellian-New
Formula (8th, 9th, 16th), Hopscotch (10th), Timebox (2nd, 17th, 22nd), Brass Tacks
(18th), Wishful Thinking (6th, 20th, 21st)
Hatchetts
Playground, Piccadilly-Flowerpot Men (12th), Status Quo (19th), Lemon Tree
(22nd, 23rd), Unit 4 Plus 2 (26th)
Whisky A Go Go- Breakthru (7th)
Pink
Flamingo-Locomotive (4th), Greatest Show On Earth (11th)
100 Club- Black Cat Bones (6th)
The
Queen’s Stag Hounds, Ascot-Jethro Tull (5th)
Eden
Park Hotel, Beckenham-The Herd (9th, 30th)
Bedford
College-The Herd (18th)
Belfast
ABC-Bee Gees (3rd)
Bexley Black Prince- Spooky Tooth (5th)
Birmingham,
The Elbow Room-Sam Gopal Dream (9th), Blossom Toes (15th), Blonde On Blonde
(16th)
Metro,
Birmingham-Ten Years After (2nd)
Birmingham Ringway- Scrugg (31st)
Birmingham
University-The Herd (3rd)
Rhodes
Centre, Bishop’s Stortford-The Herd (13th)
Bonihull
North Hall-Plastic Penny (9th)
Assembly
Rooms, Borough-The Herd (24th)
Brighton Arts Festival- Manfred Mann (3rd)
Brighton
Dome-Donovan (8th), Tremeloes (10th)
Falmer
House, Brighton-Pink Floyd (11th)
Locarno, Bristol-Honeybus (9th), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (16th), The Status Quo (30th)
Bunley
Nr Ringwood, White Buck Inn- Easybeats (4th)
Cambridge,
Station Street Barn-Status Quo (10th)
Beehive
Club, Canterbury-Caravan (6th-their debut gig, 26th, 27th)
Catford,
Savoy-Marmalade (11th)
Chatham
Town Hall-Honeybus (4th)
Chester,
Clockwork Orange-Honeybus (10th), The Move (17th)
Royal
Agricultural College, Cirencester-Simon Dupree & the Big Sound (31st)
City
University, Clerkenwell, London-The Who (24th)
Croydon, Star Club- The Gods (13th)
Darlington
La Bamba-Plastic Penny (26th)
Doncaster
Top Rank-Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (20th)
Dublin
ABC-Bee Gees (2nd)
Dunstable
California Ballroom-Honeybus (3rd), Manfred Mann, The Toast
(11th), Easybeats (17th), Flowerpot Men (18th), Katch 22 (24th)
Edmonton
Cooks Ferry Inn-Spooky Tooth (6th), Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (13th), Taste (20th)
Edmonton
King’s Head-Marmalade (1st), Honeybus (8th)
Falcon
Hotel, Eltham-The Herd (29th)
Epping,
Wake Arms-Marmalade (5th)
Farnborough
Town Hall-Status Quo (9th)
Strathclyde
University, Glasgow-The Who (11th)
Glastonbury
Town Hall-Wynder K Frog (4th, supporting Jimmy Cliff), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (18th)
Cat
Ballou Club, Grantham-Honeybus (5th), Ten Years After (12th)
Greenford,
Starlite Ballroom-Honeybus (12th)
Guildford, Wooden Bridge- Ten Years After (26th)
Halifax
Victoria Hall-Troggs, Honeybus (19th)
Hammersmith
Palais- Honeybus (27th, charity dance function)
Country
Club, Hampstead-Spooky Tooth (22nd)
Westfield
College, Hampstead-Pink Floyd (3rd)
Birdcage
Club, Harlow-The Herd (2nd)
Royal
Hall, Harrogate-The Herd (17th)
Hereford
Race Course-Traffic, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation etc (16th)
Town
Hall, High Wycombe-The Herd (28th)
Huddersfield
University-Traffic (10th)
Hull
Skyline-Status Quo (16th), The Move (23rd)
Hull
University-The Who (3rd)
Ilminster Shribery Hotel- Easybeats (3rd)
Ipswich,
Manor Ballroom-Traffic (13th)
Punchbowl
Hotel, Lapworth, Warwickshire-Pink Floyd (24th)
Leicester University- Manfred Mann (4th)
Liverpool
University-The Who (4th), Barclay James Harvest (22nd)
London,
City University-Tremeloes, Taste, Clouds (3rd)
London
Imperial College-Traffic, Joe Cocker (11th)
London,
Playboy Club-
The
Toast (2nd-4th), Opal Butterfly (19th),
Breakthru (20th-25th)
London
School Of Economics-Blossom Toes (11th-supporting Captain Beefheart)
London,
St Joseph’s Hall-The Action, Mabel Greer’s Toyshop (18th)
Loughborough
University-Barclay James Harvest (21st)
Manchester
Central Hall-Honeybus (18th)
Margate
Dreamland-Status Quo (18th), The Move (25th)
Market
Bosworth, Bosworth Park ‘Love-In’-Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The
Trinity, Mindbenders, Gary Walker & Rain etc (25th)
Marlow Crown Hotel- Jethro Tull (29th)
Winter
Gardens, Morecombe-Easybeats (31st)
Nairn Ballerina Ballroom- Scrugg (10th)
Nantwich
Civic Hall-Status Quo (11th)
University
of East Anglia, Norwich-Ten Years After (4th), The Move (11th)
Nottingham Boat Club- Penny Peeps (31st)
Oxford,
Headington Tech College-Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity (10th)
Oxford, St Michael's Hall- Ten Years After (23rd)
Oxford
Town Hall-Honeybus (11th)
Paddington,
Cue Club-Greatest Show On Earth (6th-9th), The Selofane (10th), Cat’s
Pyjamas (11th)
Portsmouth,
Clarence Pier Ballroom-Manfred Mann (10th)
Portsmouth Guild Hall- Fairport Convention, Gary Farr, Free, Coconut Mushroom (27th)
Top
Rank, Preston-The Herd (8th)
Purley
Orchid Ballroom-Eric Burdon & The Animals (20th)
Redcar
Coatham Hotel-Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (19th)
Redditch
College-Ten Years After (25th)
RAF
Uxbridge-The Herd (16th)
Retford,
Broken Wheel-Pineapple Accident (11th), Alan Bown (19th)
Salisbury City Hall- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (25th)
Sheffield
City Hall-Honeybus (17th)
Southend,
Cliff Hall-Easybeats (18th)
Southend
Kursaal-The Move, Crocheted Doughnut Ring (24th)
Top
Of The World, Stafford-Easybeats (30th)
City
Hall, St Albans-The Herd (10th)
Streatham
Locarno-Honeybus (16th)
The
Belfry, Sutton Coldfield-Plastic Penny (10th), Pink Floyd (25th, 27th)
Tolworth Toby Jug- Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (8th)
Tottenham,
Royal Ballroom-Status Quo (17th)
Waltham
Forest Tech College-Spooky Tooth (2nd)
Cricket
Club, Warrington-Manfred Mann (31st)
Town
Hall, Warwick-The Herd (4th)
Winter
Gardens, Weston-Super-Mare-The Herd (25th)
Wigan
Tech College-Ten Years After (22nd)
Wood Green Nightingale- Spooky Tooth (7th)
Swan
Hotel, Yardley, Birmingham-Kaleidoscope, Jigsaw (5th)
Tim Andrews
Something About Suburbia: It's a bird singing a bit like Steve Marriott. Hang about, my mate the unemployed portrait painter has just informed me "It's a bloke." Oh well, of course it could be a ferret. Who knows in these troubled times. Heavy four to the bar, brass. Catchy tune, fairly interesting lyrics.
The Aquarian Age
10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box : Very offbeat and ambitious performance, earning a Record of the Week tag, and with great sounds of a wide variety. Must listen carefully, folks, but it's worth the effort.
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Anything: Medium paced and subdued with The Animals augmented by lush strings. Nice, but not a gas.
Cream
Anyone For Tennis: By its instantly commercial sound this will result in the biggest ever hit for this unique musical combination. It's a simple, but swinging theme, with nonsense lyrics and a catchy hook phrase. Lots of influences are apparent--Dylan, Traffic, beatles etc, but Cream have achieved an original sound of their own.
Boeing Duveen and The Beautiful Soup
Jabberwock: A bit late for groups and singers with weird names, a bit late for Lewis Carroll revivals, and a bit late for freaky sounds. It's quite pleasant, vocal-wise, but the lyrics and in fact the whole concept are a bit of a drag.
Fleur de Lys
Gong With The Luminous Nose: A funky British guitar and drums sound that won't do much, except shake up a few discotheques.
The Koobas
First Cut Is The Deepest : I have always had faith in the Koobas making big. This, of course, has already carved a way into the charts, via P.P. Arnold, but it suits the lads well, with a strong atmosphere, tough lead voice, powered guitar - and a sturdy sort of tempo that got me going. Very well performed.
McGough & McGear
McGough & McGear (LP): A tremendous album! An album that must be listened to from beginning to end. The poetry is biting, deep. The imagery is thought-provoking, clever but rarely facile. McGough and McGear are two extremely talented young men. You are urged to give this unusual album a listen.
Orange Bicycle
Jenskadajka: Don't be surprised if the title is spelt wrong. If Eric Clapton can have chickens on his stairs instead of chicken feathers, and The Beach Boys can completely vanish leaving only the title of their record, anything can happen to Jenskadajka. Anything except become a hit. It all sounds very Finnish or Norwegian, and the lyrics are quite clever. The beat is quite solid, rather in the vein of tap dancing reindeer. But the teentboppers will disapprove.
Rainbow Ffolly
Drive My Car: An LP track, and a good one - the group clearly has ideas and style. Probably not a chart entry, I'd say, but a compulsive bit of listening.
Sallies Fforth (LP): Very mixed set varying from simple and effective to pretentious piffle.
Small Faces
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (album): In case you hadn't noticed, the Small Faces are no longer a teenybopper group relying on the effervescent charm of Steve Marriott to keep the girlish screams at full volume. They have, in fact, developed into one of the most rewarding groups on the British scene, continually trying new things yet retaining contact with the public. Between them, they have also developed into a real force as songwriters. The album got plenty of publicity on the strength of it's novel, round sleeve with it's reproduction of a Victorian tobacco tin. But, for once, the gimmick is justified by the music. The Faces have come up with two suites - one on each side of the album. Each is divided into six tracks which cover a remarkable wide range of sounds and show the group's unusual virsatility - both as performers and writers. There is a constant flow of ideas and some of the lyrics have just the right blend of originality and humour - how about "Life is just a bowl of All Bran"? 'Ogdens', the first suite, includes their successful single 'Lazy Sunday' and another of Steve's cockney bits, 'Rene' all about the daughter of a docker. 'Happiness Stan', the best of the two, ends with a brilliant send-up track, 'Happy Days Toytown'. Each theme on this suite is introduced by Stanley Unwin whose double talk is effective enough first time through, but tends to pall a bit with repeated playing. The whole album is pop of a very high order and the arrangements are first class, full of varied sounds. There is a good use of a string section and some excellent guitar work as well as neat organ on 'Stan'. A thoroughly deserving LP of the month.
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (album): An attempt to produce something a bit different and a huge success though three tracks may be a little too much of Steve's happy, cockney pub singer bit, and Stanley Unwin's gibberish introductions become irritating after a time. Still, there's a lot of good writing, playing and singing on this very different album which should be in every pop fan's home.
Timebox
Beggin': I tip this one with perhaps an overoptimistic approach, but the boys are so good, and so musicianly, that they deserve a breakthrough. Great lead voice on a slow burning introduction and then it speeds up, with a wealth of ideas instrumentally, and the song, after a couple of plays, sounds very saleable indeed. A good release.
World Of Oz
The Muffin Man: Great! Super! This record is going to be a smash hit. These boys have great talent. Knockout. I'd be very surprised if this didn't make it. I think Mike Vickers had something to do with the production. They deserve a hit, these boys. I'm going out to buy 100 copies. I love the horses bit. Honestly, what a dancer! (Sue "Tiger" Mathis of The Paper Dolls comments in Melody Maker's "Blind Date" feature)