SINGLES
APPLE-Lets
Take A Trip Down The Rhine/ Buffalo Billy Can (Page One)
BLOSSOM TOES-Post Card/ Everyones Leaving Me Now
(Marmalade)
BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND-Urban Spaceman/ Canyons Of Your Mind
(Liberty) #5
JOHN BROMLEY-And The Feeling Goes/ Sweet Little Princess
(Polydor)
JOHN CARTER & RUSS ALQUIST-Laughing Man (Spark)
CATS EYES-I Thank You Marianne/ Turn Around (Deram)
CHERRY SMASH-Goodtime Sunshine/ Little Old Country Home Town
(Decca)
CREAM-Sunshine Of Your Love/ Swlabr (Polydor) #25
ECLECTION-Please/ St George And The Dragon (Elektra)
EPISODE SIX-Lucky Sunday/ Mr Universe (Chapter One)
FACTORY-Path Through The Forest/ Gone (MGM)
THE FLIES-Magic Train/ Gently As You Feel (RCA)
GILES, GILES AND FRIPP-Thursday Morning/ Elephant Song (Deram)
THE GODS-Babys Rich/ Somewhere In The Street (Columbia)
THE GUN-Race With The Devil/ 3-4 In The Middle (CBS) #8
HARSH REALITY-Tobacco Ash Sunday/ How Do You Feel (Philips)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE-All Along The Watchtower/ Long Hot Summer
Night (Track) #5
INFANTES JUBILATE-Exploding Galaxy/ Take It Slow (Music Factory)
JULY-Hello, Whos There?/ The Way (Major Minor)
LEMON TREE-Its So Nice To Come Home/ Come On Girl
(Parlophone)
THE LOOT-Shes A Winner/ Save Me (Page One)
MOODY BLUES-Ride My See-Saw/ Simple Game (Deram) #42
MY DEAR WATSON-Make This Day Last/ Stop Stop Ill Be There
(Parlophone)
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-Love Me Two Times/ Which Way To Go (MCA)
ORANGE BICYCLE-Sing This All Together/ Take A Trip On An Orange
Bicycle (Columbia)
THE OUTER LIMITS-Great Train Robbery/ Sweet Freedom (Instant)
THE OWL-Run To The Sun/ Shades Of Blue And Green Water Flies (UA)
PICCADILLY LINE-Evenings With Corinna/ My Best Friend (CBS)
BARRY RYAN-Eloise/ Love I Almost Found You (MGM) #2
SECONDHAND-Reality (Polydor)
SERENDIPITY-Through With You/ Im Flying (CBS)
SOUND BARRIER-She Always Comes Back To Me/ Groovin Slow
(Beacon)
THE SPECTRUM-Little Red Boat/ Forget Me Not (RCA)
CAT STEVENS-Here Comes My Wife/ Its A Super Duper Day
(Deram)
SHARON TANDY WITH FLEUR-DE-LYS-Hold On/ Daughter Of The Sun
(Atlantic)
THE WHO-Magic Bus/ Dr Jekyll And Mr Hide (Track) #26
ALBUMS
JEFF
BECK-Truth (Columbia)
THE ALAN BOWN!-Outward Bown (Music Factory)
CARAVAN--Caravan (Verve)
DEEP PURPLE-Shades Of Deep Purple (Parlophone)
THE GODS-Genesis (Columbia)
THE KINKS-The Village Green Preservation Society (Pye)
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK-Tonite Lets All Make Love In London
(Instant)
HAPPENING!
The
New Yardbirds make their live debut and soon change their name to Led
Zeppelin.
Eddie
Hardin and Pete York leave the Spencer Davis Group and are replaced by Dee
Murray and Dave Hynes of The Mirage, who promptly split up.
Decca
Records continue their refusal to release The Rolling Stones’ new album
"Beggars Banquet" with it’s proposed cover design of a graffiti
covered toilet wall.
Reports
suggest that The Beatles have booked the Royal Albert Hall for a
‘comeback’ concert in December. The concert doesn’t take place.
Pink
Floyd make a promo film for their "Point Me At The Sky" disc.
Dave
Mason quits Traffic for the second time.
Ace
session pianist Nicky Hopkins joins the Jeff Beck Group.
Guitarist
Wyndham George and bass player Laughton James leave Cupids Inspiration. The
replacements are Bernie Lee (ex-The Umbrella), and Gordon Haskell (ex-Fleur
de Lys/ Rupert’s People/ Flowerpot Men
Arthur
Brown is banned from playing a tour of West Germany. The German authorities
fear riots and the risk of fire after seeing Arthur in action on ‘Beat
Club’.
Brian
Jones is fined £50 with 100 guineas costs after being found guilty of
possessing cannabis resin.
The
Small Faces are banned from Bristol’s Colston Hall after they are accused
of inciting the audience to riot at their concert at the venue.
Deep
Purple appear on US TVs "Playboy After Dark" (23rd)
BBC
TV "How It Is"-The Who ("Magic Bus"), Spooky Tooth
("The Weight") (11th), Pentangle (25th)
BBC 2 TV "Colour Me Pop"- Honeybus (12th)
ATV
“Goodbye Again”-Donovan (12th)
Giles
Giles & Fripp appear on "The Eammon Andrews Show" (17th)
The
Status Quo appear on BBC TVs children’s show "Crackerjack!"
(25th)
Southern
ITV “Time For Blackburn”-Kaleidoscope, Barry Ryan, UK Amboy Dukes and
Procession (11th), The Who (25th)
ITV
“Jack Good’s Master Of Pop”-Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The
Trinity, Alan Bown (26th)
German
TV "Beat Club"-The Who, The Yardbirds (posthumously), The Troggs,
The Easybeats, Grapefruit, Vanity Fair, Casuals (12th)
BBC
SESSIONS-Art Movement (7th-11th, Dave Cash), Brian Auger & Julie
Driscoll (25th, Radio One Club-27th, Top Gear), Bakerloo Line (20th, Top
Gear), Blossom Toes (27th, Top Gear), Bonzo Dog Band (20th, Top Gear-23rd,
Radio One Club), Joe Cocker (6th, Stuart Henry-13th, Top Gear-14th, David
Symonds), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (24th, Radio One Club),
Cupids
Inspiration (7th-11th, Jimmy Young), Easybeats
(26th, Saturday Club--28th-1st Nov, David Symonds),
The Herd (7th-11th, David Symonds-12th, Saturday Club-21st-25th, David
Symonds), Idle Race (21st-25th, Jimmy Young), Kaleidoscope (25th, David
Symonds-30th, Radio 1 Club), Love Sculpture (6th, Top Gear),
Marmalade
(21st, Saturday Club-21st-25th, Dave Cash-21st-25th, Jimmy Young-28th-1st
Nov, David Symonds), The Mirage (21st-25th, Dave Cash),
Montanas (7th-11th,
Jimmy Young), Moody Blues (19th, Pete’s Saturday People-21st-25th, Dave
Cash), The Move (5th, Saturday
Club--7th-11th, David Symonds), Mud (7th-11th, Dave Cash),
Simon
Dupree & The Big Sound (19th, Saturday Club), Spooky Tooth (6th, Top
Gear-7th-11th, David Symonds-10th, Pop North-20th, Stuart Henry-21st, Radio
1 Club-21st-25th, David Symonds), Status Quo (29th, Radio One O’clock),
Cat Stevens (19th, Saturday Club), Tangerine Peel
(21st-25th, David Symonds),
Timebox (7th-11th, Dave Cash), Tremeloes (7th-11th, Jimmy Young-21st, Radio
One Club-21st-25th, Dave Cash), Troggs (7th-11th, David Symonds-28th-1st
Nov, Jimmy Young), Young Blood (7th-11th, Jimmy Young)
WATCHING!
The
Tremeloes and Marmalade play concerts in Israel, the first British groups to
do so.
Jimi
Hendrix begins a U.S tour with 3 dates at San Francisco’s Winterland.
The
Who, The Small Faces and Joe Cocker undertake a package tour of the UK
(8th-20th). The Herd’s Peter Frampton sits in during a Small Faces
performance. He and Steve Marriott strike up a rapport and they begin
planning a new group. Both men are keen to leave behind the
‘teen-scream’ tag and gain rock credibility.
Marquee-
Love Sculpture (1st, 16th, 22nd), Fairport Convention (2nd, 9th, 30th),
Timebox (3rd, 31st), Pegasus (4th, 23rd), Dream Police (5th, 12th, 19th),
Kippington Lodge (5th, 17th, 26th), House Of Lords (6th, 13th, 20th, 27th),
Free (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th), Moody Blues (8th), Spooky Tooth (10th, 24th),
Jethro Tull (11th), Village (12th, 29th), Led Zeppelin (18th, billed as
Yardbirds), Spice (19th),
Family (22nd), Eclection (23rd), Toast (24th), Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger
& the Trinity (29th), East Of Eden (31st)
Blaises-Yes
(13th, 22nd, 30th)
Revolution
Club-Yes (14th)
Hatchett’s
Playground, Piccadilly- Renaissance Fayre (5th), Moving Finger (6th), Toast
(9th, 27th), Timebox (15th, 19th, 22nd), Pussyfoot (17th), Rainbow Ffolly
(18th), Cherry Smash (13th, 20th, 27th), Katch 22 (22nd), New Formula (26th)
The Sweet (16th, 17th, 29th)
Royal
Albert Hall-Family (15th)
London
Lyceum-The Who, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Alan Bown, Elmer Gantry, Skip
Bifferty (18th)
Klooks
Kleek-Juniors Eyes (1st), Family (8th), Taste (15th), Colosseum, Sam Apple Pie (22nd), Timebox
(25th)
Middle
Earth, Roundhouse-Spooky Tooth (4th), The Who, Blossom Toes, The Fox (5th),
Pink Floyd, Yes, July (26th)
Bath
Pavilion-The Nice (21st)
Battersea
College-Deep Purple (4th)
Battersea Nag's Head- Gethsemane (21st)
Crown
Hotel, Birmingham-Bakerloo Blues Line (1st), Jethro Tull (29th)
Birmingham, The Factory- Eclection (11th)
Mothers,
Birmingham-Pink Floyd (4th), Eclection (5th), Spooky Tooth (6th), Barclay
James Harvest (11th), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (12th), Juniors Eyes,
July (18th), Blonde On Blonde (19th), Fairport Convention (20th), The
Deviants, The Action (26th)
Birmingham,
Oldhill Plaza-Status Quo (19th)
Birmingham
Town Hall-Incredible String Band (25th)
Blidworth Forest Folk Hotel- Hedgehoppers Anonymous (4th)
Boreham
Wood The Links Club-Fleetwood Mac, Gethsemane (5th), Grapefruit (19th)
Town
Hall, Botley-Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (26th)
Braintree
Youth Centre-Moody Blues (4th)
Bridge
Country Club, Nr Canterbury-The Couriers (6th), Pretty Things (13th),
Spencer Davis (18th)
Bradford
University-Kaleidoscope, World Of Oz (12th)
Brentwood
St Thomas Hall-The Herd, Almond Marzipan (19th)
The
Spa, Bridlington-The Herd (26th)
Brighton
Richmond Hotel-Greatest Show On Earth (7th)
Bristol
Boxing Club-Led Zeppelin, The Deviants (26th)
Colston
Hall, Bristol-Small Faces, The Nice (25th)
Bristol
Dugout Club-Orange Bicycle (20th)
Bristol
Grand Spa Ballroom-Orange Bicycle (23rd)
Bristol
Tech College-Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (24th)
Bristol
University-New York Public Library (5th)
Bury
St Edmunds Athenian Hall-The Nice (25th)
Quaintways,
Chester-Plastic Penny (28th)
Victoria
Ballroom, Chesterfield-Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (26th)
Corn
Hall, Cirencester-Yes (12th), Greatest Show On Earth (26th)
Clapham
Minotaur Club-Caleb (21st)
Coalville,
West End Club-Greatest Show On Earth (29th)
Essex
University, Colchester-The Nice (19th)
Cromer,
Pop In-Greatest Show On Earth (6th)
Croydon Hungry I- Marc Ellington (1st)
Top
Rank, Croydon-The Herd (16th)
Droitwich,
Impfella Club-Breakthru (6th)
Dundee
University-Status Quo (17th)
Dunfermline Kinema- The Poets (5th, 6th), The Stoics (12th), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (13th), Dream Police (27th)
California
Ballroom, Dunstable-The Who (19th), Status Quo (25th)
The
Clay Pigeon, Eastcote-New Formula (27th)
Edmonton
Cooks Ferry Inn-Taste (7th), The Nice (28th)
Exeter
College-Orange Bicycle (28th)
Toft’s,
Folkestone-Mike Stuart Span (26th)
Mayfair,
Glasgow-Pink Floyd (1st)
Strathclyde
University, Glasgow-The Herd (5th)
Glastonbury
Town Hall-Tyrannosaurus Rex (5th), Skip Bifferty (19th)
Country
Club, Hampstead- House Of Lords (3rd), Pink Floyd (6th), The Nice (9th),
Juniors Eyes (23rd), Family (27th), Wynder K Frog (30th)
Hanley,
The Place-Orange Bicycle (5th)
Birdcage
Club, Harlow-Toast (17th), The Herd (24th)
Cobb
Webb, Hastings-Mike Stuart Span (24th)
Hemel
Hempstead Pavilion-Casuals (9th)
Chez
Laurey Club, Herne Bay-The Status Quo (23rd, 24th)
Hermitage
Ballroom, Hitchin-Yes (5th)
Hull
University-New York Public Library (19th)
Ilford, The Angel- Roy Harper (2nd)
Kelso
Corn Exchange-Small Faces (19th)
Boat
House, Kew-Fleetwood Mac (20th), Pink Floyd (25th)
Kidderminster
Town Hall-The Nice (29th)
Leeds
University-Tony Rivers & The Castaways (26th)
Granby
Halls, Leicester-The Who, Joe Cocker, Family, Legay, Spring (25th)
Red
Lion, Leytonstone-Jethro Tull (24th)
Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall-Incredible String Band (26th0
Liverpool
University-Led Zeppelin (19th)
Llandudno
Tech College-Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (23rd)
London,
Central Polytechnic-Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Blossom
Toes (26th)
Imperial
College, London-Pink Floyd (26th)
London
College Of Printing-Jethro Tull, Eclection (26th)
London, Les Cousins- John Martyn (1st)
London Playboy Club- The Web (??)
London, Powis Gardens All Saints Hall- Third Ear Band, Ron Geesin (3rd)
London,
Queensway Porchester Halls-Pete Brown & Battered Ornaments, Roy Harper,
Social Deviants, The Action etc (17th)
London
School of Economics-Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, The Deviants (19th)
Queen
Mary’s College, London-Greatest Show On Earth (5th), The Nice (24th)
London, St Paul's Cathedral "Pop Experience"- Scaffold, Grapefruit, Jackie Lomax etc (2nd)
University
College, London-Family (5th), Eclection (12th), Episode Six (19th),
Grapefruit, Nashville Teens (26th)
London,
Upstairs at Ronnie Scotts- Gun (3rd, 22nd), Juniors Eyes (4th), Affinity
(19th),
Hornsey
Wood Tavern, London-Savoy Brown (4th), The Nice (11th)
Loughborough
University-New York Public Library (12th)
Shield
Electronics, Luton-New Formula (22nd)
Maidstone
Wesley Club-Toast (26th)
Manchester
College Of Commerce-Barclay James Harvest (4th)
New
Century Hall, Manchester-The Status Quo (26th)
Manchester
Owens Park College-Orange Bicycle (11th)
Manchester
University-New York Public Library (2nd)
Mansfield Palais- Lemon Tree (11th)
Marbeth,
Queen's Hall-Casuals (5th)
Dreamland,
Margate-Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (26th)
Minchinhampton
Youth Club-Orange Bicycle (29th)
Nelson
Imperial Hall-The Nice (26th)
Newcastle
City Hall-Incredible String Band (27th)
Nottingham Boat Club- Black Cat Bones (27th)
Nottingham Britannia Rowing Club- Ashton Gardner & Dyke (26th)
Nottingham Palais- Grapefruit (24th)
Nottingham Union Rowing Club- Mojos (19th)
Nottingham University- Crazy World Of Artur Brown, Sons and Lovers etc (29th)
Wharf
Hotel, Ombersley-Yes (11th)
Plymouth
Guild Hall-The Move (25th, 26th)
Top
Rank, Plymouth-Mike Stuart Span (20th), Honeybus (28th)
Plymouth Van Dikes- Nashville Teens, Inner Circle (25th)
Poole
Tech College-Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (22nd)
Guild
Hall, Portsmouth-The Nice (23rd)
Ramsgate
Supreme Ballroom-Greatest Show On Earth (4th)
Redcar
Coatham Hotel-Orange Bicycle (13th)
The
Broken Wheel, Retford-Pesky Gee (19th), The Hush (26th)
Rhondda,
Maerdy-Orange Bicycle (6th)
Richmond Athletic Ground- Family (2nd)
Rochester,
St Michael's Hall-Casuals (4th)
Ryde
Seagull-Moody Blues (5th)
Salford
University-The Herd (25th)
Salisbury Alex Disco- Keef Hartley Band (19th)
Candlelight,
Scarborough-The Nice (18th)
Scarborough
Scene Two Club-Colosseum (11th-debut gig), Status Quo (18th)
Clinton
Club, Seaford-Mike Stuart Span (25th)
Black
Swan Hotel, Sheffield-New Formula (24th)
Sheffield City Hall- Incredible String Band (9th)
Marquess
of Grande, Sheffield-New Formula (23rd)
Sheffield
University-The Who, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (12th)
Music
Hall, Shrewsbury-Honeybus (26th)
South
Shields Jazz Club-The Nice (17th)
Stevenage
Locarno-Greatest Show On Earth (30th)
Stevenage
Mecca-The Toast (24th)
Stockton
Tech College-Greatest Show On Earth (25th)
Stratford
Railway Tavern, Asgard Club-Mandrake Paddle Steamer (25th)
Streatham
Silver Blades-Toast (25th)
Surrey
University-Led Zeppelin (25th)
The
Belfry, Sutton Coldfield-Kinks (12th), Manfred Mann (26th)
Sutton
In Ashfield, Golden Diamond Club-Orange Bicycle (27th)
Swansea
Top Rank-The Herd (18th)
Swindon
Catholic Youth Club-Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (23rd)
Sydenham
Community Centre-Orange Bicycle (4th)
Toby
Jug, Tolworth-The Nice (3rd), Jethro Tull (16th), Colosseum (23rd)
Eel
Pie Island, Twickenham-Joe Cocker, Terry Reid (2nd), Gracious (5th), Elmer
Gantry’s Velvet Opera, Freedom (9th), Colosseum, July (16th), Alan Bown,
Gethsemane (23rd), The Who, East Of Eden (30th)
Brunel
University, Uxbridge-The Nice (4th)
Warrington,
Carlton Club-Greatest Show On Earth (28th)
Wealdstone
Railway Hotel-Keef Hartley Band (3rd), Colosseum (17th)
Whetstone,
Black Bull-Pegasus (21st), Colosseum (28th)
Town
Hall, Whitchurch-Cupid’s Inspiration (26th)
Wolverhampton
Lafayette Club-Jethro Tull (17th), Orange Bicycle (26th)
Woodford
Community Centre-Greatest Show On Earth (27th)
Fishmongers
Arms, Wood Green-Jethro Tull (22nd)
Woolaston
Memorial Hall-Orange Bicycle (25th)
Yardley,
The Swan-Greatest Show On Earth (9th)
Yeovilton,
RNAS-Orange Bicycle (24th)
I Remember seeing Free in all the pubs and halls around west London. I also saw Led Zep's first gig at the Marquee as the New Yardbirds and being overawed by John Bonham, who we knew of as he had played for Tim Rose at a gig at the Marquee supporting Aynsley Dunbar. Bonham came on then with a small studio kit, a 16 inch bass drum, but the sound was like bombs going off, and he beat Aynsley with his solo. Kenny White-drummer with Clear Blue Sky |
REVIEWS
Blossom Toes
Postcard: A jolly nuttiness surrounds their whole set-up. They have so far remained encased in a great stock of anonymity, but here is a jolly, nutty record that might just appeal to jolly nuts everywhere. It tells of the joys of sending postcards home from holiday containing such fascinating information as 'it hasn't rained--much.'
Deep Purple
Shades Of Deep Purple (LP): A selection of highly professional freak-outs in a cross between the Nice, Arthur Brown and Hendrix.
Episode Six
Lucky Sunday: A glorious sound, bristling with hit potential. Here are a group who have long deserved a hit, and look like breaking through at last. I had a few worrying moments during the quieter passages, thinking to myself: "Would young teenyboppers yawn, stop bopping and find their precious thoughts drift with innocence and sunbeams to another pleasurable distraction?" It needs heavy listening, but there are numerous musical delights to titillate the ear and tempt jaded palates.
The Gun
Race With The Devil : A frenzied beat that'll leave you limp, strident fuzz guitar shrieking brass in the background and a berserk uninhibited vocal complete with a demoniacal laughter. This one's a real sizzler!
Race With The Devil: While one must admit the Gun appear to have been influenced by Arthur Brown down to some diabolical laughter, the effect remains fiendishly exciting. Watch for some groovy guitar work and try to forget about lines about "The Devil's Grip".
Lemon Tree
It's So Nice To Come Home : Produced by Andy Fairweather-Low, it's a jaunty rollicking number with a semi-martial beat - and a very catchy tune. Good robust fun - an enthusiast treatment of above average material.
Moody Blues
Ride My see Saw: A good track off their recent album that rocks and thinks, which is quite hard in these troubled times of rioting and bomb throwing.
New York Public Library
Love Me Two Times: A Doors song and the performance sounds a bit Doors-ish too. Nice though--it sounds as though they believe in what they are doing. A big, rolling beat helps it along and I wouldn't mind seeing this in the chart at all.
Orange Bicycle
Sing This All Together: The Bicycle played this at that ghastly Isle of Wight pop festival, and helped make me forget the bloke kicking me in the back, the bitter cold, the stench, the dirt, boredom and misery for a few minutes. They are a good little band and this Jagger-Richard groover might give them a hit.
Outer Limits
Great Train Robbery: Not our Great Train Robbery, but one that took place in 1899 which makes a romantic tale given full orchestral accompaniment and a catchy hook phrase: "Do you remember the Great train Robbery?" Trouble is, having aroused memories of the incident, the singers, who sound as though they were trying to forget the Great Train Robbery, then fail to add any further statements. I expected them to say "Well, we done it, so there."
Barry Ryan
Eloise: Paul Ryan wrote the song and Barry sings with a considerable power reminding me, oddly enough, of Chris Farlowe. A brilliant arrangement, and spectacular recording quality. The orchestra thunders, barks, roars then fades with symphonic depth and feeling before returning to a rock beat finale. In conception and execution it stands head and shoulders above most of this week's releases, and will excite interest among connoisseurs of progressive pop, but--sadly--not a hit.