SINGLES

THE BEATLES-Hey Jude/ Revolution (Apple) #1
THE BUNCH-Birthday/ Still (CBS)
DAVE CLARK FIVE-Red Balloon/ Maze Of Love (Columbia) #7
JOE COCKER-With A Little Help From My Friends/ Something’s Coming On (Regal Zonophone) #1
CUPID’S INSPIRATION-My World/ Everything Is Meant To Be (Nems) #33
DREAMS-I Will See You There/ A Boy Needs A Girl (UA)
JULIE DRISCOLL/BRIAN AUGER-Road To Cairo/ Shadows Of You (Marmalade)
SIMON DUPREE AND THE BIG SOUND-Thinking About My Life/ Velvet And Lace (Parlophone)
EASYBEATS-Good Times/ Lay Me Down And Die (UA)
ECLECTION-Another Time, Another Place/ Betty Brown (Elektra)
GLASS MENAGERIE-I Said Goodbye To Me/ Frederick Jordan (Pye)
THE HERD-Sunshine Cottage/ Miss Jones (Fontana)
HOLLIES-Listen To Me/ Do The Best You Can (Parlophone) #11
HONEYBUS-Girl Of Independent Means/ How Long (Deram)
IDLE RACE-I Like My Toys/ Birthday (Liberty)
JETHRO TULL-Song For Jeffrey/ One For John Gee (Island)
JIGSAW-Mr Job/ Great Idea (Music Factory)
KALEIDOSCOPE-Jenny Artichoke/ Just How Much You Are (Fontana)
PHILAMORE LINCOLN-Running By The River/ Rainy Day (Nems)
JACKIE LOMAX-Sour Milk Sea/ Eagle Laughs At You (Apple)
MARMALADE-Wait For Me Mary Anne/ Mess Around (CBS) #30
MONTANAS-Run To me/ You’re Making A Big Mistake (Pye)
THE MOVING FINGER-Jeremy The Lamp/ Pain Of My Misfortune (Mercury)
POP WORKSHOP-Fairyland/ When My Little Girl Is Happy (Page One)
PROCESSION-Every American Citizen/ Essentially Susan (Mercury)
RAMESES AND SELKET-Crazy One/ My Mind’s Eye (CBS)
SELOFANE-Shingle I-A-O/ Chase The Face (CBS)
SHADES OF MORLEY BROWN-Silly Girl/ Pretty Blue Bird (Mercury)
SPOOKY TOOTH-The Weight/ Do Right People (Island)
THE STOICS-Earth, Fire, Air And Water/ Search Of The Sea (RCA)
TANGERINE PEEL-Talking To No One/ Wishing Tree (CBS)
THE TROGGS-Hip Hip Hooray/ Say Darlin’! (Page One)
VAMP-Floatin’/ Thinkin’ Too Much (Atlantic)
WATCH COMMITTEE-Throw Another Penny In The Well/ Now I Think The Other Way (Philips)
YELLOW PAGES-Here Comes Jane/ Ring-A-Ding (Page One)

ALBUMS

BEE GEES-Idea (Polydor) #4
DONOVAN-In Concert (Pye)
ECLECTION-Eclection (Elektra)
FIVE DAY WEEK STRAW PEOPLE- Five Day Week Straw People (Saga)
GILES, GILES AND FRIPP-The Cheerful Insanity Of (Deram)
GOOD EARTH-It’s Hard Rock And All That (Saga)
JETHRO TULL-This Was (Island) #10
MAGIC MIXTURE- This Is Magic Mixture (Saga)
NIRVANA-All Of Us (Island)
TRAFFIC-Traffic (Island) #9

HAPPENING!

• Davy O’ List leaves The Nice, officially because of ‘pressure of work’, but in reality because of his unreliability and unpredictable behaviour (legend has it that O’List was ‘spiked’ by David Crosby in early ’68 during The Nice’s first U.S tour, and he was never the same again). Steve Howe, currently with Bodast, has tentative rehearsals with the remaining members but the results are unsatisfactory. Malcolm (or Gordon) Longstaffe performs O’List’s intended guitar parts on the second Nice album "Ars Longa Vita Brevis" and is briefly considered as a replacement for O’List but instead the group remains a trio.

• The Beatles film promo clips for their new single "Hey Jude"/ "Revolution".

• Ace Kefford re-emerges after his exit from The Move with his own group, The Ace Kefford Stand, which  includes drummer Cozy Powell and brothers Dave (guitar) and Dennis (bass) Ball. First date for the group is on the Speakeasy show on Radio 4 (Midlands).

• Caravan are living in tents outside the Village Hall in Graveney, Kent. They are using the Hall as a rehearsal space prior to cutting their debut album.

• Brian Jones is fined £50 plus £115 costs for drug possession. This is a great relief for Brian as he had expected a jail term following his previous drug conviction.

• The Koobas split up. Stu Leatherwood joins March Hare, guitarist Roy Morris lands a job with French based group The Alan Reeves Combo, bassist Keith West joins Van Der Graaf Generator and drummer Tony O’Reilly plays with Yes during the period when Bill Bruford temporarily quit  the group to attend university.

• The Barrier appear on the “World Surprise Show” in Tokyo (12th). They also play three concerts in Japan.

• BBCs "Colour Me Pop" features appearances by The Hollies (7th), The Moody Blues (14th), Unit 4 Plus 2 (21st)

• BBC TV "How It Is"-Moody Blues (6th), Status Quo (20th), Cat Stevens, Tyrannosaurus Rex (27th)  

• BBC2 TV "Esther & Abi Ofarim Show"- Donovan (20th), Scott Walker (27th)

• BBC2 TV "Nana Mouskouri Show"- Donovan (28th)

• Southern ITV “Time For Blackburn”-Terry Reid, Tangerine Peel (7th), Tremeloes, Honeybus (14th), Grapefruit, Dave Clark 5 (21st)

• BBC TV "Basil Brush Show"-The Move (6th)

• ATV “Goodbye Again”-Traffic, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity (14th)

• LWT TV “David Frost Show”-Status Quo (29th)

• German TV "Beat Club"-The Status Quo, The Hollies, The Nice (14th)

• BBC SESSIONS-Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll (30th, David Symonds), Jeff Beck Group (29th, Top Gear), Alan Bown (5th, Pop North--16th-20th, Jimmy Young), The Bunch (23rd-27th, Jimmy Young), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (2nd, Radio One O’Clock), The Bystanders (16th-20th, Jimmy Young), Casuals (23rd-27th, Dave Cash), Cupid's Inspiration (23rd-27th, Dave Cash), Cymbaline (16th-20th, Dave Cash-30th-4th Oct, Jimmy Young), The Epics (3rd-6th, Jimmy Young), Episode Six (16th-20th, Jimmy Young), Fairport Convention (1st, Top Gear), Family (7th, Saturday Club), Glass Menagerie (16th-20th, Dave Cash), Happy Magazine (2nd-6th, Stuart Henry-16th-20th, David Symonds-22nd, Stuart Henry), The Herd (12th, Pop North--21st, Saturday Club), Honeybus (12th, Pop North--15th, Top Gear-16th-20th, David Symonds-30th, Radio One O’clock), Idle Race (9th-13th, David Symonds--22nd, Top Gear--26th, Pop North), Kaleidoscope (7th, Saturday Club--9th-13th, Stuart Henry), Manfred Mann (3rd-6th, Jimmy Young), Marbles (23rd-27th, David Symonds),  Marmalade (2nd, ‘Coming Home’, a Bank Holiday Special-2nd-6th, Stuart Henry-9th-13th, Dave Cash--27th, Joe Loss Show-29th, Pete’s Sunday People-30th-4th Oct, Dave Cash), Mike Stuart Span (28th, Saturday Club), Mindbenders (23rd-27th, David Symonds), The Mirage (2nd-6th, Dave Cash), Montanas (9th-13th, David Symonds), Moody Blues (9th-13th, Jimmy Young--16th, Radio One O’Clock), The Move (16th-20th, Jimmy Young--20th, Joe Loss), New Formula (2nd-6th, Stuart Henry), Orange Bicycle (23rd-27th, Jimmy Young),  Procol Harum (8th, Top Gear), Peter Sarstedt (25th, Night Ride), Searchers  (23rd-27th, Jimmy Young), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (23rd-27th, Jimmy Young),  Spencer Davis Group (7th, Pete's People), Status Quo (5th, Pop North-23rd, Radio One O’clock), Al Stewart with backing by Giles, Giles & Fripp (18th, My Kind Of Folk), The Sweet (2nd-6th, Stuart Henry), Symbols (7th, Saturday Club--9th-13th, Dave Cash--16th-20th, David Symonds-30th-4th Oct, David Symonds), Tangerine Peel (2nd-6th, Stuart Henry-30th-4th Oct, Dave Cash), Timebox (2nd-6th, Dave Cash-16th-20th, Jimmy Young), Tremeloes (9th-13th, Jimmy Young--14th, Saturday Club--19th, Pop North--21st, Pete's people--30th-4th Oct, Dave Cash), Troggs (28th, Saturday Club)

WATCHING!

• Droitwich, Worcester-Bank Holiday Bluesology Festival (1st-2nd) including The Move, Fleetwood Mac, Chris Farlowe, Family, Breakthru, Skip Bifferty.

• Middle Earth (Roundhouse)-Pink Floyd (4th), Blossom Toes (6th), Blonde On Blonde (7th)-these two were the support acts for U.S heavyweights The Doors and Jefferson Airplane who played both nights, The Nice (11th), Small Faces, The Action, Barclay James Harvest, Love Sculpture, Bakerloo (13th), Scaffold, Pete Brown & Battered Ornaments, Ron Geesin, Terry Reid, Junior's Eyes,  David Bowie, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Gethsemane (14th) , Spooky Tooth (28th, supporting Canned Heat, but quite probably the group did not appear, as further press flyers state that Chicken Shack and Writing On The Wall provide support instead)

• Tiles Club, Oxford Street-The Symbols (14th), Simon Dupree & the Big Sound, Floribunda Rose (15th), The Ferris Wheel, Mike Stuart Span, The Workshop (16th), Tangerine Peel (17th), The Gass (20th).

• Klooks Kleek-UK Amboy Dukes (12th), Fleetwood Mac (17th), The Nice (24th)

• Marquee- House Of Lords (1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th), Traffic (3rd), East Of Eden (3rd, 17th), Eclection (4th, 11th), The Nice (5th, 19th), Joe Cocker (6th, 12th, 26th), Yes (6th, 19th, 28th), Spice (7th), Spencer Davis Group (10th), Terry Reid (10th), July (12th), Dream Police (14th, 21st, 28th), The Open Mind (14th), Family (17th), Fairport Convention (18th, 25th), Jethro Tull (20th), Love Sculpture (20th), Kippington Lodge (21st), Jeff Beck Group (24th), Granny’s Intentions (26th)

• Blaise’s-Yes (15th, 18th)

• Hatchett’s Playground-Cherry Smash (1st, 2nd), Orange Seaweed (4th), Wild Uncertainty (6th), Pepper (8th), Tuesday’s Children (10th, 21st), Circus (16th), Katch 22 (23rd), Tony Rivers & The Castaways (24th), The Mooche (25th, 26th)

• Manor House "Bluesville"- Ten Years After (13th), Taste (27th)

• Pink Flamingo-The Mooche (21st)  

• Scotch Of St James- Scrugg (7th, 14th, 27th, 28th)

• Hyde Park Free Concert (28th)-The Move, Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments, Roy Harper, Clouds.

• Beckenham Mistrale-Greatest Show On Earth (13th, 20th)

• Bexley Black Prince-Ten Years After (15th), Timebox (22nd)

• Birmingham, Crown-The Move (29th)

• Metro, Birmingham-Ten Years After (19th)

• Mothers, Birmingham-Family (7th), Gun (12th), Pink Floyd (13th), Bonzo Dog Band (14th), Battered Ornaments (17th), The Action (20th), Jethro Tull (21st), Blossom Toes (22nd), Deep Purple (27th), East Of Eden, Keef Hartley (28th), Joe Cocker (29th)

• Rhodes Centre, Bishop's Stortford-Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (23rd)

• Bolton Cromwelian- Scrugg (26th)

• Boreham Wood Links Club-The Move (28th)

• Boston Starlight Room-The Nice (7th), Amen Corner (14th), The Move (21st), The Epics (28th)  

• Bournemouth Ritz- The Nice (18th)

• Braintree Corn Exchange-Casuals (27th)

• Bridge Country Club, Nr Canterbury-Moody Blues (20th), Kinks (27th)

• Bromley, Bal Tabarin-Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (25th)

• Bee Hive, Canterbury-Caravan (25th)

• Chingford, Royal Forest Hotel-Gun (15th)

• Chesford, Coventry-Small Faces (3rd)

• Chester, Elms Court Ballroom-Casuals (21st)

• Fairfield Halls, Croydon-The Nice, Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity, Eclection, Spooky Tooth, Jethro Tull (Olympop!) (29th)

• Devizes Corn Exchange-Alan Bown (20th)

• Top Rank, Doncaster-The Herd (11th)  

• Dunfermline Kinema- The Poets (1st), The Stoics (7th, 15th), The Move (8th)

• Queen’s Hall, Dunoon-Pink Floyd (27th)

• California Ballroom, Dunstable-Timebox, Killing Floor (13th), The Nice (20th), Symbols (21^st), Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity (28^th)

• ABC, Edinburgh-Traffic (6th)

• Cook’s Ferry Inn, Edmonton-Skip Bifferty (16th), Yes (20th), Jethro Tull (23rd), Alan Bown (30th)

• Ewell Tech College-The Nice, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (28th)

• Lea’s Cliff Hall, Folkestone-The Herd (2nd)

• Tofts, Folkestone-Ten Years After (14th)

• Gillingham Aurora-Alan Bown (7th), Gethsemane (8th)

• Town Hall, Glastonbury-The Nice (21st)  

• Greaseborough Social Club- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (Cabaret week from 22nd)

• Hammersmith Folk Centre- Strawbs (26th)

• Hampstead Country Club-Family, Juniors Eyes (4th), Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (8th), Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (15th), Pretty Things (18th), Fairport Convention (22nd) , Deviants (25th), Strawbs (27th), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Blonde On Blonde (29th)

• Hanley, The Place-Idle Race (14th), Nashville Teens (18th), Unit 4 + 2 (25th)

• Hanley Top Rank-Manfred Mann (6th)

• Harlow Youth Centre-Alan Bown (12th)  

• Harrow Railway Hotel- Greatest Show On Earth (29th)

• Hemel Hempstead Pavilion-Casuals (25th)

• Hereford Hillside-Moody Blues (27th)

• High Wycombe Blues Loft- Black Cat Bones (13th)

• Holloway, Golden Star Club-Greatest Show On Earth (22nd)

• Horsham Capitol-Marmalade, Mike Stuart Span (27th)

• Manor Lodge, Ipswich-Traffic (2nd)

• Cromwellian Club, South Kensington-Timebox (7th, 18th), New Formula (14th, 16th, 21st), Katch 22 (19th)

• Maid’s Head, King’s Lynn-Yes (8th)  

• Leeds International Club- Greatest Show On Earth (28th)

• Leeds Queen’s Hall-Timebox , World Of Oz etc (1st)  

• London Cavendish Square, The Phoenix- John Martyn (30th)

• London, Les Cousins- John Martyn (4th, 11th, 18th, 25th), The Sallyangie, Gordon Giltrap (26th), Strawbs (28th)

• London Polytechnic-Timebox (28th)  

• London, Royal Festival Hall- Al Stewart, Fairport Convention etc (28th)

• Malvern Winter Gardens-Alan Bown (2nd)

• Magic Village, Manchester-Jethro Tull (7th), Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, Glass Menagerie (14th), Blossom Toes (21st)

• Manchester New Century Hall-The Move (21st)

• Dreamland, Margate-Yes (21st, 22nd)

• Crown Hotel, Marlowe-Yes (13th)

• Imperial Ballroom, Nelson-Traffic (7th)

• Norwich Gala-Alan Bown (21st)

• Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham-Ten Years After (22nd)

• Nottingham University-New York Public Library (14th)

• Van Dykes, Plymouth-Deep Purple (28th)  

• Ramsgate Supreme Ballroom- Greatest Show On Earth (27th)

• Redruth Flamingo-Casuals (28th)

• Richmond Athletic Club-Pink Floyd (4th), The Nice (11th), Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (18th), Taste (25th), Writing On The Wall (27th, supporting Canned Heat)

• Richmond Community Centre- Ralph McTell, Judy Dyble (27th)

• West End Club, Rushden-Yes (27th)

• Ryde IOW, Seagull-Cupids Inspiration (7th), Alan Bown (14th)

• St Albans City Hall-The Move (20th)  

• Salisbury, Alex's Disco- Ten Years After (21st)

• Scarborough Scene Two-Manfred Mann (13th)  

• Sheffield Top Rank- Amen Corner (25th)

• Southall, White Hart-Greatest Show On Earth (6th)  

• Southampton Concorde- Glass Menagerie (15th), Nite People (17th), Terry Reid's Fantasia (25th)

• Southampton Pavilion- Mojos, Fusion (12th)

• Southampton Top Rank- Nite People (20th)

• Streatham, Philippa Fawcett College-Alan Bown (27th)  

• Tavistock Town Hall- The Move (25th)

• Toby Jug, Tolworth-Traffic (4th), Ten Years After (18th)

• Eel Pie Island, Twickenham- The Action (4th), Moody Blues (11th), Gracious (14th, 28th), Family, Downliner's Sect (18th), Eclection, Village (25th)

• Wealdstone, Railway Hotel-Taste (24th), Greatest Show On Earth (29th)

• Welwyn Garden City Hop Festival-Greatest Show On Earth (7th)

• Winsford, Mr Smith’s-Greatest Show On Earth (21st)  

• Wokingham Masonic Hall- The Gods (15th), Tuesday's Children (29th)

• Wolverhampton Lafayette-The Cymbaline (21st)

• Fishmongers Arms, Woodgreen-The Nice, Geranium Pond (17th) , Blossom Toes (24th), Deviants (30th)

• Yeovil Liberal Club-Alan Bown (19th)

REVIEWS

Bee Gees

Idea (LP): A riot of big production numbers, heavily laden with strings and dripping emotion in almost every song. The overall effect is a little sombre although there are some nice little whimsical numbers to lighten the mixture. But let's not carp, the Bee Gees have produced another very good album; not their best, but still well into the top bracket.

Easybeats

Good Times: An exciting rock & roll rave-up that should restore their chart fortunes and impress upon the Mother country that hands across the sea these days also means a Commonwealth of jiving.

Five Day Week Straw People

Five Day Week Straw People (LP): Songs dedicated to describing the activities of a weekend raver. Flat voices and a dull group. Sounds like they had a boring weekend.

Marmalade

Wait For Me Mary-Anne: Mike Smith is being hailed as CBS' top producer with a string of hits behind him, including The Tremeloes and The Love Affair. Mike gave Marmalade their first hit with "Lovin' Things" and this new one, a Howard-Blaikley composition, should help establish them as more than one-hit normals.

Magic Mixture

This Is Magic Mixture (LP): Pretty awful group bashing out a variety of styles, presumably in an attempt to do a family album of good clean groupie music.

Nirvana

All Of Us: More pretty and inventive orchestral music including the great Rainbow Chaser.

Vamp

Floatin' : Amazing Viv Prince plays drums with The Vamp and is being a good boy these days. His drumming is well to the fore on this middle-paced, harmonica-ridden piece of funky blues 'n' ballad. 

Watch Committee

Throw Another Penny In The Wells: Another of those pretty nursery rhyme scenes that don't knock out hip fairies.

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