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Girls! Be adisc -jockeyon Radio 1How to try your luck : see back page

THAT'S the verdict ofmost Disc readers -

plus many other stars -when they were asked thisweek: should Mick Jaggerand Marianne Faithful! wednow that she expects a childby him?

One reader's view is: "Ifhe'd wanted to get marriedhe'd probably have done so bynow . . . he's probably fright-ened in case he loses his fans."

Read what people aresaying about the controversyon page 10.

It's big romance week!DOZY, of the Dave Dee group,announced his plans to marryhis childhood sweetheart. Fullstory: page 7.

HERMAN talks about hisbride-to-be, while a TREME-LOES wife talks about thelonely life of a singer's wife:page 11. And for any broken-hearted girls who think theirchances are all over, Disc spot-lights the eligible bachelors ofpop on page 19.

DISC's first exclusive colour picture ofthe new -look Love Affair who this weekcomplete a hat -trick of Top Ten hits as"A Day Without Love" leaps to No. 8 inthe chart. Left to right: (front) RexBrayley, Steve Ellis, Morgan Fisher; and(back) Maurice Bacon, Mick Jackson.Now turn to page 9 and see what theirex -organist Lynton Guest has to sayabout the new -look Love Affair !

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Proby now sporting ex -convict beard and convictdenim uniform. Why? "Well,how do you think people treatme over here." Jacket hasmystery numbers 98.4-8. It's thetemperature and the last figureshows how much it goes upwhen he sees a Swedish girl!

DIDN'T Jimmy Young losehis chirpy cool the other

day when his technicians spunthe wrong side of Mary Hop -kin's hit? It's happened before,mainly because the Apple labelwas published the wrong sideround on deejay copies and ourJim snapped angrily over theair: "Now, come on, fellows,get it right this time."

Lionel Bart and "Hair"director Tom O'Horgan plan-ning a show together.

Long John Baldry kept uphis habit of missing planes lastFriday . . . to Amsterdam.

Koobas, who split up lastmonth, have all been found newgroups: Roy Morris has landedthe best job, with French -basedgroup Alan Reeves Combo withwhom he is to get nearly £150per week. Stu Leatherwood hasjoined March Hare; TonyO'Reilly is with Yes, managedby former Speakeasy host RoyFlynn; Keith Ellis is withunderground -group Van DerGraaf Generator, which isactually English.

Ace producer Denny Cordellindignant about last week'sstory that Joe Cocker's new hitcost him £2,000 to make. "Itdoesn't say much for myabilities as a producer if thatwas the best job I could do for£2,000., In fact it cost about£800."

Amazing-the confrontationbetween Mrs. Mary Whitehouseand "Call me Mick, dear"Jagger on David Frost's TVshow on Saturday.

Watch out for the Loco-motives: first British groupwe've heard with the ElectricFlag/"psychedelic soul" sound,they played some really nicestuff (including Spirit's "FreshGarbage" and a fine version ofDylan's "I Shall Be Released,"as well as original material) atLondon's 100 Club.

Lee Hazlewood, who duettedwith Nancy Sinatra on "Jack-son," eager to make record withMama Cass.

Record producer Ton yPalmer, back from New York,claims "underground" music isdead-and the next big thing isfolk. Laura Nyro and Janis Ian,he says, are huge. And Donovanis "God."

French Vogue label's AlainBoublil establishing a base inLondon to discover and pro-mote new talent. First big suc-cess is in America with Bri-tain's Don Fardon-in the USTop 20 with "Indian Reserva-tion."

Peddlers have been signed byVidal Sassoon to model his newmale fashion lines. They willwear many of his creations ontheir cabaret and TV dates; andwill open his new shop in NewYork next month when they flyover to promote their latest LP"Three In A Cell."

CORDON Mills now record-ing another of his "clan"-

"The Face," otherwise knownas Troy Dante.

Middle-aged lady at TomJones' tour first night, seen toremove her false hair andthrow it on stage!

Leapy Lee now has his ownbacking group-Pepper.

Status Quo proud owners ofa Lincoln Continental-gettingtheir own back at Leapy Lee'sCad il lac?

First record by Steve Row-lands, who produced "The DayLorraine Came Down" forP. J. Proby, was "Blueprint OfAn Angel," produced by . . .

P. J. Proby!Lulu, whose fans are driving

her out of her house: "If I getup on a Sunday morning, pinmy hair up and put my bathcap on so that I look a realfright, I open the windows andthere are the kids standingdown below staring at me."

Keith Skues calls it "LesBicyclettes de Belsize, N.W.6!"

They predict a hit for SusanMaughan's new single.

Why Radio l's heavy plug-ging for Billie Davis's weaksingle?

Wasn't Grapefruit GeorgeAlexander having a rippingtime in London's RevolutionClub last week?

Incredible version of BeeGees' "To Love Somebody" onforthcoming Marbles LP.

Fugs, who created an uttersensation on their all too briefvisit last week, may be backsooner than anyone could ex-pect-to do a genuine stageshow! Wowie zowie!

MOM Jones and EngelbertHumperdinck are really

only "Singing English cow-boys" according to hit producerLee Hazlewood. "I don't be-lieve they'd actually talk theway they sing!" he says.

Although he wrote 39 songsfor Duane Eddy about tenyears ago, it wasn't until NancySinatra's "Boots" that Ameri-can Lee Hazlewood reallygained bigtime recognition.

In the States, Joe Cockerrecorded Traffic's "Feelin' Al-right" backed by the Raelettes.Joe also being considered byproducer Jack Good for a partin his "Othello" pop stagemusical.

Della Reese, here to tourwith Tom Jones, is the latestquality singer to turn her talentto TV acting. Following in thefootsteps of Nancy Wilson andDiahann Carroll she plays anight club owner in an episodeof American TV series "TheMod Squad." "But I doubt ifI'll win an Academy Award!"she says.

David Jacobs thinks MaryHopkin's voice resembles RubyMurray's.

Keith Moon obviously isn'teating the weight - watchers'breakfast.

LULU, w h o accompaniedLionel Bart to the premiere

of his film "Oliver" was soknocked out by it that she's go-ing to record one of the songs-"Where Is Love."

Arthur Brown was enragedlast week when he arrived inBelgium to do a TV film andfound they had hired a fire sta-tion and wanted to set himalight in front of it.

Marbles nearly killed them-selves in Vienna when they hadto be filmed climbing roundan oil refinery. They still _can'tthink of the connection be-tween the setting and theirsingle "Only One Woman."

Keith Skues now proudowner of Skuesmobile II, Sun-beam Rapier successor toSkuesmobile I which met anuntimely end on Blackheath.

Vanity Fare horrified whentheir vans suffered non-existentbrakes and demolished a garagein Scotland last week. "Good,"said the owner. "I wanted thatdown ANYWAY!"

Tiny Tim's new single is a.gas gas gas.

It's truly amazing, agreed butbelieve it or not the top -sellingLP in the States is "CheapThrills" by Big Brother and theHolding Company. And so itshould be!1111111111111111111111

1 -ION Partridge feeling very humble. In the "GuinnessBook of Records" he's foundthe biggest one -band in theworld. "50 oboes, 150 flutes,three bass drums and four tim-pani-and it was built in 1774."

Don also raving about theJimmy Crawford Four; hopesto produce a record by them.

BATLEY Variety Club bossJim Corrigan not revealing

his fee for Eartha Kitt afteradmitting £26,000 wages for re-cent Louis Armstrong visit.

Unbelievable - but - true: Sixmonths ago Terry Reid-cur-rently one of the hits of theScott Walker tour-failed aBBC programme audition.

Nottingham group Sons AndLovers played for nothing dur-ing the city's recent Goose Fair-to raise funds for the famousNottingham Playhouse theatre.

Mexican Pepe Jaramillo hashad his Olympic theme tune"Mexico, Mexico, Mexico"turned down by the BBC infavour of a composition byGerman composer Horst Jan-kowski.

Who's Roger Daltrey looksa little like Apple's TerryDoran.

"Boots" hit writer Lee Hazle-wood regularly visits his chil-dren in Paris where they are atschool-"They're majoring inrioting," he jokes.

New group Writing On TheWall sound completely originaland quite mind-blowing.

Best news of the month forArthur Brown addicts-VincentCrane, the organ maestro, isthinking of re -joining the CrazyWorld.

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CHART TOPPERI (I) THOSE WERE THE DAYS...Mary Hopkin,

Apple2 (2) JESAM I NE Casuals, Decca3 (3) HEY JUDE .Beatles, Apple4 (4) LITTLE ARROWS Leapy Lee, MCA5 (11) MY LITTLE LADY Tremeloes, CBS6 (5) LADY WILLPOWER Gary Puckett and the

Union Gap, CBS7 (14) A LES BICYCLETTES DE BELSIZE

Engelbert Humperdinck, Decca8 (12) A DAY WITHOUT LOVE Love Affair, CBS9 (10) THE RED BALLOON...Dave Clark Five, Columbia

10 (8) CLASSICAL GAS... Mason Williams, Warner Bros.

Silver Disc for 250,000 British sales This week's TOP 30 Zoomers

II (22) A THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY..Hugo Montenegro, RCA Victor12 (6) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash, Regal Zonophone13 (15) ICE IN THE SUN Status Quo, Pye14 (20) A LIGHT MY FIRE Jose Feliciano, RCA Victor15 (24) A LISTEN TO ME Hollies, Parlophone16 (27) A THE WRECK OF THE ANTOINETTE

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, Fontana17 (18) HELLO, I LOVE YOU Doors, Elektra18 (28) A ONLY ONE WOMAN Marbles, Polydor19 (9) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Aretha Franklin, Atlantic20 (7) I GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU Bee Gees, Polydor21 (-) WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

Joe Cocker, Regal Zonophone22 (21) MARIANNE Cliff Richard, Columbia23 (13) DO IT AGAIN Beach Boys, Capitol24 (16) DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME

Mama Cass with the Mamas and Papas, RCA Victor25 (23) I LIVE FOR THE SUN Vanity Fare, Page One26 (19) HIGH IN THE SKY Amen Corner, Deram27 (30) THE WEIGHT The Band, Capitol28 (26) HELP YOURSELF Tom Jones, Decca29 (17) ON THE ROAD AGAIN Canned Heat, Liberty30 (-) SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE Cream, Polydor

AMERICAN TOP 20 AND TOP TEN ALBUMSCHARTS: PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 4

HIT TALKbyCASUALJOHNTEBB

Doors notas good asthe Kinks

I'M REALLY glad the Marbles havegot into the charts. I'm knocked outby the record-that singer reallyhas got an outstanding voice hasn'the?

I must admit that when I firstheard Leapy Lee it didn't makeany impression, but I like it now-I like Country and Western.

Mary Hopkin? I like the record,it's very nice. I think the backing isfantastic-it's like the backing outof a Popeye cartoon and then a bitfurther on it sounds like Walt Disney.

The Dave Clark Five record is astomper. I heard the RaymondFroggatt version the other day and Ididn't like it so much. I like MikeSmith shouting in it.

I hate the Doors record. TheKinks did that sort of thing a longtime ago which was great, and theDoors bring it out now which is aload of rubbish, and nowhere nearas good as the Kinks.

I like the Status Quo record.Marty Wilde is a great song writer,and I'm glad for him that it got intothe charts.

I don't like Hugo Montenegro'sversion of "The Good, The Bad andthe Ugly," perhaps it's because I

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I (I) HEY JUDE Beatles, Apple2 (3) FIRE Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atlantic3 (4) LITTLE GREEN APPLES 0. C. Smith, Columbia4 (2) HARPER VALLEY P.T.A.....leannie C. Riley, Plantation5 (5) GIRL WATCHER O'Kaysions, ABC6 (6) MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS Grassroots, Dunhill7 (7) MY SPECIAL ANGEL Vogues, Reprise8 (8) I'VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU

Bee Gees, Atco9 (9) OVER YOU Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Columbia10 (14) SAY IT LOUD (I'm Black and I'm Proud)

James Brown and His Famous Flames, KingII (II) TIME HAS COME TODAY

Chambers Brothers Columbia12 (17) SUZIE @ Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy13 (18) THOSE WERE THE DAYS Mary Hopkin, Apple14 (24) ELINORE Turtles, White Whale15 (19) PIECE OF MY HEART

Big Brother and the Holding Company, Columbia16 (10) SLIP AWAY Clarence Carter, Atlantic17 (15) REVOLUTION Beatles, Apple18 (28) HEY, WESTERN UNION MAN

Jerry Butler, Mercury,I9 (38) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash, Jad120 (29) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

Jimi Hendrix, RepriseL

I (I) HOLLIES GREATEST HITS Hollies, Parlophone2 (2) LIVE AT THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Seekers, Columbia3 (3) BOOKENDS Simon and Garfunkel, CBS4 (8) BOOGIE WITH CANNED HEAT

Canned Heat, Liberty5 (4) DELILAH Tom Jones, Decca6 (6) WHEELS OF FIRE (Double Album) Cream, Polydor7 (10) IDEA Bee Gees, Polydor8 (7) IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD

Moody Blues, Deram9 (5) SOUND OF MUSIC Soundtrack, RCA Victor

10 (12) WAITING FOR THE SUN Doors, ElektraII (9) MR WONDERFUL Fleetwood Mac, Blue Horizon12 (I I) A MAN WITHOUT LOVE

Engelbert Humperdinck, Decca(13) ARETHA NOW Aretha Franklin, Atlantic(19) JUNGLE BOOK Soundtrack, Disneyland(16) THIS IS SOUL Various Artists, Atlantic(17) JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON

Johnny Cash, CBS(15) THE GRADUATE Soundtrack, CBS(-) SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN

Leonard Cohen, CBS(17) IMMORTAL OTIS REDDING..Otis Redding, Atlantic(-) THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

Soundtrack, United Artists

BEATLES GOON HOLIDAYBEATLES' new double album-still untitled-is now complete . . . and to celebrate,the group all disappeared this week forseparate holidays.

George Harrison flew to New York to joinJackie Lomax, there promoting his Apple single"Sour Milk Sea"; Paul and John were reportedto have gone on holiday "somewhere," andthe Ringo Starr family departedfor destination unknown.

The album, which as alreadyreported contains 24 titles and isdue for release in mid -November,has taken five months to com-plete.

Ringo has been signed forhis second solo film role . . . in"Magic Christian," a comedystarring Peter Sellers. Film will be

Peter Sellers - stars withRingo

produced by Denis O'Dell whoonly recently left Apple Films togo independent, and the scripthas been written by TerrySouthern, partly responsible forthe script of Ringo's other film"Candy", in which he starredopposite Sellers' estranged wifeBritt Ekland.

JOE COCKER: at Albert Hall with Tiny Tim

0. C. SMITH'S new singlewill be his American smash,"Little Green Apples," origin-ally a hit in this country forRoger Miller six months ago.It is O.C.'s follow-up to "MainStreet Mission" and the hit,"Son Of Hickory Holler'sTramp," and among new re-leases for October 25. Othersingles are:

Anita Harris-"Le Blon."The Gun - "Race With The

Engelbert's24 -city tourENGELBERT Humperdinck'snext British concert tour is nowset for March 1969, and will takein at least 24 different major cities.

Other artists on the bill are yetto be signed, but Engelbert'sbacking group will be augmentedby strings and brass, and the ac-cent of the show is likely to be onvariety, possibly on similar linesto his recent Blackpool summerseason.

Engel, who returns fromAmerica on Saturday, takes aweek's break before opening atLondon's "Talk Of The Town"restaurant on October 28 for fourweeks.

On December 1 he returns toAmerica for TV shows in NewYork and Los Angeles, and thenflies to Rhodesia with managerGordon Mills for a Christmasholiday before opening a three-week South Africa tour onJanuary 6.

A new Engelbert Humper-dinck album-his fourth-is dueout in time for Christmas.

Every Tom Jones tour seat sold!EVERY single ticketsold . that's thelatest news in the TomJones' success story.

Tom, currently tour-ing Britain with DellaReese, Charlie Callasand the Ted Heath Or-chestra, learned thisweek that every singleconcert was a completesell-out - the first time

this has happened on aRank theatre tour sincethe height of Beatle-mania.

And in Glasgow lastSaturday ticket toutswere asking £20 for 25 -shilling seats!

The tour, which playstwo more London con-certs at the Palladiumthis Sunday, ends on

November 3 at Birm-ingham Odeon.

A Clive Westlake(Dusty Springfield's hitwriter) song, "Butter-fly," is strongly tippedto be Tom's next single,due out the first orsecond week in Decem-ber. And a new JonesLP is due for release at

the same time.Tom is likely to spend

the whole of 1969 inLondon, telerecording26 TV spectaculars forAmerica. A specialshow based round Tomis also planned for TVshowing in Britain atChristmas, though nodetails are yet known.

O.C.'s `Apples'hit hereDevil."

Springfield Park - "Never AnEveryday Thing."

Lionel Bart-"Isn't This WhereWe Came inP'

Episode Six-"Lucky Sunday."Paul Nero Sounds-"Hang 'em

High."Stewpot and the Save the Chit-

Trems and Tonylaunch new `club'TREMELOES and Tony Black-burn are star guests when the"Radio One Club" opens itsLondon Regent Street doors forthe first time next Monday. Thetwo-hour show, which replaces"Midday Spin" and the "live"lunchtime shows, will be hostedby "Saturday Club" man KeithSkues.

Comperes and guests for therest of the first week are: Tues-day-Johnny Moran with DaveDee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tichand Tony Brandon; Wednesday-Dave Lee Travis with Bonzo DogDoo-Dah Band and Chris Den-ning; Thursday-Stuart Henrywith the Crazy World Of ArthurBrown and Ed Stewart; and Fri-day-Pete Drummond with JulieDriscoll, the Brian Auger Trinityand David Symonds.

Tiny in MiamiTINY TIM - who arrives inBritain for his Royal Albert Hallcharity concert next week-hasbeen signed for his highest -everfee.

He plays a week-long cabaretseason at Miami's FontainbleauHotel in Florida this Christmasfor a reported £55,000 fee.

During his London visit specialTiny Tim flags will be flown fromthe roof of the "Playboy" clubwhere he's staying and on thefront of the car he will use.

RADIO Caroline, using formerCaroline South ship the "MiAmigo," and headed by DJSpangles Muldoon, rumoured tobe returning to the air on Christ-mas Day.

dren Fund Choir - "I Like MyToys."

Louis Armstrong - "Top Hat.White Tie and Tails."

John Hanson-"My Song Of LoveFor You."

Susan Maughan - "Cable CarFor Two."

Los R o y al es Paragyos -"Mexico.''

Clinton Ford-"The Sound OfGoodbye."

James Brown-"Say It Out LoudI'm Black And I'm Proud."

Otis Reddingi-"Champagne AndWine."

One LP: Mason Williams-"ThemPoems."

Artist Maureen with LA on canvas

Long John

for `Gulliver'-LONG JOHN Baldry is to playhis first straight acting part in thetitle role of the Mermaid Theatre'sChristmas production, "Gulliver'sTravels," in London.

There is no singing in the pro-duction, which is being directedby Sean Kenny and presentedjointly by Bernard Miles andAndrew Oldham.

Baldry, who flies out on Mon-day for promotional visits toAmerica and the Mexico OlympicGames, has been reproduced life-size on canvas by record producerMike Leander's wife, Maureen,who has previously painted MartinLuther King, Ravi Shankar,Esther and Abi Ofarim andSandie Shaw.

"Mexico," his new single, soldover 3,000 copies on Monday, thefirst "shopping day" since theopening of the Olympic Games.

JOE: A HIT

WITH HELP

FROM FRIENDSby Caroline Boucher

THREE MONTHS ago at an Albert Hall charity concerta relatively -unknown artist took the show by storm. Hewas Joe Cocker, who, after a ten-minute build-up by com-pere Tony Hall, stepped on to the stage and stole the showwith his version of "With A Little Help From My Friends."

At the end of this month Joe reappears at the Albert Hallon the bill for the Tiny Tim charity concert. He will probablysing that song again and receive the same thunderous applause-because it has established him in this country and is cur-rently at 21 in the chart.

Joe, 23-year-old ex -butcher from Sheffield, started his career inshow business one Saturday morning when he knocked on recordpromotion man Tony Hall's door in London and asked him toplay a demo disc of "Marjorine." This turned out to be his firstsingle in April, and although a comparative "flop," it got plentyof airplay and was the start of big things for Joe.

"We held a reception for Joe when `Marjorine' was out," saysTony Hall. "We had to practically kidnap people and drag themto it. But Joe closed the show by singing 'With A Little HelpFrom My Friends,' and it caused such a sensation with everyonethere that we knew it had to be his next single."

Now Joe is looking for material for a Christmas album and anew single. The album-probably called "With A Little HelpFrom My Friends"-will include songs by Bob Dylan, Lovin'

Spoonful, Ray Charles and theTraffic's "Fee lin' Alright," whichhe recorded in America re-cently hacked by Ray Charles'Raelets. It will also includesome of Joe's own composi-tions. Record producer, DennyCordell, says there will beno more Lennon -McCartneynumbers.

At present playing datesaround the country, Joe will bedoing two "pilot" shows for apackage tour with the Who andthe Crazy World Of ArthurBrown. These are at Waltham -stow Granada (November 8),and Slough Astoria (9). If asuccess, the package tour ideawill continue in the New Year.

TrafficstandstillTRAFFIC will do no more "live"dates in Britain until Febtuarynext year. Instead, they plan tospend the next few months work-ing on another album.

But in February the group-again three-piece now Dave Masonhas quit for good-plans a seriesof selected appearances aroundBritain, probably with one ormore star American acts.

A spokesman for the group toldDisc: "They will do the datesbetween completing the LP,

.around January, and going to theStates for eight weeks from endof March.

"Stevie Winwood wants to playclub dates again and the boys willalso probably set up shows inplaces like London, Birminghamand Manchester. And they hopeto book top American names toappear with them."

Reports that Dave Mason-nowin America-might be joining theNice as replacement for guitaristDave O'List have been stronglydenied.

Cat Stevens inhospital rushCAT STEVENS was rushed tohospital last week with suspectedpneumonia.

Cat, who only recently returnedto pop after being seriously ill withTB, was kept in hospital over theweekend for observation and dis-charged on Monday.

He has been advised by doctorsto rest as much as possible in thenext month.

Peter Frampton: 'no business link'

Frampton

joins Faces!SPECULATION that the Herdand Small Faces were on the pointof a business merger wasstrengthened this week by HerdPeter Frampton's unexpected ap-pearance at a Small Faces concertlast Sunday.

Faces, appearing with DJ DaveEager at Manchester's Belle VueTop Ten Club, went onstage fortheir 35 -minute spot and the audi-ence was amazed to see Frampton"sitting -in" on guitar. As well asplaying throughout the Faces' spot,Frampton also sang with SteveMarriott on "Tin Soldier" and"All Or Nothing."

Rumours in the past linking theFaces with the Herd have sug-gested that the Herd were joiningImmediate (Faces' record label)and that the Faces had producedthe Herd's current single "Sun-shine Cottage."

Said Peter Frampton this week:"The Small Faces and the Herdare simply good friends. I wentup to Manchester to see the groupand was persuaded to sit-in withthem.

"There is no likelihood of anylink between the two groups on abusiness basis."

And Steve Marriott added:"Peter and I are good mates, andwe thought it would be a bit of aloon if he played with us thatnight."

Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968

BEACH BOYS NE' FOR NEW

LOOK BiACKBURN TVSPECTACULARS on the Beach Boys, Kinks and Bee Gees; "Revived 45" spots with groupslike Manfred Mann with Paul Jones and Peter and Gordon; request spots; new faces neverseen on TV; jam sessions with top men from different groups; and regular spots from Lon-don's famous "Revolution" club ... these are just some of producer Mike Mansfield's ambitiousplans for the new look "Time For Blackburn" show, which is nationally networked this week.

Show will now be screened by Southern, Ulster, Grampian and Scottish on Saturday; Tyne Teesand Border on Monday; and London Weekend, Harlech and Anglia the following Friday.

First show for London, including Who, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, Dave ClarkFive, John l'ialker, Long John Baldry and newcomer Heath Hampstead will therefore be screenedon October 25 at the old "Ready, Steady, Go!" time.

Producer Mike Mansfield spoke to Disc of his plans:"Tony Blackburn and the production team will be travelling with the Bee Gees on their train

through their German tour, anda special show will be builtround them, with interviews,off -duty shots and 'live' songsfrom their concerts.

"There are several groupswho can do so much more thanjust plug their latest record, andI want to get away from the`plug show' formula, which isso predictable.

"I shall be doing a wholeshow with the Kinks, possiblyusing one other top artist tosing a Ray Davies' song-andthe Beach Boys will have theirown show from the studio,doing both old surfing hits andtheir new material.

"This show will be seen inLondon on December 13.

"I also want to introduce a'Revived 45' spot. There are somany fantastic records, whichjust get forgotten after twomonths. I'm hoping to bringPaul Jones and the Manfredstogether to sing one of theirold hits-and Peter and Gor-don. Also songs like "SilenceIs Golden" by the Tremeloes,and old Dusty Springfield hitsare worth hearing again.

"There will be a regular re -

Fans miss Scottafter bomb scareBOMB SCARE at Chesterfield's ABCtheatre last Saturday night robbed hundredsof fans of the chance to see Scott Walkeron his current British tour. Police clearedthe theatre after a hoax telephone callduring the Paper Dolls' act-and theaudience went home disappointed.

It happened about 10 p.m. during thesecond house of the show. The first-half,with the Gun, Terry Reid and Cupid's In-spiration, had finished and as the PaperDolls opened the second half police an-nounced that the theatre was to be cleared.And the audience of over 1,000 was orderedto leave, without seeing Scott-the lastact of the show.

Said Scott's manager, Maurice King,"Scott was very disappointed, but therewas nothing that could be done." their money back.

A spokesman for ABC at their "The circumstances are beyondLondon headquarter told Disc on our control," he said. "We havesMonday that so far there had not our own expenses to cover. It was Chris Andrews song "Toy"-re-been many requests by fans for clearly a hoax." leased either November 15 or 22.

Gee, has won his fight to keep Bee Gee Robin GibROBIN GIBB, the rebellious Bee -

his hair on. He defied a demandby his manager, Robert Stig-wood, that he cut his long hair

Paper doll Copper: opened act

quest spot from viewers on theshow and at least one new faceevery week. There are so manygood artists who never get aTV show. 'Time For Black-burn' wants to change that. JoeCocker's only TV show for`Marjorine' was our programme.

"I also want to arrange jam

Casuals' calumny

and now Stigwood has given upthe struggle. But he still hasn'tgiven up his other struggle-topersuade Cream against splittingup at the end of the year.

He returned from seeing Creamin the States last week and said:"I have not made any progressas yet in my attempts to preventthe Cream from splitting, so theircurrent American tour can still beregarded as their farewell tour,but I am going back shortly todiscuss it again with them."

Before flying to the States lastweek, Stigwood had told RobinGibb: "Get your hair cut beforeI return in a week's time or therewill be trouble!" But when he

discovered this week that Robinhad ignored the order, Stigwoodsaid: "I have given up. If hefeels so strongly about it, thenokay, let him keep his hair as itis."

St i g w o o d, meanwhile, hasscrapped plans to hire a caravanconvoy for the tour of Germanyin November. Instead, Bee Geeswill now live in the train used bythe Queen and Beatles on theirvisits to Germany. It will sleepthe group and security men insidings after each concert. Theneed for the train was caused by

CASUALS are the toast of theirhometown of Lincoln today(Thursday). The "Jesamine" boys-still at No. 2 in the chart-break their dates on the ScottWalker tour and become V.I.P.guests at a special civic receptionin their honour.

They will attend a champagnebuffet luncheon hosted by theMayor and Mayoress of Lincolnand go on a personally -conductedtour of the city's Guildhall.

Casuals found themselves insomething of a calamity last weekwhen guitarist Alan "Plug"Taylor was stranded in Newcastlewithout the rest of the group dur-ing the Scott Walker tour.

Explained Decca promotionman Selwyn Turnbull: "Ap-parently he'd spent most of thenight with the local police-help-ing with inquiries into a roadaccident he'd witnessed. And whenhe got back to the hotel he foundhis room had been switched.

"Consequently the next morn-ing the rest of the boys foundhe wasn't in his room, assumedhe'd left with the tour coach-and went off in the van to Bir-mingham without him!"

"1 had to wire him £30 cash,"added Selwyn. "Because he hadno money at all-and couldn'tget a train, plane or bus to Bir-mingham."

"Plug" eventually travelled bytaxi from Newcastle to Birming-ham and arrived in time for theshow's second house. CasualsHoward, Bob and John went on-stage as a trio for the first show.

Casuals' follow-up to "Jesa-mine" will now definitely be the

refusal of 31 hotels to book theBee Gees following several fanriots when they last toured Ger-many early this year.

Bee Gees, who return today(Thursday) from Vienna, plan torecord a new single next week,although it will not be releaseduntil January. "We were in toomuch of a hurry to release singlesin the past, so we're deliberatelydelaying this new one," says BarryGibb.

Their German tour opens inBremen on October 31 and lastsuntil November 30.

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CUPID'S Inspiration leadguitarist Wyndham Georgeand bass player LaughtonJames have quit because of adifference in musical tasteswith the rest of the group.

New lead guitar is 22 -year -old Bernie Lee, from NorthWales, who has been play-ing with London group Um-brella: Gordon Haskell, 21,takes over on bass. A song-writer, Gordon has beenaccompanist with FlowerpotMen. The new line-up ap-pears on the Scott Walkertour at Slough Adelphi to-night (Thursday).

Group's manager, AshleyKozak, told Disc: "Thischange in line-up cameabout because of a differencein musical tastes. Wyndhamand Laughton want to playmore blues material, whilethe rest of the group wantto expand the range of theirmusic and appeal to a farwider audience. The split hasbeen an amicable one."

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Tony Blackburn: travelling on Bee Gees train in Germany

Aretha herein JanuaryJOE TEX and his full band; Samand Dave; Arthur Conley; andnew Atlantic sensation ClarenceCarter . . . these are some of thenames set for the 1968 Soul Pack-age show, now due to tour Eng-land and the Continent in lateNovember/early December.

Says Atlantic's British bossFrank Fenter: "These artists havetold me they want to come toEurope to tour, and we're justlooking for a girl singer to com-plete the bill."

Aretha Franklin will nowdefinitely return to Europe for hersecond tour in January and Febru-ary of next year.

"She has kept this time free foranother tour," said Fenter, "andthe British part of the tour willinclude concerts in London andseveral provincial cities, althoughno dates are yet fixed."

WHO, ARTHUR, SMALL FACESJOE COCKER TOUR DATES

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SMALL FACES have now been added to the mini -tour of Britain nextmonth already starring the Who, Arthur Brown and Joe Cocker. Butthe Faces and Cocker will only appear at certain venues.

A "pilot" show for the tour-starring the Who and Arthur Brown,plus the Alan Bown and Elmer Gantry-Is being held at London'sLyceum tomorrow (Friday) night.

Full dates for the mini -tour without Small Faces are:WALTHAMSTOW Granada

(November 8). ARTHUR BROWN - God ofSLOUGH Adelphi (9). Hellfire, hailed in America as aBRISTOL Colston Hall (10)- flourishing new poet-is to turn

without Joe Cocker. author, with his first "book" outFaces join the package at Glas- at Christmas. It has no title-

gow Playhouse on November 13 just a picture on the front covet,and then appear at Newcastle and contains sixty-five pages ofMayfair (14), a venue to be fixed writing and poetry by Arthur, as(16), Liverpool Empire (17), and well as bits of music, tapes andBirmingham City Hall (18). pictures.

The Who stage their own "It's the first multi -media book"Magical Mystery Tour" around that can't really be called aLondon tomorrow (Friday) to book," says Arthur. "You've gotpromote their new single. to understand the music to under -

Group has hired a 100 -year -old stand the writings, the paintingsopen - top London Transport and the poetry. They're all inter -double -decker which will tour the related."streets from the junction of Por- On Friday, the Crazy World'schester Place and Bayswater Road original organist, Vince Crane,(11 a.m.) via Oxford Street, rejoined the group, and playedRegent Street, Shaftesbury with them for the first time inAvenue, Trafalgar Square, Fleet three months at a date in Shef-Street, Holborn, Shaftesbury field. Vince left the group due toAvenue, Haymarket, Pall Mall, illness when it returned from itsPiccadilly, Knightsbridge, Sloane first American tour in July, andStreet-and ending in Chelsea was replaced on a "stand-in"Kings Road about 1.30 p.m. basis by Pete Shelley.

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ACE producer Jack Good'smammoth TV spectacular star-ring Lulu, Julie Driscoll, theBrian Auger Trinity and a hostof pop names will now be net-worked nationally by YorkshireTV on October 26.

The programme, which is nowtitled "Master Of Pop-Innocence,Anarchy and Soul," runs for 45minutes and will be screenedduring the early part of theevening.

Jack Good returned to Americalast week to work on plans forhis forthcoming British stage pre-sentation of a pop "Othello."

Union Gap tourGARY Puckett and the Union

Gap-their "Lady Willpower" isat No. 6 this week - are nowdefinitely set for a three-weekconcert tour of Britain for pro-moter Arthur Howes early in theNew Year.

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DISCNEWS

IN BRIEFWHO made their first British ap-pearance since returning fromAmerica at London's Roundhouselast weekend and were mobbedby hundreds of fans. Theirscheduled 45 -minute spot lastedfor an hour and 40 minutes!MANFRED MANN, David Gar-.rick, Roger Whittaker, and maybeGene Pitney, appear at the"Coupe D'Europe Musicale 1968"in Innsbruck, Austria, this Satur-day (October 19). In London thisweek Manfreds had to abandonone song during their recordingsession - because Manfred's falsetooth kept falling out when' hesang!SHOWSTOPPERS are star guestson "Saturday Club," introducedby Keith Skues, next Saturday(October 26).JULIE DRISCOLL, Brian AngelTrinity, David Ackles and Eclec-tion guest on John Peel's "TopGear" next Sunday (October 27).MARMALADE, Joe Cocker,Fifth Dimension, Easybeats, RolyDaniels and Jason Cord are amongguests on the "David SymondsShow" for week commencingOctober 28.TROGGS, Searchers, SwingingBlue Jeans, Vanity Fare andGulliver's People are live guestson the "Jimmy Young Show" forweek beginning October 28.CANNED HEAT'S new single -"Going Up Country"-is due forrelease November 8. It is an oldtraditional song featuring Al Wil-son as vocalist.INCREDIBLE STRING BAND'Snew LP on November 1 will be a"double" offer titled "Wee TamAnd The Big Huge" and priced at79s. 10d.-but both albums willbe available individually. Incred-ible start a short British tour atManchester Free Trade Hall to-morrow, Friday (18), followed byBirmingham (25), Liverpool (26),Nottingham (30), Brighton (No-vember 1) and London RoyalAlbert Hall (2).WILSON PICKE'FT makes a shortpromotional trip to Britain inearly February for radio and TVfor his new single, "I Found ATrue Love" out on November 1.MAGIC LANTERNS, whosesingle, "Shame, Shame," _hasbroken into the American chartthis week at 81, are being set fora 30 -city tour of the U.S. inNovember. They are currently re-cording an album for America.

Wilson Pickett: here in February

BILLIE DAVIS, chart -bound withher revival of "I Want You (ToBe My Baby)," is to make her firstalbum next month, to be producedby Michael Aldred. Despite beingin the business several years, thisis the first LP from Billie, whohas formed a new three-piecebacking group, Phoenix, which re-places Kippington Lodge.RASCALS, formerly Young Ras-cals, make their first British tourto promote a new single, in Jan-uary next year.CHUCK BERRY is now set bypromoter Roy Tempest for amajor British ballroom tour fromJanuary 17-26 next year.INEZ and Charlie Fox; whostart a three-week ballroom tourfrom October 31, are guests on"Eamonn Andrews Show" (Nov-ember 14).

YARDBIRDS will change theirname to Lead Zeppelin next week-by courtesy of Who's KeithMoon.

Group decided to change theirname when only one of theoriginal line-up - lead guitaristJimmy Page-was left. During dis-cussions Keith suggested LeadZeppelin.

Jose Feliciano visit hitch

Jose Feliciano's firstconcert tour of Britain- set for next spring -may be in jeopardybecause of his guidedog.

Jose, 22 - year - old blindPuerto Rican singer/guitar-ist, travels everywhere withhis "seeing eye" dog, Trudy.British regulations state thatany animal entering Britainis liable to quarantine laws

for a minimum period oftime.

Last year, when Jose washere for recording sessionsand a TV appearance, Trudywas kept in special kennelsthroughout the visit andJose travelled into the coun-try every day to see her.

"When I'm not with her,"he says, "she pines andwon't eat."

Next year, Jose would beexpected to travel long dis-tances without the dog hehas come to rely on. Impres-

ario Vic Lewis is planninga series of concerts all overBritain for the singer andsays: "He has expressedgreat interest in comingover."

"However," added Lewis,"there is a lot of red tape togo through to get Trudyinto the country to travelwith Jose during his stay."

Lewis has also set concertvisits for the Monkees,Andy Williams, JohnnyMathis and Sergio Mendesfor 1969.

`Over -Exposed'

Mary to get

Bee Gee,

D'Abo songsAS MARY HOPKIN was booked to appear on the"Ed Sullivan Show" in New York next weekend,started climbing into the No I position all over theContinent, was flooded with follow-up material bymany top songwriters and had her life story serialisedby a national newspaper, Apple spokesman DerekTaylor admitted this week: "I fear she is becomingover -exposed to an alarming degree.

"But what can you do? After years of 'noes' whenever arequest was made to approach the Beatles, people are fallingover themselves to see Mary now that they've at last foundsomeone close to the Beatleswho agrees to requests forinterviews."

Mary, now No. 1 in Franceand Germany as well as Britain,2 in Holland and Ireland, 13in America and top 20 in justabout every other country, hasso far sold 21 million copies of"Those Were The Days" andhas the biggest worldwide singlesince Scott McKenzie's "SanFrancisco" which sold3,300,000. But in Britain alone,her mentors, the Beatles, havethe biggest -seller of the year-"Hey Jude" has now reached750,000.

Mary, on a secret holidaythis week, flies to the States nextweekend to star in the "EdSullivan Show" on October 27.

Among the flood of starnames who have offered hernew single material-it will bea track off the album-areMichael d'Abo and HarryNilsson, while Barry Gibb isat present writing a song withMary in mind.*Mary will not now be free tojoin the peach Boys on their Bri-tish tour beginning December 1.Reason: she starts work on herfirst LP in mid -November and ex-pects the recording to take herwell into December. PromoterArthur Howes is still completingthe support bill for the tour, andfinalising provincial dates.

Dusty albumnext month

-trip to U.SDUSTY SPRINGFIELD'Slong-awaited new LP, titled"Dusty . . . Definitely!" is re-leased next month.

The album, her first for over ayear, consists of 12 tracks in-cluding Burt Bacharach's "ThisGirl's In Love With You," IrmaFranklin's "Take Another LittlePiece Of My Heart," Rita Wright's"I Can't Give Back The Love,"and a special Portuguese song withEnglish words by American singerNorma Tanega called "Morning."

Rest of the tracks are: "Ain'tNo Sun Since You've BeenGone," "Another Night," "Mr.Dream Merchant," "Love Power,""I Only Wanna Laugh," "Who,""I Think It's Gonna Rain To-day" and "The Second TimeAround." Dusty has written thesleeve notes of the album her-self.

She flies to America on Novem-ber 6 - two weeks earlier thanplanned - to tie in with the re-lease of her first single on theAtlantic label. She will do 10 1Vshows to promote the record,which is still untitled and releasedon November 1.

She will be there for three weeksand completes work on her firstAtlantic LP during the visit.

MONKEE DAVY JONES FLIES HOMEMONKEE Davy Jones was due to fly back to the States today (Thurs-day) after a week-long visit to his father in Manchester, who is illat the moment.

Chances of Davy and the rest of the group returning for concertswere outlined by agent Vic Lewis on his return this week frommeeting the Monkees management in Los Angeles. He said: "I amhoping to bring them sometime next year, but just when is impossibleto say because their itinerary for 1969 is still being sorted out.

"Ideally, I'd like to arrange a big tour for them, throughoutBritain, instead of just a few selected concerts."Picture shows Davy Jones arriving at London's Heathrow Airport.

Status Quoset forStates visitSTATUS QUO, whose "Ice InThe Sun" is shooting up theAmerican chart, go to New Yorkon November 28 for a five-daypromotional visit.

They do five TV appearancesduring their stay and plan to re-lease their follow-up single simul-taneously in America and Britainon December 10.

Group tours Scandinavia fortwo weeks from December 11 anddoes a 10 -day tour of Germanyfrom January 1.

They appear on TV's "Cracker-jack" on October 24.

Dave Clark Fiveanniversary LPDAVE Clark Five release a newalbum on November 1 to celebratetheir five years in pop and titled"5 x 5 (1964-69)" with nine newtracks and five former singles,"Red Balloon," "Please Stay,""Just A Little Bit Now," "GotLove If You Want It" and "NoOne Can Break A Heart LikeYou."

Six of the new tracks are byDave and Mike Smith; LennyDavidson has done two; and theother is by Denis Payton. Oneside of the LP features fast songsand is called "Go"; Side 2 istitled "Slow."

Group appears on "Dee Time"(Saturday) when they will also beseen on "Time For Blackburn" inall regions but London whichshows it next Friday (25).

Mireille: TVspectacularsBRAND new series of spectacularsbased round French star MireilleMathieu are planned by ATV tostart this Saturday (19).

Mireille, who is currently takingEnglish lessons to cope with host-ing the shows, does three 50 -minute spectaculars and three 30 -minute spectaculars up untilChristmas.

On her first show she has theBachelors, and the second, whichgoes out on November 2, starsCliff Richard.

Producer Michael Kent is alsohoping to get Engelbert Humper-dinck and Tom Jones for subse-quent shows.

Mireille, who is currently star-ring in cabaret at London's SavoyHotel, will tape the shows duringher stay in Britain.

"TOP Of The Pops" celebratesits 250th edition next Thursday(October 24) and marks the occa-sion by having all four of itsregular DJs on the programme-Stuart Henry, Pete Murray, AlanFreeman and Jimmy Savile.

Johnnie Stewart, producer fromthe first show on New Year's Day,1964, will be on holiday-but willproduce the show's fifth anniver-sary next year.

Jimmy Savile introduces "TopOf The Pops" tonight (Thursday)when guests are: Hollies, Engel-bert Humperdinck, Joe Cocker,Dave Dee, Marbles, Barry Ryanand Mary 'Hopkin.

ANITA HARRIS:TOYER'

OF HOPKIN HITANITA HARRIS sings her versions of Mary Hop -kin's "Those Were The Days" and the Beatles' "HeyJude" on one of her two new albums released intime for Christmas.

The LP - titled "Le Blon," after the Clive West-lake/Dave Most song which is her new single onOctober 25-also features hits like "River Deep,Mountain High," "Daydream," "Mrs. Robinson,""Hold Me Tight," "Sunshine Superman," "Funny,Familiar, Forgotten Feelings," "All My Love"-anda special version of the Cat Stevens smash, "I LoveMy Dog," dedicated to her own pet, Albert.

Anita's other album is called "The Best Of Bach-arach," and spotlights songs like "This Guy's InLove With You," "Do You Know The Way To SanJose" and "Alfie." An EP of her hits-"Just LovingYou," "The Anniversary Waltz," "Dream A LittleDream" and "Playground"-will be out at the sametime.

Anita returned last week from Brazil where she

came 11th out of 38 in the country's song festival-but collected three top awards which made her thestar of the event.

She was voted "Most Outstanding Performer,""Personality Of The Festival" and "Best Ambassa-dor" from any country. Anita sang the Mitch Mur-ray/Peter Callender song, "Antonio," in the festival,won by Brazil with a song from Antonio CarlosJobim.

Said her co -manager, Mike Margolis: "She didn'twin-but she was still a huge success. The record of'Antonio' leapt straight into the top five in the chartsand she did 18 TV shows in eight days."

As a result of her popularity there, Anita hasbeen offered her own TV series and a two-week soloconcert tour in Brazil. She returns to Rio de Janeirofor TV spectaculars in early spring.

While in South America Anita had a narrow escapefrom death when two men were shot dead nearwhere she was dancing one night.

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Art student one day. Pop singer the next. That's thehumdrum life of Vigrass. Nineteen years old, he's justhad his first single released on RCA 1755. Written andproduced by Gary Osborne, it's called, "A New Man".An apt title for a guy who's only been singing profession-ally a matter of months. Looks like Vigrass is all set for ahappening future -he's going to be a new man to the hitParade very soon.

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Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968

DOZY towed soon

by MIKELEDGERWOOD

DOZY, of the Dave Deegroup, will marry hishometown childhoodsweetheart, Yvonne Skin-ner-to whom he hasbeen secretly engaged forthe past two years-before Christmas.

And as he added hisname to the current crop ofpop marriages - Hermanalso plans a winter wedding-Dozy and his 18 -year -oldbride-to-be launched a shockattack on the Mick Jagger/Marianne Faithfull relation-ship.

"It's horrible really. Ifeverybody thought like themit would he like going backto the Stone Age. Every-body for themselves. Thatsort of thing!" blasted adisgusted Dozy.

"Not that they're doing orsaying anything new, ofcourse. I suppose it wouldbe all right if there wasn'ta child involved. Imaginewhat he or she's going tofeel like when they're oldenough to understand. Whata stigma to live with."

Marianne says she is ex-pecting Mick Jagger's baby.But he has stated that theyhave no intention of marry-i ng.

Added Dozy: "Marriageis something you have gotto have these days. It's asort of legal bond thatshould stop people from justgoing off and messingabout."

And from his attractivebrown -eyed fiancee Yvonne,a typist/telephonist he meton a bus three years ago be-fore the Dave group became

A SALUTE TO THE BEEGEES . . . next week's 24 -page Disc will feature aspecial six -page supplementon the most successful inter-national pop group toemerge in Britain since theBeatles.

The focus will be thrown

'If everyonethought likeJagger, itwould belike goingback to the Stone Age ..famous, comes the com-ment: "I think the Mick andMarianne business is disgust-ing. They're only thinking ofthemselves. There's no thoughtfor the baby at all!"

Dozy - real name TrevorDavies (23)-plans to fit in hiswedding with the group'sbookings around early Decem-ber. The couple will be mar-ried among family and friendsin the small Wiltshire villageof Rushall, near Salisbury. Theywill live in a new house Dozyhas bought at Pewsey.

They meton a bus!

-I literally bumped intoYvonne on a bus," he ex-plained. "I banged her ankle,and when we got off at thesame stop I took her for adrink to apologise."

Dozy and Yvonne met about

on each Bee Gee . . . howBarry really feels about hisfuture, the romantic mytharound Maurice, what Robinthinks about the fans whowant him to cut his hair,why Vince is the odd oneout, the shyness of Colin. . . these and many more

the time of the group's first -ever single, "No Time," whenthey were still comparativeunknowns in pop.

"It's fortunate I did meet herthen," he said. "We've beenthrough a lot together now.But we hit it off from the word`Go.'

"If I met someone now-now we're successful and hav-ing hit records - I wouldn'treally know whether she lovedme . . . or my image andmoney!"

Says Yvonne: "Dozy immedi-ately struck me as being verynice and polite. He didn't eventell me he was in pop till acouple of weeks after we'dstarted going together.

"I'm not jealous of whatother girls think about him. Idid at first, of course. But I'mcompletely hardened to it now.Once a girl grabbed him andthrew her arms round him andkissed him when we got off a

fascinating facts about theBee Gees are included.

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"Mr Roberts" is the title of the first LPfrom Malcolm Roberts, the guy who'sbeen tipped for the top since he first cameon the scene barely 18 months ago. Only21 years old and already he's probably themost televised artist in the country ! Nowhis album's got all the ingredients for afirst -ever hit. Tracks include "Misty","There Will Never Be Another You" and"Tonight". RCA Victor RD 7940.

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bus. I was a bit startled-butit didn't upset me."

Dozy will be the secondmember of the Dave Dee groupto marry. Mick Wilson is theother.

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`This business puts a big strain on a bird.It's not that I'm weak-but there arethings a woman must do that a man doesn't'

IDOLSWHITES

LAST WEEK it happened again. A womancame thundering up, screeched to ahalt, stared into my face and said :'"Oh,I thought you were Twiggy!" Brian

never believes me when I tell him thesethings are always happening-so I'm ruddypleased he was around to see it himself.

Funny really I'm supposed to look likeTwiggy, Dusty and Katie Boyle. Think aboutthat for a minute!

Anyway on to more serious things:

POLITICS:

I,m really quite interested inpolitics. But I'm scared to

open my mouth about it infront of Aug, cos he's alwaysgiving me guvnor lecturesabout Russia and Israel.

He feels very strongly aboutthe Israel situation.

I think anyone would be daftnot to worry about the state ofthis country, but I obviouslycan't do anything about it, soI have to leave it to those whoknow.

Really I reckon politicians havea bloody rough job. They'reunder a lot of strain and pressure-more than I am!

If I was an M.P.(what a joke!) I

think thefirst thingI'd do is revise theunions.

I'd cut out allthe garbage andsort out the wholemess. Really, un-ions today are a

big joke. Sure theywere good whenthey started yearsago, cos they wereneeded. But nowit's a question of"I'm not doingthat it's againstthe Union," or"I've got to do thisslowly, because ifI rush it THAT'Sagainst the Union."

People aren't in-terested in theirjobs anymore. It'sso nowhere as a

`Unions are a

nowhere scene'

scene. Trade unions have reallybecome abused as an ideal.

BRIAN AUGER:I shan't be working with

Brian and the boys for the restof my life-we all know that.But for the time being, as faras any other organist in thiscountry goes, I just couldn'twork with anyone else.

I feel I've built up a very specialrelationship with the wholegroup. I'm not really treated as abird and I don't mind that at all.Well, sometimes when I'm strugg-ling about with cases and things,I'll yell at one of them and askthem to help me. And if I'm very,VERY lucky, they just might!

We sort of help each otherthrough situations. We treat eachother as individuals. There's no"Oh, we'd better look after Toolscos she's a girl." It would be daftbecause I'm just like them.

We just leap about togetherand then get down to things.We're serious about our music,and that's about it!

MUSIC AND ME:Well they do really go to-

gether. I've never thought iflike ME as a person. I knowthere are a lot of things I

DON'T like about myself.I'm too impulsive sometimes.

I get very het up about somethingand have a terrible go at it, thensuddenly I realise I might havebeen wrong and I shouldn't haveleapt around so much.

"You've made yourself look anidiot," I think. "What's all thatabout? It didn't get me anywhereat all."

Sure this business puts a strainon you. And if you're a bird it'seven greater. It's not because I'mweak or anything, but there arelittle things a woman has to doand get together, a man doesn't.

Like I have to get up an hourearlier than the group becauseI have to put make-up on-thenI go to bed half -an -hour later, cosI've got to take the whole ruddylot off again!

I've got to own up, there havebeen times when I've felt likegiving up the whole scene. Butthere's no point in going so farwith something and just begin tofeel you're really getting some-thing across. If you give it all upmaybe you're happy for twomonths, then you suddenly think"Christ, what have I done?"

CENSORSHIP:I don't really believe in

censorship for films, books orplays. I think people should beable to decide for themselveswhat they want to see.

I don't think producers andpeople would go completelyoverboard if they were allowed toput anything on. Some mighttake advantage of the situationbut the majority certainlywouldn't.

Of course things could get outof hand and if there was somethingthat was really going to be badfor people to see-really harmfulfor them-then I'd be deadagainst it.

And it could be quite a shockif people weren't well informed.I mean, someone could be out andthink "Oh I'll just nip along tothe pictures" and if they didn'tknow what it was about andwhat they were in for it couldbe an unbelievable shock for them.

In the last five years alonepeople's attitudes to certainsubjects has changed radically.For instance a film like "The Fox"probably wouldn't have got pastthe censors then. But as societychanges all the time their attit-udes change and they will acceptmore.

Quite honestly I don't thinkthere'll ever be atimewhen there'sabsolutely no censorship at all.

AUDIENCES:I know it sounds pretty

corny, but we've found aud-iences all over the world arethe same. If people like musicand come along to be enter-tained they're the same nomatter what language theyspeak.

Mind you, language can be ahang-up. It took a long while forme to break the language difficultyabroad. Okay, we broke throughin France and the Continent,record -wise, long before we didhere. But we didn't break throughso easily as far as audiences went.

`Language canbe a hang-up'

We were successful on theroad in England long before ourrecords meant anything.

When we go to France now Ialways do one number in Frenchand a bit of chat. I feel much morecomfortable and more togethernow. We're lucky 'cos we getguvnor audiences all over theworld.

But in everything there's goodand bad. In England alone I'malways surprised how gigs canchange. We do universities, clubsand ballrooms and of coursesometimes they can be the biggestdrag ever. But it doesn't oftenhappen-usually they're reallyguvnor and together.

RELIGION:I've never been religious

really. I wasn't brought up inany faith. Religion is good forsome people. The fact that itexists comforts people wholike to feel there's somethingto turn to when nothing elseis left for them.

But if there wasn't religionthere'd be something else andIT would be called religion. Whatis religion anyway? I don't knowif I believe in God as such. I feelthere must be some kind of forceor power-if you want to labelit as God that's OK.

I don't really go along with thescientific theory of creation, be-cause sometimes I get the feelingthat it's all too worked out to beaccidental. The human body forinstance is so complex and soclever it's a work of art.

The only thing that worriesme about religion is the power ithas. I don't believe the Popeshould tell Catholics what to doabout a thing like birth control.I don't think one person shouldhave that kind of power. I thinkthere are a lot of Catholics whoinwardly don't agree but they'vegot to stick to it. It's frightening.

Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968 9

WHEN Gordon Millseventually brought TomJones to London, afternearly a year of hesita-tion and decision, notmany people wanted toknow.

"He's scruffy and rough,"they said. "Just look athim."

"Yes," replied Gordon,"but you wait 'till you seethis boy MOVE."

Leapy Lee toldme that story, andit will alwaysstick.

Because ifthere's any onething that stickssolid in the memory about aTom Jones concert, it's theway that boy MOVES!

And move he did at Lon-don's New Victoria Cinemalast Wednesday, when for 40minutes at the start of his 1968tour, the Welsh wonder knockedcold a jam-packed audience ofstars and fans.

From the moment he leapt onstage, immaculate in blue three-piece suit with plain light blueshirt and shiny blue bow -tieyou knew (as if you didn't al-ready) that there is no one inthe world to match him.

Exciting, controlled, sexy,cool; these adjectives and manymore apply, yet none of themcan do Jones complete justice.

The bow -tie lasted until theend of the first number: the all -systems -go Jerry Lee Lewisrocker "Turn On Your LoveLight." Then it was away witha "By God it's 'ot in 'eretonight."

"Take your jacket off then,"screamed the fans.

Understandable, perhaps, un-til you realise these fans aremiddle-aged women with hus-bands and families.

"OK, keep it clean" was theJones reply, with one of those

JUST WATCHTHE WAYTHAT JONESBOY MOVES!

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Lynton'sLove Affair

wicked laughs, adding, "Itshould be you taking things off,not me!"

And with that, the Ted HeathBand, augmented with the ever -faithful Squires and an agedbut with -it string section, wasaway into a new number onme, which at a guess was called"Every Night I Think AboutThe Bright Lights."

That boy was MOVING!"I Can't Stop Loving You"

was followed by Otis Redding's"Hard Too Handle," and Irealised that Tom Jones canget away with murder. Theymade a film of the last Britishconcerts by Uncle Otis and histour, but no TV station wouldshow it because they said themovements were far too sexy

. . erotic, even.But Tom gets away with it,

and they all love it. Hipsgyrating, pelvis grinding, armsflailing, fingers everywhere.None of these movements canbe deliberately rehearsed. Tomaccompanies every song withthe movements he feels at thetime-the whole body shuddersat a drum crash and the armsare up and down with everyaccentuated beat.

By the time we reached the

LYNTON GUEST, ex -organistwith the Love Affair, reviewsthe group's current acton the Scott Walker tour

LYNTON GUEST, the organistwhose removal from the LoveAffair in favour of originalmember Morgan Fisher haspiled Disc's postbag with pro-tests from his fans, went alongat our invitation last week tosee Love Affair on the currentScott Walker tour and becomeour "Guest Critic." Here iswhat Lynton had to say of theLove Affair act:

Taking Love Affair's fourlo' numbers first, I'm afraid

STEVE ELLIS: "Sang well "

the opening spot, "EverlastingLove" was diabolical. It was ashambles - there were severalmistakes and the balance ofsound was very bad. The wholenumber seemed very messy.

"Tobacco Road," the nextnumber, was very, very good.The balance seemed miracu-lously to have improved. SteveEllis sang very well and thebacking was very, very good.Of their four songs, this wasby far and away the best.

"Handbags And The Glad-rags" didn't bring out the fullpotential of this Michael d'Abosong. It wasn't bad, but thenagain it wasn't good. Verymediocre, in fact. The songdeserved a better arrangement.

"Day Without Love" wasgood considering they had onlythe four instruments. In fact itwas very good. Steve againsang well, the backing wasgood, but they could have done

fifth number, "Delilah," thesweat was dripping off him,and we almost felt damp in thefront row.

Next was "Danny Boy," stillsounding quite unbelievablethough perhaps loaded with toomuch feeling this time. andafter that came the ever-increasing melody of hits.

"Help Yourself," "I'll NeverFall In Love Again," "Green,Green Grass Of Home" and"It's Not Unusual," which Isay again, is still the bestsingle he's ever made.

And finally "Night Of AThousand Dances," with thelast leap about the stage andthe heart-rending cry "I needa little woman!"

Judging from the reaction inthe stalls, there wasn't one inthe house who would have re-fused the request!

But don't be mistaken. TomJones has class. Real class. It'sso real it doesn't show. Hisvoice and breath control isbetter than ever, yet the earthysoul stuff he so obviously en-joys will never be wiped out,whatever Gordon Mills maywant to the contrary.

So . . . Tom Jones? Great asever, but that wasn't all. For

LYNTON

with the backing voices whichappear on the record.

My overall impression wasthat I don't see why Rex Bray -ley bothered to go along be-cause you couldn't hear him.The organ was at times dis-torted to the extreme; the basswas played very well; but thesound left a lot to be desired.

I've got endless praise forMaurice Bacon's drumming. Hehas improved beyond beliefover the past six months. AndSteve is always good. What eLsecan you say about his singing?

The sound was not themiraculous new sound whichI'd been led to believe it wasby members of the group andtheir management. But thevisual side was very, verygood, both the clothes theychose and their movementabout stage, and it was the 1111)beat part of the whole act.

taking a fair section of thelimelight, and showing herselfto be far more than just a dis-tinctive voice, fiery Miss DellaReese.

Della is not an artist too wellknown in really pop circles. Shefalls into the Ella Fitzgerald,Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughanclass, yet is in fact more a souland gospel singer than any-thing else.

Among her numbers: "AHouse Is Not A Home" and"Look Of Love" from BurtBacharach; "It Was A VeryGood Year;" "On A ClearDay" and "Cabaret." But forme the highlight was "GirlTalk," the number more asso-ciated with Jack Jones, whichwas prefaced by a long andvery drily amusing monologueabout Della, men, women, anddomestic chat like that.

She has the regal air anddeportment of Mahalia Jack-son, the punch of Aretha Frank-lin, but above all the voice,charm and personality of DellaReese . . . and she will havefound herself many thousandsof new admirers by the end ofthis tour.

And, although he's got littleor nothing to do with music, aword of praise for rubber -facedAmerican comic Charlie Callas,who didn't get all the laughs hedeserved from the first house,first night crowd.

Perhaps they didn't expect acomic on a theatre tour, butCharlie (who looks a lot likeLeapy Lee, so help him) is avery funny man.

So all in all, a fantastic showand a set-up that Scott Walkermust surely be envious of.

If you've got a ticket to seethe tour, you'll know what Imean. And if you haven't . . .

well I should think it's hardluck. They must be like golddust!

But you should see that boyMOVE!

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MICK with MARIANNE, who expects a child by himnext February...a Disc reader thinks they should wed"if only for the child's name."

GEORGIE FAME: "I thinkit's up to them entirely. I

mean if they want to get mar-ried at a later date, they cando and that's fine."

MIKE D'ABO: "It isn't any -else's decision but their ownand they should be left aloneto make their own minds up."

DAVE CLARK: "It's a per-sonal thing and up to the in-dividual what they do. I Per-sonally think marriage is aserious thing. Maybe I'mslightly old-fashioned becausetimes have changed. Whereasfive years ago everyone wouldhave been up in arms aboutthis, today it is accepted with-out much objection."

ANDREW STEELE (Herd):"Live and let live. That's thefirst thing I thought when Isaw the headlines. I think it'sa pity so much is being madeof it-but babies out of mar-riage seem to be the vogue atthe moment. I'm not saying it'sright mind you-I'm married.But I think if you can do itwithout getting married that'sfair enough. If they've both

come to an agreement it's avery good thing."

ALAN FREEMAN: "Whetherthey get married or not is

entirely their own business, andif they've got happiness thenthey're very lucky because iteludes so many people. Andfor the people who object to it,then I suggest they mind theirown business."

STEVE ELLIS (Love Affair):"It's not for me to say, but ifthey're happy that way it's upto them."

MIKE ROSSI (Status Quo):"Quite honestly who cares? Idon't."

ANDY FAIRWEATHER-LOW (Amen Corner): "I can'tunderstand what all the fuss isabout. Why can't people leavethem to get on with theirlives? It's not for me to con-done or condemn anythingthey may wish to do."

LULU: "I wouldn't tell themwhat to do, if people startadvising you it only gets yourback up anyway. But I don'tthink I agree with bringing a

Should Jaggerwed Marianne?SINCE MICK JAGGER'S announcement last week that he is the father of

Marianne Faithfull's expected child, the couple's decision not to marryhas met with a barrage of criticism and comment. Even the Archbishop

of Canterbury has been moved to say the whole thing is "very sad."Pop fans, however, this week turned the tables on the opinions of society,

and came out strongly in favour of Mick and Marianne's decision.When Disc asked readers

their views on the subject,the majority opinion wasthat it was Mick and Mari-anne's lives 'and they shouldbe left alone to live them asthey liked.

Sixteen - year - old FrancescaWitt of 24 Arundel Drive East,Saltdean, Sussex, reckons that"Mick Jagger isn't sensibleenough to get married at themoment. He can't he if all hecan say about becoming a fatheris `Groovy'."

Patricia Houghton (15), 67Chain Lane, Staining, Nr.Blackpool:

"I don't think Mick shouldmarry Marianne."

Stuart McGowan (17), 203Fox Lane, Palmers Green,London, N.13:

"I think it's completely upto them to decide for them-selves what they do. If any-thing, people are going to bebiased against the parents whenthe child grows up. But if theyreally feel that marriage is com-pletely out of date, then it's upto them."

Aidan McHugh (17), student,15 Cooldarragh Park, CavenhillRoad, Belfast, N. Ireland:

"I think they should get

child up outside marriage. Youneed a basis and security forbringing up a child and I thinkit has its problems from thechildren's point of view if theparents aren't married."

PETER FRAMPTON (Herd):"It's something that happensevery day and nobody's saying`Oh dear'. I really don't seeanything wrong in it."

RAY DAVIES (Kinks): "It'sentirely up to them. I

don't think anybody should tellanybody else what to do. Idoubt if Mick Jagger wouldlisten to the Pope anyway."

PAUL JONES: "If thosewho are criticising them noware doing so because of thebaby and not what has hap-pened in the past then they arehypocrites, unless they havecomplained on moral groundsall along."

SOLOMON K I N G: "Tomarry just for the sake ofbeing married is truly outdated.However, if you are fortunateenough to find another humanbeing who totally accepts youas you are and who happens

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married. Mick Jagger is re-ported to have said he believesin God and isn't doing this tomock marriage, which means, Isuppose, that he's thinking ofhis image. But it doesn't showmuch regard for the child."

Verity -Anne Meldrum (18), 47The Roystons, Surbiton, Surrey:

"I don't think Mick and Mari-anne should get married purely forthe sake of the child if they arenot willing to share the responsi-bilities of marriage. An unhappymarriage wouldn't benefit thechild."

Fred Merrill (23), wages clerk,94 Cambridge Road, Seven Kings,Ilford, Essex:

"It's not for me or for anyoneelse to say. I don't think theyshould be condemned for doingwhat they are-it's their lives."

Brian Gallagher (19), engineer,90 Beaconsfield Road, Lowestoft,Suffolk;

"I think marriage could prove

to be following along the samepath as you, then it could beinfinitely worthwhile."

BARRY RYAN: "I don'tthink marriage is out of date.As yet we don't live in asociety permissive enough forthe kids not to suffer from beingillegitimate. When this happensthen maybe marriage will beout of date. What puts me offmarriage is all the legal en-tanglements. If two people de-cide that they no longer wantto live with each other thento get a divorce means court.

J' LULU: "You need a basis and se-

curity for bringing up a child"

a disaster for them-they bothhave careers that require totalinvolvement. It's a high-speed

is constantly changingand hardly the basis for marriage.Perhaps circumstances will changetheir views on marriage in a fewyears time."

Ann Murrell (23), clerk, 232Burton Road, Lincoln:

"I don't think they should getmarried because it wouldn't work-they're not the type to settledown."

Norman Barrow (15), milk sales-man, 28 Drakefield Road, Tooting,S.W.17:

"Whether they get married ornot is of little consequence. Thebusiness of a legal contract shouldmake no difference to the relation-ship between parents and child.There's too much of a socialstigma attached to that churchdocument."

John Leith (22), 144 PiperKnowle Road, 14ardwich Estate,Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside:

cases and all kinds of complica-tions and settlements."

RICKY WEST (Tremeloes):"I get very upset at all thepeople who knock marriage asif it's old-fashioned. As far asI am concerned with my familythere is no substitute formarriage."

GRAHAM KNIGHT (Mar-malade): "I see nothing wrongin what Jagger said, 'If every-body looked after their ownaffairs and didn't interfere withother people, the world wouldbe in a far better state'."

SOLOMON: "To marry for the sakeof it is out -dated"

"'I think they should get mar-ried, but only for the sake of thechild, which could find itself grow-ing up in a world that rejectsillegitimate children.

"Obviously Mick and Mariannewould not have minded being bornout of wedlock, but their childmight. I'm not against youngpeople living together, but not ifchildren are to be involved."

Richard Chapman (16), sales-man, Meadow Farm, Gristhorpe,Filey, Yorks.:

"1 don't think Mick shouldmarry her. After all, a fellow reallyonly marries a girl to give hersecurity, and 1 imagine they'veboth got enough of that.

"I don't think there is a moralissue involved."

Marilyn Hoyle (15), 61 Cham-bersbury Lane, Hemel Hempstead,Herts:

"I don't think they shouldmarry. Not just because she's hav-ing a baby-it's not right."

John Bennett (17), 138 Gar-moyle Road, Liverpool 15:

"I think they should get mar-ried if only for the child's name.Love doesn't enter into this lot-it's the child that matters."

Dawn Nelson (21), disc -jockeyat "Tabby's" Discotheque, Ealing,London:

"Honestly, I don't think theyshould marry. For a start, MickJagger is a controversial, indepen-dent person. I can't see marriagemaking any difference to him. Ithe'd wanted to get married he'dprobably have done so by now.I think he's probably frightenedin case he loses his fans. It's upto him to support the child, ofcourse. But they both seem to begetting along fine as it is."

Susan Coath (16), 7 NorthernAvenue, Edmonton, London, N.9:

"It's up to them whether theymarry or not, and we fans reallyhaven't got the right to tell themwhat to do in their private lives.The real problem is what willhappen to the baby."

Elaine Williams (15), 39 HellierStreet, Dudley, Worcs:

"The child would feel terriblewhen he starts at school and he'stold his father and mother aren'tmarried. I think they should getmarried. Their attitude is com-pletely selfish and childish."

Scott Thornton (19), student, 20Hall Crescent, Burrelton, Perth-shire:

"They're obviously an unusualcouple, but if you like someoneenough to have a child you shouldlike them enough to marry them."

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IT WOULD BE hard tofind any parents whowouldn't relish the ideaof their daughter mar-rying a nice wholesomeclean-cut boy like Her-man.

But when MireilleStrasser's French par-ents were first intro-duced to the boy whohad fallen in love withtheir daughter, theywere, with Gallicshrewdness, just a bitwary.

"When you say you're ina group people always ex-pect the worst," Hermanadmitted in Paris this week.

He and 22 -year -old Mireillewere on a week's holidaygetting kitted out for theirmarriage next month. "I don'tblame them, I'd be the same ifit was my daughter, and myparents would be the same.

"You hear so many storiesabout dirty groups sleeping invans, they really think you'regoing to be rough." -

Met at a partyThat was nearly six months

ago, since when Herman hasnot only become an incrediblysettled person, but has com-pletely won over Mr. and Mrs.Strasser.

Herman, who is RomanCatholic, and Mireille, who is

HERMAN: 'Livingtogether meansyou're not sure'Jewish, will marry in Londonon November 5. This justhappens, says Herman, to behis 21st birthday, Guy Fawkesnight-and a full moon!

"It was almost as big a sur-prise to me as it was to every-one else that I decided to getmarried.

"I first met Mireille at a partyin London last March and Ifancied her like mad, butcouldn't get near her.

"I saw her a few times afterthat, but we didn't start goingout seriously until June. Wewere in Germany playing someconcerts in Wiesbaden, in ahotel, and I just said 'Will youmarry me?'

"I'd never met anyone likeher before. There was neveranyone I felt so good with. ThatI even considered marriage withbefore. She's just everything Iwant.

"And I want to marry herbecause I know I'm always go-ing to love her. There's nothingwrong with living together-wedid for about four or fivemonths-it's just that I thinkpeople who don't get marriedaren't sure of each other.

"Marriage to me means thattwo people love each other so

deeply they know they're al-ways going to feel the same.Living together really meansthat neither is sure enough ofthe other to make it permanent.They feel they've got to havean escape clause."

Herman and Mireille will livein London and are currentlylooking for a flat..

"Mireille will travel with meas much as possible-especiallyif I go somewhere like Americaand I'm liable to be away for along time.

"I'm planning to work a lotmore now. It's funny but feelingso secure has really made mewant to do more and more.Before I used to think: 'Ohwhat am I doing this for?' NowI know where I'm going.

"We want to do more workin England - especially stufflike cabaret.

"The first cabaret audienceI ever faced was in Germanywhere people were drinking allthe way through the act. I wassurprised how much we enjoyedit.

"Now we feel we ought tostart breaking through intocabaret here-with odd datesall over the country to get thefeel of the audiences."

It's such a lonelylife - beinga Tremeloe's wife"YOU SPEND 50per cent of your lifeon your own. It getsworse as it goes on.They go away moreoften than they didlast year and theyear before, and eachtime it's for a bitlonger." If you everimagined life as apop star's wife wasrosy, that's the viewon it from Lyn West,who's been marriedto Tremeloe RickyWest for five years.

When Lyn marriedRicky it was the tra-ditional "Girl meetsBoy next door." Rickylived two doors awayfrom her in Dagen-ham, and they wentout together for threeyears and then decidedto get married. Rickyhad then been with theTremeloes for a year,

so Lyn had a roughidea of what she wasletting herself in for.

The group w a splaying mostly roundthe London area, soLyn was able to goalong. Then graduallythe tours went furtherafield, trips abroadwere more frequentuntil five years laterLyn has found herselfvery much alone.

Herman's Hermitsare a group equallybusy and get -aroundas the Tremeloes, sowhen Mireille Strasser- Herman's 22 -year -old fiancee-gets mar-ried in November, shemay well be lettingherself in for the sameproblems.

Lyn's advice afterfive years is: "If yougo out with a personin a group you knowwhat it's like. Peoplekeep telling me 'Oh,

it won't last muchlonger' but on it goes.This year's even worsethan ever, Rick willbe going to Israel andAmerica and he'll beaway for Christmasfor the first time ever.It's terribly lonely, butyou just have to pushthat to the back ofyour mind or you'dgo mad."

Lyn now has twochildren to cope withand keep her occupied-four -year -old Helen,and Heidi (18 months)-so she is kept verymuch at home know-ing there are hundredsof fans surroundingher husband.

"You learn to over-come jealousy. Youhave to, otherwise youcouldn't make a go ofit. You've got to takeit right out of yourmind or you can't livewith it. I suppose it

LYN, wife of Ricky West

does make you thinksometimes, all thosegirls. But if you meetthem, you realise it'swho the group arethat they are after,not what they are aspeople.

"Often, after shows,the rest of the boysgo out, but Rickycomes home - he'svery good, especiallyas he's the only mar-ried member of thegroup."

Lyn admits that inspite of the loneliness,the financial rewardsare great.

"People think it'sall roses and mar-vellous being marriedto a Tremeloe," saysLyn, "but I never con-sider that I'm marriedto a Tremeloe - I'mmarried to Rick, andI wouldn't miss out onbeing married tohim."

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There's a song called 'Turn around, look atme'whichhas been an enormous success in the States. It'sabsolutely tailor-made for the BACHELORS, and theyhave released it as their new Decca single. A very lovelyslow ballad, sung in the smooth, sincere style that hasmade the Bachelors so popular. This is sure to be one oftheir biggest ever hits. Number to ask for is F22839.

CATS EYES shine on their new single "I thank you,Marianne'. It's very commercial. Starting off quiet andtender and building . up into a haunting chorus -line.On the Deram label, the number is DM 209.The music from Oliver is the secret of the show'senormous success. It appeals to everyone, SHANIWALLIS, who plays the part of Nancy in the film, hasreleased 'As long -as he needs me; which is probablythe best -loved of all the songs. as a single on the Londonlabel, number HLR 10225. Definitely going to please alot of people !

DAVYGRAHAM is not onlyan amazing guitarist, butalso a very talented folk -blues singer. His sort of musicis gaining a large following these days, when peopleare more impressed by genuine talent than gimmickry.His latest single on Decca is the great Joni Mitchellsong, 'Both sides now, and Davy gives it an up -tempo treatment which gives the song even more thanits usual power. The Number of this one is F 12841.

An enormous amount of people requested the singlerelease of a trackfrom FRANKIE McBRI OE'Scur-rent album. So here it is,'The long black limousine,by public demand! On Emerald, the number is MD 1109.

For everyone who loves a really big heart -string -tugging ballad, MARGARET WHITING. sings agorgeous Paul Anka-penned song, Can't get you outof my mind." It's quite hard to get the song out of yourmind after a couple of plays, but you won't want to !Maggie certainly can put a song over! LondonHLU 10227.

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How Engelbert and Mr and Mrs Harold Wilson cameto meet

for a drinkEngelbert's following has become so vast that today even

prime ministers are keen to have his company. For when theLabour Party held their annual conference in Blackpool,Mr. Harold Wilson invited Engelbert to join him for a drink.

A messenger arrived at Engelbert's dressing room at theBlackpool ABC Theatre to say that the Prime Minister andhis wife were in the theatre and would like him to have adrink.

They talked for half an hour and, said Engelbert afterwards:"He seemed to know a lot about our business."

When the Wilsons left the theatre, Mary Wilson was carryingtwo copies of his latest album "A Man Without Love."

"She asked me to sign one to her and another to their son,Giles."

pNGELBERT has just broken thebox office record at the prestige

Blackpool ABC summer season;Tom Jones has stepped out on 21standing -room -only concerts aroundthe country . . . anything Engelbertcan do, Tom can do better and viceWt.

But who holds the biggest popu-larity? It's a question that's constantlyasked and argued about by theirrespective fans, but there never will bean official answer.

Colin Berlin, agent to Tom andEngelbert,. says: "You can't makecomparisons between them. In theirown spheres both are very, very big.And they're both booked indepen-dently. It is never a case of, if Tom'snot free, Engelbert does the job in-stead.

Feminine appeal"They have their own audiences so

there must be a difference, I suppose.Both have domestic audiences, butEngelbert probably has more feminineappeal which goes from young to old,whereas Tom's is a rritore all-roundaudience, really.

"But with Tom doing a tour whereit's no cliche to say that there reallyis standing room only at all 21 datesand with Engelbert having broken thatBlackpool ABC box-office record, it'sclear that both in their own way arevast stars."

Engelbert's next major project is toappear for a month at London'sfamous Talk of the Town nightspot incabaret from October 28. He toursSouth Africa in December and is cer-tain to do another British tour ondates to be arranged in the spring.

But where fools null in, Engelbertis wary to tread into films. Says Ber-lin: "He will, of course, be very bigin films and we've had literally dozensof offers which have all been turneddown. It's simply that the right sortof script hasn't turned up.

"There's no point in just putting hisface on celluloid for the sake of it.We want to find a script and film thatwill enhance his career.

"And he's quite happy to leave thechoice to us. He certainly isn't fretting

by BOB FARMERto get into films. But then that's be-cause he is, and always has been, theabsolute professional.

"In this respect, he hasn't changedat all since the days of Gerry Dorsey.He still worries about his work, he'sstill conscientious and fastidious aboutevery detail attached to it.

"In those bad old days when hewas desperately short of money, hewould still take along four backingmusicians to do those few dates hegot booked for.

"This nearly absorbed all his salary,of course, but if you questioned himabout it and suggested he cut down onthere extra expenses, he'd simply say:`I must give the audience a goodshow'

"And there you have him-the trueprofemional."

One aspect of Engelbert that bafflesmany people is how he came to takeso long to win public recognition.

Engelbert Humperdinck, admittedly,was a bit of an eye-opening name,but the singer himself, tall, dark andhandsome with a fine voice, has sucha strong bearing on a stage that it isastonishing he remained hidden forno. long.

"For one thing, Gordon Mills, hismanager (Tom's too), was not record.ing him. He'd had far too manyprevious record producers. The changeof name must definitely be taken intoaccount and also the timing was justright.

"The public hadn't previouslywanted his type of singer, but alongcame 'Release Me' and that tremen-dously lucky break of being booked atthe last moment to appear on theSunday night Palladium show vehmDial° Valentine was taken ill.

"That night Engelbert looked like amillion dollars on that screen.

"He was star quality and the publiccouldn't fail but recognise this. ICsalways the public who makes stam,nobody else.

"I'd met him eight years previouslyand used to book him in places likeGermany when he was really strug-gling for a living. But it took thatnight at the Palladium to make him."

He's not rushing into films

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on this week'snew releases from DeccaWhathas BIG BROTHERANDTHE HOLDINGCOMPANY get that no other group has ? If you keepin touch,you'll know the answer is JANIS JOPLIN.She really is a sensational artiste and a dynamic singer.Her colossal personality shouts out of every groove on afantastic London release, Down anme:This is a recprdyou can't afford to be without! The number is HLT10126.

There's a song called 'Turn around, look atme'whichhas been an enormous success in the States. It'sabsolutely tailor-made for the BACHELORS, and theyhave released it as their new Decca single. A very lovelyslow ballad, sung in the smooth, sincere style that hasmade the Bachelors so popular. This is sure to be one oftheir biggest ever hits. Number to ask for is F22839.

CATS EYES shine on their new single "I thank you,Marianne'. It's very commercial. Starting off quiet andtender and building . up into a haunting chorus -line.On the Deram label, the number is DM 209.The music from Oliver is the secret of the show'senormous success. It appeals to everyone, SHANIWALLIS, who plays the part of Nancy in the film, hasreleased 'As long -as he needs me; which is probablythe best -loved of all the songs. as a single on the Londonlabel, number HLR 10225. Definitely going to please alot of people !

DAVYGRAHAM is not onlyan amazing guitarist, butalso a very talented folk -blues singer. His sort of musicis gaining a large following these days, when peopleare more impressed by genuine talent than gimmickry.His latest single on Decca is the great Joni Mitchellsong, 'Both sides now, and Davy gives it an up -tempo treatment which gives the song even more thanits usual power. The Number of this one is F 12841.

An enormous amount of people requested the singlerelease of a trackfrom FRANKIE McBRI OE'Scur-rent album. So here it is,'The long black limousine,by public demand! On Emerald, the number is MD 1109.

For everyone who loves a really big heart -string -tugging ballad, MARGARET WHITING. sings agorgeous Paul Anka-penned song, Can't get you outof my mind." It's quite hard to get the song out of yourmind after a couple of plays, but you won't want to !Maggie certainly can put a song over! LondonHLU 10227.

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How Engelbert and Mr and Mrs Harold Wilson cameto meet

for a drinkEngelbert's following has become so vast that today even

prime ministers are keen to have his company. For when theLabour Party held their annual conference in Blackpool,Mr. Harold Wilson invited Engelbert to join him for a drink.

A messenger arrived at Engelbert's dressing room at theBlackpool ABC Theatre to say that the Prime Minister andhis wife were in the theatre and would like him to have adrink.

They talked for half an hour and, said Engelbert afterwards:"He seemed to know a lot about our business."

When the Wilsons left the theatre, Mary Wilson was carryingtwo copies of his latest album "A Man Without Love."

"She asked me to sign one to her and another to their son,Giles."

pNGELBERT has just broken thebox office record at the prestige

Blackpool ABC summer season;Tom Jones has stepped out on 21standing -room -only concerts aroundthe country . . . anything Engelbertcan do, Tom can do better and viceWt.

But who holds the biggest popu-larity? It's a question that's constantlyasked and argued about by theirrespective fans, but there never will bean official answer.

Colin Berlin, agent to Tom andEngelbert,. says: "You can't makecomparisons between them. In theirown spheres both are very, very big.And they're both booked indepen-dently. It is never a case of, if Tom'snot free, Engelbert does the job in-stead.

Feminine appeal"They have their own audiences so

there must be a difference, I suppose.Both have domestic audiences, butEngelbert probably has more feminineappeal which goes from young to old,whereas Tom's is a rritore all-roundaudience, really.

"But with Tom doing a tour whereit's no cliche to say that there reallyis standing room only at all 21 datesand with Engelbert having broken thatBlackpool ABC box-office record, it'sclear that both in their own way arevast stars."

Engelbert's next major project is toappear for a month at London'sfamous Talk of the Town nightspot incabaret from October 28. He toursSouth Africa in December and is cer-tain to do another British tour ondates to be arranged in the spring.

But where fools null in, Engelbertis wary to tread into films. Says Ber-lin: "He will, of course, be very bigin films and we've had literally dozensof offers which have all been turneddown. It's simply that the right sortof script hasn't turned up.

"There's no point in just putting hisface on celluloid for the sake of it.We want to find a script and film thatwill enhance his career.

"And he's quite happy to leave thechoice to us. He certainly isn't fretting

by BOB FARMERto get into films. But then that's be-cause he is, and always has been, theabsolute professional.

"In this respect, he hasn't changedat all since the days of Gerry Dorsey.He still worries about his work, he'sstill conscientious and fastidious aboutevery detail attached to it.

"In those bad old days when hewas desperately short of money, hewould still take along four backingmusicians to do those few dates hegot booked for.

"This nearly absorbed all his salary,of course, but if you questioned himabout it and suggested he cut down onthere extra expenses, he'd simply say:`I must give the audience a goodshow'

"And there you have him-the trueprofemional."

One aspect of Engelbert that bafflesmany people is how he came to takeso long to win public recognition.

Engelbert Humperdinck, admittedly,was a bit of an eye-opening name,but the singer himself, tall, dark andhandsome with a fine voice, has sucha strong bearing on a stage that it isastonishing he remained hidden forno. long.

"For one thing, Gordon Mills, hismanager (Tom's too), was not record.ing him. He'd had far too manyprevious record producers. The changeof name must definitely be taken intoaccount and also the timing was justright.

"The public hadn't previouslywanted his type of singer, but alongcame 'Release Me' and that tremen-dously lucky break of being booked atthe last moment to appear on theSunday night Palladium show vehmDial° Valentine was taken ill.

"That night Engelbert looked like amillion dollars on that screen.

"He was star quality and the publiccouldn't fail but recognise this. ICsalways the public who makes stam,nobody else.

"I'd met him eight years previouslyand used to book him in places likeGermany when he was really strug-gling for a living. But it took thatnight at the Palladium to make him."

He's not rushing into films

14 Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968

Wake up, get out of bed, drag a combacross your head-and come withDAVID HUGHES on an incredibleAT FIRST GLANCE itseemed a pretty dull, prettyordinary, unexciting day tospend with Leapy Lee. Afterall, eight hours confinedin Shepherd's Bush is notnormally the height ofaction.

But that's until you realisethat no day with Leapy is everdull, ordinary or unexciting.

"It's all right for you, mate,"he blinked, as I staggered upthe second flight of concretestairs to his Bayswater flat."I've been awake since fouro'clock. I'm gone, I'm reallygone. I'm a twitching nervouswreck!!"

I couldn't quite understand,why. The air seemed peacefulenough. His attractive modelwife Mary (he calls her Mollor maybe Mole) didn't look asif she'd had a violent argumentwith him.

"Take a look out there," heshrieked. "Lovely ain't it?That's Paddington sidings.Diesel engines going all thetime; and they're putting downa new main line track; andthey're digging up the roadoutside; and they're pullingdown the bridge at the end ofthe road. There's no peace. It'sall noise.

Pride

"The whole place vibrateswhenever a train goes past-and that's about every tenminutes. It's no good, I'll haveto move!"

But a calming cup of teasoon had the Leapy Lee smileback again, and as we slopedback down the stairs againa definitely rosy enthusiasticglow came over him . . . as ifsomething rather special wasabout to occur.

"You haven't seen it yet,have you. Me pride and joy."

And there in the street, stick-ing out like the reverse of asore thumb . . . Leapy's prideand joy - a gleaming greyCadillac.

"And it's mine, all paid for.No HP. It's the first big thingI've ever owned in my wholelife."

In fact, the car is somethingelse again! Electric windows,electric radio aerial, seats thatmove in all directions, stereo -

DAY INTHE LIFEOFLEAPY...phonic radio and a hundredand one other gadgets, plus anengine you can't hear andluxury you shouldn't be able toafford!

"Of course I'm knocked outwith it. What do YOU think?But, without trying to soundgood and righteous, I'm morepleased for Moll and the kids.The boot's bigger than theirbedroom!

"I bought it second-hand andgave it to the wife as a sur-prise. Surprise? I thought shewas going to have a heartattack. We were down at DianaDors' gaff, and I'd hidden itin the drive. We were all sup-posed to be having a slap-upmeal and then I'd show her thecar.

"I was more tensed -up thanshe was . . . and, I just couldn'twait. I wanted to enjoy themeal; you know .what I mean?

"But to see that look inMoll's eyes - well I almostcried. She's been a fantasticwife."

We sank into the 'Caddy'splush grey upholstered seatsand purred off in the sunlighttowards Shepherd's Bush andthe gloom of BBC corridorsand dressing rooms.

"See that house," says Leapy,before we'd gone two blocks."We had a single room thereonce. I could drive you round

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Bayswater and show you ahundred gaffs I'd lived in atone time or another.

"I never had any money, andwe were always getting thrownout; but my policy was: if youcan't afford £6 a week for agaff you may as well not afford£12 a week and get a decentplace.

"And no one was interestedwhen we said we'd got twokids. So in the end we neverused to mention them, and justmove 'em in. That's one goodthing I'll say for Harold. Onceyou're in a place, you've gotthe upper hand, although thelandlord always tries to makelife as unbearable for you aspossible.

"But I dote on my kids. Ireally do. And Moll's done afantastic job with them. Evenwhen we all lived in one room,they were always clean andtidy; always polite . . . andthey're not spoiled. And they'reboth beautiful. Kearey is sevenand Loretta's six. Lovely girls.And they go all the way toschool in Gloucester Road ontheir own every day."

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self up the pavement to avoidthe vast grey throbbing monsteras we swept past.

"I'm not quite used to left-hand drive yet . . . but what acar. I've had vehicles before-a beat -up Morris Minor andan old lorry!

"I bought the girls their firstbig present ever last week. Acycle for Kearey and a scooterfor Loretta. Before that, allthey'd ever got were second-hand dolls."

Once inside the "Top Of ThePops" building, Leapy becamehis genial self again, sayinghello to everybody; chatting tothe band, the producer, themake-up girls and anyone elsewho came in sight.

"I feel terrible. It's the 'flu.It's all over. I'll never makeit!"

And after a camera run-through; lunch of curried eggsand rice and two cups of tea;and an orchestra run-through,Leapy decided the Lee voicewas about to grind to a halt.

"And just before me first bigcabaret booking, too. Where'sthe nurse?"

To the rescue came producerColin Charman, who allowedLeapy to record the voice whileit was still there. So it wasback to the subterranean dress-ing -room for a hair -wash.

Suddenly Leapy rememberedhe had to go back to the flatto pick up his shirt which Mollwas ironing. Status Quo, whobustle everywhere like littlerabbits in a burrow, followedexcitedly in his wake, over-joyed at the chance to have asit in the Lee limousine.

"I fulfilled an ambition theother week," says Leapy. "1have very strange ambitions.This one was to ride on thebumper cars at the fair whileone of my records was beingplayed."

Meanwhile, back at thestudios, complete with theironed shirt, new suit and newblack suede boots, Leapywashed the hair, "I'll getpneumonia now for sure,"made. the appearance for whichhe'd been rehearsing since 11

a.m., and went home with twoBeechams Powders to try andsleep through another night ofdiesel trains, electric drills andassorted night workers.

"Remind me to tell you howI nearly became a Zen Bud-dhist," was the final cry as hemounted the stone steps.

Mike: a drag from start to boring finish

"MIKE NESMITH presents theWichita Train Whistle Sings" isa collection of instrumentals,mostly written by the Monkee,which get us absolutely nowhere.In fact, the LP is a drag fromstart to boring finish.

No tune is outstanding, theperformance of each one injectslittle to what is basically banal,and Mike has written sleevenotes reminiscent of what BobDylan wrote on the back of hisalbums.

Let's forget it-if we want aninstrumental album, there arehundreds better to choose from;and we think Mike is an integralpart of the Monkees. It's on theDot label.

"Motown Memories, Vol.2" brings us a gasser - BarrettStrong's "Money (That's What IWant)" which was one of theBeatles' inspirations. Also in-cluded are "I'll Always LoveYou," "Fingertips Part 2" and"Beechwood 4-5789" by theMarvelettes. Other artists re-corded include Diana Ross andthe Supremes ("Standing At TheCrossroads Of Love"), MaryWells, Martha Reeves and theVandellas, Brenda Holloway,Kim Weston, R. Dean Taylor.

Essential for all T a m I aMotown fans-and it has someuseful sleeve notes by MikeRaven.

Of "Hair" you must haveheard. It has received such a vastamount of advance publicity

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THE NEW LPsthat it now has a lot to live upto. And unfortunately if themusic is any guide, there may bea large number of disappointedpeople about. The originalBroadway cast recording is nowavailable (RCA) and apart from"Aquarius" has little to offermusically. Doubtless the visualpresentation will add impact, butlistening to uninspiring musicwith dubious lyrics, we wonderwhether it was all worth it.

TIMI YURO, the sadlooking lady with the remark-able voice, strikes again with"T i m i In The Beginning"(Liberty), a good selection fromthe Yuro archives. Among theexcellent tracks are "Fever,""Hallelujah," "If You GottaMake A Fool Of Somebody"and "My Prayer." If you likeTimi Yuro you'll go for this.

"The King Of Rock BILLHALEY Plays" is the title of a"new" Ember album, and onlycomment is - very badly, and

with the worst dubbed onscreams we've heard in a longwhile. Not Haley as he was, noras he should be, and best for-gotten.

Well piddle noddle noo.Here's RAY ELLINGTON, stillwarm from his "Goon Show"days, with "The Best Of RayEllington (Ember). Remember"The Madison" and "Too OldTo Cut The Mustard"? Bothhere, and many more to warmthe cockles of your heart!

Some very sub - standardfolk songs by CHAD andJEREMY and others on "LiveFolk From The Mayfair TheatreLondon" (Ember). The sort ofstuff that's passable live, butshould never be recorded forposterity.

"IKE TURNER RocksThe Blues" (Ember) is a gooddelve into the past, revealing Ikeas he was before Tina and theIkettes turned him off urbanblues and on to soul. More in-strumental than vocal, and thebasic raw guitar sound is wellworth a listen.

To coincide with his latesttour, that phenomenon of thedrums BUDDY RICH turns hishands to a touch of the RaviShankars, and goes Eastern onDholak, as well as his usualdrum kit. "Rich A La Rakha"is a good experiment, but shouldhave been confined to one trackon a band album, we feel-(Liberty).

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I'D like to take time out totalk about a close friend inas objective a fashion as

possible. It's not that hard, be-cause I've believed in Scott'stalent for many years. Butrecently he has improved anenormous amount. On the firstnight of the tour he was aninternational star in the sameclass as the greatest singersaround, yet still entirely indi-vidual. His TV show was anenormous success because hereis an artist young yet talented,with long hair but the voice ofmaturity.

He controls his voice more,makes greater use of variety. Hismovements and gestures are morenatural, he seems more relaxed.

And, as it happens, he is. Hisknowledge of classical musicgrows every day-he appreciatesthe most complex themes andideas. His intellect is beingsharpened-he reads as much as1 would like to.

His projected personality seemsto have burst forward. His versionof "If You Go Away" is the best1 have heard by any singer-Ikeep asking him to record it.Every word means more.

Ages ago we discussed the bestin pop music and came to theconclusion that the ideal wag toraise the standards-make greaterand more beautiful things morepopular. He is succeeding well,and as a critic I would like topoint this out. As a friend, I amglad-and so is he.

LET me bring you good news.The Chamber Brothers -

"Time Has Come Today." This israw soul of such pounding inten-sity that it cannot help but becomeNo. I hit of the year in everydiscotheque in the country -tempo changes and all. Two points-it needs maximum volume fromevery speaker you own (go outand sell your mother to the dog -meat factories-buy a huge hi -tiset upon which to play theChambers Brothers).

And C.B.S-the level on mycopy DROPS after the 3+ min. inbuild-up. Could you please rectify.Otherwise - sensational rhythmicpower shrieking from the grooves,recorded in 1966 and it makesJimi Hendrix sound 20 years outof date. The Chambers Brothers-"Time Has Come Today." Listen,loudly, and rave.

Beautiful new Julie Driscoll withmagnificent Auger organ. StatusQuo have a very good first album.I'm beginning to rate them as atogether group.

M afraid the Olympics are wellI' on the way to becoming thebore of the century-closely fol-lowing Enoch Powell for the rightto that title. As for the BarronKnights' abysmal selection of pub,corn and titter... !

Felice Taylor should have themost unoriginal yet catchiest hitof the month. And I'm fed upwith very nearly every record inthe top 30 already. Come on,public. Speed up a bit. I don'tmind you buying rubbish, but atleast let's vary the contents of thegarbage can "every now andthen.'

Up Sarstedt, Ackles and PotTops. Up Eloise and Elonore. UpMarvin and Tammi, Martha andthe Vandellas. Who told youabout Billie Davies? Who told youabout Joe Cocker? I did-believein me, for I am almighty andomniscient and mad.

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New YorkAirplane'sfour-letterwords upsetart -lovers...

ART LOVERS and the Jefferson Airplaneare a little upset with each other thisweek following an incident involving the

group at The Whitney Museum in New YorkCity. The Airplane, as I reported last week,backed up the Glenn McKay light show,Headlights, at theWhitney last Thurs-day for a special"light in motion"show that also fea-tured noted classicalpianist Raymond Lew-enthal.

Contributir g members ofthe museum, known as"Friends Of The Whitney,"were invited to see the show

of psychedelic images andwent home with their earsringing . . . not from theAirplane's music but fromlead singer Grace Slick'scomments!

So four or five "FriendsOf The Whitney" are threat-ening to withdraw their fundsfrom the museum unlessGrace makes a public retrac-tion of her opening dialogueat the light show exhibition.Apparently the friends ob-

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jected violently to her "dia-logue which consisted ofseveral four letter words,"also adding that they thoughtthe sound was "too much"and that the atmosphere was"much too dark."

Cream's

Grace, in turn, has refusedto render any kind of publicretraction and would just assoon have the "Friends Of TheWhitney Museum" who objectto her public conduct "go tohell." . . . Could it just bepossible that there really is a

Ginger Baker: last concert atMadison Square

generation gap in the U.S.?New York audiences will

have their choice of severalvery exciting concerts this fall.The two major shows, to beheld at Madison Square Gar-den, are James Brown and theCream.

Brown, apparently, willattempt to fill the Garden byhimself. The Cream will havethe Buddy Miles Express andTerry Reid with them, and,considering American fans' de-sire to see the Cream one lasttime, James Brown is going tolose out to them in the attend-ance race.

Brown's other activities, be-sides eleven concerts during thelast nineteen days of October,include starring in a film beingshot by the United States In-formation Agency, a semi -propaganda organisation of theU.S. Government.

The picture will centre onBrown's life and feature a gooddeal of his live show plusinterviews with the king. Film-ing has already started.

AROUND New York thisweek: Time Magazine reportedin a long story on the delay ofthe new Stones album that thenext album by Jagger and Co.will have the Pope as the sub-ject of the cover . . . TimHardin has decided to returnto the college concert and clubdate circuit starting this monthafter an absence from thatscene for nearly two years.Tim's latest album (and prob-ably his last album on his oldlabel) is a recording of a liveconcert he gave at New York'sTown Hall earlier this year.The album is much more excit-ing than the actual concertwhere it was recorded. I'm sureof that, since I fell asleep atthe concert during the secondnumber, "Lady Came FromBaltimore," at about the sametime Tim forgot the words andhad to repeat the lyric!

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Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968 17

Nancy: instant stardom

Lee's 'Boots'

keep on

walking ...ONE OF THE quickest waysto make a fortune in pop musicthese days is to write a smashhit record. If you're lucky andit becomes a world-wide successrecorded by everyone fromTony Bennett to Tiny Tim youcan usually sit back and watchthe royalties roll in till you'reold and grey.

About two years ago a short,suave American record producercalled Lee Hazlewood had an ideafor a novelty song and scribbledthe words down on a tatty paperbag. He managed to persuadeFrank Sinatra's little girl, Nancy,to record it-and at the last countit had sold around three -and -a -half million copies.

Money

The song, of course, was"These Boots Were Made ForWalkin' " and it rapidly becameone of the biggest money -spinnersever and rocketed Nancy and Leeto instant stardom.

Hit followed hit after that.Nancy moved on to score withher father on "Something Stupid,"she and Lee joined forces for"Jackson" and together theycleaned up with a very imagina-tive TV spectacular.

And just to prove that successwas not just a flash -in -the -pan, Leelearned this week that his latestalbum with Nancy had justdropped out of the US chart -after 27 weeks.

"Not bad for a rather bad cow-boy singer and a short Italiangirl!" he joked this week when hebreezed into London for a fewdays business.

Boots' was obviously the bestthing that happened to us," saidLee. "I wrote 'Houston' for DeanMartin and I think that outsold it.But no song of mine ever sold somany so quickly.

"It made the top ten in nearlyevery country in the world and hasbeen recorded on about 80 differ-ent albums."

Tired

And now Lee - although heregularly writes songs for threehours a night, three times a week-is turning his extensive talent toTV producing. And already lined -up are TV specials with such starsas Shirley Bassey, Mama Cass,Bobbie Gentry and Nancy again.

"I still write songs to make aliving. But I must admit I'm get-ting a little tired of producingrecords. TV and pictures are what'sinteresting me now."

Today also Lee Hazlewood is inthe happy position of being ableto spare no expense in the thingshe does. A typical example of thisis his latest LP, "Love And OtherCrimes" for which he flew five topmusicians from Los Angeles toParis to make. In the end the airfares and hotel bills for the groupcame to more than the productioncost of the album.

"It must be one of the most ex-pensive LPs around," he grinned.

But we had a lot of fun.'

'I'D FEEL very uncom-fortable if I went backhome to Nelson now",says Tony Hicks. "I'dthink everyone was og-ling at me in the street."

This is one reason heloves London.

"People have come to meand said 'Oh but you're soORDINARY' - and that'snice. It pleases me. I'd hateto feel a freak. In Americaeveryone stared at us somuch I used to pretendwas window shopping whenI went out-standing withmy head nearly in everywindow we passed."

Of all the Hollies, andprobaPly of all the popgroups in England today,Tony Hicks is the nearestequivalent to Paul McCartneythere is.

He is a lover of fine things-antiques, books, paintings,beautiful houses, cars andmoney. And he has them all.

He admits to workingmainly for material posses-sions.

"Oh," says lovely girl-friend, model Jane Lumb. "Ohyou shouldn't say that, itsounds terrible."

"Yes, but it's true.""But you should say you

like material things becausethen you can get all the nicethings in life through them,like happiness."

"Well that's what I mean."He does in fact enjoy work

tremendously. He feels the

Jane Lumb: 'the nice things in Life'

YOU MIGHT suppose that theBritish, one of the world's lastbelievers in the monarchic system,would welcome an emperor withopen arms. The trouble is thatMichael Pasternak is a pretender.Mr. Pasternak, alias EmperorRosko, revealed this week theremarkable fact that he tapes allhis Radio 1 Saturday shows fromParis not because he is so busyin the French capital, but becauseour Home Office hasn't given hima permit to work here as a deejay.

"I have a permit to be a recordproducer in Britain, but when itcomes to applying for a deejaypermit the attitude is always:'Why give an American a jobwhen an Englishman can do it?' "he alleges.

So Rosko has to stew in Paris,unhappily aware that he has nochance to expand his empire be-yond a measly 60 minutes a weekwhich aren't even heard all overBritain because his show is notbroadcast on Radio 2. "I must bethe only deejay who only gets heardon Radio 1. A large portion ofBritain can never have heard myshow."

Which explains why, despite be-ing the most colourful and publi-cised character when Radio 1 wasfirst launched, Rosko has sincebeen submerged by the enormousairtime enjoyed by the TonyBlackburns, Kenny Everetts andJohn Peels.

"That initial excitement aboutme was great, but it has wanedand naturally I'm a bit dis-appointed. There are some thingshappening for me, however, soI'm not that brought down. Week-end TV want me to do a series.I imagine they could pull a workpermit for me, simply becausethey seem to express more interestin me than the BBC."

It doesn't occur to Rosko, a

TONY

HICKS:

the Holliewho's thenearestthingyet toa reallive PaulMcCartney

by PENNYVALENTINE

Hollies have been very luckyto still be around and getconsistent hit singles.

"As a group really we'requite ancient. I mean peoplelike Status Quo are reallyyoung, like kids, in compari-son to us. And the other dayI was talking to Marmadaleand they were saying howthey'd collected all our re-cords and remembered usplaying a date in Glasgowonce - and that REALLYmade me feel old!

"I think the reason we'vealways done well is thatpeople have always accepted

Tony Hicks: 'we've always done what we wanted to - and

us. It's funny: we've alwaysdone anything we've wantedto-and got away with it.

"In four years we've movedfrom having no image at allto going hippie and now beingvery straight. We're going inthe right direction now. We'vegot out of the idea that every-thing we record has to be

got away with it'

our own material. For in-stance 'Listen To Me' waswritten by Tony Hazzard andwe recorded it simply becauseit was much better than any-thing we'd written our-selves."

If the Hollies have a prob-lem at all just now, it's time.

Tony himself almost works

mperor Roskothe spectacularretender

slightly rotund and supremely self-assured young man, that Radio Imight, perhaps, feel that the Bri-tish public couldn't put up withhis hectic American hustling voicefive days of the week.

Several Radio I deejays havesecretly dismissed Rosko's presen-tation as not being particularlyclever. One very famous deejay,in fact, once remarked to me: "Allof us could put over our showslike he does. There's nothingclever about shouting your headoff and making up little rhymesto introduce records."

"Well, the deejays have neversaid any of this to my face," re-plies Rosko. "But if that's whatsome of them say behind my back,all I can say is that half of themcouldn't even run a radio boardwhen they first came in, anyway.

"Actually, I never used to hearRadio 1. Now I hear it in flashesfor I'm spending much more timeover here, producing records. Myopinion of the deejays is thatthey're very English. I like DaveCash and David Symonds becausethings seem to happen on theirshows. Of the others, I don't likeKenny Everett but I can see why

he is happening, and as for Tony'Blackburn . . . well, it must befantastic to have 20 million peoplelistening to you.

"Really, though, I would saythat what the station really needsis British -born but American -trained deejays. If deejaying is be-ing taken as seriously as it seems,the BBC should be sending squadsof today's teenagers to the Statesto train them to take over onRadio 1 tomorrow."

Rosko holds American deejaysin such high esteem that he isconvinced Radio England - theAmerican pirate station whichnever really got off the ground-could have been the No. 1 piratestation instead of London andCaroline. "Their deejays overdidthe high-speed talking. If they'dbeen a bit cooler they could havehad it made. Like me-I try toreach a happy medium where mypresentation is just over the limitto be noticed."

He does, however, single outone English deejay for specialpraise. "Mike Ahern of Caroline-he was the best morning man Bri-tain ever had. But they didn't wanthim. They took Jimmy Young in-

stead. So Mike went to Australiaand I hear he's making fortunes."

If the Emperor is so dis-enchanted with the BBC, why doeshe not depart for the States?"Those TV offers and the fact thatJack Good made me the compereof his TV spectacular. If Jack,the greatest producer of them all,figured on me that must be great.

"And I am shortly hoping tolaunch a revolutionary new record-ing technique on the music busi-ness." He whispers what it is allabout but swears one to secrecy.

It certainly sounded like a spec-tacular idea-but then everythingabout Rosko is essentially spec-tacular. He is not so much Em-peror Rosko as famous film direc-tor Joe Pasternak's playboy son,who pays taxes to Britain, Ameri-ca, France and Switzerland, hasluxury flats in London (MarbleArch) and Paris and drives aboutin AC Bristols, Ford Thunderbirds,jeeps, and on a 650 Triumphmotor -bike (for the rebel image,presumably). He talks so much hotair you don't know how much ofwhat he says is serious. We'll justhave to wait and see whether hisplans come off.

24 hours a day. He has invest-ments in advertising com-panies, is trying to promotea Swedish pop group with abrilliant lead singer here,never moves without hiscamera, is constantly on thephone doing business dealt.

"Of course we don't thinkit's going to go on for ever.I suppose there'll come a timewhen we just go into thestudios and never do any liveshows. But it's funny, wereally enjoy doing stage stuffnow. We did some concertsin Sweden which were verygood and the tour with PaulJones was wild.

"But we all have so manythings going in London thatit gets harder and harder totrave I-even though I'vestarted a chess school to helppass the time!"

In London Tony has alovely mews house in Knights-bridge and a mustard AlfaRomeo car.

"It means a lot to me tobe able to look round andthink this is all mine. I get agreat kick out of makingmoney.

"To be honest I don't knowif the rest of the group investtheir money and have such athing about accumulating itas I have.

"We went through a stageof seeing less and less of eachother at one time. But nowit's levelling out. We wentround to Allan's party onSaturday and Graham cameround to dinner on Sunday.

"Graham and I will prob-ably go into some businessdeal together soon.

"I love doing more andmore things. There was a timewhen if I wasn't playing withthe group I just used tostagnate.

"If you let it your mindcan go to sleep when you'rein this business. You can justsit when you're working andthink 'Well what wall can Ipaint now?'

"I know the group's muchhappier now. Of course thereare things we still all want todo and we'll get round todoing them.

"We've changed a lot andwe're in the position nowwhere things really couldn'tbe better."

Rosko: try to reach a happy medium'

18 Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968

And anotherrevolutionbegun bythe BeatlesAN entirely new art form has blossomed in the past

couple of years. Not that you can see examples of itin the Tate Gallery or even in those open-air art showsalong the Thames in London-for the form is confined toalbum covers and the only place you're likely to see acomprehensive show is your local record store.

A lot of people would place "Sgt. Pepper," the Beatles' all-time revolutionary album of last year, as the beginning point,when LPs became something more than bits of plastic in a coverdesigned purely to keep the dust out of the grooves.

With "Sgt. Pepper" and its cut-out card, its lyrics printed in theirentirety and its fascinating front cover which you can spend hourswith trying to identify all the faces, the record industry suddenly re-alised that an album can be an experience of all the senses ratherthan the purely aural (ear) kind.

Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, the husband and wife who are practi-cally synonymous with "pop -art" in Britain, have a lot to answer for.

'Before their brilliant job on"Sgt. Pepper," too many 'LPsleeves were tatty bits of cardboardwhich were best neither seen norheard; now the danger is, withsleeves becoming more and moreoutrageous, that the actual recordwill be neglected in favour ofmaking the thing look good.

Serious music -lovers, though,will have noticed the change longbefore even the Beatles' superbeffort. Two years ago Love's firstalbum featured an excellent coverwith super colour pictures bothon the back and the front.

Nice-but the point was that if

you somehow moved the coverabout near a red light the name"Love" was seen to jump abouton the picture in defiance of allknown natural and physical laws.

Love is on the small but ultra-high quality Elektra label, andElektra records are now nearlysynonymous with outstandingcovers.

All the Love albums, the Incred-ible String Band with their tech -

AND it's even better in colour ! Cover artwork for Big Brother and theHolding Company's best selling "Cheap Thrills" album by San Francisco'sbrilliant cartoonist Robert Crumb-a superb example of how LP sleeveshave progressed since "Sgt. Pepper" revolutionised the industry.

nicolour "5000 Spirits" and happygroup pictures on "The Hang-man's Beautiful Daughter," thestrange cover of "Strange Days,"the Doors' second album, with itscrowd of circus freaks, CosmicSounds, and more recently EarthOpera and Ars Nova - all areElektra and all are excellent.

Elektra has, been going in theStates for 17 years, ever since JacHolzman started it as a means ofgetting through college.

"Jac says that the pride ofownership of an album shouldstart as soon as the record -buyerhas the album in his hands," ex-plained Clive Selwood, Britishboss of Elektra. "You can't separ-ate the record from the cover-it's all the same thing."

Now Elektra are thinking fran-tically of the next idea for LP

Melody Maker is packed with pages onPop, Folk, Jazz Et Blues.

*Tom Jones talks frankly about Politics,Marriage, Music-about life as he sees it.

*A special M.M. examination of theBlues Scene in all its aspects.

*"13op Today and Tomorrow"a searching M.M. investigation.

*News, views, personality stories Melodyand groovy pictures of the stars. It's all in maker

out today 1/ -

sleeves. What, they're not quitesure yet-but we do know thatthe new Incredible String Bandalbum, "Wee Tam And The BigHuge," features pictures whichwere taken in Frank Zappa's backgarden!

Mr. Zappa himself is the excep-tion which proves most recordcompanies' Golden Rule NumberOne: groups must never, in nocircumstances, be allowed to de-sign their own sleeves.

Zappa does, but he's the excep-tion to every rule. All fourMothers' albums were master-pieces of graphic art-particularlythe American versions, which areall double gatefolds and were de-signed by Zappa as curios of theweird and bizarre.

But otherwise, groups who hap-pily assume that they can do amuch better job on their ownsleeves than the professionals arethe bane of most companies.

"It's amazing how many groupshave friends at art school whoproduce their sleeve designs," said29 -year -old John Hays, in chargeof all sleeve designs for CBS.

"Their designs are often veryimaginative-but the artwork isusually atrocious and they're some-times impossible to produce."

For a group like the MoodyBlues, though, whose "In SearchOf The Lost Chord" must be oneof the best LPs of the year, thecover is of paramount import-ance. "The cover is the showcasefor what's inside," said thegroup's Mike Pinder.

"Our cover was just what wewanted. We know this artist,Philip Travers, who mainly doessleeves for classical records. Weplayed him some tracks and toldhim what we thought it was allabout and then he came up witha picture.

"Somehow his colours on thesleeve are the same colours asour music."

As groups become ever moreconscious of what their recordsshould look like, cover designscan only get further and furtherout. After all, we've ALREADYhad:

Hendrix in the style of anIndian religious poster ("AxisBold As Love"); Country JoeAnd The Fish, who gave awaycopies of "The Fish Game" (asort of psychedelic ludo) with "1Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die";Who's Roger Daltrey sitting in abath of baked beans ("The WhoSell Out").

A completely black coverwhich, if you look very carefully,has a black -on -black picture (Vel-vet Underground); a round coverlike a giant tobacco tin (SmallFaces); a painting which lookslike the result of a schizophrenic'sart class (Grateful Dead).

Jethro Tull made up to lookfifty years older ("This Was");the Rolling Stones in 3-D; Jeffer-son's strange Airplane ("AfterBathing At Baxter's"); Spirit withone face made up of bits from thefaces of each member of the group.

Where will it all end? So far,only Bob Dylan has had the cour-age to get out of the rut-thecover of his million -selling "JohnWesley Harding" was a dismal,colourless grey all over!

THIS IIIS

GRAHAMBONNET

Instrument played: Guitarand singer.

Born: Skegness, Lincolnshireon December 23, 1947. It wasall right being born two daysbefore Christmas. I got presentsthat were tw ice as good.

Family: One brother of 29who's married, he and myparents still live in Skegness.

Present home: Trevor and I

are sharing a flat in CromwellRoad, London, but we hope tomove soon.

Education: Secondary modern.Previous jobs: I was a waiter

in Skegness during the day andplayed with a group at night.

How formed: I had my owngroup, the "Missing Links" andthen I went from one group toanother and finally we became"Bonar Law" and I wrote toTrevor in Australia asking himto come and join us. He's mycousin, by the way. He came over,and we played at the RevolutionClub in London-there were fivein the group then-and wedwindled down to the two of us and theneverything happened and here we are!

C highlight: Simon Dee Show,and then Paul McCartney phoned up,afterwards to say he was impressed by us.That was great.

Pop Scene: Mary Hopkin and all thatsort of scene is good, but the Ohio Ex-press and that lot I don't like at all.I don't understand it. I think there'sroom for improvement all round.

Marriage: I wouldn't get married yet,I haven't thought about it.

Politics: I don't think about themeither because I'm too young. Other

TREVORGORDON

Instrument played: Guitarmainly, but we can both playother things.

Born: On May 19, 1948, inSkegness about 100 yards awayfrom where Graham lived.

Family: I'm an only child.My parents live in Australia now-we emigrated in 1961. Myfather works out of doors onbuilding sites and the weatherwas better in Australia.

Education: I went to thesame school as Graham for a time,and I left when I was 13 andcarried on at school in Australia.

Previous jobs: When I wasstill at school in Australia I wasinvolved in a TV show comperingand singing songs. I left schoolwhen I was 15 because it was tooheavy doing TV work as well.I met the Bee Gees in Sydneywhen we all did a TV show in1962 and from then on we werefriends and I used to play on theirrecords and they on mine and weall made a lot of flops together.

How formed:I wanted Grahamto come out to Australia, but thenhe wrote saying why didn't I

come to England again and join his group.went because the scene in Australia

is a drag at the moment, you have tofollow and copy you can't make it asan individual.

Career highlight: Being on Top ofthe Pops.

Pop scene: I like the scene whereeverybody can do their own material-where kids play on their own records andnot have to get session musicians.

Marriage: I don't think I will for awhile.

Politics: I haven't really got any ex-citing ideas about them.

interests: Art -1 paint. Films-I'd liketo make our own films one day.

Favourite group: I like the Beatlesand Bee Gees, but I haven't really gotany favourite group I just like groupsfor the record they make-if it's good I

like them.Favourite food /drink: Indian and

Chinese I just havea pint of bitter now and then.

Cigarettes: No.Ambition: To write plenty of songs

of our own, and produce them ourselves.Barry Gibb wrote "Only One Woman"for us. We've been writing stuff sincewe were kids.

Favourite group: Beatles, Bee Gees,Simon and Garfunkel and Dylan. Otherinterests: Film -making. The ultimateachievement in show business is to com-bine music and films so that you've gotsomething there forever.

Favourite food/drink: Plain foodrather than spicy stuff, and orange juice.

Cigarettes: No.Ambition: To push the scene ahead

and to create the same sort of stir in theworld that the Beatles have done. It'sa little ambitious, but this is my ambition.When I first heard the Procol Harumrecord I thought they'd done it, but theydidn't follow it up.

MARBLES, up 10 places to No. 18 with "Only OneWoman" make their first public appearance on a four -dayIrish tour from October 31 - November 3, and return forGranada's "Discoteque" on November 5.

Boys are at present putting down tracks for their firstalbum, being produced by Barry Gibb. Among six so farcompleted are the Bee Gees songs, "I Can't See Nobody"and "To Love Somebody." Some of these tracks were infact produced by former manager Gibson Kemp, who isnow working in Hamburg.

Marbles also cut their follow-up single next week. It willeither be a Bee Gees original or one of their own songs.

Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968 19

Herman engaged, Brian Poole and Dec Cluskey married. . . . for popfans the list of fave rave eligible bachelors grows smaller by the day.

So, just to remind you whom you may still scream at without getting scratched at byjealous wives, I offer you Grapevine's eight most eligible bachelors of pop still open to

offers, their pedigrees, past performance, prospects ... and the rest is up to you.Starting with . . .

PAUL McCARTNEY : Aged 26. His romance with Jane Asher was the joy of the gossip columnsuntil, two months ago, they split up. Then seen on the arm of various girls, hottest favourite of whom wasMargarite Giverns, a stallholder in Chelsea Antique Market who accompanied him on a holiday toSardinia.

But it hasn't become serious and you can take it that Miss Asher is still uppermost in his mind.Says Apple associate and closefriend Derek Taylor : "If hedoesn't marry Jane Asher, forgetit." But current companion isblonde American photographerLinda Eastman.

SCOTT WALKER : 24. Big-gest romance was with modelIrene Dunford, but it broke upand he was, for a time, oftenseen with a Czech girl whowent back home. Great fan ofFrancoise Hardy but not roman-tically linked.

Says he can't see himself atpresent being capable of "shar-ing my life with another personfor more than two or threemonths".

CLIFF RICHARD: 28. Hisonly steady date was dancerJackie Irving and she eventuallymarried Adam Faith. Alwayssays marriage is a serious thingand he just hasn't met the rightperson to share his life with.

But close friend David Winter,who wrote a book about him"New Singer, New Song", toldme: "Cliff has always found itvery hard really to give himself-he always holds somethingback. I don't see him reallyfalling in love."

DAVE CLARK: 25. Prem-ieres and plenty of other socialgatherings mean he is accom-panied by Cathy McGowan butthere's no serious romance.Cathy after all has said Cliff isher favourite pop star. Tells me :"Yes-I do have a steady, buther name is my secret" and adds"At the moment I'm having toomuch of a ball out of life tocontemplate getting married.Eventually, I will, but not for awhile yet." Barbara van Bostel,former U.S. fan club secretary,his current interest.

BRUCE: "I need help"

Beach Boy joinsCary GrantBEACH BOY Bruce Johnstonis to smarten up his appearancein time for the group's worldtour which starts on December 1.Cary Grant's personal tailor is

to make all Bruce's suits infuture and thereby hangs a tail.

Bruce, who has lived for thelast year in a one -room pad inCalifornia, currently possessesfour dozen pairs of chino pantsand jeans cut off at the knee,two drawers of pullovers andsweatshirts, assorted tennisshoes, swim trunks and severalpairs of sunglasses . . . andthat's it.

"I decided I really should getsome clothes together," he toldme, "and because I was verykeen on the suits Cary Grantwears I found out that he gotthem from a tailor in HongKong. So I wrote, sending a

What have Jane,Scott and Tonygot in common?

PETER FRAMPTON : 18.Still lives at home so veryeligible. Nothing serious so far.Says: "I used to think I didn'tbelieve in it but now I don't eventhink about it. If you live withsomebody it's just like beingmarried, except the neighboursgo 'Ooh'."

TONY BLACKBURN : 25.Has broken his heart twice,once over a home town girlcalled Sally back in Poole whobroke with him when he becamefamous, then over Hollie girl-friend Carole Dilworth. As hegoes to bed early, doesn't have

snapshot of myself in shortsand torn tee-shirt and added'I need help'. I guess thechallenge was too much forhim because he turned me down.So Cary Grant introduced meto his personal tailor in Holly-wood who has agreed to makeme some suits."

Bart slamsat 'racialism'IS there a colour prejudice inBritish pop? Most groups woulddisagree but one, important,man convinced of its presenceis Lionel Bart, in the public eyeas ever with his -Oliver !" filmtriumph and forthcoming offbeatalbum "Isn't This Where WeCame In ?"

Bart, who is writing a newsingle for Madeline Bell, toldme : "It's while I've been work-ing on this single that it struckme how very hard it is forcoloured singers to succeed inBritain. And Mad isn't theonly example. Look at DannyWilliams and Millie. And howmany other coloured artistshave made it here?

"I put it all down to racialprejudice on the part of theBritish public."

Bart's return to pop -writingis welcome. He wrote allTommy Steele's early hits as

well as such smashes as CliffRichard's "Livin' Doll" then,in his own words, "I goofed-Iopted out of pop because I

thought it was a rat race and I

much time for dating. STEVE ELLIS : 17. Totally

unattached. "I'm playing thefield at the moment-being soyoung I think that's wise."Available for a few more years atleast.

ANDY FAIRWEATHER -

LOW : 18. Schoolboy romanceat 15 finished when the groupstarted happening. The groupis Andy's first love and he says:"I don't have a steady as yetbecause I'm too involved in thegroup at the moment. I can'tsee myself getting married inthe next few years."

wanted to go into shows. I

thought it a big deal to write astandard that people would stillbe singing 20 years after I'dpegged it (died).

"Now I'd like to get back intopop writing. But nobody-apartfrom Mad-ever comes up andasks me to write songs for themany more. I've got 150 songsI've never shown anybody. Ifsomebody cares to call on me,I'd be happy to write for them.I'd enjoy the exercise."

Not that you could ever callBart work -shy. "It's all tooeasy to get pigeon -holed as asuccess and let yourself becomea relic," he says and at presenthe is preparing two new shows-on Broadway in the New Yearan adaptation of Fellini's film"La Strada" in which he hopesto star Topol and Liza Minelli,and in London's West End he isadapting the "Hunchback OfNotre Dame" under the title"Quasimodo" and wants RonMoody for the title role.

And, of course, there isBart's extraordinary album "Isn'tThis Where We Came In ?"which took nine months tomake with a little help from hisfriends and which Deram havedeferred until October 25 becauseof difficulties over the coverdesign of a mirror. The mirroris supposed to reflect theminds of whoever looks at it.Which doesn't tell you muchand means you'll have to hear itfor yourselves to decide whatit is all about!

JANE ASHER: uppermost in Paul's mind"

David Garrick'sreturn fightDAVID GARRICK, that hair-dresser's dream who has isolatedhimself in Germany for the pasttwo years ("In the last 18months I've only spent threemonths in London"), is aboutto offer himself to the Britishpublic again in a bid to re-establish himself here with hisnew catchy record "A LittleBit Of This And A Little Bit OfThat" (a title which "Cracker-jack" turned down because theyconsidered it too suggestivefor children).

"If Leapy Lee can have a

big hit with 'Little Arrows' thenI must stand a chance, too,"is the Garrick reasoning. "I leftEngland because I had a succes-sion of hits in Germany, butevery artist really wants tomake it in his own country.

"I'm bringing in a 12 -piecebacking group from Germanyfor my first ballroom dates herefor 18 months and I'll lose moneyon it, but it's time I tried tomake it here again so I'm notbothered."

Make the most of Mr. Garrick,girls, because he's going backto Germany-he has a flat inMunich-before Christmas tomake a film with Horst Bucholzon the lines of "Hair" but not so"grotty and grotesque" to quotethe gentleman.

SCOTT WALKER: "great fan o Francoise Hardy" ...... ... .......... PUNCH LINES

lj "OLIVER!" hasmade such a mark onAmerican audiences thatthe top stars are rushingto release singles fromthe score which we'llsoon be hearing. LouisArmstrong, Andy Wil-liams and Dionne War-wick are just three ofthe big names who havemade singles of"Oliver!" songs.

C JACK BARRIE,genial host of "LaChasse Club", the 100Wardour Street pubhours home of all popgroups, won a £100 betwith Long John Baldrythat his last single"When The Sun ComesShining Thru' " would-n't be a hit. Now he'sbet Baldry "Mexico"won't get above No. 19and promised to pay£10 for every positionit gets above. Barrie, I

think, will be payingout at least £90.

O "JUNIOR CHOICE"compere Ed Stewarthosting a London partytonight (Thursday) tolaunch his record "ILike My Toys," pro-ceeds of which are goingto the Save The ChildrenFund. B-side is"Myrtle'sBirthday Party" withTony Brandon playingmale romantic lead toEd's Myrtle.

CI SPARE a thoughttoday for the Nice . . .

last night they went toan X-ray clinic in Lon-don, ate a barium mealwhich shows up theirinsides on X-ray plates

Long Johnand suffered six -minute -long injections whichshow up their veins,with the medical guaran-tee that the exercisewould make them ex-tremely ill. They didit to provide the coverpicture of their nextLP out on November 1.For their first album,the boys took off theirclothes and plunged intoa polythene bag... thistime they've taken it astage further by takingoff their skin I

L7 Written requestfrom Love Affair fan totheir publicity man KeithGoodwin read: "Haveyou any spare copies ofthem that I can pur-chase?" Goodwin isnow looking for fiveplastic replicas of thegroup.

CI TALKING of Grape-fruit and that shindigthey suffered in Glas-gow's Club Marylandlast month, ChickenShack read my reportof the affair and prompt-ly cancelled a bookingat the club. Now they'vereceived a 200 -signatureprotest letter from Glas-gow fans.

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HOW TO DRESSLIKE LULUAND SANDIE

a)Which shops stock the Lulu and Sandie Shaw range ofclothes? From what I saw in Disc, they look fantastic!-Stephanie Webb, 3 Sunny View, Kingsbury, London, NW9.

For Lulu's stylings, try the Top Shop boutiques at PeterRobinson branches in the Strand and Oxford Circus, London.Sandie's clothes are also stocked by Peter Robinson. branches ofFifth Avenue, and Mary Parque, in Oxford Street, London.

orh Details, please, of the Australian group, the Groop, whoappeared at London's Playboy Club, and record details.-Pauline Smith, 84 Spring Place, Pound Hill, Crawley, Sussex.

Groop come from Mel-bourne. Personnel: Max Ross(bass), Don Mudie (guitar),Brian Cadd (organ), RichardWright (drums), Ronnie Charles(vocals). Groop came to Britainin March 1968. Dates includedPlayboy Club and Marquee,London, plus various one-nighters up and down thecountry. They returned - toAustralia on September 10, buthope to return to Britain nextJanuary or February.

Two singles were releasedon the CBS label: "Woman, You're Breaking Me" and "Lovin'Tree."

Ail What can you tell me about that gorgeous American singer,Miss Rosetta Hightower? All I know about her is that sheused to belong to a group called the Orlons.-Cliff White-

hall, 29 Park Lane, Wasp Hill Way, Rochdale, Lanes. Vicki Wickham, who produced Rosetta's "Pretty Red Bal-

loons" and "I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel," says thatRosetta was lead singer with the Orlons for five years, with whomshe had four or five big hits. Among them, "Knock Knock,""Shimmy Shimmy" and "WahWatusi."

Twenty -three -year -old Rosettacomes from Philadelphia andcame to Britain in April of thisyear, where she is concentratingon a solo career.

mi Could you tell me theexact time of Paul Mc-Cartney's birth? I know

he was born on June 18, 1942,but was it day -time or night-time? I want this informationto find out which planet wasthe ruling one when Paul wasborn-besides the sign of Gemini.-Aud Marthinsen, Karl Steal -1s,Vei 63, Oslo 6, Norway.

el! Sorry, Karl, actual time of Paul's birth is a bit of a mystery.Says Beatles' spokesman Tony Barrow: "Paul doesn't remember,and neither do his parents." So it looks as though you'll have towork out your astrology chart on the information you already have.

rIs Keith Moon, of the Who, really named Keith Barnard?Does he come from Chelmsford and did he also play goal-keeper for his school?-John Sheehan, Salesian School,

Blaisdon Hall, Longhope, Glos. Over to Keith's mum, Mrs.

Kathleen Moon, for the facts,John. She says: "Keith has nobrothers-only two sisters. Andhe was born in Wembley."

xi Title, please, of the pro-fessional wrestling themeheard on Wednesday's TV.

-Pete Barber, 65 GreentleysRoad, Moss Side, Manchester 15. "Eleventy One," ,onColumbia DB5825. Pete Murray-dj advice

ft How do you become a discjockey? I am 15 years old and, of course, have no experience at deejaying-except at home

"playing deejay" on my record player.I would very much like to be

involved in the pop scene when Ileave school next year. - DaveOgden, 2 Kersal Avenue, LittleHulton, Worsley, Lanes.

Who better to give adviceto Dave, than one of Britain'stop deejays-Pete Murray.

Says Pete: "It's terribly diffi-cult being a deejay as it isn'ta profession, and there's nosecurity as there is in America,where there are so many stationsin every town.

"But in this country, workis on a contract basis of 13weeks at a time, so I certainlywouldn't advise anyone to takeup deejaying as a career. Betterto study for another career andmaybe do some deejaying in yourspare time, if possible. Thereare far too many deejays virtually

' chasing after non-existent jobs."But if you are really sold on

the idea-and good luck toyou!-it is very important tohave the right voice."

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WE LOVEMIKE ANDTHE OTHERFOUR OFTHE DC5

ON BEHALF of all the DC5 fans in this country, I'd just liketo say that although we all love our Mike -he's a lovely lad!-the other four boys are loved just as much.

The emphasis is not really on Mike in particular as far as weare concerned, but on the overall sound of the group- this isproven on their current hit "The Red Balloon," where Davesings lead, and on their past two records "No -One Can BreakA Heart Like You" and "Everybody Knows" it was Len Davidsonsinging lead.

Jimmy Miller: great producer?

Spooky Toothshort-circuitmy mindIT REALLY is unbelievable,unbearable and sad. Threetimes this year, when SpookyTooth have "appeared" onRadio l's "Top Gear" the excel-lence of their "sessions" haveshort-circuited my mind.

The "Top Gear" versions oftheir singles : "Sunshine HelpMe," "Love Really ChangedMe" and "The Weight" havebeen infinitely superior to thoseon record.

Since "great -record -producer,Jimmy Miller" is responsiblefor these painfully inferiorrecords, I must cautiously ask ifTraffic and the Rolling Stonesare likely to suffer similarly.-VIV PARSLOW, 16 RoushamRoad, Bristol 5.

RADIO 1 has done it yetagain. First, we had the revolu-tionary afternoon programmechanges and the generous in-troduction of a whole three-quarters -of -an -hour new pro-grammes a day. And now yetanother world scoop -the FunThirty has been dropped infavour of the Terfific Twenty,Which now means, of course,that lucky listeners Will be ableto hear 20 tunes played by theTony Evans Band every day,instead of 30. At this rate theBBC should easily be on a parwith the pirates by 1978. -COLIN FENN, 35 Bradgate,Cuilley, Herts.

Surely this proves it isdefinitely a five -man group thefans support and love and notone particular member. -MAUREEN STREET, Secre-tary, Dave Clark Five Fan Club,c/o Harold Davison Ltd., 235/241 Regent Street, London,W.I.

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A new Hendrixdisc -at last

THANK goodness JimiHendrix has finally de-cided to come back to hisBritish fans. After almosta year and a half he hasat last released his newsingle, which incidentallyis fantastic. If he had leftit much longer I don'tthink he would have hadmany British fans left.

Why do all the greatartists after making theirname in Britain go overto America and forget thefans who put them at thetop? - D. CLOREY, 26Cambridge Avenue, GreatCrosby, Liverpool 23.

A CRITICFOR MARYMARY Hopkin, Mary Hopkin,what's the pop business comingto? Everywhere you look it'sMary Hopkin. What's so specialabout "Those Were The Days"?Nothing, it's terrible!

But listen to Sandie Shaw'sversion; then you hear some-thing fabulous, far superior toMary Hopkin's version. Theonly reason she is at No. 1 isthe Beatles -no other. In sixmonths we will all have for-gotten about Mary Hopkin,and Sandie will still be Britain'sTop Girl Singer. - GEOFFMOGRATH, 269 CoppullMoor Lane, Coppull, Chorley,Lancs.

Mike Smith (left) with Dave Clark in the recording studio

Weirdie John Lennonruins Beatles' looksMRS. READ (Pop Post 5.10.68) should realise that only a solo star hasthe right to dress and act as he likes. The Beatles' recent "Top of thePops" appearances were ruined because of Lennon's deliberate eccen-tric, scruffy, couldn't -care -less air.

When one Beatle loses public favour all four have to suffer. Lennonwith his weirdie looks, thoughtless words and indiscreet behaviour,should think of that.

I understand he means to put a controversial cover on his Yoko OnoLP. I hope that he will think again, for the sake of the other three. -MISS L. WATSON, Edinburgh.

SCOTT'S TOUR :FAN COMMENTHAVING just attended theopening date of the ScottWalker tour, I can only ex-press disappointment and baffle-ment.

After sitting through actswhich ranged from the good,the bad, and the ugly, ontame the star to enthral uswith an act consisting ofexactly six numbers.

I know that touring is nothis ideal medium and he's onlydoing them for the money, butit's really not good enough. Inthe past I've seen tours by suchgreats as Aretha Franklin andDusty Springfield who have tornthe place apart with superb actsof no less than a dozen num-bers. So fair deal please, Mr.Walker.-PATRIC SCOTT, 48Park Hall Road, East Finchley,London, N.2.

Presley shouldGIVE actinglessons . . .SO Lance Le Gault was responsible for Elvis' moveinto films after he came out of the army in 1960? Ifthis is so, then Lance is to be blamed for Elvis' badperformances in these films.

Comparing Presley's own great style in his pre -army films such as "Love Me Tender," "JailhouseRock," "Loving You" and "King Creole," to hispresent acting, Elvis should teach Lance Le Gaulthow to act, not the other way round! - KEVINJACKSON, 4 Akehurst Street, Roehampton, London,S.W.I5.

HELP! MY DAD'S A POP FANT WANT to protest! EveryA Thursday when I wantto watch "The Avengers,"my father insists on watch-ing "Top Of The Pops" tosee his favourites: TomJones, John Rowles andEngelbert Humperdinek. Mymother swoons over theTremeloes, Dave Clark Five,

Dave Dee, the Bee Gees. Iwouldn't mind if they hadgood people on, but thereare so many good groups -Tyrannosaurus R e x, theNice, Fairport Convention,the Family -who are neverseen on TV at all. -ANGIE, 370 FordbridgeRoad, Birmingham 37.

WITH reference to the letter were -why do you think I didfrom Miss M. Hyde (Disc the request? - DAVE CASH,14.9.68) we are not quite as Orchard House, Orchard Street,dim-witted as it may seem. I London, W.I.knew exactly who the 259 gang

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CLUES ACROSS1. For her, these are the days!

(4, 6)8. Chart No. 1? (6)9 and 15. The Magistrates' latest

(5, 3, 3)10. Current fashion (5)11. The part that lingers on? (6)15. See "9"17 and 17 Down. American girl

who's just made her debut(5, 5)

19. Just a fool (5)20. Song producer? 16)21. Group On the Road Again

(6, 4)

CLUES DOWN2. Record fruit? (6)3. What is produced (5)4. "14" says a little one (6)5. Opening part (5)6. Instruction to printer (4)7. Crockery holders (5)

12. Lay bare (5)13. Billy or Jr? (6)14. Miss Franklin (6)16. Good Queen Beth? (5)17. See "17 Across"18. It appears she's no artist (4)

Last week's solutionACROSS: 1. Silver. 4. Discs. 7.Maori. 8. Canned. 9. Needles. 10.Heat. 14. A-che. 16. Dreamer. 19.Rarely. 20. Inlet. 21. Layer. 22.Paired.DOWN: 1. Simon. 2. Looker. 3.Edibles. 4. Drag. 5. Singe(r). 6.Sedate. 11. America. 12. Laurel. 13.Smiler. 15. Hardy. 17. Rated. 18.Slur.

Last week's LP winnersC. Pearson, 8 Corona Drive, Lamb -

with Road, Hull, Yorks, Vivienne Gill.15 Don Gardens. Washington, Co. Dur-hem. Miss N. Thain, 12 FillysideAvenue, Edinburgh 7. Margaret Por-teous, 1736 Great Western Road, An-niasiand, Glasgow W.3. Wendy Herbert,9 Kingswood Villas, River, Mr. Dover,Kant. Miss L. DorlIng, 34 Bury GreenRead. Cheshunt, Herts.

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THURSDAYSTATUS Quo-Dundee Uni-

versity.Scott Walker / Love Affair /

Paper Dolls / Cupid's Inspira-tion / Terry Reid - Adelphi,Slough.

Tom Jones / Della Reese /Ted Heath Orchestra -Adelphi, Dublin.

James and Bobby Purify-Sibylla's, Swallow Street,London, WI.

FRIDAYJOE Cocker - Rutherford

College, Newcastle.Who/Crazy World of Arthur

Brown / Elmer Gantry / JethroTull - Lyceum Ballroom,Strand, London, WC2 (12.30a.m. - 7 a.m.).

Status Quo-Scene 2 Club,Scarborough.

Scott Walker tour - Gau-mont, Ipswich (with Cupid'sInspiration).

Tom Jones tour-Ritz, Bel-fast.

Julie Driscoll / Brian AugerTrinity-Warwick University,Coventry.

Vanity Fare - Corn Ex-change, Perth.

Joe Loss Show (Radio 1-I p.m.)-Val Doonican, MaryHopkin, Ken Dodd.

SATURDAYSCOTT Walker tour-Gran-

ada, Tooting (with Cupid'sInspiration).

Joe Cocker-LoughboroughUniversity.

Status Quo-Plazas, Old -hill and Handsworth, Bir-mingham.

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

COLIPITIJOWN

Arthur Brown : London's Lyceum on Friday

-California Ballroom, Dun-stable.

Tom Jones tour-A.B.C.,Blackpool.

Leapy Lee-New CenturyHall, Manchester.

Julie Driscoll / Brian AugerTrinity - Faculty of Tech-nology, Manchester.

Val Doonican Show (BBC 1-8.15 p.m.)-Vera Lynn.

Time For Blackburn(Southern, Grampian, Ulster& Scottish TV)-Dave ClarkFive, Who, John Walker,Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mickand Tich, Heath Hampstead.(To be shown on Tyne Tees& Border TV October 21, andHarlech, Anglia & LondonWeekend TV October 25.)

Small Faces - Corn Ex-change, Kelso.

Vanity Fare - CoronationHall, Kingston-upon-Thames.

Saturday Club (Radio 1-10 a.m.)-Fifth Dimension,Cat Stevens.

Pete's Saturday People

(Radio 1-10 p.m.) - MoodyBlues.

Dee Time (BBC 1 - 6.15p.m.)-Joe Cocker.

SUNDAYITIUSTY Springfield-Golden

Garter Civic Centre,Wythenshawe, Manchester(until October 26).

Scott Walker tour-Coven-try Theatre (with Casuals).

Amen Corner-Top Rank,Birmingham.

Tom Jones tour - Palla-dium, London.

Stuart Henry Show (Radio1 - 10 a.m.)-Spooky Tooth,Showstoppers.

Top Gear (Radio 1-3 p.m.)Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band,Tim Rose, Idle Race, Baker -loo Line.

MONDAYAMEN Corner - Ice Rink,

Streatham, London.Radio 1 Club (Radio 1-

12 noon)-Tremeloes.Joe Cocker-Black Swan,

Sheffield.

TUESDAYAMEN Corner-Town Hall,

Kidderminster.Radio 1 Club (Radio 1-12

noon) - Dave Dee, Dozy,Beaky, Mick and Tich.

WEDNESDAYTom Jones tour-Gaumont,

Hanley.Casuals-Top Rank, Sun-

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SUNDAY NIGHT FROST and not a deepdiscussion or a politician in sight. It's funnight, with sketches involving regulars RonnieBarker and Ronnie Corbett, lots of corny jokesfrom David Frost, and the whole concoctionpeppered with musical items. All a bit end-of-the-pierish, but nevertheless, family entertain-ment-and good!

But the PRESENTATION of the music stinks.The technical crew responsible obviously haveThursday and Friday "discussion" nights off pat,but when it comes to Sunday's "live" music sound-forget it. Over the last few weeks there have beensome terrible blunders.

The Deep Purple, a beautiful, Cream -type group,came across sounding like Ivy Benson, and ifthere are backing girls on an arrangement, as inDeena Webster's "Scarborough Fair" (even if theydo sound ready to be pensioned off), let's at leastHEAR them. And from an artist's point of viewthe music is the most important thing. Both Engel-bert and Dusty couldn't hear the band, missedtheir entrance cues and suffered dismally.

To an average viewer, it looks as though it's thesinger's incompetence - how arethey to know about "fold -back,""feed -back" and the hang-ups of"live" sound in a TV studio? Butit's unforgivable that any TV com-pany still hasn't solved the prob-lems of positioning the artistsnear enough to the band or to thespeakers and/or aren't employingsound engineers who are sympa-thetic and familiar with commer-cial, modern music.

And, all music has a mood,which is hard enough to putacross, anyway, when the soundis lacking, but it's virtually im-

David Frost'spop smellsof mothballs!

possible if you're a singer stuckin the middle of a vast arena,which looks like the Palais afterclosing time, with every light inthe place turned on full blast, sothat you expect Mrs. Mopp toarrive any minute.

Eartha Kitt coped magnificently,hut even she, amid a canopy ofhired candelabras, or slinkingseductively on a couch, was ham-pered by football stadium lighting.It's a pity there aren't moreartistes like Miss Kitt though, 'cosher camera technique is faultlessand, like her or not, she's one ofthe world's greatest entertainers-in every sense of the word.

But I'm really curious and alittle worried about whoever booksthe "supporting" acts. SochaDistel is fine for a time and place,but on a supposedly topical pro-gramme he is positively prehistoric-or at least his choke of material

DEENA WEBSTER was.

Who's vintageBus'-drivingfor the chartIF YOU, madam, were one of the elderly ladies who hada buckshee bag of crisps thrown at you from a 1912 omni-bus in London last week and enjoyed the experience, youcould show your gratitude by getting your grand -daughterto go out and buy the Who's new single, "The Magic Bus."

Because those crisps came through the courtesy of the Whowhen they drove round 'Dilly and other London landmarks inthis vintage bus with a few friends, a lion, a baby elephant anda parrot.

It was all part of a big promo-tion campaign by the boys to get"Magic Bus" high into the chart.Failure to do so would hardlyhave them heading to the bank-ruptcy courts but they are deter-mined to have a hit again aftersuffering a first -ever flop with theirlast release, "Dogs."

"It was all basically our ownfault," said their singer, RogerDaltrey, on one of those rareoccasions when he deputises forthe excellent, articulate PeteTownshend as spokesman for thegroup. "We went away to theStates just as we released it so itgot no real promotion.

"It wasn't a particularly bad re-cord and although we do want tohave a hit with `Magic Bus,' wedon't really think of singles as allthat important now. You onlyhave to look at the chart to realisethat. Who's buying `Little Arrows'I'd like to know. We wouldn'twant our name associated withthose record buyers.

"It seems obvious that the kidsare only interested in albums thesedays with singles so expensive.And we're all getting very excitedabout the new album we're work-

ing on at the moment. It'll be asort of pop opera in that a story -line runs right through the full 16tracks."

That storyline is certain to en-rage the Mrs. Whitehouses of thisworld. But let Mr. Daltrey dis-close the grisly tale. "Well, it'scentred on a deaf, dumb andblind kid and his reactions tothings that ordinary people regardas bad. For example, in one song,he gets seduced by his uncle. Andwhereas we would say: *What adirty old man,' to the kid it's justa new experience. We're not reallysetting out to put across a messagealthough I suppose you could saywe're showing that nothing can betotally bad. There's good some-where in everything."

The album will be out just be-fore Christmas - an excellent pre-sent it promises to be for all inthe post -teenybopper age group-and, as usual, Mr. Townshend canclaim most of the composingcredit. Roger Daltrey, indeed, mustbe well-nigh unique in that al-though he is lead singer of theWho the spotlight always seemsto be on Pete Townshend. Itdoesn't disturb him in the slightest

And this week's Gerard Setymight well be fine in his ownenvironment, but on Frost wasworse, and certainly more ernbar-rasing and less funny, than thecommercial breaks. Though, ofcourse, it is the time of theOlympics, it's pushing your luckto unearth a group called theMexicans just to prove it. Oh dear.

What really bugs me is that Irate David Frost and feel he's oneof the few people who knowwhere it's all at. He comes upwith the greatest TV interviewscoops and has on not only thebiggest and best names in enter-tainment, but some of the besteither unrecognised or unknowntalent, too. So how on earth canhe allow the whole thing to beso badly loused up by dated,stuffy booking and presentation?David Frost is what's happeningin current affairs, but his Sundaynight show smells of mothballs.

Who with friends on their London bus -trip

and, as if to emphasise the fact,Mr. Daltrey now leads the life ofa virtual recluse, holed up in theBerkshire countryside and happyto be away from London whenthere is no work to be done.

"I'm not egotistical. If you en-joy what you're doing you don'tneed the limelight. And we reallydo enjoy playing these days. Thestage act is a lot more heavy-it's more like a jam session.

"We've got out of the stage ofgoing to a date and thinking, 'Oh,let's get it over with, get ourmoney and split,' and now weplay on for as long as we like.Like last week at London'sRoundhouse, we were supposed todo a 45 -minute set and I supposewe stayed there playing for morelike two hours."

Mr. Daltrey also had somethingto say on the suggestions that"Magic Bus" is too similar to theirold smash, "My Generation."

"Certainly it was written in the`Generation' period and we cameacross the tape the other day quiteby accident and found we liked it.But I can't see any real compari-son. The whole subject of the songis completely different."

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ALENTINEBRITAIN'S TOP SINGLES REVIEWER SPINS THIS WEEK'S NEW DISCS

fk Roof and Jenny Jackson

-big, fat and lovely !LEAN On Me (Beacon)-I was very surprisedI liked this. Only because, I must admit, I goa lot by labels and this one didn't look toopromising.

In fact I love it.It's the sort of thing Marvin and Tammi

could have done brilliantly and Mr. and MissJackson do well enough to keep me happy. It'sall lovely and has a big fat thumping backing.Hurray!

Tiny Tim: he's totally sincere

Tiny Tim, squeakyfalsetto and all-a hit, I fearHELLO Hello (Reprise)-Hello hello to you too, MrTim. Mr Tim will be heresoon. I am sure the man istotally sincere. He has ahighly acute, very shrewd,ery American band of ex-

ploitation people behind him.They have found a product,canned it and presented it tous-plastic bag et al.

America is a strange place."Hello Hello" was originally

recorded by the Sopwith Camel(I think) and now Mr Timgives us all in his squeakyfalsetto. I fear it will be a hit.He whistles on it too.

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Scaffold's Mike McGear: jolly stuff

STUNNING to hear the Byrds'new one "I Am A Pilgrim"

which spotlights their pride andjoy C'n'W singer and doesn'tsound at all like them. It's fromtheir "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo"album and if you've ever held theByrds sound dear to your heartyou may be as disappointed as Iby this (CBS).

Sharon Tandy has been tryingfor a hit for a long time. It seemsthat everyone is really trying tosort out what kind of bag she'sin. "Hold On" has her in blueswith a good sound. I would haveliked to have had her voice furtherforward and grittier sounding(Atlantic).

BogglingNow there's another Big

Brother and the Holding Companysingle. It's called "Down On Me"-which is boggling-and has MissJoplin sounding lighter than usual.It's a hit in America and is fromtheir first album, but I like them*better now (London).

really do like Jack Jones'voice. Very smooth. Mann and

SCAFFOLDLILY The Pink (Parlophone)-I hate to admit it but I laughed.Well you can't help it when ahuge thumping drum heralds theScaffold yelling about drink, adrink, to Lily The Pink, thesaviour of the human race!

It's all incredible stuff folks-you ought to hear the rest!Jolly jolly stuff. The tune ishorrifically familiar, it jogsalong like a Paul Jones danceor something (I've neveractually SEEN anyone do thePaul Jones) and it's bound tobe a hit because it gets youright there-or here-or there.Oh well.

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DOORSLIGHT My Fire (Elektra)-Asif all around us being in chaoswasn't enough Elektra, blesstheir cotton socks and what-nots, have decided to re-releasethis.

It is the original version ofthe Jose Feliciano hit. Doorsdo it much faster and it stillsounds good. But I don't quitesee the theory behind puttingit out again.

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Weil's "I Really Want To KnowYou" is a great song with lovelywords. I would have liked morestrength on the chorus, but it'snice to listen to (RCA).

My dear old Chants sound verydifferent on "A Man Without AFace." At times almost like Davidand Jonathan and not half as soulas usual. It's catchy though (RCA).

BROOK Benton's "Do YourOwn Thing," despite the title,

is much too sophisticated for thechart (Atlantic).

Francoise Hardy does the oldElvis number "Loving You" inher usual dreamy way (UnitedArtists).

"Treat Me Right" sounded quitepromising at the start but halfway through it rolled on a bittoo much. Tony James vocalises(Telly).

Jerry Butler is another of my

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SPRINGFIELD PARKNEVER An Everyday Thing(CBS)-I must start by sayingthis isn't the sort of record Igo mad about-but but but-shrewdness is all and I foreseethis doing very well indeed.

It's on the same scene asMarmalade and Love Affair,with a very good solid produc-tion behind it. In fact the pro-duction just saves the song, thatWayne Fontana did, from be-ing ordinary and the groupthemselves induce a lot ofstrength into the vocal.

Verdict is then that it's anordinary song given a hit treat-ment. Which, is I suppose, allthat counts:

OUT TOMORROW Jimi Hendrix: his fans will be eager to buy this

Hendrix woke me frommy slumber!ALL Along The Watchtower (Track)-In a week fullof well -made but highly "pleasant" and thereforeun-shattering records the Hendrix camp have man-aged perfect timing for release of this new single.

Of course, we've had a long, long wait and, to be honest,maybe this sounded a great deal more shattering than it actu-ally is simply because it is something that woke me up fromslumber. Anyway it's good, competent Hendrix stuff. Verytight, solid interpretation of the song Dylan wrote and theNashville Teens did a good job on. His fans will be eager tobuy it. OUT TOMORROW

favourite singers. "Send A Tele-gram" is really rather nice. Lovelystrings and stuff. But his voiceisn't given enough to show whata fine singer he is (Mercury).

Very, very nice-listen pleaseto Davy Graham on "Both SidesNow." Beautiful guitar, an in-teresting voice and something any-one with taste will like listeningto. A name to note (Decca).

MutteringGranny's Intentions have also

done "Never An Everyday Thing"which is quite nice but it doesn'treally sound like a hit (Deram).

If anyone thinks "Isn't ThisWhere We Came In" by LionelBart is going to be a hit . . .

well! It's about people sitting ina cinema muttering if you mustknow (Deram).

"Let's Take A Trip Down The

Rhine" sing Apple. It's okay butwho wants to go down the Rhine?Identification is hard (Page One).

SEEM to remember likingArs Nova's last record. Lots

of thought and interesting thingshave gone into "Pavan For MyLady" but it misses something(Elektra).

Fever Tree's "San FranciscoGirls" is getting a lot of attention.Although you may be sick ofhearing about the place it's a goodrecord (MCA).

"Things You Do" by CaseyAnderson is a sort of "LittleGreen Apples." He has a nicesincere voice and the words arepretty (Reprise).

I liked the Tages "HalyconDays." Nice production (MGM).

They've re-released the Cham-bers Brothers' "Time Has ComeToday" in its extended form. VeryHendrix -like word delivery (Direc-tion).

Like Roly Daniels' voice. Des-pite its title "Love Is A Sym-phony" is quite pretty. But hecould do better on somethingmore worthwhile (CBS).

JUDY CLAY ANDWILLIAM BELLPRIVATE Number (Stax) -Judy Clay used to sing withBilly Vera. Now she teams upwith William Bell. I don't knowwhether it's just me but I'mveering towards these sort ofduo records very strongly.

They sing beautifully -per-haps a bit too smoothly andnot desperate enough for me-but it's the production thatreally takes the prize. Lovely.Not a hit but then we can'thave everything.

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Steve and Stevie sing okay on"Merry Go Round" which hassome odd things going on in thebackground to add interest butthe whole thing doesn't amountto much (Toast).

Paul Slade has done Pitney's"Heaven Held" well without allthe soul searching (Decca).

PopularMarianne is a popular name just

now. Cat's Eyes have a prettyoffering called "Thank YouMarianne" which is pleasant(Deram).

Like the girl's voice in FiveAnd A Penny on "You Don'tKnow Where Your Interest Lies"(Polydor).

"Bang Shang A Lang" singYoung Blood and well they might.Very uninspired (Pye).

If you hold the Chuck Berrymemory dear you'll love "St.Louie To Frisco." Good stuff in-deed (Mercury).

"I Just Came To Get My Baby"sings Ram Jam Holder very well.Interesting voice and a nice bluesyfeel (Beacon).

BACHELORSTURN Around, Look At Me(Decca)-Heralded by choir andlush strings come the Bachelors.

This is a fairly well knownnumber and, true to form, be-fore they even sung a note Iknew what the Bachelors weregoing to do with it. They didtoo.

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Sharon Tandy: a good sound

24 Disc and Music Echo-October 19, 1968

Discand MUSIC ECHO isOCTOBER 19, 1968 USA 20c

What is itlike taking aDj test? Discsent reporterCAROLINEBOUCHERfor a BBCaudition-and todayshe describeshernightmare

T'S taken a week nowfor my nerves to berestored to normal. Asthe memories of that

fateful day at the BBCrecede, so the butterfliessubside. But as a miserablyfailed disc jockey, I amwiser. Never, never againwill I scoff at a new DJ, Heor she, has my undyingsympathy.

The BBC is awe-inspiringenough under normal circum-stances. It is huge, powerfuland even the telephones havefour -figure extension numbers.The morning I arrived outsidethe vast headquarters in Lang -ham Place, London, it seemedto have doubled in its ominousmajesty. Clutching my patheticscript and choice of nine re-cords that seemed more unsuit-able with every step, I foundmy way through the rabbitwarrens to the producer's office.

I was early. Half an hour early.I hadn't been early for anythingfor weeks. A sympathetic secre-tary brought me coffee, and 1 satand waited for the programme pro-ducer to leap dragon -like throughthe door. As each minute tickedby, both script and records seemedmore ridiculous. I had decided todo a late -night programme, whichI thought would be more suitedto a girl's voice.

I had doggedly decided to intro-duce them with "Green Onions"by Booker T and the MG's. Itwas a favourite tune and I feltstubborn about it. The rest of theselection was slow, what I con-sidered to be late -night stuff, in-cluding the new Herb Alpertsingle, Joe Cocker, Jose Felicianoand a track from Buffy SainteMarie's LP.

I was knee deep in cigaretteends and coffee cups when AidanDay appeared. Producer of StuartHenry's programme, he regardedmy ordeal as something of a jokeand it wasn't until five o'clock thatafternoon that his mirth changedto utter despair.

He agreed with my choice of alate night show, as he said therewas then a higher proportion of

GIRLS! Be a DJon Radio 1

Girls, the search is on! This is yourbig chance to break the male mono-poly and become the first Radio I DJof the fairer sex.

DISC is looking for Britain's first top girldisc jockey, and having found her, will giveher the opportunity of a lifetime to jointhe swinging team at Radio I.

Interested? Of course you are. It's achance no ambitious girl can afford to miss.

Read on carefully. This is all you have todo: -

With the aid of a tape -recorder, a micro-phone and a small selection of your ownrecords, compile and present on tape a15 -minute record programme.

This can take any form you like. Perhapsyou like a fast bouncy rock 'n' roll or soulmusic show; or folk and country-and-western ; or smooth ballads.

The choice of music is yours, but the teamof judges, headed by Radio I stars Keith

Skues, Ed Stewart and Stuart Henry, willbe listening very carefully, not only to thechoice of records, but to the way they arepresented and the all-important words yousay between each one.

The judges will choose the tape-recordingwhich, in their considered opinion, show themost promise. And the winning tape goesbefore the Radio I audition panel, headed bystation boss Robin Scott. They will listencarefully again and . . . well, you could bewell on your way to a regular Radio I show.

Remember: The programme you decideon must run for NO MORE THAN FIF-TEEN MINUTES IN ALL, and must berecorded at either 31 r.p.s. or 71 r.p.s.

Send your swinging show to: Girl DJ,Disc and Music Echo, 161 Fleet Street,London EC4, to arrive no later than Novem-ber 18. The editor's decision is final; nocorrespondence can be entered into.

So get to work NOW, and get your tapesrolling in.

male listeners, whereas to do ajolly mid -day show you would beappealing to a predominantlyfemale audience who would notbe so appreciative.

My choice of records, he said,was too slow when takenaltogether and would send themost ardent male listener straightto sleep. Alas, "Green Onions"was scrapped and the show beganwith the first record, "Listen ToMe" by the Hollies.

It was important to start off theshow with a reasonably livelynumber to catch the listeners'attention.

The remaining records were cutdown to only five-Jose Feliciano's"Light My Fire," Joe Cocker's"With A Little Help From MyFriends," Buffy Sainte Marie's"Piney Wood Hills" and finallythe B-side of Dusty Springfield'snew record, "The. Colour Of YourEyes." .

Along to the record library forthe records, then down to studioL.I in the bowels of the BBC.Two nonchalent studio techni-cians greeted us, Aiden becameeven breezier and brisk. Losingany feigned composure I waspushed into the studio and sat ata table, facing the other threesilently and goldfishlike throughthe window separating studio fromcontrol room.

Studio L.1 is designed for com-fort and relaxation. For somestrange reason it has thick car-peting, armchairs, settee and tablelamps. I felt neither comfortedor relaxed, but like some spy in

a Russian sitting room surroundedby hideous bugging devices, andmesmerised by a large micro-phone suspended over my nose.

The Hollies record went on.The first few bars of song, thenabout seven seconds of instru-mental in which time I had toopen my "show," introduce my-self, come out with some appro-priately bright comment and thenfade out "with the Hollies" as theystarted to sing again. The greenlight went on (a signal that youin the studio are audible andtherefore to start talking). Thecombined effect of that, the micro-phone and frantic signallingthrough the glass partition fromAidan was too much.

My suitably low-pitched latenight voice soared to a shrillfalsetto, I stammered, I gabbledand finished my introduction inthree seconds flat.

Aidan had long since thrownmy script away, saying that ascript always sounded strained,and I was to "chat naturally."What a hope. After five attempts,and cutting my speaking rate towhat sounded a ludicrously slowspeed, I managed to give areasonably comprehensible intro-duction. Then a red light went onwhile the record played-a signalthat you can crash around thestudio unheard by fifty millionlisteners.

Then followed a nightmare ofred light, green light, and Aidantearing his hair out. After theHollies record finished I back -introduced it, then talked over

the long instrumental introductionto Jose Feliciano.

Chat between these three recordswas quite easy. Just a bit of in-formation and opinion about therecords. With . Joe Cocker's "ALittle Help From My Friends,"the long introduction was cut andI had to signal a split secondbefore I finished talking so thatthey could come straight in withhis voice.

Aidan pointed out that the mostimportant part of the show was myintroduction and the way I signedoff with the last record, and itwould be these bits that the audi-tion panel would be listening for.A big mistake, he said, was totalk too much and oversell your-self-all that was necessary at thebeginning was to introduce your-self, welcome listeners to the showand tell them (in the case of alate show) to relax, etc.

And at the end just to sign off,and in the case of my last record-"The Colour Of Your Eyes" -I used the title as a line of chatto leave the show, hopefully, on arelaxed late night note. Thus, theshow got off to a fairly fast startand gradually slowed down in pacewith slower records until it tailedoff with "Colour Of Your Eyes."

My faults became painfullyobvious at the play -back of thetape. Although I considered I hadslowed down my speaking voicesufficiently it was still too fast,showing my lack of confidenceand making listeners most uneasy.

As for the voice itself, what Ihad imagined to be suitably low

STUART HENRY

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pitched, sexy tones came u,a cross between the QueenChristmas Day speech and :I.,nouncer for programmes fo,under fives.

It was also monotonously opan, inspite of Aidan's suggest."Imagine you're just talkingyour favourite boyfriend."

A major difficulty I had fouwas not to imitate other 1.1.

whose catch phrases after years L,listening with perhaps only ho,attention, register subconsciouskwhich made it all the harder IL

come over as an individual. Nt.voice certainly sounded different-horrifyingly so.

Even now, I tremble as I lookback on that nightmare ordeal. I

recommend it to those with nervesof steel, fresh ideas and a lot ofenthusiasm. Good luck to all girlswho enter Disc's contest today!

The BBC issued this verdicton Caroline's audition:

"Caroline Boucher's auditiontape has been heard by a panelof producers and their generalopinion was that she appearedto be knowledgeable about poprecords; that she has a pleasantspeaking voice, hut lacking inlight and shade, and tends tospeak at the same pace all thetime; and that she really ap-pears to have too shy a per-sonality to make a pop DI.

"In other words, we could notsaY she would be suitable forDI work on Radio I."

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