Another SRE chart provided by Terje Isberg. As previously mentioned, he was a big fan of Johnnie Walker's and would often record his late night shows to listen to
the following day. Fortunately for us he has kept them. Terje writes: “I moved to Japan from Sweden at the beginning of December last year. Well, here I am sitting and waiting until my house is ready to move into. So I listened
through three tapes of The Johnnie Walker Fiasco (on Swinging Radio England) from (the early hours of) 10th, 11th and 13th October 1966 and tried to patch together a Fun 50 list. Now, a couple of days later, I have managed to
produce an almost complete list.” Unfortunately Johnnie occasionally gives conflicting information, as can be seen from the notes below.
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SWINGING RADIO ENGLAND FUN 50
8th October 1966 |
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1
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I Can't Control Myself |
The Troggs |
2
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Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing In The Shadow |
The Rolling Stones |
3
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Reach Out I'll Be There |
The Four Tops |
4
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Lady Godiva |
Peter & Gordon |
5
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I've Got You Under My Skin |
The Four Seasons |
6
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(i)
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All Strung Out |
Nino Tempo & April Stevens |
7
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(ii)
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Sunny |
Georgie Fame / Cher / Bobby Hebb |
8
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Dear Mrs. Applebee |
David Garrick |
9
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Beauty Is Only Skin Deep |
The Temptations |
10
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Another Tear Falls |
The Walker Brothers |
11
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Have You Ever Loved Somebody |
The Searchers |
12
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96 Tears |
? & The Mysterians |
13
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Is It Really Worth Your While |
The Fortunes |
14
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(iii)
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Winchester Cathedral |
The New Vaudeville Band |
15
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Bend It |
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich |
16
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No Milk Today |
Herman's Hermits |
17
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If I Were A Carpenter |
Bobby Darin |
18
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Stop, Stop, Stop |
The Hollies |
19
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Who Am I |
Petula Clark |
20
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21
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There Will Never Be Another You |
Chris Montez |
22
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I'm A Boy |
The Who |
23
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Little Man |
Sonny & Cher |
24
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What A Wonderful Feeling |
Lulu |
25
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When I Come Home |
The Spencer Davis Group |
26
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Born A Woman |
Sandy Posey |
27
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You Can't Hurry Love |
The Supremes |
28
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Cherry Cherry |
Neil Diamond |
29
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Just Walk In My Shoes |
Gladys Knight & the Pips |
30
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Wrapping Paper |
Cream |
31
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Walk With Me |
The Seekers |
32
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(iv)
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I Can't Make It Alone |
P.J Proby |
33
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Little Darling (I Need You) |
Marvin Gaye |
34
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Baby Toys |
The Toys |
35
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or |
(v)
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Magic Rocking Horse She Drives Me Out Of My Mind |
Pinkerton's Colours The Swingin' Medallions |
36
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(vi)
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Que Sera Sera |
Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band |
37
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What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted |
Jimmy Ruffin |
38
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In Our Time |
Nancy Sinatra |
39
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You're Ready Now |
Frankie Valli |
40
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Everything I Touch Turns To Tears |
Brian Poole |
41
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Two At A Time |
Neil Christian |
42
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43
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Ain't Love Good, Ain't Love Proud |
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds |
44
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This Is My House (But Nobody Calls) |
The Moody Blues |
45
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(vii)
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Happy New Year |
Beverley |
46
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B-A-B-Y |
Carla Thomas |
47
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I Love My Dog |
Cat Stevens |
48
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(viii)
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High Time |
Paul Jones |
49
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Gonna Fix You Good (Every Time You're Bad) |
Little Anthony & the Imperials |
50
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HITBOUND |
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Ride On Baby |
Chris Farlowe |
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My World Fell Down |
Ivy League |
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Gimme Some Lovin' |
The Spencer Davis Group |
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Hooray For Hazel |
Tommy Roe |
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Happenings Ten Years Time Ago |
The Yardbirds |
NOTES
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The links from the songs on this page lead to the Amazon MP3 Store where you can hear short audio clips of the tracks and customers in the UK can buy downloads. Please see this note. Radio City's City Sixty for this week can be found here. The Radio London Fab 40 and Caroline South Countdown Of Sound can be found on the Radio London website. There are a number of other offshore charts listed on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Full details here. We don't have last week's chart. The one from two weeks ago is here. Next week's is here. |
A full page of the first issue of ‘Beat Wave’ was devoted to Beverley, the singer at number 45 on the Fun 50. Despite being playlisted on
Radio London,
Radio Caroline and Radio City, as well as Radio England - and possibly other stations
too - the record made no impression on the UK sales charts. Written by Randy Newman and produced by Denny Cordell, it was the first single released on Decca's ‘progressive’ Deram label. You can hear it on
YouTube. Beverley later enjoyed success under her married name of Beverley Martyn.
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