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The One Week Wonders - Episode 99

 

Next is Making Time by Creation, which was at #49 on w/e 7th July 1966. They followed this up with their only other charting single, Painter Man, which hit #36 later in the year.

Another song mentioned here to have provided a hit for Boney M.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 100

 

First up are Ike and Tina Turner, who were at #48 on w/e 28th July 1966 with Tell Her I'm Not Home. A couple of weeks previously their chart debut River Deep Mountain High had reached as high as #3 and was still fairly high in the chart, though that was on the London label and this one week wonder was on Warner Bros. The rest of the charting singles they released together would also be on London, so this one-off may have been a previous record label looking to cash in on their recent success.

 

Next, in the same chart week, is the third and final single from Eddy Arnold, If You Were Mine Mary, which was at #49. His first, Make The World Go Away, was a #8 hit earlier in 1966.

 

And staying in the same week for the final one of this episode too, Joan Baez was at #50 with Pack Up Your Sorrows, her 5th charting single. She had to wait just over 5 years until October 1971 to have one last hit, They Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, but it turned out to be her biggest, reaching #6.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 101

 

First up we have 9th UK charting single for Wayne Fontana, and the 3rd without the Mindbenders, Goodbye Bluebird, which was at #49 on w/e 25th August 1966.

 

Next is the only week of UK chart action for Tommy McClain, with Sweet Dreams, which was at #49 on w/e 8th September 1966. A version by Roy Buchanan reached #40 in 1973, and was Roy's only Uk charting single. Elvis Costello also reached #42 with it in 1981.

 

Finally for this episode are brothers Paul and Barry Ryan, with their 5th of 8 uk charting singles, Have You Ever Loved Somebody, which was at #49 on w/e 29th September 1966. Barry then had a solo career of 6 more uk charting singles, starting with the #2 hit Eloise.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 102

 

First up, at #50 on w/e 29th September 1966, is Marvin Gaye with Little Darlin' (I Need You). This is his 3rd UK charting single, and his 3rd one week wonder. His next single, a duet with Kim Weston called It Takes Two, would reach #16 and spend 11 weeks on the chart in 1967, thus ending his run of one week wonders.

 

Next is one we already saw in the Xmas special, Donald Peers with Games That Lovers Play, which was at #46 on w/e 29th December 1966. It was the first of three UK charting singles for him.

 

Finally for this episode is the only week of UK chart action for Tim Hardin, with Hang On To A Dream, which was at #50 on w/e 5th January 1967.

 

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 103

 

We start this episode with Sandie Shaw, with I Don't Need Anything, which was at #50 on w/e 19th January 1967. Sandie was chosen by the BBC to represent Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest, and every Saturday from 21st Janaury to 18th February she performed a different possible song on primetime BBC1. On 25th February there was a re-cap of all fives songs to be voted on, and on 4th March the winner was announced as Puppet On A String. The song would go on to both win the contest, and top the chart as Sandie's next single.

 

Next up as a cider-drinking westcountry lad myself I'm happy to be mentioning Drink Up Thy Cider by Adge Cutler and The Wurzels, which was at #45 on 2nd February 1967. This was their only charting single for nearly a decade, and there would be a sad change to the band before the next one. Following a live performance in Hereford on 5th May 1974 the band's lead singer and main songwriter Adge (real name Alan) was driving in his MGB sports car when he is thought to have fallen asleep at the wheel. His car overturned on a roundabout in Chepstow and he was killed. Deprived of their main songwriter, and the original westcountry themed songs he wrote, the band would go on to instead write alternative lyrics to contemporary pop sings as a way of creating new songs, which would lead to a resurgeance in their fortunes in 1976, including the charttopper Combine Harvester, and a #3 hit with I Am A Cider Drinker.

 

Finally for this episode are The Drifters with Baby What I Mean, which was at #49 on w/e 2nd February 1967. At this stage in their career The Drifters had only had two hits that got inside the top 20 in the UK, both in 1960, with the biggest being Save The Last Dance For Me, which reached #2. After this one week wonder they would be absent from the chart for five years, only to return to the UK charts with a run of big hits between 1972 and 1976.

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Sorry, didn't mean to take another week off from this, just how things turned out. And I was already behind by a couple of episodes before that...

 

The One Week Wonders - Episode 104

 

We start with the only week of Uk chart action for The Bystanders, with 98.6, which was at #45 on w/e 9th February 1967. There was another version of 98.6 in the charts around this time, by Keith (real name James Keefer), which reached #24 and was the first of 2 Uk hits for him).

 

Moving down to #49 in the same week we find Electric Prunes with I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night), the first of two two singles to make the Uk charts.

 

And finally for this epiosde we have Guess Who with His Girl, which was at #45 on w/e 16th February 1967. They had to wait for just over 3 years, until May 1970, for their only other Uk charting single, American Woman, which reached #19 here, but was a US #1.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 105

 

We carry on where we left off last episode, w/e 16th February 1967, but move down to #48, where we find Chris Farlowe with My Way Of Giving In.

 

Last episode I mentioned that there was a second version of 98.6 by a guy called Keith, and that he had one other UK hit. Well here is that hit, at #50 on w/e 16th March 1967, it's Tell Me To My Face.

 

Finally, at #50 on w/e 4th May 1967 was Otis Redding, with Let Me Come On Home.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 106

 

First up is Andy Williams with More And More, which was at #45 on w/e 2nd August 1967.

 

Next we could have been hearing Light My Fire by The Doors, which originally had just the one week on the UK chart at #49 on w/e 16th August 1967, despite being a US number 1. We aren't hearing it as the second song of this episode because it was reissued in 1991 and reached #7 on that occasion. I'll link to the song anyway as a bonus.

 

Instead of The Doors our second single for this episode is Vicki Carr's There I Go, which was the second of three UK charting singles for her, the first of which was the #2 hit It Must Be Him. Vicki's real name was Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona. There I Go was at #50 on w/e 30th August 1967.

 

Finally we move into the Radio 1 era with The Voice Of Scott McKenzie and Like An Old Time Movie, which was at #50 on w/e 1st November 1967. This was Scott's only other UK charting single besides his charttopper, San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair).

 

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 107

 

First up are Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, who were at #47 on w/e 8th November 1967 with Ladybird.

 

Next is the 9th and final charting single for the Seekers, the Wizard Of Oz themed Emerald City, which was at #50 on w/e 13th December 1967.

 

And finally for this episode is Cat Stevens' Kitty, which was at #47 on w/e 20th December 1967.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 108

 

First up are Gladys Knight and The Pips with I Heard It Through The Grapevine, which had one week at #47 on w/e 27th December 1967 and was their second UK charting single. As well as the charttopping version by Marvin Gaye, there was also a version by The Slits which reached #60 in 1979.

 

Next is Green Tambourine, which was the only UK charting single for Sun Dragon, and was at #50 on w/e 21st February 1968. There was another version of Green Tambourine at about the same time, by The Lemon Pipers, which got to #7 in the UK and was a US #1.

 

And finally the only week of UK chart action for Classics IV with Spooky, which was at #47 on w/e 28th February 1968. Another version of Spooky charted in 1979 by Atlanta Rhythm Section, which reached #48.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 109

 

We start with I Wish It Would Rain by The Temptations, which was at #45 on w/e 6th March 1968. A version by The Faces reached #8 in 1973.

 

And staying with the same week, but moving down to #50, we find Petula Clark with Kiss Me Goodbye. This was her 25th Uk charting single, and after this the only other charting singles she had were a couple of minor singles in January 1971 and January 1972, and a remix of Downtown in 1988 which reached #10.

 

Finally for this episode it's Aretha Franklin with Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby), which was at #47 on w/e 13th March 1968.

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 110

 

We start with If You Can Want by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, which was at #50 on w/e 3rd April 1968, and was their 4th Uk charting single.

 

Next is Arthur Conley with his second and last UK charting single, Funky Street, which was at #46 on w/e 10th April 1968. His other charting single was Sweet Soul Music, which had reached #7 in 1967.

 

And we end this episode with the first of two Uk charting singles for guitarist Willie Mitchell. Soul Serenade was at #43 on w/e 24th April 1968.

Re 'Spooky': The Atlanta Rhythm Section, who had a minor hit with the track in 1979, were born out of the ashes of both Classics IV and another band called The Candymen who were Roy Orbison's backing band in the 1960s.
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Re 'Spooky': The Atlanta Rhythm Section, who had a minor hit with the track in 1979, were born out of the ashes of both Classics IV and another band called The Candymen who were Roy Orbison's backing band in the 1960s.

 

That's interesting, I hadn't realised there was a connection between the two bands. Looking it up it seems the Atlanta Rhythm Section consisted of three Candymen and two from Classics IV, but I think one of those Classics IV members was a later one who wouldn't have been on the original recording of Spooky, so I think the only person present on both recordings is guitarist J.R.Cobb, who co-wrote the lyrics.

I was trying to think of the classical piece that Emerald City by The Seekers bases its melody around. The wiki page for the song reveals it to be Beethoven's 'Ode To Joy'.
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I was trying to think of the classical piece that Emerald City by The Seekers bases its melody around. The wiki page for the song reveals it to be Beethoven's 'Ode To Joy'.

 

And of course the Andre Rieu version of that tune will eventually be in an episode of this thread (if I keep going far enough to reach 2020 anyway).

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The One Week Wonders - Episode 111

 

We start with Procol Harum and Quite Rightly So, which was at #50 on w/e 24th April 1968. It was their third charting single after Whiter Shade Of Pale (#1) and Homburg (#6).

 

Next up is Joe Cocker with his UK chart debut, Marjorine, which was at #48 on w/e 22nd May 1968. His next single would be the charttopping With A Little Help From My Friends.

 

Finally we have The Temptations who were at #47 on w/e 12th June 1968 with I Could Never Love Another.

 

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The One Week Wonder - Episode 112

 

We start with the third charting single from Gary Puckett and Union Gap, Woman Woman, which was at #48 on w/e 28th August 1968. There other two were Young Girl which hit #1, and Lady Willpower which got to #5. Following this there only other visit to the UK charts was a reissue of Young Girl in 1974 also hit #6.

 

Next is Ride My See Saw by the Moody Blues, which was at #42 on w/e 4th December 1968.

 

And lastly for this episode we have Hugo Montenegro's second and last charting single, Hang 'Em High, which was at #50 on w/e 8th January 1969. The single was a cover of Dominic Frontiere's theme for the Clint Eastwood's film of the same name. Hugo's only other charting single had been the charttopping cover of the Ennio Morricone theme to another Clint Eastwood film, The Good The Bad and The Ugly.

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