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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.

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. mTFktK3mY3o 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. BOkIeppeY9M 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. gSuunaEIUHY

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. BrjJeP1GGxY 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. DrMTJZSNu0o 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. -C1ql9y-mgo

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. WWvwP72FuVg 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. TfohgYAlTPE 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. Qpo9KZYJ4sA

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. 3s6tbi72JRw 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. cwjq7JEZUeI And finally for this episode is Cat Stevens' Kitty, which was at #47 on w/e 20th December 1967. rXXn1LSv_z8

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. vvUMOS3sEgw 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. qoX6AKuYWL8 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. Swf2nSBaxl4 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). b8etnFwce7c

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. fzEn37GC_QU 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. ihlqmpNpedM Finally, at #50 on w/e 4th May 1967 was Otis Redding, with Let Me Come On Home. GeJEP7n5YeE

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). ciNauioDGaM 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. 4FcAXFycPis 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. yzSyWV4DMD0

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. kiyXr3SIWkQ 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. bp9yK_k6wCk 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. _Z3j6s0Qstw

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. XHeQUUhUJsQ 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. lcVf-byv6DQ 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. ZFSOoAFm9o4

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. KW-3YW7uo4c 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. Em--T6vhjrY 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. 12ZDg0R7fyE

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. uAXZrEhO584 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. qSKgvmWj_Ok 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. NAMe1bRW8Ao

The One Week Wonders - Episode 99 First up is Tony Merrick with a version of the Rolling Stones song Lady Jane, which was at #49 on 2nd June 1966, and was his only week of UK chart action. Another version of Lady Jane, by David Garrick, got to #28 in the same year. 5nBGMfvHXj0 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. 3xpONvYyFvQ Finally for this episode the Ivy League with Willow Tree, which was at #50 on w/e 14th July 1966. This was their fourth and final UK charting single. Their biggest had been their third, the #3 hit Tossing And Turning. hHa8EZFUjTw

The One Week Wonders - Episode 98 First up are the Dave Clark Five with Look Before You Leap, which was at #50 on w/e 19th May 1966. There previous charting single was Over And Over, which reached #44 here at the end of last year, but was a US #1. RZS9SAs7Cbc Next is Bob Lind with Remember The Rain, which was at #46 on w/e 26th May 1966. It was the follow up to the #5 hit Elusive Butterfly, and was his only other charting single. 2wckTFTLd9Y Finally for this episode we stay with the same chart week and move down to #50 where we find Mr Zero by Keith Relf. This was Keith's only week of chart action as a soloist, but he experience more as lead singer of the Yardbirds. GNtIPH_nW4o

The One Week Wonders - Episode 97 We start this episode with Pinkerton's Assorted Colours and Don't Stop Loving Me Baby, which was at #50 on w/e 21st April 1966. It was the follow up to their #9 hit Mirror Mirror, and was their only other charting single. cbwfC6KjwNg Next we could have been hearing The Isley Brothers with This Old Heart Of Mine, as it initially had one week at #47 on w/e 28th April 1966, however it then reentered the charts in October 1968 and reached #3 during that run. Instead our next song is Once by Genevieve, which was at #43 on w/e 5th May 1966. The 9th edition of Guinness says she was a French vocalist, but the 17th edition says she was a British vocalist with the decidely unfrench name of Susan Hunt. Whoever she is, this was her only week of UK chart action. oY6Nb8rm86s Finally for this episode we have Kenny Damon with While I Live, which gave Kenny his only week of UK chart action on w/e 19th May 1966. According to my chart advisor for the sixties, KingOfSkiffle, it was at #45, though Guinness says #48, and another book Record Hits says it had two weeks and peaked at #45. I know how much time and effort KingOfSkiffle has spent researching accurate charts, so one week at #45 is likely to be right (certainly I don't believe Record Hits which is full of inaccuracies). hZmoMtMvhAE

The One Week Wonders - Episode 96 First up we have the 4th and last Uk charting single from Unit Four Plus Two, Baby Never Say Goodbye, which was at #49 on w/e 17th March 1966. Their second single, Concrete And Clay, had reached #1. crxIMGlBDT4 Next is Ray Charles with Together Again, at #48 on w/e 21st April 1966. 0qKHM_oHJMg Finally we stay with the same week and move one place lower to #49 for Petula Clark's A Sign Of The Times. RaeKpFuLvIY

The One Week Wonders - Episode 95 We begin today with a woman called Barry! Bary St John to be precise who sings an anti-war duet called Come Away Melinda with a small girl. The song was Barry's only Uk charting single and was at #47 on w/e 9th December 1965. W6fnNOhtrs8 Next up are The Pretty Things with Midnight To Six Man which was at #46 on w/e 20th January 1966. w3qJ-KPlt4M Finally for this episode is Ray Charles with Crying Time, or to give the full credit, Ray Charles with The Jack Halloran Singers and the Ray Charles Orchestra with The Raeletts. Crying Time was at #50 on w/e 10th February 1966. faYXTndRasE

The One Week Wonders - Episode 94 We start with Roger Miller's Kansas City Star which was at #48 on w/e 21st October 1965. This was Roger's third charting single, and his first, King Of The Road, had been a charttopper. NBeXnzjvMrk From one Miller to another, this time Jody Miller, who was one place lower at #49 that week with her only Uk charting single Home Of The Brave. Dc5MAqcCJZ8 Finally for today we have the 3rd and final new charting single for Millie, who was at #48 on w/e 11th November 1965 with Bloodshot Eyes. Her first single was the #2 hit my Boy Lollipop, which did manage to also reach #46 in a re-issue in 1987. o68h5XJbWx8

The One Week Wonders - Episode 93 First up today we have the only week of UK chart action for The Birds (not to be confused with The Byrds), and Leaving Here, which was at #45 on w/e 27th May 1965. 5Qy2s87kpIA Next is the only week of chart action for The Cadets and Eileen Reid. Jealous Heart was at #42 on w/e 3rd June 1965. Connie Francis released a version in January 1966 which reached #44 and was her 24th and final UK charting single. 4lgvzpBq-Eg We could have been ending today's episode with Nina Simone's I Put A Spell On You, which had one week at #49 on w/e 5th August 1965, however it then reentered in January 1969, when it got as high as #28. Other versions of the song have faired better with The Alan Price Set reaching #9 in 1966, Bryan Ferry #18 in 1993, and Sonique #8 on her second try in 2000, two years after her first attempt to chart it. Annie Lennox also got to #63 with it in 2015. Seems a bit weird that Nina's sublime version is pretty well known, but there are 3 other versions that have charted higher than hers. Anyway we instead end with the only week of chart action for Spanish duo Johnny and Charley, and La Yenka, which was at #49 on 14th October 1965, and which apparently was a minor dance craze at the time. Maybe time to revive it to join the ranks of Macarena, Saturday Night and Cha Cha Slide in the cheesier nightclubs of a Saturday night? I know I'd have a go after a bevy or three.... _3WnFEjfVw4 PS: This slightly odd footage shows what the actual dance looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbCp_qZOCTw

If Andre Rieu does get there, then so might Dominic Frisby, and if the latter happens I'd be interested to see how the chart show handles it, as I suspect it might choose to use a newsbeat interjection to explain it, as with the Ding Ding campaign, but if only Andre makes it I suspect they'd happily just play that, and perhaps even explain why it's there. There is a swear-free version of 17 million that has been made available to radio stations, so they theoretically could play Dominic, but not sure if they will or not in the event it charts.

I notice from the iTunes there is a chart battle this week between Brexiteers and Remainers. Does anyone think that 17 million **** offs or ode to joy, or both, will trouble the chart on Brexit Friday?

The One Week Wonders - Episode 92 First up we have Heinz, or Heinz Burt to give him his full name, with Digging My Potatoes, which was at #49 on w/e 18th March 1965. It was Heinz' fifth and last UK charting single, and his most succesful had been his first, Just Like Eddie, which hit #5 in 1963. amLfQLEoJDs Next up is Quiet Five, with When The Morning Sun Dries The Dew, which was at #45 on w/e 13th May 1965. They had one other charting single, Homeward Bound, which reached #44 in April 1966. 2HFHRosGpsk Finally for this episode we have the In Crowd, who were having their only week of UK chart action on w/e 20th May 1965 at #48 with That's How Strong My Love Is. akMr6agQNbs

The One Week Wonders - Episode 91 We start with Ned Miller and Do What You Do Do Well, which was at #48 on w/e 18th February 1965. This was his second and last UK charting single, after the #2 hit From A Jack To A King two years previously to the week. PSvbV1pzYEs Next up is Frankie Vaughan and Someone Must Have Hurt You A Lot, which was at #46 on w/e 11th March 1965. Unfortunately I can't find any trace of it anywhere online, despite the vast number of other Frankie Vaughan tracks available on Youtube, Spotify and other sites. This is only the second single on this thread (after Mrs Mills Party Medley) that I haven't been able to link to, but I suspect it has to do with having reached the mid 1960s, and to do with copyright laws regarding recorded music. In the Uk, for all work published, or peformed to or communicated to the public, by 31st October 1963 the copyright period of 50 years has expired, and the same applies to all unpublished music recordings made prior to the same date. Things are different though for music recorded after that date, or recorded before that date but published after it (provided the publication was within 50 years of the recording date) as there was a change in law on 1st November 2013 that extended their copyright's to 70 years instead of 50, meaning that a few episodes back we moved from music that was out of copyright and in the public domain, and so was easy to find on youtube and streaming sites, to music that is for the most part still under copyright for many years to come, and can therefore only be found online if the copyright holder allows it to be. I hope the majority of songs on this thread will still be findable, but if I had to guess I think we'll have the biggest problem between the late 80s and early 00s, when the number of new entries per week was much higher, so there are many more obscure songs in the first place, and independent labels were behind a fair few of them which also doesn't help, and then once we enter the digital era of the late 00s on I expect it will be less of a problem again as the majority of tracks will then have been licensed with digital methods of distribution in mind from the outset, but we shall see. At this point we could have been finishing this episode with My Girl by The Temptations, had it not been for the cinematic success of Macaulay Culkin and Anna Klumsky's film of that name, which led to the Temptations single being reissued in 1992, when it reached #2. Originally it had had one week at #43 on w/e 18th March 1965. Sticking with the same chart week, but moving down to #48 we instead find The Zephyrs only week of UK chart action with She's Lost You. 5CrCHofo85I

The One Week Wonders - Episode 90 First up its Marvin Gaye's second UK chart hit, and his first truly solo, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), which was at #49 on w/e 10th December 1964. jX4cO5njMxQ Next we have pianist Mrs Mills, with Mrs Mills Party Medley, featuring two medley's of three songs, which was at #50 on w/e 31st December 1964, a chart week that was only published in Record Mirror, (who always published the Record Retailer chart by this point) and not by Record Retailer, and so was missed by early editions of Guinness British Hit Singles, and by many other chart books, meaning Mrs Mills one week wonder gets forgotten about in many sources. The A-side was a medley of You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It), Shine On Harvest Moon and I Didn't Want To Set The World On Fire. Unfortunately, though admittedly appropriately for a chart single that was nearly forgotten about, I can't find the precise medley on youtube, or anywhere else on line, but have instead found separate recordings of the first two tracks. If anyone can find an online source for the original medley then do let me know. HuP6ZsVOMpU acqcKCGzR_Q Finally for this episode we have the first UK charting single for The Peddlers, Let The Sunshine In, which isn't the song from Hair, but a different song with the same title. It was at #50 on w/e 7th January 1965. They would have to wait until 1969 and 1970 for their other two chart hits, Birth (#17) and Girlie (#34) respectively. Guinness says that the Milk And Sugar track of the same name which reached #18 in 2003 was a version of the Peddlers song, but after listening to it I suspect it is actually based on the other song, the one from Hair. MLTmRBi-hbI And now I'm nearly caught back up to where I wanted to be by this date in the first place. When I uploaded the first few posts on this thread in late October and early November it was suggested I do one three song episode a night, which began to be my plan with episode 7 on 3rd November, so by my reckoning today (26/1) should have been episode 91, which will appear this evening. From now on I aim to return to one episode per evening, and to stick to that more reliably than I have managed over December and January. The original idea was to introduce us all to the singles over the years that were good enough to get into the chart in the first place, yet obscure enough to get only one week on chart and then disappear. A voyage of discovery, if you will, through a lot of old music we may otherwise not have heard. I feel that part of that journey is discussing what we think of the songs we've discovered, so I am always interested to hear any views any of you may have. I know I don't tend to say my own views in this thread, as I feel as host I ought to remain fairly neutral and present all the singles equally for my readers/viewers to decide how they feel about them, but perhaps I'm wrong to think that, maybe. In any case I, and the other contributors so far, don't usually bite, so don't be shy... join in and help make this voyage even better for everyone on it. Enjoy your Sunday afternoon, and see you this evening for Episode 91!

The One Week Wonders - Episode 89 First up we have ol' blue eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, with Hello Dolly, which was at #47 on w/e 24th September 1964. The song was taken from the stage musical of the same name, which had debuted in the US in November 1963, although the London production of the show didn't begin until December 1965. Other versions of Hello Dolly to chart in the UK in 1964 where by Frankie Vaughan (#18), Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen (#30) and Louis Armstrong (#4). There was also a version by the Bachelors which reached #38. fJsbJvNfwl8 Next up is the UK chart debut of The Rockin' Berries, with I Didn't Mean To Hurt You, which was at #43 in w/e 1st October 1964. H1KFiuCN6pY And finally for this episode we have Lulu with Here Comes The Night, which was at #50 on w/e 12th November 1964. It was her second UK charting single after the #7 hit Shout. In early 1965 The Them, led by Van Morrison, took the song to #2. GTUbVC9YpOE