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It was the original Summer Of Love, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album was brand
new in the shops, and one of the great psychedelic pop songs, A Whiter Shade
Of Pale by Procol Harum, was at #1. The track was based on Bach's Suite No.3
in D Major, better known as Air On A G-String, and had moved swiftly to the
top, having only debuted on the Top 40 a fortnight earlier at #21 before
soaring to #4.
A Whiter Shade Of Pale returned to the UK charts in 1972, when a
re-issue reached #13, but the band enjoyed only two other Top 40 hits, and
never had much success on the album listings.
The Best of The Mamas and The Papas
The outgoing #1 was Silence Is Golden by The Tremeloes, their cover of a
Four Seasons B-side. Between 1963 and 1965, as Brain Poole & The Tremeloes, they
notched up four major hit singles including the chart-topper Twist & Shout.
Three decades later, Poole's daughters would become chart stars themselves as
Alisha's Attic.
On a similar note, the offspring of The Beach Boys (at #5
with Then I Kissed Her) and The Mamas & The Papas (down from #3 to #7 with
Dedicated To The One I Love) teamed up on hit records of their own in the early
1990s; Brian Wilson's girls Carnie and Wendy were two-thirds of Wilson
Phillips with Chynna Phillips, whose parents were John and Michelle of the
California dreamers.
The Kinks: The Ultimate Collection
Flower Power was revolutionising mainstream culture, but the Underground of
a less trippy nature was referenced on a trio of charting singles. The Kinks'Waterloo Sunset was falling one place to #3, The New Vaudeville Band's
Finchely Central climbed 5 to a peak of #11, and Petula Clark entered at #34 with
Don't Sleep In The Subway.
In the all-time lists of most consecutive weeks on the UK chart, Release Me
by Engelbert Humperdink is still at the top with 56, just one week more than
Mr. Acker Bilk's Stranger On The Shore. Release Me, the song which famously
denied Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane from giving The Beatles' a 12th
straight #1, was making the 20th appearance in that record-breaking run. Its
follow-up, There Goes My Everything, was already at #4 but ultimately couldn't
find a way past Procol Harum.
Traffic: Mr Fantasy
The Jimi Hendrix Experience also had two hits on the Top 40; the onetime #3
hit Purple Haze dropped 10 places to #30 on its 12th week, while The Wind
Cries Mary was down from #6 to #8, swapping places with The Supremes'The
Happening. Coincidentally, an act called The Happenings were at #31 with I Got
Rhythm. The Supremes were Tamla Motown's sole representatives on the chart, but
Atlantic could boast a trio of classics; Arthur Conley's Sweet Soul Music was
up 7 places to #9, Groovin' by the Young Rascals moved from #36 to #23, and
Eddie Floyd was coming to the end of a 13-week residency with Knock On Wood.
Plenty of major names were on the Top 40 of 37 years ago: The Whoe were down
a notch to #10 with Pictures Of Lily, the debut hit for the Bee Gees - New
York Mining Disaster 1941 - was still in the top 20, and The Hollies were the
highest entry at #17 with their future Top 3 smash Carrie Anne. Dusty
Springfield was up 8 to #24 with Give Me Time, while The Walker Brothers last hit for
9 years - Walking In The Rain - fell from its high of #26 to #33, and The
Small Faces debuted at #37 with Here Comes The Nice. The only act making their
inaugural appearance on the UK chart were Traffic, featuring ex-Spencer Davis
vocalist Steve Winwood, whose Paper Sun was new at #26.
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