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Sweet Pea (Tommy Roe)

August 02, 2016

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2 AUGUST 1966

Tommy Roe’s ‘Sweet Pea’ was at its peak US Billboard chart position of #8.

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Bus Stop (Hollies)

20 JULY 1966

The Hollies’ ‘Bus Stop’ was at its peak position of #5 on the UK charts. It also reached #5 on the US Billboard chart, being their first big hit in that country. And rightly so, because this is one of the very best singles they ever produced, with an inventive rhythm and lyrics, and of course featuring the groups brilliant harmonies.
This was the first single to feature Bernie Calvert on bass. He hadn't quite been made a permanent member of the band at the time, but he replaced previous bassist Eric Haydock who had recently quit the band but still featured on the record covers for this single.
This song was written by future 10CC member Graham Gouldman, whose considerable talent produced several other hit singles around this time, including 'For Your Love' and 'Heart Full of Soul' for the Yardbirds, 'Listen People', 'No Milk Today' and 'East West' for Herman's Hermits, and 'Look Through Any Window' for the Hollies.
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Echoes (Gene Clark)

20 SEPTEMBER 1966

Singer-songwriter Gene Clark recorded the song ‘Echoes’ during this month in 1966. It featured on his 1967 debut ‘solo’ album 'Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers'. Gene had recently departed the Byrds because of ongoing conflict within the group and his noted fear of flying, and as that band's senior songwriter and handsome frontman with a haunting baritone voice he might well have expected further success.

'Echoes' was the kind of mature, melancholic, baroque pop that Scott Walker would soon be recording, but it was not typical of Gene's future career, which lay in country-rock. Unfortunately his first album - released around the same time as the Byrds' 'Younger Than Yesterday' - failed to chart. He never again experienced the dizzy heights of commercial success he enjoyed with the Byrds, although he gained immense respect as an artist and some of his albums are now considered cult classics. He died in 1991, aged just 46, after y…

World Cup Willie (Lonnie Donegan)

11 JULY 1966

The 1966 World Cup finals opened as England played out a 0-0 draw with Uruguay at Wembley. The theme song for the Finals, ‘World Cup Willie’ by fading skiffle star Lonnie Donegan (a Scotsman, no less), had rather strangely been released an entire seven months earlier, and it failed to even break the Top 100 in the UK charts.

This is hardly surprising, as the style of the sing was heavily dated and the lame lyrics - in awestruck praise of the World Cup mascot ‘Willie’ (a lion) - spoke of him being
‘Dressed in red, white and blue, he's World Cup Willie
We all love him too, World Cup Willie
He's tough as a lion and never will give up
That's why Willie is fav'rite for the Cup’. A shame, as Lonnie played a massive part in early British rock history and deserved better material than this.

B-side. 'Where In This World Are We Going?' Length. 2:39 Label. Pye Records ‎– 7N 15993 Producer. Tony Hatch

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