SINGLES

THE ATTACK-Hi-Ho Silver Lining/ Any More Than I Do (Decca)
JEFF BECK-Hi-Ho Silver Lining/ Beck’s Bolero (Columbia) #14
DAVE BERRY-Stranger/ Stick By The Book (Decca)
ALAN BOWN SET-Gonna Fix You Good/ I Really Really Care (Pye)
CHANCES ARE-Fragile Child/ What Went Wrong (Columbia)
DEAD SEA FRUIT-Kensington High Street/ Put Another Record On (Camp)
DOUBLE FEATURE-Baby Get Your head Screwed On/ Come On Baby (Deram)
THE EXECUTIVE-Sensation/ Smokey Atmosphere (CBS)
THE FLIES-House Of Love/ It Had To Be You (Decca)
GATES OF EDEN-One To Seven/ Hey Now (Pye)
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE-Purple Haze/ 51st Anniversary (Track) #3
HUMAN INSTINCT-Rich Man/ Illusions (Mercury)
MAGIC LANTERNS-Auntie Grizelda/ Time Will Tell If I’m A Loser (CBS)
MANFRED MANN-Ha Ha Said The Clown/ Feeling So Good (Fontana) #4
MARMALADE-Can’t Stop Now/ There Ain’t No Use In Hangin’ On (CBS)
THE MINDBENDERS-We’ll Talk About It Tomorrow/ Far Across Town (Fontana)
THE MIRAGE-Hold On/ Can You Hear Me (Phillips)
MONTANAS-Ciao Baby/ Anyone Here (Pye)
THE MOVE-I Can Hear The Grass Grow/ Wave The Flag And Stop The Train (Deram) #5
PETER AND GORDON-Sunday For Tea/ Start Trying Someone Else (Columbia)
PINK FLOYD-Arnold Layne/ Candy And A Currant Bun (Columbia) #20
ROBERT PLANT-Our Song/ Laughin’ Cryin’ Laughin’ (CBS)
THE REBELS-Hard To Love You/ Call Me (Page One)
DAVEY SANDS AND ESSEX-Advertising Girl/ Without You I’m Nothing (CBS)
SMALL FACES-I Can’t Make It/ Just Passing (Decca) #26
CAT STEVENS-I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun/ School Is Out (Deram) #6
THE STRANGERS-Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow/ Mary Mary (Pye)
THE TRUTH-Walk Away Renee/ Fly Away Bird (Decca)
THE ZOMBIES-Going Out Of My Head/ She Does Everything For Me (Decca)

ALBUMS

MAGIC LANTERNS-Lit Up With The Magic Lanterns (CBS)
THE PUPILS-Tribute To The Rolling Stones (Wing)
CAT STEVENS-Matthew And Son (Deram) #7

HAPPENING!

• Steve Winwood quits The Spencer Davis Group and forms a new group, Traffic, alongside Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

• Marc Bolan joins John’s Children as lead guitarist.

• Graham Nash spends several days in the company of David Crosby (in London on a promotional visit), discussing musical plans….

• Pink Floyd sign to EMI who purchase the rights to the group’s already recorded debut single. They begin recording their first album at Abbey Road where they meet the Beatles (21st). Syd Barrett was impressed because Paul McCartney was very encouraging and supportive about the Floyd’s music.

• The Floyd also make a promo film for “Arnold Layne” that shows them on a beach with a be-suited mannequin.

• Track Records is launched with a party at The Speakeasy (16th)

• London group The Spectres change their name to Traffic Jam.

• The In-Crowd change their name to the more fashionable “Tomorrow”.

• TV show “Scene At 6:30” screens an underground special titled “It’s So Far Out, It’s Straight Down!” (7th). Pink Floyd are featured playing a live version of “Interstellar Overdrive” (from UFO 20th January).

• The Move and Pink Floyd are featured on Granada TV’s “Rave” programme (6th)

• ABC TV “Doddy’s Music Box”-The Hollies (11th)  

• BBC TV "Crackerjack"- The Troggs (24th)

• BBC TV “Top Of The Pops”-Jimi Hendrix “Purple Haze” (30th)

• German TV “Beat Club”-Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, The Smoke etc (11th-live from the Marquee Club)

• German TV “Beat Beat Beat”-Yardbirds (15th)

• BBC SESSIONS-Action (9th, Pop North), Jeff Beck Group (18th, Saturday Club), Dave Berry (11th, Saturday Club), Cream (27th, Monday Monday), Cymbaline (6th, Monday Monday), Episode Six (6th, Monday Monday), Jimi Hendrix Experience (26th, Easy Beat), Ivy League (4th, Saturday Club), Manfred Mann (Pop Inn 28th),  Mindbenders (18th, Saturday Club--24th, Joe Loss Show), Nashville Teens (25th, Saturday Club), Searchers (25th, Saturday Club), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (18th, Saturday Club)

• Download Radio Caroline Robbie Dale's Beat Fleet Show 5th March HERE

WATCHING!

• Jimi Hendrix begins a British tour as support act to The Walker Brothers (31st through to 30th April). Also appearing are Cat Stevens and……..Engelbert Humperdinck!

• The Hollies play a British tour with Tony Newman deputising for the ailing Bobby Elliott on drums. Also on the bill are The Spencer Davis Group and Paul Jones.

• The Jeff Beck Group pull out of their tour with The Hollies and the Spencer Davis Group after a disastrous opening show in Mansfield. They are replaced on the tour by The Tremeloes. Beck sacks drummer Ray Cook (ex-Sands) who, it is claimed, “froze”, and recruits ex-Bluesbreakers drummer Aynsley Dunbar to stabilise the unit.  

• The Small Faces are on tour with Roy Orbison!

• The Who and Cream both make their live debuts in the U.S. as part of Murray The K’s “Music In The Fifth Dimension” week long stage show at the RKO Theatre, Manhattan, New York.

• Saville Theatre-Pink Floyd (5th)

• The Bee Gees are at the Saville Theatre (27th), supporting…Fats Domino!

• Marquee-Neat Change (2nd, 31st), The Bunch (2nd), Timebox (3rd. 17th), The Herd (6th, 13th), The Motivation (6th), Tony Rivers & The Castaways (7th), Al Stewart (8th), Pink Floyd (9th), The Thoughts (9th), 1-2-3 (11th, 18th, 25th), Skip Bifferty (11th), Marmalade (16th, 23rd, 30th), Nite People (16th), Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (19th), Savoy Brown (20th), Cream (21st), Family (21st), C Jam Blues (25th), Amboy Dukes (28th), The Tribe (30th)

• Middle Earth-Family (15th), Pink Floyd (16th), Moody Blues (22nd), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (29th)

• UFO-Soft Machine (3rd, 17th, 24th), Pink Floyd (3rd, 10th), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (31st)  

• Blaises- The Hush (18th)

• Les Cousins- Incredible String Band (10th)

• Speakeasy-Soft Machine (1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th)

• Sibylla’s-Family (23rd)

• Tiles-Motivation (4th), Richard Kent Style, The Mud (9th), Lord Caesar Sutch & The Roman Empire, One In a Million (10th), Majority (16th), The Move, The Knack (17th), Amen Corner (22nd), ‘N’ Betweens (23rd), Easybeats, John’s Children, Waygood Ellis (24th), The Secrets (25th), Eyes Of Blue (26th)

• Ram Jam Club- Zoot Money (11th), Chris Farlowe (18th), Julian Covey & The Machine (24th)

• Upper Cut Club-Episode Six, The Herd (2nd), She Trinity (4th), Episode Six (17th), Tuesday's Children (23rd),  Alan Bown, The Syn (30th)

• Whisky A’Go Go-The Bunch (21st, 28th)

• 100 Club-The Syn (16th)

• Acton White Hart- Worrying Kynde (9th, 16th)

• Ampthill, Bedfordshire, Unknown venue- Wages Of Sin (31st)

• Assembly Hall, Aylesbury-Jimi Hendrix Experience (28th)

• Barnsley Civic Hall-Chris Farlowe, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Dave Dee etc (27th)  

• Bath Pavilion- The Troggs (27th)

• Ulster Hall, Belfast-Cream (1st)

• Queen’s University, Belfast-Cream (2nd)  

• Birmingham Carlton Club- Wages Of Sin (21st)

• Birmingham Co-op Rainbow Suite- The Thoughts, Soul Seekers (18th), Les Fleur de Lys (25th)

• Birmingham Ringway Club- Moody Blues (7th)

• Birmingham University- Family (11th)

• Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford-The Move (4th)

• Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis-Pink Floyd (26th)

• Starlight Room, Boston-Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds (4th), Jimi Hendrix Experience (25th)  

• Bournemouth Winter Gardens- Troggs (17th)

• Corn Exchange, Bristol-Pink Floyd (28th)

• Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley-Pink Floyd (12th)  

• Cambridge Victoria Hotel- Wages Of Sin (11th, 27th)

• Canterbury Tech College-Pink Floyd (11th)  

• Cardiff Capitol- Troggs (18th)

• Top Rank, Cardiff-The Who, The Herd (10th)  

• Carlisle ABC- Small Faces (22nd)

• Chelmsford Corn Exchange- The Summerset (11th)

• Coventry Theatre- Troggs (19th)

• Forum Cinema, Devonport-The Who (18th)  

• Doncaster Gaumont- Small Faces (24th)

• Dudley Broadway Club- Moody Blues (20th)

• Dunfermline Kinema- Searchers (6th), Creation (26th)

• California Ballroom, Dunstable-The Who, The Hush (4th), Quiet Five (11th), The Smoke (18^th), The Troggs (25th)

• Tavern Club, East Dereham, Norfolk-Cream (12th)  

• Edinburgh ABC- Small Faces (20th)

• Enfield Tech College-Pink Floyd (18th)

• Exeter University-The Who (17th)  

• Finsbury Park Astoria- Hollies, SDG, Paul Jones (23rd)

• Folkestone Tofts-Wilde Flowers (12th, 24th, 31st), The Gass, The Web (25th), Amboy Dukes (26th)

• Folkestone Town Hall-Wilde Flowers (17th)

• Folkestone Youth Club-Wilde Flowers (10th)  

• Glasgow Odeon- Small Faces (21st)

• Greenford Starlite-Easybeats (17th), Human Instinct (24th), The Gods (12th, 26th)

• Hounslow Ricky Tick-Brian Auger & The Trinity (17th), Pink Floyd (24th)

• Skyline Ballroom, Hull-Jimi Hendrix, Family, Small Four (See memory box below), The Strollers & The Mandrakes (9th)

  The Skyline Ballroom date in March 67 - among the other bands you have the Small Faces. Not so, I'm afraid - the band in question was the Small Four. I know 'cos I was a member and played that night! You know what they say about the Sixties - if you can remember it - you weren't there... All I remember of that gig (apart from getting more than a little tanked up) is saying one word to Jimi as we passed through adjoining backstage doors - "Hi" - that's the truth. The Small Four were definitely not a folk group (as it states in Tapestry Of Delights) - we were a local covers band, as so many were in those days. Beatles/ Byrds/ Stones/ Procol Harum/ Foundations etc... Cheers Tony Gosling www.allfrets.co.uk

• Giro Club, Ilkley-Jimi Hendrix Experience (12th)  

• Kettering Granada- Hollies, SDG, Paul Jones (22nd)

• Kingston Granada- Hollies, SDG, Paul Jones (18th)

• Kingston Tech College-Pink Floyd (17th)

• International Club, Leeds-Jimi Hendrix Experience (11th)  

• Leeds Odeon- Small Faces (23rd)

• Casino, Leicester-Legay (7th)

• Corn Exchange, Leicester-Family (8th)  

• Leicester De Montfort Hall- Hollies, SDG, Paul Jones (19th)

• Granby Halls, Leicester-The Who, Zoot Money (13th)

• Leicester Nite Owl-The Action (27th)

• The Large Hall, Little Titchfield St, London-Pink Floyd (4th)  

• Llanelly Glen- The Troggs (23rd)

• London School of Economics-Soft Machine (21st, pictured below)

• Loughborough University-Family (1st)  

• Maidstone Granada- Hollies, Spencer Davis Group, Paul Jones (17th)

• Winter Gardens, Malvern-Pink Floyd (7th), Graham Bond Organisation (14th), Brian Auger & the Trinity with Julie Driscoll (21st), The Troggs (28th)  

• Manchester Hollins College- Family (10th)

• Manchester Oasis- Move (26th) 

• Manchester Odeon- Hollies, SDG, Paul Jones (21st)

• Manchester Union- Easybeats (11th)

• Newbury Plaza- Chris Farlowe (26th)

• Newcastle City Hall- Small Faces (19th)

• Club A Go-Go, Newcastle-Jimi Hendrix Experience (10th)  

• Nottingham Boat Club- Attack (19th)

• Nottingham Slipper Club- Merseys, Kirkbys (17th)

• Oldham Thing Club- Family (12th)

• Orchid Ballroom, Purley-Jimi Hendrix Experience (1st)

• Padworth Hall, Reading-Soft Machine (5th)

• Rochester, Good Companions Club-Wilde Flowers (11th)

• Top Spot Ballroom, Ross-on-Wye-Pink Floyd (30th)

• Rotherham Tech College-Pink Floyd (23rd)  

• Sheffield Pitsmoor Club- Wages Of Sin (18th)

• Sheffield University-Family (4th), Bert Jansch & John Renbourne, Incredible String Band (15th)

• Slough Community Centre-Alan Bown (29th-plus guest appearance of Harry H Corbett!)

• Guild Hall, Southampton-Jimi Hendrix Experience (23rd)

• Southwark, Manor Place Baths-Troggs (31st)

• Market Hall, St Albans-Pink Floyd (3rd)  

• Stevenage Locarno- Troggs (29th)

• Tabernacle Club, Stockport-Smoke (12th), Davey Sands & The Essex, Cryan Shames with Paul & Ritchie (17th), Koobas (19th), Family (24th), Nashville Teens (25th), Jimi Hendrix Experience (26th)

• Golden Torch Club, Stoke-on-Trent-Family (5th, 27th)

• Swansea University-Family (2nd)  

• Tooting Granada- Small Faces (17th)

• Eel Pie Island, Twickenham-Pink Floyd (1st, 29th)  

• West Bromwich Adelphi Ballroom- The Move (13th)

• Whetstone All Saints Hall- Herd (11th)

• Windsor Ricky Tick-Pink Floyd (25th)  

• Wishaw Belfry- Manchester's Playboys, New Way Of Life (13th)

• Wolverhampton Gaumont- Small Faces (18th)

• Wood Green Fishmonger's Arms- The Web (14th)

• Assembly Rooms, Worthing-Pink Floyd (2nd)

• Wyton RAF Base- Wages Of Sin (2nd)

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