Artist	Song
Russ Conway	Side Saddle
Bert Weedon	Sorry Robbie
The Shadows	The Frightened City
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan	Diamonds
Rhett Stoller	Chariot
The Outlaws	Ambush
The Moontrekkers	Night Of the Vampire
The Ravens Rock Group	The Ghoul Friend
The Tornados	Life On Venus
Ahab & The Wailers	Neb;s Tune
The Fentones	The Breeze & I
The Dakotas	The Cruel Sea
The Eagles	Sukiaki
Group X	There Are 8 Million cossack Melodies & this Is One Of Them
The Kinks	Revenge
John Paul Jones	Baja
Eric Delaney's Big Beat Six	Big Noise From Winnetka
Janice Nicholls	The Wednesbury Madison
Cyril Davis & His Rhythm 'n' Blues All Stars	Country Line Special
Wes Minster 5	Railroad Blues
The Cymbaline	Comin' Home Baby
Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers	Jaywalker
The Graham Bond Organisation	Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Sounds Incorporated	My Little Red Book
Viv Prince	Light Of the Charge Brigade
Timebox	Soul Sauce
The London Studio Group	Margins Of The Mind
The Eliminators	Eleanor Rigby
Sounds Nice	Flying

Comment:

Finally got round to this, a lot later than intended.
Plenty of twang, a handful of R'n'B / soul stylings and the inevitable Beatles covers. But as far as I'm concerned, the best thing about this is that it features the AOTM debut of Bert Weedon. For those out of the loop, ol' Bert was quite simply THE most important guitarist Britain has ever produced; not for anything he played, but for what he wrote. His guitarist's manual "Play In A Day" was mandatory reading for every (and I do mean EVERY) would-be string-plucker in the late 50's / early 60s. When it comes to electric guitar playing, he literally wrote the book. Without him, rock'n'roll would have souded very different. [And also, another plushpig tip of the hat to Russ Conway, the English Liberace, who's cheesy, kitschy barrelhouse tinklings I'm developing a wholly unwarrented fondness for of late -my God, what's happening to me??]

Oh & by the way, Track 18 isn't really by Janice Nicholls. It's an uncredited bunch of sessioners. The track appeared on the flip of an exploitation single cashing-in on the popularity of Ms Nicholls who shot to fame as a result of her appearances on the Saturday tea-time pop show "Thank Your Lucky Stars". She was a Birmingham teenager deemed typical of her generation who passed judgement on the weeks releases. When something particularly tickled her ear, she announced in a broad Brummy accent that "Oi'll give it foive". The first time she appeared, the country went mad and she carved out a brief but fondly remembered career. And you though Bart Simpson as the "I didn't do it" boy was far-fetched.....

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