| The BIG HITS of 1966! | ||
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1. Another Smashing Night - Dot
When you think of London in the mid-sixties, it's hard not to think of this song. Renown music producer Sir Vivian Cadbury pulled a toss-off tune from Moptop Terry McCarthy's dustbin and created a magnum opus that would transform a gangly model with a schoolgirl's voice into a pop icon! |
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| 2. Turn Me On, Dead Man - The Moptops (Pendragon Records) Rock and roll's answer to Milton's classic Paradise Lost wrapped up in an infectious three minute pop song. All the levels of Hell summed up in a seven inch piece of plastic. |
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3. Weird Sensations - The Beach Bums Created over half a year using $40,000 and, it seems, every sessionman, shaman, astrologer, and coven in L.A., this most famous of Ryan Pillson's "matchbox symphonies" helped inspire the creation of the Moptops' "Major Sulpher's Burning Hearts Circle Orchestra". But on its own, it towers as high as any 20th-century work of art, an achievement so large that -- according to some -- it literally cost its creator his soul and ultimately, his mind. |
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Other songs that made the Top Ten that year: |
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4. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - Twitchy & Paula 5. Burn It Black - Rolling Pins 6. Too Much Sugar (In My Eyes) - The Marvelitas 7. Thunderbird Debbie - Wicked Willard Wickert 8. Buttoned-Up Scene - The Krinkles 9. Positively Malcontent - Bob Keats 10. Where's The Door? (The Ceiling's My Floor) - The Upside Downers |