Volume 14 (SHM 710) - November 1970

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Tracks:

Side 1   
  • Julie Do Ya Love Me Originally a hit for White Plains (8)
  • I've Lost You Originally a hit for Elvis Presley (9)
  • You've Got Me Dangling On A String Originally a hit for Chairmen Of The Board (5)
  • Ride A White Swan Originally a hit for T. Rex (2)
  • Heaven Help Us All Originally a hit for Stevie Wonder (29)
  • Woodstock Originally a hit for Matthews Southern Comfort (1)

Side 2   
  • Cracklin' Rose Originally a hit for Neil Diamond (3)
  • Home Lovin' Man Originally a hit for Andy Williams (7)
  • It's Wonderful (To Be Loved By You) Originally a hit for Jimmy Ruffin (6)
  • In My Chair Originally a hit for Status Quo (21)
  • Voodoo Chile Originally a hit for The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1)
  • I Hear You Knocking Originally a hit for Dave Edmunds (1)
Sleeve notes:

Every single Pop fan in the country has been screaming for the next issue of ’Top of the Pops’ (or so it seems to our hard pressed staff). Well, here it is - brighter, breezier, beatier than any of our previous issues and packed with twelve of the current hit tunes. You’ll listen to this album once, and you’ll play it over and over again. Never mind the neighbours - they’ll probably love it too! If you have a neighbour who’s a Square, never mind again, he’s bound to be converted after you’ve played it a few hundred times.

So Hip, Hip, you hippies; and Yipee, you yippies; go grab yourself this handful of rhythm and beat its brains out on your player until our next issue comes out - and when it does, yell for it loud and clear, for they’ll be moving off the shelf - but fast!   
Comments: With this edition, Hallmark scrapped their red labels, and with them went the CHM catalogue numbers. Now, we have the more familiar blue labels and SHM system.

This LP has latterly become famous for the recording of "Voodoo Chile", with Poppers guitar hero Bob Falloon emulating the maestro Jimi Hendrix. Bruce Baxter has since spoken disparagingly of Falloon’s effort, joking that it sounded like Donald Duck, but allowing for the fact that Falloon used a Fender Telecaster (as opposed to Hendrix’s Strat) with the wrong strings and no sustain pedal, his version is extraordinary.


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