Procol Harum's first year in the NME

AWSoP waning: 5 August 1967

These excerpts from New Musical Express were kindly selected for 'Beyond the Pale' by Yan Friis: Young Rascals, a favourite Brooker band, tipped for chart success, as are the Small Faces, whose record introduces the phased organ sound to the record-buying public

New Musical Express 5 August 1967:

Front page advert for The Small Faces’ Itchycoo Park.

 NME Top 3:

1 (1) All You Need Is Love, The Beatles
2 (2) San Francisco, Scott McKenzie
3 (3) It Must Be Him, Vikki Carr

14 (6) A Whiter Shade of Pale, Procol Harum

A Whiter Shade of Pale still No 5 on the Billboard chart.

Tipped for the charts by Derek Johnson:

Monkees, Pleasant Valley Sunday
Young Rascals, A Girl Like You
Cliff Richard, The Day I Met Marie
Small Faces, Itchycoo Park

Tailpieces by the Alley Cat:

 … Publicist Chris Hutchins surprisingly thinks current Engelbert Humperdinck hit will outsell Procol Harum here …

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