Top Of The Box

This was a number one hit for Amen Corner In 1969. The band split up at the end of that year with their promising lead singer Andy Fairweather-Low reforming some of the band as Fairweather.
Fairweather had a  top ten hit with Natural Sinner, before Fairweather-Low quit the band and had hits as a solo artist with [...]

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A hit for The Spencer Davis Group in 1965, featuring the 17 year old Steve Winwood on vocals.
Despite a long and successful career inluding his work with Traffic and Blind Faith, there hasn’t been a track so well suited to Winwoods excellent voice as Keep On Running.
The Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running

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This track provided a number one single for Chris Farlowe in 1966, an excellent version of the Rolling Stones song Out Of Time.
This really is a classic single from the one of the greatest R&B performers of the time.
Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time 

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The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire - Top Of The Pops, 1968
One of my first memories is as a very young child watching Arthur Brown on Top Of The Pops.  It scared the shit out of me.  This bloke definitely was a couple of waves short of an ocean.
You can see him performing [...]

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This is an excellent version of the Bob Dylan track This Wheels On Fire, perhaps best known these days as the theme tune to Jennifer Saunders comedy Absolutely Fabulous.
It was a hit for Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity in 1968.
Julie Driscoll & The Brian Auger Trinity - This Wheels On Fire

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