Georgie's Sugar Lumps Are For Sinus!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Amazing resource (from SKIDMORE COLLEGE!!!!) tracking NME features through the 50s and 60s.

Here's a flavour:

March 18 No. 1051
Pascall, Jeremy The Men of DADMAS- Micky and Spencer [Micky Dolenz, Spencer Davis] 2
Pascall, Jeremy Monkees Here to Stay: That’s NME Readers Verdict [Monkees] 3,4
Smith, Alan We’re as Psychedelic as a Pint O’ Beer wi’ t’ Lads! [Hollies] 4
James, Dawn Chrissie Shrimpton and Her Star Boyfriends [Mick Jagger, Steve Marriot] 5
Johnson, Derek Top Singles Reviewed [Frank and n.a.ncy Sin.a.tra, Georgie Fame, Mamas and Papas, Easybeats, Pink Floyd, Zombies, Others] 6, 10
n.a. [Tours, Releases, Films, Etc.- Tom Jones, Simon Dee TV, Jimi Hendrix, Georgie Fame, Cat Stevens, Monkees, Others] 8, 9
Evans, Allen LP’s [Walker Brothers, Beach Boys, Others] 10
Smith, Alan My Husband [Petula Clark, Claude Woolff] 11
Altham, Keith John’s Children- First of the Anti-Lust Groups [John’s Children] 12
Drummond, Norrie Whistling Jack Singer Is Coby Wells [Whistling Jack Smith] 13
Altham, Keith Vauds Phone NME from US [New Vaudeville Band] 14
Smith, Alan Georgie’s Sugar Lumps Are for Sinus! [Georgie Fame] 14
Alley Cat Tailpieces [Petula Clark, Cher, Tom Jones, Jeff Beck, Engelbert Humperdinck, Roy Orbison, Others]

And if you think Arcticmania is bad now, look at the weekly coverage given to the Real Actual Monkees during early '67.

(What was DADMAS?)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i'm really not sure who read it in those days -- i always think of it as a trade mag!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Looking at the articles lists it seems to have been a fairly half-hearted stab at the teen market but playing up the music angle and playing down the hearthrob stuff (at least explicitly).