MUTTERINGS
The Frankies are apparently well chuffed with all those “Who gives a **** what Frankie say?” etc t-shirts. “In fact,” muttered Holly, “there’s a few I’d quite like myself”… Meanwhile, daft country group The Hank Wangford Band are taking their show to the Edinburgh Festival under the banner “Hankie Goes To Holyrood“ and New York producer Bobby Orlando, who considers “Two Tribes” to be a “hippy song” is making an answer called “Ronnie Goes To Liverpool” . “Ronnie” as in Reagan, that is… Frankie again. The next FGTH single will apparently be called “The Power Of Love” and their LP will arrive under the stately title of “Welcome To The Pleasure Dome”… Also spare a thought for Gerry Marsden, he of Gerry & The Pacemakers who wrote “Ferry Across The Mersey” . He’s already netted £21,000 in publishing money from the British sales of “Relax” and is set to net a lot more from the eight other countries where it went to Number One… And incidentally, Gerry & The Pacemakers hold one record Frankie have yet to beat. Their first three singles went straight to Number One…