Some years ago Brian Long interviewed Dorothy Calvert about her time operating the offshore radio station Radio City. She let him borrow and make copies of certain documents from that period, including a large pile of the station's weekly playlists, otherwise known as the City Sixty. Brian has now very kindly passed these on to The Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame. They date from October 1965 to the station closedown in February 1967.
 
Radio City DJ/engineer Dick Dixon writes: “Before the City Sixty chart was compiled for us, we used to rely on the weekly chart from NME (with some slight adjustments), the pages of which can be seen pinned to the studio wall in some early pictures.”
 
These are the office copies of the charts and, as can be seen, contain the occasional mistake. We do not know if these errors were corrected before transmission. If anyone has kept a record of the charts as heard on air, we would be very interested in comparing them.

The original type-written page of the chart does not give both artist and title - just one or the other. We have attempted to fill in the gaps but, in some cases, have had to make an educated guess about which track is being referred to. If you spot any errors or can provide more information, please get in touch.
 
It was a good week for Sonny & Cher with records at numbers 9 and 38, as well as a solo track by Cher entering the chart at number 36. American songwriter P.F Sloan is also well represented - as composer of number 11, performer of number 43 and co-writer, with Steve Barri, of number 51. Bands managed by station owner Reg Calvert always did particularly well on Radio City's chart so it is no surprise to see The Fortunes at number one.

* We have no way of knowing if the version of “Do You Believe In Magic” at number 52 was the American original by The Lovin' Spoonful or the British cover version by The Pack. Dick Dixon says “As far as I can remember The Lovin' Spoonful's was the version we played on City.”
 
** The tracks on the “Kwyet Kinks” EP were “Wait Till The Summer Comes Along”, “Such A Shame”, “A Well Respected Man” and “Don't You Fret”.

Our thanks to Brian Long.
 
The Radio London ‘Fab 40’ and Caroline South ‘Sounds Of 65’ chart for this week can be found on the Radio London web site.
 
The links from the songs on this page lead to the Amazon MP3 Store where you can hear short audio clips of the tracks and customers in the UK can buy downloads. Please see this note.
 
There are a number of other offshore charts listed on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Full details here.
 
Next week's City Sixty is here.