Homage to a songwriter and a song query

Ray Columbus has paid homage to the songwriter of the iconic Number 1 Australasian smash hit for Ray Columbus & The Invaders 1964 hit, 'She's A Mod'.

Terry Beale died peacefully in the UK at home in Redditch, Midlands. Born on September 20, 1944, Beale was the lead singer and songwriter in a Birmingham band called The Senators. 'She's A Mod' was never a hit for The Senators but they were a part of the new wave of British invasion bands that arose in the early 1960s. Their line-up included the future Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.

Jack Argent, the song publisher of The Beatles in Australia, offered 'She's
A Mod' to Ray Columbus & The Invaders and the band made the song a national sensation.
The song was a perfect fit for Columbus, who had made the 'Mod's Nod' dance infamous in Australia as they sought to counter the 'Surf's Stomp'. The song quickly rose to Number 1 in New Zealand and Australia and reached the top 100 charts in the United States. Ray Columbus & The Invaders were the first New Zealand band to achieve this.


Song query with the line about Pictures in the Hallway
Does this ring a familiar bell? said Rick Morin in an email asking for help for a Coast listener about a song she been hunting for ages now, "the problem is I dont know its name. The only part of the song I know is "Pictures in the Hallway" its a female singer and its about her husband that died in the war and all she has left is the pictures in the hallway. It would be a really big help if you know its name or where I can find its name. My grnadmother used to play it for me and it would mean a heap if I can find it."

I put out the request to music buffs but only one came back with 'No joy with that one , obviously very old.'

I mentioned to Rick that a Google search suggests a song played on Coast

The Windmills Of Your Mind by Noel Harrison

Round like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending on beginning on an ever-spinning reel
...

Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
Or the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair?

I hadn't heard back from Rick if this answered his listener's query but Scott said "It could well be, the only thing that didn't fit was song relating to WW2. I remember this as theme to movie Thomas Crown Affair. He might not have been what you would call a singer, but interesting lyrics regardless. He also did a song called A Young Girl, rather a morbid tale about a girl ending up dead in a ditch."