I have long wondered how the guitar tone on this record was achieved. I'm hoping someone here may know. I have seen the video of the group miming the tune and so I know that they had Burns guitars. It seems to me that there is some phase or flanging effect on the lead guitar.
Incidentally, I had a flimsy record of the song that came with a box of Honeycomb cereal in the mid 1960s. The guitar in the warped cereal box record really sounded weird!