TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

This was... Chris Bent (Summer 1971)

RADIO MI AMIGO HARWICH

January 1967

 

1967-01-06 Hour 1

There were 45 new singles released on Friday 6 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 158
 PODCAST

Nancy Sinatra-Sugar Town  REPRISE RS20527
Eydie Gorme-Matchmake Matchmaker  CBS 202505
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood-Summer Wine  REPRISE RS20527
Patron Of The Arts (a.k.a. Queen City Showband)-Eleanor Rigby  PAGE ONE POF012
Sandie Shaw-I Don't Need Anything  PYE 7N17239
Riot Squad (around the time that David Bowie toured with them. Joe Meek's last production)-Bitter Sweet Love/Gotta Be A First Time  PYE 7N17237
Terry Knight and the Pack-I Who Have Nothing  CAMEO PARKWAY C102
Royal Guardsmen-Snoopy Versus The Red Baron-  STATESIDE SS574
The Pyramid (with Ian Matthews)-Summer Of Last Year/Summer Evening  DERAM DM111
Four Tops-Standing In The Shadows Of Love/Since You've Been Gone  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG589
Bobby Goldsboro-No Fun At The Fair  UNITED ARTISTS UP1166
Jonathan King-Seagull/Take A Look At Yourself  DECCA F12540
Jay and the Americans-(He's) Raining In My Sunshine  UNITED ARTISTS UP1162
 

1967-01-06 Hour 2

There were 45 new singles released on Friday 6 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 158
 PODCAST 

One In A Million-Hold On/Use Your Imagination  CBS 202513
Wimple Winch-Rumble On Mersey Square South/Atmosphere a.k.a. Atmospheres/Typical British Workmanship  FONTANA TF781
H T-You And Me  POLYDOR 56127
2 of Clubs-Walk Tall  PRESIDENT PT124
Stones Masonry-Hot Rock/Flapjacks  PURDAH 3504 (99 copies only)
The Poor Things-Danny Boy/We Trust In A Better Way  CBS 202431
Ways and Means-Make The Radio A Little Louder  PYE 7N17217
The Cyrkle-Bony Maronie  CBS 202516
The Music Machine-Talk Talk/Come On In  PYE 7N25407
Knickerbockers-Can You Help Me  LONDON HLU10102

 

 

 

 

 

1967-01-13 Hour 1

There were 78 new singles released on Friday 13 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 159
 PODCAST

Blues Project-I Can't Keep From Crying  VERVE VS1505
Rolling Stones-Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend The Night Together  DECCA F12546
Paul Jones-I've Been a Bad Bad Boy  HMV POP1576
Ephiopians-I Am Free  ISLAND WI3015
Clarendonians-I'll Never Change/Rules Of Life  ISLAND WI3005
Owen Gray-Incense  ISLAND WIP6000
Rene and Rene-Loving You Could Hurt Me So  ISLAND WIP6001
Bobby Hebb-Love Me  PHILIPS BF1541
New Vaudeville Band-Peek A Boo  FONTANA TF784
Bystanders-98.6  PICADILLY 7N35363
Keith-98.6  MERCURY MF931
Gary Lewis and the Playboys-Where Will The Words Come From  LIBERTY LIB55923
Left Banke-Lazy Day/Pretty Ballerina  PHILIPS BF1540 (video above)
The Candlelight-That's What I Want  CBS 202507
Gates Of Eden-Snoopy vs The Red Baron  PYE 7N17252
? and the Mysterians-8 Teen/I Need Somebody  CAMEO PARKWAY C441

 

1967-01-13 Hour 2

There were 78 new singles released on Friday 13 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 159
 PODCAST

Science Poption-Back In Town/You've Got Me High  COLUMBIA DB8106
Schadel-Flowershop Girl  PARLOPHONE R5554
Tremeloes-Here Comes My Baby  CBS 202519
The Bitter End Singers-Taste Of Your Love  ATLANTIC 584 075
The Bobcats-Can't See For Looking  PYE 7N17242
Spencer Mason Orchestra-Flugel I(n Carnaby Street/Albufeira  PARLOPHONE R5555
Engelbert Humperdinck-Release Me  DECCA F12541
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers-Sitting In The Rain  DECCA F12545
Moody Blues-Life's Not Life/He Can Win  DECCA F12543
Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston-It Takes Two TAMLA MOTOWN TMG590
The Game-The Addicted Man  PARLOPHONE R5553
The Capes Of Good Hope-Winter's Children  STATESIDE SS577
The Senate-I Can't Stop COLUMBIA DB8110
Micky (Clarke) & Mary (McCarthy)-People Like You  CBS 202517
Five Steps Beyond-Not So Young Today  CBS 202490
The Koobas-Sally  COLUMBIA DB8103
Murray Head and the Blue Monks-Someday Soon/You Bore Me  COLUMBIA DB8102

 

 

 

1967-01-20 Hour 1

There were 56 new singles released on Friday 20 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 160
 PODCAST

Bob Crewe Generation-Music To Watch Girls By  STATESIDE SS582
Geneve-That Can't Be Bad  CBS 202524
Spencer Davis Group-I'm A Man/I Can't Get Enough Of It  FONTANA TF785
Sam and Dave-You Got Me Humming  ATLANTIC 584064
The Fingers-Circus With A Female Clown/All Kinds Of People  COLUMBIA DB8112
Otis Redding-Try A Little Tenderness  ATLANTIC 584070
Poindexter Brothers-Git Your Backfield In Motion  VERVE VS550
The Silvers-The Trouble  POLYDOR 56143
Brass Chorale-Tomorrows World  COLUMBIA DB8113
Electric Prunes-I Had Too Much To Dream/Luvin  REPRISE RS20532
The Gamblers-Who Will Buy/Cry Me A River  PARLOPHONE R5557
Nick Scott-Backstreet Girl  IMMEDIATE IM045
Searchers-Popcorn Double Feature  PYE 7N17225
The Tinkers-Carrickfergus  PYE 7N17251
Bob Crewe Generation-Girls On The Rocks  STATESIDE SS582
 

1967-01-20 Hour 2

There were 56 new singles released on Friday 20 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 160
 PODCAST 

Blossom Dearrie-One Note Samba  FONTANA TF788
Boots Randolph-The Shadow Of Your Smile  MONUMENT MON1001
Dean Parrish-Skates  STATESIDE SS580
Ray Cameron-Doing My Time/Gateway Getaway Car  ISLAND WI6003
McCoys-I Got To Go Back  IMMEDIATE IM046
Sonny Schilde & TNT-Heartbreak  POLYDOR 56141
Chris Clark-Love's Gone Bad  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG591
Gene Clark-Echoes  CBS 201523
Dave Walton-After You There Can Be Nothing  CBS 202508
The Hallmarks-One Way Street (acetate only in lieu of POLYDOR 56126)
Soul Brothers-Mr Flint/Too Young To Love (rehash Of The Tams-Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
Graham Bonney-Thank You Baby  COLUMBIA DB8111
The Loot-Baby  PAGE ONE POF013
Duffy's Nucleus-Hound Dog  DECCA F22547
Ossie Layne-Come Back  R&B MRB5006
Peanut-I Didn't Love Him Anyway  COLUMBIA DB8104
Peter Paul and Mary-Hurry Sundown  WARNER WB5883
Julie Felix-Saturday Night  FONTANA TF786

 

 

 

 

1967-01-27 Hour 1
There were 64 new singles released on Friday 27 January 1967
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 161
 PODCAST
Mamas and Papas-Words Of Love  RCA VICTOR RCA1564
Kingsmen-Daytime Shadows  PYE 7N25406
Great Uncle Fred-I'm In Love With An Ex Beauty Queen  STRIKE JH324
Sir William-Shakespeare's Shrew  STATESIDE SS583
Traits-Harlem Shuffle  PYE 7N25404
Twiggy-Beautiful Dreams  EMBER S239
Sonny & Cher-Beat Goes On  ATLANTIC 584078
Oscar (Paul Nicholas)-Over The Wall We Go  REACTION 591012
David Bowie-Over The Wall We Go (acetate of Bowie original version)
Originals-Goodnight Irene  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG592
Little Richard-Get Down With It  COLUMBIA DB8116
Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore-LS Bumble Bee/Bee Side  DECCA F12551
John Schroeder Orchestra-Soul For Sale  PICADILLY 7N35362
Petula Clark-This Is My Song  PYE 7N17258
Descendants-Garden Of Eden  CBS 202545
The Attack-We Don't Know/Try It  DECCA F12550
 

1967-01-27 Hour 2

There were 64 new singles released on Friday 27 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 161
 PODCAST

Steve Darbyshire-Holiday In Waikiki  DECCA F12553
Shangri Las-Sweet Sound Of Summer  MERCURY MF962
Aaron Neville-Tell It Like It Is  STATESIDE SS584
Chris Farlowe-You're So Good To Me/My Way Of Giving  IMMEDIATE IM041
Hat & Tie-Finding It Rough/Bread  PRESIDENT PT122
Johnny Young and Kompany-Step Back  DECCA F22548
Remo Four-Live Like A Lady  FONTANA TF787
Del Shannon-She  LIBERTY LIB55939
PJ Proby-Niki Hoeky  LIBERTY LIB55936
Peter Fenton-Walking In Circles/I Was Lord Kitchenor's Valet  FONTANA TF789
Johnny Cash-You Beat All I Ever Saw  CBS 202546
Sammie John-Little John  STATESIDE SS585
Night Crawlers-Little Black Egg  LONDON HLR10109
Ken Boothe-Train Is Coming  ISLAND WI3020
Etta James-I Prefer You  CHESS CRS8052
Felice Taylor-It May Be Winter Outside  PRESIDEN PT120
Mike Stevens and the Shevelles-Cathy's Clown  PYE 7N17243
The Cats-What A Crazy Life  PARLOPHONE R5558

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing on the radio?

Try our 'Way To Blue' mixtape - non stop music, with no chat (2 hours 14minutes)

 PODCAST

featuring, not necessarily in this order:
 

UFO-Treacle People
May Blitz-Smoking The Day Away
Nick Nicely-Hilly Fields 1892
Senor Coconut y su conjunto-Smoke On The Water
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band-Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Rush-One Little Victory/Ceiling Unlimited
U2-Night and Day
Marillion-Grendel

Marillion-Market Square Heroes/Three Boats Down From The Candy

Svensk-Dream Magazine
Nick Nicely-49 Cigars
Nick Drake-Way To Blue
Helen Reddy-Angie Baby
Van Halen-Fire In The Hole
Aphrodites Child-Day Of The Fool
Neil Young-A Piece Of Crap
Led Zeppelin-Dancing Days
T Rex-The Motivator (Demo)
The Nice-Azrial revisited/Hang On To a Dream
Emerson Lake & Palmer-Trilogy/Still... You Turn Me On
The Nice-Azrial/Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
McDonald & Giles-Is She Waiting

 

 

Giants of Rock, Butlins, Minehead - Sunday 23rd January 2022

Felix Rabin (centre) with (from left) Andy, Vincenzo Capodivento, Chris B and Kathy 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with Les Newman

Jingles and voiceovers
Amy Bargeron

Visit Amy's Studio

 

 

(r) = repeat

 

 

 

To paraphrase Eric Morecambe: "We've played all the right songs, but not necessarily in the right order" - Your corrections are always welcome

 

* The New Singles were a weekly listing of 45rpm (and the occasional 33rpm maxi single) recordings published by
Francis Antony Ltd, East Hill, St Austell, Cornwall. They were distributed to the music trade, media, record shops. Further info here: THE NEW SINGLES

 

 

 

Our 'sticky thread' video for 2022: The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds

The sleeve advises: MUST BE PLAYED IN THE DARK

1971 Hunstanton/Heacham Beach: Chris Bent (on left wearing a Radio Geronimo t shirt) with Jeremy/Jez/Jerry Bowles

Chris B (with the delightful miss wood), circa 1975. See https://www.facebook.com/chris.bent.319

picture restored from a damaged slide

 

 

Interested in the Mellotron? Want to check whether any of the songs played feature a Mellotron? Visit:  
The Ultimate Recordings List (probably)