TOWARD
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This was... Chris Bent (Summer 1971)
on Radio Seagull
onlineevery
Friday and Saturday, midday
and at midnight on
1476Khz and various AM frequencies
in Netherlands
on CWR 1476Khz
Leicestershire every Friday, Saturday & Sunday evening 6.00-8.00pm
1476 WEBCAST:
Carillon Wellbeing Radio
30 Oct - 5 Nov 2021
with Les Newman Hour
150 years ago:
There were 66 new singles released on Friday 5 November 1971compiled from THE
NEW SINGLES*
issue 399 +
www.45cat.com PODCAST Alice Cooper-Under My Wheels
WARNER K16127
Dynamites-Hello Mother CLANDISC CLA237
Barbra Sreisand-Mother CBS 7504
Alice Cooper-Desperado WARNER K16127
Exuma-We Got To Go/Zandoo MERCURY 6052 112
Persuasions-Thin Line Between Love And Hate ATLANTIC 2091 164
Curtis Mayfield-We Got To Have Peace/People Get Ready BUDDAH 2011
101
Haffy's Whisky Sour-Shot In The Head DERAM DM 345
Janis Joplin-Mover Over CBS 9136
Haffy's Whisky Sour-Bye Bye Bluebird DERAM DM 345
Cilla Black-Something Tells Me PARLOPHONE R5924 Hour 2 50 years ago:
There were 66 new singles released on Friday 5 November 1971compiled from THE
NEW SINGLES*
issue 399 +
www.45cat.comPODCAST
John Holt-It May Sound Silly MOODISC
HM105
Jason and Gerome-Santa Monica Sunshine RCA 2132
Sweet-Santa Monica Sunshine (LP track)
Labi Siffre-It Must Be Love PYE 7N25572
The Wake-Got My Eyes On You/Linda CARNABY 6151 001
Fabulous Flames-Hi De Ho CLANDISC CLA237
Gaytones-One Toke Over The Line HIGH NOTE HS055
Chase-Handbags and Gladrags EPIC EPC7506
Eastwood & Powell-Beautiful/Opal Blue Sunday PRESIDENT PT352
Patrick Cargill and the Petticoat Twins-Father Dear Father
HIT HIT16 (Patrick had played 'the new number 2' so we mixed it
with Ron Grainer-The Prisoner Arrival Title Music)
Nashville Teens-Ella James PARLOPHONE R5925
Dennis Alcapone-Horse And Buggy DYNAMIC DYN421
Everly Brothers-Cathy's Clown WARNER K16124
Imitations-Walking Up a One Way Street CRYSTAL CR7013Hour 3 50 years ago:
There were 66 new singles released on Friday 5 November 1971compiled from THE
NEW SINGLES*
issue 399 +
www.45cat.comPODCAST
The Matador-Brixton serenade BIG SHOT BI594
Three Man Army-What's Your Name/Travelin' PEGASUS PGS1
Rattles-Devil's On The Loose DECCA FR13243
Poets-She Blew A Good Thing UNITED ARTISTS UP35308
Searchers-Love Is Everywhere RCA 2139
Broken Toys-Broken Toys POLYDOR 2058 173
Stoneground-You Must Be One Of Us WARNER K16126
McKendree Spring-Because It's Time MCA MU1144
Mother Nature-Where Did She Go/Orange Days Purple Nights B&C
CB166
Rose Colored Glass-Mystic Touch/Can't Find The Time
PRESIDENT PT338
Gaytones-Heart Of The Knights HIGH NOTE HS055
Peacock-Sun Was In Your Eyes FAMOUS FAM107
Simon Plug and Grimes-I'll Keep Smiling PRESIDENT PT354
Claggers-Umber Rag DJM DJS260 Hour 4 PODCAST Pink Floyd:
Echoes, October 1971, HARVEST SHVL 795
Pink Floyd-Embryo
The
Mighty Observer-Aros Am Yr Haul
www.recordiaucaegwyn.com
Pink Floyd-Echoes/One Of These Days/A Pillow Of Winds/Fearless/San
Tropez/Seamus
Les & Chris recommend seeing these Pink Floyd tracks
performed live in 2021/22:
https://www.thinkfloyd.net/gigs-2021
...one of these days
PODCAST Fields: album was
released in October 1971, CBS 69009
side two: Over And Over Again/Feeling Free/Fair Haired Lady/A Place To Lay
My Head/The Eagle
Bonus track on CD: Slow Susan (alternate take)
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Pictures At An
Exhibition, November 1971, ISLAND HELP1
Pictures At An ExhibitionPODCAST King Crimson: Islands, December
1971, ISLAND ILPS9175
Ladies Of The Road/Prelude, Song Of The GullsKing Crimson
at Leicester De Montford Hall 18/10/71-collage sent to DGM
(Discipline Global Mobile)Formentera
Lady/Sailor's TaleKing Crimson
at Leicester De Montford Hall 18/10/71-Islands
King Crimson-The LettersKing Crimson
at Leicester De Montford Hall 18/10/71-21st Century Schizoid Man
King Crimson, De
Montfort Hall Leicester Monday 18th October 1971
Chris Bent writes:
Now that it is an officially sanctioned release via the King
Crimson/DGM website I can acknowledge that it was I who recorded
this concert...
16, my first job was with
the GPO as a Trainee Technician Apprentice. Eventually we mutated
into British Telecom engineers, project managing MOD contracts at
USAF bases – now all gone, spyplane runways ripped up, cruise
missiles all gone…
So, me on a first training
course away from home in Leicester. Only 40 miles from my home town
of Peterborough, but for three weeks I might as well have been on
the dark side of the moon. What does a young lad do whose all time
favourite album had already been Lizard by King Crimson?.
Armed with a Teleton mono
tape recorder strategically affixed inside a GPO greatcoat –
unbelievably the GPO outfitters accidentally had some fashionable
wares for the times. It was bloody hot cocooned in seat A88 on the
lefthand balcony of the Leicester De Montfort Hall. Look, that must
be Boz! Gosh, so that’s a mellotron! Why is Robert playing his
guitar without an amplifier? Why can I hear the singing but not a
damn word of Robert’s profound wisdom between songs? Ooh, Formentera
Lady… I hope they do Sailor’s Tale with those mellotrons… Must keep
still to avoid microphonic rustlings.
This
recording was never shared. It was one of only two that I ever made
(the other was Jethro Tull at the same venue in 1972) and remained
uncirculated - until DGM accepted my cassette and gave it an
official release. It filled both sides of a Philips C120. The
commercial bootleggers never had this tape.
A
restrained respectful audience… apart from the demand for an encore
– the reward is sadly missing (tape ran out)
GPO = General Post Office (in 1971 responsible for Postal Services,
Telephony & Telegraphy)
MOD = Ministry Of Defence
USAF = United States Air Force
C120 = 120 minute cassette tape
To paraphrase Eric Morecambe: "We've played
all the right songs, but not necessarily in the right order" -
Your corrections are always welcome
**extended
podcast only
*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
SINGLESOur 'sticky thread' video for 2021: 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
