TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

This was... Chris Bent (Summer 1971)

on Radio Seagull online every 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

13-15 May 2022

 

Seagull:
FRIDAY: One hour of (prog) rock; Two hours of 1977; HOURS 1-3

SATURDAY: Two Hours of 1972; One hour of rock and exotica HOURS 4-6

 

CWR 1476:

FRIDAY: 1972 HOURS 4+5
SATURDAY: Rock HOURS 1+6
SUNDAY: 1977 HOURS 2+3

 

with Pat McManus & Andy Stoddart, St Patrick's Day 2022, Wolverhampton

Hour 1

 PODCAST

Mariska Veres Shocking Jazz Quintet-Radar Love
Shocking Blue-Acka Raga
Mariska Veres Shocking Jazz Quintet-Venus
Shocking Blue-Beggin'
Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate-Silence Is A Statement/Pretending To Breathe/All Empires Fall/Cygnus
Emerald Dawn-Behind The Wall
Alice Coltrane-Journey Into Satchidananda
Pearl Handled Revolver-Raise Your Hand

 

Hour 2

45 years ago: There were 79 new singles released on Friday 13 May 1977

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 673 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST
Nils Lofgren-I Came To Dance  A&M AMS7288
Caravan-Better By Far/Silver Strings  ARISTA 110
Stranglers-Peaches (uncensored) UNITED ARTISTS UP36248
Blondie-X Offender  PRIVATE STOCK PVT105
Alessi-Oh Lori  A&M AMS7289
Urchin-Black Leather Fantasy  DJM DJS10776
Class 50-Freerider  ELECTRIC RECORD COMPANY WOT13
The Abyssinians-Forward On To Zion  KLIK CHART SOUNDS 2001 (RCA) KL631

Class 50-The Time Machine  ELECTRIC RECORD COMPANY WOT13
Electric Light Orchestra-Poor Boy (the greenwood)/King Of The Universe  JET UP36254
Cloud One-Atmosphere Strutt  CONTEMPO CS2119
Alternative PODCAST of above as broadcast - with sanitised version of Peaches and short edit of Atmosphere Strutt

 

Hour 3

45 years ago: There were 79 new singles released on Friday 13 May 1977

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 673 + www.45cat.com
  PODCAST
Stranglers-Go Buddy Go  UNITED ARTISTS UP36248
Ramones-Sheena Is A Punk Rocker  SIRE RAM1
Ace-Found Out The Hard Way  ANCHOR ANC1040
Promises-Tiger  CBS 5239
Schmetterlinge-Boom Boom Boomerang  PYE 7N25743
Neil Innes-Crytal Balls  ARISTA 106
Judi Tzuke (listed as Tzuke Paxo)-These Are The Laws  GOOD EARTH GD12
Fox-My Old Man's Away  GTO GT94
Kiss-Hard Luck Woman/Calling Doctor Love  CASABLANCA CAN12
J Sisters-I Can't Give You Anything (but my love)  CACTUS CT104
Jimmy Lindsay-Motion  CACTUS CT103
Spirit-All Along The Watchtower  MERCURY 6167 519
Brendon-Rock Me  MAGNET MAG94
Hollies-Hello To Romance  POLYDOR 2058 880
Child-What's A Nice Girl Like You  PENTAGON PENT 1**
Rufus-Hollywood  ABC 4175**
Andy Arthurs-Listen To My Brain Kapounding  EMI 2618**

Crazy Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers-My Little Sister's Got A Motorbike  CHARLY CS1026**

Hour 4

50 years ago: There were 48 new singles released on Friday 12 May 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 424 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST

Genesis-Happy The Man  CHARISMA  CB181
April Wine-Teacher  PYE 7N45145
T Rex-Lady/Thunderwing  MARC1
April Wine-You Could've Been A Lady  PYE 7N45145
John Kay-Walk Beside Me/I'm Movin' On  PROBE PRO558
Curtis Mayfield-Keep On Keepin' On  BUDDAH 2011 119
Tony Burrows-Rhythm Of The Rain  BELL 1235
Bryan Chalker's New Frontier-Daddy Sang Bass/Lot 109  CHAPTER ONE SCH170
Kinks-Supersonic Rocket Ship/You Don't Know My Name  RCA 2211
Fenn Street Gang-Life Life Life/Please Sir  CBS 8029
 

Hour 5

50 years ago: There were 48 new singles released on Friday 12 May 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 424 + www.45cat.com

 PODCAST
Toward The Unknown Region poetry reading over...Mrs Mills-Sunshine  PARLOPHONE R5950
Atomic Rooster-Never To Lose/Stand By Me  DAWN DNS1027
Clair Hamill-Smile Your Blues Away/Baseball Blues  ISLAND WIP6133
Genesis-Seven Stones  CHARISMA CB181
Autumn-Not The Way She Looks/Stood Up  PYE 7N45144
Jimmy Lindsay-Magnificent Sanctuary Band  JAM 12
Tiny Alice-Doctor Jazz/Chocolate Dandies of 1932  KAMA SUTRA 2013 043
B Bumble and the Stingers-Not Rocker  STATESIDE SS2203
Veneice-Stepchild  LONDON HLU10372
The Wackers-Do You Know THe Reason/Hardly Know Her Name  ELEKTRA K12054
Scarecrow (a.k.a. Rescue Company No.1)-No Man's Land/Come Back Where You Belong  POLYDOR 2058 227
Stampeders-Then Came The White Man  STATESIDE SS2202
Earl Van Dyke and the Soul Brothers-I Can't Help Myself  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG814
Ragamuffin-Fresh As A Daisy  DECCA F13312
 

Hour 6

 PODCAST

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity-I Got Life/Flesh Failures (let the sun shine in)

Caamora-I Can See Your House From Here

Blank Manuskript-Breath of the Island/Voyage/Society/The Great War
Captain Beefheart-Blue Jeans and Moonbeams
A Formal Horse-Rose Train
Spriggan Mist-Spellmaker
Stuckfish-Thief In The Night

**extended podcast only

Pat McManus is The Professor. Chris B models a Pat McManus/Mama's Boys t shirt in 2022

 

 

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

 

 

Jane Birkin: Les Langues de Chat

 

 

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)