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

27-29 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 & Hour 6 combined

 PODCAST

Cosmic Sounds: Zodiac-Taurus (The Voluptuary)/Gemini (The Cool Eye)

Beatles:
Baby You're A Rich Man
Across The Universe (from Nothing's Gonna Change Our World charity LP)
Only A Northern Song (mono mix)
Yer Blues
It's All Too Much (mono mix)
Girl
Rain

Strawberry Fields/Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/Octopus's Garden (mix from LOVE album)
The Word
Love You To
 

Donovan-Fat Angel

 

Hour 2

45 years ago: There were 61 new singles released on Friday 27 May 1977

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 675 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST
Emerson Lake and Palmer-Fanfare For The Common Man  ATLANTIC K10946
Supertramp-Give A Little Bit  A&M AMS7293
100 Ton and a Feather-Can't Get It Out Of My Head  PYE 7N45695
Rod Argent-Gymnopedies no 1/Light Fantastic  MCA 294
ELP-Brain Salad Surgery  ATLANTIC K10946 (The New Singles shows the intention was that 'Fanfare..' would be parts 1&2)
Earl Klugh-I Heard It Through The Grapevine  BLUE NOTE UP36251
Demis Roussos-I Dig You/Sister Emilene  PHILIPS DEMIS 2
Sex Pistols-God Save The Queen  SEX PISTOLS VS181
Vibrators-Into The Future  EPIC EPC5302
Sex Pistols-Did You No Wrong  SEX PISTOLS VS181
T Rex-Dandy In The Underworld/Groove A Little/Tame My Tiger**
 

Hour 3

45 years ago: There were 61 new singles released on Friday 27 May 1977

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 675 + www.45cat.com
  PODCAST
Meal Ticket-Out Of The Blue  EMI INTERNATIONAL INT533
American Flyer-Spirit Of A Woman  UNITED ARTISTS UP36253
The Law-Laying Down The Law  MCA 300
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-Anything That's Rock and Roll  ISLAND WIP6396
Detroit Emeralds-Feel The Need  ATLANTIC K10947
Commodores-Easy  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG1073
Crosby Stills and Nash-Dark Star/Just A Song  ATLANTIC K10947
Beckies-River Bayou  SIRE 6078 605
Angel-That Magic Touch  CASABLANCA CAN104
Chartreuse-You Really Got Me  KLIK KL634
Eater-Thinking Of The USA  THE LABEL TLR003
Esperanto-Obsession/Last Tango  A&M AMS7291 (more Esperanto in hour 6)
Richard Stilgoe-Lilian Thomson  EMI 2628
David McWilliams-Love Walked In  EMI 2617

Hour 4

50 years ago: There were 54 new singles released on Friday 26 May 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 426 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST

Laurie Johnson-The Avengers intro (colour episodes Peel & Steed)
Diana Rigg-Forget Yesterday  RCA 2178
Laurie Johnson-The Avengers end titles
Diana Rigg-Sentimental Journey  RCA 2178
Power Themes '90-Peel The Reel  (Avengers theme remix)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono-Sisters Oh Sisters/Woman Is The Nigger Of The World  APPLE R5952 UNRELEASED (white label copies were pressed)
Flash-Small Beginnings  SOVEREIGN SOV105
Helen Reddy-I Am Woman  CAPITOL CL15921
Pooch Jackson with The Harry J Allstars-King Of The Road  SIOUX SI017
Funky Brown-African People (Indian Reservation) SIOUX SI018
Jumbo Sterling-Elizabethan Reggae  SIOUX SI018
Flash-Morning Haze  SOVEREIGN SOV105
Blue Haze-Unchained Melody  A&M AMS7009
Billie Davis-I Tried REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3050
Billy Preston-Outa Space  A&M AMS7007
Sandie Davis-Be On Your Best Behaviour  UNITED ARTISTS UP35374
 

Hour 5

50 years ago: There were 54 new singles released on Friday 26 May 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 426 + www.45cat.com

 PODCAST
Three Dog Night-Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer  PROBE PRO560
Wyoming-Seven Days  MAM R76
Lost Dog-Latch Key Child/One More Time  PHOENIX NIX131
Marvin Gaye-Inner City Blues  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG817
Sinewave-Clochemerle  CHAPTER ONE SCH171
Spreadeagle-How Can We Be Lost/Nightmare  CHARISMA CB183
Peter Franc-Song For Every Season  BLUE MOUNTAIN BM102
Jumbo-Promises  CBS 8082
Rescue Co No 1-Amanda  JAM 14
Grease Band-Laughed At The Judge  HARVEST HAR5052

Polly Brown-Feeling's Alright  PYE 7N45148
Brewers Droop-Heart Of Stone  RCA 2216
Al Kooper-Monkey Time  CBS 8084
Spirit-Cadillac Cowboys  CBS 8083
Wyoming-Two Faced Woman  MAM R76
Santiago-Light That Shines  RCA 2218**
Sinewave-Star Trek  CHAPTER ONE SCH171**
Little Johnny Taylor-It's My Fault Darling  MOJO 2092 044**
Jean Battle-Love Making  MOJO 2027 010The Circles-Mamy Blue  SIOUX SI017**

Hour 6

 PODCAST

Esperanto-Eleanor Rigby/Still Life (1975)
Wallace Collection-Daydream (1969)
Esperanto Rock Orchestra-On Down The Road/Never Again/Perhaps One Day/Statue Of Liberty (1973)
Esperanto-Painted Lady/The Rape (1975)


**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)