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

6-8 January 2023

 

 

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

 

 

 

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
 

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
Sones Masonry-Hot Rock/Flapjacks  RURDAY 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
Nashville Teens-That's My Woman  DECCA F12542**

The Music Machine and their team of Go Go dancers...

Too late for the podcast. New from Peter Gabriel.
Released at Full Moon on 6/7 January 2023...

 

Hour 3 - a two hour podcast for this week and next week

 PODCAST 
Megadeth-Symphony of Destruction
Hot Chip-Freak Out Release
Mighty Ra-Rising Tide/Bigger Lie
Traffic-You Can All Join In (mono single export only)
Traffic BBC sessions:
Paper Sun
House For Everyone
Hole In My Shoe
Coloured Rain
Dear Mr Fantasy
Smiling Phases
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bus

Traffic-Giving To You Radio Husel Stockholm Sweden
Flutatious-Wendel The Witch/Joy
Manfred Mann's Earth Band-Blinded By The Light
Dream Theater-Rover/Achilles Last Stand/Song Remains The Same
Slambovian Circus Of Dreams-The Trans Slambovian Bi-Polar Express
All Jigged Out-Blow The Wind Southerly/Broken Mirror
Damian Wilson, live in rehearsal 2002:
Naked
Adams Child
Win In The End
She's Like a Fable, with Rick Wakeman

Hot Chip Freak Out with Black Teeth....

Hour 4

56 years ago: There were 50 new singles released on Friday 9 December 1966

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 155

 PODCAST r

Temptations-I Know I'm Losing You  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG587
Stevie Wonder-Sylvia  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG588
The Move-Night Of Fear  DERAM DM109

Hedgehoppers Anonymous-Little Memories  DECCA F12530
Misunderstood-Who Do You Love/I Can Take You To The Sun  FONTANA TF777
Knight Brothers-That'll Get It  CHESS CRS8046
Association-Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies  LONDON HLT10098
Incas-One Night Stand  PARLOPHONE R5551
Walker Brothers-(The Female Of The Species Is) Deadlier Than The Male  PHILIPS BF1537
Hedgehoppers Anonymous-Stop Press  DECCA F12539
Pretty Things-Buzz The Jerk/Progress  FONTANA TF773
Mike Patto-Love  COLUMBIA DB8091

Association-Standing Still  LONDON HLT10098
Joe Cuba Sextet-Bang Bang  PYE 7N25401
Zoot Money Big Roll Band-Star Of The Show  COLUMBIA DB8090
Tom Paxton-Leaving London  ELEKTRA EKSN45006
Tom Glazer and the School Bus Singers-Froggie Song/Ballad of Namu (the killer whale)  UNITED ARTISTS UP1164
Pip Squeaks-Santa's Little Helpers

 

Hour 5

56 years ago: There were 50 new singles released on Friday 9 December 1966

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 155
 PODCAST r

Lalo Schifrin-Venice After Dark (from movie Our Venetian Affair)  MGM 1329
The Move-Disturbance  DERAM DM109
Corduroys-Too Much Of A Woman  PLANET PLF122
Roger Denison-I'm On An Island  PARLOPHONE R5545
Gary James-You're Gone  POLYDOR 56134
Zoot Money Big Roll Band-The Mound Moves  COLUMBIA DB8090
Scaffold-Goodbat Nightman/A Long Strong Black Pudding  PARLOPHONE R5548
Young Rascals-Too Many Fish In The Sea  ATLANTIC 584067
Barry Benson-Always Waitin'  PARLOPHONE R5544
Mike Leslie-Right Or Wrong  DECCA F12531
56 years ago: There were 25 new singles released on Friday 16 December 1966

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 156

Jimi (printed as Jimmy in the New Singles listing) Hendrix-Stone Free/Hey Joe  POLYDOR 56139
Sandy Posey-Single Girl  MGM 1330
The Flies-I'm Not Your Stepping Stone  DECCA F12533
Troggs-66 5 4 3 2 1  PAGE ONE POF010
Peter Lee Stirling-Oh What A Fool  DECCA F12535
Willie Bobo-Sock It To Me/Sunshine Superman  VERVE VS548
Wee Willie Harris-Try Moving Baby  POLYDOR 56140
Elmer Bernstein-Magificent Seven  UNITED ARTISTS UP1163
 

Hour 6

56 years ago: There were 25 new singles released on Friday 16 December 1966

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 156
 PODCAST r

Georgie Fame-Sitting In The Park  COLUMBIA DB8096

The Critters-Bad Misunderstanding/Forever Or No More  LONDON HLR 10101
The Bats-Listen To My Heart  DECCA F22534
Cher-Mama  LIBERTY LIB12046
(Paul) Butterfield Blues Band-Come On In  LONDON HLZ 10100
Dr West's Medicine Show and Junk Band (Norman Greenbaum)-Eggplant That Ate Chicago  CBS 202492
King Richards Fluegel Knights-Crusades  CBS 202485
Tudor Minstrels-Love In The Open Air  DECCA F12536

There were no singles issued on Friday 23 December 1966
56 years ago: There were 28 new singles released on Friday 30 December 1966
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 157
George Martin Orchestra-Love In The Open Air  UNITED ARTISTS UP1165
Monkees-I'm A Believer  RCA VICTOR 1560
Cat Stevens-Matthew And Son  DERAM DM110
Wynder K Frog-Sunshine Superman  ISLAND WI3011
Chubby's Edge-It's Only Love  KING KG1047
The Tea Set (TV adverts sponsored by British Tea Council)-Join The Tea Set  KING KG1048
The Mindbenders-I Want Her She Wants Me  FONTANA TF780
Cream-NSU/I Feel Free  REACTION 591011
The Wailers-Rude Boy Get Bail  ISLAND WI3009
Freaks Of Nature (a.k.a. Belfast Gypsies)-People Let's Freak Out  ISLAND WI3017
Richard Kerr-Hard Lovin'  DECCA F12538
Monkees-I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone  RCA VICTOR RCA1566
The Tea Set (TV adverts sponsored by British Tea Council)-Ready Steady Go  KING KG1048
Brian Connell and the Round Sound-Something You've Got  MERCURY MF956

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CWR 1476 ONLY -

 

There were 39 new singles released on Friday 7 January 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 406 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST r

Badfinger-Day After Day  APPLE 40
Stevie Wonder-If You Really Love Me  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG798
Edward & Harding-Blackbird  STATESIDE SS2196
Flaming Ember-Westbound no. 9  HOT WAX HWX101
Cynthia Richards-Place In My Heart  GG GG4528
Exodus-Pharoahs Walk  SIOUX SI001
Stray-Our Song/Mama's Coming Home  TRANSATLANTIC BIG T BIG141
The Rumour-l'Amour Est l'Enfant De La Liberte  POLYDOR 2121 091
White Plains-Julie Anne  DERAM DM348
Tommy James-I'm Coming Home  ROULETTE 2097 005
Twinkle Bros-The Happy Song  SIOUX SI003
Bloomfields-Homing In On The Next Trade Wind  PYE 7N46114
Fortunes-Storm In A Tea Cup  CAPITOL CL15707
(Booker T &) The MG's-Jamaica This Morning  STAX 2025 074
 

There were 36 new singles released on Friday 7 January 1977

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 655 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST r

Whirlwind-Full Time Thing  PYE 7N25733
Bar Kays-Shake Your Rump To The Funk  MERCURY 6167 417
Tony Christie-On This Night Of A Thousand Stars (from EVITA soundtrack)  MCA 269
Nazareth-Vancouver Shakedown/Somebody To Roll  MOUNTAIN TOP22
Ginger Baker and friends-Don Dorango  MOUNTAIN TOP23
Santana-Revelations  CBS 4927
Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones-To Know Him Is To Love/City Port  EMI 2572
Santana-Reach Up  CBS 4927
Ginger Baker-Candlestick Taker  MOUNTAIN TOP23
Boz Scaggs-What Can I Say  CBS 4869
Daryl Hall & John Oates-Rich Girl  RCA 2579
Roy Allison-White stockings  PENNY FARTHING PEN927
Rick Dees and his cast of idiots-Dis-Gorilla  RSO 2090 218
Denis King & his orchestra-Regan's Theme (from Sweeney film soundtrack)  EMI 2578
(Klaus Nomi-Total Eclipse)

 

 

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

 

 

**extended podcast only
 

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

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

 

 

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