TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

This was... Chris Bent, 1967, with transistor radio
 (at Church Meadow, Marholm)

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 January 2023

 

 

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

 

 

FRIDAY

Hour 1

 PODCAST r
RIP David Crosby and Jeff Beck
Byrds-Lady Friend
Crosby Stills & Nash-Guinevere
Crosby Stills Nash & Young-Deja Vu
Donovan with the Jeff Back Group-Baragajagal
Jeff Beck-Tally Man/Rock My Plimsoul
 

Peter Gabriel-Panopticom
Soft Cell-Torch (with Cindy Ecstasy)
Torch Song-Venus In Furs (from vinyl only LP Ecstasy)
 

Crosby Stills & Nash-Almost Cut My Hair/Change Partners/Pre Road Downs
Crosby & Nash-Carry Me

 

Hour 2

There were 56 new singles released on Friday 20 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 160
 PODCAST r

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
 

Hour 3

There were 56 new singles released on Friday 20 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 160
 PODCAST r

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
Jimmy McGriff-See See Rider  UNITED ARTISTS UP1160**
Pozo Seco Singers-Look What You've Done  CBS 202521**

 

 

SATURDAY 27th ON SEAGULL:

 

Hour 4

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
 

Hour 5

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
Kingsmen-Trouble  PYE 7N25406**
Billy Graham and the Escaltors-Ooh Poo Pah Doo  ATLANTIC 584073**
Drafi-I Wanna Take You Home  DECCA F22552**
 

Hour 6
 PODCAST

Pink Floyd-Animals 2018 mix
Jonas Lindberg-Summer Queen
Jill Sobule-Things Here Are Different

 

CWR 1476 ONLY -

 

51 years ago: There were 56 new singles released on Friday 28 January 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 409 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST r

Colin Blunstone-Say You Don't Mind  EPIC EPC7765
Neil Young-Heart Of Gold  REPRISE K14140
Tom Clay-The Victors  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG801
Tom Clay-with The Blackberries-What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham Martin & John  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG801
Ventures-Joy  UNITED ARTISTS UP35326
Buffy Sainte-Marie-I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again  VANGUARD VRS35143
Yoko Ono-Listen The Snow Is Falling/Mind Train  APPLE 41
Sweet-Poppa Joe  RCA 2164
Nazareth-Dear John  PEGASUS PGS2
T.Rex-Cadillac/Baby Strange  T-REX 101
 

51 years ago: There were 56 new singles released on Friday 28 January 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 409 + www.45cat.com
 PODCAST r

Temptations-Superstar  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG800
T.Rex-Telegram Sam  T-Rex 101
Slade-Look Wot You Dun  POLYDOR 2058 195
Neil Young-Sugar Mountain  REPRISE K14140
Grunt Futtock-Rock & Roll Christian/Free Soul  REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3042
Roy Wood-Wake Up/When Gran'Ma plays The Banjo  HARVEST HAR5048
Worth-Polecat Alley  CBS 7728
Simtec & Wylie-Maggie May  MERCURY 6052 120
Symbols-No No No  CBS 7725
Steve 'n' Bonnie-Brief Encounter  YOUNG BLOOD YB1033
Medicine Head-Kum On  DANDELION 2001 276
Cat Mother-Letter To The President  UNITED ARTISTS UP35336
The One Hit Wonders-Hey Hey Jump No  CBS 7760
Gallagher & Lyle-Desiderata  CAPITOL CL15710**extended podcast only
Tony Hazzard-Blue Movie Man  BRONZE WIP6123**
Design-Colour All The World  REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3044**
Chris Neal-Blame It All On Eve  FLY BUG15**
Lee Michaels-Can I Get A Witness  A&M AMS882**
Living Force-Some People  CHAPTER ONE SCH161**
Stylistics-You Are Everything  AVCO EMBASSY 6105 007**
 

The Blackberries (on the Tom Clay single) with Humble Pie. Steve and Peter were with Grunt Futtock

 

46 years ago: There were 67 new singles released on Friday 28 January 1977

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 658 + www.45cat.com

 PODCAST

Ultravox-My Sex  ISLAND WIP6375

Deodato-Peter Gunn  MCA 266
Teach In-Upside Down  EMI 2579
Jimmy McCulloch and White Line-Too Many Miles  EMI 2560
Steve Miller-Serenade  MERCURY 6078 808
Grand Funk-Pass It Around  EMI INTERNATIONAL INTS528
SAHB without Alex-Pick It Up Kick It  MOUNTAIN TOP24
Joan Armatrading-Down To Zero  A&M AMS7270
Racing Cars-They Shoot Horses Don't They  CHRYSALIS CHS2129
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Free Bird  MCA 275
Noel Redding Band-Take It Easy  RCA PB9026
Denny Laine-Baby Caroline  PALADIN PAL5014
Mike Oldfield-William Tell Overture  VIRGIN VS167
Byron Lee and the Dragonaires-Disco Magic  DYNAMIC DYN122

 

 

 

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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

 

 

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