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

3-5 February 2023

 

 

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

 

 

SATURDAY

Hour 1

There were 53 new singles released on Friday 3 February 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 162
 PODCAST 
The Lords-Don't Mince Matter  COLUMBIA DB8121
Frugal Sound-Backstreet Girl  RCA VICTOR RCA1566
Buffalo Springfield-For What It's Worth  ATLANTIC 584077
Jan and Dean-New Girl In School  LIBERTY LIB55923
West Coast Delegation-Mr Personality Man  DERAM DM113
John's Children-But She's Mine  COLUMBIA DB8124
Tim Buckley-Aren't You The Girl/Strange Street Affair Under Blue
John's Children-Just What You Want, Just What You'll Get (with Jeff Beck)  COLUMBIA DB8124
Young Rascals-I've Been Lonely Too Long  ATLANTIC 584081
Hector Rivera-At The Party  POLYDOR 56728
Baja Marimba Band-Ghost Rider In The Sky  PYE 7N25404
Graham Bond Organisation-You've Gotta Have Love Baby  PAGE ONE POF014
Herman's Hermits-There's A Kind Of Hush  COLUMBIA DB8123
Graham Bond Organisation-I Love You  PAGE ONE POF014
John Cameron-You Owe Me  COLUMBIA DB8120
Mar Keys-Last Night/Night Before  ATLANTIC 584074
Firehouse Five Plus Two-Winchester Cathedral  VOCALION GV2428
Jimmy Ruffin-I've Passed This Way Before  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG593
Herman's Hermits-Gas Lite Street  COLUMBIA DB8123

 

Hour 2

There were 53 new singles released on Friday 3 February 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 162
 PODCAST

Buckinghams-Kind Of A Drag  STATESIDE SS588
Episode Six-Love Hate Revenge/Baby Baby Baby  PYE 7N17244
PP Arnold-Everything's Gonna Be Alright  IMMEDIATE IM040
The Knack-The Man From The Marriage Guidance And Advice Bureau/Dolly Catcher Man  PICCADILLY 7N35367
Music Explosion-Little Black Egg  PHILIPS BF1547
Sopwith Camel-Hello Hello  KAMA SUTRA KAS205
The Lords-No One Knows/British Grin And Bear  DERAM DM112
The Walker Brothers-Stay With Me Baby  PHILIPS BF1548
Whistling Jack Smith-British Grin and Bear/I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman  DERAM DM112
Mojos-I Just Can't Let Her Go  DECCA F12557
Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers-I'll Take Good Care Of You (at BEAT Club, Germany, with DLT)  PARLOPHONE R5565
Soul City-Everybody Dance Now  CAMEO PARKWAY C103
Buffalo Springfield-Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It  ATLANTIC 584077
Ivy League-Four And Twenty Hours  PICCADILLY 7N35367
Slim Smith-Boss Man  ISLAND WI3023
Jimmy Reed-Two Ways To Skin A Cat  HMV POP1579
Shindogs-Who Do You Think You Are  FONTANA TF790
The Happenings-Goodnight My Love  STATESIDE SS587
West Coast Delegation-Reach The Top  DERAM DM113**
 

Hour 3

 PODCAST

Supersister-Radio/Wow/Psychopath
Mighty Ra-Nothing Comes Too Easy/Seven Days/Rain (from Live Secrets) Buy Here: The Mighty Ra
The Nice-Rondo/She Belongs To Me (live at Fillmore East)
Gary Numan-My Name Is Ruin
Torch Song-Prepare To Energize (Japan 12" mix)

 

FRIDAY ON SEAGULL:

 

Hour 4

There were 64 new singles released on Friday 27 January 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 161
 PODCAST r

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 r

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 r

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

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