TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

This was... Chris Bent, 12, with transistor radio
 (at Church Meadow, Marholm, 1967)

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

20 MAY 2023

 

 

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

 

Saturday 20th May

There were 55 new singles released on Friday 19th May 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 177

 PODCAST 

Beach Boys-Mountain Of Love/Then I Kissed Her  CAPITOL CL15502 (actually released on 28th April, but omitted from The New Singles)
Spanky and Our Gang-Sunday Will Never Be The Same  MERCURY MF982
Doors-Whisky Bar (Alabama Song0/Take It as It Comes  ELEKTRA EKSN45012
The Rush-Happy  DECCA F12614
Turtles-Let Me Be/Almost There  PYE 7N25421
Herbie Mann-And The Beat Goes On  ATLANTIC 584112
Magic Lanterns-We'll Meet Again/What Else Can It Be But Love  CBS 2750
The Paragons-On The Beach  ISLAND WI3045
Brenda Holloway-Just Look What You've Done  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG608
Marvelettes-When You're Young And In Love  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG609
Dave Clark Five-Tabatha Twitchit  COLUMBIA DB8194
Eric Burdon and the Animals-When I Was Young/A Girl Named Sandoz  MGM 1340
The Gremlins-Coming Generation/That's What I Want  MERCURY MF981
Chapter Five-Hey Hey  CBS 2696
Herbie Mann-Free For All  ATLANTIC 584112

 

There were 55 new singles released on Friday 19th May 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 177

 PODCAST

James Brown-Kansas City  PYE 7N17325
Spanky and Our Gang-Distance  MERCURY MF982
Petula Clark-Don't Sleep In The Subway  PYE 7N17325
Spencer Wiggins-Uptight Good Woman  STATESIDE SS2024
Ethiopians-For You  ISLAND WI3036
Soul Brothers-Sound Pressure  ISLAND WI3036
Dusty Springfield-Give Me Time/The Look Of Love (mono single re-recording)  PHILIPS BF1577
Dusty Springfield-The Look Of love (stereo movie soundtrack from Casino Royale)
Esther Philips-And I Love Him  ATLANTIC 584103
Paul Arnold-Somewhere In A Rainbow  PYE 7N17317
Johnny Devlin-Hurtin'  CBS 2751
Fontana Singers and Orchestra-Man Alone (a tribute to Sir Francis Chichester)  FONTANA TF837
Los Bravos-I'm All Ears  DECCA F22615
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels-Too Many Fish In The Sea/Three Little Fishes  STATESIDE SS2023
Guess Who-This Time Long Ago  FONTANA TF831
Tokens-Portrait Of My Love  WARNER WB5900
Ivy Folk-Hey Ramblin' Man  PYE 7N17318
Guess Who-There's No Getting Away From You  FONTANA TF831
Ennio Moricone-Fistful Of Dollars  RCA VICTOR RCA1596
Bert Weedon-Stranger Than Fiction  HMV POP1592

...somewhere above should be Chapter Five-One In a Million  CBS 2696 
 

 PODCAST 

RIP Linda Lewis-Little Indians/It's The Frame (BBC Sessions)
RPWL-King Of The World
EBB-Krystal At The Red Light
Rain-Bring It Back
Ferris Wheel-A Song For Alice/I Know You Well/Can't Stop Now
Golden Earring-The Vanilla Queen
Matis with Franck Carducci-Journey Through The Mind
Ferris Wheel-Ivory Tower

 

Friday 19th May

There were 56 new singles released on Friday 12th May 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 176

 PODCAST

Burt Bacharach Orchestra-Bond Street A&M AMS702
Procol Harum-Lime Street Blues/A Whiter Shade Of Pale  DERAM DM126
Byrds-My Back Pages/Renaissance Fair  CBS 2648
Mae West-Day Tripper  STATESIDE SS2021
Clarendonians-You Can't Be Happy  ISLAND WI3041
Nancy Sinatra-Coastin'  REPRISE RS20559
Tomorrow-Claremont Lake/My White Bicycle  PARLOPHONE R5597
Caroline Munro-Sporting Life/Tar And Cement  COLUMBIA DB8189
Chords Five-I Am Only Dreaming  ISLAND WI3044
The Brain-Nightmares In Red  PARLOPHONE R5595
Chords Five-Universal Vagrant  ISLAND WI3044
The Brain-Kick The Donkey  PARLOPHONE R5595
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich-Okay  FONTANA TF830
The Wards Of Court-All Night Girl  DERAM DM127
Sonny & Cher-Podunk  ATLANTIC 584110
Bob Crewe Generation-Miniskirts In Moscow  STATESIDE SS2019
 

There were 56 new singles released on Friday 12th May 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 176

 PODCAST

The Bunch-You Can't Do That  CBS 2740
Bram Rigg Set-Take The Time Be Yourself/I Can Only Give You Everything  STATESIDE SS2020
Peter Touch (Tosh)-I Am The Toughest  ISLAND WI3042
Frugal Sound-Abilene  RCA VICTOR RCA1595
John's Children-Remember Thomas A Becket/Desdemona  TRACK 604003
John's Children-Come And Play With Me In The Garden  TRACK 604005 (released 14 July 1967 - which we'll discuss further that week)
Jefferson Airplane-She Has Funny Cars/Somebody To Love  RCA VICTOR RCA1594
Walker Brothers-Walking In The Rain  PHILIPS BF1576
The Wards Of Court-How Could You Say One Thing  DERAM DM127
Unit 4 + 2-Too Fast Too Slow  FONTANA TF834
Julie London-Girl Talk  LIBERTY LIB10274
Valerie Mitchell-Love Can Be The Sweetest Thing  COLUMBIA DB8186
Les Surfs-When I Tell You That I Love You  FONTANA TF832
Koobas-City Girl/Gypsy Fred  COLUMBIA DB8187
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich-He's A Raver  FONTANA TF83
Julian Covey and the Machine-A Little Bit Hurt/Sweet Bacon  ISLAND WIP6009
Paul Young-You Girl  COLUMBIA DB8188
Wade Denning & Port Washington-Tarzan March  MGM 1339**
Bob Crewe Generation-Theme For a Lazy Girl  STATESIDE SS2019**

 

 PODCAST
Beatles-Blue Jay Way (mono mix)
Rain-Hypnosis
Michael Brown (Beckies/Left Banke)-Quarter Horses
Rain-Solid State
Genesis-Return Of The Giant Hogweed (Watcher of the Skies sessions)
Magic Pie-Slightly Mad
Alice Cooper-Halo Of Flies
RPWL-Life In A Cage
Empire-Edge Of Reason
Beatles-Blue Jay Way (stereo mix with seemingly random effects)

 

 

**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)