TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

This is... Chris Bent, 68. Check out the GALLERY for recent photos taken at the radio day in Harwich, August 2023

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

02 December 2023

 

 

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

 

 

Saturday 2nd December 2023

There were 72 new singles released on Friday 1st December 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 205

 PODCAST  

The Doors-Moonlight Drive/Love Me Two Times  ELEKTRA EKSN45022
5th Dimension-Paper Cup  LIBERTY LBF15037
Chocolate Watch Band-Requiem  DECCA F12704
Traffic-Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush/Coloured Rain  TRAFFIC WIP6025
Georgie Fame-Ballad Of Bonnie and Clyde  CBS 3124
Tinkerbell's Fairydust-Lazy Day  DECCA F12705
Spanky and our Gang-Lazy Day  MERCURY MF1010
Tinkerbell's Fairydust-In My Magic Garden  DECCA F12705

Spanky and our Gang-(It Ain't Necessarily) Byrd Avenue MERCURY MF1010
The Herd-Paradise Lost  FONTANA TF887
Scott Walker-Jackie/Plague  BF1628
Peter Pumpkin Pleases People-Don't Blow Your Mind  PAGE ONE POF048
Pete Terrace-Shotgun Boo ga loo  PYE 7N25440
Peaches and Herb-Love Is Strange  DIRECTION 58-3096
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation-Warning  BLUE HORIZON 3109 (orange CBS label with Blue Horizon logo printed on push out centre)
Trisha Noble-Live For Life  MGM 1371
 

There were 72 new singles released on Friday 1st December 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 205

 PODCAST

Studio Six-Falling Leaves/Strawberry Window  POLYDOR 56219

Tintern Abbey-Bee Side/Vacuum Cleaner  DERAM DM164
Cat Stevens-Kitty  DERAM DM156
The Mickey Finn-Garden Of My Mind/Time To Start Loving You  DIRECTION 58-3086
Stone Poneys-Different Drum/I've Got To Know  CAPITOL CL15523
Buffoons (Dutch)-My World Fell Down  COLUMBIA DB8317
Easybeats-Come In You'll Get Pneumonia/Music Goes Round My Head  UNITED ARTISTS UP1201
State Of Mickey and Tommy-Frisco Bay  MERCURY MF1009
Beatstalkers-Silver Treetop School For Boys (written by, but not recorded by Bowie)  CBS 3105
Tim Andrews-Sad Simon Lives Again  PARLOPHONE R5656
Clear Light-Black Roses/She's Ready To Be Free  ELEKTRA EKSN45019
Mamas and Papas-Glad To Be Unhappy  RCA VICTOR RCA1649
Sand Pebbles-Love Power  TRACK 604015
Tom Paxton-Jennifer's Rabbit  ELEKTRA EKSN45021
Guy Fletcher-Meet The Sun  PYE 7N17433
John Drevar's Expression-Closer She Gets  MGM 1367**
Morecombe and Wise-12 Days Of Christmas  PYE 7N17436**  ...oh, how we laughed at the Christmas singles each year...

 

Genesis LIVE:

 PODCAST

The Carpet Crawlers
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
The Return Of The Giant Hogweed
Musical Box
The Knife
Home By The Sea
Second Home By The Sea
Turn It On Again

 

Friday 1st December 2023

There were 69 new singles released on Friday 24th November 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 204 

 PODCAST  

Beatles-Hello Goodbye  PARLOPHONE R5655
Gilbert-You/Disappear  CBS 3089
Erma Franklin-Piece Of My Heart  LONDON HL10170
Jefferson Airplane-Two Heads/Ballad Of You Me and Pooneil  RCA VICTOR RCA1647
Zombies-Care Of Cell 44/Maybe After He's Gone  CBS 3087
Zombies-Time Of The Season (a rerecording for a K Tel compilation)
The Cymbaline-Matrimonial Fears/You Will Never Love Me  PHILIPS BF1624
Diana Ross and the Supremes-In And Out Of Love  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG632
Beatles-I Am The Walrus (extra beats version from USA mono single on CAPITOL)
Harvey Scales and the 7 Sound-Get Down  ATLANTIC 584146
Ronnie Jones-Mama Come On Home  POLYDOR 56222
Turtles-She's My Girl/Chicken Little Was Right  LONDON HL10168

 

There were 69 new singles released on Friday 24th November 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 204 

 PODCAST
Dave Davies-Suzanah's Still Alive  PYE 7N17429
Marmalade-Man In A Shop  CBS 3086
Harpers Bizarre-Chattanooga Cho Choo  WARNER WB7090
Orange Bicycle-Laura's Garden  COLUMBIA DB8311
Gladys Knight and the Pips-I Heard It Through The Grapevine  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG629
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles-I Second That Emotion  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG631
Carnegy Hall-Bells Of San Francisco/Slightly Cracked  POLYDOR 56224
Peep Show-Esprit De Corps  POLYDOR 56226
Svensk-All I Have To Do Is Dream/You  PAGE ONE POF050
Tickle-Subway (Smokey Pokey World)  REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3004
Chris Farlowe-Handbags and Gladrags  IMMEDIATE IM065
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera-Flames  DIRECTION 58-3063
Skip Bifferty-Reason To Live/Happy Land  RCA VICTOR RCA1648
Savoy Brown Blues Band-Taste and Try Before You Buy  DECCA F12702
Lovin' Spoonful-She Is Still A Mystery  KAMA SUTRA KAS210
Inquisitive People-Big White Chief  DECCA F12699
Tickle-Good Evening  REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3004
Kim and Kelly Braden-Didn't I  COLUMBIA DB8312
Beatles-I Am The Walrus (remix from the Love 'Cirque de Soleil' album)
Invaders-Limbo Girl  COLUMBIA BLUE BEAT DB105
 

 

 PODCAST 

Sweet Pool-In Winter
Caravan-Winter Wine
Sweet Pool-Dancing Wildly
Say She She-Bleeding Heart
The Last Dinner Party-My Lady Of Mercy
Hats Off Gentleman It's Adequate-The Confidence Trick (with explanatory intro by Malcolm Galloway)
Emerald Dawn-The March Of Time
Affinity-All Along The Watchtower
Argent-God Gave Rock and Roll To You (Russ Ballard)

Coi Leray-Players** podcast only, a musical anomaly. Well, I like it...

Next Week: Genesis Live

 

 

**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)