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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

09 December 2023

 

 

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

 

Saturday 8th December 2023

There were 62 new singles released on Friday 8th December 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 206 

 PODCAST  

Orange Bicycle-Lavender Girl  COLUMBIA DB8311 (released 24th November)
Paper Blitz Tissue-Grey Man/Boy Meets Girl  RCA VICTOR RCA1652 (Written and Produced by Ron Grainer - so rare and desirable is this single that bootleg reproductions are in circulation)
(UK) Amboy Dukes-Judy In Disguise  POLYDOR 56228
Bobby Gentry-Okolona River Bottom Band/Penduli Pendulum  CAPITOL CL15524
Bessie Banks-I Can't Make It Without You  VERVE VS563
Plastic Penny-Everything I Am/No Pleasure Without Pain  PAGE ONE POF051
The Symbols-(The Best Part Of) Breaking Up  PRESIDENT PT173
Locomotive-Rudy A Message To You/Broken Heart  DIRECTION 58-3114
Kris Ife-Hush  MGM 1369
Love Affair-Everlasting Love/Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday  CBS 3125
Cher-Elusive Butterfly/You Better Sit Down Kids  LIBERTY LBF15038
Aretha Franklin-Satisfaction  ATLANTIC 584157
Lynn Tait & the jets-Something Stupid  ISLAND WI3066 (listed as being by Mike Thompson Jr, but label indicates Lynn Tait)

 

There were 62 new singles released on Friday 8th December 1967

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 206  

 PODCAST
Al Kent-You've Got To Pay The Price  TRACK 604016
Carmen McRae and Herbie Mann-Live For Life  ATLANTIC 584156
Cherry Smash-Sing Songs Of Love/Movie Star  TRACK 604017
Paul Butterfield Blues Band-Run Out Of Time/One More Heartache  ELEKTRA EKSN45020
Dudley Moore a.k.a. The Stanley Moon Experience-Love Me  DECCA F12710
Peter Cook a.k.a. Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation-Bedazzled  DECCA F12710
Jon Gunn-If You Wish It  DERAM DM166
Midas Touch-Rhythm Of Life  COLUMBIA DB8322
Finders Keepers-Friday Kind Of Monday  FONTANA TF892
The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett-Woman Woman  CBS 3110
Four Tops-Walk Away Renee  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG634
Left Banke-Walk Away Renee (not released this week, just comparing the original with Four Tops)
Human Instinct-Day In my Minds Mind (with Morse Code)/Death Of The Seaside  DERAM DM167
Finders Keepers-On The Beach  FONTANA TF892
Electric Prunes-Long Days Flight  REPRISE RS23312
The Ever Green Blues-Midnight Confessions  MERCURY MF1012
Definitive Rock Chorale-Mirrors Of Your Mind  PHILIPS BF1629

 

 PODCAST 

Derek Nimmo-Tiptoe Thru The Tulips
Back To Base with Benjamin Zephaniah-We Are Tribes
Gazelle Twin & NYX-Fire Leap
Amelia Coburn-See Saw
Unthanks-Bay Of Fundy
Grandaddy-Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland
Alan Parsons Project with Steve Harley-The Voice
Cockney Rebel-Death Trip, live at Golders Green Hippodrome, 22 Jan 1974
Japan-Ghosts, live Old Grey Whistle Test
Pentangle-Once I Had A Sweetheart
PFM Premiata Forneria Marconi-E Festa (Celebration) Live in 1998
Benjamin Zephaniah-Nu Blue Suede Shoes

 

Friday 8th 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

 

 

**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)