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This was... Chris Bent, in 1968, playing what were the new singles of that year


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

6 January 2024
 
 

with Pat McManus & Andy Stoddart, St Patrick's Day 2022, Wolverhampton
 
SATURDAY 6th January 2024
 
There were 55 new singles released on Friday 5th January 1968
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 209 
 PODCAST  
Slim Smith-Rougher Yet  COXSONE CS7034
Cindy Starr and the Rude Boys-Hippy Ska  BLUE BEAT DB107
The Termites-It Takes Two To Make Love  STUDIO ONE SO2079
Squibby and the Relections-Friend  DIRECTION 58-3203
Jr Walker and the All Stars-Come See About Me  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG637
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas-Honey Chile  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG636
Bergen White-Bird Song/If It's Not Asking Too Much  MONUMENT MON1012
The Groop-Mad Over You/Woman You're Breaking Me  CBS 3204
The Ivy Folk-Ballad Brew  PYE 7N17440
The Esquires-And Get Away  STATESIDE SS2077
Morgan James Duo-If It Comes To That  PHILIPS BF1630
Peter and the Wolves-Lantern Light/Break Up Break Down  MGM 1374
Peter Paul and Mary-Too Much Of Nothing  WARNER WB7092
Paul Revere and the Raiders-Mo'reen  CBS 3186
Nancy Sinatra-Tony Rome  REPRISE RS23215
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood-Some Velvet Morning  REPRISE RS23215
The Treasure Boys (actually Freddy McKay)-Love Is A Treasure  TROJAN TR010
Roy Shirley-Musical War  ISLAND WI3071
 
There were 55 new singles released on Friday 5th January 1968
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 209 
 PODCAST
American Breed-Bend Me Shape Me  STATESIDE SS2078
PP Arnold-(If You Think You're Groovy) Groovy  IMMEDIATE IM061
Godfrey Winn-I Pass  DECCA F12713
Status Quo-Pictures Of Matchstick Me/Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe  PYE 7N17449
One In A Million-Fredereek Hernando/Double Sight  MGM1370
Jason Crest-Turquoise Tandem Cycle/Good Life  PHILIPS BF1633
Don Parteidge-Rosie  COLUMBIA DB8330
Deuce Coupe-Angela  MERCURY MF1013
Beach Boys-Darlin'/Country Air  CAPITOL CL15527
Uncle Tom Cobley's Ensemble-How Now Brown Cow  MAJOR MINOR MM542
Yellow Bellow Room Boom (Godley and Creme)-Seeing Things Grey/Easy Life  CBS 3205
Delroy Wilson-I Am Not King  STUDIO ONE SO2031
Cedars (listed as being 'Canned Apricots' but label indicates otherwise)-For Your Information  DECCA F22720
Don Charles-If I Had A Chance  PARLOPHONE R5659
 
There were 55 new singles released on Friday 5th January 1968
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 209 
 PODCAST  
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels-You Are My Sunshine  STATESIDE SS2075
Etta James-Tell Mama  CHESS CRS8062
The High Windows-Maybe Someday/Your Eyes  CBS 3206
Squibby and the Reflections-Forgotten Dreams  DIRECTION 58-3203
The Letterman-Goin' Out Of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off You  CAPITOL CL15526
Fearns Brass Foundry-Don't Change It  DECCA F12721
Anthony Hughes and the Ventures-When You Meet Marianne  PYE 7N17439
Mighty Sam-When She Touches Me  STATESIDE SS2076
Johnny Rivers-Summer Rain  LIBERTY LBF15041
Hermans Hermits-Marcel's/I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving  COLUMBIA DB8327
 
Bobby Gentry: Live from her BBC television series, 1968
Mississippi Delta
Papa Won't You Let Me Go To Town
I Saw An Angel Die
My Dog Sergeant
Ode To Billie Joe
Morning Glory
Penduli Pendulum

 
FRIDAY 5th January 2024 at Midday and Midnight
Three hours of the best of the new music seen and/or heard in 2023
Compiled by Andy Stoddart. Les Newman joins in during the first hour...
ARTIST ALBUM  TRACK
RPWL Crime Scenes Another Life Beyond Control
Beatrix Player Living and Alive Snowflakes
Hayley Griffiths Melanie Broken Lullaby

Karnataka

Requiem For a Dream

Forgiven

Zio

Truewaves

I Hear Them Whistling

Lifesigns

Live In The Netherlands

Impossible

Lazuzi

Onze-11

Lagune Grise

Kite Parade

Retro

Merry Go Round

Pendragon

North Star (EP)

North Star Part I – A Boy And his Dog

Pendragon

North Star (EP)

North Star Part II – As Dead As A Dodo

Pendragon

North Star (EP)

North Star Part III – Phoenician Skies

The Emerald Dawn

In Time

Out Of Time

The Swan Chorus

Achilles and the Difference Engine

After Dark

Unit8

Unit8

Sinister Knitwear

Rain

Radio Silence

Solid State

Steven Wilson

The Harmony Codex

Impossible Tightrope

Nine Skies

The Lightmaker

The Haunted

The Might Ra

Controlling The Burn (EP)

We Are The One

Riverside

I.D.Entity

The Place Where I Belong

Comedy of Errors

Threnody for a Dead Queen

The Seventh Seal

 HOUR 1: PODCAST               HOUR 2: PODCAST              HOUR 3: PODCAST

CHRISTMAS DAY:
Broadcast at 10.00pm - midnight on Christmas Day via the LV18 in Harwich Harbour. Les joined in during the second hour. Mi Amigo radio plays music solely from the 60's and 70's. Here is our contribution to the Christmas spirit...

Chris B Christmas Mi Amigo hour 1
Bronco  Argent  Greatest Show On Earth  Heavy Jelly
 Colosseum  Jimi Hendrix Experience  Lynn Tait and the Jets

Chris B Christmas Mi Amigo hour 2
Jimmy Cliff  Donovan  Brian Auger and the Trinity Simon Stokes and the Nighthawks
Captain Beefheart  Jefferson Handkerchief  Jefferson Airplane  Human Instinct
Carnegy Hall  Caravan  Traffic  Argent

MUSIC 24/7... Check out www.lv18radio.uk pop music from 7.00am; prog, folk, rock and exotica from 7.00pm

 


**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
 
 

 

 



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