TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

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
 overnight on 747Khz in the North of the Netherlands

12 October 2024

on board the LV18, Harwich Harbour

 

Saturday 12 October 2024

 

There were 51 new singles released on Friday 11 October 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 249

  PODCAST

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band-Canyons Of Your Mind  LIBERTY LBF15144
Glitter House (Bob Crewe Generation)-Barbarella  STATESIDE SS2129
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band-I'm The Urban Spaceman  LIBERTY LBF15144
Glitter House (Bob Crewe Generation)-Love Drags Me Down/An Angel Is Love (alternative B sides) STATESIDE SS2129
Don Fardon-The Lament Of The Cherokee Indian Reservation  PYE 7N25475
Eclection-Please/St George  ELEKTRA EKSN45042
Eclection-Another Time Another Place  ELEKTRA EKSN45040 (scheduled for 20 September 1968 - UNRELEASED)
Eclection-Please (mark II) ELEKTRA EKSN45046 a re recording of this week's A side, scheduled for 29 November 1968
Francoise Hardy-Will You Love Me Tomorrow  UNITED ARTISTS UP2253
Heath Hampstead-I Started A Joke  POLYDOR 56289
Steve Hart-Master Of Man  CBS 3732
Fever Tree-San Franciscan Girls  MCA MU1043
Who-Magic Bus/Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde  TRACK 604024

 

There were 51 new singles released on Friday 11 October 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 249

  PODCAST

Frazer Hines-Who's Dr Who/Punch and Judy Man  MAJOR MINOR MM579
Giles Giles and Fripp-Elephant Man/Thursday Morning  DERAM DM210
Tages-Haycyon Days (same tune as Our Fairy Tale by the Herd)  MGM 1443
Gods-Baby's Rich  COLUMBIA DB8486
Steve Miller Band-Living In The USA  CAPITOL CL15564
Grateful Dead-Born Cross Eyed/Dark Star  WARNER BROS  WB7188
Long John Baldry-Mexico  PYE17563
Infantes Jubilate-Exploding Galaxy  MUSIC FACTORY CUB5
Isley Brothers-This Old Heart Of Mine  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG555
14-Frosty Stars On A Window Pane  OLGA S051
Kasenatz Katz Singing Orchestral Circus-Quick Joey Small  BUDDAH 201022
Serendipity-Through With You/I'm Flying  CBS 3733
Spectrum-Little Red Boat  RCA VICTOR 1753
Piccadilly Line-Evenings With Corinna  CBS 3743
Who-Magic Bus (full length mono version)
Cherry Smash-Little Old Country Home Town  DECCA F12838
Billy Preston-Greazee  SOUL CITY SC107

 

Progressively older and not quite so new
 PODCAST r

Mighty Ra-All Secrets Known/Freedom (live) The Mighty Ra (bandcamp.com)
Dave Francis-First Encounters Beautiful Insanity | DAVE FRANCIS (bandcamp.com)

Panama Limited-Lady Of Shallot
Trembling Bells-Just As The Rainbow/Bells Of Burford
Groundhogs-I Love You Miss Ogyny
The Wicker Man soundtrack-Maypole
Trees-Sally On The Shore
Dave Francis-When Our Ship Comes In/Town Without Mirrors

 

Friday 11 October 2024

 

There were 69 new singles released on Friday 4 October 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 248

   PODCAST 
John O'Hara and the Playboys-I Started A Joke  FONTANA TF974
Tim Buckley-Carnival Song/Pleasant Street  ELEKTRA EKSN45041
Peddlers-Empty Club Blues  CBS 3734
5th Dimension-Sweet Blindness  LIBERTY LBF15143
Peddlers-Comin' Home Baby  CBS 3734
5th Dimension-Good News  LIBERTY LBF15143
Younger Brothers-Mirror Mirror  MCA MU1042
Temptations-Why Did You Leave Me Darling  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG671
The Movers-Birmingham  CAPITOL CL15562
The Herd-Sunshine Cottage/Miss Jones  FONTANA TF967
Crickets-My Little Girl  LIBERTY LBF15089
Symbols-Schoolgirl  PRESIDENT PT216
Art Movement-Happy Song  DECCA F12836
Symbols-Do I Love You  PRESIDENT PT216
Equals-Softly Softly  PRESIDENT PT222
Barron Knights-An Olympic Record part 1 COLUMBIA DB8485 (Mexico was the Olympic venue in 1968)

 

There were 69 new singles released on Friday 4 October 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 248

   PODCAST 

Barron Knights-An Olympic Record part 2 COLUMBIA DB8485 (Mexico was the Olympic venue in 1968)
The Slickers-Wala Wala  BLUE CAT BS133
Joe Cocker-Somethin's Comin' On REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3013 (released 20 September 1968)
Cream-SWLABR/Sunshine Of Your Love  POLYDOR 56826
Orange Bicycle-Sing This All Together/Trip On An Orange Bicycle  COLUMBIA DB8483
Colours-Love Heals/Bad Day At Black Rock  DOT 113
Edwin Starr-25 Miles  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG672
Barry Ryan and the Majority-Eloise (with a selection of intro's)  MGM 1442
Five and a Penny-You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies  POLYDOR 56282
Love Sculpture-The Stumble  PARLOPHONE  R5731 (released 20 September 1968)
Don Partridge-Top Man  COLUMBIA DB8484
Cat Stevens-Here Comes My Wife  DERAM DM211
Blossom Toes-Everyone's Leaving Me Now/Post Card  MARMALADE 598012

Music For the End Times:

   PODCAST 

Nico-Frozen Warnings (alternate version)
Jefferson Airplane-The Good Shepherd
Aphrodite's Child-Altamont/Wedding Of The Lamb/Capture Of The Beast/Marching Beast/Battle Of The Locusts/Do It/Loud Loud Loud/The Four Horsemen (longer mixes released in Greece only in 1974 - part of a new 666 box set to be released in November 2024)
Jefferson Airplane-Hey Frederick
Stuckfish-Life Line/Shadows and Moonbeams/Fragile
 

**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)