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TOWARD THE
UNKNOWN REGION
This was... Chris Bent,
playing what were the new singles of the late 60's
on Radio Seagull
online every
Friday and Saturday, midday
and at midnight
overnight on 747Khz in the North of the Netherlands
and on DAB+ in Havant, Brighton, Edinburgh and Central London
15 March 2025
on board the LV18, Harwich Harbour
Saturday 15
March 2025
There were
68 new singles released on Friday 14 March 1969
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES*
issue 270 (revisited and expanded)
PODCAST
Fleur De Lys-Liar ATLANTIC 584243 (was initially listed
for release on 14 Feb 1969)
Rare Amber-Malfunction Of The Engine POLYDOR 56309
Love-The Castle/Softly To Me ELEKTRA EKSN45016 (reissue
from September 1967 with A/B sides switched)
Ritchie Havens-No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
VERVE VS1512
Yes-No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (from LP Time
And A Word)
Ritchie Havens-Three Day Eternity VERVE VS1512
Gordon Lightfoot-The Circle Is Small UNITED ARTISTS UP2272
King Cannon-Soul Pipe DUKE DU13
Swinging Soul Machine-Spooky's Day Off POLYDOR 56760
Monkees-Teardrop City (promo mix) RCA VICTOR RCA1802
Stevie Wonder-I Don't Know Why TAMLA MOTOWN TMG690
The Rock and Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card Company of
Philadelphia 19141-Bubble Gum Music BUDDAH 201032
Taste-Born On The Wrong Side Of Time (MAJOR MINOR label mix, and
Polydor mix) POLYDOR 56313
Electric Flag-Sunny CBS 4066
Aretha Franklin with Duanne Allman-The Weight ATLANTIC
584252
Chambers Brothers-Are You Ready DIRECTION 58 4098
Tommy Roe-Dizzy STATESIDE SS2143
There were 68 new singles released on Friday
14 March 1969
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES*
issue 270 (revisited and expanded)
PODCAST
Rare Amber-Blind Love
(not on the LP) POLYDOR 56309
Taste-Same Old Story POLYDOR 56313
The Who-Pinball Wizard TRACK 604027 this, and the two
previous tracks playing consecutively from POLYDOR album 'Deep
Overground Pop', side 2 of record 2
Clyde Alphonso-Good Enough STUDIO ONE SO2076
Kenny Everett-And Now For A Little Train Number/Nice Time
DERAM DM245
Simon Dee-Julie CHAPTER ONE CH105
Kings Kounty Karnival-Don't Vote For Luke McCabe UNITED
ARTISTS UP2267
Pete Brown and his Battered Ornaments-The Week Looked Good On
Paper/Morning Call PARLOPHONE R5767
Golden Earrings (sic)-Just A Little Bit Of Peace In My Heart
MAJOR MINOR MM601
Timebox-Baked Jam Roll In Your Eye DERAM DM246
Peppermint Circus-Please Be Patient POLYDOR 56312
Pioneers-Mama Look Deh AMALGAMATED AMG 835
Blenders-Decimal Currency AMALGAMATED AMG 835
Clancy Eccles-Constantinople TROJAN TR648
The Eggy-You're Still Mine/Hookey SPARK SRL1024
Val Doonican-Ring Of Bright Water (cinema promo version RT
17713) PYE 7N17713
1910 Fruitgum Company-Indian Giver BUDDAH 201037
Glaring omission: Small Faces-Afterglow Of Your Love/Wham Bam
Thank You Man IMMEDIATE IM077 next week....
PODCAST
Caamora-She (double album) part 1,
with Clive Nolan and Agnieska Swita. Part 2 next Saturday
Friday 14
March 2025
PODCAST
Kate Tempest-Circles/The Beigeness
Raquel Welch-Bang Bang/Different Drum
T. Rex-The Motivator/Cosmic Dancer (demo)/Lean Woman Blues/Spaceball
Ricochet
Attila The Stockbroker with The Fish Brothers-Scumball
Pinochet/North Korea Mourns Comrade Mickey Finn Of T. Rex
Vangelis-Sunny Earth/He-O
Aphrodites Child-Altamont
There were 59 new singles released on Friday 7
March 1969
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES*
issue 269 (revisited and expanded)
PODCAST
Trifle-All Together Now UNITED ARTISTS UP2270
Sasperella-Spooky DECCA F12892
Cowsills-Hair MGM 1469
Touch-We Feel Fine DERAM DM243
Byrds-Bad Night At The Whisky/Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
CBS 4055
Touch-Miss Teach DERAM DM243
Country Fever (Albert Lee)-Too Much Of Nothing BELL
BLL1052
Sound Dimension-Soul Trombone COXSONE CS7085
Owen Gray-Reggae Power DUKE DU12
Tony Blackburn-It's Only Love MGM 1467
Peddlers-Wasting My Time CBS4045
Deep Set-Spicks And Specks MAJOR MINOR MM607
Wolfgang Schmitt-Country Girl RCA VICTOR RCA1801 produced
by Lesley Duncan
Alice Clark-You Got A Deal ACTION ACT4526
Ronnie Bond (Troggs)-Carolyn/Anything For You PAGE ONE
POF123
Bobbie Parker-Hard But Fair BLUE HORIZON 57 3151
Pesky Gee-Where Is My Mind PYE 7N17708
The Packers-Hole In The Wall SOUL CITY SC111
There were 59 new singles released on Friday 7
March 1969
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES*
issue 269 (revisited and expanded)
PODCAST
Sasperella-Come Inside DECCA
F12692
Grassroots-Melody For You STATESIDE DUNHILL SS8012
East Of Eden-Northern Hemisphere DERAM DM242
Grapefruit-Round Going Round STATESIDE DUNHILL SS8011
Fourmyula-Come With Me COLUMBIA DB8549
Dave Sealey with the Zack Lawrence Orchestra-It Takes A Thief
DJM DJS201
Katch 22-Baby Love/Out Of My Life FONTANA TF1005
Chords Five-Some People JAY BOY BOY6
Clancy Eccles-Bangarang Crash TROJAN TR647
Clive Sands (brother of Peter Sarstedt)-Marie SNB 55 4058
Tremeloes-Hello World CBS 4065
John Bryant-She's In Need Of Love DECCA F12894
Larry Page Orchestra-Wichita Lineman PAGE ONE POF125
Nancy Sinatra-God Knows I Love You REPRISE RS20813
Peddlers-That's Life CBS 4045
Vic Lewis with Mike Sammes Singers-Blackbird NEMS 56 4057
Friday 28
February 2025
56 years later this has proved to be a week of valuable
rarities... with some of these records selling in recent years
for hundreds or thousands of pounds... by reason of being sought
after or unreleased or withdrawn singles....
There were 61 new singles released on Friday
21
February 1969
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES*
issue 267 (revisited and expanded)
PODCAST
unedited
PODCAST
edited censored version as broadcast via Radio Seagull
Deep Purple-Wring That Neck PARLOPHONE R5745
Spirit-I Got A Line On You CBS 3880
Deep Purple-Emmaretta PARLOPHONE R5745
Mother Earth-I Did My Part MERCURYMF1081
Guitar Crusher-Since My Baby Hit The Numbers BLUE HORIZON
57 3149
Maytones-Loving Reggae BLUE CAT BS152
Upsetters (Lee Perry)-What A Botheration DUKE DU10 (also
issued as TROJAN TR612) sells at £164.00
Laura Nyro-Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe) CBS 4031
Pattie-Gravitation COLUMBIA DB8542
Marianne Faithfull-Sister Morphine/Something Better DECCA
F12889 sells at £92.00+ (500 copies released but withdrawn by
DECCA after just two days in the UK shops. My copy was in the
bargain bin at Campkins Records, Peterborough. I'm guessing it
was easier to sell it cheap than use theofficial returns
procedure. A friend purchased the withdrawn Led Zeppelin Whole
Lotta Love from the same shop...)
Brute Force-Nobody Knows/King Of Fuh APPLE 8 - may have been
delayed until 16 May 1969 (private pressing on APPLE label)
£4888 - £5999.00
Tony Joe White-Polk Salad Annie MONUMENT MON1031
Chuckles-Painting The Day/Never CBS 3832
Goodees-Condition Red STAX 113
There were 61 new singles released on Friday
21
February 1969
compiled from THE NEW SINGLES*
issue 267 (revisited and expanded)
PODCAST
The Actress-Good Job With Prospects/It's What You Give CBS
4016 sells at £400.00
Fourmost-Rosetta CBS 4041
Crystalites-Biafra BIG SHOT BI510 sells
at £347
Dave Kubinec (of Wizard Of Oz, on DERAM)-Lady Loves/Schopi
PARLOPHONE R5762
Colin Giffin-Changes In Our Time CBS 4030
Lovin' Spoonful-Daydream/Summer In The City KAMA SUTRA
KAS215
The Imposters (a.k.a. Eyes Of Blue)-Apache '69/Q III (Welsh
language composer credit 'Lygaid Glas' = Eyes of Blue)
MERCURY MF1080
The Playground-I Could Be So Good NEMS 56 4019
Trade Winds-Mind Excursion KAMA SUTRA KAS202
Professor Morrison's Lollipop-Oo Poo Pah Susie LONDON
HLU10254
Garfield Love-Next Time You See Me BLUE HORIZN 57 3150
Spirit-She Smiles CBS 3880
The Uglys (David Morgan)-I See The Light MGM 1465
UNRELEASED 6x demo or white label copies exist - £4999.00
Miss White and Mr Green-Don't You Know It's Just A Game
TOAST TT515
Silver Stars-Old Man Say TROJAN TR646 sells at
£202.00
Shirley and the Shirelles-Look What You've Done To My Heart
BELL BLL1049
Paul Slade-Sound Of Love (B, R & M Gibb) DECCA F12885**
PODCAST
Rush-One Little Victory/The Seeker/Crossroads
Julie Driscoll Brian Auger and The Trinity-Flesh Failures (let
the sunshine in)
Traffic-Empty Pages/John Barleycorn
Rush-Shapes Of Things/Heartful Of Soul
The Owl Service-Living By The Water
Anne Briggs-Go Your Way
Richard Pinhas-Metatron/Shaddai/Chabatai
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)
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