TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

This was... Chris Bent (Summer 1971)

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

28-30 October 2022

 

 

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

SEAGULL SATURDAY:

Hour 1
50 years ago: There were 61 new singles released on Friday 27 October 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 448
 PODCAST
Stingers & Upsetters-Preacher Man  UPSETTER US395
Barry Davis-Strange Days  BEACON BEA105
Spontaneous Combustion-Gaytime Night/Spaceship  HARVEST HAR5060
Paul St John-Spaceship Love/Flying Saucers Have Landed  PYE 7N45190
Raw Holly-Raining In My Heart  YOUNG BLOOD YB1007
Pussy-Feline Woman/Ska Child  DERAM DM368
Roy Harper-Bank Of The Dead/Little Lady  HARVEST HAR5059
Sandy Denny-Tomorrow Is A Long Time  ISLAND WIP6142
Benny Hill-Dustbins Of Your Mind  COLUMBIA DB8940
Section-Drowning In The Sea Of Love  RCA 2274
Carla Thomas-Sugar  STAX 2025 147

 

Hour 2

50 years ago: There were 61 new singles released on Friday 27 October 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 448
 PODCAST

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band-There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mother They're Burning Big Louie Tonight  VERTIGO 6059 070
CCS-Sixteen Tons  RAK 141
Hoagy Pogey-Don't Ya Know  DERAM DM367
Hello-C'mon/Wench  BELL 1265
Load Control-Scotland/Words Of Wisdom  JM POP JM510 (released sometime in 1972)
Holy Mackerel-Rock A Bye  CBS 8447
Tony Ashton (& Jon Lord)-Celebration  PURPLE PUR109
Jack White-Pretty Maid  POLYDOR 2041 353
Elton John-Crocodile Rock  DJM DJS271
Stavely Makepeace-Slippery Rock 70's  SPARK SRL1081
Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch-World Is A Circle  COLUMBIA DB8941
Bobby Van & Liv Ullman (voiced by Diana Lee)-World Is A Circle (from Lost Horizon soundtrack)

Sally Kellerman-Reflections (from Lost Horizon soundtrack)

 

Hour 3

50 years ago: There were 61 new singles released on Friday 27 October 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 448
 PODCAST

Platonics-Blue Moon  ATTACK ATT8033
Winston Francis-Blue Moon  RHINO RNO8
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band-The Harp  VERTIGO 6059 070
Bones-Roberta  SIGNPOST SGP754
Sandy Denny-Listen Listen  ISLAND WIP6142
Graphite-Chestnut Loke  BEACON BEA109
Platonics-After Midnight  ATTACK ATT8033
Denzil Dennis-I Forgot To Be Your Lover  DUKE DU142
Danny Ray-White and Wonderful Black and Beautiful (one channel only short clip)  HORSE HOSS21
David Clayton Thomas-Falling By Degrees  CBS8445
B Bumble and the Stingers-Down At Mothers Place  PYE 7N25597
CCS-This Is My Life  RAK 141
Stackridge-Anyone For Tennis/Amazingly Agnes  MCA MKS5103
Jean Jacques Perrey-Gossipo Perpetuo  VANGUARD 1005
Vigrass and Osborne-Virginia  UNI EN550
Harvey Andrews-Learning The Game  CUBE BUG26
Kirk Houston a.k.a. Noel Edmunds-Alcatrazz  RCA 2281
 

 

SEAGULL FRIDAY:

Hour 1 (r)
 PODCAST

Locomotive LP-We Are Everything You See (Feb 1970)

 

Hour 2 (r)
50 years ago: There were 53 new singles released on Friday 20 October 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 447
 PODCAST
Bridge-I Feel Free  BUDDAH 2011 146

The Protectors incidental music because...
Tony Christie-Avenues and Alleyways  MCA MKS5101
Focus-Janis  POLYDOR 2001 211
Neasden Connection-Tchaicovsky Piano Concerto No. 1  HORSE HOSS17
Focus-Hocus Pocus  2001 211
Patchwork-Afro-Disiac/Laughing Sam (on the phone)  DECCA FR13346
Jeff Beck-Hi Ho Silver Lining/Rock My Plimsoul (Rod Stewart vocals)  RAK REPLAY RR3
Jumbo Sterling-My Sugar Ain't Sweet  SIOUX S!023
Margaret Powell-Above Board, Below Stairs  RCA 2280
Ciggy Barlust and the Whales From Venus-Backside  A&M AMS7035
Strawbs-Lay Down  A&M AMS7035
Tom Tom-Stop  BELL 1267
U Roy & Typhoon Allstars-On Top Of The Peak/Pack-A-Tack  GRAPE GR3026
 

Hour 3 (r)

50 years ago: There were 53 new singles released on Friday 20 October 1972

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 447
 PODCAST

Barclay James Harvest-Thank You  HARVEST HAR5058

Creation-Carolina  M&M FFMS10020
Hot Butter-Apache  PYE 7N25598
Hobbit-Only Friends  SATRIL SAT7
Birtha-Free Spirit  PROBE PRO574
Exuma-Brown Girl  KAMA SUTRA 2013 054
Capability Brown-Wake Up Little Sister  CHARISMA CB193
Christie-Fools Gold  CBS 8403
Fat Chance-Good Times We Had/Driftin'  DECCA FR13352
Fourth Company-Matrimony  MAM 85
Colin Blunstone-I Don't Believe In Miracles  EPIC EPC8434
Boz Scaggs-Dinah Flo  CBS 8341
Errol Brown & Chosen Few (listed as Thom Bell & Linda Creed but they are the composers)-People Make The World Go Round  SONG BIRD SB1082
Exuma-Rushing Through The Crowd  KAMA SUTRA 2013 054
Mick Greenwood-Share The Load  MCA MKS5102
Margaret Powell-I Laugh and Laugh and Laugh  RCA 2280
Raiders-Song Sellers  CBS 8428

 

On CWR 1476 only:

 PODCAST (r)

UFO Live in Chicago 1978

 

 PODCAST

YES in concert: Ottawa Civic Centre, 1 November 1972

 

 PODCAST (r)

Klaatu-I Can't Help It/Sell Out Sell Out
Miku Hatsune-O Caroline
The Knack-Good Girls Don't
Rick Wakeman-Eleanor Rigby
Yes-No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
The Slaves-The Hunter
Black Bonzo-Guillotine Drama
Gin Lady-Flower People/Fields Of Joy
Swingle Singers-River Man
Madonna-Music (deep dish dot com remix US edit)
Koneveljet-Kompa Komplications a.k.a. Ringo Starr

 

Miku Hatsune: O Caroline

Swingle Singers: River Man

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing on the radio?

Try our 'Way To Blue' mixtape - non stop music, with no chat (2 hours 14minutes)

 PODCAST

featuring, not necessarily in this order:
 

UFO-Treacle People
May Blitz-Smoking The Day Away
Nick Nicely-Hilly Fields 1892
Senor Coconut y su conjunto-Smoke On The Water
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band-Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Rush-One Little Victory/Ceiling Unlimited
U2-Night and Day
Marillion-Grendel

Marillion-Market Square Heroes/Three Boats Down From The Candy

Svensk-Dream Magazine
Nick Nicely-49 Cigars
Nick Drake-Way To Blue
Helen Reddy-Angie Baby
Van Halen-Fire In The Hole
Aphrodites Child-Day Of The Fool
Neil Young-A Piece Of Crap
Led Zeppelin-Dancing Days
T Rex-The Motivator (Demo)
The Nice-Azrial revisited/Hang On To a Dream
Emerson Lake & Palmer-Trilogy/Still... You Turn Me On
The Nice-Azrial/Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
McDonald & Giles-Is She Waiting

 

 

**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

 

 

 

Our 'sticky thread' video for 2022: The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds

The sleeve advises: MUST BE PLAYED IN THE DARK

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)