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

5 October 2024

on board the LV18, Harwich Harbour

 

Friday 4 October 2024

 

There were 55 new singles released on Friday 27 September 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 247

  PODCAST

The Troggs-Hip Hip Hooray/Say Darlin'  PAGE ONE POF092
Julie Driscoll Brian Auger and the Trinity-Road To Cairo/Shadows Of You  MARMALADE 598011
Hollies-Listen To Me/Do The Best You Can  PARLOPHONE R5733

Graham Nash boards the Marrakesh Express to meet up with David Crosby and Stephen Stills...

Heptones-Equal Rights  COXSONE CS7068
Pioneers-Tickle Me For Days  AMALGAMATED AMG826
Cool Sticky-Train To Soulsville  AMALGAMATED AMG825
Shades Of Morley Brown-Pretty Blue Bird/Silly Girl  MERCURY MF1054
Fearns Brass Foundry-Now I Taste The Tears  DECCA F12635
Lesley Duncan-Lullabye  RCA VICTOR RCA1749
Cherry People-Imagination/And Suddenly  MGM 1438
Idle Race (with Jeff Lynne)-I Like My Toys  LIBERTY LBF15129 UNRELEASED
Love-Your Mind and We Belong Together  ELEKTRA EKSN45038
Moving Finger-Pain Of My Misfortune  MERCURY MF1051
Ramases and Selket-Crazy One  CBS 3717
Mamas and Papas-Strange Young Girls  RCA VICTOR RCA1744
Ramases and Selket-Minds Eye  CBS 3717

 

There were 55 new singles released on Friday 27 September 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 247

  PODCAST

Jethro Tull-A Song For Jeffrey  ISLAND WIP6043
Chicken Shack-Worried About My Woman  BLUE HORIZON 57 3145
Jethro Tull-One For John Gee  ISLAND WIP6043
Jethro Tuil-A Song For Jeffrey BBC Radio 1 Top Gear 23 July 1968
Chicken Shack-Six Nights In Seven  BLUE HORIZON 57 3145
Turtles-Elenore  LONDON HLU10223
Wind In The Willows (with Debbie Harry)-Friendly Lion/Moments Spent  CAPITOL CL15561
Val Bennett-Spanish Harlem  TROJAN TR611
Stoics (with Alex Harvey & Frankie Miller)-Search Of The Sea/Earth Fire Air and Water  RCA VICTOR RCA1745
Pop Workshop-Fairyland/When My Little Girl Is Happy  PAGE ONE OF091
Randy Boone-Yellow Road  PAGE ONE POF093
Yellow Pages (a.k.a. The Mirage)-Here Comes Jane/Ding Dong Bell  PAGE ONE POF090
Dorian Gray-Jingle Down A Hill  PARLOPHONE R5732
Larry Page-Hey Jude/Those Were The Days**  PAGE ONE POF095

 

There were 55 new singles released on Friday 27 September 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 247

  PODCAST

Quotations-Cool It  CBS 3716
Monty Sunshine-Two Lovers  UNITED ARTISTS UP2245
Love-Laughing Stock  ELEKTRA EKSN45038
Mamas and Papas-For The Love Of Ivy  RCA VICTOR RCA1744
Idle Race-Birthday  LIBERTY LBF15129 UNRELEASED

Lesley Duncan-I Love You  RCA VICTOR RCA1749
David Garrick-A Little Bit Of This/Flutterby Butterfly  PYE 7N17610
Big Brother and the Holding Company-Piece Of My Heart  CBS 3663
Turtles-Surfer Dan  LONDON HLU10223
Fearns Brass Foundry-Love Sink and Drown  DECCA F12635
Glass Menagerie-Frederick Jordan/I Said Goodbye To Me  PYE 7N15615
Glenn Brown-Way Of Life  BLUE CAT BS131
Otis Spann-Bloody Murder/Can't Do Me No Good  BLUE HORIZON 57 3142
Paul Petersen-Little Bit For Sandy  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG670
Penny Lane-Boy Who Never Grew Up  CBS 3718
Truly Smith-This Is The First Time  MGM 1431
 

Saturday 5 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)