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

23 March 2024

 

 

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

 

 

Saturday 23rd March 2024

Rest In Peace - Steve Harley - Live in 1974

  PODCAST

 

There were 60 new singles released on Friday 22 March 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 220

  PODCAST

Bee Gees-Jumbo  POLYDOR 56242
Hollies-Jennifer Eccles  PARLOPHONE R5680
Bee Gees-Singer Sang His Song  POLYDOR 56242
Colours Of Love-Up On A Cotton Cloud/I'm A Train  PAGE ONE POF060
The Young Blood-Green Light  PYE 7N17495
Monkees-Valleri/Tapioca Tundra  RCA VICTOR RCA1683
Jay and the Americans-Shanghai Noodle Factory/French Provincial  UNITED ARTISTS UP2211
Jimmy Ruffin-I'll Say Forever My Love  TAMLA MOTOWN TMG649
Jackie Mittoo-Norweigan Wood  COXSONE CS7040
Gaylads-Peculiar Man  COXSONE CS7040
Heptones-Tripe Girl  STUDIO ONE SO2040
Procol Harum-Quite Rightly So/In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence  REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3007
Roger Miller-Little Green Apples  MERCURY MF1021
The Household-Winter's Coming  UNITED ARTISTS UP2210
Lalo Schifrin Orchestra-Mission Impossible  DOT PARAMOUNT DOT103
 

There were 60 new singles released on Friday 22 March 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 220

   PODCAST

Lalo Schifrin Orchestra-Jim On The Move  DOT PARAMOUNT DOT103
Merseys-Penny In My Pocket  FONTANA TF916
John Fred and his Playboy Band-No Letter Today/Hey Hey Bunny  PYE 7N25453
Joe Cocker-New Age Of The Lily/Marjorine  REGAL ZONOPHONE RZ3006
The Groop-Night Life/Lovin' Tree  CBS 3351
Rag Dolls-My Old Man's A Groovy Old Man  COLUMBIA DB8378
Dr Marigolds Prescription-People Get Ready/My Old Man's A Groovy Old Man  PYE 7N17493
Alan Copeland Singers-Windy  STATESIDE SS2101
Rod Stewart-Little Miss Understood/So Much To Say  IMMEDIATE IM060
Paul Revere and the Raiders-Too Much Talk/Happening '68  CBS 3310
Michele Lee-L David Sloan  CBS 3350
Pete Kelly's Solution-Midnight Confession  DECCA F12755
The Mud-Up The Airy Mountain  CBS 3355
Graham Bonney-I'll Be Your Baby Tonight  COLUMBIA DB8382
The Sunshine Company-Look, Here Comes The Sun  LIBERTY LBF15060
Derrick Morgan-Gimme Back  ISLAND WI3101**
Troy-Emma May Kingston  CLUMBIA DB8391**
 

 

 

Friday 22nd March 2024

There were 59 new singles released on Friday 15th March 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 219 

 PODCAST r 

Turtles-Sound Asleep  LONDON HLU10184
Leonard Cohen-Suzanne  CBS 3337
The Idle Race-Skeleton and the Roundabout/Knocking Nails Into My House  LIBERTY LBF15054
American Breed-Green Light  DOT 101
Barry Mann-Young Electric Psychedelic Hippy Flippy Folk And Funky Philosophic Turned On Groovy 12 String Band  CAPITOL CL15538
Love-Andmoreagain/The Daily Planet  ELEKTRA EKSN45026
Leonard Cohen-So Long Marianne  CBS 3337
David & Marianne Dalmour-Little Flower  COLUMBIA DB8373
Peddlers-Handel With Care  CBS 3333
Nashville Teens-All Along The Watchtower  DECCA F12754
The Parade-Radio Song  A&M AMS720
Errol Dunkley-Scorcher  AMALGAMATED AMG807
Gaylads (actually Ken Boothe)-When I Fall In Love  STUDIO ONE SO2039
Gaylads (actually the Heptones)-Give Me (actually Christmas Time Is Here)  STUDIO ONE SO2039
Fruit Machine-Cuddly Toy/Follow Me  SPARK SRL1003
Scaffold-Do You Remember  PARLOPHONE R5679
 

There were 59 new singles released on Friday 15th March 1968

compiled from THE NEW SINGLES* issue 219

 PODCAST

Scaffold-Carry On Krow  PARLOPHONE R5679
Sun Dragon-Blueberry Blue/Far Away Mountain  MGM 1391
The Jigsaw Band-I Need Your Love  POLYDOR 56241
Herbie Mann-Unchain My Heart  A&M AMS719
Kippington Lodge-And She Cried/Rumours  PARLOPHONE R5677
Larry and Tommy-Yo Yo  POLYDOR 56741
John Ledingham-Love Is A Toy  PYE 7N17488
The Tee Set-What Can I Do/Colours Of The Rainbow  PYE 7N25452
Laurie Holloway-Windy  CBS 3332
Hans Christian-Never My Love  PARLOPHONE R5676
 

Listen to Hans Christian, as played on the radio in March 1968:

Pick of the Pops 17th March 1968 (Full Show & Rundown) by poppicker71 | Mixcloud

Blossom Toes-I'll Be Your Baby Tonight/Love Is  MARMALADE 598009
Pinky and the Fellas-Manchester and Liverpool  DECCA F12748
Turtles-Umbassa and the Dragon  LONDON HLU10184
Andy Ellison-Fool From Upper Eden  CBS 3357
The Fire-Fathers Name Is Dad/Treacle Toffee World  DECCA F12753
West Coast Consortium-Colour Sergeant Lillywhite  PYE 7N17482
Hollies-Charlie and Fred, written by Graham Nash & Alan Clarke (in lieu of the Blades Of Grass version STATESIDE SS2101)
Glen Dale-Now I See You/I've Got You On My Mind**  PAGE ONE POF059

 

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Ellesmere-Crystalized/Arctica/Stranger Skies
Nova Cascade-The Fever Dream

Genesis-Entangled/Ripples

Swan Chorus-This Great Adventure
Depeche Mode-A Question Of Lust (Flood remix)


 

**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)