It’s time to start including, relevant, potentially embarrassing anecdotes about Sadie in these updates so she has something to be mortified about when she reads them in a decade or two’s time. (Hello Sadie of the future, love you!)
She’s got an excellent ear for lyrics and will often say “why did they say [xyz]” when I don’t even think she’s listening. And has become adept at turning lyrics into other things. But she’s 3, so lots of these are scatalogical obviously.
This week for instance, she came out of the toilet while Sinatra’s “It was a Very Good Year” was playing and started singing, “It was a verrrrry good Pooooo”.
Sorry Sadie, but it was hilarious.
Songs of the month
[new] “A Must To Avoid” – Herman’s Hermits
[new] “A Sweet Woman Like You” – Joe Tex
[new] “A Well Respected Man” – Kinks
“As Tears Go By” – Rolling Stones
[new] “Attack” – Toys
[new] “Barbara Ann” – Beach Boys
[new] “Crying Time” – Ray Charles
[new] “Day Tripper” – Beatles
“Don’t Think Twice” – Wonder Who
“Ebb Tide” – Righteous Brothers
“England Swings” – Roger Miller
“Fever” – Mccoys
“Five O’clock World” – Vogues
“Flowers On The Wall” – Statler Brothers
“Going To A Go-Go” – Miracles
“Hang On Sloopy” – Ramsey Lewis Trio
“I Can Never Go Home Anymore” – Shangri-Las
“I Got You (I Feel Good)” – James Brown
“I Hear A Symphony” – Supremes
“It Was A Very Good Year” – Frank Sinatra
“It’s My Life” – Animals
“Jenny Take A Ride” – Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
[new] “Just Like Me” – Paul Revere & The Raiders
“Let’s Hang On” – Four Seasons
[new] “Lies” – Knickerbockers
[new] “Lightnin’ Strikes” – Lou Christie
[new] “Like A Baby” – Len Barry
“Make The World Go Away” – Eddy Arnold
“My Love” – Petula Clark
[new] “My World Is Empty Without You” – Supremes
[new] “No Matter What Shape” – T-Bones
“One Has My Name” – Barry Young
“Over And Over” – Dave Clark Five
“Puppet On A String” – Elvis Presley
[new] “Sandy” – Ronny & The Daytonas
[new] “Satin Pillows” – Bobby Vinton
[new] “She’s Just My Style” – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
[new] “Sounds Of Silence” – Simon & Garfunkel
[new] “Spanish Eyes” – Al Martino
“Sunday And Me” – Jay & The Americans
[new] “The Duck” – Jackie Lee
“The Little Girl I Once Knew” – Beach Boys
“The Men In My Little Girl’s Life” – Mike Douglas
[new] “Thunderball” – Tom Jones
“Turn Turn Turn” – Byrds
[new] “Uptight” – Stevie Wonder
[new] “We Can Work It Out” – Beatles
“You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice” – Lovin’ Spoonful
“Zorba The Greek” – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
On Jan 5th, Because of the poor quality of the sound recording of their August 15 concert at Shea Stadium, The Beatles went into a studio and re-recorded most of their songs for dubbing in a TV documentary; crowd noises were dubbed in as well to make the film seem like the original performance. “But what you see in the film,” an author would later write, “is what happened that night, and the thrill of the event is clear.”. Probably wouldn’t get away with that today…
On the 12th a childhood favourite television series, Batman, produced by William Dozier and starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, was first broadcast. Each weekly episode was a two-part cliffhanger, following a formula of the heroes facing their demise from the villain on Wednesday evening, and the duo’s escape and triumph on the Thursday instalment.
And on the 17th, three hydrogen bombs were dropped on Spain near the coastal town of Palomares, and a fourth one fell into the deep ocean, after the B-52 bomber carrying them collided with a KC-135 refueling airplane. Fortunately, none of the bombs detonated, though each of the four Mark 28 thermonuclear warheads had a 70-kiloton yield. Tthe B-52 was flying at 9,400 m and preparing for a refueling in midair, but accidentally pitched upward and rammed the tanker plane, spilling jet fuel that ignited on both aircraft. One of the H-bombs parachuted to the ground unscathed; two more fell at high speed, and the conventional explosives in their casing scattered radioactive plutonium over 558 acres (almost one square mile) of countryside.
When I started reading that story I was like “why have I never heard of this?!” until the second sentence in…
What’d Sadie think?
It’s a battle for the top spot between “Sounds Of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel and “We Can Work It Out” by the Beatles as they trade places at the top multiple times across the month.
Loved ’em
- “A Sweet Woman Like You” – Joe Tex
- “A Well Respected Man” – Kinks
- “Barbara Ann” – Beach Boys
- “Day Tripper” – Beatles
- “Spanish Eyes” – Al Martino
- “Thunderball” – Tom Jones
- “Uptight” – Stevie Wonder
- “We Can Work It Out” – Beatles
Liked ’em
- “A Must To Avoid” – Herman’s Hermits
- “Attack” – Toys
- “Crying Time” – Ray Charles
- “Just Like Me” – Paul Revere & The Raiders
- “Lies” – Knickerbockers
- “Lightnin’ Strikes” – Lou Christie
- “Like A Baby” – Len Barry
- “My World Is Empty Without You” – Supremes
- “No Matter What Shape” – T-Bones
- “Sandy” – Ronny & The Daytonas
- “Satin Pillows” – Bobby Vinton
- “She’s Just My Style” – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
- “The Duck” – Jackie Lee
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.