It’s 53 years and 2 months before Sadie is born and 9 years and 8 months before Thomas is…so let’s go back to June, 1967!
Songs of the month
[new] “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
[new] “Alfie” – Dionne Warwick
“All I Need” – Temptations
[new] “C’mon Marianne” – Four Seasons
[new] “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” – Frankie Valli
“Close Your Eyes” – Peaches And Herb
[new] “Come On Down To My Boat” – Every Mother’s Son
“Creeque Alley” – Mamas And Papas
[new] “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” – Fifth Estate
[new] “Do It Again A Little Bit Slower” – Jon And Robin And The On Crowd
[new] “Don’t Sleep In The Subway” – Petula Clark
“Don’t You Care” – Buckinghams
“Friday On My Mind” – Easybeats
“Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon” – Neil Diamond
“Groovin'” – Young Rascals
“Happy Jack” – Who
“Here Comes My Baby” – Tremeloes
[new] “Here We Go Again” – Ray Charles
“Him Or Me What’s It Gonna Be” – Paul Revere And The Raiders
“I Got Rhythm” – Happenings
“I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” – Whistling Jack Smith
[new] “Let’s Live For Today” – Grass Roots
[new] “Light My Fire” – Doors
[new] “Little Bit O’ Soul” – Music Explosion
“Mirage” – Tommy James And The Shondells
[new] “New York Mining Disaster 1941” – Bee Gees
“On A Carousel” – Hollies
“Release Me” – Engelbert Humperdinck
“Respect” – Aretha Franklin
[new] “San Francisco” – Scott Mckenzie
[new] “Seven Rooms Of Gloom” – Four Tops
“Shake A Tail Feather” – James And Bobby Purify
[new] “She’d Rather Be With Me” – Turtles
[new] “Six O’clock” – Lovin’ Spoonful
[new] “Society’s Child” – Janis Ian
“Somebody To Love” – Jefferson Airplane
“Somethin’ Stupid” – Frank & Nancy Sinatra
[new] “Sunday Will Never Be The Same” – Spanky And Our Gang
“Sweet Soul Music” – Arthur Conley
“The Happening” – Supremes
[new] “Tracks Of My Tears” – Johnny Rivers
[new] “Tramp” – Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
[new] “Up Up And Away” – 5Th Dimension
“When You’re Young And In Love” – Marvelettes
[new] “Windy” – Association
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
Not at all drawing parallels to today but on June 10, 1967: The Six-Day War ended with Israel doubling its area within a week by capturing territory from Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
And in more peace and love news, on the 16th the three day “Monterey Pop Festival” began in Monterey, California, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. One historian opined that it “ushered in the era of the major music festival and helped launch the careers of several major rock artists.” The musicians who performed on the first evening were The Association, Lou Rawls, Johnny Rivers, Eric Burdon & The Animals and Simon & Garfunkel. The non-profit Festival attracted 50,000 paid admissions and a crowd of … 125,000 unpaid spectators.
Then on the 27th the first automated teller machine (ATM) began service, at a branch of Barclays Bank in Enfield Town in North London. The system used printed “Barclaycash” vouchers that were “issued, free of charge, to pre-approved customers who were also entrusted with a personal code number”. The procedure was for a customer to put the voucher in the automatic drawer; when a green light came on, the customer then entered the personal code, the machine checked the account balance, and another drawer would open, containing a £10 note for each voucher.
Inventor John Shepherd-Barron of the De La Rue banknote printing company perfected the machine and British television star Reg Varney appeared in the advertising campaign. Shepherd-Brown had originally planned to have the machine respond to a six-digit PIN but “discovered that his wife could not remember more than four digits, thus the worldwide standard for PINs is four digits… A video that won’t embed annoyingly, about the ATM is here.
What’d Sadie think?
Two weeks at the top for classic “Respect” by Aretha Franklin before the Young Rascals take “Groovin'” to the top.
Loved ’em
A packed bag of hits this month for sure – everyone trying to cash-in on that upcoming “summer of love”! Song of the month for me is “Light My Fire” by the Doors as a long time favourite. Normally at this point I drop in an interesting fact about the song but… for such an iconic tune it has zero factoids on Wikipedia! Ah well, we’ll let the songs speak for themselves as they should!
- “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
- “Alfie” – Dionne Warwick
- “C’mon Marianne” – Four Seasons
- “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” – Frankie Valli
- “Here We Go Again” – Ray Charles
- “Let’s Live For Today” – Grass Roots
- “Light My Fire” – Doors
- “New York Mining Disaster 1941” – Bee Gees
- “San Francisco” – Scott Mckenzie
- “Seven Rooms Of Gloom” – Four Tops
- “Up Up And Away” – 5Th Dimension
Liked ’em
- “Come On Down To My Boat” – Every Mother’s Son
- “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” – Fifth Estate
- “Do It Again A Little Bit Slower” – Jon And Robin And The On Crowd
- “Don’t Sleep In The Subway” – Petula Clark
- “Little Bit O’soul” – Music Explosion
- “Six O’clock” – Lovin’ Spoonful
- “Sunday Will Never Be The Same” – Spanky And Our Gang
- “Tracks Of My Tears” – Johnny Rivers
- “Tramp” – Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
- “Windy” – Association
Leave ’em
- “She’d Rather Be With Me” – Turtles
- “Society’s Child” – Janis Ian
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.