It’s exactly 53 years before Sadie is born in our journey through musical history, let’s see what more than half a century ago sounded like…
Songs of the month
“A Girl Like You” – Young Rascals
“A Whiter Shade Of Pale” – Procol Harum
“All You Need Is Love” – Beatles
[new] “Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie” – Jay And The Techniques
[new] “Baby I Love You” – Aretha Franklin
[new] “Brown Eyed Girl” – Van Morrison
“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” – Frankie Valli
“Carrie Anne” – Hollies
[new] “Cold Sweat” – James Brown
[new] “Come Back When You Grow Up” – Bobby Vee
“Come On Down To My Boat” – Every Mother’s Son
[new] “Fakin’ It” – Simon And Garfunkel
“For Your Love” – Peaches And Herb
[new] “Funky Broadway” – Wilson Pickett
[new] “Heroes And Villains” – Beach Boys
“Hypnotized” – Linda Jones
“I Like The Way” – Tommy James And The Shondells
“I Take It Back” – Sandy Posey
[new] “I Thank The Lord For The Night Time” – Neil Diamond
[new] “I Wanna Testify” – Parliaments
“I Was Made To Love Her” – Stevie Wonder
[new] “In The Chapel In The Moonight” – Dean Martin
“Jackson” – Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood
[new] “Let The Good Times Roll” – Bunny Sigler
“Light My Fire” – Doors
“Little Bit O’ Soul” – Music Explosion
“Make Me Yours” – Bettye Swann
“Mercy Mercy Mercy” – Buckinghams
“More Love” – Smokey Robinson And The Miracles
“My Mammy” – Happenings
[new] “Ode To Billy Joe” – Bobbie Gentry
“Pleasant Valley Sunday” – Monkees
[new] “Reflections” – Diana Ross And The Supremes
[new] “San Franciscan Nights” – Eric Burdon And The Animals
“San Francisco” – Scott Mckenzie
“Silence Is Golden” – Tremeloes
“Soul Finger” – Bar-Kays
[new] “The Letter” – Box Tops
[new] “To Love Somebody” – Bee Gees
“Up Up And Away” – 5Th Dimension
“White Rabbit” – Jefferson Airplane
“Windy” – Association
[new] “Words” – Monkees
[new] “You’re My Everything” – Temptations
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
On the 6th of August KPMX of San Francisco became the first radio station in the United States to take advantage of new FCC regulations, and to go to a progressive rock format. The programming on the 106.9 FM frequency apparently began a trend toward FM radio stations making the transition from “easy-listening” music to “album rock” music.
And in more radio news, but less progressive, on the 14th all but one of the United Kingdom’s pirate radio stations played music for their final day, then signed off before the new Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 went into effect at midnight. The new law was an extension of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 and although it could not prohibit boats from broadcasting from outside Britain’s territorial waters, it did prohibit those stations from selling advertising within the British Isles. Only one station, Radio Caroline, would continue to broadcast the next day. With the shutdown of the pirate stations, BBC Radio 1 would go on the air on September 30 with a popular music format.
There’s still far too many airplane accidents in the month’s history in 1967 – air travel sure seemed like a risky business back then! In a particularly bizarre incident, on the 27th of the month, sixteen experienced skydivers were drowned after jumping from an airplane that was 16 km away from its intended target. The group had taken off from Wakeman, Ohio, in a B-25 airplane, and had jumped without realizing that they were parachuting into Lake Erie rather than a field in Huron, Ohio.
What’d Sadie think?
Two weeks at the top for “Light My Fire” by the Doors then a week apiece for “All You Need Is Love” the Beatles and newcomer “Ode To Billy Joe” by Bobbie Gentry.
Loved ’em
- “Baby I Love You” – Aretha Franklin
- “Brown Eyed Girl” – Van Morrison
- “Cold Sweat” – James Brown
- “Funky Broadway” – Wilson Pickett
- “Heroes And Villains” – Beach Boys
- “Ode To Billy Joe” – Bobbie Gentry
- “Reflections” – Diana Ross And The Supremes
- “The Letter” – Box Tops
- “To Love Somebody” – Bee Gees
Liked ’em
- “Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie” – Jay And The Techniques
- “Come Back When You Grow Up” – Bobby Vee
- “Fakin’ It” – Simon And Garfunkel
- “I Thank The Lord For The Night Time” – Neil Diamond
- “I Wanna Testify” – Parliaments
- “In The Chapel In The Moonight” – Dean Martin
- “Let The Good Times Roll” – Bunny Sigler
- “San Franciscan Nights” – Eric Burdon And The Animals
- “Words” – Monkees
- “You’re My Everything” – Temptations
Leave ’em
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.