It’s daylight savings down-under so with lighter evenings you can feel Summer approaching in October, 2024. But let’s slide back to October…1967 to hear what it sounded like…
Songs of the month
[new] “A Natural Woman” – Aretha Franklin
“Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie” – Jay And The Techniques
“Brown Eyed Girl” – Van Morrison
“Come Back When You Grow Up” – Bobby Vee
“Dandelion” – Rolling Stones
“Expressway To Your Heart” – Soul Survivors
[new] “For Your Precious Love” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
“Funky Broadway” – Wilson Pickett
“Get On Up” – Esquires
“Gettin’ Together” – Tommy James And The Shondells
“Gimme Little Sign” – Brenton Wood
“Hey Baby” – Buckinghams
“Higher And Higher” – Jackie Wilson
[new] “Holiday” – Bee Gees
“How Can I Be Sure” – Young Rascals
“I Dig Rock And Roll Music” – “Peter Paul And Mary”
“I Make A Fool Of Myself” – Frankie Valli
[new] “I’m Wondering” – Stevie Wonder
[new] “Incense And Peppermints” – Strawberry Alarm Clock
[new] “It Must Be Him” – Vicki Carr
[new] “It’s You That I Need” – Temptations
[new] “Let It All Hang Out” – Hombres
[new] “Let Love Come Between Us” – Jimmy And Bobby Purify
[new] “Lightning’s Girl” – Nancy Sinatra
“Little Ole Man” – Bill Cosby
“Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone” – Martha And The Vandellas
[new] “Love Is Strange” – Peaches And Herb
“Never My Love” – Association
“Ode To Billy Joe” – Bobbie Gentry
[new] “Ode To Billy Joe” – Kingpins
[new] “People Are Strange” – Doors
[new] “Please Love Me Forever” – Bobby Vinton
“Reflections” – Diana Ross And The Supremes
[new] “Soul Man” – Sam And Dave
“The Cat In The Window” – Petula Clark
[new] “The Last Waltz” – Engelbert Humperdinck
“The Letter” – Box Tops
[new] “The Look Of Love” – Dusty Springfield
[new] “The Rain The Park And Other Things” – Cowsills
“To Sir With Love” – Lulu
[new] “What Now My Love” – Mitch Ryder
[new] “You Keep Running Away” – Four Tops
“You Know What I Mean” – Turtles
“You’re My Everything” – Temptations
[new] “Your Precious Love” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
[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 9th, Che Guevara, who had been captured the day before, was executed following an interrogation at the schoolhouse in the village of La Higuera. In order to avoid the publicity of a trial, Bolivia’s President René Barrientos ordered that Guevara be put to death. Army Sergeant Mario Terán carried out the task, shooting Guevara nine times with a semiautomatic rifle, in order to support news that Guevara had been killed in battle. And thus cementing Guevara’s place on many-a-freshman t-shirt for decades to come.
And on the 18th the first “rock musical”, Hair, premiered at the theater inside the Astor Library in New York City’s East Village. Featuring a “multiracial cast of hippies”, and attracting attention with “the full-frontal nudity of the cast” to close one scene, the show combined the music of Galt MacDermot and the lyrics of James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and was sold out for each of its performances during its six-week trial run. It would also become “the first Off-Broadway musical to transfer successfully to Broadway”.
To end the month, on the 29th, World Expo 67 closed in Montreal, after having attracted more than 50,306,648 visitors in six months, a record attendance for any world’s fair. Canada’s Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson declared at the closing ceremonies that the exhibit had been “one of the most imaginative acts of faith in Canadian enterprise and ability ever attempted,” and added, “We have discovered that we do have a character and quality of our own, rich and diverse, but Canadian.”
What’d Sadie think?
Two weeks at the top for “The Letter” by the Box Tops before “To Sir With Love” by Lulu takes the spot for the rest of the month.
Loved ’em
- “A Natural Woman” – Aretha Franklin
- “For Your Precious Love” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
- “Holiday” – Bee Gees
- “Let It All Hang Out” – Hombres
- “People Are Strange” – Doors
- “Soul Man” – Sam And Dave
- “The Look Of Love” – Dusty Springfield
- “Your Precious Love” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
Sadie gave a special shout out to Brenton Wood’s “Give me a little love” this week – when asked if she liked it as she sung along, it got an enthusiastic, “yeah! it’s really rock and roll!”.
Liked ’em
- “I’m Wondering” – Stevie Wonder
- “Incense And Peppermints” – Strawberry Alarm Clock
- “It Must Be Him” – Vicki Carr
- “It’s You That I Need” – Temptations
- “Let Love Come Between Us” – Jimmy And Bobby Purify
- “Lightning’s Girl” – Nancy Sinatra
- “Love Is Strange” – Peaches And Herb
- “Ode To Billy Joe” – Kingpins
- “The Last Waltz” – Engelbert Humperdinck
- “The Rain The Park And Other Things” – Cowsills
- “You Keep Running Away” – Four Tops
Leave ’em
- “Please Love Me Forever” – Bobby Vinton
- “What Now My Love” – Mitch Ryder
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.