It’s a rainy ol’ week in Auckland, 2024 so its a good time to disappear back to November, 1967 to hear the sounds of the time…
Songs of the month
“A Natural Woman” – Aretha Franklin
[new] “An Open Letter To My Teenage Son” – Victor Lundberg
[new] “Boogaloo Down Broadway” – Fantastic Johnny C.
[new] “Daydream Believer” – Monkees
[new] “Everlasting Love” – Robert Knight
“Expressway To Your Heart” – Soul Survivors
“Get On Up” – Esquires
“Gimme Little Sign” – Brenton Wood
[new] “Glad To Be Unhappy” – Mamas And The Papas
“Hey Baby” – Buckinghams
“Holiday” – Bee Gees
“How Can I Be Sure” – Young Rascals
[new] “I Can See For Miles” – Who
[new] “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” – Gladys Knight And The Pips
[new] “I Say A Little Prayer” – Dionne Warwick
[new] “I Second That Emotion” – Smokey Robinson And The Miracles
“I’m Wondering” – Stevie Wonder
[new] “In And Out Of Love” – Diana Ross And The Supremes
“Incense And Peppermints” – Strawberry Alarm Clock
“It Must Be Him” – Vicki Carr
“It’s You That I Need” – Temptations
[new] “Keep The Ball Rollin'” – Jay And The Techniques
[new] “Kentucky Woman” – Neil Diamond
[new] “Ladybird” – Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood
[new] “Lazy Day” – Spanky And Our Gang
“Let It All Hang Out” – Hombres
[new] “Like An Old Time Movie” – Scott Mckenzie
“Love Is Strange” – Peaches And Herb
“Never My Love” – Association
[new] “Pata Pata” – Mariam Makeba
“People Are Strange” – Doors
“Please Love Me Forever” – Bobby Vinton
[new] “She’s Still A Mystery” – Lovin’ Spoonful
“Soul Man” – Sam And Dave
[new] “Stag-O-Lee” – Wilson Pickett
“The Last Waltz” – Engelbert Humperdinck
“The Letter” – Box Tops
“The Look Of Love” – Dusty Springfield
“The Rain The Park And Other Things” – Cowsills
“To Sir With Love” – Lulu
[new] “Watch The Flowers Grow” – Four Seasons
[new] “You Better Sit Down Kids” – Cher
“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 6th of the month “The Phil Donahue Show” had its first screening, initially as a local show on WLWD in Dayton, Ohio, at 10:30 in the morning. One historian would later credit Phil Donahue with “creating a new television genre: the daytime talk show. He dispensed with the typical band and, microphone in hand, left the stage to talk to the audience and, even more radically, unable to get the rich and famous to come to Dayton, he would feature ordinary people as guests.”
Then on the 9th at 7:00 in the morning at Cape Kennedy in Florida, NASA successfully launched the powerful Saturn V rocket, propelling the uncrewed Apollo 4 test spacecraft into Earth orbit. The Saturn V, the most powerful rocket created, broke a record by lifting a payload of 129,000 kg, the combined weight of the Apollo 4 capsule and a mockup of the Apollo Lunar Module into orbit.
Also on the 9th the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine, made its debut as a newspaper printed and distributed in and around San Francisco.
What’d Sadie think?
Two weeks at the top for the Box Tops with “The Letter” before Lulu takes it with “To Sir With Love” .
Loved ’em
Sadie said, “daddy its my favouriteee!” when “Day Dream Believer” came on for the third time this week. She also said to say she really liked, “Everlasting Love” by Robert Knight.
- “Daydream Believer” – Monkees
- “I Can See For Miles” – The Who
- “Everlasting Love” – Robert Knight
- “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” – Gladys Knight And The Pips
- “I Say A Little Prayer” – Dionne Warwick
- “Kentucky Woman” – Neil Diamond
Liked ’em
- “Boogaloo Down Broadway” – Fantastic Johnny C
- “Glad To Be Unhappy” – Mamas And Papas
- “I Second That Emotion” – Smokey Robinson And The Miracles
- “In And Out Of Love” – Diana Ross And The Supremes
- “Keep The Ball Rollin'” – Jay And The Techniques
- “Ladybird” – Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood
- “Lazy Day” – Spanky And Our Gang
- “Like An Old Time Movie” – Scott Mckenzie
- “Pata Pata” – Mariam Makeba
- “Stag-O-Lee” – Wilson Pickett
- “Watch The Flowers Grow” – Four Seasons
- “You Better Sit Down Kids” – Cher
Leave ’em
- “An Open Letter To My Teenage Son” – Victor Lundberg
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.