We’re near to closing out the decade, with the sounds of October, 1969 this week. Before we listen to them a big shout out and thanks to friend-of-the-show Carl, who noted that the [new] tags were missing from the song list the past couple of weeks. Good catch sir!
We had updated the posting template that is automatically created when I generate a new playlist, and that fall off, oops!
Anyway, onto the sounds!
Songs of the month
- “A Boy Named Sue” – Johnny Cash
- [new] “And When I Die” – “Blood Sweat And Tears”
- [new] “Baby I’m For Real” – Originals
- [new] “Baby It’s You” – Smith
- [new] “Carry Me Back” – Rascals
- [new] “Come Together” – Beatles
- [new] “Easy To Be Hard” – Marvin Gaye
- “Easy To Be Hard” – Three Dog Night
- “Everybody’s Talkin’” – Nilsson
- “Get Together” – Youngbloods
- [new] “Going In Circles” – Friends Of Distinction
- “Green River” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- “Honky Tonk Women” – Rolling Stones
- “Hot Fun In The Summertime” – Sly And The Family Stone
- “Hurts So Bad” – Lettermen
- “I Can’t Get Next To You” – Temptations
- “I’d Wait A Million Years” – Grass Roots
- “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” – Tom Jones
- “I’m Gonna Make You Mine” – Lou Christie
- [new] “Is That All There Is” – Peggy Lee
- [new] “Jealous Kind Of Fella” – Garland Green
- “Jean” – Oliver
- “Keem-O-Sabe” – Electric Indian
- “Lay Lady Lay” – Bob Dylan
- “Little Woman” – Bobby Sherman
- [new] “Make Believe” – Wind
- “Oh What A Night” – Dells
- [new] “Smile A Little Smile For Me” – Flying Machine
- [new] “Something” – Beatles
- [new] “Sugar On Sunday” – Clique
- “Sugar Sugar” – Archies
- “Suspicious Minds” – Elvis Presley
- “That’s The Way Love Is” – Marvin Gaye
- “This Girl Is A Woman Now” – Gary Puckett And The Union Gap
- [new] “Tracy” – Cuff Links
- [new] “Walk On By” – Isaac Hayes
- [new] “Wedding Bell Blues” – 5Th Dimension
- “What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am” – Bill Deal And The Rhondells
- “What’s The Use Of Breaking Up” – Jerry Butler
- “When I Die” – Motherlode
- “You – I” – Rugbys
- [new] “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” – Dionne Warwick
- [new] “Your Good Thing” – Electric Indian
- “Your Good Thing” – Lou Rawls
[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 5th British comedy Monty Python’s Flying Circus first aired, appearing on BBC One at 10:55 at night. The first show was described in the news as “Latest late-night show which will, we are warned, be ‘nutty’.” Quite!
And in other nutty, but in a different way, TV – on the 22nd, during a live broadcast on San Francisco’s KGO-TV morning program “The Jim Dunbar Show”, a voice who confirmed to be the Zodiac Killer was heard for the first time. The voice, who later turned out wasn’t the Zodiac, called in at least five times over a 90 minute period. Dunbar’s guest was the famous criminal defense attorney, Melvin Belli, and the first call came at 7:10, as the caller threatened to commit more murders if he wasn’t allowed to talk to Belli on the air.
Then on the 29th iin the evening at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, the first message was sent over ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet. Leonard Kleinrock would recall later that the first message, transmitted from UCLA to the computer at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was intended to be transmitting the letters “L-O-G”, after which Stanford would add two more letters to send back the word “LOGIN”. Charley Kline, a 21-year old UCLA student, attempted to send a message on the department’s SDS Sigma 7 computer to a Sigma 7 at SRI. Kline sent the “L”, then asked over the telephone whether it had been received, then sent the “O”. Before UCLA could transmit the letter “G”, the SRI computer crashed and, as Kleinrock would note later, “History now records how clever we were to send such a prophetic first message, namely ‘Lo’”. Fitting!
What’d Sadie think?
It’s two weeks at the top for “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies then two for the Temptations with”I Can’t Get Next To You”.
Loved ’em
- “Come Together” – Beatles
- “Easy To Be Hard” – Marvin Gaye
- “Something” – Beatles
- “Walk On By” – Isaac Hayes
Liked ’em
- “And When I Die” – “Blood Sweat And Tears”
- “Baby I’m For Real” – Originals
- “Baby It’s You” – Smith
- “Carry Me Back” – Rascals
- “Going In Circles” – Friends Of Distinction
- “Is That All There Is” – Peggy Lee
- “Jealous Kind Of Fella” – Garland Green
- “Make Believe” – Wind
- “Smile A Little Smile For Me” – Flying Machine
- “Sugar On Sunday” – Clique
- “Tracy” – Cuff Links
- “Wedding Bell Blues” – 5Th Dimension
- “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” – Dionne Warwick
- “Your Good Thing” – Electric Indian
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.