It’s the first month of the ’70s! As Sadie will keep reminding us, we’ve been at this for 4.5 years! (or rather, she reminds us that she is 4.5 years old – and the two are of course the same timeline.)
Apparently when I generated the list of songs for this month, which was a couple of years ago now, I set it to go deeper into the chart than I normally do – which means more (new) tunes this month. Enjoy them all!
Songs of the month
- “A Brand New Me” – Dusty Springfield
- [new] “Ain’t It Funky Now” – James Brown
- [new] “Always Something There To Remind Me” – R.B. Greaves
- [new] “Arizona” – Mark Lindsay
- “Baby I’m For Real” – Originals
- [new] “Baby Take Me In Your Arms” – Jefferson
- “Backfield In Motion” – Mel & Tim
- [new] “Barbara I Love You” – New Colony Six
- [new] “Blowing Away” – 5Th Dimension
- [new] “Cold Turkey” – Plastic Ono Band
- [new] “Come Saturday Morning” – Sandpipers
- “Come Together / Something” – Beatles
- [new] “Compared To What” – Les Mccann & Eddie Harris
- [new] “Country Preacher” – Cannonball Adderly Quintet
- “Don’t Cry Daddy” – Elvis Presley
- [new] “Down In The Alley” – Ronnie Hawkins
- “Down On The Corner / Fortunate Son” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- “Early In The Morning” – Vanity Fare
- “Eli’s Coming” – Three Dog Night
- “Evil Woman Don’t Play Your Games With Me” – Crow
- [new] “Friendship Train” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
- [new] “Got To See If I Can Get Mommy” – Jerry Butler
- [new] “Hello It’s Me” – Nazz
- [new] “Hey There Lonely Girl” – Eddie Holman
- “Holly Holy” – Neil Diamond
- [new] “Honey Come Back” – Glen Campbell
- [new] “How Can I Tell My Mom And Dad” – Lovelites
- “I Want You Back” – Jackson Five
- [new] “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” – Dionne Warwick
- [new] “I’m Glad I Fell For You” – David Ruffin
- [new] “I’m Just A Prisoner” – Candi Staton
- [new] “I’ve Gotta Make You Love Me” – Steam
- [new] “If I Never Knew Your Name” – Vic Dana
- [new] “If I Were A Carpenter” – Johnny Cash & June Carter
- [new] “If Walls Could Talk” – Little Milton
- [new] “It’s Just A Matter Of Time” – Sonny James
- [new] “Jam Up And Jelly Tight” – Tommy Roe
- [new] “Je T’aime Moi Non Plus” – Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
- [new] “Jennifer Tompkins” – Street People
- “Jingle Jangle” – Archies
- “La La La” – Bobby Sherman
- [new] “Leaving On A Jet Plane” – Peter Paul & Mary
- [new] “Ma Belle Amie” – Tee Set
- [new] “Midnight Cowboy” – Ferrante & Teicher
- [new] “Mornin’ Mornin’” – Bobby Goldsboro
- [new] “My Honey And Me” – Luther Ingram
- “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” – Steam
- [new] “New World Coming” – Mama Cass
- [new] “No Time” – Guess Who
- [new] “Oh Well” – Fleetwood Mac
- [new] “Oh What A Day” – Dells
- [new] “Okie From Muskogee” – Merle Haggard
- [new] “Psychedelic Shack” – Temptations
- “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” – B.J. Thomas
- [new] “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” – B.J. Thomas
- [new] “Shades Of Green” – Flaming Ember
- [new] “She” – Tommy James & The Shondells
- “Smile A Little Smile For Me” – Flying Machine
- [new] “Someday We’ll Be Together” – Diana Ross & The Supremes
- [new] “Take A Letter Maria” – R. B. Greaves
- “Take A Letter Maria” – R.B. Greaves
- [new] “Thank You” – Sly & The Family Stone
- [new] “The Rapper” – Jaggerz
- [new] “These Eyes” – Junior Walker & The All Stars
- “Up On Cripple Creek” – The Band
- “Venus” – Shocking Blue
- [new] “Walk A Mile In My Shoes” – Joe South
- [new] “Walkin’ In The Rain” – Jay & The Americans
- “Whole Lotta Love” – Led Zeppelin
- [new] “Winter World Of Love” – Engelbert Humperdinck
- [new] “Without Love” – Tom Jones
- [new] “Won’t Find Better” – New Hope
- [new] “Wonderful World Beautiful People” – Jimmy Cliff
- “Yester-Me Yester-You Yesterday” – Stevie Wonder
- [new] “You Got Me Hummin’” – Cold Blood
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
While it was designed as part of the Unix operating system somewhat later, the 1st of January, 1970 is known as the ” epoch of the Unix time standard”. It’s an arcane fact I’ve been aware of since learning my first “real” programming language (“C”) as a child. The timestamp keeps track of time by the number of seconds since 0:00:00 on January 1, 1970.
As the majority of modern computers are 32-bit or 64-bit, and a large number of programs are still written in 32-bit compatibility mode, this means that many programs using Unix time are using signed 32-bit integer fields. The maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer is 231 − 1, and the minimum value is −231, making it impossible to represent dates before 13 December 1901 (at 20:45:52 UTC) or after 19 January 2038 (at 03:14:07 UTC).
Which, for those who enjoyed the ‘Y2k bug’ means we have another such global freak-out coming in 13 years.
On the 20th, “The Super Fight”, a simulated boxing bout between Muhammad Ali and the late Rocky Marciano, was shown on pay-per-view in 1,000 movie theaters in North America and around the world. The likely result, of the hypothetical fight between the two former world heavyweight boxing champions, was determined by data inputted to a computer, and enhanced by clips of possible outcomes that the two boxers had filmed during the summer before Marciano’s 1969 death in a plane crash. Marciano and Ali (still referred to by the press as Cassius Clay) were, at the time, the only two title holders who had never been defeated. People who paid five dollars apiece for a ticket to the film saw an ending where Marciano “floored Clay for the third time with a solid left hook” and in which “the taller, younger Clay was counted out at 57 of the 13th round.
Then on the 25th “MASH”, a film based on the 1968 Richard Hooker bestseller “MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors” and the inspiration for the popular TV series “M*A*S*H”, premiered in New York City before being released nationwide on March 18.
What’d Sadie think?
Four weeks at the top for”Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” by B.J. Thomas before “I Want You Back” by the Jackson Five takes it – a real Sadie favourite.
Loved ’em
- “Ain’t It Funky Now” – James Brown
- “Always Something There To Remind Me” – R.B. Greaves
- “Friendship Train” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
- “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” – Dionne Warwick
- “Leaving On A Jet Plane” – Peter Paul & Mary
- “Oh Well” – Fleetwood Mac
- “Okie From Muskogee” – Merle Haggard
- “Psychedelic Shack” – Temptations
- “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” – B.J. Thomas
- “She” – Tommy James & The Shondells
- “Someday We’ll Be Together” – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Liked ’em
- “Arizona” – Mark Lindsay
- “Baby Take Me In Your Arms” – Jefferson
- “Barbara I Love You” – New Colony Six
- “Blowing Away” – 5Th Dimension
- “Cold Turkey” – Plastic Ono Band
- “Compared To What” – Les Mccann & Eddie Harris
- “Country Preacher” – Cannonball Adderly Quintet
- “Down In The Alley” – Ronnie Hawkins
- “Got To See If I Can Get Mommy” – Jerry Butler
- “Hello It’s Me” – Nazz
- “Hey There Lonely Girl” – Eddie Holman
- “Honey Come Back” – Glen Campbell
- “How Can I Tell My Mom And Dad” – Lovelites
- “I’m Glad I Fell For You” – David Ruffin
- “I’m Just A Prisoner” – Candi Staton
- “If I Were A Carpenter” – Johnny Cash & June Carter
- “If Walls Could Talk” – Little Milton
- “It’s Just A Matter Of Time” – Sonny James
- “Jam Up And Jelly Tight” – Tommy Roe
- “Je T’aime Moi Non Plus” – Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
- “Jennifer Tompkins” – Street People
- “My Honey And Me” – Luther Ingram
- “New World Coming” – Mama Cass
- “No Time” – Guess Who
- “Oh What A Day” – Dells
- “Shades Of Green” – Flaming Ember
- “Take A Letter Maria” – R. B. Greaves
- “Thank You” – Sly & The Family Stone
- “The Rapper” – Jaggerz
- “These Eyes” – Junior Walker & The All Stars
- “Walk A Mile In My Shoes” – Joe South
- “Winter World Of Love” – Engelbert Humperdinck
- “Without Love” – Tom Jones
- “Won’t Find Better” – New Hope
- “Wonderful World Beautiful People” – Jimmy Cliff
- “You Got Me Hummin’” – Cold Blood
Leave ’em
- “Come Saturday Morning” – Sandpipers
- “If I Never Knew Your Name” – Vic Dana
- “Ma Belle Amie” – Tee Set
- “Walkin’ In The Rain” – Jay & The Americans
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.