Sadie’s doing settling-in days at her new Kindergarten this week, which is very exciting for the whole family. Here’s the tunes soundtracking this week for us, from September, 1967…
Songs of the month
“A Girl Like You” – Young Rascals
“A Whiter Shade Of Pale” – Procol Harum
“All You Need Is Love” – Beatles
“Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie” – Jay And The Techniques
“Baby I Love You” – Aretha Franklin
“Brown Eyed Girl” – Van Morrison
“Carrie Anne” – Hollies
“Cold Sweat” – James Brown
“Come Back When You Grow Up” – Bobby Vee
[new] “Dandelion” – Rolling Stones
[new] “Expressway To Your Heart” – Soul Survivors
“Fakin’ It” – Simon And Garfunkel
“Funky Broadway” – Wilson Pickett
[new] “Get On Up” – Esquires
[new] “Gettin’ Together” – Tommy James And The Shondells
[new] “Gimme Little Sign” – Brenton Wood
[new] “Groovin'” – Booker T. And The Mgs
“Heroes And Villains” – Beach Boys
[new] “Hey Baby” – Buckinghams
[new] “Higher And Higher” – Jackie Wilson
[new] “How Can I Be Sure” – Young Rascals
[new] “I Dig Rock & Roll Music” – “Peter Paul And Mary”
[new] “I Had A Dream” – Paul Revere And The Raiders
[new] “I Make A Fool Of Myself” – Frankie Valli
“I Thank The Lord For The Night Time” – Neil Diamond
[new] “I Thank The Lords For The Night Time” – Neil Diamond
“I Wanna Testify” – Parliaments
“I Was Made To Love Her” – Stevie Wonder
[new] “Knock On Wood” – Otis And Carla
“Light My Fire” – Doors
[new] “Litle Ole Man” – Bill Cosby
[new] “Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone” – Martha And The Vandellas
[new] “Never My Love” – Association
“Ode To Billy Joe” – Bobbie Gentry
“Pleasant Valley Sunday” – Monkees
“Reflections” – Diana Ross And The Supremes
“San Franciscan Nights” – Eric Burdon And The Animals
“Silence Is Golden” – Tremeloes
[new] “The Cat In The Window” – Petula Clark
“The Letter” – Box Tops
[new] “The World We Knew” – Frank Sinatra
[new] “There Is A Mountain” – Donovan
[new] “Things I Should Have Said” – Grass Roots
“To Love Somebody” – Bee Gees
[new] “To Sir With Love” – Lulu
[new] “Twelve Thirty” – Mamas And Papas
[new] “Words” – Bee Gees
“Words” – Monkees
[new] “You Know What I Mean” – Turtles
“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 10th the CBS television network censored “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”, in advance of the evening broadcast, by editing out the performance of Pete Seeger’s antiwar song “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”. Seeger, who had been blacklisted from commercial television for 17 years, had been allowed to perform the song before the studio audience, but the tape shown on television only showed Seeger performing the song “Wimoweh” and Tommy Smothers asking Seeger if he was going to sing “that song”. The tape then showed a closeup of Seeger’s face, and skipped to the next portion of the program. The CBS objection had been Seeger’s closing verse, “Now every time I read the papers/That old feelin’ comes on/We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big fool says to push on.”
And in another case of, attempted, TV censorship – on the 17thth Jim Morrison of The Doors defied CBS in a live telecast of The Ed Sullivan Show, after initially agreeing to a producer’s request to alter the lyrics to their #1 hit, “Light My Fire”. Morrison had been asked to change the lyric “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” to “Girl, we couldn’t get much better”, out of the production staff’s fear concern about the word “high” being associated with drug abuse. Given that the word “better” did not rhyme with “You know that I would be a liar”, Morrison sang the word anyway.
And closer to, my, home – on the 23rd voters in New Zealand overwhelmingly favored a measure to end the limits that had engendered the “Six o’clock swill”, where bar patrons drank heavily after getting off of work because alcoholic beverages could not be legally sold after 6:00 in the evening. Given a choice of two closing hours for hotel bars, voters favored extending the time to 10:00 at night by a margin of 582,234 to 328,748.
What’d Sadie think?
Three weeks at the top for “Ode To Billy Joe” by Bobbie Gentry before two for “The Letter” by the Box Tops.
Loved ’em
- “Expressway To Your Heart” – Soul Survivors
- “Gimme Little Sign” – Brenton Wood
- “Higher And Higher” – Jackie Wilson
- “Knock On Wood” – Otis And Carla
- “Words” – Bee Gees
Liked ’em
- “Dandelion” – Rolling Stones
- “Get On Up” – Esquires
- “Gettin’ Together” – Tommy James And The Shondells
- “Groovin'” – Booker T. And The Mgs
- “How Can I Be Sure” – Young Rascals
- “I Dig Rock And Roll Music” – “Peter Paul And Mary”
- “I Had A Dream” – Paul Revere And The Raiders
- “I Make A Fool Of Myself” – Frankie Valli
- “Hey Baby” – Buckinghams
- “Little Ole Man” – Bill Cosby
- “Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone” – Martha And The Vandellas
- “Never My Love” – Association
- “The Cat In The Window” – Petula Clark
- “The World We Knew” – Frank Sinatra
- “Things I Should Have Said” – Grass Roots
- “To Sir With Love” – Lulu
- “Twelve Thirty” – Mamas And Papas
- “You Know What I Mean” – Turtles
Leave ’em
- “There Is A Mountain” – Donovan
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.