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It’s a rainy spring day here in 2025 as we tune our ears back to September, 1971…

Songs of the month

• “Ain’t No Sunshine” – Bill Withers
• [new] “Bangladesh” – George Harrison
• “Beginnings / Colour My World” – Chicago
• [new] “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” – Mac And Katie Kissoon
• [new] “Do You Know What I Mean” – Lee Michaels
• “Draggin’ The Line” – Tommy James
• “Go Away Little Girl” – Donny Osmond
• “Hot Pants” – James Brown
• “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” – Bee Gees
• “I Just Want To Celebrate” – Rare Earth
• “I Woke Up In Love This Morning” – Partridge Family
• “If Not For You” – Olivia Newton-John
• [new] “If You Really Love Me” – Stevie Wonder
• “Indian Reservation” – Raiders
• [new] “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers
• “Liar” – Three Dog Night
• [new] “Maggie May / Reason To Believe” – Rod Stewart
• [new] “Make It Funky” – James Brown
• “Mercy Mercy Me” – Marvin Gaye
• “Mr. Big Stuff” – Jean Knight
• [new] “Rain Dance” – Guess Who
• “Riders On The Storm” – Doors
• [new] “Saturday Morning Confusion” – Bobby Russell
• “Signs” – Five Man Electrical Band
• “Smiling Faces Sometimes” – Undisputed Truth
• [new] “So Far Away” – Carole King
• “Spanish Harlem” – Aretha Franklin
• [new] “Stick-Up” – Honey Cone
• [new] “Superstar” – Carpenters
• [new] “Sweet City Woman” – Stampeders
• “Sweet Hitch-Hiker” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “Take Me Home Country Roads” – John Denver
• [new] “The Night The Drove Old Dixie Down” – Joan Baez
• [new] “The Story In Your Eyes” – Moody Blues
• [new] “Thin Line Between Love And Hate” – Persuaders
• [new] “Tired Of Being Alone” – Al Green
• “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey” – Paul And Linda Mccartney
• “What The World Needs Now Is Love” – Tom Clay
• “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get” – Dramatics
• “Won’t Get Fooled Again” – Who
• [new] “Yo-Yo” – Osmonds
• “You’ve Got A Friend” – James Taylor

[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 fourth of September, the Concorde supersonic airliner made its first transatlantic crossing. After departing Toulouse in France and landing at Sal Rei in the Cape Verde Islands off of the coast of Africa, the Concorde 001 prototype departed Sal Rei and flew 3,999 km to Cayenne in French Guiana in South America in two hours and two minutes at an average speed of more than  1,967 km/h.

Then on the 6th the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced that it was banning the U.S. educational children’s TV program Sesame Street from broadcast in the UK because of the “authoritarian aims” of the show. Monica Sims, the director of children’s television programming on BBC, told reporters “Educationalists in America have questioned the value of 2-, 3- and 4-year olds’ acquiring knowledge in a passive, uninvolved fashion, and have criticised the program’s essentially middle-class attitudes, its lack of reality and its attempt to prepare children for school but not for life. I share some of these doubts and am particularly worried about the program’s authoritarian aims.”

And on the 12th the “Baker Street robbery” of £500,000  of cash from the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, was completed by a gang of seven thieves who had burrowed into the bank vault after starting a tunnel from a vacant shop next door. One of those annoying videos that can’t be embedded tell more of the story here.

What’d Sadie think?

It’s a week at the top this month for”Uncle Albert” by Paul And Linda Mccartney before Donny Osmond has a hit at the top for the next 3 weeks with “Go Away Little Girl”. Of course the Osmonds were a real phenomenon of bubble-gum group pop of the ’70s and here we see Donny’s solo song beat out his whole family effort for the top spot.

Loved ’em

• “Do You Know What I Mean” – Lee Michaels
• “If You Really Love Me” – Stevie Wonder
• “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers
• “Make It Funky” – James Brown
• “So Far Away” – Carole King
• “Stick-Up” – Honey Cone
• “Superstar” – Carpenters
• “Thin Line Between Love And Hate” – Persuaders
• “Tired Of Being Alone” – Al Green

Liked ’em

• “Bangladesh” – George Harrison
• “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” – Mac And Katie Kissoon
• “Maggie May / Reason To Believe” – Rod Stewart
• “Rain Dance” – Guess Who
• “Sweet City Woman” – Stampeders
• “The Night The Drove Old Dixie Down” – Joan Baez
• “Yo-Yo” – Osmonds

Leave ’em

• “Saturday Morning Confusion” – Bobby Russell
• “The Story In Your Eyes” – Moody Blues

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

It’s 49 years and 1 months before Sadie is born and 5 years and 7 months before Thomas is.

Songs of the month

• “Albert Flasher” – Guess Who
• [new] “Beginnings / Colour My World” – Chicago
• [new] “Bring The Boys Home” – Freda Payne
• “Brown Sugar” – Rolling Stones
• [new] “Colour My World / Beginnings” – Chicago
• “Don’t Knock My Love” – Wilson Pickett
• “Don’t Pull Your Love” – “Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds”
• [new] “Double Barrel” – Dave & Ansil Collins
• “Double Lovin’” – Osmonds
• [new] “Draggin’ The Line” – Tommy James
• “Funky Nassau” – Beginning Of The End
• [new] “Get It On” – Chase
• “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again” – Fortunes
• [new] “High Time We Went” – Joe Cocker
• [new] “Hot Pants” – James Brown
• [new] “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” – Bee Gee
• “I Don’t Want To Do Wrong” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
• “I’ll Meet You Halfway” – Partridge Family
• “Indian Reservation” – Raiders
• “It Don’t Come Easy” – Ringo Starr
• “It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move” – Carole King
• [new] “Liar” – Three Dog Night
• [new] “Love The One You’re With” – Isley Brothers
• [new] “Maybe Tomorrow” – Jackson 5
• [new] “Mercy Mercy Me” – Marvin Gaye
• “Mr. Big Stuff” – Jean Knight
• “Nathan Jones” – Supremes
• “Never Can Say Goodbye” – Isaac Hayes
• [new] “Never Ending Song Of Love” – Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
• “Puppet Man” – Tom Jones
• “Rainy Days And Mondays” – Carpenters
• [new] “Rings” – Cymarron
• “She’s Not Just Another Woman” – 8Th Day
• [new] “Signs” – Five Man Electrical Band
• [new] “Sooner Or Later” – Grass Roots
• “Sweet And Innocent” – Donny Osmond
• [new] “Sweet Hitch-Hiker” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• [new] “Take Me Home Country Roads” – John Denver
• “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” – Carly Simon
• “Treat Her Like A Lady” – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
• “Want Ads” – Honey Cone
• [new] “What The World Needs Now Is Love” – Tom Clay
• “When You’re Hot You’re Hot” – Jerry Reed
• [new] “Wild Horses” – Rolling Stones
• “You’ve Got A Friend” – James Taylor

[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 3rd Jim Morrison, 27, American singer and leader of the Doors, was found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France; the cause of death remains uncertain, but an unintentional heroin overdose was the most popular theory

And on the 19th the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City was topped out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second tallest building in the world

Then onn the 31st US Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott became the first person to drive a wheeled vehicle on the surface of the Moon, after landing the day before, with James Irwin travelling as a passenger. At 9:52 a.m., Scott and Irwin removed Rover 1, the lunar rover, from the compartment below the module and unfolded it. The two drove roughly 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the landing site, returning after six hours.

What’d Sadie think?

It’s three weeks at the top for Carole King with “It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move”, then one for “Indian Reservation” by Raiders and finally one for “You’ve Got A Friend” by James Taylor.

We have to highlight a song that made it into the “leave it” pile this week -“What The World Needs Now Is Love” by Tom Clay which is an interesting (but not particularly pleasant to listen to) mash up of Bachurach’s song and news/interview clips by an american DJ.

Loved ’em

• “Beginnings / Colour My World” – Chicago
• “Hot Pants” – James Brown
• “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” – Bee Gee
• “Love The One You’re With” – Isley Brothers
• “Mercy Mercy Me” – Marvin Gaye
• “Sweet Hitch-Hiker” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “Take Me Home Country Roads” – John Denver
• “Treat Her Like A Lady” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• “Wild Horses” – Rolling Stones

Liked ’em

• “Bring The Boys Home” – Freda Payne
• “Double Barrel” – Dave & Ansil Collins
• “Draggin’ The Line” – Tommy James
• “Get It On” – Chase
• “High Time We Went” – Joe Cocker
• “Liar” – Three Dog Night
• “Maybe Tomorrow” – Jackson 5
• “Rings” – Cymarron
• “Signs” – Five Man Electrical Band
• “Sooner Or Later” – Grass Roots
• “When You’re Hot Your Hot” – Jerry Reed

Leave ’em

• “Never Ending Song Of Love” – Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
• “What The World Needs Now Is Love” – Tom Clay

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

In a delightful happenstance – we are listening to August, 1971 this week – while it in fact August of 2025, and today (the 22nd) is Sadie’s 5th birthday! Happy birthday my darling girl.

And happy anniversary to this project I guess! And thanks for those of you who have stuck along with it. Only 49 years till Sadie is born in our timeline… (or 12 years in real time!)

On that, let’s hear what this month sounds like…

Songs of the month

• [new] “Ain’t No Sunshine” – Bill Withers
• “Beginnings / Colour My World” – Chicago
• “Bring The Boys Home” – Freda Payne
• “Don’t Pull Your Love” – “Hamilton Joe Frank And Reynolds”
• “Double Barrel” – Dave And Ansil Collins
• “Draggin’ The Line” – Tommy James
• “Get It On” – Chase
• [new] “Go Away Little Girl” – Donny Osmond
• “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again” – Fortunes
• “Hot Pants” – James Brown
• “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” – Bee Gees
• “I Don’t Want To Do Wrong” – Gladys Knight And The Pips
• [new] “I Just Want To Celebrate” – Rare Earth
• [new] “I Woke Up In Love This Morning” – Partridge Family
• [new] “If Not For You” – Olivia Newton-John
• “Indian Reservation” – Raiders
• “It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move” – Carole King
• “Liar” – Three Dog Night
• “Love The One You’re With” – Isley Brothers
• “Maybe Tomorrow” – Jackson 5
• “Mercy Mercy Me” – Marvin Gaye
• [new] “Moon Shadow” – Cat Stevens
• “Mr. Big Stuff” – Jean Knight
• “Never Ending Song Of Love” – Delaney And Bonnie And Friends
• [new] “Riders On The Storm” – Doors
• “Rings” – Cymarron
• “Signs” – Five Man Electrical Band
• [new] “Smiling Faces Sometimes” – Undisputed Truth
• “Sooner Or Later” – Grass Roots
• [new] “Spanish Harlem” – Aretha Franklin
• [new] “Stick Up” – Honey Cone
• “Sweet Hitch-Hiker” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “Take Me Home Country Roads” – John Denver
• “Treat Her Like A Lady” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• [new] “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey” – Paul And Linda Mccartney
• “What The World Needs Now” – Tom Clay
• [new] “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get” – Dramatics
• [new] “Won’t Get Fooled Again” – Who
• “You’ve Got A Friend” – James Taylor
• [new] “You’ve Got A Friend” – Roberta Flack And Donny Hathaway

[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 Chay Blyth, a Scottish yachtsman who was nicknamed “Wrong Way Chay” by the British press, completed his trip around the world, becoming the first person to make a “solo nonstop sea voyage in a westerly direction”, sailing against, rather than in the same direction as, the wind and prevailing sea currents.

And on the 8th the Russian KGB attempted to poison dissident Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn by putting an unidentified chemical agent on candy that Solzhenitsyn was purchasing at a department store in Novocherkassk. Solzhenitsyn was ill for several months but survived the poisoning attempt

Then on the 14th the “Stanford prison experiment”, led by Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, began in Palo Alto, California, using college student volunteers to play the roles of guards or prisoners, starting with simulated arrests being made by the Palo Alto Police Department. Over a period of seven days, the “guards” with unrestricted authority became more abusive, and the study ended ahead of schedule when Professor Zimbardo’s colleagues, notably psychologist Christina Maslach, confronted him over the morality of the experiment.

What’d Sadie think?

It’s a full month at the top for”How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” by the Bee Gees. A band who are the perfect example of the context this journey is adding for me when it comes to music. I’ve never vibed with the Bee Gees at all – they were the old-fashioned sound of drunken adults dancing when I was a young person. But hearing their sound/songs in the context of what came before, and what else we’re listening to in 1971, and I understand their appeal and even feel a bit of it myself.

But while I am liking the Bee Gees a little more, we’re really loving these three songs and artists this week…

Loved ’em

• “Ain’t No Sunshine” – Bill Withers
• “Moon Shadow” – Cat Stevens
• “Riders On The Storm” – Doors

Sadly Jim Morrison from The Doors had passed away the previous month.

Liked ’em

• “Go Away Little Girl” – Donny Osmond
• “I Just Want To Celebrate” – Rare Earth
• “I Woke Up In Love This Morning” – Partridge Family
• “If Not For You” – Olivia Newton-John
• “Smiling Faces Sometimes” – Undisputed Truth
• “Spanish Harlem” – Aretha Franklin
• “Stick Up” – Honey Cone
• “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey” – Paul And Linda Mccartney
• “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get” – Dramatics
• “Won’t Get Fooled Again” – Who
• “You’ve Got A Friend” – Roberta Flack And Donny Hathaway

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

p.s. We missed a post last week so you can find July, 1971 here.

A busy August in 2025 as we plan for Sadie’s fifth birthday and starting school in a couple of weeks, so we missed posting a playlist – you can find May, 1971 here before you listen to the sounds of June, 1971 for this week…

Songs of the month

• [new] “Albert Flasher” – Guess Who
• “Bridge Over Troubled Water / Brand New Me” – Aretha Franklin
• [new] “Bridge Over Troubled Water” – Aretha Franklin
• “Brown Sugar” – Rolling Stones
• “Chick-A-Boom” – Daddy Dewdrop
• [new] “Cool Aid” – Paul Humphrey
• “Don’t Know My Love” – Wilson Pickett
• [new] “Don’t Pull Your Love” – “Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds”
• [new] “Double Lovin’” – Osmonds
• [new] “Funky Nassau” – Beginning Of The End
• “Give More Power To The People” – Chi-Lites
• [new] “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again” – Fortunes
• “Here Comes The Sun” – Richie Havens
• “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” – Helen Reddy
• [new] “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” – Yvonne Elliman
• [new] “I Don’t Want To Do Wrong” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
• “I’ll Meet You Halfway” – Partridge Family
• “If” – Bread
• [new] “Indian Reservation” – Raiders
• “It Don’t Come Easy” – Ringo Starr
• “It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move” – Carole King
• “Joy To The World” – Three Dog Night
• “Love Her Madly” – Doors
• “Me And You And A Dog Named Boo” – Lobo
• [new] “Mr. Big Stuff” – Jean Knight
• “Nathan Jones” – Supremes
• [new] “Never Can Say Goodbye” – Isaac Hayes
• “Never Can Say Goodbye” – Jackson 5
• [new] “Puppet Man” – Tom Jones
• “Put Your Hand In The Hand” – Ocean
• “Rainy Days And Mondays” – Carpenters
• “Right On The Tip Of My Tongue” – Brenda & The Tabulations
• [new] “She’s Not Just Another Woman” – 8Th Day
• “Stay Awhile” – Bells
• “Superstar” – Murray Head
• “Sweet And Innocent” – Donny Osmond
• [new] “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” – Carly Simon
• [new] “The Drum” – Bobby Sherman
• “Treat Her Like A Lady” – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
• “Want Ads” – Honey Cone
• [new] “When You’re Hot You’re Hot” – Jerry Reed
• “Woodstock” – Matthews Southern Comfort
• [new] “You’ve Got A Friend” – James Taylor

[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 3rd the classic comedy “No Sex Please, We’re British”, opened at the Strand Theatre, beginning a 16-year run that would make it the eighth longest-running stage production in London’s West End. It would be released as a film 2 years later.

Then on the 13th The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers, secret memoranda from the U.S. Department of Defense regarding U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War, that had been provided to investigative journalist Neil Sheehan.

And on the 23rd after a marathon negotiating session that lasted until 5:00 in the morning in Luxembourg, representatives of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the United Kingdom came to an agreement on terms for the UK to enter the Community and to join the Common Market.

What’d Sadie think?

A week at the top for”Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones before Honey Cone’s “Want Ads” has a single week at number one, followed by Carole King with “It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move” for the next two.

Loved ’em

• “Bridge Over Troubled Water” – Aretha Franklin
• “Double Lovin’” – Osmonds
• “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again” – Fortunes
• “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” – Yvonne Elliman
• “Mr. Big Stuff” – Jean Knight
• “You’ve Got A Friend” – James Taylor

Liked ’em

• “Albert Flasher” – Guess Who
• “Cool Aid” – Paul Humphrey
• “Funky Nassau” – Beginning Of The End
• “I Don’t Want To Do Wrong” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
• “Never Can Say Goodbye” – Isaac Hayes
• “Puppet Man” – Tom Jones
• “She’s Not Just Another Woman” – 8Th Day
• “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” – Carly Simon
• “When You’re Hot You’re Hot” – Jerry Reed

Leave ’em

• “Don’t Pull Your Love” – “Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds”
• “Indian Reservation” – Raiders
• “The Drum” – Bobby Sherman

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

Let’s hear what May of 1971 sounded like…

Songs of the month

• “(Where Do I Begin) Love Story” – Andy Williams
• “Another Day” – Paul Mccartney
• [new] “Baby Let Me Kiss You” – King Floyd
• “Bridge Over Troubled Water / Brand New Me” – Aretha Franklin
• [new] “Brown Sugar” – Rolling Stones
• “Chick-A-Boom” – Daddy Dewdrop
• “Doesn’t Somebody Want To Be Wanted” – Partridge Family
• [new] “Don’t Knock My Love” – Wilson Pickett
• “For All We Know” – Carpenters
• [new] “Give More Power To The People” – Chi-Lites
• “Help Me Make It Through The Night” – Sammi Smith
• [new] “Here Comes The Sun” – Richie Havens
• “I Am I Said” – Neil Diamond
• “I Don’t Blame You At All” – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
• [new] “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” – Helen Reddy
• [new] “I Love You For All Seasons” – Fuzz
• “I Play And Sing” – Dawn
• [new] “I’ll Meet You Halfway” – Partridge Family
• “If” – Bread
• [new] “It Don’t Come Easy” – Ringo Starr
• [new] “It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move” – Carole King
• “Joy To The World” – Three Dog Night
• “Just My Imagination” – Temptations
• [new] “Love Her Madly” – Doors
• “Me And Bobby Mcgee” – Janis Joplin
• “Me And You And A Dog Named Boo” – Lobo
• [new] “Nathan Jones” – Supremes
• “Never Can Say Goodbye” – Jackson 5
• “No Love At All” – B.J. Thomas
• “One Toke Over The Line” – Brewer & Shipley
• “Power To The People” – John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band
• “Put Your Hand In The Hand” – Ocean
• [new] “Rainy Days And Mondays” – Carpenters
• [new] “Reach Out I’ll Be There” – Diana Ross
• [new] “Right On The Tip Of My Tongue” – Brenda & The Tabulations
• “She’s A Lady” – Tom Jones
• “Stay Awhile” – Bells
• [new] “Stay While” – Bells
• [new] “Superstar” – Murray Head
• [new] “Sweet And Innocent” – Donny Osmond
• “Timothy” – Buoys
• [new] “Toast And Marmalade For Tea” – Tin Tin
• [new] “Treat Her Like A Lady” – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
• [new] “Want Ads” – Honey Cone
• “We Can Work It Out” – Stevie Wonder
• “What’s Going On” – Marvin Gaye
• “Wild World” – Cat Stevens
• [new] “Woodstock” – Matthews Southern Comfort

[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 the English warship Mary Rose, which had sunk with 385 sailors on July 19, 1545, in the Battle of the Solent, was rediscovered after more than 425 years. A timber from the ship had become exposed in the bottom of The Solent, the strait separating the Isle of Wight from the English mainland. At age 8, on my first trip to the UK, I visited the ship – which was pulled from the ocean several years later.

And on the 11th Dallas restaurant operator Mariano Martinez invented the process that would make the frozen margarita “America’s most popular cocktail”. Adapting a soft-serve ice cream machine to hold gallons of pre-made frozen margarita mix, Martinez was able to serve margaritas that evening as soon as they were ordered, eliminating the process where each individual drink had to be made in a blender. Progress!

As the month ended, on the 30th, about 1,000 people who attended a concert of the Grateful Dead at the Winterland Auditorium in San Francisco sought medical attention after having ingested LSD from apple cider that had been passed around the crowd. Trippy!

What’d Sadie think?

This month we have four weeks at the top for”Joy To The World” by Three Dog Night before The Rolling Stones with “Brown Sugar” takes the top.

The family are loving the Jesus Christ Superstar songs on the charts this month, with Emily regaling Sadie with stories of how she was in the musical herself – prompting lots of singalong from Sadie.

Loved ’em

• “Baby Let Me Kiss You” – King Floyd
• “Brown Sugar” – Rolling Stones
• “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” – Helen Reddy
• “Rainy Days And Mondays” – Carpenters
• “Right On The Tip Of My Tongue” – Brenda & The Tabulations
• “Superstar” – Murray Head
• “Sweet And Innocent” – Donny Osmond
• “Woodstock” – Matthews Southern Comfort

Liked ’em

• “Don’t Knock My Love” – Wilson Pickett
• “Give More Power To The People” – Chi-Lites
• “Here Comes The Sun” – Richie Havens
• “I Love You For All Seasons” – Fuzz
• “I’ll Meet You Halfway” – Partridge Family
• “It Don’t Come Easy” – Ringo Starr
• “Love Her Madly” – Doors
• “Nathan Jones” – Supremes
• “Reach Out I’ll Be There” – Diana Ross
• “Stay While” – Bells
• “Treat Her Like A Lady” – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
• “Want Ads” – Honey Cone

Leave ’em

• “Toast And Marmalade For Tea” – Tin Tin

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

Let’s discover which Beatle is missing from our charts this month by tuning into April, 1971….

Songs of the month

• “(Where Do I Begin) Love Story” – Andy Williams
• “Amos Moses” – Jerry Reed
• “Another Day” – Paul Mccartney
• “Blue Money” – Van Morrison
• [new] “Bridge Over Troubled Water / Brand New Me” – Aretha Franklin
• [new] “Chick-A-Boom” – Daddy Dewdrop
• “Cried Like A Baby” – Bobby Sherman
• “Doesn’t Somebody Want To Be Wanted” – Partridge Family
• [new] “Eighteen” – Alice Cooper
• “For All We Know” – Carpenters
• “Free” – Chicago
• “Have You Ever Seen The Rain / Hey Tonight” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• [new] “Heavy Makes You Happy” – Staple Singers
• “Help Me Make It Through The Night” – Sammi Smith
• [new] “I Am I Said” – Neil Diamond
• [new] “I Don’t Blame You At All” – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
• [new] “I Play And Sing” – Dawn
• [new] “If” – Bread
• [new] “Joy To The World” – Three Dog Night
• “Just My Imagination” – Temptations
• “Love’s Lines Angels And Rhymes” – 5Th Dimension
• “Mamma’s Pearl” – Jackson 5
• “Me And Bobbie Mcgee” – Janis Joplin
• [new] “Me And You And A Dog Named Boo” – Lobo
• [new] “Never Can Say Goodbye” – Jackson 5
• “No Love At All” – B.J. Thomas
• “One Bad Apple” – Osmonds
• “One Toke Over The Line” – Brewer & Shipley
• “Oye Como Va” – Santana
• [new] “Power To The People” – John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band
• “Proud Mary” – Ike & Tina Turner
• [new] “Put Your Hand In The Hand” – Ocean
• “She’s A Lady” – Tom Jones
• “Soul Power” – James Brown
• [new] “Stay Awhile” – Bells
• “Temptation Eyes” – Grass Roots
• [new] “Timothy” – Buoys
• [new] “We Can Work It Out” – Stevie Wonder
• “What Is Life” – George Harrison
• “What’s Going On” – Marvin Gaye
• “Wild World” – Cat Stevens
• “You’re All I Need To Get By” – Aretha Franklin

[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 16th computer scientist Abhay Bhushan wrote RFC 354, the first File Transfer Protocol for ARPANET, the U.S. Department of Defense computer communication network that was the predecessor to the Internet. FTP allowed the easy movement of files between remote computers and is still in use to this day, as well as being the software sold by my first job back in the ’90s.

Then on the 19th the first space station in Earth’s history, Salyut 1, was launched by the Soviet Union from Baikonur at 6:40 in the morning local time (0140 UTC). On June 7, the crew of the ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission would be the first humans to enter a space station, staying until their disastrous return on June 30 when all 3 cosmonauts were lost in a decompression incident. Salyut 1 would remain in orbit only until October 11.

New York City became the first government in the United States to require that a definitive expiration date be placed on packages of perishable foods on the 23rd. While food distributors had information printed on packages to allow store managers to determine the date of shipment of an article of food as part of knowing when to withdraw it from the shelf, these had been in the form of “codes indecipherable to the average shopper.” Violations of the law were punishable by fines ranging from $25 to $250.

What’d Sadie think?

Two weeks at the top for “Just My Imagination” by the  Temptations before a couple for “Joy To The World” by Three Dog Night.

Loved ’em

With John Lennon’s “Power to the People” entering our chart we are one Beatle short of a full set this week!

• “Bridge Over Troubled Water / Brand New Me” – Aretha Franklin
• “Eighteen” – Alice Cooper
• “If” – Bread
• “Joy To The World” – Three Dog Night
• “Never Can Say Goodbye” – Jackson 5
• “Power To The People” – John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band

Liked ’em

• “Chick-A-Boom” – Daddy Dewdrop
• “Heavy Makes You Happy” – Staple Singers
• “I Am I Said” – Neil Diamond
• “I Don’t Blame You At All” – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
• “I Play And Sing” – Dawn
• “Me And You And A Dog Named Boo” – Lobo
• “Put Your Hand In The Hand” – Ocean
• “We Can Work It Out” – Stevie Wonder

Leave ’em

• “Stay Awhile” – Bells
• “Timothy” – Buoys

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.