Brenton Wood – Gimme Little Sign 01/1968
Plastic Penny – Everything I Am 01/1968
John Fred And The Playboy Band – Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) 01/1968
Symbols – (The Best Part Of) Breaking Up 01/1968
Tony Blackburn – So Much Love 01/1968
American Breed – Bend Me Shape Me 02/1968
Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine 02/1968
Paul Mauriat – Love Is Blue (L’Amour Est Bleu) 02/1968
Reparata And The Delrons – Captain Of Your Ship 03/1968
1910 Fruitgum Company – Simon Says 03/1968
Paper Dolls – Something Here In My Heart (Keeps A-tellin’ Me No) 03/1968
Honeybus – I Can’t Let Maggie Go 03/1968
Dorian Gray – I’ve Got You On My Mind 04/1968
Jacky – White Horses 04/1968
Julie Driscoll And The Brian Auger Trinity – This Wheel’s On Fire 04/1968
Massiel – La La La 04/1968
Associations – Time For Livin’ 05/1968
Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser 05/1968
Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy 06/1968
Richard Harris – MacArthur Park 07/1968
Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire! 07/1968
Sue Nicholls – Where Will You Be 07/1968
New Generation – Smokey Blues Away 07/1968
The Nice – America 07/1968
Pigmeat Markham – Here Comes The Judge 07/1968
Shorty Long – Here Comes The Judge 07/1968
Timebox – Beggin’ 07/1968
Mason Williams – Classical Gas 09/1968
Hugo Montenegro – The Good The Bad And The Ugly 09/1968
Jeannie C. Riley – Harper Valley P.T.A. 10/1968
Locomotive – Rudi’s In Love 10/1968
Aphrodite’s Child – Rain And Tears 11/1968
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – I’m The Urban Spaceman 11/1968
Gun – Race With The Devil 11/1968
Judy Clay with William Bell – Private Number 11/1968
Love Sculpture – Sabre Dance 12/1968
Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus – Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run) 11/1968
Bedrocks – Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 12/1968
Danny La Rue – On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep 12/1968
Listen to: Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire!
Timebox – Beggin’
Gun – Race With The Devil
Love Sculpture – Sabre Dance
Look, there’s really only one song I want to talk about. Yes, mention one hit wonders to someone over 60 and they might reply with Arthur Brown’s song first. No, the UK didn’t get The Four Seasons original back then and so we ended up with a okay cover. Yes, Gun is pretty rocking. But, “Sabre Dance” by Love Sculpture is something else. I’ve passively listened to all the songs mention on this blog thus far and when I tell you the bolt to my system when this got going. If you’re looking for the birth of punk rock, look no further. Dave Edmunds’ arrangement might have been a sped up Blues oddity in 1968 but in hindsight, it was the sound of the future.
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