Swinging Through the Sixties: The Beatles and Beyond - Episode #11: 'Murder, Mayhem, Music and Movies - The 1st Week of April '68'

Summary: Even by the standards of the 1960s, it was quite a week: the murder of peaceful-protest civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., resulting riots across the U.S.A., multilateral talk of a ceasefire in the Vietnam war, the fall of Czechoslovakia’s communist government as part of the pro-democracy movement’s ‘Prague Spring,’ the appointment of Pierre Trudeau as Canadian Prime Minister, the release of movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, and a wide array of now-classic chart hits on both sides of the Atlantic. Among this episode’s musical attractions: * Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ * The Beatles’ ‘Lady Madonna’ * Elvis Presley’s ‘Guitar Man’ * The Move's 'Fire Brigade' * Aretha Franklin’s ‘Sweet Sweet Baby (Since You’ve Been Gone)’ * Donovan’s ‘Jennifer Juniper’ * Otis Redding’s ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay’ * The Lemon Pipers’ ‘Green Tambourine’ * James Brown’s ‘I Got the Feelin’’ * Bobby Goldsboro’s ‘Honey’ * The Monkees’ ‘Valleri’ * Cliff Richard’s ‘Congratulations’ * The Delfonics’ ‘La-La (Means I Love You)’ * Sly and the Family Stone’s ‘Dance to the Music’ * Mahalia Jackson’s ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’ * Cilla Black’s ‘Step Inside Love’