love that too... she was a 'freind' of dusty springfield.

Here's another one

"Elvis recorded a song of mine. That's the record I treasure the most" Bob Dylan

The song was Tomorrow is a long time recorded in Nashville in May 1966, same sessions as the How Great Thou Art gospel album.

However it was buried away as a bonus track on the Spinout soundtrack album so remained largely unplayed and unheard.

Dylan didn't release a version of the song, which goes back to 1962, until 1971 when it was added, with some other unreleased tracks to Greatest Hits Volume Two. Prior to Elvis's version it had been recorded by Ian and Sylvia, Hamilton Camp and Odetta.

Wonderful performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wipPRxEXAPY

Ten minor hit singles in the UK, one from each year of the sixties.

Gene Vincent - Pistol Packin’ Mama (1960)
My favourite version of this song is by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, but as that was recorded in 1943 I don’t think that it quite meets this thread’s main criterion! However, Gene’s version is still pretty darn good and definitely worth a listen.

Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs - Stay (1961)
This track did not fare quite as well in the UK as it did in the USA, where it still holds the record for being (at 1’39”) the shortest single ever to top the American singles chart.

Marty Wilde - Jezebel (1962)
Excellent cover of Frankie Laine's classic fifties hit by one of Britain’s best early rock ’n’ rollers.

Rick Nelson - Fools Rush In (1963)
I’m a big admirer of the late Rick Nelson’s music, but I’m not sure if I agree with the following statement, which I found in his Wikipedia entry:-
“At the time of his death, Nelson was universally acknowledged to be the musical artist who kept rock and roll alive after Elvis Presley entered the United States Army in 1958 and whose musical contributions to the genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the most significant of the period”.

Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell (1964)
Thanks to its inclusion in the Quentin Tarantino film “Pulp Fiction”, this is perhaps the best known of all the ten singles featured in this post. Ironically, of those ten singles, it had the lowest UK chart position.

The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko (1965)
I love this song and I love this version, although I marginally prefer the 1982 cover by the Belle Stars.

The Four Seasons - I’ve Got You Under My Skin (1966)
This is the second song composed by Cole Porter that I’ve submitted this week ... and why not?

Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On (1967)
Sorry, Diana Ross and the Supremes fans, but imho this cover is so much better than the original.

R. Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane (1968)
“Indiana Wants Me” and “There’s A Ghost In My House” may have been much bigger hits, but imho this is his best ever single.

Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ (1969)
I’m not a huge fan of late-sixties bubblegum pop music, but this track is an absolute gem.

love those two tracks!

Yes, they're great tracks.

Rob, I've just noticed that the thread had now got more than 20,000 views, not bad for a thread you thought might not work when you started it!

Just dropping a few random greats in here

The Marvelettes - Smart Aleck

Bongo Man - Wrangler

The Edgar Broughton Band - Dropout Boogie

For an arrangement with so much verve (compare the very pleasant but distinctly contemplating-in-a-comfy-armchair Ann Shelton rendition -- lovely intro verse) the artists in Rick's film clip have got their heads in a clamp. Rick himself hardly moves. All the lusty juices have been sucked out in this screenplay.

Sorry, I may have gone overboard when I mentioned lusty juices. I just ate a very dry slice of toast.

In the same teeny-pop genre as Rick's Fools Rush In, Leslie Gore's Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows shows a lot more life in the video. Shame about the jumper though; it probably fulfilled the same role as Rick's chorister pose -- keeping darkened cinema passions under wraps.

Joe Meek - I Hear A New World (1960)

This is some proper genius-ness.

... wow, 1960! Innovative use of stereo separation, and the high speed vocals don't irritate as they do in the contemporaneous Chipmunks songs.

A Youtube link from a link from that one to The Unclaimed - Jingle Jangle

After watching the Britannia Heavy Metal programme on Friday I had to look this one up.

The bass line from this 1962 Rick Nelson version of Summertime was used as the riff by Deep Purple for their 1970 hit Black Night!

Rick Nelson - Summertime

Mind you I had to laugh at the comment on You Tube about whether Rick Nelson got any royalties. As he didn't write Summertime I suspect he probably would'nt have been entitled to anything.

I've never really understood why people rave about Van Morrison to be honest, but he did do some great stuff while he was a member of Them. Gloria, Here Comes The Night and Baby Please Don't Go are all brilliant, but a little too well-known for the purposes of this thread, so here's a few more.

Them - All For Myself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btm85...eature=related

Them - Don't Look Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEnzR...eature=related

Them - I Can Only Give You Everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtscU...eature=related

And from the post-Van Morrison period:
Them - Square Room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDW9z...eature=related

Here are the original versions of two other songs made famous by Frank Sinatra:-

Ivo Robić - Fremde in der Nacht (1965)

Claude François - Comme d'habitude (1967)

Also the Blues Magoos 1967 US Top 10 hit 'We Ain't Got Nothing Yet' used the same riff:

Blues Magoos - We Ain't Got Nothing Yet

Just come across two great instrumentals from Ernie Fields & His Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5El43QjALA (Workin' Out - 1960)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYMR...eature=related ("In the Mood" good re-working of the old Glenn Miller hit).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxFgfF0KP8 (Don Ralke - "Sebastian" (early Warner Bros. record - 1960 or 61?)

From 1962 on Columbia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf7vX...eature=related (Charles Blackwell Orchestra - Freight Train).

From 1964 "Errol Dixon and the Bluebeaters - "give me more time" on Oriole.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...17/2Ug1np3YrNo

This last one is from 1959, I know nothing about this singer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YE8S4lTknE
LORNE LESLEY - "I DON'T KNOW"
on british Parlophone.

Yesterday I submitted a Leonard Cohen track to the Seventies thread. It wasn’t my all time favourite Leonard Cohen track, that honour goes to a song he recorded in the sixties, this one in fact:-

Leonard Cohen - The Partisan (1969)


Here’s an obscure little gem from an all girl beat group, whose bass player, Pauline Moran, would some quarter of a century later, play the part of Miss Lemon in “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”.

The She Trinity - Wild Flower (1966)


Finally, a doo-wop track that’s a particular favourite of mine.

The Marvelows - I Do (1965)

David Garrick had two minor hit singles in the sixties, “Dear Mrs. Applebee” and “Lady Jane” (both 1966). As I’m not too keen on the former and as I prefer the Stones’ original version of the latter, I am not submitting either to this thread. Instead, here’s a David Garrick track that I only recently discovered. Like “Lady Jane” it has bit of an olde-world Tudor-ish feel to it, which is what I really like about it. There’s not a lot of information about the track online, I’m not even sure that it’s actually from the sixties, I’m just assuming that it is.

David Garrick - When The World Was Our Own


Here’s the original version of a song that was a very big hit for Tracey Ullman in the eighties.

Irma Thomas - Breakaway (1964)


Although there have been a lot of tracks by French artists on this thread, so far there's been nothing by Richard Anthony, so here’s one from him.

Richard Anthony - Si Tu As Besoin D'un Ami (1964)


Finally, a track that may have been the inspiration for what later became an England football chant.

The Routers - Let's Go (1962)

Here is Richard Antony with a song you will recognise, I have this on UK Columbia from 1962 (DB-4933).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VFjTPkmlk

You may not know - Françoise Hardy - "Et Même" (1964), Vogue records used british producer Charles Blackwell on this. It seems many french artists had a british input on their records, some even recorded in London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJI9aoAfiEc

i like those two david garrick tracks from '66... strange that 'dear mrs applebee' didnt chart as it had loads of airplay.... it must have done because i know it from then and i was 9!!! lol

Both tracks charted, but not very high.

Lady Jane got to No. 28 in June 1966.

Dear Mrs. Applebee got to No. 22 in September 1966.

As not very big hits, both tracks qualify for the thread if someone else (but not me!) wants to submit them.

I'm not sure whether he made any "classics" but I found this while looking for something else on British Pathe's website.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=69671

It shows a singer called Brett Young recording in London in the 1960s.

He seems to have released two singles
"Guess What" - Pye 7N15578 (11/1963)
"Never Again" - Pye 7N15641 (5/1964)
(as "Brett Young and the Ghost Squad")
(from http://www.globaldogproductions.info...-uk-15000.html)

Has anyone heard these and did he do anything else? I had not heard of him prior to this. Pye must have thought he had potential if they asked Pathe to film him.

well not big hits then!

Make tonight Mars Bonfire night! The Canadian was best known for being the man behind Steppenwolf's signature tunes Born To Be Wild and Ride With Me and was a member of the predecessor to Steppenwolf, psych group The Sparrow.

The Sparrow - Isn't It Strange

Another psych group from LA were offered but rejected Born To Be Wild. It would have been the third single of their only album from which I've taken the title song.

The Human Expression - Love At Psychedelic Velocity

Bonfire then became involved with Kim Fowley where he produced and also played the guitar as on this track

Kim Fowley – Animal Man

And to end with, a Kim Fowley lost psych classic. This group was so obscure we still don't know who all the band members were.

The Fire Escape - Journey's End

strange.... he was mentioned on facebook, never heard of him before this morning when nb posed a question.... do you know nb on facebook? is this a smaller world then expected?...lol.

A couple of acts I heard on Sounds Of The Sixties this morning prompted me to do a little research. This is what I found: Sugar Pie Desanto, doing some soulful, bluesy RnB on Chess, and The Magicians, whose songwriting partners later wrote 'Happy Together' for The Turtles (and you can definitely hear hints of that here, with a nice Byrdsy jangle.

Sugar Pie Desanto - Go Go Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7tTQJqsqD8

Sugar Pie Desanto - Slip In Mules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxjK...eature=related

The Magicians - Lady Fingers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlwiAHaqaQ

Another noteworthy track The Magicians recorded was 'An Invitation To Cry' which was featured on the famous Nuggets compilation, which I will no doubt keep returning to again and again until you all plead for mercy.

Nope, coincidental tho!

I found him via Kim Fowley whose song Bubblegum was covered by Sonic Youth

Kim Fowley - Bubblegum

He's most famous as the producer of all girl punk band The Runaways in the 70's but was involved with an array of mostly obscure 60s songs such as:

Grains of Sand – Golden Apples Of The Sun
The Rogues - Wanted Dead or Alive
Johnny C. & The Blazes - Inferno

And as I mentioned a famous American producer, I'll end with some Jonathan King. Hooked On A Feeling was good but this minor hit (got to 26) I like more.

Jonathan King - Let It All Hang Out