The begining of Let It All Hang Out (A Preachment my dear friends etc.) is taken from an old song called "Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild Wild Women".

Remember seeing Peter Sellers doing that on the Muppet Show. To digress - it's worth a look because it's hilarious (Starts about 2 minutes in)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d05Tj...eature=related

So let's have some of one of Britains finest comedians.

Here's his

Hard Days Night - done as Richard 3rd

Goodness Gracious Me

And This Hollies track features Peter Sellers (from the film of the same name)

After The Fox

And The Hollies do Dylan (later a hit for Robert Palmer and UB40)

I'll Be your Baby Tonight

And I love this song. Written by Bobby Darrin but this is Tim Hardin's version

Simple Song Of freedom

Tim Hardin also wrote this which was later a hit for Rod Stewart when released as a double A Side with Maggie May

Reason To Believe

And also this track from The Nice (with Keith Emerson) 3rd album

Hang On To A Dream

Tim Rose is wrongly credited as writing this but it was originally written by Canadian singer/song writer Bonnie Dobson. Tim changed some of the Lyrics and was awarded a co authorship by the American Legal System!!

Morning Dew

He didn't write this one either but this was the original recording of a song later recorded by Uriah Heep and UFO amongst others.

Come Away Melinda

Started with Peter Sellers so I am going to chuck this one in for no other reason than it's a guilty pleasure.

This is Harry "Neddie Seagoon" Secombe with the best known song from the musical Pickwick

If I Ruled The World

I’m rather fond of Latin music, so here are some of my favourite Latin tracks from the sixties.

Ray Barretto - El Watusi (1961)

Tito Puente - Oye Como Va (1963)

Tito Puente - Fat Mama (1966)

Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 - Mas Que Nada (1966)

Joe Bataan - Subway Joe (1968)

Santana - Jingo (1969)

There are also the film soundtracks to all the Musicals that were about in the 60's
.[LIST=1][*]Sound of Music , [*]Mary Poppins, [*]Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, [*]West Side Story, [*]My Fair Lady, [*]Oliver, [*]Half A Sixpence, [*]Oh! What A Lovely War! [*]Doctor Doolittle, [*]Man of La Mancha, [*]Sweet Charity, [*]Thoroughly Modern Millie, [*]The Jungle Book, [*]Finians Rainbow, [*]and for now Paint your Wagon.[*]Any more for any more?[/LIST]

Although I have a bit of a soft spot for “Oliver”, I have to say that, if only for the sheer quality of its songs, “West Side Story” is streets ahead of the rest on the list.

My three favourite songs from this musical are “Maria”, “Somewhere” and “America”, and here are three non-production alternative versions of those songs:-

Marvin Gaye - Maria (196?)

P. J. Proby - Somewhere (1965)

The Nice - America (1968)

Although I like the Marvin Gaye and P. J. Proby tracks, I feel that the Nice’s version of “America” is, quite frankly, a bit of a dirge, lacking both the sheer musical exuberance and (being an instrumental) the witty lyrics of the “West Side Story” version. So here is a clip from the 1961 film of “West Side Story” clearly demonstrating how the song should be performed:-

West Side Story - America (1961)

Matt Monro released a lovely version of 'Somewhere' - nowhere near as melodramatic as Mr Proby's which verges on being a bit daft.

Matt Monro - Somewhere (1964)

I tend to keep away from the Music forum, and only visit occasionally, this is because 99% of the threads seem to be devoted to music I really cannot stand, i.e. modern music!

However this thread is absolutely terrific, as is the similar seventies thread.

A big thankyou to all who've contributed such amazing music, most notably Capablanca, Ohglobbits, Randy Gibbons and Vabosity.

And, of course, a big thankyou to Mushymanrob for coming up with the idea for the threads in the first place.

thanks for that

personally i wish that other oldies would not be so put off by the modern bias here and post away! pop music as we know it is 50 odd years old, theres so much to share, discuss, that id be most happy to see more retro threads.

hi th ere what a good thread you cant beat the oldies
ricky stevens i cried for you
johnny crawford your nose is gonna grow
just a couple i can remember

Here are a few 'beat boom' almost hits:

The Redcaps - Talking About You (1963)
Pat Wayne & The Beachcombers - Roll Over Beethoven (1963)

Both of these Chuck Berry covers feature a young Jimmy Page on guitar and are pretty hard rocking for '63.


Bobby Shafto - She`s My Girl (1964)
Simon Scott - Move It Baby (1964)

Two great singles by EMI hopefuls.


Mike Sheridan's Lot - Don't Turn Your Back On Me (1965)

You can clearly hear Roy Wood singing backing vocals on this great version of a Jackie De Shannon tune.


Finally a lively beat version of a Fats Domino number, again featuring Jimmy Page in fine form:

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Hello Josephine (1963)

As there is a Christmas song thread running on this board, thought I would add The Supremes with lead vocals from Florence Ballard with the hymn "Oh Holy Night."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TkWeQfdpo4

Although justly regarded as Britain's premier instrumental group, The Shadows - like many instrumentalists - were very underrated - and pretty good - vocalists.

Contrary to popular belief, the first single release as The Shadows (after they changed their name from The Drifters) was not "Apache", but "Saturday Dance" which just missed the chart in early 1960 and is rarely played:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RchguPd4g

I believe there is an album of their vocal work available and I'm fundamentally certain there is a Shadows nut on DS who will say how many vocal tracks they recorded

If anybody else knows of rare vocals by instrumentalists, I'd be very grateful.

Some lovely vocal group stuff for you today.

You might remember the version by Darts, but here's Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Uht69h8Is
It was a number 1 in the US, but did nothing here - I'm not sure it was even released.

The Lafayettes - Life's Too Short (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2u9cTfLKWQ
Reached #87 in the US. The idea that there was 86 records in the charts better than this that week takes some believing.

The Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KStsPPgeka4
This was released way back in 1957 and it eventually reached #21 in the US charts in 1961. Something of a slow burner I suppose. I think the 'wad' might have covered this one, but I'm trying not to think about that.

Demis Roussos at his finest:
Rain and Tearshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCu5QGWJII

It's Five O'Clockhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4WkK...eature=related
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How about Blue Ribbons from The Paramounts,Weekend from Earth and Fire(no relation to Earth Wind and Fire), Reason To Believe by Rudy Bennett of The Motions(eventually covered in the uk by Rod Stewart) and Marble Breaks and Iron Bends by Peter Fenton(English version of Drafi Deutscher's Marmor steine und Eisen Bricht.)

Well, in his Aphrodite's Child manifestation it's Such a Funny Night that does it for me.

After wondering since 1969 what the hell the song is about, I've recently decided it's just a nice tune.

Sergio Mendes? Did somebody mention Sergio Mendes just now? Odd coincidence as his Like a Lover was playing on the radio as I read it.

The lush Many Stars is much more LA than Brazil, so with strained reasoning can I slip a sly one under the wire to restore a latin bias?

This recent-ish remake of Marianne Faithful's As Tears Go By is sung in Brazilian Portuguese with a bossa bias; Jun Miyake & Arto Lindsay with vocals by Vinicius Cantuaria, apparently. Come to think of it, bossa nova is hot in Japan, and the cross-influences are worth seeking out but that's for a different thread.

HP Lovecraft - Anyway That You Want Mehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebB6r9rCARU

Glasgow's finest :
The Poets -Now We're Thruhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNgFAgiVcz0

Clear Light- She's Ready To Be Freehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPu8sLZXawY

The Open Mind- Cast A Spellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bEyC...eature=related

The Sauterelles - Janethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zLrKfV6G8U

Wow....just noticed this thread.

Anything 70s soul is my thing.

But that said I was a big fan of Bowie, Ferry, Bolan and Mercury. Probably the only 'white artists' that I grew to respect ..but not immediately. But I sometimes wonder if I was forced to like them

And yes, I'm white, but had far more respect for black artists and thought that they should have made it a thousandfold over our poor crappy stuff that was around in the charts in that time.

War and Fatback Band were blowing every white artist out of the water in the disco scene at the time...............but sadly disappeared just as suddenly

a couple from chris farlowe, a very underrated artist imho .... but what a weird looking bloke!

"ride on baby" #31 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2vrXfbqww

"my way of giving in" #48 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s2F80Nl7zE
which i note is a marriot/lane composition.... no doubt their version is somewhere!

Back to the garage today.

Soul Survivors - Shakin' With Linda (1966ish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaucG0AbgGg
An old Isley Brothers tune apparently.

The US Male - You Got Yours (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7g9572tFSk

The Rogues - How Many Times (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5pfiO-7IhQ

A bit of R&B and soul from two under rated female artists.

First up the magnificent Sugar Pie Desanto with Rock Me Baby followed by the just as good Barbara Lynn with You'll Lose A Good Thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZIzF...eature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAnSyQA_fT4

Why are so many great artists ignored?

^^Great choices. Sugar Pie did this great duet with Etta James:

Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto - Do I Make Myself Clear

Like with Jazz (and indeed modern pop music) I really don't have much time for about 99.9% of Country music, but even so I think there are always gems to be found, even in genres of music you don't normally like or listen to. A great song is a great song, no matter what. Here's an example:

Willie Nelson- Hello Walls (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cwcE...eature=related

Written by Nelson when he was a struggling songwriter, it was originally recorded by Faron Young, who had a hit with it, and then Willie recorded his own version the next year.

Great soulful record, If you mention Etta James you think of "I'd Rather Go Blind" but Barbara Lynn (again) also does an excellent version of the same song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAxHgNbM4SA

Combining the last two posts, soul and country, with some Southern country rock from CCR.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ninety-Nine And a Half

And some country R&B from Johnny Adams ' debut album

Johnny Adams - Georgia Morning Dew

I'll end with another soul cover of a country song by Tom Jones off the album, Green Green Grass Of Home.

Tom Jones - Ring of Fire