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the rare 60's classics thread
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Randy Gibbons
23-11-2010
Two more from the psychy end of the garage.

William Penn V - Swami (1966 - I think)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUmF017dKzg

Teddy & His Patches - Suzy Creamcheese (1966 or 67)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOaxtDSWWi0

I don't think we've had these already, but I'm not sure. What this thread needs is an index.
GreatGodPan
23-11-2010
What about:

Kaleidoscope - I Found Out (This is the US band, with David Lindley in the line-up).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5tWhY0JiWo

Phil Ochs - The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns. Phil is not remembered to the degree he should be IMHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaNxA-V3_E
Vabosity
23-11-2010
Originally Posted by Vabosity:
“Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue Got Married (1959)
This is the sequel to one of Buddy’s best known and most popular singles, “Peggy Sue”, and was a minor hit in the UK a few months after his tragic death on February 3rd 1959.”

Buddy Holly may have died in early 1959, but such was his popularity in this country that he had a long string of posthumous hit singles right up until 1964.

Here a three of those posthumous hits, peaking at numbers 25, 36 and 17 respectively in the years shown in brackets:-

Buddy Holly - True Love Ways (1960)

Buddy Holly - Learning The Game (1960)

Buddy Holly - Reminiscing (1962)


Here are some great sixties cover versions of Buddy Holly songs by four top British bands:-

The Beatles - Crying, Waiting, Hoping (1963)

The Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away (1964)

The Beatles - Words of Love (1965)

Blind Faith - Well Alright (1969)

Humble Pie - Heartbeat (1969)
John.Ditchfield
23-11-2010
can i add 2 of my favs

Buddy Holly - Valley Of Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t10td5luGMI

Tintern Abbey -Vaccum Cleaner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-ULwge-x0
Barney06
24-11-2010
Originally Posted by John.Ditchfield:
“can i add 2 of my favs

Buddy Holly - Valley Of Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t10td5luGMI

Tintern Abbey -Vaccum Cleaner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-ULwge-x0”

Never heard the Buddy Holly track before , nice find

One of the most popular groups from The 60's The Hollies and a single from 1967 never released in The UK, do not know why as I'm sure it would have been a big hit. Just made the top 20 in The US.

Pay You Back With Interest - The Hollies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llq4VU8Cl9A
I love Ellie
25-11-2010
Has anyone mentioned Steppenwolf - The Pusher yet?

Yes, they do have another song!
Although they didn't write it.
Randy Gibbons
25-11-2010
Toni Basil (Yes, Hey Mickey you're so fine etc, THAT one) - Breakaway (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8mZLYiJQY

It's backed with a rare Graham Gouldman song 'I'm 28' which I'm currently having no luck finding.
Vabosity
25-11-2010
Five very different tracks from me today.

Gene Vincent - My Heart (1960)
A minor UK hit single in March 1960, a month before Gene survived the car crash in Wiltshire that killed his good friend, the legendary Eddie Cochran.

The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home (1964)
Their debut single, peaking at 21 in the UK charts. It goes without saying, of course, that their next single, “House Of The Rising Sun”, fared somewhat better.

The Shadows - Mary Anne (1965)
It was not often that the Shadows sang on their recordings, so this pleasant little song is a rare treat.

Bobby Vee - Look At Me Girl (1966)
With massive hit singles like “More Than I Can Say”, “Take Good Care Of My Baby” and “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes”, Bobby Vee was one of the most successful artists of the early sixties. By the mid-sixties, however, the music scene had changed beyond all recognition, and Bobby Vee was considered to be very much a has-been, which is a pity, because imho this non-charting single is as good as anything he ever recorded.

King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew (1967)
Did this man play a mean sax or did this man play a mean sax? Fantastic track!
ohglobbits
25-11-2010
On The One show they just mentioned The Beatles' Penny Lane which was filmed in Knole Park in 1967 as being one of their first music videos but here's an earlier less well known video filmed next to Stonehenge.

The Beatles - The Night Before
Radio Ruderham
25-11-2010
Originally Posted by I love Ellie:
“Has anyone mentioned Steppenwolf - The Pusher yet?

Yes, they do have another song!
Although they didn't write it.”

Yeah featured in the film Candy,
we have
Magic Carpet Ride

OOPS!
Nearly forgotted
from the same film Rock Me
mushymanrob
26-11-2010
Originally Posted by Randy Gibbons:
“Toni Basil (Yes, Hey Mickey you're so fine etc, THAT one) - Breakaway (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8mZLYiJQY

It's backed with a rare Graham Gouldman song 'I'm 28' which I'm currently having no luck finding.”

thats crying out for the motown treatment, reckon martha could have covered that complete with banging beat and haunting backing vocals....
Vabosity
26-11-2010
And now for something completely different.

No, it’s not Monty Python, it’s Peruvian Sixties Garage Rock. Yes, you read it right the first time, Peruvian Sixties Garage Rock!

I bet you didn’t know such a thing existed, and up until very recently nor did I. What’s more, as Sixties Garage Rock goes, this stuff is up there with the best.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Peru and all the way from the mid-sixties, I give you Los Saicos!

Los Saicos - Demolicion (1964)

Los Saicos - Come On (1965)

Los Saicos - Salvaje (1965)

Los Saicos - Lonely Star (1965)
JohnnyForget
26-11-2010
Originally Posted by Vabosity:
“And now for something completely different.

No, it’s not Monty Python, it’s Peruvian Sixties Garage Rock. Yes, you read it right the first time, Peruvian Sixties Garage Rock!

I bet you didn’t know such a thing existed, and up until very recently nor did I. What’s more, as Sixties Garage Rock goes, this stuff is up there with the best.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Peru and all the way from the mid-sixties, I give you Los Saicos!

Los Saicos - Demolicion (1964)

Los Saicos - Come On (1965)

Los Saicos - Salvaje (1965)

Los Saicos - Lonely Star (1965)”

wtf?

I thought I knew my sixties music, but this is new to me. A garage band from Peru of all places, and making such a glorious noise too! Who'd have thought?
JohnnyForget
26-11-2010
Originally Posted by ohglobbits:
“On The One show they just mentioned The Beatles' Penny Lane which was filmed in Knole Park in 1967 as being one of their first music videos but here's an earlier less well known video filmed next to Stonehenge.

The Beatles - The Night Before”

Thanks for that, ohglobbits, unlike boring "Penny Lane", "The Night Before" is one of my favourite Beatles songs.
Radio Ruderham
26-11-2010
Originally Posted by JohnnyForget:
“Thanks for that, ohglobbits, unlike boring "Penny Lane", "The Night Before" is one of my favourite Beatles songs.”

I like Penny Lane, the cornet style used in that makes a return
in Theme One by the Brilliant Sir George Martin, (I'm bowing)
Also in the opening theme for Capital Radio
written by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, and performed by the band Blue Mink.
Barney06
26-11-2010
Hope it has not been posted before, but the Aretha Franklin version of Try A Little Tenderness from 1962, before the more famous Wilson Pickett offering. Sure sounds different with the string arrangement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ff5ACn3LV0
Urban Bassman
26-11-2010
Originally Posted by ohglobbits:
“On The One show they just mentioned The Beatles' Penny Lane which was filmed in Knole Park in 1967 as being one of their first music videos but here's an earlier less well known video filmed next to Stonehenge.

The Beatles - The Night Before”

Isn't that a clip from the Help! film?
mushymanrob
27-11-2010
Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham:
“I like Penny Lane, the cornet style used in that makes a return
in Theme One by the Brilliant Sir George Martin, (I'm bowing)
Also in the opening theme for Capital Radio
written by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, and performed by the band Blue Mink.”

i really like 'theme one', its wonderfully over produced!
Radio Ruderham
27-11-2010
Originally Posted by mushymanrob:
“i really like 'theme one', its wonderfully over produced!”

Never thought about it that way
mushymanrob
28-11-2010
Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham:
“Never thought about it that way”

i like 'big' production... typical of the mid 60's, it works well for me. like on chris farlows 'handbags and gladrags' ..
Vabosity
01-12-2010
Not every sixties music fan’s cup of tea, but certainly mine, here are the Doors.

The Alabama Song (1967)
Jim Morrison meets Brecht and Weill, with a magnificent outcome.

Love Me Two Times (1967)

People Are Strange (1967)

The End (1967)
An eleven and a half minute masterpiece
Cut off at ten minutes to fit Youtube's ten minute limit. Follow the link provided on Youtube for the last 1'46".


Unfortunately, I couldn’t include the brilliant “Light My Fire” as that track is far too well known for this thread. A pity really, because it’s one of my Top Ten favourite tracks of all time (i.e. the long album version is, I’m not so keen on the abridged single version).

Many people who share my enthusiasm for the Doors’ version of “Light My Fire” tend to loathe the more MOR cover versions by Jose Feliciano and Will Young. Not me. I actually like those versions. I also like the cover by Shirley Bassey. I think the song lends itself well to interpretation in styles other than Rock. Well most other styles, anyway, I absolutely detest the hit seventies Disco version by Amii Stewart, but then I absolutely detest all seventies Disco, so no surprise there.
Capablanca
01-12-2010
^^ Another Doors fan here!

Whilst not a rare song the original mono 45 edit is pretty much forgotten - quite a bit of additional compression too. I love it.

The Doors - Light My Fire - 45 RPM - ORIGINAL MONO MIX
Vabosity
03-12-2010
Three tracks by imho the greatest musical duo of all time.

The Everly Brothers - Love Hurts (1961)
Original version of a song covered by several artists over the years. I really like this track, but I can’t say that it’s my favourite version of the song, that honour goes to the marvellous cover by Roy Orbison, which you can find featured in my third post on Page 21 of this thread.

The Everly Brothers - Temptation (1961)
Although today this would be considered a lesser known Everlys track, paradoxically it was one of their most successful, topping the UK charts in June 1961, their fourth and final UK number one single. The song itself is very old indeed, originally recorded in 1933 by the legendary Bing Crosby.

The Everly Brothers - Love Is Strange (1965)
Good cover of Mickey and Sylvia’s 1957 R’n’B classic.


Followed by three tracks by imho the second greatest musical duo of all time.

Simon and Garfunkel - A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission) (1966)
A song in which a certain Mr. Paul Simon parodies a certain Mr. Robert Zimmerman.

Simon and Garfunkel - Punky’s Dilemma (1968)
Any song that mentions boysenberry jam in its lyrics is a winner with me.

Simon and Garfunkel - America (1968)
Truly magnificent.
ohglobbits
03-12-2010
Originally Posted by Vabosity:
“Simon and Garfunkel - America (1968)
Truly magnificent.”

Although I don't mind solo Paul Simon, it doesn't hold a candle to their partnership.

Time, time, time, see what's become of me... Paul Simon wrote this 1966 single while staying in England; wonder if he had similar weather; but it would take The Bangles' upbeat 1987 version for the song to finally chart in the UK in 1991.

Simon and Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter
mushymanrob
03-12-2010
Originally Posted by ohglobbits:
“Although I don't mind solo Paul Simon, it doesn't hold a candle to their partnership.

Time, time, time, see what's become of me... Paul Simon wrote this 1966 single while staying in England; wonder if he had similar weather; but it would take The Bangles' upbeat 1987 version for the song to finally chart in the UK in 1991.

Simon and Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter”

the bangles cover was one of the better covers of a retro track imho....
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