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Old 22-03-2011, 18:05
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erm... how can that be the original if its from 1961 but the shirelles released it in '59?
Whoops! You're right, I have been misinformed. It's not 1961 as my copy of 'The Golden Age Of American Rock n Roll Vol10' incorrectly states on the back of the cd case, but 1957 according to the booklet.

Oh well, please disregard as an entry on the thread, but it IS the original.
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Old 22-03-2011, 18:56
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Whoops! You're right, I have been misinformed. It's not 1961 as my copy of 'The Golden Age Of American Rock n Roll Vol10' incorrectly states on the back of the cd case, but 1957 according to the booklet.

Oh well, please disregard as an entry on the thread, but it IS the original.
glitch sorted... great stuff, thanks for interesting info
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Old 22-03-2011, 21:03
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Sorry to have to correct you mate, but the original is here:

The "5" Royales - Dedicated To The One I Love (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ponMaR-2E
Good version. Having now heard it for the first time I think I prefer it to the Shirelles (although my favourite version is still by the Mamas and the Papas). If it's from 1957 (and not 1961) then it probably is the original.

I usually do as much research as I can prior to a post, but on this occasion I just made an assumption. I have so often heard the Mamas and the Papas' version referred to as a cover of an old Shirelles song that I just ASSUMED (erroneously it would seem) that the Shirelles' version was the original.

I stand corrected.
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Old 23-03-2011, 00:21
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VDS8uArR0A

Days of Pearly Spencer by David McWilliams.

Quite popular at the time but never made the singles chart in the UK. Later covered by Mark Almond
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Old 23-03-2011, 17:27
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Here's a few select cuts from a recent purchase of mine: 'Hey, Beach Girls! - Female Surf 'n' Drag 1961-1966' (Ace). I hope you like them.

Les Gam's - Attention! Accident Sur L'Autoroute De L'Ouest (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HvkaILzHjc

I think I need to find out more about Les Gam's. If any of our resident francophiles know anything perhaps you could help me out?

The Westwoods - Will You Love Me(1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttavo0hNbpg

The King Pins - Rod Hot Rod (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goRhf-o5e1c

The Fleetwoods - Surfer's Playmate (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0t5fGGOZQM
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Old 23-03-2011, 18:02
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My post today has a Latin American feel to it.

Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema (1964)
Yes, I know this is pretty well known, but it did only get to number 29 in the UK charts, so I’m using that fact as an excuse to submit it, that and the fact that I absolutely love this track. It’s got to be one of my all time favourite Jazz tracks, and Astrud’s vocal has got to be one of the sexiest ever.

The Sandpipers - Cuando Salí De Cuba (1969)
In 1966, the Sandpipers had a UK Top Ten hit single with a version of the Cuban folk song Guantanamera, which is all very cheesy, but which I really like nonetheless. Here’s another song about Cuba. Is it also very cheesy? Of course! Do I also really like it? Most certainly!
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Old 23-03-2011, 23:59
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Here's a few select cuts from a recent purchase of mine: 'Hey, Beach Girls! - Female Surf 'n' Drag 1961-1966' (Ace). I hope you like them.

Les Gam's - Attention! Accident Sur L'Autoroute De L'Ouest (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HvkaILzHjc

I think I need to find out more about Les Gam's. If any of our resident francophiles know anything perhaps you could help me out?
Can't say a lot except they were a girl group who covered American hits. I like their cover of the Lesley Gore song Judy's Turn to Cry as unlike the song you mentioned the translation is not too literal and it also reminds me of my fav ye-ye song Laisse tomber les filles.

Les Gam's - C'est bien fait pour toi

Henri Salvador who also did covers was guilty of many a literal translation ('le lion dort ce soir' was the worst) but with this brilliant interpretation of the 50s hit Along Came Jones, he redeems himself.

Henri Salvador - Zorro est arrivé
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Old 24-03-2011, 02:50
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gCN9-Jnfg

Light Flight by Pentangle

Was a minor hit in 1970 but was on a 1969 album

Title music to BBC programme Take Three Girls.(1969-71)
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Old 24-03-2011, 07:23
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gCN9-Jnfg

Light Flight by Pentangle

Was a minor hit in 1970 but was on a 1969 album

Title music to BBC programme Take Three Girls.(1969-71)
already mentioned that one m8... still a great track and take three girls was a great drama!
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Old 24-03-2011, 11:51
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Can't say a lot except they were a girl group who covered American hits. I like their cover of the Lesley Gore song Judy's Turn to Cry as unlike the song you mentioned the translation is not too literal and it also reminds me of my fav ye-ye song Laisse tomber les filles.

Les Gam's - C'est bien fait pour toi

Henri Salvador who also did covers was guilty of many a literal translation ('le lion dort ce soir' was the worst) but with this brilliant interpretation of the 50s hit Along Came Jones, he redeems himself.

Henri Salvador - Zorro est arrivé
Haha! Formidable!
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Old 26-03-2011, 23:49
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From 1964 The Tammys, Lou Christies , original backing singers .

Take Back Your Ring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8iWL...eature=related
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Old 27-03-2011, 12:45
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The Crystals - He’s A Rebel (1962)
This Gene Pitney composition was not actually recorded by the Crystals, but instead by Darlene Love and the Blossoms. I don’t why the single was released with an incorrect performer name on the label, but I would hazard a guess that as far as Phil Spector was concerned the real star of any Phil Spector production was Phil Spector himself and so the name of the performing artist or group was just considered irrelevant.

The Rivieras - California Sun (1964)
I love this track, it’s an absolute corker! I’m just amazed that I (or anyone else for that matter) have not submitted it to the thread before now.

Them - Gloria (1964)
This magnificent track had very humble beginnings, being released as a mere B-side, albeit to the brilliant Baby Please Don’t Go. The song itself, however, very soon after became a sixties rock standard and would be performed live by almost every garage band in existence.
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Old 28-03-2011, 00:08
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gCN9-Jnfg

Light Flight by Pentangle

Was a minor hit in 1970 but was on a 1969 album

Title music to BBC programme Take Three Girls.(1969-71)
Love this one. Fantastic song.


The Rivieras - California Sun (1964)
I love this track, it’s an absolute corker! I’m just amazed that I (or anyone else for that matter) have not submitted it to the thread before now.
Cracking track!

Before hearing this the only version I knew was by the Ramones, which is good, but can't hold a candle to the Rivieras' version. Love that organ sound.
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Old 28-03-2011, 17:42
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William Bell & Judy Clay had a top 10 record with Private Number in 1968 , an example of their solo work .

William Bell - Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1mUHHDBN6w

Judy Clay - Lonely People Do Foolish Things

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BThOd2aRlHY

Never realized Judy Clay had such a powerful voice.
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Old 28-03-2011, 21:10
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OK, sit back, chill out and light a spliff, I give you..
We Have All The Time In The World. Louis Armstrong 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1JF...eature=related

*Cough cough*OK,,so it was a hit 25 years later ,after a Guinness Advert, nowt so fickel as folk Ehhh!!!
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Old 29-03-2011, 12:38
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I’m hardly a fan of Country and Western music, but I don’t mind it in very small doses, so here’s a very small dose of it.

Leroy Van Dyke - Walk On By (1961)
According to Wikipedia this is the biggest Country record in history, topping the US Country chart for a record-breaking nineteen weeks.

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (1963)
My favourite Johnny Cash track by a Country (pun intended) mile.

Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee (1968)
Country music has long had a reputation (rightly or wrongly) for being right-wing and reactionary, so it would have come as no surprise that a song like this would have been written and recorded at the height of Flower Power and the hippie counter culture.
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Old 29-03-2011, 16:31
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I’m hardly a fan of Country and Western music, but I don’t mind it in very small doses, so here’s a very small dose of it.

Leroy Van Dyke - Walk On By (1961)
According to Wikipedia this is the biggest Country record in history, topping the US Country chart for a record-breaking nineteen weeks.

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (1963)
My favourite Johnny Cash track by a Country (pun intended) mile.

Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee (1968)
Country music has long had a reputation (rightly or wrongly) for being right-wing and reactionary, so it would have come as no surprise that a song like this would have been written and recorded at the height of Flower Power and the hippie counter culture.
Interesting the Byrds I think or the Eagles did a reply to this called "I'm proud to be a hippy from Olema", Funny but not released till the '70's
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Old 29-03-2011, 17:42
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Piece Of My Heart. Erma Franklin. 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjjne_Mua4
As much as I love Janis Joplin's cover, this is pretty darned good..

Sorry if already posted.
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Old 29-03-2011, 17:44
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Interesting the Byrds I think or the Eagles did a reply to this called "I'm proud to be a hippy from Olema", Funny but not released till the '70's
The Byrds covered Merle Haggard's 'Liife In Prison' on their country album 'Sweetheart Of The Rodeo' in 1968.

Here's a country classic by Merle from 1967:

Merle Haggard - I'm A Lonesome Fugitive

My favourite tune from the Byrds album (and the least country) is 'One Hundred Years Fom Now' but Sony have blocked it. So here are the Flying Burrito Brothers doing it and sounding very country:

Flying Burrito Bros. - One Hundred Years From Now
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Old 29-03-2011, 18:19
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Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee (1968)
Country music has long had a reputation (rightly or wrongly) for being right-wing and reactionary, so it would have come as no surprise that a song like this would have been written and recorded at the height of Flower Power and the hippie counter culture.
I've heard that Merle Haggard was a bit of a closet hippy himself, and wrote "Okie From Muskogee" as an ironic song while high on pot! Fortunately for Haggard's record sales all the rednecks who went out in droves and bought the song didn't know he was being ironic, and most still don't.
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Old 29-03-2011, 20:41
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A few posters quite keen on French Artists. Don't know if these two have been posted before , they are sung in English but by a French artist Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan - I Made My Choice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gN2h...eature=related

Sylvie Vartan - It's Not a Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD_sr...eature=related
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Old 29-03-2011, 22:41
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I love the many songs (with accompanying promotional videos) she did with her 'musical secretary' Carlos for their hilarious contrast. As the description to this song goes, 'D'une voix nasillarde, façon café concert, Carlos, habillé comme à la Belle Époque, chantait son aubade à une Sylvie Vartan en beauté.'

Sylvie Vartan & Carlos - 2'35" de bonheur
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Old 31-03-2011, 12:08
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Am a fan of 60's girl groups, so some examples.

The Paris Sisters -What Am I to Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFb11hf7etA

Reparata & The Delrons - Who Do You Love

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

The Cake - Baby That's Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaupYYcpJU
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Old 01-04-2011, 18:01
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Am a fan of 60's girl groups, so some examples.

The Paris Sisters -What Am I to Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFb11hf7etA

Reparata & The Delrons - Who Do You Love

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

The Cake - Baby That's Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaupYYcpJU
All three of the above are new tracks to me, and all three are superb. Thanks Barney!


Variety is the spice of life, so here are four very different tracks.

Curtis Lee - A Night At Daddy Gee's (1962)
I love this type of early-sixties rock ‘n’ roll dance track. Terrific stuff.

Maurice Chevalier - Le Sous-Marin Vert (1966)
Maurice Chevalier, if you’ve never heard of him, was one of most popular French entertainers of the 20th Century, who was well into his seventies when he recorded his own very unique version of the Beatles’ most famous novelty song. Changing the colour of the submarine from yellow to green was imho unforgivable, but apart from that I feel that Chevalier actually did a very good job with the song, so much so, in fact, that you could be forgiven for thinking that Lennon and McCartney actually wrote it with him in mind.

Jose Feliciano - Don´t Let The Sun Catch You Crying (1968)
Fabulous song! As much as I love the original by Gerry and the Pacemakers, it’s just a little too well known for the thread, so here’s a very good cover version.

Jerry Lee Lewis - What Made Milwaukee Famous (1969)
We all know this by Rod Stewart, but here’s an earlier version by the Killer.


Note: Didn't realise this at first, but there appears to be several French language versions of Beatles songs following on after the Maurice Chevalier track.
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Old 01-04-2011, 22:13
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Ah, Curtis Lee, excellent call.

Under The Moon Of Love (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiujp...eature=related

Later covered to good effect by The Wad, and currently keeping out the dreadful hippity-hoppity music coming loudly from my upstairs neighbours. Young people... tch! They don't know what's good for them.
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