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[/Quote Hit Record by Brooke Benton
The song’s lyrics are an instructions manual on how to make a hit record. The irony is this was never a hit record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk4NhLMgDG8/Quote] Talking of which The Old Payola Blues - Stan Freberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0WDr0fJV2I A minor hit here but butchered. In the USA it was over side one and two but here they only released side one and cut the last 20 seconds which instructed the listener to turn over. Basically unless you knew what Payola was/is then it made no sense whatsoever. |
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[/Quote Hit Record by Brooke Benton
The song’s lyrics are an instructions manual on how to make a hit record. The irony is this was never a hit record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk4NhLMgDG8/Quote] Talking of which The Old Payola Blues - Stan Freberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0WDr0fJV2I A minor hit here but butchered. In the USA it was over side one and two but here they only released side one and cut the last 20 seconds which instructed the listener to turn over. Basically unless you knew what Payola was/is then it made no sense whatsoever. I think this was his last single and the only one he released in the sixties. All his other comedic classics (my favourites being Little Red Riding Hood and his send-up of the Banana Boat Song) were from the fifties, so can't submit them to this thread unfortunately. |
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This is one of my favourite 'humourous' songs of the 60s...
Jake Thackray - La-Di-Dah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSKICzeTaE |
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Good track. Shocking Blue were a great band. Venus was a fantastic record, but as it was from 1970 and also a massive hit it fails to qualify for this thread on two counts (unfortunately) ... and the less said about that travesty of a 1980's cover version by Banarama with the assistance of Stock, Aitken and bloody Waterman the better!
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oh how refreshing to find someone else who rates venus the same way i do! i HATE the camped up s/a/w version.
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I remember hearing a version of 'Everytime That You Walk In The Room' the old Searchers hit, by a woman (about the same time) and I'm sure she was French and called Jeanne something, anyone else remember this?
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You don't find 'Mother's Little Helper' by the Stones on too many compilation sixties albums, that I know of.
I've only ever head it on 'Aftermath' their own album. |
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thanks for that
![]() i like pet clarke, several of her tracks never charted, 'colour my world' for eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLmlbmGxgf8 with better sound quality than the french Vogue EPs. |
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I remember hearing a version of 'Everytime That You Walk In The Room' the old Searchers hit, by a woman (about the same time) and I'm sure she was French and called Jeanne something, anyone else remember this?
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You don't find 'Mother's Little Helper' by the Stones on too many compilation sixties albums, that I know of.
I've only ever head it on 'Aftermath' their own album. I'm sure it was in the charts. A Stones one that wasn't a chart hit was 'Tell Me' from one of their first couple of albums........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUa_gHbHmQE |
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Wasn't it released as a single ?
I'm sure it was in the charts. A Stones one that wasn't a chart hit was 'Tell Me' from one of their first couple of albums........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUa_gHbHmQE |
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Today's contribution from me:
The Third Bardo - 'I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time' (yeah, I get that feeling a lot too) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHyGVEXmJGc I honestly haven't a flippin' clue what's supposed to be going on in the video, but enjoy! |
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Four more from me today:-
Good Times by the Easybeats Best Aussie band of the sixties by a mile. Their brilliant 1966 single “Friday on My Mind” was far too big a hit, so I’m submitting this minor hit from 1968 instead, which imho is just as good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiY0siZY3Y September in the Rain by Dinah Washington Minor hit in 1961 for the legendary Jazz singer. Good song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvB6rrnzDM8 Incense by the Anglos Fabulous track from 1965. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoBLajb22A0 Sunshine Girl by the Parade Those who enjoyed the Cowsills and Association tracks might like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8RrjiJ43L8 |
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heres one from 68
lemon tree, william chalkers time machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajdRr...eature=related strawberry alarm clock - rainy day mushroom pillow (cant think why i like this! lol) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0Yf...eature=related from 66 the lords - death bells at dawn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMtz...eature=related from 65... the lords - poor boy .... well dodgy dance routine! lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUL5d...eature=related |
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a question for you knowlegable 60's folk... 'hi ho silver lining', known as a jeff beck track, but who else did it? because the jeff beck version isnt the one played on the radio at the time.
(its not a quiz question..i dont know the answer! hoping someone could help me out here) |
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Allmusic.com suggests it was done by:
The Attack Bad Manners Jeff Beck Black Lace The Full House Revellers Funsong Band Hello Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Vinnie Jones (wtf???) Jimmy Mack Wilson Malone The Revelers (or Revellers) Studio 99 The Yardbirds Take your pick...
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a question for you knowlegable 60's folk... 'hi ho silver lining', known as a jeff beck track, but who else did it? because the jeff beck version isnt the one played on the radio at the time.
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This is one of my favourite 'humourous' songs of the 60s...
Jake Thackray - La-Di-Dah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSKICzeTaE Here are five of my favourite comedy &/or novelty songs of the sixties. Most of them were actually quite big hits, which means that I’m breaking the thread rules a little here, so apologies for that. Speedy Gonzales by Pat Boone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0p9q...eature=related Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow Goodbyeee by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ya_Gq8d4Q Hard Day’s Night by Peter Sellers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s They’re Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha by Napoleon XIV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4 |
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Allmusic.com suggests it was done by:
The Attack Bad Manners Jeff Beck Black Lace The Full House Revellers Funsong Band Hello Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Vinnie Jones (wtf???) Jimmy Mack Wilson Malone The Revelers (or Revellers) Studio 99 The Yardbirds Take your pick... ![]() Quote:
It was written by Scott English, who had a hit around the same time with a song called "Brandy" (which Barry Manilow later covered as "Mandy"). I'm not aware that Mr. English ever recorded "Hi Ho Silver Lining" himself, but he may have done.
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Has anyone heard of Vic Dana?
This song "Crystal Chandelier" (Liberty 1965 - british pressing) is the only record I have by him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrvZH...eature=related |
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Has anyone heard of Vic Dana?
This song "Crystal Chandelier" (Liberty 1965 - british pressing) is the only record I have by him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrvZH...eature=related |
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nope, and judging by that track, its not my bag...sorry.
|Here is an early attempt by Mickie Most and the gear (Thats Alright) before he switched to producing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3BTqQuc3k (features Jimmy Page). If you like french music you may have heard of Claude Carrère who ran a very successful label for many years in the 60s and 70s. Here he is trying his luck as a singer in 1957 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZSsFId8WY , I think he was rather better as a producer "Sur un coup de tête" (RCA 1957) And finally from 1969, an early recording by Agnetha Faltskog "Framfor Svenska Sommaren" ("Before the Swedish Summer" Stereo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv4IwCeRMoo |
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Five from me today:-
Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee 1969 version of Leiber and Stoller’s magnificent ode to disillusionment, with orchestral arrangements by the great Randy Newman, and words sung (but mainly spoken) by legendary Jazz singer Peggy Lee. IMHO this is a masterpiece. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VscVP_Gt_s Just A Little by the Beau Brummels Good track from 1965. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm8gt...aynext_from=ML Going Out Of My Head by Little Anthony and the Imperials This is quite a well known song as it was covered by many respected artists. However, I don’t think any version was ever a big hit in the UK, and certainly not this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2uGfPlEzI&feature=fvw Psychotic Reaction by Count Five Great track from 1966. Not entirely sure if this is Garage or Psych. Actually, it’s probably Garage, I was just thrown by the “Psych” in the first word of the title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-PFa-a4PU Past, Present, Future by the Shangri-Las An entirely spoken-word meditation on lost love backed by the moody piano chords of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” Cheesey yet beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdmSW...eature=related |
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