Agreed.

Those of you who regularly view the 1960's Appreciation Thread, which is currently hidden away on the Music Appreciation sub-forum, will be aware that yesterday I posted some tracks by Welsh artists to It. One of those tracks was Shirley Bassey's hit version of "I Who Have Nothing".


Here's the original Italian version of the song:-

Joe Sentieri - Uno Dei Tanti (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMI9baBGGW4


And here's the earliest recording of the song sung in English:-

Ben E. King - I Who Have Nothing (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQY9lt2-zw

Orchestral pop/rock starting with The Moody Blues 1967 concept album Days of Future Passed where Nights of White satin first appeared although not as we know it..

The group wrote this concept album, which was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, while exiled in Belgium. The album's theme is the day of an ordinary human being from morning to sunset/twilight time..
The Moody Blues - The Sunset/ Twilight Time

Following twilight is night and unlike in the 1972 single, the hit version that invariably gets played, this is coupled with a Late Lament.
Moody Blues- Nights In White Satin/ Late Lament

In 1969 Deep Purple paired up with the Royal Philharmonic to record one of the first ever symphonic rock pieces and unlike later groups such as ELP don't go over the top or overly atonal/chromatic. Here's the finale to their concerto for Group and Orchestra. (as the title indicated both their group and the Philharmonic share the same stage)
Deep Purple - Concerto For Group And Orchestra

Don't think this one hit wonder from 1965 has been mentioned yet.

The Castaways - Liar Liar

Became more popular in recent years, due to it being used in a couple of films.

"The Alamo" is not one of my favourite John Wayne films, but I really like the theme music:-

Dmitri Tiomkin - The Green Leaves Of Summer (The Alamo Theme) (1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdZUHEvIJc


Here's my favourite vocal version:-

The Brothers Four - The Green Leaves Of Summer (1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GkL_GiVjWk


Finally, another good track by the Brothers Four:-

The Brothers Four - Greenfields (1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46o1joHp7t0

Greenfields is a beautiful song. My favourite version is by a lady named Nancy Ames, a track I submitted to the thread about two years ago (see below).


Oh dear! As you'll soon discover if you click on the above link, the clip I originally supplied is no longer on Youtube, and nor can I find an alternative clip for this excellent track.

No worries, Nancy Ames recorded many other fine tracks during the sixties, and three of them can be found below.

Nancy Ames - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1963)
Quite different from, but imho just as good as, the 1972 hit version by Roberta Flack.

Nancy Ames - Guajira (1963)
Nancy Ames has Hispanic roots, so her repertoire included many Latin Songs. I certainly don't have a problem with that as I have a great fondness for Latin music, and I'm very fond of her version of this particular Latin song.

Nancy Ames - Malagueña Salerosa (1969)
Beautiful rendition of a Mexican love song.

After some items from behind the iron curtain, time for some more rarities

The Superbs - "My Heart Isn't In It" - 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvCk...eature=related
Found this on use tube and very nice too, their other Dore recordings are worth a listen. It seems they were recorded at Goldstar Studios, also used by Phil Spector.

Susan Singer - "Hello First Love" (Oriole 1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkC_9lmoTOk
A good performance from Helen Shapiro's cousin and interesting that it was released in the USA and Japan. Oriole probably weren't big enough to give it enough promotion.

Jimmy Edwards - "Rhymes" (Fontana 1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5oyozGWptY
I didn't know he had made any records and what prompted this release of a song recorded by Leslie Sarony 30 years earlier?

Two tracks from Love

Love - Always See Your Face

( I could imagine The Small Faces recording this track )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVOLd...re=content-gah



Love - A Message To Pretty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd4iEtpRjQQ

Bryan MacLean guitar/vocals, of the group Love
was born on 25th September 1946.

I'm a big fan of Love, but these two excellent tracks are new to me. Thanks Barney.

Five fine tracks by four British girl groups.

The Orchids - Love Hit Me (1963)
A decent enough track if you disregard the fact that it’s a blatant attempt by us Brits to achieve the Phil Spector sound ... and not quite succeeding.

The Breakaways - Your Kind Of Love (1965)
The Breakaways were primarily session singers who can be heard providing backing vocals on scores of top records of the period, but they also released some highly regarded singles of their own, including this gorgeous Marty Wilde-penned song.

The Liverbirds - He Hardly Ever Calls Me Honey Anymore (1966)
Unlike the Orchids and the Breakaways, the Liverbirds were not a vocal group they were an all-girl band who played their own instruments. As their name suggests they hail from Liverpool, and like many other Liverpudlian bands of the day they were a regular fixture at Hamburg’s Star Club, but unlike many other Liverpudlian bands of the day, chart success eluded them. Perhaps the world was not ready back then for a female version of the Searchers or Merseybeats.

She Trinity - Union Station Blues (1966)
She Trinity were another all-girl group who played their own instruments. I really like this band and have previously submitted quite a few of their tracks, but this excellent self-penned blues is new to the thread. The singer on this track is the bassist, Pauline Moran, who (as I’ve often mentioned before, but have no misgivings about mentioning yet again) would later become an actress, her most famous role being that of Miss Lemon in Agatha Christie’s Poirot.

The Breakaways - Sacred Love (1967)
The Breakaways again; this track is somewhat different to Your Kind Of Love, but is imho every bit as good.

Wonderful.

hi guys

anyone seen the tv trailer for emmerdales 40th?

well this is what they use, I LOVE IT!

nita rossi 'untrue unfaithful (that was you)' 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWsYf57XaQ

http://www.readysteadygirls.eu/#/nita-rossi/4523569554

'something to give'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JidOjyZ-QUA

The all-male all-British Fleetwood Mac that released the above great tracks and the male-female Anglo-American Fleetwood Mac that released the multi-million selling album Rumours in 1976 are to all intents and purposes two different bands with the same name. I'm not going to say which of these two different bands with the same name I prefer. All I will say is: Fleetwood Mac without Peter Green is like Paris without the Eiffel Tower.

Definitely time for some more great tracks by early Fleetwood Mac and Peter Green.

Fleetwood Mac - Stop Messin' Round (1968)
A Peter Green composition famously covered in recent years by Aerosmith. I much prefer the original version.

Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman (1968)
The best known version of this song is the excellent 1970 cover by Santana, but the original is pretty darn good too.

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part 2) (1969)
Yesterday I submitted Fleetwood Mac's two classic 1969 UK Number Two singles, Man Of The World and Oh Well (Part 1), to the 1960's Appreciation thread. The B-side of the latter is this 6'40" instrumental which is very, very different from its better known A-side, but which I like just as much.

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Peter Green - The Supernatural (1967)
Before forming Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green was playing lead guitar with what was at the time the UK's foremost blues band. This track is a particular favourite of mine.

One that sank without trace in 1964 although I have heard it on the radio a couple of times

Lorraine Gray - "Are you getting tired of your little toy?" (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCzLF...feature=relmfu

Interestingly this crossed the iron curtain and was recorded in Prague by Václav Neckář as "Hallo, mademoiselle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHTU0...Eyza_5D-gM0jFI

The Nita Rossi track may get something of a revival as a result of it's Emmerdale promotion.

Never made the chart but reached no 9 on the Pirate Radio London chart. Great song.

Came across this recently.

Gary Walker - You Don't Love Me

It was an early version of the Dawn Penn 1994 hit You Don't Love Me (No, no, no), which itself was originally recorded in 1967.

But Gary's pre dates her by one year.

When I first saw mushymanrob's post I misread the artist's name and thought it said Nini Rosso. Imagine my surprise when I clicked on the link and instead of hearing an Italian trumpet player I heard a British girl singer! Not an unpleasant surprise though, it's a great track.

Nini Rosso, the Italian trumpet player I just mentioned, released an instrumental track in 1965 called "Il Silenzio". It was a very big hit, so I can't really post it to this thread, but it is a tremendous track and very different to anything else in the charts at the time, so if you don't know it I advise you to check it out. I'm sure I posted it to the 1960's Appreciation thread (which is now in the Music Appreciation forum), so do a search for it on that thread, or failing that just do a straight search for it on Youtube.

Here are some other tracks by Nini Rosso:-

Nini Rosso - Ballata Della Tromba (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkE_E...eature=related

Nini Rosso - Concerto Disperato (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msnHiallGyo

Nini Rosso - I Ragazzi Del Jazz (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjRg...eature=related

Check out post #61 of this thread!

actually you can! the premis for the thread was rare hits, records that charted lowly, misses, or ones that dont ever get played..'il silenzio' NEVER gets played, so qualifies.

In which case you may like "Sunrise" recorded in Germany by Heinz Schachtner in 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WSRXj4UtyE

Looking at german Ebay, he seems to have made many records for EMI Electrola and later Polydor.

He also recorded a version of "Il Silenzio"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fGT2...eature=related

If you like italian music you will probably like Milva - "Guarda che luna" - 1962, probably a song from the San Remo festival that year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAJRRqCB7Jw

And now a protest song you won't have heard before
Marta Kubišová - "Tajga Blues"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlHyhZUdvVE
Recorded during the Prague Spring of 1968, Marta Kubišová was banned from recording and performing soon afterwards and until 1989.
You can find more about the song and a translation of the lyrics here http://easternblocsongs.wordpress.co...upraphon-1969/
"Tajga blues, we sing as they imprison us;
our voices echo – exiled, heard -
and long nights whiten until the world returns".

Here she is as a member of "Golden Kids" singing a version of a famous song by Bob Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_7pv...eature=related

Barney's post reminded me what a brilliant band Love were, and I've been constantly playing my long unplayed The Best Of Love compilation CD in my car ever since his post. This is the only Love album I possess; I don't have any of their classic original sixties albums, which probably means I'm missing out on some truly great tracks.

Last January I submitted my favourite Love tracks in the following post ...


As you will have discovered if you clicked on the three tracks I've highlighted in bold the clips I supplied for them back in January are no longer available on Youtube. I know this happens a lot with Youtube, but it's still very annoying. Replacement clips can be found below.

Love - My Little Red Book (1966)

Love - Softly To Me (1966)

Love - She Comes In Colors (1967)

If it's the Best Of that I'm looking at on Amazon, then yes you're missing some very good stuff.

Certainly nearly all of the first album, which being more garage-y is very much my favourite. Also 'The Castle' from the second album 'Da Capo' is a cracker you need to own. Also I doubt any compilation will make space for a 19 minute odyssey like 'Revelation', which holds my attention right up until the drum solo, which like any other drum solo frankly takes about ten seconds to wear thin. Fortunately this occurs about 17 minutes in so you're not missing much by skipping to the end.

'Forever Changes' needs to be listened to as a whole. It's as essential a purchase as Sgt Pepper.

A while back I canvassed friends opinions on Love, how much I needed to get, and was advised to get the first three albums (you can do without expanded versions, the original albums are damn near unimprovable). The rest was pretty safe to bypass. I'm happy to pass that advice along to anyone else thinking about investigating this innovative sixties band.

Was checking out Bobby Fuller on Wikipedia , his death at such a young age 23 still seems clouded in mystery .

Bobby Fuller Four - A New Shade Of Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm0zAD-8kik

I've had The Best Of Love CD for quite a few years now.

I remember reading some guff back in the late eighties or nineties about Forever Changes being one of the greatest album ever made, and a superior sixties album to Sgt. Pepper, Revolver and Pet Sounds. I was also hearing from more than one other source that Forever Changes was very over rated and that Da Capo was much better and definitely the Love album to have, Additionally, I heard that the eponymous first album was definitely a must for any fan of sixties garage rock.

Undecided, I then stumbled across The Best Of Love compilation album, which featured tracks from all three of those albums, so bought it as a sort of compromise.

I've enjoyed listening the The Best Of Love for several years now, and it's only since the advent of Youtube and my hearing one or two great tracks by Love that are not on that compilation album, that I've started to question whether buying The Best Of Love instead of the original first three Love albums had been the right thing to do. Oh well.