Great stuff !...............

I might include the Velvelettes one ...............maybe the Beach Boys, but I'd prob go for 'California Girls'

I must congratulate Multimedia81 on his Top 100. I’m not too keen on a few of the tracks, but I like the overwhelming majority a great deal.

I’m rather fond of making lists myself and below I have listed my Top Thirty tracks of the sixties. If I were to post my Top Thirty sixties tracks again in, say, a month’s time the list will more than likely look very different to the one below. Well, that decade had so much amazing music and I’m very fickle by nature anyway.

1. I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone (1964)
2. House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals (1964)
3. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks (1967)
4. Light My Fire - The Doors (1967)
5. Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
6. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (1963)
7. Caroline No - The Beach Boys (1966)
8. Moon River - Danny Williams (1961)
9. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones (1969)
10. Get Together - The Youngbloods (1967)
11. Alone Again Or - Love (1967)
12. I’m Gonne Be Stong - Gene Pitney (1964)
13. All Along The Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
14. The Warmth of the Sun - The Beach Boys (1964)
15. I Am the Walrus - The Beatles (1967)
16. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling - The Righteous Brothers (1965)
17. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (1967)
18. You Really Got Me - The Kinks (1964)
19. Hey Joe - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966)
20. Spanish Harlem - Ben E. King (1961)
21. In Dreams - Roy Orbison (1963)
22. Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin’ Spoonful (1965)
23. Under My Thumb - The Rolling Stones (1966)
24. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys (1966)
25. Baby Please Don’t Go - Them (1965)
26. Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
27. Man Of The World - Fleetwood Mac (1969)
28. 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians (1966)
29. Eight Miles High - The Byrds (1966)
30. A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke (1964)

For anyone interested, "Telstar: The Joe Meek Story", a biopic of the legendary and tragic sixties producer, Joe Meek, who produced such classics as "Johnny Remember Me" by John Leyton, "Telstar" by the Tornadoes and "Have I The Right" by the Honeycombs, can be seen tonight on BBC-2 from 11.15pm,

I guess I saved the worst for last!

Actually I must thank you for pointing out some lists of 60s songs. I may well have forgotten to include Love's Alone Again Or otherwise.


Needle in a Haystack could be my fave song to miss the UK top 40 of all-time. Ironically, Do It Again features a mention of California Girls.


I have highlighted a few I like that did not feature among my top 100.

I really like some of those songs!!! I've just been listening to some of them on Stazoo!! Cheers for reminding us all about some of those!

Before deciding my top 100 songs of the 60s, I anticipated 1968 being my fave year. I think I had a soft spot for 1968 as my nos 1, 3 and 7 came from then. In practice, 1967 was the most represented year with no fewer than 22 entries! I guess the variety of music must have hit an all-time high then. Indeed, about 7 years ago Radio 2 did a survey of people's favourite year for music, and Simon Mayo broadcast the results one Bank Holiday, when 1967 was revealed as the public's most popular year for music.

About 1968, I reckon on deciding my fave 30 or 40 songs from that year one Bank Holiday next year.

Of all the examples of acts with at least 2 songs in my top 100, I particularly liked it when these were successive singles. The cases in point came from Cream, the Kinks, Loving Spoonful, the Rolling Stones, the Supremes, Traffic, the Turtles and the Yardbirds. More impressive was the Animals and the Beatles releasing 3 singles in a row that would make my top 100! The Beach Boys had a unique feat, of sending songs to my top 100 from 4 successive years.

The late great Del Shannon had 8 top ten singles in Britain. For his most famous hit see above, and for the other 7 see below:-

Hats Of To Larry (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_FR3341bA

So Long Baby (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCh6mWRdd24

Hey Little Girl (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74foOBCpOjY

Swiss Maid (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn27xBY8X68

Little Town Flirt (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQLQp8drUf4

Two Kinds Of Teardrops (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrJuOOoSLo

Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun) (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Xxwi18590

A chance to hear what is currently my favourite track from the sixties, then a chance to compare it with two other very different versions of the same song.

Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You (1964)
I'm not really a Nina Simone fan, most of what she recorded is not exactly my cup of tea, but this particular track is one of the best two and half minutes of music I have ever heard.

The Alan Price Set - I Put A Spell On You (1966)
This was a Top Ten hit single in the UK, and so is probably the best known version. Good track.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You (1968)
This is fabulous. CCR are imho one of the all time great bands. Such a pity that nowadays they don't generally seem to be as appreciated as some of their contemporaries.


Screaming Jay Hawkins' wonderfully manic original version of I Put A Spell On You, which I like almost as much as Nina Simone's cover, was recorded in 1956 and so is not eligible for this thread, but if you like what you've just heard then I think it might be worth your while checking out that original version.

It's been a great week for sixties music related birthdays.

Last Monday Paul McCartney reached the grand old age of 70, a couple of days later Brian Wilson also reached the grand old age of 70, and yesterday Ray Davies reached the not so grand old age of 68.

A retrospective happy birthday to all three of you.

To celebrate these three songwriting geniuses here are half a dozen great tracks that have never been on the thread before, two each from the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Kinks respectively:-

The Beatles - I'm Down (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7dHoEmUtIs

The Beatles - For No One (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo2UbO1JMQo

The Beach Boys - In My Room (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usuu-xu75dI

The Beach Boys - The Little Girl I Once Knew (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWFI...eature=related

The Kinks - Well Respected Man (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WsmS...eature=related

The Kinks - Dandy (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Mii2GOwMA

There's been quite a few Nancy Sinatra tracks on the thread, but not her most famous song, so here it is now:-

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww


From one Sinatra to another. Here are my four favourite sixties tracks by her dad:-

Frank Sinatra - It Was A Very Good Year (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV_ALWDu-aw

Frank Sinatra - September Song (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yakT3SIm0Nc

Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSbSKNk9f0

Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8cBIbxDaY

Thanks Johnny.........'Summer Wind' is my favourite Sinatra track.............out of very many of course, but most of them are not 60s!

Well we all know which the classics are but here's a couple of quirky ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cSMD5bkA9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmOBe...eature=related

Just found this gem...

Julie Rogers - The Wedding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySfBbWxo9QU

And a slightly better quality studio recording.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjIE_F8PmUU

Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
You Never Give Me Your Money
Here there and everwhere
Got to get you into my life
Octopus's Garden
She came in through the bathroom window
Hey Jude
Julia
This boy
I will
Martha My Dear
I me Mine
For you Blue
Two of us
Penny Lane
If I fell
Michelle
Your mother should know
When I'm 64
I've just seen a face
I'm looking through you
Don't Pass me by
Good Night
Don't agree with the sentiment but All you need is love

Excerpt from a Teenage Opera
Alternate Title
Acquarius/Let the Sun Shine
This Guy's in Love with You
The Legend of Xanadu

Forgot to add Englebert Humperdinks
Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
Too Beautiful to Last
Winter World of Love

Reflections of my life
Tracey
Judy in Disguise
I'm gonna make you mine
When you are a king
Bernadette

Should never have posted on this discussion - I'll be here for months!

Don't like the the song very much, but agree with the sentiment!

Well I don't think people being made redundant, people kipping on the streets, people who haven't got a pot to piss in would agree. In fact the Beatles when they were first starting out weren't singing All you need is Love - no they were singing I want money (that's what I want). The sentiment expressed in All you need is love can only come from someone who is doing very well thank you very much and doesn't have to worry about paying the bills. I still get goosebumps when I see the Our World clip though. Makes you proud to be British - even if the lyrics are bs.

More great tracks from the 60s:

I remember You
Jesamine
Do you want to know a secret
Macarthur Park
Telstar
Theme from a Summer Place
I could easily fall in love/The day I met Marie
If I can dream/Suspicious Minds
On Days like These
Georgy Girl
Dedicated to the one I Love/It's Getting Better
Dedicated Follower of Fashion/Waterloo Sunset
Urban Spaceman
Rainbow Valley
Pretty Woman
I can't let Maggie Go
You're my World
Bringing on back the good times
River deep mountain high
Welcome to my world
Early in the morning/Hitchin' a Ride
Sound of Silence
Father of Girls
Johnny Remember Me

Can't include the Rolling Stones or the Beach Boys as their best were later imo.

Why don't they write songs like these anymore!!

I'll Follow the Sun
Hello Goodbye
You've got to hide your love away
She's leaving Home
Mawell's Silver Hammer
Tomorrow never Knows

Alone again, or
You've made me so very happy
Oh happy day
Good morning Starshine
Love theme from Romeo and Juliet
Classical Gas
Mercy Mercy Me
The last waltz
I'll never fall in love again - Bobby Gentry (Bacharach & David) version
A whiter shade of Pale
Puppet on a string
Go Now
Elenore
Happy together

I'm delighted to say that my hope back in March that "Kitty" by Cat Stevens would eventually turn up on Youtube was not a vain one, so without much further ado, here it is:-

Cat Stevens - Kitty (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXn1LSv_z8

I see this thread has been moved from the main forum to the Music Appreciation sub-forum.

Even though this means that the thread is likely to stay on Page 1 of the sub-forum a lot longer than it usually did on Page 1 of the main forum, I'm still not convinced that this move is necessarily a good thing.

A lot more people view the main forum and are completely oblivious to the sub-forums, so I've got a feeling that the thread may lose a lot of viewers.

Yeah............I never think to look in here

So that's probably it for me.............

Perhaps for the next few weeks frequent mentions should be made on the "Rare 60's Classics" thread that the "Sixties Music Appreciation" thread has been moved to this sub-forum.

Here are four very good singles, each one very different from the other three, each one a top ten hit, and each one, surprisingly perhaps, making its first appearance on this thread.


This tremendous early sixties instrumental, which peaked at No. 8 in the charts, is as good as anything recorded back then by the Shadows or the Ventures (imo):-

The Ramrods - Riders In The Sky (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTjjm-Gg3c


Chris Andrews wrote a number of hit songs for Sandie Shaw and Adam Faith, but decided to record what was perhaps his best song himself:-

Chris Andrews - Yesterday Man (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF4-0kwnubE


Here's the very popular title song from a very popular film of the day:-

Traffic - Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvGIf_Ivclc


Very few Gospel tracks crossed over and became pop hits, but here's one that did:-

The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQXQKflJNA

Oh happy day has always been one of my favs. And speaking of instrumentals, this is my favourite Shadows tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9fJbkzheY