Favorite Songs from the 50's/60's
I'll start.
Bobby Rydell -- Swingin' School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9CSv3j4aUY
cbel Fraulein----Bobby Helms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4cA8gTVXo
There are so many great songs.
PBM Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4se9YMV3A
hjc 
My favorite has to be Stand By Me. Also loved the movie and ALL of the songs from the soundtrack. I even have the vinyl record still to this day. :)
Stand By Me- Ben E. King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0
Everyday- BuddyHolly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty31QY5ZGHo
Let The Good Times Roll- Shirley & Lee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGLoPzllLNY
Come Go With Me- The Del Vikings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmU-BcvHIZE
Whispering Bells- The Del Vikings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXSz2a1luQ
SueR And...
Get A Job- Silhouetts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ato64iEK8Go
Lollipop- The Chordettes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRRdKo18gb0
Yakety Yak- The Coasters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ei-G3BQ4e8
Great Balls Of Fire- Jerry Lewis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDsppgalx9w
Mr. Lee- The Bobbettes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8rM-sV5TOg&feature=related
Loved the song Mr. Lee, Sue R....the owner of the business when I first went back to work after having my children was actually named Mr. Lee.
My first serious boyfriend in high school made this 50's song our special song:
"You are my Special Angel"
Words:
Sent from up Above..
The Lord shined down on me and sent a Angel to love.
You are my special angel through eternity.
I have my special Angel here to watch over me
Joyful Good Grief, SueR, that's quite a list. And you weren't even born yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjBDK35FRjo&ob=av2n
Bill Haley -- Rock Around The Clock
Andy Loigu Back row of the movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpouZmlDsY
If you remember this song you are truly a product of the great generation. I thank God for making me part of the greatest era of all times.
The Man 
NJTom 
Jude49 Little Darlin---The Diamonds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaHPgTdF1g&feature=related
beach comber 
Me4 John Cash - I Walk the Line - San Quentin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7zSstHWRAs
John Cash - A Boy Named Sue - San Quentin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H2AIh6Rc3M
John Cash-Ring of Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRlj5vjp3Ko
John Cash & June Carter - Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhCsznO0S8
So many good ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc
Town Without Pity -- Gene Pitney
I have a few too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBAuO1McLxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7giOrKYIwpQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kh555NjxnU
hope I didn't do any repeats
CBGB Earth Angel and In The Still of the Night are my two but have so many more. Great music and great memories. Learned to cha-cha to Venus by Frankie Avalon watching Bandstand.
LM1 Always liked this one. It brought me to tears when Bergey brought me to a concert in AC while I was having our first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QN6p66AtDc
Christine Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcq_xLi2NGo
and now ( since I never heard this before )
Chet Atkins - Yakety Axe
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38s9o_chet-atkins-yakety-axe-benny-hill_news
Oh, please listen to this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctNU-Wm51EA&feature=related
I Can't Get Started -- Al Hirt
Wait for 2.00
fitterPBM - You may know that the Diamond's version of "Little Darlin'" was done as a spoof song...mocking the song originally recorded by the black group the Gladiolas. One of the Diamonds went so far as to hold a handkerchief around his head and act like a little girl when he sang "lalalala". Funny thing is it went to #1 and became one of the most famous oldies of all time. Great song!
Here's the Gladiolas' original.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sw-IkMv51o
Well, somebody's got to post it so I will......
Palisades Park.........Freddy "Boom-Boom" Cannon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYDSFKLu-TA
Ah, the memories! :)
Firefly nobody voted for 'Duke of Earl" yet, goes great with "The Wanderer"
my favorite song list of the 50's and 60's would literally be several hundred tunes long,
honestly can't decide on a favorite.
"Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers has always caught a frozen moment of time for me, with all of that James Bond sensation , this song just screams SIXTIES.
for fifties - 'The Duke of Earl' seems to me to be a great representation of the classic doo-wop musical revolution. also 'At the Hop' comes to mind for the same reason.
don't make choose just one, can't be done.
BrotherDog hjc--- Thanks for the history. Never heard their version, though I like the Diamonds better.
Bill Haley and the Comets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_klDgVOsLvg&feature=fvsr
almost anything by the Ventures...but this clip..is great...The Ventures + Max Weinberg from the Bruce Springsteen & The E Street...band http://youtu.be/XjiOtouyBOg
oldman One of my favs from the 50's:
The mood has to be right though! Like being outside on a warm starry summer night with your hunny by your side ;-)
I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
http://youtu.be/F3gprl6TxIY
As far as the 60's...too many to list!
vic I was 7 in 1955 when I remember this song "Green Door". Does anyone else remember that song? How about "One Eyed One Eared Flying Purple People Eater". lol Another favorite of mine and I remember hearing it on the radio after I got home from school one day is "Tammy"...awww. Some great songs listed up there! :) I remember at around the same age going to the movies Saturdays with my siblings and seeing Elvis on the big screen for the first time as all us girls screamed...lol
Deetee Hi all, I accidentally stumbled on this forum when googling and couldn't resist posting since so much of my deepest memories go back to the fifties and sixties as I can see is true for a lot of you. I feel a little uncomfortable after realizing this seems to be a site for a particular group and town. So I apologize, but enjoyed this very much. Thanks for allowing me in if for just a moment. :)
Hi Deetee welcome!
Green Door was by Jim Lowe back in 1956. He was also a New York City disc jockey back in the day. I hear the song every now and then on Sirius Satellite radio's "50's on 5" channel from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lowe
http://youtu.be/nVlcqMLMbVA
Sheb "Purple People Eater" Wooley:
http://youtu.be/X9H_cI_WCnE
Interesting story concerning "Tammy". The majority of the public knows the Debbie Reynolds version however.....
"The Ames Bothers sang this song as the credits roled as the movie came on. It was anticipated that their version would be the hit version, but Debbie Reynolds sang the song late in the movie and her charm and beautiful rendition were so well received that her version was also released as a single and really caught on. Both versions are fantastic."
Ames Brothers Version:
http://youtu.be/1jy4A5onlpU
Debbie Reynolds Version:
http://youtu.be/oYymDZtJvgs
The Diamonds version of Little Darlin as of 2007. With all the original group members and white hankie skit:
http://youtu.be/hmT1-jEmK74
Arnold Layne and See Emily Play by The Pink Floyd Sound (I like to use the full name for their 60's work).
AU It wasn't God who made Honky Tonk Angels---Kitty Wells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyGnX7J2pfE
Rich Appel (spelling?) at WRNJ should devote a Saturday or Sunday show to playing all these ... call it The People's Choice Show. Since I graduated high school in the turbulent year of 1968, one of my all-time favorites is Dion's Abraham, Martin and John. Also, a song from that summer Reach Out in the Darkness (Friend and Lover) appeals to my flower-child side.
DeeTee - I do remember Green Door - around the same time was Party Doll ( Buddy Knox ? ) Sweet Butterfly ( Jimmie Rogers ? ) and 26 miles across the Sea ( boy group! ) my cousins were older and played all the songs !
ML thanx vic. :) ML, I can hear "Party Doll" in my head. :) I don't know the other song by title though. Maybe I will check it out on Youtube. Those were fun days, hoola hoops, large swirled lollipops, are things that stick out in my mind. I actually saw hoola hoops at a local store last summer!
One of the very best....
Teenager In Love - Dion & The Belmonts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYdcwunG7g
Who's Sorry Now----Connie Francis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-oo7a0bXA&feature=fvst
AppCinnTea AppCinnTea: This is a good one.
True Love Ways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFRHIhSvwc
A White Sport Coat and A Pink Carnation......Marty Robbins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD8MnvyAi6I
Oh, Boy!
When I Fall In Love -- The Lettermen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4PDKDsW-s
Frank Sinatra - My Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwX3ldOIM0
Frank Sinatra - Send in the Clowns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fVQGESUTo
Frank Sinatra - The Summer Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coBwk8v9KPQ
Hank Williams - Jambalaya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKOVPXhlnE
Hank William - Your Cheatin Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4LCoh0VGQ
Ray Charles - America the Beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUjr8EVgBg
Ray Charles - Georgia on my Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjeSS3kktA
Does anyone remember The Chad Mitchell Trio?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wJW0YoafI
The Draft Dodger's Rag
Yes, I'm old enough to remember the Chad Mitchell trio. I also was a big fan of the Kingston Trio, where have all the flowers gone and poor old Charlie riding forever beneath the streets of Boston on that MTA ...
will he ever return, no he'll never return, and his name is still unlearned,
he will ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston, he's the man who'll never return
how about "Scotch and Soda"? (that's my favorite Kingston Trio song)
How about Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley ... poor boy you're bound to die. Or the Jimmy Dean classic Big John ... big bad John. I also like Gene McDaniel with 100 Pounds of Clay and "but a tower of strength is a something ... ew-ooh ... I'll never be." I liked He's a Rebel by the Crystals ... or was it the Ronettes? On the funny side, how about Ray Stevens with nutty songs like Ahab the Arab, Guitarzan and his jungle band, while also doing "message" songs like Get Down to Business Mister Businessman and Everything is Beautiful?
Andy: Thank you for reminding me of this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a45z_HG3WU&feature=fvwrel
Probably not many remember this one....
The Wind - The Diablos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDES17u3qlQ
Really loving going down memory lane on this thread ... Jay and the Americans were tremendous with Caramia in 1965 and the song about that man Jose ... come a little bit closer, you're my kind of man (etc.) don't recall the exact title. That man had some kind of pipes and musical training.
Andy...good ones...here u go....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jm4p_HCwKA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmFk7CHdNsk
Folks today may think this music was dorky, BUT you could understand all the words and the singers/groups didn't need fireworks and flashy costumes. It was all so good.
I love this song by Dion & the Belmonts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5BTYGdNVsw
But this is my favorite version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJA99Im2nw
I had fun listening to "The Rest of the Week" on WRNJ this morning ... Rich Appel digging out his IRS list (it really shoulda been a top 10) ... I heard Barry and the Tamberlanes ... can't help it if I wonder, wonder what she's doing to-night, to-night ... an old fave I haven't heard since I was a teenager. Keep up the good work, Rich ... YOU THE MAN. By the way, nobody paid me for this unsolicited testimonial. Also, I was the only guy on his panel of four baseball "experts" last week, who picked the Yankees to win the World Series ... and I'm not even a Yankees fan, just someone who tries to be a voice of rational thinking in a crazy mixed-up world. Anyone who gets to know me finds out I have a long history of rooting for Baltimore teams which came from many family visits there in my youth. Did y'all know the one-hit wonder PEPPERMINT RAINBOW, who did Will You Be Staying after Sunday ... hailed from Baltimore? I saw them perform it before it became a hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HoCgtBLars&feature=related
Good one, Andy. Funny thing...I heard it on WRNJ just a few days ago.
BTW, you have excellent taste in music (just like me! :) )
I'm another person, along with vic, that likes "I Only Have Eyes for You" by the Flamingos. There were so many in the 60's it's really hard to pick!
Here are just a few more:
"Hey There Lonely Girl" Eddie Holman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV9d6g3bToU&feature=related
"Oo Baby, Baby" Smokey Robinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8nXqxso4s
"Knock on Wood" Eddie Floyd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kceiks__PsE&feature=fvst
"Devil with the Blue Dress" Mitch Ryder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dd9qjHUyHQ&feature=related
dr2mom There she goes---Jerry Wallace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KH0_aris1A&feature=related
Maybe this should be a new thread, but how about the best re-makes? I liked Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters and the 1972 re-make by a group named Blue Haze. Terry Stafford had a great song Suspicion in 1964, which Elvis did a few years earlier without a lot of fanfare (compared to his other songs). In fact, Stafford sounds a lot like Elvis in the song. Someone who did great re-make versions with a totally different sound was Brazil 66, who may fall under the "easy listening" category more than old-time rock-n-roll. Well, to quote Billy Joel, It's All Rock-n-Roll To Me.
one of the best remakes is the 1969 release of "Baby It's You" by the group Smith.
it is a burt bacharach composition recorded by the shirelles and the beatles , but Smith (with lead singer Gayle McCormick) nails it to the wall, they changed one chord from a major to a minor chord (mellows out the music licks) and then they vamp on that great em7th hook that gets your attention big time!
Gayle really belts out the emotions vocally that the lyrics invoke, better than those who recorded it before; just a great remake in my humble opinion, other intelligent commentators may choose to differ.
hey how about suggestions for songs that could be re-interpreted in a modern era?
i am currently working up a new arrangement of the Eagles "Take it to the limit" for a young friend of mine. That's a great song that is stuck inside a really dated old sounding 70's style arrangement, and it just calls out for a new look and feel.
i am so tired of the all of these newer singer/songwriters (both male and female) who are coming out with these modern day love songs that just meander around simple lyrics withlittle to no melody or consistent chord structure. they are lacking something, like compelling content.
maybe i'm just too old, dunno fer sure.
"My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. I saw the "Jersey Boys" on Broadway and it was fabulous !! One of my favorite groups. Thanks for this nice thread cbel.
Mindy'sMom "You're just too good to be true, can't keep my eyes offa you" ... yeah, the Four Seasons were terrific remake guys. The funny thing is, when I was a teen in the 60s I thought they were original songs ... I didn't hear the older versions until I started listening to guys like Peter Ward on WRNJ on Sunday mornings. I didn't know Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers was a remake, either, until years later. When I heard the original, wow, it was early doo-wop. Speaking of the Four Seasons, one of their songs I don't hear anymore is Tell It To The Rain ... I used to sing that walking home from basketball practice with my buddies all the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Xqz9eyakGqY
Really brings back memories....
Thanks for that one, Mindy's Mom...When I went to my last class reunion one of my classmates said that he always thought of that song when he thought of me. Wow...that was quite flattering!!!
Joyful - sounds like you were "quite something" when you were in school. Actually you still are !
Goodness SueR - you don't look old enough to possibly be familiar with all those songs !
Andy - I too was a teen in the 60's. Thanks for the "nostalgia".
Mindy's Mom. No...I was not "quite something" in school or at least I did not think so at the time. My husband was with me at the last classmates event too and one of the other guys looked at him and said...I was in love with your wife many years ago and I think I still am...!! The Duke and I looked at each other and said..."Keep him away from the punchbowl!!"Lol...
Great memories. But I always thought "My Eyes Adored You" while a great melody was a bit weird. Specifically...."You were fifth grade I was six". So this great love song is about children 10 and 11, really??? At 11 I was playing stickball in the street, boxball, flipping/pitching baseball cards and blowing up stuff with fireworks from NYC Chinatown.
I guess you started earlier in Hackettstown! LOL
Another good slant down memory lane is ... did anybody "big" play at your prom? We had Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge. Also, the trumpet player in our Lakewood Piners band ended up playing for Blood, Sweat and Tears. Too bad I was a "jock" and never really got to know him, he might have given me concert tickets. Also, I didn't know Bruce Springsteen when I attended Ocean County College and was on their basketball team, but he was a student there at the same time. I wrote the lyrics for the alma mater song, won a school-wide competition; I guess while I was doing that ... Bruce must have been working on Born to Run.
My prom (1964)...we had Lenny Welch...what a voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPfwd10WfTQ
Thanks for "Raunchy".. PBM
Love that song and was playing it thanks to you here on my computer...dancing around with coffee cup in hand in my "jammies"...Hubby walks in and says" Boy, someone is chipper this morning!!!".. Love the beat to that one!!!
andy wrote - "Also, the trumpet player in our Lakewood Piners band ended up playing for Blood, Sweat and Tears"
prey tell, who was ths? the trumpet players on BS&T's 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums were really accomplshed jazz musicians, was he one of them?
I really love the jazz rock stuff, anyone ever hear of 'Cold Blood' ? (i'm hoping cbgb has) (ok, ok, ths was from the 70's, so sorry for being off-topic) really love the jazz rock stuff, '10 Wheel Drive'; 'Tower of Power'; 'Cold Blood'; BS&T; 'Bg Brother and the Holding Company'; etc.
The trumpet player from our high school was Lew Soloff ... not sure of the spelling after all these years, but that's how it sounds. Really goes off in Spinning Wheel.
yep!!
Lew Soloff ; wow! he has a screaming eloquence with that trumpet. really , really good, one of the best horn players in all of the jazz rock genre.
wow!
BS&T 2, 3, and 4 are the best albums because of the 2 trumpet players. Thanks for sharing.
If I'd only gotten to know Lew before he hit the big time, but I was so into sports.
I also liked Chicago and their brassy sound ... guess they started in the 60s but "MADE IT" in the 70s, so now we're getting out of our time period, for this thread anyway. At the risk of being ridiculed, I liked the Carpenters in the early 70s. I didn't let anybody in the dorm know ... I used ear plugs.
carpenters are great, don't kid yourself.
"started in the 60s but "MADE IT" in the 70s" - imo this is the other way around, i prefer the first two albums (released n the '60's) from "The Chicago Transit Authority"
full of political commentary in the songs from the first two record albums, (including references to the 1968 Democratic convention) and also the great transcendental piece on what do we really value in life, "Does anybody really know what time it is?" these songs are far superior in content when compared to the fluff piece love songs from their later career.
it was the silver double album (their third release in 1970 when they shortened it to just 'Chicago')
If you added Chuck Mangione to Chicago, and the Carpenters - you would be my mother. ;-)
GC Remember my friend the Witch Doctor? oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang. They just don't make them like that anymore. And now that spring has sprung, be careful not to mess around that Poison Ivy. The Coasters can tell you all about it.
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor...........Lonnie Donegan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6bFTVi0hHs
cbel - you really can "take me back". I almost forgot all about "Be-Bop-A-Lula" !
Lou Monte -- Shaddup You Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-5EjG-6r9o&feature=related
This thread has been kinda quiet, but I've been hitting some of those songs the posters have suggested ... four weeks ago smiling, sun-shiney Sue R suggested Ben E. King doing stand-by-me ... always liked the song, love the video ... crosses racial and generational lines. WRNJ thinks the young people don't like the old 50s-60s songs. This video suggests otherwise.
Andy: I missed your Roy Orbison post. Loved him! Here's one for you.
Walk On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGlD6Ho24lU&ob=av2n
Another favorite -- Buddy Holly
Raining In My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeZof1wGps
A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl............Teresa Brewer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGOzN1ZcMns&feature=related
With the Memorial Motor Madness going on this weekend ... Doc South and all that .. attention is being paid to all those "car songs" ... the only ones I really enjoyed were Little Old Lady from Pasadena by Jan and Dean .. and Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen ... the rest of them about fuel injected 409 four on the floor whatever with overdrive didn't really do much for me.
Andy - How about this one? "Baby You Can Drive my Car" by The Beatles.
Beep Beep Beep Beep Yeah -- always brings me back to The Good Guys on ABC and Jenkinson's in Point Pleasant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlpxehnRh6M
Anything by the Beatles works for me. One of my favorite Beatles songs that does not come in reviews of their classics, was Paperback Writer.
Now that Memorial Day is here I should go to You Tube and look up songs like Soldier Boy, Billy Don't Be a Hero, Blue Navy Blue ... songs about boyfriends going into the service. I think Ricky Nelson's Travelin Man was about a guy in the service, was it not?
"Sherry" by Frankie Valli and the Four Season.
It was my mom's middle name and I recall asking my dad to get me the 45. He had to search many stores before bringing it home to me. My dad ALWAYS was there for me. I was so lucky to have him (even though it was for a much too short time). I was lucky to have my mom until she was 91 and cherished every moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AapxXRlsdwA
lsricc A Dear John Letter......Jean Shepard and Feriln Husky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMueKWzG0WE
The Ballad of the Green Berets................Ssgt. Barry Sadler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0w6Bqma4qM
"Now that Memorial Day is here I should go to You Tube and look up songs like Soldier Boy, Billy Don't Be a Hero, Blue Navy Blue ... songs about boyfriends going into the service. I think Ricky Nelson's Travelin Man was about a guy in the service, was it not?"
andy - how about 'The letter' ? and the "Green Berets" (circa 1965 or was it 66'?)
also this old song br paul revere and the raders written by Mark Lyndsy _
'Steppin Out'
Yeah, Yeah!
Well, I had to leave town because of Uncle Sam's deal, ha ha ha yeah
Well, I guess my good lovin' done lost its appeal
Because when I called back I heard a-bad bad news
They say our big romance has been gettin' abuse
Now tell the truth, don't lie to me
Have you been step, step, step, step, step, step, steppin' out on me?
I've got ways of findin' out if you've been steppin' out on me
It's my turn, let me give you a piece of my mind
I told you once, I told you twice
Stop you cattin' around or I'll put you on ice
I'm tellin' you baby, what I want you to do
Stop your messin' now or I'm gonna step out on you
Hey! Hey! Hey hey hey hey!
If I can't be your one & only man
I'm gonna call your daddy to give him back your hand
Then I'll call the preach, and tell the choir stay home
I guess you're the kind of woman that's just bound to roam
Now tell me true, don't lie to me
Have you been step, step, step, step, step, step, steppin' out on me?
Tell the truth, child; you've been steppin' out on me
I gotta know in my heart if you've been steppin' out on me
I'll be checkin' with all your friends if you've been steppin' out on me
Better tell me the truth honey; have you been steppin' out on me?
Yeah I'm gonna check; no more stuff or I'll be steppin' out on you
(more talk, fading out)
Loddy Lo went to #12 on the charts back in 63....Chubby Checker AKA Ernest Evans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgpD02fBCk
The Edsels "Rama Lama Ding Dong":
From 58:
http://youtu.be/KStsPPgeka4
PBS Oldies show lead singer obviously not from original group. Original lead singer George 'Wydell' Jones passed away in 2008:
http://youtu.be/SLAKhWpXz2U
The Genies from 1958 Who's That Knocking:
http://youtu.be/Gu7-U6OzJdk
Snooopy vs the Red Baron..................The Royal Guardsman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtJ1Gnh9wPU&feature=related
Sitting on my back deck and thinking of Johnny Maestro tonight. Big Johnny Maestro Fan. Sadly we lost the voice in 2010:
The Angels Listened In:
http://youtu.be/kQ1oiCgs81A
The Way You Look Tonight:
http://youtu.be/rkMamEMrhSI
Fabulous thread...fabulous memories.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNzfCYa-D0Q&feature=related
De De Dinah -- Frankie Avalon
Johnny Maestro lives on through his music ... he played at my high school's prom with the Brooklyn Bridge ... what a memory.
cbel I always wished I knew how to dance like that. ( I still do actually) Come to think of it I am puttng that on the bucket list.
Spanky and Our Gang version of "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WusjJ6NhqA
SW1 We've already got The Twist up there, so ...
let's Twist Again, like we did last summer.
Chubby Checker
Came across a good one on You Tube ... Right Back Where We Started From by Maxine Nightingale has a video of Fred Astaire dancing ... Fred is way before Maxine's time, but the moves fit perfectly.
Computer Sharp Love is strange........Mickey & Sylvia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpEA5QGYJFQ&feature=related
The Kinks - Tired of waiting for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMp2WgcmZRQ
anybody remember the great airplane strike of 1966?
thngs were bad, flights canceled, couldn't get from here to there.
really serious disruption to the nations ability to move around.
Paul Revere and the Raiders wrote a hit song about the strke:
(ranked by Billboard as number 20 for the whole year of 1966, not too shabby)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Ml5ak6OHA
"The Great Airplane Strike", written by Mark Lyndsy, Paul Revere and Terry Melcher
I was down in L.A. town
When our manager said "jump"
I threw my clothes and my saxophone
In a two by four-bit trunk
I pushed it to the airport
And I ran to the ticket line
Man said "Son, you could have saved the run
Those airplanes just quit flyin'"
If I can't leave here
I just might stay
And that L.A. flyway
Is goin' to be my home
I ran through the terminal building
To fly by my airline
The man said I could ride the wing
And I said that was fine
He said I'll confirm your reservation
And put the plane on hold
He come back and said "Sorry
But that wing space just been sold"
If I can't leave here
I just might stay
And that L.A. flyway
Is goin' to be my home
I walked into the washroom
And I built myself a fire
Threw on lots of paper
And the flames kept gettin' higher
The janitor come runnin' in
So scared his face was white
So, I explained my situation
He said "That's all right"
If I can't leave here
I just might stay
And that L.A. flyway
Is goin' to be my home
Next day I thought that I would leave
So I packed my things again
I waited fourteen hours
For a taxi to come in
I spotted one that wasn't full
And I threw myself in fast
The driver said "I'm sorry
But this taxi's out of gas"
If I can't leave here
I just might stay
And that L.A. flyway
Is goin' to be my home
One of my favorite songs was a hymn by Bobby Wayne. No recordings by him are available on-line. Even though it was a hymn, it was #17 on Jan. 5. 1952 on the Billboard charts.It was sung at weddings as the bride knelt before the statue of the Blessed Mother and placed a bouquet of flowers at her statue. It was also sung at funerals.
Here is someone else's version of the song. But Bobby Wayne sang it the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05R4gXClTU&list=PL7FFDF4FC81AD30AF&index=2&feature=plpp_video
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM
CraftBeerLover I think this is the very best thread on HL! It's too hot for me to be outside, so I've been listening to these fabulous songs. Here's another one.
Where The Boys Are (I hope it's not a repeat) -- Connie Francis
What a great movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHa7awWAJJ4&feature=fvwrel
No matter what shape your stomach is in, from watching all the newsbabble and getting frustrated by our leaders and wannabe leaders, this song from the T Bones will make you feel good ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr21kml72LU
ok, I typed it right, why didn't it turn blue? My stomach isn't feeling too good now.
Ah, it did turn blue. Yes, I am catching up to the rest of the world when it comes to computers. Yay.
You all are better than me with computers. Please be so kind as to find for me: Teresa Brewer"s song: Music, Music, Music ( I think that is the title).......Song words start: Put another nickle in...in the Nickleodeon...all I ever want to hear is Music, Music, Music...Closer, my dear come closer...my favorite part of any melody is when you're dancing close to me, etc. etc.
Music, Music, Music.....................Teresa Brewer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUNZAmFfKA
Brook Benton ... It's just a matter of time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_KKdC5Y-s&
Great voice, very romantic.
I give up. From now on I'll just find them on you tube the "slow way" or simply ask Rich Appel to play them on WRNJ. Their tech expertise far exceeds mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LQV_toOQOM
Here it is, Andy. I'm sorry you had trouble with the link. In the meantime, you can post the titles and I'll look for the link. Teamwork wins the day!
You'll never walk alone........Gerry and the Pacemakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smO4VS9134
Thank you for that song, PBM, it was the exact song I needed to listen to today as I start my day. You'll never walk alone!!!! Thanks for the reminder in the words of that song and video.
Iggy & The Stooges in 1969 doing their song 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0L2Xg5k4c
Deep Purple in 1968 on Playboy After Dark doing Hush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXcqxms3Bs
Amboy Dukes , I think this is the 60's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2VNFpiGWo
a young Ted Nugent !!!
Pretend you don't see her..................Jerry Vale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCoeTHbRVF
Vince Taylor does the Peppermint Twist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzFspStb2iQ
can you do the Peppermint Twist ??
Vince Taylor and Brand New Cadillac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvNHXbTL7Oc
...................The Clash ( not 50's-60's ) and Brand New Cadillac
........................... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFnmWkr5A8s
Bobby Fuller Four and I Fought the Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtQj8O92eI
.........................The Clash ( again not 50's-60's ) and I Fought the Law
............................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKIzjF25sP8
or THE original band The Crickets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZO1F0kfzw
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96ylFiQK_I
The Beatles - I saw Her Standing There (with lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhllDK6C6eQ
Have you looked into your heart.........Jerry Vale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6ZjEfn8EY
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Beggar's Banquet, 1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0ipUCfdlU
Live at Altamont, 1969...
ianimal Ode to Billie Joe...............Bobbie Gentry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc&feature=related
I have been searching for a song with the lyrics: LOOK WHO'S HERE, HER ROYAL HIGHNESS, WITHOUT HER STAFE, WITHOUT HER CROWN, MY MY MY HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN...........
It was such a beautiful song , does anyone know it?
Symeon Band of Gold.......................Don Cherry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmYiJ98o7l4
Bushel and a peck........................Betty Hutton & Perry Como
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3p7PKP9lBE
This song was from 1950. I sang this to my children and grandchildren when they were small.
Til I waltz again with you................................Teresa Brewer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soni2uxmJR4
Mister Bassman -- Johnny Cymbal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ymWCEfswE&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Wow, aren't those great! Andy you really found some of the best. I also loved most of the others too, and they brought back so many happy memories.
Miss fishy The Wanderer......that song has been covered soooooo much and it always sounds good. hmmmm....was it Dion ? I think ?
Len Andy, I like the slow version of After Midnight. That bluesy guitar sounds sooooooo nice. Great song
When I was a kid, I thought Paperback Writer was Paperback Rider. hehehe . Thought it was a song about the Pony Express....lol. There's a good thread. How many people have sang songs and fit words into them or thought they were something else , and what songs were they, AND, how did you sing them ? hehehehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuPoFRugsM
That Sunday, That Summer -- Nat King Cole
Panera ladies: I have to tell you about this next month.
You win again.........................Tommy Edwards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akEgsZSfhg
len, good question, maybe start another thread for it,
"on a dark desert highway, cool whip in my hair . . . . . ."
Eagles - hotel california
wait, what do you mean? it's not 'cool whip'?
:)
there are tons of these out there ,
Damn...Scott McKenzie passed away on Saturday. San Francisco was written by Papa John Phillips (A musical genius IMO sadly corrupted by drugs and booze) from the Mama's & Papa's.
Scott put a great vocal to it:
San Francisco
http://youtu.be/ENrmULWKbeM
RIP
Someday you'll want me to want you.....Patsy Cline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-LwKmJzTo
Mister Bass Man -- Johnny Cymbal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ymWCEfswE&feature=related
Spinning Wheel -- Blood, Sweat and Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ
Little Red Riding Hood
Amanda Seyfried does a great job with this song.
http://youtu.be/ag8JyPCe_d0
The Vogues - Five O'Clock World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukb7empCA7A&feature=plcp
mel Walk, Don't run........................The Ventures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I0jy1H5qTo
Burned like a rocket...............Billy Joe Royal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuijMjWOADE&feature=fvsr
It's only make believe..................Conway Twitty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8pWIW-iMME
The greatest female vocalist of the 1960's Dusty Springfield:
I Only Want To Be With You
http://youtu.be/yB7CjIzM86M
Another favorite. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
http://youtu.be/EA48IL6bQQU
Dream Lover..............................Dion and the Belmonts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZnj_1f0PM
Little Anthony and the Imperials Take Me Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGE0Z1PWAqM
Bessie Pls bear with me with my memory. I know this song has been repeated.
1961...first job at PSE&G in Newark .. gross pay $62/week ... had to pay half of what was left to my family as board.
But, there was a little bit for me .. enough for a Johnny Mathis record, which I bought every time I could ... and I would listen to him endlessly..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCQRZbisuMA&feature=related
The Troggs lead singer Reg Presley famous for "Wild Thing" died last month...
RIP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Presley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troggs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Thing_(Chip_Taylor_song)
Wild Thing:
http://youtu.be/z9DVJE_bhVU
Love is All Around:
http://youtu.be/Ut5uC91FcbI
Johnny Rivers, awesome voice from the 60's. Great part is that he's still out there these days performing in select cities.
Poor Side of Town. One of his best:
http://youtu.be/UwVOlLF9VGQ
Take these chains from my heart..................Tommy Edwards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7O1HqDSESA
Another one of Tommy Edwards..................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ4ziJu1mO0
This was on the hit parade in March of 1968 and the radio stations have been playing it every St. Patty's Day ever since ... the Irish Rovers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY
A Fallen Star........................Jim Reeves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHo6kbrOUA
For the Republic Sparrow in the tree top...........................Guy Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHo6kbrOUA
The Volumes I Love You
Peaked at #22 on the charts in 1962.
This one came right at the very end of the Doo Wop era:
http://youtu.be/I3t2N6fAffc
Any 60's fans here with Sirius/XM tuned to 60's on 6 with Cousin Brucie this past Wednesday? Brucie had BJ Thomas in studio. Unfortunately it wasn't played but here is one of my favorite under rated BJ Thomas songs which peaked at #28 in 1968.
The Eyes of a NY Woman off the "On My Way" album :
http://youtu.be/xwaYOPeczrw
I wasn't even THOUGHT of when most of these songs were popular but I tell ya, my dad has most of these on 45's and I grew up listening to so many amazing songs!
One of my all time favorites has got to be "Patches". Tears me every time I hear it!
50's, 60's and 70's had the best music. The music that has come out in the past 20 years hasn't even come close in comparison.
I love Buddy Holly, The Monkees, Richie Valens, Bobby Vinton, Ricky Nelson and so many more!!
Grannyof2 There is a great broadcast out there that aired back in 1999 on PBS TV called Rock N Roll Graffiti. It featured some of the stars from 1950's & 1960's music as if they were all sitting around in someone's living room getting up taking turns performing. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPDT7UE-wZnOPxmGqyDAy39ShJ9JBkClt
The show can also be found at this link perhaps in different sound/picture quality ( I didn't check if it's an improvement)
http://www.youtube.com/user/DooWopJoe/videos?query=Rock-n-Roll+Graffiti
Now known as a Doo Wop classic....The Dubs Could This Be Magic which went to # 23 on the charts in 1957. Sadly the original lead singer, Richard Blandon passed away in 1991.
http://youtu.be/qNFvZLnUr-M
Grannyof2, Is this the "Patches" you are referring to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpjs9nEBVOQ
justintime Magic Town by The Vogues went to #21 on the charts in 1966
http://youtu.be/h7l1zzs4l9g
It was written by the amazing husband & wife writing team Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. http://www.mann-weil.com/
BTW, they also wrote the song "Patches" mentioned in the post above!
dannyc 
yankeefan Bumping this thread up.
46 years ago tonight (7/1/67) this one was #1 on the charts for 4 weeks.
The Association "Windy"
http://youtu.be/fI8U3pPx66I
Written by Ruthann Friedman:
http://www.ruthannfriedman.com/
Interesting recording session note:
"During the recording session the Association members, sure that they were in the middle of recording a hit, called the song writer, me again (Friedman), in to sing on the fade at the end. I can be heard singing a blues harmony as the song fades out..."
Legendary recording session musician Hal Blane can be heard here on drums.
As always enjoy!
Rich Appel played the top 20 songs from June 30, 1959 on his last Sunday show on WRNJ. Even though they are playing more 80s and 90s songs these days, trying to reach a younger audience that does not listen to the radio for music anyway (I know this from talking with my WCCC students), Rich still does turn back the clock to the good old days quite a lot on the weekends with his themed shows. Check him out on the station's website under "the rest of the week" ... he'll usually let you know what he's preparing for his upcoming shows.
You are right about that one, Andy. I am one of the ones turning in to the Rich Appel show on Weekends or whenever he is replacing any of the regulars on WRNJ. He is great and you can tell he puts a lot of thought into his programs and really enjoys what he does. Especially love the 50's music when he plays it.
Morris code of love,<baby come back to me,the capris,also The Wonder, Dion, yeah morris plains drive In,we would all climb in the trunk!
Robert If you've ever wondered about the Joe DiMaggio reference in Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson, I explained it in Sports Chatter in this week's Warren Reporter ... hot off the presses.
Happy holiday, everybody, fly the flag proudly and may the FOURTH be with you.
Cbel started this thread back in March of 2012. She said herself this was one of her favorite threads on HL. It's certainly one of mine. This one I'd like to dedicate to her, a fellow 50's/60's music lover.....
Simon & Garfunkel
"Bookends Theme" released on April 3 1968
http://youtu.be/3Gh0zFVc6S8
RIP cbel
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
JrzyGirl88 
CR37 This was my favorite song 50 years ago, I sang the bass part in a 7th grade talent show and got to do an "encore" performance at a summer program before the Fourth of July fireworks.
Johnny Cymbal -- Mister Bassman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onT_ytv46TM
Another one my buddies and I used to love singing, always made me feel emotion ... they just don't make them like this anymore .... and I feel the need to make up the void in the absence of Rich and Doc now.
The Globetrotters -- Rainy Day Bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9NVpCoRQo
Marvin Gaye in an isolated track. I Heard it through the Grapevine. Pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FjkqtK67o#at=131
These guys were really something else, saw them in concert three times,
the Moody Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCtQwXVipqo
Technically this is 1970, but it's so close I'll bend the rule a bit:
Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_QV97eYqM&list=PL6B192E52B6C438B2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0
Here's one from a couple of years earlier that "qualifies." An all-time classic, enjoy.
Justintime
No need to bend the rules! It was actually recorded in the 60's! :-)
Cecilia was recorded on November 2, 1969.
More info on this great song:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3554
"Blame It On The Bossa Nova" which went to #7 on the charts back in 1963 by Eydie Gorme.
http://youtu.be/PaRlW-jz1QQ
Sadly Eydie passed away yesterday afternoon at the age of 84 with her husband Steve Lawrence and family by her side:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/08/10/eydie-gorme-dies/2639723/
Here is a great song from when I was 19 .... the only time I've ever heard it on the radio during my "adult life" (I use the term advisedly LOL) was when Rich Appel played it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5GcKPYw4-I
Back in those days I played A LOT of basketball "on the streets" during the summertime. We were ahead of our time, we played while a radio was blasting all the "hot tunes." Here's one of my favorites from those great days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF5m59gy1P8
One more that had that special street basketball rhythm, and then I'll give someone else a chance to post. =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ntcMjYL7hc
Both Sides Now -- written by Joni Mitchell, sung by Judy Collins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8jGFu7ys64
Please allow me to step back a bit and jump into the current time period particularly in dealing with Neil Sedaka's current release which is titled "The Real Neil". There is a song on his new album titled "Beginning to Breathe Again" which I think is amazing! Check it out and post your thoughts:
http://youtu.be/LzZIrznkfwY
LOVE IT .. and I heard it first right here on HL.
What a song writer, and he still sounds like he did on Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.
An inspiration for golden oldies like me who sometimes feel the world has rejected us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4
WRNJ used to play this as the theme for the Downtown Show ... something similar to the Talk of the Town show they do now to promote Hackettstown businesses.
This was my favorite song when I was 14.
I think today's young people, when they hear it for the first time, would like it, too. We don't give them enough credit sometimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltBFN3hL_c
Since it's football season, here are Mel and Tim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4qJYUHLtuU
Andy,
Thank you for the feedback. I don't consider myself a big Sedaka fan but of course love his popular 60's hits and was taken by surprise how solid his current song "Beginning To Breath Again" is that I had to post. Here is a recent performance of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do:
http://youtu.be/9MLSYlayrNA
He'll be 75 years old next year...he still has the voice and the songwriter prowess. Such a gifted musical person.
Here's a Sedaka classic, Happy Birthday Sweet 16.
By the way, I turned 16 in 1966 ... yeah, that long ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h2zp96Hzhg
A favorite instrumental from those days, that got lots of air play ...
No matter what shape your stomach is in, by the T-Bones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP1dYj2hGss
Any time you need something to get you going, here is Dave "Baby" Cortez ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNxpU_ITpMQ
We lost the great Bobby Darin 40 years ago today (December 20, 1973) at only 37 years of age.
"If I Were a Carpenter" live from 1973
http://youtu.be/bjFRLOktHXo
Studio version:
http://youtu.be/_mvVUQ8o0RQ
The 50's sort represented the birth of rock and roll and lots of good stuff there, but, to my way of thinking, nothing out of this world ground breaking. To me, the 60's and 70's represented the adolescence, and maturation of rock n roll with so many 60's hits and favorites and out of this world ground breaking mega hits. The 70's were not a bad maturation either. This thread could go forever. Doubt many of us could even pick a top ten without an endless argument with ourselves......
"What's your name?
(What's your name?)
Who's your daddy?
(Who's your daddy? He rich?)
Is he rich like me?
Time of the Season, 1968, The Zombies.
I, for some strange reason, decided that concerts were my thing and was witness to so many bands, many before they took off, that I really felt part of the process.
mistergoogle Good post.
A person even older than I (that's OLD) told me a cool story about being in Germany, and he went to see a Del Shannon concert. The warm up band was these four "weird looking guys" who sang "corny, sappy songs." He was thinking, "who the h*** are these guys? They are never going to make it."
He then said, "You know who those guys were, Andy? They were The Beatles."
old school ska
Symarip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHDBn7TL4JM
Desmond Dekker & the Aces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi27Yz9g16Q
White bird -- by -- It's a Beautiful Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cin0QzuEss&feature=kp
Long, long , long by the Beatles off the White album. George wrote that gem. What a talent.
Eperot I always liked the Brasil 66 version of The Beatles' Fool on the Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQwQy0dT1s
All this awful weather is making me dream of summers back then - Palasades Park by Freddy " Boom Boom" Cannon and Coney Island Baby by the Excellents. I remember having my transistor radio constantly "attached" to my hand. So many great songs with so many memories.
Did someone say Freddy Cannon?
Enjoy, oldies lovers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNVwV5zquM
The Equals doing Police On My Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJxYNUoJKs
with Eddy Grant
Baby Come Back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AcigKiu_Gk
Up on the roof -- The Drifters
Hear the joke about the roof? It's over your head ... LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F_opWg9_qI
Appropriate for this season.....
Baby, it's cold outside--Dean Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFK5YFvTYE
Snowbird -- Anne Murray
Would be nice to up and fly away,
From all this snow and cold, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2VYP0FCAUE
Whenever I heard this on Saturday mornings, I knew it was time to leave the dial on WRNJ because it was The Doc South Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvrD7XDwQ3Q
Tower of strength -- Gene McDaniels
Love the trombones in this song:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwy8xcpagvg&feature=kp
Maid of Sugar Maid of Spice --by-- Mouse & the Traps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2g70WCTXB0
featuring Bugs Henderson who was a fine blues guitarist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzC2kM6pYek
The song that launched the Bee Gees into the big time, before they reinvented themselves in the disco era -- Spicks and Specks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5IQ9Rlmhzk
That darn cat -- Bobby Darin
A Disney movie theme, funny stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpX70mrQ3i4
The Pied Piper -- Crispian St. Peters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwwR8tfQMoM
RIP Larry Ramos of the Association who passed away at the end of April. His magic with The Association lives on in audio and video: http://youtu.be/YxdWZlKJmmg
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20140506-story.html
Time for livin -- The Association
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbyssynuGqs&feature=kp
The utmost feel-good happy song ever, from the Cowsills -- We Can Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9za1WDoHuo&feature=kp
RIP Jerry Vale another of my favorite from the 50's/60's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ovCJdCv2w
Providing that I'm a child of that era, I'd have to say Save the last dance fior me. The Drifters version.
I sang the bass part of this song in a 7th grade talent show ... in front of the whole school and faculty ... the guy who sang the lead part became a school bus driver while I became a sports writer ... what a country. I shared the story with Rich Appel when he was doing a radio show about the spring of 1963 ... he got a kick out of it and played the song when it was in the bottom seven at seven.
Mr. Bassman -- Johnny Cymbal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxlwLeVrSg8
Tune up -- Junior Walker and the All-Stars
If I ever do a show on sports talk radio, this would be my intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXBOGc5iZIs&feature=kp
Playing your requests ...
Save the Last Dance For Me -- the one and only Drifters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-XQ26KePUQ&feature=kp
RIP to Tim Hauser founding member of The Manhatten Transfer who passed away suddenly:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/arts/music/tim-hauser-the-founder-of-the-manhattan-transfer-dies-at-72.html?rref=arts/music&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Music&pgtype=article&_r=0
He had just started his own line of sauces:
http://www.axs.com/news/manhattan-transfer-s-tim-hauser-made-sauce-11115
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXLRU7oqws
http://manhattantransfer.net/tim-hauser/
Penningslandscaping The Monster Mash -- Bobby "Boris" Picket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcM3nCsglA
The Little Nash Rambler -- The Playmates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enqNl7tdLR4
MK Jump Jack Jump --by-- Blackie Crawford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO8McVmf7AM
Jump Jack jump , run Jack run
Your red headed gal has got a gun
She'll have it pointed at your head
Jump Jack jump , she'll shoot you dead
looking for suggestions on a good doo-wop song
something that is sung mostly accapella with minimal instrument support
needs to be something that's well liked, well known and represents the doo-wop genre' with full respect
please list hem out for me? (i'm working on a project)
thanks guys . . . . .
seems to be an era of FUN music as I am discovering
Is Zat You Myrtle --by-- The Carlisles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEXR8ORZijw
Rama Lama Ding Dong, Sh-Boom, Come Go With Me, Sixty Minute Man, At The Hop, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Book Of Love, Duke Of Earl, Little Darlin', In The Still Of The Night, Don't Be Cruel, Goodnight Sweetheart
all of the above have been done accapella............and sound good with the right range of voices,
Little Jimmy Brown -- The Browns (no, not the football team from Cleveland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8t8YKGPXx4
thanks for the suggestions guys, appreciate you input,
we already do a version of 'don't be crue'l, and we like it, and i suggested 'duke of earl, and 'at the hop' because they fit all of my criteria, but didn't get enough buy in,
i was thinking about 'the lion sleeps in winter', that fits all the criteria , maybe i'll give that one a go, and 'the book of love' is on my list as well, it has all the criteria, will run it up the flag pole and see if there is enough 'general consent' around the room.
what about a soulful rendition of 'blue moon' instead of the more popular upbeat one? what do you think? or 'don't take your love away from me' ?
thanks andy, will listen to your links, i don't recognize a couple of the titles, and thanks cbgb will review myrtle (as i don't know that one either) and get back to you
my vision is one of some guys standing around the fire barrel on the street corner singing one of these songs, maybe just a hint of harmonica, or open guitar chords for reference, that's it, and four part harmonies ringing out in the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJDDs7ohpJk
This one is not only a good one for this particular time of year, it is the biggest hit ever released by a major league baseball player with over 300 homers and 1,000 RBI...
Ladies and gentlemen, Richie Allen and the Ebonistics, with Echoes of November.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXxwrkuiBSg
You remember Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain? The "Big Dipper" with the 76ers in the NBA? He's another one who made a record.
My House and the River -- Paul Mauriat
He had a huge number one instrumental hit with Love Is Blue, but I liked this one better ... give it a shot, interested to see what y'all think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesqxq8UsSw
get out yer dancing shoes it's..............
The Hesitation Boogie --by-- Hardrock Gunter vintages 1951
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoMyS_y_KvY
Put Another Log On the Fire --by-- Tompall Glaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWpYQjuJ0u0
from days when there twern't such things as PC ( computer or other )
sassi 1958 Battle Of New Orleans --by-- Jimmy Driftwood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN4Bm3aH33Y
it is his song after all
Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache --by-- Warren Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-__kqo3PJDI
I play this song and sing it for days
Thought thread reads "Favorite song's from the 50's and 60's" sooooo 1959 Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" is MY favorite song. Better leave "House of the Rising Sun" and "Bobby Mcgee" to the original artist as well--
I remember Midnight Confessions by the Grass Roots getting lots of air play in 68.
I was a big fan of the Box Tops in those days, also the 1910 Fruit Gum Company.
Here's some Sugar, Sugar to go with your bubble gum.
So, who really sang this song, anyway, and did y'all know there was a blonde Bette Cooper at Hackettstown High in 1938 who became Miss America?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o
Mrs. Robinson -- Simon and Garfunkel, 1968
A good line about elections in the song, since it is election day ... also a reference to Joe DiMaggio ... Paul Simon once said Joe D represented 'easy solutions' on the ballfield, but there are no easy solutions anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C1BCAgu2I8
You post the songs you like I post the songs I like. Not complicated at all
Big Dummy --by-- Tommy Collins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJgjakhBNq4
Sounds good to me, live and let live.
Here's a 60s song about "time management"
Making Every Minute Count -- Spanky and Our Gang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVig1VTYvwY
Galveston -- Glen Campbell
If you follow the lyrics, it's a guy in Vietnam who longs for his old girlfriend and hometown. It was a new song when I was a college freshman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBLboy3aXA0
That's a good one Andy, Glen had a lot of success with the songs written by the great Jimmy Webb- Wichita Lineman and By the Time I Get to Phoenix among them. Really sad to see Glen in the advancing stages of Alzheimers.
Don Ho actually recorded Galveston first in 1968.
Hot Rod race --by-- Arkie Shibley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBOcJKYQe0E
Hot Rod Lincoln --by-- Charlie Ryan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e58NJU5B3v8
Try a little kindness -- Glen Campbell
Good message anytime, anywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaCBTSQZq1E
hey andy, it's funny about that BG song 'sugar sugar', it was written for the monkees and was supposed to be their next big hit, but NBC canceled the show, so the kirshner song factory which had written that top ten tune gave it to the archies,
going from memory, but i think it was recorded by some of the studio musicians that can be found on many of the pop hits of 1969, some of the guys who backed up the rasberries, and some of the guys who worked on 'love grows where my rosemary goes' and 'take a letter maria' and a few other one off hits from that time.
all one hit wonders and all done with the revolving cast of players in the studio, some great songs.
don kirschner's stable of song writers are legion, they worked in cubicals and turned out hit after hit, carol king and her husband, cynthia mann and barry weil and a few others
kirschner's team developed an amazing output of top ten hit songs, that same factory wrote "Kicks" and they were going to give to "Eric Burden and the Animals', but they were out on extended tour, so one of the current popular groups in town got it instead, ('Paul Revere and the Raiders')
Take a letter Maria -- R.B. Greaves
Thanks, Brother Dog, haven't heard that one in a long, long, time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg
Don't say nothing bad about my baby --by-- The Cookies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyGF9ocTZJ8
or the 1996 version by Hog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uo6RM2nwbI
Grazin in the Grass -- The Friends of Distinction
It's a gas, can you dig it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjYrski71II
Dance to the music -- Sly and the Family Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2PNlhvy8E
Pretty Ballerina-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rzeGqqethE&feature=player_detailpage The Left Banke
Keep the Ball Rolling -- Jay and the Techniques
They're right from the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, PA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4TlmK32KeQ
Red Light Green Light --by-- Mitchell Torok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHq69MXmCgI
If you say red light I'll stop If you say green light I'll go
Youngbloods- Get Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiLxRCBf40&feature=player_detailpage
Randy Newman-- I Think It's Going To Rain Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Fn8VhkK5g&feature=player_detailpage
Buffalo Springfield--For What It's Worth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY&feature=player_detailpage
Red rubber ball -- The Cyrkle
These guys hailed from Easton and their name is a "tribute" to the peculiar traffic circle in the center of town ... I'm sure most of you have experienced it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLiL5QXAoA
good pick andy, i loved that song so much i ran out and bought the 45rpm at the local record shop, still have it.
the cyrkle was the backup band for simon and garfunkel that summer (1965? my memory has been off a year latley), paul simon has co-songwriting credits on that tune.
it's a really good song,
See the USA In Your Chevrolet --by-- Dinah Shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boertpylK0M
wowza
Acapulco 1922 -- Herb Alpert
My mom listened to his albums all the time, I particularly liked this tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpI7EjUOkvg
Barbara Ann -- The Regents
They just don't make 'em like this, anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTffa6I27iA
Moody river -- Pat Boone
With an intro by Lawrence Welk (anybody out there ever watch his show?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn1ddv8bSOU
If A Bottle Of Beer Had A Nipple On It --by-- Charlie Adams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ibUudEDFCw
In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here (-;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZObXQe1lqI
Red, red wine -- Neil Diamond
A good version was done 20 years later by UB40.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeJ55sUacPM
can't help falling in love --by-- Elvis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V430M59Yn8
A good version was done 30 years later by UB40.
Let the Little Girl Dance -- Billy Bland
They just don't make 'em like this anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aC9vmAvjfg
Dedicated to the Hackettstown High soccer team ...
Frank Sinatra singing 'Here's to the Winners'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GsvmXLebGw
'I think Ricky Nelson's Travelin Man was about a guy in the service, was it not?'
Nope. It was about this pickup artist who was shagging young girls all around the world from Hong Kong to Hawaii.
Now, here's a song all of you feminists will like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NF5XU-k2Vk
Melvin 
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and The Shondells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4-NDc2jRmQ
Later covered by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTfHhNg1iII
good one sueR - that song really captured the flavor of the times, 1968; flower power and all that colorful stuff . . . . . .
hey guys; I have always loved the song "The shadow of your smile"
I love the minor key melody with all those augmented chords and the great poetry of the lyrics really speaks to me,
who does the best job singing it ?
The shadow of your smile -- Ella Fitzgerald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHar9ni7z2I
We ain't got nothing yet -- The Blues Magoos
Memory of the song ... it played on the PA after the Baltimore Bullets won their home opener of the 1968/69 season ... they had Earl "The Pearl" Monroe and Wes Unseld was a rookie ... they went from being the last place team the year before to having the best record in the league. One of the best one-year turnarounds in NBA history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOWOdKs6KUo
Western Movies -- The Olympics
At those old Bullets' games, PA announcer Ron Weber pushed a button after every Bullets' basket, and the ricochet sound effect from this song would play at high volume. Walt Frazier said it gave the Knicks incentive to play great defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSGKlGCIT4
Buzzsaw Twist --by-- The Gee Cees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1bjjDtdx2Y
gotta like a band called The Gee Cees!!!
Guess I'll follow that with the Bee Gees' first chart success they ever had, going back to my high school days. First I ever heard of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNfFZULPcgk
Gotta keep The King (Elvis) involved in this thread ... someone put a hysterical montage of Phillies Phanatic hi-jinx to this tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEuNVHlRlP0
this gem is from 1947 but I's not about ta start a new thread
Cocaine Blues --by-- Billy Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCM_r7NsV7E
Do you hear what I hear (debut in 1963) -- Bing Crosby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxO3MvfkKp4
Ray Charles--1964 What'd I Say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rggldf1c6c&feature=player_detailpage
Amen -- Jerry Butler and The Impressions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3-iBfP-Pfo
A Certain Girl --by-- The Yardbirds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZCQoZBAfk0
later done in the 80s quite well by Warren Zevon
but I like this video ..................
Jingle Bells -- Booker T and the MGs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr2gwjfdZdM
White Christmas --by-- Bob Marley & the wailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98bjIDC8vU4
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
NOT like the ones I used to know
Jackson -- Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkuRQ8tjIE
Another song about a cowtown -- Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison
It's become a real good baseball town since then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDi3WpQZnI
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas -- Gayla Peevey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dec9Jb_Ac4
I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus --by-- Brenda lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozMVwMpVtmA
Garbage Man Blues --by-- Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CIILIMSoPs
Get out your can
Here comes the Garbage Man
shall we hear another one from Milton?....Yes Sir
Yes Sir --by-- Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NhWKDNMgM
Y'all say Yowza!!!
I never told my peers at basketball practice, but I liked Bobby Goldsboro's songs when I was a teenager.
Here's a sample, "The Straight Life" ... I've never heard it on the radio anywhere for the last 40 years ... that's why I'm posting it here.... maybe somebody at WRNJ will say, hey, that's a nice song.... we ought to play it sometime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJiuVG7lzis
Sometimes in winter -- Blood, Sweat and Tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3nu-qmxM0w
Since I've been watching football all day...
Backfield in Motion -- Mel and Tim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4qJYUHLtuU
For the Ravens, as they move on in the playoffs...
The Bird is The Word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLj-mv9CPWQ
"Sometimes in winter -- Blood, Sweat and Tears"
that's a real good one andy, from their first album my favorite song is -
"somethin' goin' on"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RER7v5XqDWQ
give it a listen, it's a powerfully compelling piece of music, i just love it, runs about 8 mins and is great.
Yes, that's wonderful music.
I also like light hearted stuff from the 60s like this ditty from ...
The Serendipity Singers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esH_OurmBsk
Neil Young---Down By The River...awesome guitar solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y1gxkRve4Q0
yes, it's almost like he's playing with all the switches in tone on that stratocaster guitar,
it's this early work by neil young that arguably that gives him street creds as the father of grunge music,
it was this body of work that got him invited into the middle of that Seattle scene in the 90s, and he fit right in with all those guys and all that grunge is now legend,
and it sort of started with songs like "down by the river"
good stuff, technically in the 60's i think that was recorded in 69' if memory serves me correctly
good stuff
Maybe I Know -- Jersey Girl Lesley Gore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkXExTweFV4
The Little Old Lady from Pasadena -- Jan and Dean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmtKkIMNfxs
By the time I get to Phoenix -- Glen Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUg5p3BncuQ
MC5----Kick Out The Jams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uo35O1AJOfg
On WRNJ this morning, they reminded me that today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans ... good work ... I'm sure Dave Kelber would have also been spot on with that.
But ... Rich Appel would have played this song (-;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTKE85yXl4
Another song related to the War of 1812 - on the other side of the pond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QQI6lb_Hg
If I Can Dream -- Happy 80th birthday, Elvis!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2VSxOiUm50
This is the BEST version I've heard of Battle Of New Orleans
Duo De Twang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8oUqNNrIwE
If I Had a Hammer --by-- The Weavers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJM1n-TdcTE
It's a song about love between all of my brothers
All over this land
I liked Trini Lopez back in the day when he sang it
Great story in Sports Illustrated recently, about how a former Villanova basketball coach was in the right place at the right time ... and Martin Luther King gave him his draft of the I Have a Dream speech ... amazing to read that the words I Have a Dream were not even in the draft ... he ad libbed all that plus all the really great themes at the end ... he just opened his mouth and allowed God to speak.
The draft is worth millions today, but it is not for sale --- good for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPtJtpTuMdI
The Young Rascals carried the message with this song ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxkwlnesPe4
Christie won't be there, but Aaron Rodgers and his buddies will --
Seattle -- Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBNpDdzFj4
Thinking of Lesley Gore tonight who passed away in NYC today. Here is her 6 song set from the TAMI show back on the evenings (Yes these TAMI performances were recorded over the course of two nights) of October 28 and 29 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in CA and released as a film two months later. Enjoy.
"Maybe I Know"
"You Don't Own Me"
"You Didn't Look Around"
"Hey Now"
"It's My Party"
"Judy's Turn to Cry"
RIP Lesley
http://youtu.be/m7LdgPKO1AY
Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows -- Lesley Gore R.I.P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQmBXEZEYtg
Since I pasted When You're in Love With A Beautiful Woman on the 70s thread, how about Jimmy Soul --- If You Wanna Be Happy (get an ugly girl to marry you) on this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7myjFBwDlIk
Oscar Buddy Woods
some fine old blues and excellent guitar here
Lone Wolf Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5iuGpLIK4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4KABxEFtjs
This song is significant because it is considered one of if not THE first song to intentionally use a distorted guitar. Pat Hare is the guitar played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQIKOXffk4
I Saw Her Again -- The Mamas and The Papas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uI8_VNkCYA
Andy, great song!
Here's another---John Sebastian and the Lovin Spoonful--- Darling Be Home Soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dcI3ROS-yT8
That's a great one, too, yankeefan
Here's Jon & Robin with an underrated oldie but goodie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HeqiTIRAtA
Hang in there, summer is coming ... the weather guy on RNJ said it is a mathematical certainty.
Surf City -- Jan and Dean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERrwjR4ZlfI
Interesting title ...
This lady had hit songs, one after another, from 64 to 68...my high school years
Don't Sleep in the Subway -- Petula Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvKj8lTuVtk
Little Arrows -- Leapy Lee
They just don't make 'em like this anymore(-;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepkOOM3aok
This one is for all the hopeful Mets' fans, and sports parents who are hoping their kid can get a free-ride scholarship.
These goofball guys really pioneered the music video genre, and they made good sing-able songs, too.
Daydream Believer -- The Monkees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU615FaODCg
Sadly we lost the legendary Ben E King from the Drifters on Thursday 4/30 in Hackensack NJ. His memory will live on forever in those amazing songs:
https://youtu.be/ehFWRG5gHyI
Ben E. King (R.I.P.) and The Drifters
This Magic Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFHlNmIepY
RIP Jack Ely the lead singer of the Kingsmen famous for the song Louie Louie. Jack passed on 4/27 in Terrebonne, Oregon.
http://www.louielouie.net/blog/?p=6766
https://youtu.be/jlwMBRP0JaE
Come on baby, do the locomotion ...
good for the old blood pressure...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKpVQm41f8Y
Another bebop song that reminds me of sixth grade...
He's a Rebel by The Crystals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SXJ18EkNw
Great Blues Song
Dimples --by-- John Lee Hooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVlEh6LGYuo
Ain't no cure for the summertime blues -- Eddie Cochran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZD8ckwLJA
It's summertime, time to send the kids to camp.
Allan Sherman sang about it in 1963.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjiWS__Mp0
I miss the Rich Appel show on WRNJ on Saturday mornings...
Roll Out the Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer -- Nat King Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOV96BCAvZc
I'm an old Cashman and West fan from way back, they did more than just sing songs about baseball.
American City Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq0Cbtj_utY
Growing up, we were only allowed to listen to the music my dad and his brother and sister listened to. We had a BUNCH of old 45's. There were even records that DJs gave away that were demos, or something like that.
There were (I think) 3 songs with the name Bobby in them but I only remember 2:
Bobby's Girl and Bobby, Bobby, Bobby
Anyone remember another one?
DeGee B Sad news....just got work last night that Ernie Maresca passed away earlier this month. Some many know that he wrote or co-wrote some of Dion's biggest hits, including "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer". He passed on July 8. He also had a hit for himself titled Shout Shout (Knock yourself out) in 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Maresca
50 years ago today, the film 'Help!' starring the Beatles, hit the scene.
It inspired TV touchstones such as Batman (the old corny version) The Monkees and the music video scene.
And we learned that Ringo was a marvelous comic actor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWP6Qki8mWc
Sigh..... rough month for us oldies fans. Just found out Diamond Dave Somerville lead singer of The Diamonds passed away last week.
http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/diamonds-dave-somerville-dead-81-article-1.2295841
They were famous for the song Little Darlin mentioned higher up in this thread. Here is another hit of theirs.....
The Stroll
https://youtu.be/UrGLNtZ0rEg
https://youtu.be/ujyQpMVuf_Y
RIP Dave
A victim of cancer ... sorry to see the news.
I'm sure the Geator with the Heater in Philly will have a fitting tribute for him.
Another musician going to that Rock-n-Roll Heaven.
RIP Diamond Dave, thank you for the music.
Two silhouettes on the shade ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt209_MBe3s
Good time to play my favorite Bobby Vee song from when I was 11 years old (JFK was president back then and we were in a "space race" with the Soviets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCLB6Y8zjA
A hundred pounds of clay -- Gene McDaniels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQXhXAKHg9g
Bring back those OLDIES!!
Gene passed away in 2011. RIP
Tower of Strength.. his next biggest hit after pounds of clay:
https://youtu.be/Hwy8xcpagvg
Broken Hearted Melody -- Sarah Vaughn
---a Jersey girl, gone from us much too soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfE0Lhx66Mc
Sad news tonight.....lost another great....PF Sloan has passed away, songwriter behind Eve of Destruction among many other 60's hits:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/p-f-sloan-eve-of-destruction-songwriter-dead-at-70-20151116
Since Eve of Destruction was linked to the above article, I didn't post it here.
That song was a hit in 1965, but we "had not seen nothing yet" when it came to protest songs ... the tumultuous year of 1968 was still ahead of us.
I never was a hippie in those years, growing up with a Republican father and being involved in sports kept me away from that: I was sympathetic to the message they tried to convey, a good friend I walked to school with every day was killed in Vietnam --- that has an impact on how you view all the politics --- but I could not endorse all the drugs. Glad I never got into the drug scene, it ruined many lives.
Loved the scene in Field of Dreams --- "You're from the 60s ..." If you saw the film a dozen times like I did, you know what it's all about ...
San Francisco -- Scott McKenzie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_WG3d3GL8
It's 1967 and according to The Paragons.............
The Tide Is High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pJr_RaeQ7Q
Jay and the Techniques were a groundbreaking group in 1967, because they were "racially mixed," something which some narrow-minded people did not like.
Keep the ball rolling was a nice up-beat theme, people used the song as inspiration to keep their causes moving in the right direction. You'd hear it getting played in stadiums when the home team was on a win streak (like the Baltimore Colts, who did not lose a game until the final week of the season in 67).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4TlmK32KeQ
The Orioles hit a lot of doubles in 1966 as they pulled away from the rest of the league and ended up winning their first World Series.
You heard a clip of this song at old Memorial Stadium, every time you saw a bird standing on second base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvca_zJX9yY
Another song you heard on the radio a lot, in that happy Baltimore summer, was "Catch us if you can"
naw mon this con not be right
Marujuana , The Devil's Flower --by-- Mr. Sunshine & His Guitar Pickers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFcUto0xje0
Here's a song Bob Marley wrote in 1967, performed by Johnny Nash - Stir It Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4Zm6YRHDk
1951
Christmas Time's A-Coming --by-- Bill Monroe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6xyS8-WbM
Gerry and the Pacemakers --- How Do You Do What You Do To Me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig20b9EXU0Y
This era is way before my time but I am in a doo-wop accapella group that has worked the circuit with many of these acts for many years now. I was raised listening to this music and love it. I have had the privilege of working with almost every artist mentioned here that is still alive. Johnny Maestro, Frankie Valli, Jay Black, and so many more. It was such an honor to sing with these guys which made me love the music even more. Johnny Maestro and Little Anthony I would say were my favorite!
JB400 Saw Johnny Maestro perform with The Brooklyn Bridge back in the summer of 69, I was a fan because a year earlier we danced to their music at our senior prom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo39PEmZXNM
He also was great with The Crests -- Step by Step, an all-time classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zldyxlsu7w
Yes, the Crests still perform as well. My group actually backed up Tommy Mara who is the lead singer of the Crests. The was nothing like Johnny Maestro's voice though. And the Brooklyn Bridge was great behind him.
So many of those old songs, before I even cared about dating and "going steady," could be classified as "revenge" songs, and Timi Yuro, with her absolutely amazing voice, had one of the best ones ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdDEYo1jcA
Down By the Riverside --by-- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk
It's Ground Hog Day again? Thought we just did that yesterday ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QHRTQ3Kmw
He's a Rebel -- The Crystals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_nxRchyn1g
The first time I ever heard of Ground Hog Day was in 1961 (5th grade) ... and I liked this song a lot back then.
Baby It's You -- The Shirelles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8clnxViHdp8
These two songs had me saying Whhaaaaat? There is a song from the 70s I like so much, the song has a hot soulful intro that repeats through out the song.
So Imagine my surprise and smile when I heard this Reggae song from 1969 , can ya figure which 70s hit borrowed it's signature sound from................
The Liquidator --by-- Harry J All Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEt7PtNz6_o
Girl I've Got a Date --by-- Alton Ellis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJpaEgtV3_A
I recognized it right away.....
Let's Talk About Sex by Salt N Pepa! ;)
Ok, I know that's not who you meant, but they used it too.
I'll Take You There is the song you're referring to. I agree, great song. Though I knew the song, I did have to look up who sang it. Which, btw, is The Staple Singers. Interesting find, CBGB. :)
Raise your hand if you've danced to this at a wedding or a party ... a rockin song that has stood the test of time ..
Shout -- The Isley Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjLFpU2pJ4
How about this tune for today climate .(1964)
http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-times-they-are-achangin-lyrics-bob-dylan.html
Old Gent Andy - "Shout" is THE get-them-up-to-dance song, at least at my two daughters' weddings........."Now wait a minute..."
Old Gent - "...twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67u2fmYz7S4
DannyC Another Bob Dylan song for today.................
Isis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXfZLMk7gyA
Billy Bland -- Let the Little Girl Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aC9vmAvjfg
Some Enchanted Evening -- Jay and the Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWpWem5Z4tw
Dirty Dirty Game --by-- Gaylan Ladd & East Side Transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWapHErX3oQ
Back in the mid 60s I took some walks in the Baltimore harbor area. Back then that area was given a nickname by the locals that was inspired by this Billy Joe Royal song.
The transformation that took place there in the late 70s was amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZhgqCi7q6Y
Beep ..........Beep Beep Beep
Maurice Chevalier - The Vespa Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brQfORB4BA
The Chiffons -- Sweet Talking Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpFotOi3hDs
and a good, clean fun bonus track...
Jan and Dean -- Popsicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh0HXX3xApU
Andy, A girlfriend from high school had a cousin in this group, the lead singer:
https://youtu.be/5NuofNHKbVc
Speaking of girlfriends and crushes, etc.
Dickie Lee -- I Saw Linda Yesterday ... they just don't make em like this anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuKuG-7Grls
Elvis -- Marie's the name of his latest flame
Gotta get more Elvis on this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupAWDO6axE
Looking forward to seeing this movie. By the way, I voted for Nixon, also Reagan, in my younger more conservative days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4n267_OeXo
Beautiful ladies:
https://youtu.be/3irmBv8h4Tw
https://youtu.be/jrVbawRPO7I
https://youtu.be/tBBys5TLxCI
From some of the local guys:
https://youtu.be/40bTOCv3_ak
https://youtu.be/liyiT_DGREA
https://youtu.be/kYBZqfOZiS4?list=RDb8X6ugtbpGA
https://youtu.be/dapovCEX-mE
https://youtu.be/CcJDSLg-0uU?list=RDCcJDSLg-0uU
New Jersey guys ROCK. And we're not even talking about Bruce yet.
More New Jersey rock from 1967
Rhoda Mendelbaum --by-- The Doughboys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP7XT0NxnQs
This'll get ya going in the morning...
Dave "Baby" Cortez -- The Happy Organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNxpU_ITpMQ
Oh, why not
https://youtu.be/7IjgZGhHrYY?list=PLuK6flVU_Aj45QZ_A5ld0-pP3CIkoNQDk
https://youtu.be/LvKDr8AgvK8
https://youtu.be/89MihWd6zKk?list=PLuK6flVU_Aj45QZ_A5ld0-pP3CIkoNQDk
How does the saying go... roses on your piano are fine but nothing beats tulips on your organ?
And then there is this:
CHUCK BERRY & KEITH RICHARDS - Nadine
https://youtu.be/5madtiLf7DI
and of course,
https://youtu.be/rVT65M4mRnM
B. Bumble and The Stingers -- Nut Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSB5iSVOcEU
Elvis finished off the 60s putting his heart and soul into this one,
Suspicious Minds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxOBOhRECoo
Elvis, the king, lives on:
https://youtu.be/AG9ph9xkOrw
So do the originators of this great song:
https://youtu.be/IYj2hex99gY
and this one:
https://youtu.be/XIHusZEIwio
All right! Well, there are rules at HL about one person dominating a thread, so to keep a music thread rocking --- IT TAKES TWO, BABY
RIP Marvin Gaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URU-gWAOlDM
A brief journey through the origin and history of the song "Unchained Melody":
https://youtu.be/LrquswYcwV0
Little Red Riding Hood should not go walkin thru the woods alone in Long Valley ... home of the Wolfpack LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_K5b-JNc7E
DannyC, have you heard Vito and the Salutations do Unchained Melody? Quite a bit different. I used to do this song with my accapella group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwDeGDkEFk
Andy Loigu - Owwwooo!
JB400 - a short clip of this in the post on the history of "Unchained Melody", but this is the full real deal, and very different from other renditions. Thanks. BTW, did you ever record your acapella group?
A Linda Ronstadt song for those of us who hear the beat of a different drum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M
Another song with that harpsichord sound, Both Sides Now by Judy Collins. When I was 17, I played the 45 at 33 rpm speed and it sounded like a gay guy. Give the lyrics a whole new meaning, which I found hilarious at 17. Guess I still do, or else I wouldn't post it, would I?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Xm30heHms
Yes DannyC. We have many recordings out there. We started the group under the name "The Monels" and then switched to "Who's Johnny". We worked the circuit not that long ago on the major Oldies shows with most of our favorite acts. We worked often with, and became friendly with groups like The Duprees, Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge, Frankie Valli, Jay Black, and sooo many more. It was an absolute pleasure to work with all of them.
This wasn't one of Simon and Garfunkel's big selling hits, but I liked it --- similar in theme to Both Sides Now.
The Leaves That Are Green Turn To Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTMPyLP5YM
JB400 - Congratulations! What a group of stars to have performed with!
Andy Loigu - Two of the most beautiful and talented women of that era, Judy Collins and Linda Ronstadt, who also performed Roy Orbison's original:
https://youtu.be/su_NI9PQ1XQ
.
Linda R put her heart and soul into this one, too, Long Long Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obm1ex9VqFk
More Linda Ronstadt:
https://youtu.be/ScOpzm-BYX4
The original (introduced by Dick Clark):
https://youtu.be/rI0ll5SexV0
plus,
https://youtu.be/z3-E9JebDtU
and
https://youtu.be/gHKEqxw7N9E
Yo, Danny C -- Paul wishes you a happy rocking birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjF1bG5LUcs
Andy Loigu - Thanks for one of my favorites. Speaking of the Beatles, is this one still appropriate?
https://youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw
Since they had all those classic cars in Hackettstown today for Motor Madness ..
my all-time favorite car song, about the "showdown" between a Cadillac and a Little Nash Rambler...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enqNl7tdLR4
Andy Loigu,
Did you go there today? It was mobbed, but amazing!
Back in the day:
https://youtu.be/D7f9hsFrKUY
https://youtu.be/frtVqCZub-0
https://youtu.be/bGp1a4O29oI
Fun, fun, fun....till....
I didn't know this song was written by Mel Tillis. And I certainly didn't know it was a song about a man crippled fighting in the Korean War. Perhaps I should have listened to the lyrics.
Ruby , Don't Take Your Love To Town --by-- Mel Tillis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djM0TQcwt2k
It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
***bonus track***
Here is Carl Perkins doing Ruby (sorry about posting in the wrong decade on Carl's version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGLWlcGaiYU
***bonus to the bonus track***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBnszf1zMY
The Royal Teens -- Short Shorts
Summer is here, and the girls are wearing them (-;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfFB5QF4iQ
Resurrection:
https://youtu.be/kDAMRMQr48g
Bonus track:
https://youtu.be/HDTcWqDCZi8
and the original, the best:
https://youtu.be/_PLq0_7k1jk
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
(turn that into any political joke you want, trouble with political jokes is --
we keep electing them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_7Bnxblo4
Andy - I once sang under a pianist/organist/conductor who composed some of these themes for "spaghetti westerns", and was also a three-time winner on Jeopardy. So what is a good theme for Barack Hussein Obama? Hurry, only seven months left.
Three-time winner on Jeopardy! Impressive.
I'm different than most people you'll meet around Hackettstown, I'm not inclined to be critical of President Obama. Considering he's had to work with a do-nothing congress, I think he's been pretty good (Jefferson Republic will go nuts if he sees this (-;)
Gene Pitney -- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDN4L7cAQf0
why not............
Run Joe --by-- Stranger Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkEDHGT8NM
Biden...........ya listening? hahhah
RIP Goldy McJohn organist for Steppenwolf who passed away August 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO70mNL3M1w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldy_McJohn
https://www.facebook.com/GoldyMcJohnSteppenwolf/
Atom Bomb --by-- Glen Barber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B9Ittz2ECk
They're building an Atom Bomb
Gonna blow me outta this place
They're building a bigger bomb
What a crazy human race
Let 'em kill us all and we'll stand and watch
Well brother that ain't for me
I'll be runnin' and a jumpin' and a skippin' and a bumpin' when they blow me to smithereens.
For What It's Worth
Buffalo Springfield :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSpO2B6G4s
Joni Moore This here is, simply said: BRILLIANT
We Will All Go Together When We Go --by-- Tom Lehrer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
ah - Tom Lehrer - so true CBGB - I still have 2-3 lps of him..............must play a bit
4catmom Lehrer continues to be a favorite on Dr Demento. Growing up my father might have owned 5 records total. Two were Lehrer. Lehrer is a mathematician by trade but hysterically satirical at a piano. That's what makes it so perfect. The chemical elements is an all time favorite.
you asked for it GC
The Elements - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo
***bonus track***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCOZBLAcuQ
One of my top 5 favorite songs from any era.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dAFjDg7M7JI
Dalida/Bambino.
Rebecka An addition to Tom Lehrer. Great holiday song! North Korea comes to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
Dodgeball I do like my cover songs
Having a Party --by-- Dudley Sibley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3sUHmZDRk
Heh, heh, here's one I am sure you know: "The London Boys," raw, unique but shows the genius of Bowie yet to come....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knqFbHqRX9o
strangerdanger Damn just saw that lead singer of the Vogues Bill Burkette passed away on March 1 at 75 years old:
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2018/03/02/Bill-Burkette-lead-singer-for-the-Vogues-dies-at-75-Obituary/stories/201803020155
https://youtu.be/B7rITjkFvQo
More sad news............ we lost Eugene Pitt early yesterday morning lead singer of the Jive Five: https://youtu.be/eGiA5QJKfec
https://www.soultracks.com/story-eugene-pitt-dies
smelly feet Some classic doo wop with a beat, from the Capris, baby come back to me :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBEBV9X1IVI
This one's been around since 1960, heard it a lot on Philly radio during the summer time, never on WRNJ … Jersey Shore music, On The Way To Cape May :_- D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3hnrgihFSM
Classic doo wop from The Students from 1958. I'm so young. Great song thankfully still gets regular airplay on Cool Bobby B's 1950's Sirius radio's 50's on 5 channel.
https://youtu.be/ZX5YPpfOINQ
They also had this hit:
Everyday of the Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yre6EG3igLE
Don and Juan.....What's Your Name
Original lead singer here in this 1999 PBS video is Claude Johnson on right who passed in 2002. Singer on the left is Walter Jones who was the replacement for Roland "Don" Trone the original singer with Claude Johnson who passed away in 1982.
https://youtu.be/e77uXuGVs1E
Bobby Bare singing about a place I've visited often :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMlVTdkMkcc
This one's for all the celebrating Red Sox fans, city that will be hosting yet another World Series … back in the day they had Yaz ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C5DAeO-I7Y
Andy Loigu
Bobby Bare singing about a place I've visited often :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMlVTdkMkcc
"She said the prettiest place on earth is Baltimore at night."
Things have really changed since this song was written....
Dodgebaal Big loss today of a rock n roll bass legend. Joe Osborn of "The Wrecking Crew" has passed away. His bass playing " finger prints" are all over some of the biggest hits of the last 50 plus years.
https://www.facebook.com/422054484501933/posts/2642290692478290/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Osborn
How 'bout a cover of a 60s song? Johnny Nash did the original but I like this one better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSuB4t3q_dA
The Even Dozen Jug Band, some fine musicians here including: John Sebastian, David Grisman, Maria Muldaur, and Stefan Grossman
Evolution Mama - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ixxAJ2XNHQ
***bonus track***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBLx5tWJbY
Indie Merry Christmas from Alvin and the Chipmunks …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCQ2LPRoY78
Big loss today of a rock n roll drumming legend. Hal Blaine of "The Wrecking Crew" has passed away. His drumming " finger prints" are all over some of the biggest hits of the last 50 plus years.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hal-blaine-drummer-dead-90-806827/
https://www.facebook.com/HalBlaine/
https://youtu.be/hp1FBfjH60g
Meanwhile Neil Sedaka turns 80 years young tomorrow...3/13/19
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/03/09/neil-sedaka-celebrates-80-years-and-a-lifetime-of-loving-and-making-music-fortunately-i-had-the-goods/
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