60's Songs

[Cheriehoop]

Love Potion #9 - Searchers

 

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Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer

 

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You've lost that Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers

 

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Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers

 

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Marvin Gaye's Heard it through the Grapevine. Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded it first

 

['72 Orange]

Pipeline - One of the classic early 60's instrumentals by the Chantays.

 

['72 Orange]

Another instrumental I really liked was "Telstar" by the Tornadoes. It was named after the telecomminications satellite that was launched earlier in 1962. I never realized it but they were a British group.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Best is Yet to Come - Frank Sinatra. He had some big hits in the 60's - Fly me to the Moon on and on. The Rat Pack had plenty of huge hits in the '60's. Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr etc.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Dean Martin - Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime

The 60's were absolutely loaded. Then there are guys like Andy Williams, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett etc for your "classic" pop hit songs too. So many great musical genres in that era.

 

[bevosu]

Best is Yet to Come - Frank Sinatra. He had some big hits in the 60's - Fly me to the Moon on and on. The Rat Pack had plenty of huge hits in the '60's. Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr etc.

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I love Sinatra's singing. I've got a closet full of Sinatra albums...but...I think he did his best stuff in the mid to late 50's. Better material and his voice was absolutely perfect...his voice peaked in the 50's, but he was always great. The best.

 

[Cheriehoop]

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I love Sinatra's singing. I've got a closet full of Sinatra albums...but...I think he did his best stuff in the mid to late 50's. Better material and his voice was absolutely perfect...his voice peaked in the 50's, but he was always great. The best.

Frank Sinatra and Syracuse and SU had a huge connection with Jimmy Van Heusen, a Syracuse native. He wrote many of Sinatra's songs in the 50's and was one of the great composers from the 40's through the early 60's, coincidentally the same timeframe of Sinatra's hey day. He was so close to Sinatra and Sinatra thought so much of his talent, that he's buried in the Sinatra family plot.

 

[Cowtown]

We used to sing "I wonder who she's screwing tonight" along with this one, and we thought we were being pretty cool ... as if any of us was gettin' some ...

[song: I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight]

 

[Cowtown]

The first song I learned on a guitar, it was E, D, A. Of course it's 1-4-5, but it begins on the 5, which threw my career for a loop so completely I never recovered ...

[song: Gloria]

 

[Cowtown]

This original version of Hey Joe by The Leaves was the second song I learned, and I was on my way until Jimi scooped it ...

 

[Cowtown]

[song: Talk Talk]

 

[Cowtown]

I love the intro on this one ...

[song: Let's Live For Today]

 

[Cowtown]

It takes about 20 seconds for the video to kick in ...

[song: Come On Down To My Boat Baby]

 

[Cowtown]

There was a band from Albany called The 4 Synns, and they played this at one of out HS dances, and they were so good we thought they were better than the originals

[song: Time Won't Let Me]

 

[Cowtown]

And this would be the first song I learned how to play on an electric solid body ...

[song: Hey Little Girl]

 

[Cowtown]

Another classic one hit wonder ...

 

[Cowtown]

The lead guitar player for this band was Rick Derringer, yep, that Rick Derringer...

 

[Cowtown]

The ultimate hippie anthem ..

[song: Get Together]

 

[Cowtown]

From the ashes of the street corner do-wop singers, The Vogues ...

[song: Five O'Clock World]

 

[Cowtown]

A song about an upstate NY locale

[song: Indian Lake]

 

[Cowtown]

And a long time personal fave ...

[song: Rhythm Of The Rain]