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...when i was three...  music from 1962

M U S I C 1962

Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions

The Rollin' Stones - Roll over Beethoven (London, 12 July 1962 at the Marquee Club)

The Beatles - P.S. I Love You (Single Version, 11 September 1962)

Bob Dylan - House of the Risin' Sun

Lightnin' Hopkins - Awful Dreams

Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter - You Shook  Me

John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right

Albert King - This Morning

John Lee Hooker - Blues Before Sunrise

Alexis Korner - How Long, How Long Blues

Bob Dylan - Highway 51 Blues

Muddy Waters - Tiger in your Tank

B.B. King - Hully Gully Twist

Jimmy Smith - Beggar for the Blues  

Herbie Mann - Minor Groove

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Domino

Oscar Peterson Trio With Milt Jackson - Work Song

Paul Desmond / Gerry Mulligan - Stardust

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - I'm Beginning to See the Light

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

Grant Green - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

Donald Byrd - Royal Flush

Ike Quebec - Goin' Home

Grant Green - Blues In Maude's Flat

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - You Did It, You Did It

Stan Getz - Desafinado

João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim - One Note Samba

Jimmy Smith - Judo Mambo

Jimmy McGriff - M.G. Blues

Booker T & the MGs – You Can't Sit Down

Junior Parker - I Wanna Ramble

Gene Chandler - Stand By Me

John D. Loudermilk - Road Hog

Françoise Hardy - Le temps de l'amour

Petula Clark - Ya Ya Twist

The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari

Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm

Ray Charles & His Orchestra - Unchain My Heart

Ricky Nelson - My Babe

Duane Eddy - The Ballad of Paladin

Dave "Baby" Cortez - Rinky Dink

Sandy Nelson - Drums Are My Beat

Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel 

Little Eva - The Loco-Motion 

Dee Dee Sharp - Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) 

Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park 

Chubby Checker - Slow Twistin'

The Shirelles - Baby It's You

The Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout

Chris Montez - Let's Dance

Mary Wells - The One Who Really Loves You

 Sam Cooke- Twistin' the Night Away

Brian Hyland - Sealed With a Kiss 

Ketty Lester - Love Letters

Bent Fabric - Alley Cat 

King Curtis - Soul Twist 

 Ace Cannon - Careless Love

Clyde Mcphatter - Lover Please

Barbara George - I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)

Rick Nelson - Young World

Dion - The Wanderer 

Burl Ives - A Little Bitty Tear

Ernie Maresca - Shout Shout (Knock Yourself Out)

Sam Cooke - Having a Party 

Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry

Joe Henderson - Snap Your Fingers

Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine

Aretha Franklin - I Surrender Dear

Joey Dee and The Starlighters - Shout   

Billy Vaughn - A Swingin' Safari

Mary Wells - You Beat Me to the Punch -

Barbara Lynn- You'll Lose a Good Thing 

Billy Joe & The Checkmates - Percolator (Twist) 

The Ikettes - I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) 

The Kingston Trio - Where Have All The Flowers Gone 

The Highwaymen - Cotton Fields

Peter, Paul & Mary - If I Had a Hammer 

Duane Eddy - Dance with the Guitar Man

Arthur Lyman - Caravan

Martin Denny - Black Orchid

Elvis Presley - Return to Sender

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Ray Stevens - Ahab the Arab

Pat Boone - Speedy Gonzales

Tornadoes - Telstar

The Shadows - Wonderful Land

The Everly Brothers - How Can I Meet Her

Fats Domino - Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

Bruce Channel - Hey Baby

Duane Eddy - Deep in the Heart of Texas

The Vernons Girls - Lover Please

The Spotnicks - Orange Blossom Special

Jet Harris - The Man with the Golden Arm

The Mar-Kets - Surfer's Stomp

The Beach Boys - Surfin'

Jennell Hawkins - Moments (To Remember)

Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song (You Lied)

Jimmy Norman - I Don't Love You No More (I Don't Care About You)

Bobby Vee, The Crickets - Someday (When I'm Gone from You)

Les Cooper & The Soul Rockers - Wiggle Wobble

23-07-2020 > FRESH FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1965-1969 (2h)

The Who

23-07-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1965-1969  >>The Who, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Love, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Donovan, THE BEATLES, Spirit, King Crimson, The Moody Blues<<

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1965-1969

An explosive combo that pioneered progressive and arena rock, each new sound increasing their influence and legacy.
The Who
Out In the Street (Pete Townshend)
I Don't Mind (James Brown)
from My Generation 1965

An explosive debut, and the hardest mod pop recorded by anyone. At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record... While the execution was sometimes crude, and the songwriting not as sophisticated as it would shortly become, the Who never surpassed the pure energy level of this record.

With a style honed in the gritty blues bars of Chicago's south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a young white audience in the mid-'60s, and although the band wasn't a particularly huge commercial success, its influence has been enduring and pervasive.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Born in Chicago (Nick Gravenites)
Screamin' (Michael Bloomfield)
from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 1965
Even after his death, Paul Butterfield's music didn't receive the accolades that were so deserved. Outputting styles adopted from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters among other blues greats, Butterfield became one of the first white singers to rekindle blues music through the course of the mid-'60s. His debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, saw him teaming up with guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, with Jerome Arnold on bass, Sam Lay on drums, and Mark Naftalin playing organ. The result was a wonderfully messy and boisterous display of American-styled blues, with intensity and pure passion derived from every bent note. In front of all these instruments is Butterfield's harmonica, beautifully dictating a mood and a genuine feel that is no longer existent, even in today's blues music....

One of the best L.A. folk/psych bands, and producers of the seminal Forever Changes, a symphonic masterpiece of lush textures and surreal lyrics.
Love
Stephanie Knows Who  (Arthur Lee)
Orange Skies (Arthur Lee / Bryan MacLean)
Seven & Seven Is  (Arthur Lee)
She Comes in Colors (Arthur Lee)
from Da Capo 1966
Love broadened their scope into psychedelia on their sophomore effort, Arthur Lee's achingly melodic songwriting gifts reaching full flower. The six songs that comprised the first side of this album when it was first issued are a truly classic body of work, highlighted by the atomic blast of pre-punk rock "Seven & Seven Is" (their only hit single), the manic jazz tempos of "Stephanie Knows Who," and the enchanting "She Comes in Colors," perhaps Lee's best composition (and reportedly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow")...

23-06-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1961-1966

23-06-2020  FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1961-1966  >>Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker, The Tornadoes, THE BEATLES, Dick Dale and His Del-Tones, THE BEATLES, Muddy Waters, The Who, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Love<<

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1961-1966

A giant figure of R&B and rock & roll, the New Orleans singer and pianist contributed scores of beloved classics to pop history. 

Fats Domino 

I Hear You Knocking (Bartholomew, Domino, King) 1:57

I Miss You So (Scott, Henderson, Robin) 2:19

Ain't That Just Like A Woman (Demetrius, Moore) 2:42

from I Miss You So 1961

The most popular exponent of the classic New Orleans R&B sound, Fats Domino sold more records than any other black rock & roll star of the 1950s. His relaxed, lolling boogie-woogie piano style and easygoing, warm vocals anchored a long series of national hits from the mid-'50s to the early '60s. Through it all, his basic approach rarely changed. He may not have been one of early rock's most charismatic, innovative, or threatening figures, but he was certainly one of its most consistent.

Domino's first single, "The Fat Man" (1949), is one of the dozens of tracks that have been consistently singled out as a candidate for the first rock & roll record. As far as Fats was concerned, he was just playing what he'd already been doing in New Orleans for years, and would continue to play and sing in pretty much the same fashion even after his music was dubbed "rock & roll."...

The most elemental of the electric blues giants, one of few to both inspire and draw from rock & roll idols. He was beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, a genuine blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched across more than half a century.

John Lee Hooker 

A New Leaf (David Arnold / John Lee Hooker) 2:30

Blues Before Sunrise (Leroy Carr / John Lee Hooker) 3:49

Let's Make It (John Lee Hooker) 2:27

from Burnin' 1962

From the vaults of Vee Jay Records comes an abundance of classic John Lee Hooker reissues, featuring original art work, running orders, and budget prices from the Collectables label. With the amount of Hooker material available on the market, some of it is of dubious quality, but you can't go wrong with these reissues. Burnin' was released in 1962 and combines 12 tracks of electric material performed by Hooker backed by a band... All of the Hooker Vee Jay reissues are recommended.

The Tornados were an English instrumental group mostly active in the 1960s.

The Tornadoes 
Telstar (Meek)
Swinging Beefeater (Meek)
Love And Fury (Duke)
from Telstar 1962
The house band for pioneering record producer Joe Meek. Their original and classic line-up comprised Alan Caddy (guitar), Clem Cattini (drums), Heinz Burt (bass), George Bellamy (rhythm guitar) and Roger LaVern (keyboards). Their instrumental material was composed and produced by Meek, and frequently had a futuristic sound which reflected Meek's interest in electronics and sound manipulation. Although their first single "Love And Fury" bombed, the follow-up "Telstar" caught the public imagination and was a number one hit in both the UK and USA (they were the first British group ever to top the US Hot Hundred).

The most popular and influential rock act of all time, a band that blazed several new trails for popular music.
The Beatles
I Saw Her Standing There  (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Misery  (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Anna (Go to Him) (Arthur Alexander)
Chains (Gerry Goffin / Carole King)
from Please Please Me 1963
Once "Please Please Me" rocketed to number one, the Beatles rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day. Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins. As the songs rush past, it's easy to get wrapped up in the sound of the record itself without realizing how the album effectively summarizes the band's eclectic influences. Naturally, the influences shine through their covers, all of which are unconventional and illustrate the group's superior taste... "I Saw Here Standing There" is one of their best rockers, yet it has surprising harmonies and melodic progressions... The Beatles may have played notoriously rough dives in Hamburg, but the only way you could tell that on their first album was how the constant gigging turned the group into a tight, professional band that could run through their set list at the drop of a hat with boundless energy...

05-20-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1959-1962

05-20-2020  FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1959-1962  >>Herbie Mann, THE BEATLES, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Joe Meek & the Blue Men, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Bo Diddley, Lorez Alexandria, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker<<

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1959-1962

Prolific and widely known flutist, beloved in jazz circles, has covered many world music styles. Herbie Mann played a wide variety of music throughout his career. He became quite popular in the 1960s, but in the '70s became so immersed in pop and various types of world music that he seemed lost to jazz. However, Mann never lost his ability to improvise creatively as his later recordings attest.

Herbie Mann 

Old Honkie Tonk Piano Roll Blues 4:45
Minor Groove 7:36

from The Complete Recordings: 1958-1962

Starting his career as a practitioner of cool jazz and bop, Herbie Mann was one of the first musicians to embrace world influences into his sound. Incorporating the rhythms and melodies of Cuba, Africa, and South America, as well as the Middle and Far East, into his work, Mann was also known for his high-profile collaborations, appearing alongside the likes of Art Blakey, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan and numerous others...

...Hamburg was the Beatles' baptism by fire. Playing grueling sessions for hours on end in one of the most notorious red-light districts in the world, the group was forced to expand its repertoire, tighten up its chops, and invest its show with enough manic energy to keep the rowdy crowds satisfied. When they returned to Liverpool at the end of 1960, the band -- formerly also-rans on the exploding Liverpudlian "beat" scene -- were suddenly the most exciting act on the local circuit. They consolidated their following in 1961 with constant gigging in the Merseyside area, most often at the legendary Cavern Club, the incubator of the Merseybeat sound...

The Beatles

Ain't She Sweet [U.S. Version] 2:15

Cry for a Shadow (George Harrison / John Lennon) 2:23

from The Beatles with Tony Sheridan: First Recordings

The Beatles entered a recording studio for the first time 50 years ago, in 1961. It wasn’t actually the group’s gig, since they were essentially the backing band for singer Tony Sheridan, but the way recording was done at the session and at a second session in 1962, with instrumental parts laid down first and vocals added later, it’s possible to catch a faint, nascent glimpse of the international pop phenomenon the Beatles would become a couple years down the road. Orchestral big-band leader Bert Kaempfert had discovered the group playing in a German nightclub, signed them to a recording contract, paired them with Sheridan in the studio, and then released the songs through Polydor Records in Germany in 1961 and 1962. These early tracks have been released multiple times over the years in both mono and stereo mixes (with reverb added), and this set from Time Life Music includes both versions. Everything’s here, really, kind of frozen in time, since the original tapes were lost in a fire at Kaempfert's warehouse in the early '70s. Sheridan handles almost all of the vocals, and there are only two tracks without him, a version of John Lennon singing “Ain’t She Sweet” and an early George Harrison instrumental called “Cry for a Shadow,” both of which are featured here in mono, stereo, and medley versions.... Everything has a beginning. This two-disc set collects the earliest recordings of perhaps the most important recording act in pop music history. That’s the story, and the rest is history.

Rock & roll's prime innovator, thanks to his detailed songwriting, dazzling lyrics, and clear, economical guitar licks.

Chuck Berry 

I'm Talking About You (Chuck Berry) 1:48

Thirteen Question Method (Chuck Berry) 2:13

from New Juke Box Hits 1961

Chuck Berry's fifth Chess Records album, New Juke Box Hits, was recorded and released in the midst of the legal difficulties that would put him in jail the following year. That distraction seems to have kept him from composing top-flight material, while the attendant publicity adversely affected his record sales, such that the album contained no hits. The included single was "I'm Talking About You," later successfully recorded by the Rolling Stones, and the album also contained "The Thirteen Question Method" and "Don't You Lie to Me," worthy minor entries in the Berry canon. Elsewhere, Berry filled out the record covering others' hits -- Nat "King" Cole's "Route 66," B.B. King's "Sweet Sixteen," Little Richard's "Rip It Up." The result is a good rock & roll set, but not in the same league with Berry's earlier albums.

03-04-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1964-1960

Bob Dylan

03-04-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1964-1960  >>Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Smith, The Ventures, Johnny Cash, Lou Rawls & Les McCann Ltd., Herbie Mann, THE BEATLES, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Joe Meek & the Blue Men<<

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1964-1960

Iconic singer/songwriter and musical wanderer who rose to prominence during the '60s folk revival and changed the world of music.
Bob Dylan
Motorpsycho Nitemare  (Bob Dylan) 4:33
All I Really Want To Do  (Bob Dylan) 4:05
Spanish Harlem Incident  (Bob Dylan) 2:25
from Another Side of Bob Dylan 1964
The other side of Bob Dylan referred to in the title is presumably his romantic, absurdist, and whimsical one -- anything that wasn't featured on the staunchly folky, protest-heavy Times They Are a-Changin', really. Because of this, Another Side of Bob Dylan is a more varied record and it's more successful, too, since it captures Dylan expanding his music, turning in imaginative, poetic performances on love songs and protest tunes alike... The result is one of his very best records, a lovely intimate affair.

The giant of postwar blues, who eloquently defined Chicago's swaggering, Delta-rooted sound with his declamatory vocals and piercing slide guitar.
Muddy Waters
My Home Is in the Delta (McKinley Morganfield) 4:00
My Captain (Willie Dixon) 5:12
from Folk Singer 1964
Muddy's "unplugged" album was cut in September of 1963 and still sounds fresh and vital today. It was Muddy simply returning to his original style on a plain acoustic guitar in a well-tuned room with Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on second acoustic guitar. The nine tracks are divvied up between full rhythm section treatments with Buddy and Muddy as a duo...

A pioneer of soul-jazz who revolutionized the Hammond organ, turning it into one of the most incisive, dynamic jazz instruments of its time.
Jimmy Smith
Prayer Meeting (Jimmy Smith) 5:44
Stone Cold Dead in the Market (Wilmoth Houdini) 3:43
Red Top (Gene Ammons) 7:36
from Prayer Meetin' 1963
Playing piano-style single-note lines on his Hammond B-3 organ, Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of the instrument in a jazz combo setting in the mid-'50s and early '60s, and arguably his best albums for Blue Note during this period were the ones he did with tenor sax player Stanley Turrentine. Recorded on February 8, 1963, at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey, and featuring Quentin Warren on guitar and Donald Bailey on drums in addition to Smith and Turrentine, Prayer Meetin' is a delight from start to finish. Forming a perfect closure to Smith's trio of albums with Turrentine (Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack were both released in 1960), Prayer Meetin' was the last of four albums Smith recorded in a week to finish off his Blue Note contract before leaving for Verve...

10-03-2020 > FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1968-1963

PINK FLOYD

10-03-2020 > FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1968-1963  >>Pink Floyd, THE BEATLES, John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers, The Kinks, The Animals, THE BEATLES, Bert Jansch, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Smith, The Ventures<<

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1968-1963

One of the most predominant and celebrated rock bands of all time, prog- and space-rock legends, known for superlative musicianship.
Pink Floyd
Let There Be More Light (Roger Waters) 5:36
Remember a Day (Richard Wright) 4:32
from A Saucerful Of Secrets 1968
"Gathered together in a cave without a flashlight so to speak." (Tony Meador)

A transitional album on which the band moved from Syd Barrett's relatively concise and vivid songs to spacy, ethereal material with lengthy instrumental passages. Barrett's influence is still felt, and much of the material retains a gentle, fairy-tale ambience. ..on "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," "Let There Be More Light," and the lengthy instrumental title track, the band begin to map out the dark and repetitive pulses that would characterize their next few records.

The most popular and influential rock act of all time, a band that blazed several new trails for popular music. So much has been said and written about the Beatles -- and their story is so mythic in its sweep -- that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century.

The Beatles 

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band  (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 2:02

With a Little Help from My Friends  (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 2:44

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds  (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 3:28

from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967

With Revolver, the Beatles made the Great Leap Forward, reaching a previously unheard-of level of sophistication and fearless experimentation. Sgt. Pepper, in many ways, refines that breakthrough, as the Beatles consciously synthesized such disparate influences as psychedelia, art-song, classical music, rock & roll, and music hall, often in the course of one song... After Sgt. Pepper, there were no rules to follow -- rock and pop bands could try anything, for better or worse. Ironically, few tried to achieve the sweeping, all-encompassing embrace of music as the Beatles did here.

Major British blues bandleader who, starting in London in 1963, featured some of the most successful rock musicians of the '60s and '70s. / Throughout the '60s, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers acted as a finishing school for the leading British blues-rock musicians of the era. Guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor joined his band in a remarkable succession in the mid-'60s, honing their chops with Mayall before going on to join Cream, Fleetwood Mac, and the Rolling Stones, respectively. John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser (of Free), John Almond, and Jon Mark also played and recorded with the band for varying lengths of times in the '60s.

John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers 

A Hard Road (John Mayall) 3:09

You Don't Love Me (Willie Cobbs) 2:48

The Supernatural (Peter Green) 2:57

from A Hard Road 1967

Eric Clapton is usually thought of as John Mayall's most important right-hand man, but the case could also be made for his successor, Peter Green. The future Fleetwood Mac founder leaves a strong stamp on his only album with the Bluesbreakers, singing a few tracks and writing a couple, including the devastating instrumental "Supernatural." Green's use of thick sustain on this track clearly pointed the way to his use of guitar riffs with elongated, slithery tones on Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross" and "Black Magic Woman," as well as anticipating some aspects of Carlos Santana's style...

An early highlight of the British Invasion that artfully chronicled British life past and present, fueled by the songwriting genius of Ray Davies.

The Kinks 

Party Line (Dave Davies / Ray Davies) 2:31

Rosie Won't You Please Come Home (Ray Davies) 2:28

Dandy  (Ray Davies) 2:07

from Face to Face 1966

The Kink Kontroversy was a considerable leap forward in terms of quality, but it pales next to Face to Face, one of the finest collections of pop songs released during the '60s. Conceived as a loose concept album, Face to Face sees Ray Davies' fascination with English class and social structures flourish, as he creates a number of vivid character portraits. Davies' growth as a lyricist coincided with the Kinks' musical growth... making the record one of the most distinctive and accomplished albums of its time.