Ok, so maybe it's that the topics have been scaring people off, or maybe folks are just too darned busy to post (not much activity at our other local theatre type site either)- either way, here's a series of fun, frothy summer-time and the livin is EEEEEAASSSSYYY questions.
Part A-
What are your FIVE favorite songs from the 1960's? Any genre, any artists, hell they can be five Herman's Hermits songs for all I care. (Did they even HAVE five songs?)
Hit me with your best shots, people...and let the summertime roll! (oops- both of those references courtesy of the 80's)
hmm....Help! (the song, not the verb), It might be stretching the rules, but, anything off Zep I&II, I'm Goin' Home, Brown Sugar, , Dylan's entire Blonde on Blonde. Ferlin Husky's Snow White Dove, that was early sixties, right?
ReplyDeleteMAD PROPS FOR PULLING OUT FERLIN HUSKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWay to go Fletch!
Okay, X, you asked for it, but only five songs from the sixties? I broke mine into categories, five each:
ReplyDeleteFive fav 60's pop songs:
HEY, BABY - by one-hit wonder Bruce Chanell
ROCKIN'GOOD WAY - Brook Benton & Diana Washington
EVERY BREATH I TAKE - Gene Pitney
IN THE SHELTER OF YOUR ARMS- Sammy Davis
POINT OF NO RETURN - Gene McDaniels
Honourable mention:
STUCK ON YOU - Elvis
MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF - Jerry Butler
WHAT'S A MATTER, BABY (Is It Hurtin' You?)- Timi Yuro (The Little Girl With The Great Big Voice)
Five fav Broadway 60's:
NIGHT SONG - Golden Boy, Sammy Davis
JUST FOR TODAY - Her First Roman, Leslie Uggams
MOLASSES TO RUM TO SLAVES -1776, David Cryer
IMPOSSIBLE DREAM - Man of La Mancha, Richard Kiley
NEVER WILL I MARRY - Greenwillow, Anthony Perkins
Five Fav Motown 60's:
YOU BEAT ME TO THE PUNCH - Mary Wells
JAMIE - Eddie Holland
ASK THE LONELY - Four Tops
WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED - Jimmy Ruffin
SHOP AROUND - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Five Fav Doo-Wop 60's:
STAY - Maurice & the Zodiacs
UM,UM,UM,UM,UM,UM - Major Lance
BLUE MOON - The Marcels
THE WIND - The Jesters
RUBY BABY - Dion
Five Fav British Invasion 60's:
ELEANOR RIGBY - Beatles
JUST A LITTL LOVIN' (EARLY IN THE MORNIN')- Dusty Springfield
SHE'S NOT THERE - Zombies
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN - Animals
NEEDLES & PINS - Searchers
Five Fav 6o's Movie Themes:
GOLDFINGER - Shirley Bassey
WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? - Tom Jones
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE - Gene Pitney (a theme that was never used for the movie. Pappy Ford didn't want it, I think)
BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL - Glenn Yarborough
ALFIE - Dionne Warwick
Five Fave 60's Dance Craze Songs:
THE TWIST - Chubby Checker
THE BRISTOL STOMP - The Dovells
THE LOCOMOTION - Little Eva
MASHED POTATO TIME - Dee Dee Sharp
WATUSI - The Orlons
Well done, Chuck!
ReplyDeleteFletch and I actually saw Bruce Chanell play HEY BABY at the Volenteer Jam back in 87!
I'd narrow my five to these (Jeesh, this IS hard!)
ReplyDelete-Hey Jude (Beatles) I think it's representative of the finest the Beatles had to offer all in one number.
- Like A Rolling Stone (Dylan) Best Dylan had to offer in this period and one of the finest anti estableshment songs ever
- See Me,Feel Me /Listening to You (The WHO) The shape of things to come where the WHO were concerned.
- Jackson (Johnny Cash/ June Carter)- Easy to see why these two were soulmates by listening to this track! (esp. the FOLSOM PRISON version)
-Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane)Sums up San Fran and the West Coast hippies in one three minute rocker.
HONORABLE MENTION
Little Wing - Hendrix
Easy to be Hard - HAIR soundtrack
Highway 61- Dylan
Eve of Destruction- Barry McGuire
Doors- The End
Beatles- Hide your love away
Not a definitive top five by any means,but some i thought of....
ReplyDelete*Aretha Franklin- I Aint Never Loved a Man (the way i love you)
That song is a career in and unto itself.
*Beatles- Here Comes the Sun
yeah, yeah, you can take your john and your paul ....i found this simple song by George simply brilliant
*CCR- Fortunate Son
The original angry young white man song.
*Shangri Las- Leader of the Pack
I have always loved this song...the melodrama of the teen years
*Loretta Lynn- Dont Come Home A Drinkin'
Instant classic....no one writes country like Loretta
*The Drifters- Up on the Roof and Under the Boardwalk
These songs groove
*The Happenings- Go Away Little Girl
Epitomizes the cheesiness of the 60s
*The Byrds- Tambourine Man
Groovy
*Johhny Rivers -Poor Side of Town
I love this song.
My MOST REVILED 60s band was The Lovin'Spoonful...i just hate everything they did.
c'mon!! Summer in The City and Nashville Cats? How in the world can you hate those songs? As for the rest of the spoonful's tunes...I see what you mean.
ReplyDeleteThe wife's distaste of the Lovin Spoonful is well documented!
ReplyDeleteHell, I love DAYDREAM myself!
Oh..by the way...WHERE THE HELL IS EVERYBODY???????????????
Who knows? What gets me is no one post on the Tonys on the Theatre Board...amazing!
ReplyDeleteFor the record, Bravo Coast of Utopia! Bravo Ed Stern & The Cincy Playhouse on Company! Bravo Journey's End! Bravo Frank Langella whose speech was eloquent and and elegant and who is just a class act all the way!
I just haven't kept up with it this year, so I don't have much of an opinion on it (hence nothing on it on my spot- but I am surprised no one commented on the other site- come to think of it, it's been kinda dead too. I guess it's just a busy time of year!)
ReplyDeleteI did see where UTOPIA racked up! I'll have to check that one out. It's been so damned long since I've been to NYC I forgot what the place looks like...used to go a couple of times a year, but ever since my brother moved away from there, I haven't been back. I need to get back there before too long.
UTOPIA has ended its run. I just read the trilogy. Very compelling. Pretty impossible to mount unless you have a major entity like The National Theatre or Lincoln Centre behind it. Saw Frost/Nixon and Journey's End both in London. Both great! Langella's Nixon was brilliant.
ReplyDeleteChcuk,
ReplyDeleteHow does Frost / Nixon compare with Nixon's Nixon a few years back? I really liked that script.
I never saw or read Nixon's Nixon, but I'm not one who generally cottons to "politically"-themed shows particularly (thought there are those who say all theatre is political). But I went to this one because it had gotten so much incredible hype, brilliant reviews, and I like both the performers. I saw Michael Sheen do AMADEUS in a Peter Hall revival (with David Suchet as Salieri) several years ago and had also enjoyed some of his film work). And I am a huge fan of Langella's, who I've seen several times on stage: Liasion Dangereuse, Scenes From An Execution, Strindberg's The Father. He has often written articles for Equity News (one particular touching one about working with the late Alan Bates shortly before he passed away) which always evoke an actor who is not ashamed of his profession, but loves and respects it and is proud to be an actor. I just feel he's an actor's actor.
ReplyDeleteSo on the strength of all that, I went and saw it. It was one of the best things we saw last November in what was a very strong theatre trip. Both men were terrific and Langella, without doing an imitation or a chariacture, captured the Nixon of that period with great sensitivity, depth, and humanity. It almost made me want to wait at the stage-door and gush like a soppy fan when he came out.
One of those great evenings in the theatre!
Some of the worst, most annoying lyrics EVER written....
ReplyDelete"hot town summer in the city, back of my neck getting dirty and gritty" or something like that.
i just get shivers when i hear that song in particuliar.
"cool down, isn't it a pity. Never seems to be a shadow in the city!!"
ReplyDelete-For sure, any and all on Led Zep I and II.
ReplyDelete-Build Me Up Buttercup
-For Your Love
-96 Tears
-It's My Party
I realize most on my list are bubble gum pop tunes, but there is something ironic about the those pop songs and the time period they were released that makes them attractive. They also have pretty cool hooks.
I agree, D.Master!..I will post my list from work today, it's a few more than 5 because there was an ocean of good music in the 60's (ocean reference for summertime)..
ReplyDeleteMillsy, 96 tears definitely was a kick ass tune!
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree about Zep I and II, but since Fletch covered 'em I left them off my list...also I knew it would hack him off :)
this is my list and I did scale it down..
ReplyDeleteDONOVAN- Season of the Witch/Sunshine Superman/Mellow Yellow/Jennifer Juniper/Hurdy Gurdy Man..
BEATLES- If I Fell/And I Love Her/You've Got to Hide Your Love Away/Ticket to Ride/Nowhere Man/Blackbird/Because/Till There Was You..
TREMELOES- Silence is Golden..
RASCALS- Groovin'..
TURTLES- Happy Together..
BOX TOPS- The Letter..
PROCOL HARUM- White Shade of Pale..
GERRY&The PACEMAKERS- Ferry Across the Mercy..
SIMON&GARFUNKEL- Sound of Silence..
ASSOCIATION- Cherish..
MAMAS&PAPAS- California Dreamin'..
BYRDS- Turn Turn Turn..
DION- Abraham,Martin & John..
CCR- Bad Moon Risin'..
DIONNE WARWICK- Walk On By..
BEE GEES- I Started a Joke..
JUDY COLLINS- Both Sides Now..
DOORS- Hello, I love you..
JANIS JOPLIN- Piece of My Heart..
ANIMALS- House of the Risin' Sun
and MOTOWN
"Been down, isn't it a pity
ReplyDeleteDoesn't seem to be a shadow in the city"...
"Cool town, evening in the city
Dressing so fine and looking so pretty"...
BEE GEES- I'm down with that. LOVED old Bee Gees...but com'on people - part of the the process is narrowing it down!!!! (Not just you , Bondie...my own wife is an offender.
ReplyDeleteKick Out The Jams--MC5
ReplyDeletePicture Book-KINKS
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window-BEATLES
Crosstown Traffic-JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Raw Power-IGGY AND THE STOOGES
The End by the Doors? Are you drunk?
I narrowed but...still, it was fun all the same to think of all that music...
ReplyDeleteI LIKE the END!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes...I AM a bit drunk...
BTW- KICK OUT THE JAMS! Nice choice!
be fair, there are a few others that listed more than 5 songs (even albums)...I guess we are havin' some fun and that ain't so bad...
ReplyDeleteHey, I SAID my own wife was an offender! As was Mr Pogue- no problem...I ain't hatin on ya! Personal attacks aren't my thing...but they seem to be the soup du joir on that "other" site...
ReplyDeleteI know
ReplyDeleteAnything BUT theatre seems to be the du jour over there these days.
ReplyDeleteMC5!!how could I forget!!
ReplyDeleteNo kidding! I guess I always associate them with the 70's...my bad...
ReplyDeleteHey, man. Totally not related to your post. I just wanted to say that I am so sorry that I didn't get a chance to chat with you at the AGL thing tonight. The children were overloading my brain . . .
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