Artist	Song
Aaron Neville	Show Me The Way (1960)
Earl King	Come On (Part One) (1960)
James Brown	Think (1960)
The Shirelles	Tonight's The Night (1960)
Chuck Jackson	I Wake Up Crying (1961)
Aaron Neville	How Many Times? (1961)
The Drifters	Please Stay (1961)
The Regents	Runaround (1961)
The Jive Five	These Golden Rings (1962)
The Volumes	I Love You (1962)
Solomon Burke	Cry To Me (1962)
Sam Cooke	Nothing Can Change This Love (1962)
The Chiffons	He's So Fine (rec 1962)
The Angels	I Adore Him (1963)
The Beatles	Twist And Shout (1963)
The Beach Boys	Your Summer Dream (1963)
Barbara Lewis	Hello Stranger (1963)
The Ronettes	Be My Baby (1963)
Roy Orbison	It's Over (1964)
The Cinderellas	Baby, Baby, I Still Love You (1964)
Connie Francis	Don't Ever Leave Me (1964)
The Chants	She's Mine (1964)
Ben E. King	What Can A Man Do? (1964)
Otis Redding	You're One And Only Man (1964)
The Four Tops	Baby, I Need Your Lovin' (1964)
The Velvelettes	He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' (1964)
Evie Sands	Take Me For A Little While (1964)
The Rolling Stones	Time Is On My Side (1964)
The Beach Boys	She Knows Me Too Well (1964)
The Chiffons	What Am I Gonna Do With You (Hey Baby) (1964)

Comment:

Having got so much out of compiling a mix of my very favourite songs from the second half of the 60s, it was a no-brainer for me to attempt the same treatment of the first half of the same decade! I gave myself the same brief - to fill a CD with songs that really mean something special to me, regardless of the obscurity or popularity of the songs and artists concerned. However, I realised early on that I look for different qualities in early 60s music than I do in the later stuff (unrestrained joy, naive innocence or raw energy - as opposed to profound lyrics, emotional depth or musical experimentation!) I have discovered a lot about my musical tastes over the last couple of weeks and this latest project showed me that: A) I am very biased towards the American music of the early 60s (there are only a few British artists featured - and generally they are covering American songs!) and B) I seem to enjoy the music of the 60s more as the decade progressed (even on a compilation of the decade's first half, 2/5 of the songs are from the last year available to me!). Again I found a lot of cross-over between this CD and ones I have posted in the past, although where it was a toss-up between two tracks I enjoy equally for this CD I selected whichever one had not previously featured on one of my mixes. I took ages to find a suitable start to the CD - 1960 is by no means my favourite year for music - there was a lot of cheesey or naff music around and I wanted to find something with a bit more depth. Eventually I remembered about Aaron Neville's "Show Me The Way" and instantly I realised that its Gospel influenced Doo Wop flavourings made it the perfect choice to kick off this mix. And so this is what I ended up with: a mixture of Doo Wop, R&B, Soul, Pop and Girl Group records along with several that blur the boundaries between those genres (which I have attempted to use as 'link tracks' between songs of different styles.) Most of the selections will never make it onto any "Best Of The 60s" albums but these are the songs from this 5-year period which (at the moment) are "really sayin somethin" to me.

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