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When the Sun Breaks Through the Clouds: That Forgotten '60s Jangle (2 CDs)
Side A | ||
Artist | Song | |
The We Five | You Were On My Mind | |
Tommy James & the Shondells | I Think We're Alone Now | |
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart | I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight | |
American Breed | Bend Me, Shape Me | |
The Righteous Brothers | Little Latin Lupe Lu | |
The Buckinghams | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy | |
The Friends of Distinction | Love or Let Me Be Lonely | |
Petula Clark | My Love | |
The Supremes | Come See About Me | |
Shades of Blue | Oh How Happy | |
O'Kaysions | Girl Watcher | |
J.J. Jackson | But It's Alright | |
The Rascals | I've Been Lonely Too Long | |
Marvin Gaye | Too Busy Thinkin' About My Baby | |
The Intruders | Cowboys to Girls | |
Cliff Nobles & Co. | The Horse | |
Jay & the Americans | Come a Little Bit Closer | |
Peppermint Rainbow | Will You Be Staying After Sunday | |
Gary Puckett & the Union Gap | Over You | |
Gerry & the Pacemakers | Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying | |
Jack Nitzsche | The Lonely Surfer | |
The Temptations | Since I Lost My Baby | |
The Beach Boys | Don't Worry Baby | |
The Association | Everything That Touches You | |
The Montanas | You've Got to Be Loved | |
The Cyrkle | Red Rubber Ball | |
Every Mothers Son | Come on Down to My Boat | |
The Byrds | The World Turns All Around Her | |
The Ides of March | Girls Don't Grow on Trees | |
Side B | ||
Artist | Song | Buy |
The Ventures | Walk, Don't Run | |
The Zombies | She's Not There | |
The Grass Roots | Heaven Knows | |
Neil Diamond | Thank the Lord for the Night Time | |
The Vogues | You're the One | |
The Mamas & the Papas | Monday, Monday | |
Spanky & Our Gang | Sunday Will Never Be the Same | |
The 5th Dimension | Up, Up and Away | |
Keith | 98.6 | |
The T-Bones | No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) | |
The Clique | Sugar on Sunday | |
The Monkees | Sometime in the Morning | |
The Lovin' Spoonful | You Didn't Have to Be So Nice | |
The Turtles | You Know What I Mean | |
The Drifters | Up on the Roof | |
Betty Everett | The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) | |
The Ronettes | Be My Baby | |
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | My Girl Has Gone | |
The Spinners | Truly Yours | |
The Four Tops | Baby I Need Your Loving | |
The Happenings | See You in September | |
The Beatles | Please Mister Postman | |
The Cowsills | Mr. Flynn | |
Manfred Mann | The Mighty Quinn | |
The Hollies | Look Through Any Window | |
The Searchers | When You Walk in the Room | |
Left Banke | Barterers and the Wives | |
The Beau Brummels | Turn Around | |
Mason Williams | Classical Gas | |
Comment:
The real title of this mix is "When the Sun Breaks Through the Clouds: the '60s Jangle That Time Forgot (Or Never Really Cared About to Begin With)". Let's face it. These songs are about love, lost love, unrequited love. They're catchy. They have the swelling horns and strings. Whether we're talking about the soothing Motown bridges in the midst of both CDs, or the graceful instrumentals that seem to break these pop songs up, we know we're talking about the '60s. Did you know "The Horse" by Cliff Nobles was a #2 hit in 1968? Or that "Cowboys to Girls" by the Intruders, and "98.6" by Keith both broke into the top ten 40 years ago? And did you know that The Ides of March made songs that sound nothing like "Vehicle"? Me neither. I'm making sure that AM radio sound isn't overshadowed by the Doors and Jethro Tull. While the '60s jangle might be gone, I'm making sure it won't be forgotten.Feedback:
Wow, this looks amazing.
Holy Cow, this is quite amazing A.D. I completely agree with boganlux. Oh, and we gotta trade Man...
A great mixture of classic hits and long lost gems. Highest marks.
Wonderful collection. Love that jangle.
Songs I grow up with and still never tire of listening to. Excellent job.
please get a download of this up ASAP - absolutely incredible
Overwhelming
This looks fantastic.
However far my music explorations take me, I'm not sure I'll ever find anything as deeply enjoyable as '60s pop. I would make more "oldies" (curse that term!) mixes myself but people like RetroJoe and others seem to have infinitely deeper resources from that time. Mine would just be the popular hits I grew up with (grew up with in the '80s, but still...), much like this mix, although you've added a bunch that, to my shock and excitement, I'm not even familiar with. More to track down and love! Thanks for that. And seriously, the ones I do know (about 80%) are so marvelously enchanting and, despite how often oldies have been re-packaged and put together haphazardly into collections, very refreshingly considered just delights me to no end. There are a ton of '60s "jangle" songs but you somehow found ones that share a similar energy and spirit. I must also applaud you for your Beatles choice - that must've been at least a little tricky, trying to find the most apt choice amongst all their many many great songs, but I agree that that's one of their most out-and-out blissful tracks. It belongs on here more than any others I can think of - well done! I have so much to learn from you...:)
And yes, for the love of God please help bring back this style of '60s music as opposed to the classic rock, which is all fine and dandy but what a tragedy that stations playing Petula Clark, Ronettes, We Five and the like have all but vanished...at least in my corner of the world. Sad sad times in that respect
what hemizen said.
You have some of the best here: J. J.Jackson, Ronettes, Temptations, so many others. Excellent in every way.
Phenomenal. Disliking this is nigh on impossible.
Dizzyingly good. Sooo many great tracks...
Man, so much goodness in two concentrated CD's... I'm in awe. Good stuff.
wow, lots of great stuff on here!! i can never get enough of the Zombies.
Really enjoyed checking out what I haven't used on my prior mixes for the '60s (28 of the 58 tunes; 10 on disc 1, namely: tracks 9, 11, 18-21, 23, 25, & 28-29; and 18 on disc 2, namely: tracks 3-4, 6-8, 11-12, 14, 17-19, 22-23, & 25-29).Some were songs I'd passed up because I thought they'd been played too much, such as Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Be My Baby, or Classical Gas (but some songs are so good they can almost not be played too much).Others were songs I chose not to use due to time restraint, they didn't sound right in the particular mix, or I missed them some how, such as Don't Worry Baby, Heaven Knows, or Look Through Any Window.Lastly, there are the songs that I missed because they weren't listed in Billboards top 100, such as Thank the Lord for the Night Time and Please Mr. Postman.Thanks for giving me an opportunity to evaluate my past choices; it may make me a better mixer in the future.
Ditto on the love of this resplendent era, and on your choices. Fun also to see a few I'm stumped to recall.
Regarding my comment about songs on this mix that were excluded from my prior mixes... I was wrong about Classical Gas; it was not only used on 64 mixes on aotm, but this great #2 charted hit from '68 was also used on 2 of my mixes.. [So I guess I listened to my gut instinct and realized some songs can never be played too much.]