Other Mixes By Thomas_Mohr
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Dance - House
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Theme - Cover Songs
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Theme - Cover Songs
The Parallel 60s
| Artist | Song | |
| Sammy Davis, Jr. | John Shaft (Isaac Hayes) | |
| The Three Sounds | Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame) | |
| The Johnny Mann Singers | Heart Full of Soul (The Yardbirds) | |
| Birds & Brass | American Woman (The Guess Who) | |
| Mrs. Miller | Monday Monday (The Mamas & Papas) | |
| The In Group | If I Had a Hammer (Peter, Paul & Mary) | |
| STrgio Mendes & Brasil '77 | After Midnight (J. J. Cale) | |
| James Last | Aquarius (from "Hair") | |
| Mel TormT | Happy Together (The Turtles) | |
| Orchester Gnnter Gollasch | Es stand ein Haus in New Orleans [House of the Rising Sun] (The Animals) | |
| Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes | Get Back (The Beatles) | |
| Ernie Wilkins | Evil Ways (Santana) | |
| Julie London | Yummy Yummy Yummy (Ohio Express) | |
| Gabor Szabo | Breezin' (George Benson) | |
| Bossa Rio | Spinning Wheel (Blood, Sweat & Tears) | |
| The Sandpipers | Never Can Say Goodbye (The Jacksons) | |
| Buddy Rich | The Beat Goes On (Sonny & Cher) | |
| Gary McFarland | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) | |
| Bobby Shad & The Bad Men | I Want You Back (The Jacksons) | |
| Andy Williams | Windy (The Association) | |
| Stan Getz | Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash) | |
| Lord Sitar | Daydream Believer (The Monkees) | |
| Mae West | Light My Fire (The Doors) | |
| Peter-Thomas-Sound-Orchester | Valleri (The Monkees) | |
| Guy Lombardo | Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel) | |
| Sarah Vaughan | Peter Gunn (Henry Mancini) | |
Comment:
This sat on my hard drive for at least six months. A complete computer crash had ruined the sequence, so I had to rebuild it from scratch. At least in part, this was inspired by the extremely entertaining and insightful writings of filmmaker Alan Zweig (of "Vinyl" fame) - who seems to have vanished from the Net, otherwise there would be a link here - which is where I also borrowed the title. So here's a small collection of the sounds which were THEN called NOW, a groovy collection of the cool and the crazy, the shlocky and the shmoov. Easy-listening and jazzed-up versions of your favorite 60s (and early-70s) tunes, or the music you so stoopidly loved to hate when your (grand)parents played it. 79 mins of good, clean & wholesome fun for the entire family. Enjoy!Feedback:
let's have a drink to this, groovy in soft way, esp love to see Mel TormT and Buddy Rich versions
hey stranger! Brilliant mix, especially stan getz and sergio mendes. Hope you're well, and Berlin is not too cold, although I suspect it's freezing
Can't beat a bit of Mrs.Miller tinkling away on the old ivories on a Sunday morning. Schmoove one.
Oh my God, this is so excellent!!! Would love to hear this!!!
Oh yeah! Uniformly groovy. Hearin' Mae West do "Light My Fire" makes me long for Jim Morrison (or at least Jose Feliciano). You know I want a copy, right? Right?
The whole mix scares me, esp the Julie London and Johnny Mann Singers tracks.
It's groovy, it's scary and it's hard to believe it happened but I remember some of this stuff. Adults trying to be cool in the 60s.
I don't know what's scarier the mix or the cover!
Scary in a good way, natch...
Scary in a good way, natch...
Nice 'n' odd.
Gosharooney, this is a nice mix!
My favorites!
Hooray for Julie London and Lord Sitar. And hooray for the return of Thomas. Give us more, Mohr! Gee, I dunno - I think the cover is kinda hot.
Uniformly excellent...shame you can't de-grade to a wax cylinder:)..NUNTASTIC!
This looks absolutely fantastic...and groovey, of course. Cool cover too.
great looking mix, and love that "che "toooooo!!!
Okay. Everyone stole all of my lines ... There ain't a comment on here that I don't second ...
I think I heard a lot of this sitting at the Walgreens lunch counter when I was a kid. Zuper!
There's nothing better than a great cover collection!!!And speaking of covers...no sleep for this boy...Che, Che, Che, Che's a fool...
Phew! Exhaustive and impressive...
This mix is second to nun! It moves, it grooves, it soothes. Please save a copy for the next round Mssr. Mohr. I'd choose Mae West's version over ugly old Jim Morrison's any day of the week;)
The Mohr alternate universe! I'd like to go there for a visit, though only on a round-trip ticket . . . Mae West's "Light My Fire" may beat out Jim Morrison's, but can she possibly do it with the verve & styling that the Del Rubio Triplets did? (I think Julie London & Nancy Sinatra also wanted their fires lit . . . )
Excellent stuff!
Congrats on MOTW -- a well-deserved honour for a truly frightening parallel universe!!!! Good job!
Yeah! This is really supremely cool - I do like the look of the Mohr alternate universe. I always did like that Sandpipers version. And a very cool cover too. herzlichen Glueckwunsch!
MOTW! I like this parallel universe myself. Congratulations.
A well-deserved MOTW! So very, very groovy...
Flat out awesome.
Congratulations on receiving the MOTW crown! You mean these versions weren't the hits?
many congrats to my favourite German!
Congratualations! a groover.
Congratulations. This is fantastic!
Urgent Parallelogram:Congratulations Herr Mohr!!!!
Thanks for all the congrats and warm words, folks. They were much appreciated. Though I ain't worthy, no way . . . ;)
I obviously haven't been paying attention recently, Thomas, This is amazing.I read a load of the same Zweig articles (following that 'Vinyl' tip-off from Cassetta). Just when I'd be tiring off his melancholic obsessiveness he'd drop another musical morsel into the essay and you'd have to keep reading. I never did quite get around to following up some of the tracks he was writing about. I was especially interested in the Now Sound stuff, having gone through a fascination with all that 60's loungey music myself.As always, great devotion to the cause here, Thomas, and a thoroughly well deserved MotW! ;~)
just catching up on some mixes I missed - sorryI like this a lot, and don't often say this - want to trade?
oh, WOW. ok, so there are some really good mixers on this site. I was about to give up. glad i sifted through everything. This is just great.
Hey Mr. Mohr - I ran across this looking at the MOTW list. We have never traded. Would you care to? This looks like a gas. Best to you - Steve
Thank you for this T!
I love it!! You know I do. I'm still reeling from Ms. Vaughn's Peter Gunn...
I love it!! You know I do. I'm still reeling from Ms. Vaughn's Peter Gunn...
Thomas - this is absolutely brilliant! I just cracked up at the Mrs. Miller track.A long time ago on a road trip up the CA coast, I stopped in Santa Barbara. In a junk shop I was looking thru some old 1967 Playboys. The advertisements had very "square"-looking frat guys pushing Brylcream (hair goop of the time). Your mix makes my think of that ad in that magazine - taking the real action, and making it flaky to sell stuff. Parallel 60's. After the rat pack days, Sammy Davis junior had to jump to a less-hip parallel track, eh?A wonderful mix!
This mix was my soundtrack to yesterday. It was a good day.
This was a lot of fun. What a great idea to collect these. Seems like everbody is playing straight except Mrs. Miller.
Actually I am not sure about Sammy Davis. There was a time in American slang when "dick" meant detective, before the common meaning changed to "penis." Not sure if Sammy is joking about the "black private dick"!!
Especially nice performances: semi-psychedelic "House of the Rising..", long jazzy jam on : I Want You Back," and both the takes on the Monkees. Nice one, man!
Actually I am not sure about Sammy Davis. There was a time in American slang when "dick" meant detective, before the common meaning changed to "penis." Not sure if Sammy is joking about the "black private dick"!!
Especially nice performances: semi-psychedelic "House of the Rising..", long jazzy jam on : I Want You Back," and both the takes on the Monkees. Nice one, man!