Who's old enough to remember these 60's hits ?
 

We already established in an earlier thread that GFY is populated by a pack of old bastards and no I don't mean that fossil Paul Markham

So, how many of you remember hits from the 60's ?

I was born in early 1967 so some of these ring a bell. Let's start in that year.

Linda Ronstadt was certainly doable in 1967!

The Mama's and the Papa's looked pretty nerdy, except for the blonde.

However Cass Elliot looked like Adele and died at age 32 after choking on a ham sandwich (well that was the rumour).

The song is better without the vision.

Lou Reed did the drugs, no doubt about that.

This is one of those annoying fucking songs that gets stuck in your head and replays itself again and again and again #sorrynotsorry

Bobbie Gentry had a really hot voice but a really unhappy life. She's still around, lives a very private life shunning her former career.

In 1967, I was 21 and I loved this song:

And this one :

and...

and later (1979)...

Ha! this was #1 in the UK on the day I was born - it's my anthem!

They certainly are.

Just listen to the shit that passes for music these days, and then take a listen to stuff like this from 40 or 50 years ago, and then ask yourself, "what the hell went wrong?"

That's what your parents probably said about the music you listened to. Personally I love Deadmau5, Lindsey Stirling, Skrillex, Daft Punk and other modern electronic music just as much as I enjoy listening to the nostalgia.

But as this is a 60s thread, let's listen to the birth of electronic music....

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That Moog sound is unmistakeable. (The Beatles actually used a Moog also).

I was born in '63, but had 4 older siblings who played all this stuff constantly. It's the first music I really knew, aside from my mom's collection of Elvis, Neal Diamond, Ricky Nelson, Paul Anka, etc.

That Procol Harem song was the anthem that marked the end of one of the most notable decades of the last century.

I remember listing to this bullshit Vietnam war propaganda song on my transistor hand held radio -- I was 11. By the time I was 14 I was aligned with the SDS (Student for a Democratic Society) and the White Panther Movement founding parties of the Yippies that took the day at the DNC Chicago 1968 --



Flower Power ended in the USA c.1968



We got real and took it to the streets.