#GladysKnight and the Pips' version of the song was the first to be released in 1967. It went #1 and was the best-selling #Motown single at the time. The next year, #MarvinGaye made it the massive hit most of us remember.
🎧 A post I read today triggered memories of the year my Dad was in Vietnam.
I was 12. Dad parked me, pregnant Mom and 3 sibs in a tiny Southern town, and I was miserable. Almost any song that I loved from that year chokes me up. I searched the Billboard charts for 1969, and one song stood out from that Summer.
🎧 Sons of #Akron, Bobby Heller (Hammond/Organ) and Charles Heller (drums) recruited James 'Boots' Smith to play guitar and got busy as #SoulToronadoes.
In 1969, they released "Go For Yourself" (b/w "Funky Thang) — the uptempo funk jammmm!
"A horse is a horse of course, of course.
And no one can talk to a horse of course.
That is of course unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed ..." - Jay Livingston
Many jingles of the 60s pop into my head all the time. Songs from TV shows and commercials. Sometimes I just start singing them out loud, usually when I'm at home. It entertains Ben and Charlie. I don't generally start singing in the middle of Walmart, though that would be funny. Needless to say, I saw the Mr. Ed TV show, before it was just reruns ... Wiillbuuur.
"Escape, come on over to Royal Crown Cola, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad cola, RC the one with the mad, mad taste" - author unknown, sang by Nancy Sinatra
I read the other day that Jim Morrison was a big fan of the Beach Boys album Wild Honey, and despite me not being a Doors fan, I gotta agree with him.
The Beach Boys were the first band I was really into as a kid- the Beatles right around the same time, but afterwards. When I was really young, my parents would play both bands pretty often.
Everyone of course knows the Beach Boys' big beach related hits, but Wild Honey is an overlooked masterpiece from 1967. It doesn't have any of the big hits (and no beach related songs), but Darlin' might be my favorite BB song. The whole record is incredible. The BASSLINES on it, too. 🤯
#JoeCocker transformed #TheBeatles' song for his debut LP in 1968, and the response was massive. His emotional performance at Woodstock was the unofficial theme song of the Festival.
Cocker performed the song in 1980 at the Metropol #Berlin and the concert aired on #Rockplast.
NICK DRAKE
Five Leaves Left
2013 U.S. remastered reissue
My wife and I don’t share very much common ground when it comes to music.
However, Nick Drake is someone we both love and adore, and my wife and I have shared many a wonderful night together with Nick’s music as the backdrop.
Tonight, we have this and a lovely Italian dinner.
This remaster sounds wonderful. Just a wonderful sounding issue of a stunningly gorgeous album. #vinyl#vinylrecords#nickdrake#folk#1969#1960s#60smusic#60s
The producer cut Acklin's voice from the recording and released the song the same year as "Soulful Strut"—a gold record credited to Young-Holt Unlimited.
Jason and the Argonauts (working title: Jason and the Golden Fleece) is a 1963 independent fantasy adventure film distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was produced by Charles H. Schneer, directed by Don Chaffey, and stars Todd Armstrong, while co-starring Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, and Gary Raymond....
Jason and the Argonauts - 1963 - starrng Todd Armstrong, co-starring Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, and Gary Raymond. Special effects by Ray Harryhausen, inventor of Dynamation (movie-web.app)
Jason and the Argonauts (working title: Jason and the Golden Fleece) is a 1963 independent fantasy adventure film distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was produced by Charles H. Schneer, directed by Don Chaffey, and stars Todd Armstrong, while co-starring Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, and Gary Raymond....