1960's songs

[_The CCC]

Thought us old folks would like these.
SEE http://www.nme.com/list/100-best-songs- ... 60s/263950

[_MeDotOrg]

The 60's...an immense musical landscape. The Brill Building, Phil Spector, Motown, Surf Music, The British Invasion, Psychedelic West Coast Sound, music was all over the place.

There's a saying: Adults think, children feel, and teenagers secrete, meaning your hormones do a lot of your thinking during adolescence. The sixties were my coming of age years, and I feel almost hormonally bound to that music. This isn't based on whether it's better than other music, it's just the music I listened to when I first fell in love and began the process of figuring out who I am.

I thought I'd link to some songs and lyrics that show how far we've come since the sixties:

Joanie Summers: Johnny Get Angry. Joanie Summers had the quintessential early sixties female voice. (Her Pepsi-Cola commercials were ubiquitous.)

But Johnny Get Angry is a song of distinctly pre-feminist sensibilities:

Johnny, I said we were through
Just to see what you would do
You stood there and hung your head
Made me wish that I were dead

[Chorus]
Oh, Johnny get angry, Johnny get mad
Give me the biggest lecture I ever had
I want a brave man, I want a cave man
Johnny, show me that you care, really care for me

Every time you danced with me
You let Freddy cut in constantly
When he'd ask, you'd never speak
Must you always be so meek?

Repeat Chorus

Every girl wants someone who
She can always look up to
You know I love you, of course
Let me know that you're the boss

Repeat Chorus...fade out...

Here's a song you may have never heard, but has an amazing lineage:

The Chrystals: He hit me - and it felt like kiss

The title is bad enough, but the song was produced by Phil Spector, the producer of the famed 'Wall Of Sound' (You've lost that Loving Feelin', Be my baby). Phil was a guy who got to big too early to handle it and never recovered. Never needed to, he was quite wealthy from royalties. So the man who produced this song went on to a long history of battering women, culminating in the murder of Lana Clarkson at his mansion.

But the really weird thing about the song is that it was written by Geoff Goffin and Carole King. Yes, Carol King.

He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
But it didn't hurt me

He couldn't stand to hear me say
That I'd been with someone new,
And when I told him I had been untrue

He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
And I knew he loved me

If he didn't care for me
I could have never made him mad
But he hit me,
And I was glad

Yes, he hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
And I knew I loved him
And then he took me in his arms
With all the tenderness there is,
And when he kissed me,
He made me his

If this sounds like the mind of a woman who had accepted being brutalized as a sign of love, you are correct. The song was allegedly inspired by the story of the girl who used to babysit for Carole and Geoff. She was bruised, and she explained that her boyfriend hit her, but it was because he loved her. So a song celebrating abuse was released as a popular tune. Fortunately, it bombed.

And the baby sitter? That was Little Eva, who went on to sing the Locomotion

[_Jersey Girl]

Thought us old folks would like these.
SEE http://www.nme.com/list/100-best-songs- ... 60s/263950

Sign me up for Motown, anytime!

(Why isn't there a thread on 70's music? Was everyone too stoned to remember?)

[_The CCC]

Sign me up for Motown, anytime!

(Why isn't there a thread on 70's music? Was everyone too stoned to remember?)

Disco is best forgotten.

[_huckelberry]

I was a teenager those years so this is a pretty familiar collection. Actually there were a few I did not remember at all. I listened to a few yesterday and have forgotten them by now.

I did not forget the Supremes, enjoyed hearing them now.

I could make no sense of the order and decided it was random. However I realize choosing a rating order is absurd. Not only do I not agree with you , whoever you may be, I would not agree with my own list week to week.

I did get the feeling the choices were by a punk rock fan from late 70 early 80s. No other explanation for several Velvet Underground selections and none for Greatfu lDead or the Doors.
I am not super fond of wooden ships but was offended by the description of the song as custard mellow with guitar noodling. Noodling? somebody deaf?

doesn't sound like a participant of 1966 to 1970

[_madeleine]

Thought us old folks would like these.
SEE http://www.nme.com/list/100-best-songs- ... 60s/263950

Something weird with the website...it wont load for me.

I tune into 60s on 6 Siriusxm once in a while. Old songs I haven't heard in a long time. Was all nostalgic over Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe.