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Posts Tagged ‘1966’
The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer In The City
I apologize for the lack of posts recently – an unusual occurrence has arrived in my neighborhood… Summer! You’ll not see any Summertime Blues here, no Winter Hymnal, none of that. From here on out it is wall to wall sunshine, the stuff oranges live for. Summer songs in the 60’s had [...]
José Feliciano: Light My Fire
‘ve been having a resurgent interest in The Doors recently – spurred by the loaning of one of their many “Best Of” CD’s from my local library. Yes, I am one of the few dorks that will loan a music album out of a library, listen to it for three weeks and then [...]
Small Faces: Whatcha Gonna Do About It
“Whatcha Gonna Do About It” was the debut single which the British Mod group Small Faces released in 1966 (A great year for music). The Small Faces were initially heavily influenced by American R&B. The melody was written by Small Faces songwriting duo Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, and was influenced by Solomon [...]
The Who: Boris The Spider
It’s creeping up on us – the chill of Halloween is in the air. Cackling Witches huddled of a steaming cauldron, you get the picture. I don’t need to go into detail. I am still waiting on some suggestions for Halloweeny songs – I’m sure you can do better than me – [...]
Simon & Garfunkel: Sound of Silence
Just beautiful.
The Hollies: Bus Stop
It’s been raining pretty much all week, and I can’t get this song out of my head. “Bus Stop’ by the squeaky clean Hollies is a great Summer time song, and sounds as fresh today as it did 40 years ago at the height of the British Invasion. Luckily, I don’t ride the bus to [...]
Jim Reeves: Distant Drums
Back in 1966, there was one man that kept “Yellow Submarine/ Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles and “All Or Nothing” by The Small Faces out of the UK charts – this man was “Gentleman” Jim Reeves, a country singer from Texas who excelled in the Nashville country sound. He held on to the top [...]
