Strictly Sixties!

[Tonetele]

Wow ! Those of us who did grow up in the 60s, myself included, we grew up with explosive stuff and change in the world.
I have to add, as I taught Keith Potger how to string a guitar with less winds, The Seekers actually nudged The Rolling Stones and The Beatles from no.1 in 1969 with " The Carnival is Over"- anyone remember that?
That was the year of Woodstock, Hendrix etc. Weren't we lucky to have had such a rich period of music?
Glad I'm a Boomer.

 

[blowtorch]

Glad I'm a Boomer

Better you than me

 

[Tonetele]

I feel sorry for you blowtorch.
Are you a millennial or less?

 

[electrichead]

Any and everything by the Beach boys,Tommy James and the Shondells,and Frankie Vally and the Four seasons..Honorable mention to Sha Na Na

 

[schmee]

Yeah, it was a killer decade. I'm a big Motown guy, but add the British invasion and other things like the folk scene and... well... that's why I became a musician!

 

[Rustbucket]

I wasn’t born, but I’d start with this list of top 100 Stax records hits. My favorite 60’s music came from there. Otis Redding, Albert King, Steve Cropper, the MG’s...what else do you need?

https://www.waybackattack.com/top100-staxvolthits.html

 

[flathd]

1. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash- Stones
3. Satisfaction-Stones
4. Time has Come Today- The Chambers Bros.
5. Eve of Destruction- Barry Mcguire
6. Like a Rolling stone -Dylan
7. All Along the Watchtower- Dylan or Hendrix
8. Positively 4th Street- Dylan
9. Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
10. Valerie - The Monkees
11. Hush- Deep Purple
12. Walk Don't Run- Ventures
13. Good Vibrations- Beach Boys
14. Sloop John B - Beach Boys
15. Time of the Season- Zombies
16. Runaway- Del Shannon
17. Bob Seger- Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
18. Grass Roots- Let's Live for Today.
19. Grass Roots- Midnight Confessions
20. The Boxtops - The Letter

edit: 20 songs seems like too many, yet not enough.

I could list a lot more if I had all day.

 

[JIMMY JAZZMAN]

The 60's were great for music, that's for sure. But don't leave out "Lesley Gore". As my granddaughter
says," It's my Potty and I'll Cry if I Want To".......Nuf Ced....

 

[Stringbanger]

1. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash- Stones
3. Satisfaction-Stones
4. Time has Come Today- The Chambers Bros.
5. Eve of Destruction- Barry Mcguire
6. Like a Rolling stone -Dylan
7. All Along the Watchtower- Dylan or Hendrix
8. Positively 4th Street- Dylan
9. Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
10. Valerie - The Monkees
11. Hush- Deep Purple
12. Walk Don't Run- Ventures
13. Good Vibrations- Beach Boys
14. Sloop John B - Beach Boys
15. Time of the Season- Zombies
16. Runaway- Del Shannon
17. Bob Seger- Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
18. Grass Roots- Let's Live for Today.
19. Grass Roots- Midnight Confessions
20. The Boxtops - The Letter

edit: 20 songs seems like too many, yet not enough.

I could list a lot more if I had all day.

Love the Grassroots, and Valleri was one of the Monkees best efforts.

 

[flathd]

Love the Grassroots, and Valleri was one of the Monkees best efforts.

Valleri had that cool guitar solo that me and my buddies couldn't play.

 

[telleutelleme]

How about some instrumentals in no particular order:

1. Telstar
2. Classical Gas
3. A Taste of Honey
4. Grazing in the Grass
5. The "In" Crowd
6. Exodus
7. The Horse
8. The Lonely Bull
9. Teardrop
10. Soul Finger
11. Out of Limits
12. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
13. Miserlou
14. Wipeout
15. Apache
16. Washington Square
17. Last Date
18. Because they are Young
19. Never on Sunday
20. On the Beach

 

[buster poser]

I missed the decade by about ten months, but the music of my parents loomed large.

Beatles, Buck Owens, and Otis Redding were my primary influences and still the ones I still listen to most often from that decade. Usual suspects besides that. Far too many to list.

 

[That Cal Webway]

Always loved this but you don't hear it much. 1968

 

[1300 E Valencia]

Did someone mention Petula Clark? She's 10 years older than Paul McCartney. Old enough to be my mom, and I'm old enough to be your dad! Take that, zygotes!

 

[uriah1]

psychotic reaction
little bit of soul
house in new orleans
incenese and peppermint
love is all around
Dave Clark5
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Mitchy Ryder and the detroit wheels
Gloria

 

[57fenderstrat]

An impressive list of '60s songs from a twenty nine year old.

Can’t beat the classics , they don’t make em like the use to !

 

[Rick330man]

How could I forget:

(1) Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group
(2) Here Comes the Night - Them
(3) Jack the Ripper - Link Wray
(4) Heart Full of Soul - the Yardbirds
(5) GTO - Ronnie & the Daytonas
(6) Little Black Egg - the Nightcrawlers
(7) King Midas in Reverse - the Hollies
(8) Mirage - Tommy James & the Shondells
(9) Green Tambourine - the Lemon Pipers
(10) Pied Piper - Crispian St. Peters
(11) Gloria - Them

Sticking to my "Spinal Tap" 11 rule.

 

[Rick330man]

Valleri had that cool guitar solo that me and my buddies couldn't play.

Studio ace musician Louie Shelton!

 

[LOSTVENTURE]

Are there any guitarists here?
I have not seen one mention of the group that had the single greatest impression on me all during the 60's.
Does anyone remember 'The Ventures"?

 

[PhredE]

All the previous, plus a few more I did not see mentioned (sorry if I missed one):

In-a-gadda-da-vida (Iron Butterly)
The Look of Love (by Burt Bacharach, sung by Dusty Springfield)
Almost anything by Herb Alpert, but especially the Taste of Honey (anyone recall the album cover? ) Good, TelleU already got this one - apologies.
Astrud Gilberto / Stan Getz (especially Girl from Ipanema and Summer Samba ['So Nice'])

And, honorable mentioned to John Barry for the James Bond theme(s).
Actually, thinking about movie soundtracks, there were a bunch of good ones which I probably can't remember them all.