Mid-60s Mania: Volume 1
Back in my days as the King of Mix Tapes, I put together a series of sixteen C-90s (24 hours!) devoted to the period known as the “Mid-60s,” which I defined arbitrarily as November 1963 to May 1969 for purely personal reasons. Problems set in almost immediately, mostly because CD-Rs don’t hold the full capacity of a C-90, so the first order of business was to toss out ten minutes worth of tracks. Eventually, I suppose, I’ll have to put out eighteen of these to equal 24 hours. The cover art comes from a vintage Hanes ad.
Track listing for 111062-2:
- The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
- Sonny and Cher: I Got You Babe
- The Temptations: Since I Lost My Baby
- The Zombies: She’s Not There
- The Shangri-Las: Leader of the Pack
- The Searchers: Needles and Pins
- ? and the Mysterians: 96 Tears
- Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra and Chorus: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Roy Orbison and the Candymen: Oh, Pretty Woman
- The Beatles: Ticket to Ride
- Chuck Berry: No Particular Place to Go
- Mercy: Love (Can Make You Happy)
- Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs: Wooly Bully
- Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra: Love Is Blue
- Gary Lewis and the Playboys: This Diamond Ring
- The Walker Brothers: Make It Easy on Yourself
- Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas: Bad to Me
- Maxine Brown: Oh No, Not My Baby
- Simon and Garfunkel: I Am a Rock
- Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels: Jenny Take a Ride
- Eric Burdon and the Animals: Don’t Bring Me Down
- Little Anthony and the Imperials: Hurt So Bad
- Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is
- Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin *
- The Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand
* A bigger hit in ’72, but I’d already plucked it off Days of Future Passed long before. This is the 45 version, minus “Late Lament”.