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:

1. The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
2. Sonny and Cher: I Got You Babe
3. The Temptations: Since I Lost My Baby
4. The Zombies: She’s Not There
5. The Shangri-Las: Leader of the Pack
6. The Searchers: Needles and Pins
7. ? and the Mysterians: 96 Tears
8. Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra and Chorus: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
9. Roy Orbison and the Candymen: Oh, Pretty Woman
10. The Beatles: Ticket to Ride
11. Chuck Berry: No Particular Place to Go
12. Mercy: Love (Can Make You Happy)
13. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs: Wooly Bully
14. Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra: Love Is Blue
15. Gary Lewis and the Playboys: This Diamond Ring
16. The Walker Brothers: Make It Easy on Yourself
17. Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas: Bad to Me
18. Maxine Brown: Oh No, Not My Baby
19. Simon and Garfunkel: I Am a Rock
20. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels: Jenny Take a Ride
21. Eric Burdon and the Animals: Don’t Bring Me Down
22. Little Anthony and the Imperials: Hurt So Bad
23. Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is
24. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
25. The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin *
26. 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”.