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Mid-60s Mania: Volume 6

Sixth in the series, with no sign of slowing down. (Volume 1 is here.) Not only did we resort to a B&W photo, but it’s derived from a Woolworth’s ad. Besides, we like black and white.

Cover art, Wendex 111088-2Track listing for 111088-2:

  1. People: I Love You
  2. The Stone Poneys: Different Drum
  3. The Temptations: Runaway Child, Running Wild
  4. Robert Knight: Everlasting Love
  5. The 4 Seasons: Rag Doll
  6. J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers: Last Kiss
  7. The Newbeats: Bread and Butter
  8. Joe Tex: Hold What You’ve Got
  9. Len Barry: 1-2-3
  10. 1910 Fruitgum Co.: Simon Says
  11. The Castaways: Liar, Liar
  12. The Animals: House of the Rising Sun
  13. Simon and Garfunkel: Fakin’ It
  14. The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
  15. Mary Wells: My Guy
  16. Johnny Rivers: Secret Agent Man
  17. The Byrds: My Back Pages
  18. Sagittarius: My World Fell Down
  19. The Rascals: You Better Run
  20. Tommy James and the Shondells: Sweet Cherry Wine
  21. The Casinos: Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
  22. The Turtles: You Baby
  23. Peter and Gordon: A World Without Love
  24. The Four Tops: Baby I Need Your Lovin’
  25. The Zombies: Time of the Season

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Mid-60s Mania: Volume 5

The fifth in this extremely-lengthy series. Volume 1 is way back here. Our cover model is wearing “Little Prune” hosiery — I am not making this up — by Chérie.

Cover art, Wendex 111085-2Track listing for 111085-2:

  1. Archie Bell and the Drells: Tighten Up
  2. The Righteous Brothers: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
  3. The McCoys: Hang On Sloopy
  4. Robert Parker: Barefootin’
  5. Johnny Rivers: Summer Rain
  6. Patty and the Emblems: Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl
  7. The Reflections: (Just Like) Romeo and Juliet
  8. The Troggs: Wild Thing
  9. Petula Clark: Don’t Sleep in the Subway
  10. Count Five: Psychotic Reaction
  11. Sam and Dave: Hold On I’m Comin’
  12. The Hollies: Stop! Stop! Stop!
  13. Unit Four Plus Two: Concrete and Clay
  14. Bar-Kays: Soul Finger
  15. Vanilla Fudge: You Keep Me Hangin’ On
  16. Swingin’ Medallions: Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love)
  17. Sir Douglas Quintet: She’s About a Mover
  18. Martha and the Vandellas: Dancing in the Street
  19. The Seekers: Georgy Girl
  20. Slim Harpo: Baby Scratch My Back
  21. The Beach Boys: Help Me Rhonda
  22. The Fortunes: You’ve Got Your Troubles
  23. The Platters: With This Ring
  24. Max Frost and the Troopers: The Shape of Things to Come
  25. The Mamas and the Papas: I Saw Her Again
  26. Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders: It’s Just a Little Bit Too Late
  27. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Six O’Clock
  28. The Four Tops: Standing in the Shadows of Love
  29. The Beatles: Hello Goodbye

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Mid-60s Mania: Volume 4

The fourth in a series that started way the heck back here. Flowers provided through the Hanes hothouse.

Cover art, Wendex 111078-2Track listing for 111078-2:

  1. The Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There
  2. Herman’s Hermits: Listen People
  3. Martha and the Vandellas: Jimmy Mack
  4. Johnny Rivers: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
  5. The Tremeloes: Here Comes My Baby
  6. Gary Lewis and the Playboys: Everybody Loves a Clown
  7. The Doors: People Are Strange
  8. Paul Revere and the Raiders: Just Like Me
  9. The Rolling Stones: Paint It, Black
  10. The Animals: It’s My Life
  11. The Kinks: Tired of Waiting for You
  12. The Soul Survivors: Expressway to Your Heart
  13. Percy Sledge: When a Man Loves a Woman
  14. The Association: Never My Love
  15. Donovan: Mellow Yellow
  16. Them: Here Comes the Night
  17. The Cyrkle: Turn-Down Day
  18. James and Bobby Purify: I’m Your Puppet
  19. The Mamas and the Papas: California Dreamin’
  20. Tommy James and the Shondells: I Think We’re Alone Now
  21. The Isley Brothers: This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
  22. Janis Ian: Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking)
  23. The Monkees: I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone
  24. The Temptations: It’s Growing
  25. The Rivieras: California Sun
  26. The Five Americans: Western Union
  27. Betty Everett: The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)
  28. Lee Dorsey: Holy Cow
  29. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer in the City

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Mid-60s Mania: Volume 3

If you came in late, the rationale for this series is posted with Volume 1. The cover art continues to grow sexier and less appropriate; a package of Bellinda’s “Grand Chic” hosiery provided this picture.

Cover art, Wendex 111071-2Track listing for 111071-2:

  1. The Rolling Stones: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
  2. Jimmy Ruffin: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
  3. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Do You Believe in Magic
  4. The Four Tops: I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
  5. Lesley Gore: That’s the Way Boys Are
  6. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night
  7. Hedgehoppers Anonymous: It’s Good News Week
  8. The Dixie Cups: Chapel of Love
  9. The Beatles: She Loves You
  10. The Mindbenders: A Groovy Kind of Love
  11. Patty Duke: Don’t Just Stand There
  12. The Who: I Can See for Miles
  13. The Vogues: Five O’Clock World
  14. Gary Lewis and the Playboys: Green Grass
  15. The Spencer Davis Group: I’m a Man
  16. Bob Lind: Elusive Butterfly
  17. The Yardbirds: For Your Love
  18. The Supremes: Come See About Me
  19. Jay and the Americans: Come a Little Bit Closer
  20. The Temptations: The Way You Do the Things You Do
  21. Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man
  22. The Mamas and the Papas: Dedicated to the One I Love
  23. The Marvelows: I Do
  24. The Buckinghams: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  25. Nancy Sinatra: These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
  26. Cannibal and the Headhunters: Land of 1000 Dances
  27. Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love
  28. Fontella Bass: Rescue Me
  29. Sounds Orchestral: Cast Your Fate to the Wind

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Mid-60s Mania: Volume 2

This series is explained at Volume 1. The one thing you can count on is that I bought lots of these tunes on 45 back in the day.

Cover art, Wendex 111067-2Track listing for 111067-2:

  1. Deep Purple: Hush
  2. Brenda Lee: Coming On Strong
  3. Los Bravos: Black Is Black
  4. Jonathan King: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
  5. Roy Head: Treat Her Right
  6. Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction
  7. Sam and Dave: I Thank You
  8. The Murmaids: Popsicles and Icicles
  9. Simon and Garfunkel: A Hazy Shade of Winter
  10. Jackie Wilson: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
  11. Ian Whitcomb: You Turn Me On
  12. Paul Revere and the Raiders: Him Or Me — What’s It Gonna Be?
  13. The Moody Blues: Go Now!
  14. The Rolling Stones: 19th Nervous Breakdown
  15. Peter and Gordon: I Go to Pieces
  16. Stevie Wonder: Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
  17. The Righteous Brothers: (You’re My) Soul and Inspiration
  18. The Supremes: Stop! in the Name of Love
  19. The Beatles: From Me to You
  20. We Five: You Were on My Mind
  21. Strawberry Alarm Clock: Incense and Peppermints
  22. The Kinks: You Really Got Me
  23. Eddie Floyd: Knock on Wood
  24. Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street
  25. Barbara Lewis: Make Me Your Baby
  26. The Ad Libs: The Boy from New York City

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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.

Cover art, Wendex 111062-2Track 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”.

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