[RandFan]

'60s music is awesome. Here's one I stumbled upon today on the old YouTube.

Well before my time but thought some here might appreciate !

[Songcraft]

"Monday Monday" - some more Mamas & The Papas

"Friday On My Mind" - The Easybeats (ignore the dancing)     :-)

[OKSooner]

Thank you. I had that album.

[Songcraft]

"She's Not There" - The Zombies

[Songcraft]

"Sunny Afternoon" - The Kinks

[Fiji Hill]

On or about July 27, 1966, I was sitting in a car behind a flatbed truck loaded with tomatoes that was stopped at a red light in Naples. Before the light turned green, couple of the infamous scugnizzi (rascals), the infamous juvenile delinquents of Naples, darted out and helped themselves to a crate of tomatoes from the truck and then ducked into a nearby alley. All the while on the car radio, this tune was playing over a local AM station.

Sognando la California (California Dreaming) by the Dik Diks. This is fairly accurate translation.

[Songcraft]

"Those Were The Days" - Mary Hopkin

[gundog]

“Ever listen to K Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies?”

[fidelis]

Growing up with the music of the 60’s was wonderful. Music was a BIG part of our lives and the radio stations were abuzz with the latest songs. We would hear a great song, run out and buy the 45, and tell all our friends about it, and play and dance to the “stax of wax” until we wore it out. We followed the top 40 charts and couldn’t wait to see what would be the new #1 record each week. Throw in TV shows like American Bandstand and variety shows where they featured the hot acts and it was music heaven for young people.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The stories behind it is even better.

[Fiji Hill]

This product of Berry Gordy's Motown diskery should have been a big hit, but it spent only a week "bubbling under the Billboard Hot 100 in the early fall of 1966 before disappearing. Sadly, it didn't make the playlist of Boss Radio 93 KHJ, my go-to station at the time. However, it's been discovered by Internet surfers in this century.

Love's Gone Bad--Chris Clark (1966)

[moovova]

Cass Elliott had an incredibly beautiful voice.

[dfwgator]

I loves me some Fifth Dimension.

Marilyn McCoo was one of my first schoolboy crushes.

[Songcraft]

My favorite part of this 60's song is when Paul McCartney does his "1-2-3-4!" count off, at the beginning of the song.   (Youtube song poster used a couple different videos here.)

      "I Saw Her Standing There" - The Beatles

[Political Junkie Too]

Dusty Springfield.

-PJ

[Songcraft]

"Polk Salad Annie" - Tony Joe White

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I just watched a YouTube video on the rise and fall of the music scene in the 60's in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills.

Lots of great bands formed and got their start there. It's just a little over 30 minutes long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZsL4UfSlSQ

[Songcraft]

"The Way You Do The Things You Do" - The Temptations

[Songcraft]

"Shop Around" - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

[Fiji Hill]

This didn't chart, but it's one of my favorites of the decade.

Every Time I See the Sun Go Down--Melvin Endsley (1961)

[P.O.E.]

The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (Official Animated Music Video)