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| Hits Of The Sixties; from hither, thither and yon! | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 26 2008, 05:42 AM (1,275 Views) | |
| andarius | Jun 26 2008, 05:42 AM Post #1 |
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Bend It was a UK hit for Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. Roger Day on BBC Radio Solent says that in the US, they had to change the title! I wonder why?  If YOU have any stories, girs and boys, do tell! 
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| andarius | Jun 27 2008, 01:26 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4832LQ0_T8g Johnny Angel was a No. 1 in England for Shelley Fabares. Shelley got the attention of American boys as her talents developed according to The Little Shop of Horrors stage musical I saw in London's West End!
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| andarius | Jun 30 2008, 01:12 AM Post #3 |
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A singer called Johnny Angel was offered How Do You Do It? and turned it down. Brian Epstein offered it to The Beatles who recorded it but decided to concentrate on their own compositions. Epstein offer it to his new signing, Gerry and the Pacemakers - it was the first of THREE successive No. 1s for 'em! <From BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the Sixties last Saturday> |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 30 2008, 05:10 AM Post #4 |
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"How Do You Do It?" -- ugh. A terrible song. George Martin once said that the told the Beatles it was going to be the follow up record to Love Me Do, and John and Paul balked. So he told them, well, come up with something better. They came up with Please Please Me, the Beatles' first #1 in England. So there. "How do you do what you do to me? I wish I knew If I knew how you do it to me I'd do it to you" Oh, brother. Gerry's "Ferry 'cross the Mersey" and "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" are classics, though, and they did some other good records. Remember "Chills"?!? |
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| Black Tiger | Jun 30 2008, 05:35 AM Post #5 |
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"They just don't write songs like they used to" say some. Actually every generation has their share of clunkers that you loved anyway. Remember "Gimme Dat Ding" by the Pipkins and "Chewy Chewy" by the Ohio Express? |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 30 2008, 06:50 AM Post #6 |
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I sure do. I like the Pipkins song, and don't consider it a clunker at all, but I never liked Chewy, Chewy. On the other hand, the Ohio Express also gave us Yummy Yummy Yummy, and THAT one is a classic of its kind. Of its kind. I know a certain young lady who HATES the song "Sugar Sugar"; I can't totally trust her. In his memoir, Dick Clark talks about being dragged before Congress in the payola hearings, and how Billy Rose testified that rock and roll music with its ridiculous lyrics was so awful, no deejays would play it unless they were being paid for it. Clark says all he could think of was that Rose was the guy who wrote "Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googly eyes". |
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| andarius | Jul 1 2008, 02:10 AM Post #7 |
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I quite like How Do You Do It? but Please Please Me is terrific!Ferry 'cross the Mersy is also a favourite of mine - did you see the movie? |
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| andarius | Jul 1 2008, 02:11 AM Post #8 |
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# Yummy Yummy Yummy # I got love in my tummy # And I fell likka lovin' you!
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| Laughing Gravy | Jul 2 2008, 07:23 AM Post #9 |
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U.S. #1 songs on July 4th during the 1960s... 1960: Everybody's Somebody's Fool (Connie Francis) 1961: Quarter to Three (Gary "U.S." Bonds) 1962: I Can't Stop Lovin' You (Ray Charles) 1963: Sukiyaki (Kyu Sakamoto) 1964: I Get Around (The Beach Boys) 1965: Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds) 1966: Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra) 1967: Windy (The Association) 1968: This Guy's In Love With You (Herb Alpert) 1969: Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet (Henry Mancini) Wow. How's THAT for an eclectic list? |
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| andarius | Jul 3 2008, 01:01 AM Post #10 |
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Strangers in the Night was a chart-topper in England too, along with Frank and Nancy Sinatra's Something Stupid, but I prefer the Robbie Williams/Nicole Kidman version. Williams had a hit with Millennium which, annoyingly, used bits from Nancy's excellent You Only Live Twice; the Millennium video is amusing, though, in William's attempt to appear like Sean Connery; I read that he was interested in playing Bond for real, but the makers told him he wasn't the type they were looking for! |
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| andarius | Jul 8 2008, 01:46 AM Post #11 |
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I think those were chart-toppers in the UK, but Suki-Yaki may have been by someone else! 
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| andarius | Jul 8 2008, 01:49 AM Post #12 |
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http://www.popreport.co.uk/chart_history/1...ary_21_1963.php OTOH, Sukiyaki may have reached #10 and been a hit for Kenny Ball!
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| Laughing Gravy | Jul 8 2008, 06:47 AM Post #13 |
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Kenny Ball? The Kenny Ball who did "Midnight in Moscow", or am I thinking of somebody else?!? |
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| andarius | Jul 8 2008, 09:31 AM Post #14 |
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Oh YEAH and the Rooskis accused the West of sending secret codes in Midnight in Moscow over the radio!
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| andarius | Jul 10 2008, 01:53 AM Post #15 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7jOeMzwpjc On her BBC Radio 2 show on Saturday night, Suzi Quatro told Bruce Welch of The Shadows she had a surprise for him! Bruce said, Shall I leave the studio now? Then Suzi played him this (click on link), and Bruce said, Shall I leave the studio now? :lol: He said he'd never heard it before, but didn't think the lyrics were very good. The instrumental became a MASSIVE hit for The Shadows in 1960 and was the first of many hits! |
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