The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

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  1. The Old Mixer

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    55 Years Ago This Week




    Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

    Leaving the chart:
    • Four by the Beatles (EP), The Beatles (3 weeks)
    • "(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet," The Reflections (12 weeks)
    • "Once Upon a Time," Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells (9 weeks)
    • "P.S. I Love You," The Beatles (8 weeks)
    • "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)," Die Beatles (1 week)
    • "What'd I Say," Elvis Presley (6 weeks)

    Re-entering the chart:
    • "Viva Las Vegas," Elvis Presley

    Recent and new on the chart:

    "Hey Harmonica Man," Stevie Wonder

    (June 13; #29 US; #5 R&B)

    "You're My World," Cilla Black

    (#26 US; #4 AC; #1 UK)

    "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)," The Rolling Stones

    (#24 US)

    "Handy Man," Del Shannon

    (#22 US; #36 UK)

    Total positions occupied by Beatles recordings: 1

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    Well it's not like he's a government agent with a license to kill or something.... :shifty:
     
  2. RJDiogenes

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    Kinda lightweight Stevie.

    Probably an average song, but strong nostalgia element for me.

    Kinda lightweight Stones.

    I don't like this song no matter who does it. Sorry, Del.

    He needs stuff on his resume at this point.
     
  3. The Old Mixer

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    50 Years Ago This Week





    And The Old Mixer is the size of a...spaghetti squash? I think they're really scouring the aisles for fresh produce here.


    Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

    Leaving the chart:
    • "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," The 5th Dimension (17 weeks)
    • "Atlantis," Donovan (13 weeks)
    • "Day Is Done," Peter, Paul & Mary (10 weeks)
    • "Gitarzan," Ray Stevens (13 weeks)
    • "Oh Happy Day," The Edwin Hawkins Singers feat. Dorothy Combs Morrison (10 weeks)

    New on the chart:

    "Soul Deep," The Box Tops

    (#18 US; #22 UK)

    "I'd Wait a Million Years," The Grass Roots

    (#15 US)

    "Polk Salad Annie," Tony Joe White

    (#8 US)

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    But...it's Stevie...and he's at the beach! From what I read, I think I like the theme of the album better than this single, which is the only one that deviates from said theme. The album's Wiki page makes its excuses about how still-very-young Stevie was being mismanaged at this stage. We won't be covering another 55th anniversary single from him for a year and a half, but when that comes, we won't be so Uptight, 'cause Everything'll be Alright...perhaps even clean outta sight.

    And a strong Beatles connection, as Cilla was Brian Epstein's pet project. He was her Svenjolly. She enjoyed a substantial string of hits in the UK, but this is all we'll be hearing from her on this side of the pond.

    But awww, they're making it into the Top 40 this time...let's give 'em a pat on the head!

    I take it you're familiar with the Jimmy Jones (1959) and/or James Taylor (1977) version?

    Well, he's also got the "roguish gambler" gig from Maverick.
     
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    Today I'll go to Big Y and ask for a spaghetti squash the size of a 22-week fetus.

    I love this song. I usually repeat it three or four times when it comes up on my playlist. This is one I would have guessed was from the early 70s if asked, though.

    Pretty good. It's got that Grass Roots catchiness.

    Fun song. I'm familiar with it from a live Elvis cassette I had in the early 70s. Elvis pretty much recreated this guy's performance.

    I hope he had a good time. :rommie:

    Now that's Stevie.

    Interesting. For all they were the ultimate phenomenon of the 20th century, the Beatles did not exactly have the Midas touch.

    [​IMG]

    It was James Taylor who ruined it for me.

    His star is definitely on the rise.
     
  5. The Old Mixer

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    Try doing it with an Eastern European accent for added effect.

    Huh...I don't think I was familiar with it before I added it to my collection.

    Now this is a stone-cold oldies radio classic...and one of those that I was surprised didn't do a little better on the charts in its day.

    I've heard that version, but White's was my primary exposure.

    Like they said in their famous first US press conference, if they knew how to recreate what they did, they'd have formed another group and become mangers.

    I almost forgot...he already had prior experience playing Bond at this point. 55th Anniversary British Telly Special:
     
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    One of the most shocking pop/rock music deaths of the decade, not only due to its unexpected nature, but the circumstances surrounding it. As the police arrived at Cotchford Farm and conducted interviews, the conclusion that his death was the result of a "normal drowning" did not find support with Hartfield officer Albert V. Evans, who said he had a "policeman's instinct" that the witnesses did not tell him the whole story, yet he had no hard evidence to move beyond suspicion. The witnesses--Janet Lawson, Jones's then-girlfriend Anna Wohlin and Stones office-contracted builder Frank Thorogood have--according the police--given very contradictory accounts of the how and why of that night.

    Over the years, Keith Richards has flip-flopped on the cause of Jones's death; at some points, he twists the knives, essentially saying Jones was going to end up that way, while at other times, he's compared it the JFK case, in that "you'll never get to the bottom of it."

    Adding to the mystery is former Stones "minder" Tom Keylock (who hired Thorogood on behalf of the Stones' office) making a sworn statement that in November of 1993, Thorogood made a deathbed confession that he killed Jones by holding him under the water. Thorogood's daughter--as expected--denied this event ever took place, but what is a matter record were the heated conflicts between Jones and Thorogood while the latter was hired to work at Cotchford Farm, and Anna Wohlin's statement that after Jones could not be revived, Thorogood did not show any sympathy, stating he was "cold as ice."

    Of the Rolling Stones, only Wyman and Watts attended Jones's funeral; Richards (and Pallenberg) simply would not go, while Jagger (and Marianne Faithful) flew to Australia for Jagger to begin filming his part of the Ned Kelly film. He's used the contract for the film as the reason he did not attend the funeral, but let's be serious here: the producers of the film obviously knew who they were working with, and they also knew his relation to the man who just died, so I doubt they would have complained too much if Jagger delayed the shoot by a couple of days for bereavement reasons. His running off to shoot a movie has been seen as his being (ultimately) dismissive, despite that slapped together little tribute at the Hyde Park show.

    Ok, but nothing really grabbing the ear.

    Such a great track.

    The most authentic version of the song. The same year, another White-penned "story" song, "Rainy Night in Georgia" was released, but the Brooke Benton release from 1970 was where the song earned its popularity.
     
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  7. The Old Mixer

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    50th Anniversary Album Spotlight

    Stand!
    Sly & The Family Stone
    Released May 3, 1969
    Chart debut: April 26, 1969
    Chart peak: #13, June 7, 1969
    #118 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
    Now we come to an album that's inclusion on the Rolling Stone list is beyond question, serving as it does as a showcase of this band's pioneering of the style of funk that would become an integral part of the music landscape in the coming decade. The one thing I might question is why this album didn't make the top 100 of the list. In my book, it's more clearly deserving of that honor than Odessey and Oracle or Dusty in Memphis.

    The album opens strongly with its memorable, attention-grabbing title track, "Stand!" (charted Apr. 12, 1969; #22 US; #14 R&B; #241 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time):


    In deference to board policy, I won't even be posting a text link to "Don't Call Me N*****, Whitey"...suffice it to say, it delivers its message with a heaping helping of funk. There's a lot going on in this song musically, including what sounds like Sly doing some of his vocoder-filtered scatting.

    Next is their current single 50 years ago this week, the powerful "I Want to Take You Higher" (B-side of "Stand!"; charted May 24, 1969; #60 US; #24 R&B; recharts May 23, 1970, reaching #38 US):

    Their wee-hours performance of this song will be a highlight at Woodstock. There is one mildly annoying bit of business going on in the mix...a low, droning horn, I guess, that sounds distractingly like a vibrating cell phone.

    I'm not sure what to make of the less familiar "Somebody's Watching You"...it has a quirky playful sound, and strikes me as being more "pop" than most of the album.

    The first side closes with the funktastic "Sing a Simple Song" (B-side of "Everyday People"; charted Mar. 8, 1969; #89 US; #28 R&B):

    On the subject of this song reminding someone of the Jackson 5, I read that the Jacksons would cover it (along with much of the rest of the album, it seems).

    Side two opens with the uber-classic hit single that preceded the album, "Everyday People" (charted Nov. 30, 1968; #1 US the weeks of Feb. 15 through Mar. 8, 1969; #1 R&B; #36 UK; #145 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time):

    During the song's time on my weekly playlist, I really fell in love with the line "you can't figure out the bag I'm in". Also, I read this...
    Is this true? It never occurred to me that it might be the case! That's cool if so.

    The bulk of side two is occupied by "Sex Machine," a 13:45 instrumental jam that does have vocals of a sort...Sly scatting through the vocoder.

    The dominant guitar riff in this piece reminds me of "Rocky Mountain Way"...a coincidence, or more of Sly & the Family's influence?

    The album closes with "You Can Make It If You Try," an enjoyable, poppy number, but relatively lightweight compared to most of the album's contents.

    Definitely a worthwhile purchase...and I should note that, as touched upon previously, I went ahead and bought the complete album in spite of everything but "Sex Machine" being on an Essentials compilation that I'd already invested in for the band's singles.


    Next up: Nashville Skyline, Bob Dylan

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    Somehow I knew there'd be a conspiracy angle. I'm not sure one is necessary here...a guy with extreme drug problems is left unattended in a pool. If the last people who saw him couldn't get their stories straight, it's likely because they were as high as he was.

    Pretty much the same for me.
     
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  8. RJDiogenes

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    Oh, nice touch. "My recipe calls for a 22-week foetus, blah."

    Really? I almost never hear it (or heard it).

    Oh, that's wonderful, and very funny. A couple of parts remind me of his later appearance on Muppet Show. Cute little stumble there, too-- live TV! :rommie:

    Definitely a classic.

    Uber classic indeed. I absolutely love this one. Another sign o' the times that has been lost with generational shift.

    Hah. There's a phrase that I don't even hear used tongue in cheek anymore. "What's your bag, man?" :rommie:

    I'm not sure. It's just always been there as far as my experience goes, and is still used, unlike that other one.

    Well, fine! :rommie: The other weird thing about this song is, not only is it addictive for me, but it's linked in my head to "Silver, Blue, and Gold" by Bad Company, which came out a few years later-- I will often jump from one to the other when one comes up in the playlist.[/quote]
     
  9. TREK_GOD_1

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    Yet another reason why certain lists are not worth much. It was a great and important album (a rare mix), but if people lack the ears to hear why, then that was their problem. To the culture of the time and in the decades since, this was the equivalent of an earthquake in music, American and elsewhere.

    Between Officer Evans' suspicion of the witnesses, and Anna Wohlin's own statement about Thorogood's behavior right as Jones died, logic points to something other than the proverbial "someone slipped on a rubber duck and took a header into the pool"./ "he was drunk! we told him not to swim!" kinds of causes. The medical examiner full report (rarely accessed) did not find enough of anything to conclude it--beyond the shadow of doubt--contributed to his death, but by law, whatever is found must be reported, hence lazy reporting sold as "fact.".

    A few years ago, documents on the case were submitted to world renowned pathologist Cyril Wecht, and from what he saw, he said if this had occurred in America, the nature of the events/witness statements would have led a district attorney to treat it as a murder case. Two of these people (Evans and Wecht) did not had a personal investment in the case, or ever knew Jones, so their suspicion carries more weight of objectivity than say, oft-repeated summaries based on the media's love of "rock n roll myths" that are as false as Cass Elliot choking on a ham sandwich, Elvis dying while sitting on the toilet eating a fried banana/peanut butter sandwich, or Buddy Holly's gun discharging, causing the plane crash that killed him.
     
  10. The Old Mixer

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    Another example of that odd Boston-area oldies radio playlisting. :p

    You make it sound like it didn't make the list at all. I'm quibbling over the relative positioning of three albums within 40 positions of each other on the list.
     
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    Very likely. I was trying to remember if I heard it on an Oldies station at all, or if it came up on Lost 45s.
     
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    The Saint
    "The Organisation Man"
    Originally aired October 27, 1968 (UK)
    The teaser has Simon seemingly assassinating a man in a public park with a silenced pistol...very uncharacteristic of him, as he rarely even uses a gun. This is part of his initiation into the "organisation" of Jonathan Roper (Britton), an elitist who sees Simon as one of the leaders, like him. Simon is put into military-style training, and takes opportunities to slip away from the group to report to a contact (Mortimer). It turns out that he's working the infiltrate-by-day, report-by-night watch out of British Intelligence, and as expected, his assassination target is alive and well, being an agent named Spode (Norman Bird) who'd been wearing a bulletproof vest. Simon's kilt-wearing drill sergeant, Leander (Glynn Edwards), catches onto his covert activities rather quickly, but Templar manages to evade being caught red-handed.

    Roper assigns Simon to lead a group of his men disguised as a Highland regiment, wearing stolen kilts, who are posing as a prisoner escort to spring an Eastern spymaster, Craddock (Simon Lack), who's being interrogated by British Intelligence nearby. They catch Simon's female contact, Kate Barnaby, spying nearby; but they don't pass muster when inspected by an actual army officer, because they're all wearing their sgian-dubhs on the wrong leg--I didn't catch if this was something that Simon had arranged deliberately. Simon is involved in some gunplay in the climax, and has a sort of pre-Dirty Harry moment, holding a gun on Roper that Roper suspects is empty, but has one bullet in it. True to the show's form, Simon uses it to disarm his foe rather than kill him.

    There's an additional twist in that Spode, who's in charge of the interrogation, opportunistically tries to spring Craddock during the donnybrook for the promise of compensation. When it's all over, Templar is offered Spode's old position, but Simon nominates Kate for the job.

    Well this episode couldn't have come along at a more opportune time, given the recent discussion of Moore's resume. It was definitely a more interesting and Bondian installment.

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    The Wild Wild West
    "The Night of the Kraken"
    Originally aired November 1, 1968
    This episode had me early with Ted Knight chewing the scenery as Daniel, a crazy old man warning everyone about the leviathan. The teaser also features Artie in disguise as a sailor with a crutch...I assumed at first that this was also covering for Ross Martin's injury, but he gets around normally for the rest of the episode.

    We see the Kraken early on, so the mystery of what Lt. Bartlett (Brent Davis) was trying to tell them before he was killed by it suggests that there's something more going on...as does the hostility of gangs of locals who start fights with anyone getting nosy about the situation. Jim befriends one of their targets, a Portuguese fisherman named Aguila (Anthony Caruso), who gets pulled underwater by the tentacle from his boat, but not before Jim cuts a piece of the tentacle that shows that it's artificial.

    Next their main contact, Admiral Hammond (Ford Rainey) is killed by an explosive while trying to tell them something. The agents find a model of an underwater installation that has a connection to the shore. Jim uses an advanced diving helmet that Artie found while snooping around to infiltrate the facility, while Artie gets in via land by posing as a mechanic who shows up at the bar on the other end of the connection to fix the compressor.

    It turns out that Hammond's wife, Dolores (Marj Dusay), and Daniel are in cahoots, with Commander Beech (Jason Evers) as an accomplice. They've taken over the facility, which was built by the admiral, and have been using the tentacle to keep the fishermen away. Their goal is to use a magnetic "missile" (really a mine) to destroy the visiting ironclad Missouri as a demonstration of the facility's military usefulness to an interested party. Jim swims out to redirect the missile to the facility, but somehow isn't caught in the massive underwater explosion that we see.

    The sailing ship that we see a silhouetted profile of doesn't look anything like an ironclad. And the Missouri was only active until 1865, about a decade before the show takes place.

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    Yeah, I agree, but that's lists for you.

    I got into this album in the '80s/my teens when my aunt pointed out to me that Paul Shaffer used a lot of the tracks for commercial breaks on Late Night with David Letterman. "You Can Make It If You Try" and "Sex Machine" never being played on local radio, I had no idea what they were. It's an album I never get tired of.

    No matter how he may have lost it later, Sly had the whole package going on here. Lyrical dexterity, a clear-eyed yet positive thematic vision, solid but light-hearted band chemistry, innovative instrumentation and production.

    Like previous Family records, everybody gets their moment. Greg has a few dialed-in "Funky Drummer"-worthy breaks, in fact I was surprised when I found out that this record pre-dates that one. One of his beats was sampled on a hip-hop hit in the early '90s; the loop was only a few seconds long but I knew it was him.

    Larry's bass is fluid, bubbling, rumbling, popping, jumpy, clean, distorted... one of the unquestionable root influences for the next 50 years of bassists. Rosie is, as always, powerful and sublime as needed. Cynthia's brash, raspy-voiced exuberance is pure salutary authenticity, it's like if she wasn't playing her horn, her energy had to burst out somewhere. God I was sorry when that voice left us.

    I always wondered if the line (Larry sings) "Music's getting longer too" was recognition that the record company would resist their long tracks for singles. And in fact "Higher" was cut down a couple of minutes.

    I'm pretty sure it's a talkbox.

    Well a lot of first-generation ironclads tended to look like "regular" sailing ships and IIRC the ship is only seen at night so no great detail. It's true that the US Navy went wholeheartedly in the Ericsson monitor direction, but they did have at least one broadside type. I'll give them some slack on that one and say an alternate history USN had more ships like that later on, since a lot of WWW anachronisms were so much more egregious.
     
  14. The Old Mixer

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    I think we got a fan here! :p :techman:

    I don't know the difference, but I was going by the Wiki description of how he was processing his voice in "Sex Machine".

    Still didn't look quite like that...it lacked that distinctly boxy look, and had an upswept bow.

    ETA:
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    License to kill? He didn't even have his Learner's Permit to kill at this point.

    So these guys' ultimate goal was to overthrow the British government? Any particular ideology, or were they just bored or unemployed?

    There's a lot of good guests on this show.

    Alternate Steampunk universe. It is an odd choice, though, to use an old Confederate ship from the war. The writer, or somebody on the set, probably had a vague memory of an ironclad named Missouri from history class and didn't bother to research it. :rommie:
     
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    A vocoder is an electronic device which can modify vocal input, including mixing it with other instruments, and convert it to a current signal output. A talk-box is an electric-acoustic device which sends audio through a tube which goes into the performer's mouth, allowing the sound to be "shaped" like speech or singing, which sound is then picked up by a vocal microphone.

    See, you can't say there's not iron on the outside of that ship!
     
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    They're both similar to the Sonovox, which has been around since the late 1930s.

     
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    So basically, you're asking what their bag was, right? :p

    If they got specific about it, I didn't catch it. A secret group of mercenaries helping a rival power...my impression is sort of a bush-league SPECTRE.

    It just looks nothing like the Missouri or any other actual ironclad vessel of the era, and somebody who knows their wooden sailing ships of the era could probably identify what type of ship that's actually supposed to be.
     
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    Lennon/MCartney composition, I think.
    I consider this recording a tiny little blight on an otherwise stellar career. Never heard anyone do justice to this song other than the original. Much preferred his original songs.
    This band put out a small string of pretty good pop/rock songs in the early mid 60's. They had an interesting story. Remember The Office (Amer version)? Remember the character, "Creed"? Creed was the actor's real name and he was a member of the Grass Roots. The band was created by two producers who had the songs and the band name and simply found a good enough band and bestowed both on Creed's group. The Wrecking Crew played all the band's record dates, naturally.
    I had heard that there was some question about the circumstances of his death but never heard this story. Sounds like Brian was headed for a bad end one way or another. Not surprised that he may have been a victim of homicide. Things were so weird back then with all the drugs and lack of knowledge of their detrimental affects on the body.
    No question Stand was an artistic high point. It was full of great songs that not only broke new pop and r&b ground stylistically, but also carried a discernible message which reflected the band's image which screamed inclusion, diversity, and a certain amount of decadence and a bit of danger.
    Interesting about the Motown acts covering these songs, because I don't think there is any way Berry Gordy would have accepted Sly and his group of wild men and women in the formative days of Motown without trying to "tame" them. My Motown albums are vibrating right now at the mere thought. "Higher" epitomizes that wildness which was mixed with funk, r&b, psychodelic rock, and gospel.
    I liked "Somebody", but like Stand, the song doesn't really take off until the "get down" part at the very end.
    Loved this song. The hard core polyrythmic beats and the trademark wild man approach were perfect.
    Relly interesting. I didn't know anything about most of this. Sly did pretty well on the songs on Stand without the rest of the band, but I think it failed miserably on his last album There's a Riot Going On, which Sly recorded virtually by himself. How do you jettison these very talented musicians. Larry Graham was virtuoso bassist who revolutionized rock bass playing. He also possessed one of the strongest and purest basso profundo's since Otis Williams of the Temptations. "Riot" was critically acclaimed, but I thought the album was subpar.
    Absolutely agree.
     
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    Nope. They wrote several songs for her, but not this one.

    He's got a good one coming up later this year in 55th Anniversaryland.

    More like mid-60s-to-early-70s. Their nine Top 30 hits span 1966-1971.

    Danger for the grannies, maybe. They're too fun to fear.