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60s music

The Old Mixer

Mih ssim, mih ssim, nam, daed si Xim.
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It's time to turn on, tune in, and drop out...the Greatest Decade of Music Ever has its own thread!

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Welcome! I know it's a holiday weekend, but it's been pretty slow here.

Now, lest my opening post should give the impression that the decade's music began with the Beatles...here's a fun look at what the reigning sovereign was up to around the Kennedy era:

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The grooviest:

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Cynthia & Jerry got a message, they're sayin': All the squares, go home!

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This New Jersey band nailed the Beatles' sound to a tee, right down to the lead vocal sounding just like John Lennon!

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One of the first songs I ever heard after getting an AM radio in 1962, an early hit for Ray Stevens.

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Now the party's starting!

Possibly my favorite movie of all time is about to turn 50 this year:

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Now this is the iconic Dylan video that I'd wanted to include in the original post...don't suppose there's a way to embed from that site...?

Too bad this clip isn't in color:

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I was used to Superman being referenced in song in my lifetime...but when I first heard this song on an oldies station in the 80s, it blew my mind that Green Lantern was being referenced alongside him:

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And just give me half an excuse to post this is these parts:

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One of the greatest vocal interpreters of the decade:
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A deservedly huge country hit:
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A great track, and one of the most memorable album covers:
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I have a special connection to this fuzzy piece of cheese...it was the #1 song in the country the week that I was born:

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My sister got a somewhat cooler birthday song--#401 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time:

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Of course, if Mom had gone into labor as little as 5 days sooner, I could have had #91:

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You can play this game at home: http://www.birthdayjams.com/
 
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Of course, the BirthdayJams site can be used for more than birthdays. For example, I got curious as to what the #1 songs was on my parents' wedding day....

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(Sorry for the period-inauthentic video. :p )

Or you an look up the #1 song on key dates in history.

#1 for all but the last day of the Cuban Missile Crisis:

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#1 on the day that JFK was assassinated:

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#1 on the day that the Beatles landed in America:

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(Well, duh, I didn't need a website to tell me that...!)
 
The Sixties were a great decade for novelty songs.

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For music trivia buffs: Jerry Samuels (aka Napoleon XIV) also wrote "The Shelter of Your Arms," which was a hit for Sammy Davis Jr. in 1963.
 
Since no one appears to have mentioned them yet, I present my favorite 60's band:

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I would have gotten around to it...they're one of my favorites as well.

The Stones begrudgingly clean up their act for Sullivan and the CBS sponsors:

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The Doors choose the "never come back" option:

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My favorite Beatles song and favorite album cover:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGufQk9QOdM[/yt]
 
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