AM GOLD MUSIC OF THE 60s & 70s

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:48 pm

s1969

The best Hair-like songs that was not from Hair brlonged to the Youngbloods and folkie Dino Valenti.Valenti was living in a Los Angeles Castle with fading Warhal superstar Edie Sedgwick when he penned (under the name Chester Powers) Get Together to demonstrate what a pop song should sound like.Hamilton Camp cut it for one of his folk-rock albums,and Camp's recording was discovered by the Youngbloods,refugees from the New York coffeehouses circuit who had recently moved to San Francisco and gone electric. Their version flopped in 1967 but took off two years later,after the National Council of Christians and Jews used it in its radio spots.By then,Valenti had gone to jail on pot charges and signed away his ownership,thus missing out on the windfall.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:41 am

1969

The Flying Machine's Smile a Little Smile For Me also has a tangled history.The group,fronted by James Taylor and Danny Kortchmar,had cut some demos for New York producers. The demos failed to lead anywhere,and Taylor moved to London to pursue a solo career.Meanwhile English producers Tony Macaulay and Geoff Stephens had gotten rights to the group's name and used session men to cut a hit album that included this single.Taylor,who already had a cult following,was not a participant,though many people bought the album thinking otherwise.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun May 06, 2007 8:18 pm

Canada's Guess Who had been off the American charts since the fluke 1965 hit Shakin All over.But adman Jack Richardson caight the band doing a promo LP for Coca Cola and was so impressed that he mortgaged his house to finance all out rock n roll sessions in New York.the resulting album included These eyes.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:55 pm

Crimson and Clover----Tommy james and the Shondells

Post by **noreply66** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:26 pm

Several hits were written for the movies.B.J. Thomas needed five takes and lots of lubricating medicine for his throat (because of laryngitis) to cut Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head) for the sound track to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. A few weeks later,he recorded this radio version,with cowriter and producer Burt Bacharach adding the scat hook.(rumor has it Raindrops was first offered to Bob Dylan.)

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:07 pm

Worst that could happen---Brooklyn Bridge

Post by **noreply66** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:49 pm

Harry Nilsson failed in his attempted to write a song for Midnight Cowboy, so his Aerial Ballet album version of folkie Fred Neil's Everybody's Talkin' was used instead.Mercy's Love (can Make You Happy) was slated for Fireball Jungle starring Lon Cnaney Jr., but the flick never reached theaters.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:42 pm

Tracy

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:41 pm

Among other recordings,Traces was the third and final top-10 hit for Classic IV,the Jacksonville,Florida, group that evolved into the Atlanta Rhythm Section.Jay and the Americans revived the Drifter's This Magic Moment (1960); Smith,a hard-rock group fronted by singer Gayle McCormick,revived the 1962 Shirelles hit Baby It's You, though none of the group had ever heard the original.Their Manager-producer,early-60's rocker Del Shannon,picked the song for them before he and the musicians went separate ways.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:34 pm

baby its you

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:34 pm

love...can make you happy

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:24 pm

1969

You Showed Me had been recorded unsucessfully by the pre-Tambourine Man Byrds years before the Turtles picked it up.

The Cuff Links were really one person,the many voices of demo singer Ron Dante backed by studio players;his recording of Tracy was in direct competition with the Archies-Sugar,Sugar, which also used the multitracked Dante with sidemem

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:26 pm

What doed it take to win your love

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:46 pm

wedding bell blues

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:39 pm

This magic moment

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:54 pm

Tommy James had the title Crimson and Clover long before he got around to writing the song,they were his two favorite words,he said,and he repeated them to himself often until a pattern energed.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:05 am

1969

Perhaps the biggest news around motown in 1969 was Diana Ross's departure from the Supremes. Late in 1968,the female trio sang I'm Gonna make You Love Me with the Temptations on The Ed Sullivan Show,and the single sold 900,000 in just two weeks.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:32 pm

1969 For the Supremes' final record with Ross,producer Johnny Bristol dug out an old tune he had written and recorded in 1961 as half of Johnny and Jackie,Someday We'll Be Together. The original came out on Tri-Phi shortly after Bristol left the service,but was quickly forgotten when Motown absorbed the label.Because Ross didn't learn the lyrics before the session,Johnny sang background vocals to cue her.Group members Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong don't even appear on the final Diana Ross and the Supremes hit.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:36 am

1970

Singer and songwriters made the early 70's a great time for soft rock,and black music picked up on the trend,too. In 1970,after three straight soul rocking No.1 hits at Motown since their late-1969 debut with I want You Back,the Jackson 5 cut their first ballad in I'LL Be There.It shot to the top as fast as its predecessors,becoming the kiddle group's fourth straight No. 1 of the year.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:05 am

1970

I'll Be There was also the first J5 record that wasn't written and produced by the Corporation the umbrella name for the-in-house team of Freddie Perren, Fonce Mizell,Deke Richards and Berry Gordy Jr. the honors this time went to producer Hal Davis,along with Bob West,Willie Hutch and (reflecting his continuing interest in his porject) Gordy.