AM GOLD MUSIC OF THE 60s & 70s

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:17 am

Lolita...... Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:20 am

Ann-Margaret....... I Just Don't Understand

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:52 am

1970

Melanie Safka,who recorded under her first name,was a former drama student whose Look What They've Done to My Song Ma was a French hit for her and an American hit for the New Seekers. Her manager-husband was able to get her onto the bill at Woodstock,where she performed through a rainstorm,inspiring Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) The bacKup choir on Lay Down was the Edwin Hawkins Singers from Oakland,California,whose Oh Happy Day was one of the era's biggest fluke successes. In response to her song,Melanier's fans originated the practice of lighting matches at rock shows.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:29 am

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:08 pm

Among interpreters of soul material, journeyman Eddie Holman got back on the charts with his reworking of a 1963 Ruby and the Romantics hit,Hey There Lonely Girl.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:11 pm

1970

Brook Benton made his first real showing in six years with Tony Joe White's definitive swamp-pop ballad Rainy Night in Georgia.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:28 am

Barry Mann .......Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:24 am

The Jarmels..... A Little Bit of Soap

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:37 am

Brian Hyland returned to the charts with his remake of Curtis Mayfield's fanciful Gypsy Woman, which Del Shannon produced.

1970

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:31 am

Troy Shondell......... This Time

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:00 pm

1970

Dionne Warwick continued her impressive string of hits with I'll Never Fall In Love Again, from the Broadway musical Promises, Promises.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:13 am

1970

Clarence Carter, a blind Alabama singer and guitarist,made his final visit to the top 10 with Patches, a Southern throwback co- written by General Johnson,who had once been lead singer of the New orleans vocal group the Showman (it Will Stand) and then Detroit's Chairmen of the Broard (Give Me Just a Little More Time).

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:19 pm

Snowbird

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:04 am

Curtis Lee....... Pretty Little Angel Eyes

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:48 am

Canadian Anne Murray,a former physical education teacher with her own TV series north of the border,became an American country-pop star with Snowbird. She'd first heard the tune when she saw it's writer,gene Maclellan,sing it on Canadian TV. Before long, she was singing it on Glen Campbell's U.S.show,dramatizing once again the interrelationship of pop music and television.

1970

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:19 am

1971

Joan Baez represented a new kind of pop female singer.The folkie madonna and queen of the student Left,Baez had been a national presence for more than a decade when she enjoyed her first million seller in 1971.Her whole career had been built around adaptations of traditional and folish material,and her reading of Robbie Robertson's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down continued that practice (even if Joan did misread key lyrics).

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:28 am

1971

Robbie Robertson was the chief songwriter for the Band,four Canadians and an Arkansan who had first come together as the backup unit for rockabilly hedonist Ronnie Hawkins and later became Bob Dylan's touring band.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:39 pm

Have you seen her---The Chi-Lites

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:39 am

Joanie Sommers .............Johnny Get Angry

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:10 am

Bruce Channel.............. Hey! Baby