Cool 50s and 60s Songs

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by flynbuick, Nov 20, 2019.

  1. richopp

    richopp Well-Known Member

    Never heard of them, but their B3 and Leslie's are recorded very well. Great to hear it featured in a song! Probably a small studio where the engineer knew what he was doing.

    (I am a huge B3 fan, obviously!)

    Cheers,

    Richard

    PS You might be interested to know that Three Dog Night was one of the first bands to record guitar though a Leslie on popular songs. A great idea!
     
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  2. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    Darlene Love and the Blossoms—Baby Please Come Home (1963)

     
  3. richopp

    richopp Well-Known Member

    Super find, Jim...forgot about this one as well...

    Cheers,

    Richard
     
  4. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

  5. dynaflow

    dynaflow shiftless...

    ...Letterman re-discovered her and had her close his "Late Night" Christmas show starting in '86. Saw her locally a couple years ago, still a great performer and wonderful person...
     
  6. richopp

    richopp Well-Known Member

    That's pretty neat...All these artists were touring in the day and we saw pretty much all of them.

    I was at an event last week and the "band" had some musicians who played for about an hour, but mostly, for the next two hours, a person beat on lighted-up drums hanging from a strap around his neck, ran back and forth on the stage while screaming "jump" and "make some noise" the entire time. The crowd, and there were a LOT of people there, seemed to like it.

    I told one of the people running the thing that back in the day, we actually had to play music and sing songs to get paid. Evidently, noise and screaming unintelligibly through a PA cranked to 11 is the new "entertainment." People sure are easy to please these days.

    Reminds me of a line from The American President film. Michael Douglas' character responds to Michael J. Fox's character that people ate sand because they did not know the difference (between sand and water). No music presented from the "band" was taken in stride by the crowd. AND, it was deafening, in a bad way, not a "loud music" way.

    Pretty sad considering that the actual band probably could have played most of the songs mentioned here and had a pretty good reaction. Evidently that would be considered actual work.
     
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  7. Mart

    Mart Gold level member

    Pipeline....Chantays...1962
     
  8. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    Miss Barbara Lynn

     
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  9. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    Rudy West/Five Keys....Dream On

     
  10. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    Elgins...It's been A Long Time

     
  11. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    Shirelles...Baby It's You

     
  12. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    Yvonne Carroll & The Roulettes-Gee What A Guy

     
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  13. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    I Need You So....Tommy McLain

     
  14. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    Hank Ballard and the Midnighters --Sexy Ways (1953)

     
  15. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    Down in Mexico-- The Coasters (1956)

     
  16. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    Smokey Joe's Café ---The Robbins (1956) [A real hangout in LA for Leiber and Stoller.)

     
  17. dynaflow

    dynaflow shiftless...

    ...ah, good ol' pre-censor songs like "Sexy Ways." Another was "really love your peaches, gonna shake your tree." Wasn't Steve Miller Band, but 1954 Clovers "Lovey Dovey."

    Another good "Smoky" [sic] song, Corsairs "Smoky Places"...
     
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  18. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    The Corsairs and Smokey Places is one of my favorites. They were from LaGrange which is about 80 miles from where I grew up.
     
  19. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    Drip Drop— The Drifters (1958)

    Another Leiber and Stoller masterpiece.

     
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  20. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    The very pretty and talented Miss Ann Cole. This is from 1958 on Baton.

     
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