# 'Forgotten' songs from the 60's (i.e. 1964 to 1974ish) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992 "2019-06-24T21:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/41 "2019-06-25T03:09:48Z")
I can’t resist naming these: Isaac Hayes, “Theme from Shaft”: The Trammps, "Disco Inferno": They just don't make 'em like this today. Burn, baby, burn! :cool: ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/42 "2019-06-25T03:10:58Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > A couple from The Marshall Tucker Band: > > [Can’t You See](https://youtu.be/-48Za7VZR_c) > [24 Hours At A Time](https://youtu.be/Li-7vCagtxw) I’ve probably heard “Can’t You See” a couple jillion times on our local classic rock station in the last five years. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/43 "2019-06-25T03:14:06Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I’ve probably heard “Can’t You See” a couple jillion times on our local classic rock station in the last five years. Same here. One of the classics. D-C-G all the way. I probably know some other songs by them, but that’s the only one I could think of off the top of my head. I wonder how many of these depend on your local playlists (though, by now, everything has gotten so homogenized.) Most of these suggestions I’m not that familiar with, but some I’m just really surprised by, as they got played to here and back on the local stations that feature that era of music. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/44 "2019-06-25T03:15:13Z")
Oh, yeah, yeah, just keep my mind wandering through all those concerts I went to in my distant youth… Rare Earth, [I Know I’m Losing You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28X8--2dFU). When’s the last time you heard that one? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/45 "2019-06-25T03:17:27Z")
And now for something completely different… Dana, “All Kinds of Everything”: The Three Degrees, "When Will I See You Again?" [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/51N4F6FyI40/hqdefault.jpg "The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51N4F6FyI40) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/46 "2019-06-25T03:20:50Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “Law and Disorder” Yeah, that’s it. That movie blew chunks. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/47 "2019-06-25T03:27:56Z")
Love Unlimited Orchestra, “Love’s Theme”: With seldom heard lyrics. The Hues Corporation, “Rock the Boat”: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2r59-Xmge4) One more from '74, Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”: Love this one! :) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/48 "2019-06-25T04:13:50Z")
[A preachment dear friends you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptations of Eve. Pbblth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWEu9Rn-PaE) ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/49 "2019-06-25T04:15:56Z")
This one was practically an anthem in its day: [Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlp3wmE4bbI), by Melanie. What a different time it was. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/50 "2019-06-25T04:32:30Z")
“White Bird” by It’s a Beautiful Day “Wildflower” by Skylark “Brandy” by Mirror Image “Snowblind Friend” by Steppenwolf “Kentucky Woman” by Deep Purple “Ball of Confusion” by the Temptations ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/51 "2019-06-25T09:26:01Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > What track would you include in a list of forgotten cuts? > > Let me start with Spirit’s [Nature’s Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvQa04JP73o) from their _Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus_ May I interest you in an excellent[cover version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tUCmYuE8M)?\* This Mortal Coil\* introduced me to a lot of earlier stuff I would never have encountered - Tim Buckley, Spirit, Big Star, Roy Harper, Pearls Before Swine, solo Syd Barret > [@Dropo](#): > > Question Mark and the Mysterians - “96 Tears” And [one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrU0YuJ47uA) for you as well? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/52 "2019-06-25T09:34:43Z")
This is difficult for me because so, so many of those already mentioned are in my regular rotation. I’m having a difficult time defining “forgotten”. Anyway, I came up with this one: [Love on a Two Way Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwUsIMJPlYk) by the Moments. mmm ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/53 "2019-06-25T11:28:06Z")
Who nowadays listens to Petula Clark? Or The Seekers? “Downtown”: https://www.youtube.com/embed/z_m4Qb0iW-o?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDhqMZePE7SQk This one says “British!” to me. “I’ll Never Find Another You”: Judith Durham, OMG! :o ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/54 "2019-06-25T11:28:08Z")
I really had forgotten about this one until YouTube suggested it: [Down in the Boondocks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWw9-iygCfM) - Billy Joe Royal ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/55 "2019-06-25T11:35:31Z")
[Desmond Dekker and the Aces: Israelites](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtfdH3-TQ4) (1969). I think I’ve heard it on the radio once in the past 50 years. What a great song. Bet you can’t listen to it without busting a few dance moves. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/56 "2019-06-25T11:44:40Z")
In the mid-60s, there was a restaurant in Minneapolis called The Chestnut Tree, on the edge of downtown. My dad used to hang out there for hours at a time, while I sat reading comic books or drawing planes and tanks. (I wanted to be as good an artist as the guys who illustrated DC war comics and Marvel’s Sgt Fury.) The jukebox in the restaurant was constantly playing songs like these in the background: Dusty Springfield, “I Only Want to Be with You”: https://www.youtube.com/embed/osVaF4t-zFc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDhqMZePE7SQk Skeeter Davis, “The End of the World”: Dean Martin, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime": [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5mUiXUEHDhI/maxresdefault.jpg "Everybody Loves Somebody (Sometime) w/lyrics ~ Dean Martin") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mUiXUEHDhI) ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/57 "2019-06-25T11:53:43Z")
A couple from Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood: Some Velvet Morning: [Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood (1967) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2PbG6KQKsE) Sugar Town: [NANCY SINATRA - Sugar Town 1967 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsh2j7W6Bo) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/58 "2019-06-25T11:56:38Z")
Anything from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/59 "2019-06-25T12:02:48Z")
Whenever I watch the British soap _ **Heartbeat** _, I hear a lot of “lost” songs by “forgotten” artists. Who remembers Cilla Black? “You’re My World”: https://www.youtube.com/embed/e7-QBw862zk?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDe7-QBw862zk “Anyone Who Had a Heart”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5lAPyZVKH9Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Anyone Who Had a Heart (2003 Remastered Version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lAPyZVKH9Y) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/60 "2019-06-25T12:16:02Z")
Two more from The Chestnut Tree: Gale Garnett, “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine”: Dusty Springfield, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me": [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6IXr5dZ9iAk/maxresdefault.jpg "Dusty Springfield ~ You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (with lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IXr5dZ9iAk) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992.md?page=4)