# '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:** 6
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/101 "2019-06-25T22:23:34Z")
[Salad Days Are Here Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1ljGrlDbw)– Procol Harum ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/102 "2019-06-25T23:31:47Z")
Yay, Hurricane Smith. Reminds me of Mouth and McNeal’s [How Do You Do?](https://youtu.be/6QXyqk9flwk) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/103 "2019-06-25T23:51:55Z")
About all you ever hear from It’s a Beautiful Day is “White Bird,” but their “[Girl with No Eyes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ixKWmYux8)” is just as beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/104 "2019-06-26T00:20:37Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > [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) Totally agree on the excellent “Let it Out” by the Hombres! To that I’ll add 1968’s ”Living in the USA” by the Steve Miller Band. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/105 "2019-06-26T00:49:12Z")
Shit - [Living In The U.S.A. - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_rKPuqxFtA) ---
**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 26, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/106 "2019-06-26T01:41:49Z")
[The Newbeats: Bread and Butter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Jzl_bx3fI) (1964). This song brings back good memories. Silly and fun. I don’ think anything like this could be a hit today. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/107 "2019-06-26T14:45:37Z")
> [@Cabbage](#): > > A couple from Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood: > > Some Velvet Morning: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2PbG6KQKsE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2PbG6KQKsE) > > Sugar Town: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsh2j7W6Bo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsh2j7W6Bo) Don’t forget Summer Wine! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ib_eW9VSUwM/hqdefault.jpg "Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood-Summer Wine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_eW9VSUwM) ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/108 "2019-06-26T15:39:09Z")
Can we still play if we weren’t born in the 60s? Pink Floyd’s (flop) third single, [“Apples and Oranges”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXuypU4qjj8) Taste, [“What’s Going On”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHB3U9ndh6w) My favorite “forgotten” Cream song, [“As You Said”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyx7NZqy0XE) Jake Holmes, [“Dazed and Confused”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc) 13th Floor Elevators, [“You’re Gonna Miss Me”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OytJYBfwUk) (RIP Roky Erickson) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/109 "2019-06-26T15:47:35Z")
While the original recording of Dazed and Confused was barely remembered during it’s release and is now surely forgotten, the song most certainly is not. Glad you posted it though. That was a treat! ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/110 "2019-06-26T16:56:58Z")
“Rock Candy”. Sammy Hagar on vocals. ---
**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 26, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/111 "2019-06-26T18:29:10Z")
I’ll violate my own terms for posting in this thread to add: Anything by **Quicksilver Messenger Service**. Especially [Pride of Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG6A6G9uzsQ), [The Fool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WnBy4z5Jc&list=PLtg6QhGBQvmcW7cFL9uPhIkgBPToGndXe), or the absolutely electric [Who do you Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bWdv9oTUbg) (live at the [Fillmore West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_West)). ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/112 "2019-06-26T18:30:27Z")
“Loving You” by Minnie Reperton [https://youtu.be/vzV7twJqeQ8](https://youtu.be/vzV7twJqeQ8) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/113 "2019-06-26T19:11:10Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > [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. Just to emphasise how forgotten Desmond Dekker was, I saw him play a shit nightclub in a shit north of England town on a Thursday night, to a total of SIX people. Yep - me, my brother, and the table to our left. Heartbreaking. Which raises an interesting point. I would argue that UK pop reggae is a forgotten genre - I mean some of it was revived (well, appropriated) by 2-Tone et al (which leads directly to the great story about how UB40 covered Red Red Wine thinking it was a Tony Tribe original - but that’s another story. Reggae-fied versions of songs were not uncommon.) But most remains pretty obscure. Anyways - this was a significant force in UK for - woo - decades, I guess. Here are a couple of UK number ones, each exquisite in their own way: [Everything I Own](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZHTg26q1Js) by Ken Booth [Double Barrel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7Kx2FlFQY) by Dave and Ansell Collins And as a bonus - I have not a clue if these have even ever been heard of in the US - [Liquidator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTn01jjEFfY) by the Harry J All Stars - which, truth be told, has on odd afterlife as a not uncommon pre-game tune at football matches. If you’re going to give yourself one treat today, make it one of these three. j ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/114 "2019-06-26T19:36:37Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Which raises an interesting point. I would argue that UK pop reggae is a forgotten genre - I mean some of it was revived (well, appropriated) by 2-Tone et al (which leads directly to the great story about how UB40 covered Red Red Wine thinking it was a Tony Tribe original - but that’s another story. Reggae-fied versions of songs were not uncommon.) But most remains pretty obscure. You forgot to mention my personal UK “reggae” fav- Judge Dread!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/115 "2019-06-26T19:43:01Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I was a big fan of the group Kak. They actually got good promotion from their record company, but their cover design was a mistake, since the font wasn’t easy to read. They don’t even have a Wikipedia entry, but the music was excellent. > > Here’s [Electric Sailor.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGEqnRv_EME) The group lasted all of twelve weeks, but the album stayed in print a long time. They may not have a Wikipedia entry; however Gary Lee Yoder does. ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/116 "2019-06-26T19:49:22Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > “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 Skylark’s “Wildflower” is effing great. I think it found its way to the forgotten bin because few people, myself included, remember(ed) the real name of the song. The closest the lyrics come to the title is, of course, “She’s a free and gentle flower growing wild”. Brandy, by the way, was a hit for The Looking Glass (unless there is another, same-name song by Mirror Image). They later morphed into the group Starz. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/117 "2019-06-26T19:52:54Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Just to emphasise how forgotten Desmond Dekker was, I saw him play a shit nightclub in a shit north of England town on a Thursday night, to a total of SIX people. Yep - me, my brother, and the table to our left. Heartbreaking. I chiefly know that song from its use in _Drugstore Cowboy_. I suspect that’s true for a lot of Americans. (And maybe Brits too.) ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/118 "2019-06-26T19:56:24Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I’ll nominate Mac and Katie Kissoon’s [Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMyM2xj8xk) which was the most-played single on our junior high cafeteria’s juke box. > > With Donny Osmond’s “Go Away Little Girl” probably tying Creedence’s “Bad Moon Rising” for #2 spot. The Creedence isn’t forgotten. The Osmond we try to forget as completely as we can. A great pick. That song was very popular when I was in 4th grade. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/119 "2019-06-26T20:03:54Z")
> [@Helmut\_Doork](#): > > You forgot to mention my personal UK “reggae” fav- Judge Dread!🙂 Forgot? Uh, no…😉 j ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992/120 "2019-06-26T20:06:49Z")
I can think of two pretty-much forgotten songs that made the US top forty: 1. “Hot Smoke and Sassafras” by Bubble Puppy (#14) 2. “As the Years Go By” by Mashmakahn (#31) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-songs-from-the-60s-i-e-1964-to-1974ish/835992.md?page=7)