# Help this youngin' find some, um, groovy 60s music, please! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293 "2008-01-28T06:29:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/41 "2008-01-28T17:48:39Z")
There are tons of soundtracks which will give you a nice '60s mix. The Big Chill for example. But those collection never have a Beatles song and rarely have a Stones song. I wonder if future generations will see these and think those two groups were not essential to the decade musically. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/42 "2008-01-28T18:00:55Z")
There have been several mentions of Motown soul, but I don’t see anything by the other great R&B label of the 60’s: Stax/Volt. “Memphis Soul” has a harder edge to it than does Motown. Not quite as polished and produced, but (IMHO) much tastier licks. Artists include Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs (the Stax house band), Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas, and a host of others. Check [here](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll) for some good Stax/Volt compilations. Also check out the Atlantic soul artists. Stax/Volt had a rather symbiotic relationship with the Atlantic label. The king and queen of Atlantic soul were Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin. Plenty of great stuff to choose from there. Finally, to round out the picture, don’t forget Mr. Dynamite, the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother No. 1: James Brown! [This](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fifpxqq5ldde) is an excellent compilation. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/43 "2008-01-28T18:44:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] ARGH! I can’t believe I made that typo! :o :o :o I know better too. _rueful laugh_ Well, hope it at least gave you a chuckle, it did me, I can be so silly sometimes. [/QUOTE] Yeah I hear you. I’m sure I’ve typed it that way myself before and freaked out at my own self for even having thought it 🙂 I was pretty sure you knew what you were talking about too - just wanted to make sure **Diosa** didn’t fall into the same trap right off the bat! ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/44 "2008-01-28T19:54:45Z")
**The 13th Floor Elevators** – brilliant acid-fried garagey whambang, and the launchpad for one of rock’s true mad genius angels, the great Roky Erickson \*\*MC5 \*\*-- pure hard rock fury from some of punk’s earliest spiritual ancestors **Iron Butterfly** – they really _were_ louder than love. And their cover of _Summertime Blues_ just freakin’ kills. **Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention** – because, there are _reasons_ Frank was around in the public consciousness for as long as he was, and this is where it began. **Sly and the Family Stone** – acid rock meets soul, and neither side comes out unscathed. \*\*Ten Years After \*\*and **Canned Heat-** - two different approaches to electric (in all senses of the word) blues People have already mentioned Janis, the Velvets, Hendrix and the _Forever Changes_ album, and I second all those. It wasn’t all tambourines and daisies and earnest folkie bleating and hippie ear-candy; there was some cool,dark, \*\*evil \*\*hard rock getting made at the same time which will light a holy fire under anyone who loves The Noise. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/45 "2008-01-28T20:01:26Z")
[QUOTE=DLuxN8R-13] \*\*MC5 \*\*-- pure hard rock fury from some of punk’s earliest spiritual ancestors [/QUOTE] Kick Out the Jams! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2LCErRSqIs&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2LCErRSqIs&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/46 "2008-01-28T20:54:56Z")
You have to here the song In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans released in 1969. It is very much in tune with the nukes will kill us thoughts we all had. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/47 "2008-01-28T21:32:51Z")
Get **don’t ask** ’s collection, and follow it up with the [Complete Monterey Pop Festival:](http://www.amazon.com/Monterey-International-Festival-30th-Anniversary/dp/samples/B00000342H/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1) Disc: 1 1. Festival Introduction - John Phillips 2. Along Comes Mary - The Association 3. Windy - The Association 4. Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing - Lou Rawls 5. Dead End Street - Lou Rawls 6. Tobacco Road - Lou Rawls 7. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon/The Animals 8. Hey Gyp - Eric Burdon/The Animals 9. Rollin’ And Tumblin’ - Canned Heat 10. Dust My Broom - Canned Heat 11. Bullfrog Blues - Canned Heat 12. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Country Joe & The Fish 13. Down On Me - Big Brother & The Holding Company 14. Combination Of The Two - Big Brother & The Holding Company 15. Harry - Big Brother & The Holding Company 16. Road Block - Big Brother & The Holding Company 17. Ball And Chain - Big Brother & The Holding Company Disc: 2 1. Look Over Yonders Wall - The Butterfield Blues Band 2. Mystery Train - The Butterfield Blues Band 3. Born In Chicago - The Butterfield Blues Band 4. Double Trouble - The Butterfield Blues Band 5. Marry Ann - The Butterfield Blues Band 6. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band 7. Groovin’ Is Easy - The Electric Flag 8. Wine - The Electric Flag 9. Bajabula Bonke (Healing Song) - Hugh Masekela 10. Renaissance Fair - The Byrds 11. Have You Seen Her Face - The Byrds 12. Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go) - The Byrds 13. He Was A Friend Of Mine - The Byrds 14. Lady Friend - The Byrds 15. Chimes Of Freedom - The Byrds 16. So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star - The Byrds 17. Dhun: Fast Teental (Excerpt) - Ravi Shanker 18. The Flute Thing Disc: 3 1. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 2. The Other Side Of This Life - Jefferson Airplane 3. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 4. High Flyin’ Bird - Jefferson Airplane 5. She Has Funny Cars - Jefferson Airplane 6. Booker-Loo - Booker T & The MG’s 7. Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG’s 8. Philly Dog - Booker T & The MG’s/The Mar-Keys 9. Shake - Otis Redding 10. Respect - Otis Redding 11. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) - Otis Redding 12. Satisfaction - Otis Redding 13. Try A Little Tenderness - Otis Redding 14. Substitute - The Who 15. Summertime Blues - The Who 16. Pictures Of Lily - The Who 17. A Quick One While He’s Away - The Who 18. Happy Jack - The Who 19. My Generation - The Who Disc: 4 1. Killing Floor - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 2. Foxy Lady - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 3. Like A Rolling Stone - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 4. Rock Me Baby - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 5. Hey Joe - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 6. Can You See Me - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 7. The Wind Cries Mary - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 8. Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 9. Wild Thing - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 10. Straight Shooter - The Mamas & The Papas 11. Got A Feelin’ - The Mamas & The Papas 12. California Dreamin’ - The Mamas & The Papas 13. I Call Your Name - The Mamas & The Papas 14. Monday, Monday - The Mamas & The Papas 15. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie 16. Dancing In The Streets - The Mamas & The Papas ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/48 "2008-01-28T21:46:27Z")
Wow. What a Golden Age for music. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/49 "2008-01-28T21:47:20Z")
I grew up listening to Simon&Garfunkel, the Beatles, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Leonard Cohen … my opinion is that the best songs of S&G are not their most well-known ones (like “I am a Rock,” and “Bridge Over Trouble Waters,” for instance). My personal favorites are “A Poem on the Underground Wall,” “For Emily,” “Kathy’s Song,” “Slip-Slidin’ Away,” “American Tune,” “April, Come She Will,” “Bleeker Street,” “Cloudy,” “The Dangling Conversation,” and “Still Crazy After All These Years.” I don’t know why I picked up my parents’ musical tastes. In elementary school, while my friends were listening to New Kids on the Block and Celine Dion, I was singing along to S&G and Joan Baez. It didn’t do much for my social life. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/50 "2008-01-28T22:05:14Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] I grew up listening to Simon&Garfunkel, the Beatles, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Leonard Cohen … my opinion is that the best songs of S&G are not their most well-known ones (like “I am a Rock,” and “Bridge Over Trouble Waters,” for instance). My personal favorites are “A Poem on the Underground Wall,” “For Emily,” “Kathy’s Song,” “Slip-Slidin’ Away,” “American Tune,” “April, Come She Will,” “Bleeker Street,” “Cloudy,” “The Dangling Conversation,” and “Still Crazy After All These Years.” [/QUOTE] Nitpick: A couple of those are from Paul Simon’s solo career, which is well worth checking out, but which post-dates the Sixties. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/51 "2008-01-28T22:56:47Z")
I haven’t seen the following: Dave Clark Five (Glad All Over) Herman’s Hermits (Mrs. Brown…) The Lovin’ Spoonful (Summer In The City) Gerry & The Pacemakers (Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’ and Ferry, Cross the Mersey) B.J. Thomas (Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head) Swingin’ Medallions (Double Shot Of My Baby’s Love) Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs (Little Red Ridin’ Hood) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/52 "2008-01-28T23:00:58Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] … (1970 though) … [/QUOTE] Yeah, but, really the “60’s” don’t start 'till what 62, 63, 64 at least? There’s a not quite definite turning point but; the British invasion, Doo Wop turns into Motown, beatniks become hippies, etc… and they don’t really end 'till almost the mid 70’s; disco, another British invasion (punk 🆒 ), etc. _John Barleycorn Must Die_ (Traffic in general) is clearly 60’s music! CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/53 "2008-01-29T01:58:16Z")
Regarding lighter, poppy tunes: The Royal Guardsmen’s “Snoopy” songs. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/54 "2008-01-29T02:01:42Z")
Wow! When you’ve worked through all these, check out this song from [Krokodil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anlkb1mu6Cw&feature=related) (any relation to the doper of the same name?). I heard this band on iTunes a couple of months ago and was reminded of …well, groovy 60’s music. The video is from 2006, but they covered the song in the 60’s. I believe the original was written by Tim Hardin. **DLuxN8R-13** , are you sure you’re not thinking of Blue Cheer’s cover of Summertime Blues? I can’t find where Iron Butterfly ever recorded it. (Then again, I’ve been wrong before.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/55 "2008-01-29T02:19:54Z")
Also “The Unicorn” by The Irish Rovers. Heck, get their “Best of” CD. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/56 "2008-01-29T05:41:20Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign] **DLuxN8R-13** , are you sure you’re not thinking of Blue Cheer’s cover of Summertime Blues? I can’t find where Iron Butterfly ever recorded it. (Then again, I’ve been wrong before.) [/QUOTE] Oooops. You’re right, I’m wrong. :smack: Blue Cheer it was, and I think they were who I meant to recommend even and I got 'em mixed up with that **OTHER** loud-ass band from 1968. :o : Oh, well…I was born in 1959 and only started listening to 60s music sometime in my 20s. (At least this gives me an excuse to stick one of these comical looking self-smackin’s :smack: into my post.) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/57 "2008-01-30T00:17:55Z")
Good God, people! No Spirit? (“Mechanical World”) No Crosby Stills and Nash (and later, Young)? (“Ohio,” “Almost Cut My Hair” which is a ridiculously overblown song but fun because of it). No It’s A Beautiful Day? (“Searching for the Dolphin” though best known for “White Bird”). By the way, does anybody else find that “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine” is a weird precursor to the Goth movement that somehow appeared a couple of decades early (“The joy of life/she dresses in black/With a parade of angels/engraved on her back”) Also, B-52’s “Channel Z” MIGHT be far enough back in their history to somehow shoehorn into the 70s-that-were-really-leftover=60s, and their “Summer of Love” although I don’t think it got written til the 80s or 90s, is definitely a 60s kinda tune. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/58 "2008-01-30T00:31:47Z")
If you are going to go for **It’s A Beautiful Day** , then the tunes you need are “Don and Dewey” and “Soapstone Mountain,” both off the _Marrying Maiden_ album. For that matter, we need to add **Quicksilver Messenger Service** , **Moby Grape** , and **The Fugs**. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/59 "2008-01-30T00:50:24Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] If you are going to go for **It’s A Beautiful Day** , then the tunes you need are “Don and Dewey” and “Soapstone Mountain,” both off the _Marrying Maiden_ album. [/quote] Oh, those are two of my personal faves, but I felt “Searching for the Dolphin” has a quality of hippy-dippyness that makes it a little more 60s than the others. I mean, Don and Dewey is an instrumental already. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293/60 "2008-01-30T01:00:27Z")
[The Sixties](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWhWMYqDNtk), summed up in one video of one song. _We’re all outlaws in the eyes of america In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young We should be together_ 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-youngin-find-some-um-groovy-60s-music-please/435293.md?page=4)