the sock hop

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan (1946)
New Orleans Twist - Blazer Boy (1961)
Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard (1956)
Ain't Got No Home - Clarence 'Frogman' Henry (1956)
Mess Around - Ray Charles (1953)
Shake, Rattle & Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets (1954)
Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey - Little Richard (1955)
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino (1956)
All I Have To Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers (1958)
Maybellene - Chuck Berry (1955)
(Let's Have A) Party - Elvis Presley (1957)
Baby Workout - Jackie Wilson (1963)
Think - James Brown (1960)
Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (1960)
Can I Get A Witness - Marvin Gaye (1963)
You Should'a Treated Me Right - Ike & Tina Turner (1962)
Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops (1964)
Nowhere To Run - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (1964)
You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes (1966)
Not Fade Away - The Rolling Stones (1964)
I Ain't Got You - The Animals (1965)
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles (1963)
Stay - The Hollies (1963)
The Locomotion - Little Eva (1962)
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins (1956)
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (1955)
The Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard (1956)
Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (1959)
Fever - Little Willie John (1956)
Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets (1955)
The Twist - Chubby Checker (1960)
Runaway - Del Shannon (1961)
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers (1957)
You're No Good - Betty Everett (1963)
I've Got A Woman - Ray Charles (1954)
Tainted Love - Gloria Jones (1964)
I'll Keep Holding On - The Marvelettes (1964)
Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) - Frank Wilson (1965)
Dancing In The Street - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (1964)
At The Club - The Drifters (1965)
Let's Hang On (To What We've Got) - Four Seasons (1965)
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann (1964)
Drive My Car - The Beatles (1965)
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - The Four Tops (1965)
Shotgun - Junior Walker & The All Stars (1965)
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Pts. 1, 2 & 3) - James Brown (1965)
Save Me - Aretha Franklin (1967)
Sweet Pea - Tommy Roe (1966)
Bongo Rock - Preston Epps (1959)
Rip It Up - Little Richard (1956)
I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino (1957)
Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee (1961)
Summertime, Summertime - The Jamies (1958)
Surfin' Safari - The Beach Boys (1962)
Walk Don't Run - The Ventures (1960)
The Letter - The Box Tops (1967)
Last Train To Clarksville - The Monkees (1966)
Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me) - The Four Seasons (1966)
Under My Thumb - The Rolling Stones (1966)
Be My Baby - The Ronettes (1963)
(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet - The Reflections (1964)
One Way Love - The Drifters (1964)
Twistin' The Night Away - Sam Cooke (1961)
Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes (1959)
When Will I Be Loved - The Everly Brothers (1960)
You've Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles (1963)
Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers (1962)
It Won't Be Long - The Beatles (1963)
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones (1965)
Look Through Any Window - The Hollies (1965)
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (1963)
Psycho - The Sonics (1965)
Jenny Take a Ride! - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (1965)
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells (1967)
Cold Sweat - James Brown (1967)
Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas (1970)
Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd (1966)
Summer In The City - The Lovin' Spoonful (1966)
Expressway To Your Heart - The Soul Survivors (1967)
Down On The Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin (1968)
The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (1970)
Let's Live For Today - The Grass Roots (1967)
Bernadette - The Four Tops (1967)
Outside Chance - The Turtles (1966)
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran (1958)
Long Tall Sally - Little Richard (1956)
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry (1957)
Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker (1962)
Maybe I Know - Lesley Gore (1964)
Baby Love - The Supremes (1964)
Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood (1967)
Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz (1967)
People Got To Be Free - The Rascals (1968)
Till The End Of The Day - The Kinks (1965)
Nothing But A Heartache - The Flirtations (1968)
Working My Way Back To You - The Four Seasons (1966)
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (1968)
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandlier (1962)
What A Man - Linda Lyndell (1968)
Mickey's Monkey - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1963)
Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett (1966)
She`s Not There - The Zombies (1964)
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson (1967)
Good Lovin' - The Rascals (1966)
Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations (1966)
Hallelujah I Love Her So - Ray Charles (1955)
Sexy Ways - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (1954)
B.A.B.Y - Carla Thomas (1966)
Try A Little Tenderness - Otis Redding (1966)
Tell Mama - Etta James (1967)
In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett (1965)
I Thank You - Sam & Dave (1968)
Rescue Me - Fontella Bass (1965)
Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder (1965)
South Street - The Orlons (1963)
Come Go with Me - The Dell-Vikings (1957)
When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge (1966)
To Love Somebody - Nina Simone (1967)
And I Love Her - The Beatles (1964)
Love Is Alright - Mayer Hawthorne (2009)*
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - Marvin Gaye (1964)
The Way You Do The Things You Do - The Temptations (1964)
My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small (1965)
007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker (1967)
Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke (1963)
It's The Same Old Song - The Four Tops (1965)
This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) - The Isley Brothers (1966)
What You're Doing - The Beatles (1964)
Carrie Anne - The Hollies (1967)
Iko Iko - The Dixie Cups (1964)
I Want Candy - The Strangeloves (1965)
Don't Worry Baby - The Beach Boys (1964)
Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals (1963)
Hey Baby - Bruce Chanel (1962)
Along Comes Mary - The Association (1966)
Lightnin' Strikes - Lou Christie (1965)
Forever - The Marvelettes (1963)
Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters (1960)
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers (1965)
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke (1964)

*the only song that i played on a 45, instead of an mp3, which perhaps makes up for it being slightly out of the time period...

"play those oldies mister deejay"

Title: untitled ("enjoy.....classic")
Format: cassette tape (90 min)
Date: early january 2006
Packaging: several unique designs, of which this was my favorite (with the words typed on the construction paper):

enjoy

classic

[hey mr. dj...]
1. play those oldies, mr. dj - anthony and the sophomores
2. baby doll - chuck berry
[it's ray charles!]
3. ooh! my soul - little richard
4. soldier boy - the shirelles
5. soldier of love - arthur alexander
6. is it true? - brenda lee
[gladys knight + the pips with a soul full of coca-cola]
7. poor jenny - everly brothers
8. foolin' 'round - patsy cline
9. oh no not my baby - maxine brown
10. walkin' the dog - rufus thomas
[the who drink coke after coke after coke]
11. ain't that peculiar - marvin gaye
12. i'll do a little bit more - the olympics
13. look through any window - the hollies
14. love me til the sun shines - the kinks
[it's summer swingin' with the everly brothers]
15. itsy bitsy p'tit bikini - johnny halliday
16. i don' care if the sun don't shine - elvis presley
17. rain on the roof - the lovin' spoonful
[the boxtops would like to buy the pretty girls a coke]
18. baby it's cold outside - jimmy 'n' wes
19. it's cold outside - the choir
20. don't think twice - the wonder who
21. little boy blue - bobby "blue" bland
22. the fat man - fats domino
[the real thing: jerry lee lewis for coca cola]
23. movie magg - carl perkins
24. saturday night at the movies - the drifters
25. don't sleep in the subway - petula clark
26. elenore - the turtles
27. comic strip - serge gainsbourg
28. sunday morning - margo guryan
[the supremes ask: "want another, honey? another glass of coke?"]
29. south street - the orlons
30. l.s.d. - the pretty things
31. my uncle - flying burrito brothers
32. the boat that i row - lulu
33. teenage blues - barbara lynn
34. every little thing - the beatles
35. stand by me - ben e. king
36. go cry on somebody else's shoulder - f.z. and the mothers of invention (excerpt)

so this was the mix i made a year and almost a month ago, of which the mix i made yesterday is sort of the little sibling, or perhaps child. (you'll notice it inherited two of the same songs - that's allowed, in the family.) it is labelled as follows:

vol. 1
'50s/'60s vs. '05/'06
ageless pop from the soda fountain of youth
jerked by ross of love
insp. by a. a. biggs

inspired specifically by angela's '50s/'60s american/french mix which we listened to driving back from wnkn new years, and made specifically for the three ladies in the car with me. but also obv. also insp. by my childhood oldies radio days (hence "youth"), even though i only remember a handful of these tunes actually being played by WKLX (4, 11, 13, 20, 35; possibly 22 and 25.) i tried to make it seem a bit like a radio broadcast by including selections from this lp i have of coke commercials ("things go better with...") performed by everybody, often in the style or lifting the melody from one of their own hits, sometimes constituting entirely new little mini-songs in their own right. (best punning use of that record since i didn't actually intersperse it while djing the "pop/art" party in kitao.)

meanwhile, the musical selections are probably too widely ranging in both style and date for this to be an accurate portrayal of a '60s-era radio station - but i don't think it's that far off. i did overexaggerate the range of styles, to include country, "hard rock", folk-rock, blues, and even jazz, on top of all manner of soul and pop. i think my favorite thing about the mix is how
nicely that balance comes off - despite the variety, everything seems to relate and coexist naturally. i feel like it would be difficult to achieve that in an encapsulation of the pop-musical world of 2006 with a similarly wide-ranging (albeit admittedly skewed) selection. i also like (and contributing to the radio-effect, for me) the balance between fairly recognizable songs and more obscure ones.

it does stray a little farther into the late '60s than i had really wanted (there's an imprecise but distinct chronological drift to the whole thing) - the thought being that vol. 2 ('60s-'70s vs. '06/'07, presumably) could cover something like 65-76, where this one does roughly 54-66 - mostly to accomodate some recent acquisitions i was excited about.

about the other day's minimix, by the way - which i want to be perhaps the first installment in a monthly (ish?) podcast series - it draws primarily and deliberately on the vein of male vocal pop which i talked about here (pts. 5 and 6) as being underrecognized. also, i hadn't realized this when i made it, but perhaps the opening mamas and papas snippet and title reference can serve as tribute to papa denny (r.i.p.), who died last week. (if you missed it, those are from "california dreamin'", which i decided against actually including despite that absolutely rippin' flute break.)

in the non-winter of my non-discontent

a Mixtape for ([just] such a) Winter's Day
1. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery (1966)
2. I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You - Margo Guryan (1967)
3. Dawn - the Four Seasons (1964)
4. A Question of Temperature - the Balloon Farm (1968)
5. Two Divided by Love - the Grassroots (1971)
6. One Two Three and I Fell - Tommy James and the Shondells (1968)
7. A Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon and Garfunkel (1968)
8. The Chills - Peter, Bjorn and John (2006)
9. It's Cold Outside - the Choir (1967)
10. It's Now Winter's Day - Tommy Roe (1966)
11. A Winter's Sky - the Pipettes (2006)

THE SIXTIES, TODAY!some thoughts on the p4k "200 greatest songs of the '60s" list

(for reference, here's the top 20 and links to the rest of the list.)

1. i like the list - i like how it's clearly not a list made by people who grew up in the '60s, but is filtered through a few decades and generations of critical reception and reconsideration. in fact, in some ways it's a particularly '00s '60s list - it would be hard to imagine some of these things on such a list made at any other point, in particular some of the more obscure girl group stuff, which probably wouldn't be on a list made even a year ago.

i also like how - although the word "greatest" is always (and deliberately) vague - this list doesn't seem to put all that much stock in "importance", often placing songs that are perhaps more musically interesting or evocative (or that haven't had their effect dulled through overexposure!) over more obvious choices. hence "think" over "respect," "gimme shelter" but no "satisfaction," and especially the zombies selections ("this will be our year" at #40!) this is all fine with me - i don't like "respect" very much, and i can live without "satisfaction." however, although i probably prefer "i can't explain" and "the kids are alright" myself, i'm still a little scandalized by the absence of "my generation."

2. i somehow doubt johnny cash and, especially, desmond dekker would have made the top 10 (!) if not for the attention they've received following their recent deaths. ray charles (appearing once, at #52) and syd barrett (two early floyd tracks in the bottom 100) don't seem to have been helped by this though. anyway, "ring of fire" (#35) is easily my least favorite song in the top 40. (sorry, but i just find it irredeemably idiotic.)

more to the point: what the hell is up with the shangri-las? three songs!? "out in the streets" in the top 20!? not to mention the kinks' "shangri-la" (#135), a mystifying selection that i really suspect might be the result of some kind of weird crossover sweep effect. (i love the kinks, but i'm not sure they needed five songs on here, and especially that one.) i guess i just don't like the shangri-las as much as some people. or they're somehow a lot more significant than i realized. "leader of the pack" is a deserved classic, though not really a great piece of music; "out in the streets" is an okay song, i guess, but - just for instance - it's hardly one of the stand-outs on that girl group box. i just don't get it. justice would be if it swapped places with the flirtations "nothing but a heartache" (#166.)

3. okay: i don't want it to seem like i'm griping, because that's fairly pointless - these lists will always provoke gripes, which are fun to make but not very productive - but more because i don't have any major complaints about either what's on it or what's not on it. it has a lot of great songs on it, and a few i haven't heard and am looking forward to checking out. and that's really all i require.

i am, however, very interested in studying the list because of what it can tell us about the current state of thought among the music-critical community. this is exactly what i'm interested in these days: how the universe of pop music is being understood and thought about, what stories are being told about it, what's considered significant or good, etc. etc. and the music of the 1960s is of particular interest since pop music culture as we know it has its roots in that decade, and its influence on contemporary music and culture are as relevant as ever.

obviously pitchfork is not wholly representative, but it is a reasonably good reflection of, at least, the online community of people who are reasonably knowledgeable about, and take an active interest in pop music. and in any case, it's rare to get such a straightforwardly quantifiable/analyzable document of contemporary perceptions of the music of the '60s. even if its usefulness shouldn't be overstated, it should prove helpful in painting some broad strokes.

4. two things that i have been particularly curious about lately, as far as current perceptions of the '60s go: cream and the four seasons. they both seem very important to me (as well as very good), but my sense has been that they are generally disregarded these days. and this list upholds that sense.

cream are absent from the list, and conspicuously so, to my mind, considering the presence of three led zeppelin songs ("dazed and confused" at #11; "whole lotta love" at #53; "what is and what should never be" at #126), not to mention four songs by the who. leaving aside the fact that two of those zep songs were on an album released in october 1969 (which is to say they are technically legitimate, but they could hardly have made much of an impact on the 1960s, and therefore feel a bit cheap to include), and that zeppelin are just such a quintessentially '70s band, the inclusion of these tracks is enough to demonstrate that the listmakers didn't have a problem with heavy, blues-based british rock. which is to say they must therefore have a problem with cream, because cream were clearly the biggest heavy blues-based british rock band of the 1960s, and "sunshine of your love," in particular, is a no-brainer of a massively influential song, and i won't say led zeppelin would have been unthinkable without cream, but there's something to that line of reasoning. (the way my dad tells it, disraeli gears was one of the most popular and inescapably big-deal albums of the late '60s, and it sounded completely new and different to his ears, with its unprecedented heaviness and use of distortion.)

(i'll admit that i don't have that much interest in listening to cream these days, but then i don't have much interest in listening to zeppelin either. my skewed presumption - based on my own experience and observations - is that both groups have a particular appeal to high-school-aged males, but for some reason folks tend to retain a fondness for zep after losing interest in cream/if they even had it in the first place.)

again, though, i'm not really interested in complaining about this omission for its own sake, i merely bring it up for the credence it lends to my theory that 1) cream tend to be ignored and underrecognised these days which 2) i think is because people's (generally negative, or else indifferent) perceptions of eric clapton's subsequent career have negatively affected their perception of his (arguably better and/or more important) earlier work (with cream and beyond) to the point that it has lost a considerable amount of esteem. this plays into the tangled web of thoughts i have about "mature" (/"dad") rock, which i will get back to expounding about at a later date.

5. as for the four seasons...they are also absent from the list. this is a good deal less surprising than cream's absence, despite the fact that the four seasons were certainly more popular, more era-defining, and, in cultural terms (and maybe or maybe not musical terms) more "important" than cream. it's not surprising because the era that they defined was the early sixties (their biggest hits were all in 1962-64) before the beatles came on the scene in 1964 and established rock as we know it as a dominant form of (white) popular music. which is to say, they were - with the possible exception of the beach boys - the biggest band of the 1960s before the beginning the rock era. which, incidentally, continued through at least the mid-90s and possibly somewhat beyond, but certainly seems, for all intents and purposes, to be over now, at least for the time being.

rock is still popular, however, and moreover it's still considered to be a big deal, and that's why, among other reasons, it's unsurprising, although striking, that the first four years of the decade, 1960-63, are representated on this list by a total of only 26 songs, as compared to 138 for the last four years, including 40 - close to a quarter of the list! - for 1969 alone. [source: michelangos matos on this ilm thread] not that the list is overwhelmingly dominated by rock: soul and pop, however you choose to define those terms, are markedly and deservedly prominent. nowhere is this clearer than the #2 slot going to the jackson five's "i want you back" - a song from 1969 that still sounds uncannily fresh today, to the extent that it almost seems unfair to include it. (i have to admit that it makes me a little uneasy for that song to be so high, since - unlike almost any other motown single from the decade - it doesn't feel particularly representative of the '60s; on the other hand it's hard to deny that the song really is that good.)

as i've mentioned above, there's a respectable amount of girl-group music on the list. girl groups are clearly hot now, which is awesome and very exciting and makes me happy. (even if three shangri-las tunes muscled out "he's a rebel," which would easily have made my top five.) i see this trend - recognizing the significance and greatness of girl-group music - as a much-needed correction to the general understanding of pop music history, as well as an appropriate corrolary to the recent wave of contemporary girl-pop.

it seems to me that the necessary (and, i should think, inevitable) next step is a reappraisal of the corresponding "boy" music of the period. which is to say, vocal-based pop by male performers as well as females. just as "girl group" can encompass a considerable range of musical styles - soul, pop, rock, country, and beyond - there is comparable diversity in male vocal pop of the '60s. this complicates matters since - absent the gender distinction - it can be harder to know where to place the boundaries with and among "staight-up" soul, doo-wop, folk-rock, garage rock, british invasion beat combos, surf music, '50s-style crooners, bubblegum pop, and so forth. (there's also confusion about how to consider groups who shifted over the course of their careers from - most commonly - straightforward pop territory towards artier or rockier or grittier or psycher or otherwise more "artistically legitimate" terrain.)

so it's a broad category, and i haven't quite figured out who counts, except that - taking the pitchfork list as exhibit A - many of the contenders don't seem to be that well regarded.

there are obvious exceptions, of course: whatever else they may have been and done, the beach boys and the beatles are clearly two of the greatest male vocal pop groups of all time - and the former are the clear winners of this poll, with the latter close behind. but it should be noted that - of the five slots each group was allotted (including one, apparently, for brian wilson's solo piano version of "surf's up"!?), only "i want to hold your hand" represents the beatles' early "vocal pop era" output [the remaining four are decidedly more 'experimental'], while the earliest beach boys cut, "don't worry baby," though it dates to '64, is far more in keeping with the "mature" (and innovative) vein of the later beach boys tunes also selected than - for instance - its A-side flip, the equally brilliant "i get around."

anyway, killer b's aside...(let's ignore the byrds too, while we're at it)...the four seasons have to be on the top of the male vocal pop heap. they seasons had 13 top ten US hits in the 1960s - which isn't quite as many as the beach boys (15) or the supremes (18) [source: wikipedia!] - nor is chart success necessarily the most relevant indicator of greatness - but it's noteworthy nonetheless. i'm hopelessly confused as to why rhino is currently re-re-releasing the monkees' albums on CD with as two-disc sets with mono and stereo versions and copious bonus tracks, while they've allowed the only decent four seasons anthology on CD to go out of print. could it perhaps be that frankie valli sings like a girl?

relevant songs that did make the cut:
monkees - daydream believer (#54), i'm a believer (#133)
tommy james and the shondells - crimson and clover (#57)
del shannon - runaway (#64)
roy orbison - crying (#85) (but no sign of "oh, pretty woman," which has got to be one of the greatest '60s rock songs)
the association - never my love (#152)
bobby darin - beyond the sea (#183)
hollies - bus stop (#186)

(i've left off the male motown groups - the miracles (#87, shamefully low for "tracks of my tears"), four tops (#110 - weird choice), and temptations (#185!?) each made it once; and stevie twice and marvin once, which means that the men of motown only barely edge out the women, as represented solely by five supremes selections, no marvelettes, martha reeves, gladys, mary, etc.)

some omissions, notable and otherwise:
the drifters (!)
the rascals (!!)
the lovin' spoonful (?)
the turtles
jan and dean
jay and the americans
gary lewis and the playboys
hermans hermits
everly brothers ("cathy's clown" and "when will i be loved" are eligible)
lots of one hit wonders i'm not going to think of,
plus all the second-tier british invasion groups -
dave clark five/spencer davis group/gerry and the pacemakers/freddie and the dreamers/wayne fontana and the mindbenders

i do note that these are all, to a greater or lesser extent, rock bands - so are the four seasons, of course; just look at their AMG entry. but even when their music is at its most rocking (the monkees' "stepping stone", the rascals' "good lovin'), a lot of it tends to be treated differently from, say, the stones, or some of the nuggets bands. the difference, possibly, has something to do with r'n'b.

this requires some further thought and research - the distinction likely seems more evident now than it did at the time, and i'd like to consider vocal pop vs. album rock market niches, soul influences, the effect of legacy, and questions of artistic intentions and "integrity." anyway...

6. an interesting point of comparison is a very recent ILM poll ranking '60s songs, which you can read here (scroll to the bottom for the list of #1-200.)

on the whole, the lists isn't really all that different in character (it is reasonably different in the actual songs), which makes sense, because i more or less assume the contributors to ILM and PFM to be on the same page. if the ILM list has slightly more interesting (=unexpected) song choices, i'd chalk that up to a small sample size. i do like their beatles picks more, btw.

an excerpt, with comments:
1 Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (wow!! by a huge margin too!)
3 Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (i don't even know this song. so i'm kind of confused.)
17 Dionne Warwick - Walk On By (was on the pitchfork list at like #198, which seems strange in retrospect)
18 Petula Clark - Downtown (no pitchfork love)
28 Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (three shangri-las songs here too, but at least this is the highest. no "out in the streets", weirdos.)
41 Archies - Sugar Sugar (awesome!)
42 Cream - Badge (surprising choice, but this is definitely a very cool and strangely modern-sounding song, and of course i'm glad for the inclusion, even if it seems like a fluke of the small sample set and somebody lobbying hard.)
45 Trashmen - Surfin Bird (hmm.)
60 Monkees - I'm a Believer
71 Tommy James & the Shondells - Crimson & Clover
72 Del Shannon - Runaway
80 Lovin' Spoonful - Do you believe in magic?
97 Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday (very well, but what about "stepping stone"?)
114 Beach Boys - I Get Around (yeah!)
165 Who - My Generation (see, this is fine - low but at least it's there.)
180 Beach Boys - California Girls (yeah!!)
181 Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
182 Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
184 Troggs - Wild Thing
188 Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown (pretty striking difference from the pfork list in LZ choices and placement. i'd probably go for "babe" and "dazed" as my '60s zep picks. also, good call on "wild thing," another seminal moment in the development of heavy pop.)
198 Ventures - Walk, Don't Run