Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVHP7jR8_8o
Cathy’s Clown – Everly Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIHRgisdbeY
El Paso – Marty Robbins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc
Georgia on my mind – Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEsVp5tiDQ
Hit the road Jack – Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbxxkwBQk_o
Will you love me tomorrow – The Shirelles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH-AafkQPEo
Running scared – Roy Orbison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrEPzsx1gQ
Telstar – The Tornados
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jzx664u5DA
Stranger on the Shore – Acker Bilk and his Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNNW0SPkChI
The Loco-motion – Little Eva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUA-DcW1lFc
Sukiyaki – Kyu Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVhbusBDi4
I will follow him – Little Peggy March
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYZBVbifh8
Walk like a man – The Four seasons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj9fofFGXKc
Do Wha Diddy Diddy – Manfred Mann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMwZsFKIXa8
Can’t buy me love – The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeKUNDDYs
Hello Dolly – Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCnHWas3HQ
Downtown – Petula Clarke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3SgjjTqdyM
Silver threads and Golden Needles – The Springfields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5G-SXC8Rc
Move Baby Move – Johnny O’Keefe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caDKxgQhd1M
Bombora – The Atlantics
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There are some songs here that are not familiar to me, but most of them are old favourites…
We were in Sydney yesterday, grandson Max was sweetly doing his homework. He asked me: Oma, how do you spell ” favourite”…pleased I got that one right
They’re all early 60′s helvi. I assume you spelt it with a “u”
I picked up this really cool riff out on the street. .
“Naaaah, Na Naaaaaaaaa, Na NaaaaNaaaaNaaaaNaaa naaaaa na NAAAAAAAAAAA! Naa na na naaa naaa Naaa naa-naa naaa naaah Naaaaa Na Naaa naaa naanaa naaaa na na…. etc…”
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A very thoughtful collection indeed. Might be missing a few. It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want to ……….. played to death in Melbourne in the 60s.
Yeah… and the inescapable ‘Leader of the Pack’… but I guess Algae couldn’t include everthing…
I included that on a list a couple of moths back, asty. Very good piece of ham acting if I remember.
You know I tossed up whether I’d include that vivenne it just missed the cut. I’ll find a list to include it on in the future.
The list would be much longer, I know. You have to cull and I don’t envy you that job.
Great list, Algy. Manfred Mann’s Do-Wah Diddy, Diddy was my second purchase single – after the Sunrays’ “I live for the Sun”
….. THERE she was, just a walkin’ down the street !
My fave was Quinn the eskimo, “everybody’s gonna jump for joy”
Ah…! Telstar! The first use in a pop song of the period featuring the Moog Simplifier as a solo implement! I remember once aged about six or seven, being asked, in my turn, to sing a song in front of the rest of the class… I knew heaps of songs, but at that time of my life couldn’t sing two notes together in the same key! And, put on the spot like that, I couldn’t think of anything; the first thing that came to mind was the then number one hit; yep! You guessed it… TELSTAR!
Now, what the class made of my tuneless “Naaaah, Na Naaaaaaaaa, Na NaaaaNaaaaNaaaaNaaa naaaaa na NAAAAAAAAAAA! Naa na na naaa naaa Naaa naa-naa naaa naaah Naaaaa Na Naaa naaa naanaa naaaa na na…. etc…” I shall never know, but I could see from the peculiar expression on my then teacher’s face, that Mr Holborn was totally bewildered and didn’t know quite what to say, though it drew some small applause, evidently from the more ‘avant-guarde’ class-members
What an engaging little boy. How cute (No, I’m not his mother.)
I thought avant garde. I thought innovative and you might not have even known before this that you are a Moog Synthesiser. Mr Holborn, take no notice of him (possibly advice come more than a few minutes too late). It’s beneath you. He is a little man and easily alarmed like a skittish horse by unaccustomed sound. The man is tone deaf, his credentials said he needed to teach an advanced class where he didn’t have to teach pitch. (He thought that was baseball).
I’m so learning that.
“Naaaah, Na Naaaaaaaaa, Na NaaaaNaaaaNaaaaNaaa naaaaa na NAAAAAAAAAAA! Naa na na naaa naaa Naaa naa-naa naaa naaah Naaaaa Na Naaa naaa naanaa naaaa na na…. etc…”
Your mate, ‘Shoe. Ha ha ha ha
Of course, nowadays, ‘Shoe, they’d call it ‘A Capella’!
SIMPLIFIED! A Simplier! How easy is THAAAAT! Mr Holborn didn’t even get the SIMPLIED version! Derrrh!
You know what I mean. SimpliFIED! Scheesch. Goes without sayin’. Who needs to spell it…
The picture has GOTTA be Peter, Paul and Mary, right?
Well the link would be to one of the tunes here Asty. The one in the middle is Dusty Springfield.
In that case the guys flanking her must be the Everly Brothers!
(It’s ella fitzgerald my dear whopper!)
Well they could be Marty Robbins and Kyu Sakamoto and she be Little Eva. I could be just story telling!
Nah… Little Eva has a better suntan!
I got Dusty Springfield in ONE.
“Naaaah, Na Naaaaaaaaa, Na NaaaaNaaaaNaaaaNaaa naaaaa na NAAAAAAAAAAA! Naa na na naaa naaa Naaa naa-naa naaa naaah Naaaaa Na Naaa naaa naanaa naaaa na na…. etc…”
Nah… couldn’t be Little Eva… she’s blonde!
I see no-one recognized my quote from John Lennon’s story, ‘No Flies on Frank’?
Oh well… back to the drawing board!
What’s frank got to do with it.
It’s no fun if you have to explain ‘em, Algae; I guess the reference was too obscure; you wouldn’t recognize it unless you’d read a story by John Lennon called ‘No Flies on Frank’; the reference to ‘Ella Fitzgerald’ is one of Lennon’s gags; a joking reference to Conan Doyle’s ‘Watson’…
(Sighs heavily…) As for Frank… well, he has absolutely nothing to do with it!