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Playlist by Algernon
Last Christmas I had a look at ‘70’s music year by year as well as some of the television of the time. This year I thought I might look at the music of the 60’s. This time around though, I’ll look at specific popular music genres. For the first I’ll look at Beat music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hL7ryCy3Y
Glad all over – Dave Clark Five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCBMjgnVTgQ
The Cruel Sea – Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR-f10Z2iB4
I’m telling you know – Freddie and the Dreamers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSm0M-BbVdY
A hard day’s night – The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYOJAczH0k
I like it – Gerry and the Pacemakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juzm3BRksf0
Don’t let the sun catch you crying – Gerry and the Pacemakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8k0VI9tBc
Mrs Brown you have a Lovely daughter – Herman’s Hermits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reqc38YW81w
No Milk today – Herman’s Hermits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It75wQ0JypA
Bust Stop – The Hollies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1HylIjQt-Y
I’m alive – The Hollies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aog_jgCUJTw
The Fortune Teller – The Merseybeats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyj2qL-bQ4E
Silence is Golden – Brian Poole and The Tremeloes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypv1lZlW1WY
Needles and Pins – The Searchers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Loo99IUUA
The Hippy Hippy Shakes – The Swinging Blue Jeans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU
She’s not there – The Zombies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LVI1gDswg
Keep on Running – Spencer Davis Group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrQ4UGIPphk
Baby can I take you home – The Animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYo0ZRpOgo
Go Now – The Moody Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0YifXhm-Zc
She Loves you – The Beatles
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I know who you’ve forgotten, Algae: Peter and Gordon!
http://youtu.be/aVbLNPwi_r0
It wouldn’t have been the sixties without this one!
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Very good Asty, liked the little dance about 1:30 in well more like a walk.
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Alge, you can’t beat The Beatles, but The Moody Blues are pretty cool too.
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So much part of that decade Helvi.
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Fantastic list Algae! I’m looking forward to getting stuck into these as soon as I get back from the shops… Only Brit name I can remember that’s not on this list from the 60s is PJ Proby… remember him…? I can just about remember the name at present; can’t even think of any of the titles of his hits, but I remember he had a few; and that at one famous performance he split his pants…
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PJ Proby was a Texan Asty. See what I can we can do in the following weeks. Knew you’d enjoy this one.
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Oh, I never knew he was a Texan; he was in the UK for much of the sixties. It was at a British concert that he split his pants…
Of course, the ‘Beat’ started in the USA (like so many other genres, coming out of the blues!), but when it hit the UK it became something quite different… still very much ‘beat’ music, but it was now the ‘Merseybeat!’… which you have very well represented in your list too… this lot really takes me back… 1960 I’d have been 5 years old!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytsPZQ5vRE
Hold me – PJ Proby
There you go Asty some PJ Proby for you. More pop than beat but not out of place.
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LOL! Thanks for that Algae… but having seen PJ for the first time in at least fifty years, I think I know now why I forgot him in the first place! What a wierdo!
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Seemed a little camp to me. Enjoyed the synchronised dancing in the background though.
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Yeah… ‘camp’ is the word for it alright! I never realized he was such an ‘iron’…
But isn’t that video just too delightfully “BBC Circa 1960”? As you say, the dancing is delightful… the girls up the back were the best… reminded me of my cousins Noreen and Gloria, who used to dance just like that.
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Yes those at the front were nothing more than a kick and a step backwards, nothing like the girls at the back. Thought I noticed some animated rogering about 30 seconds from the end.
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Great 60s playlist, Algy, are you sure you aren’t a professional?
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It is of course a good list. Except, I never could really stand Gerry and the Pacemakers – still can’t. Elvis Presley was busy making lots of movies and singing lots of songs. But is this list just confined to the UK.
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That’s the beauty of any of these lists vivienne something for all. This list concentrated on Beat music mostly Merseybeat, hence it’s Britishness. It will be the only one in this series that’s exclusively from one country. Plenty of time for Elvis there.
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Don’t worry about Elvis – I’m not that fussed. Bit of like, heard one song, heard the lot.
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No just someone who enjoys a variety of music, glad you’ll enjoy it
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Thanks, as always, Algy. Love the pre-pubescent Steve Winwood in “Keep on Running” – Spencer Davis Group. Great tune, but I’m not sure whether the Marcel Marceau drumming or Steve’s lipsynch miming is funnier.
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Steve Winwood supported Steely Dan, when they last played in Sydney. All I can say is that he was the weakest link. There were a couple of Winwood fans in a sea of progressively restless, Steely Dan afionados, so they bloody wanker just kept going on and bloody on, with six minute lead pieces, and the obligatory drum solo that no one wanted to hear. Thank the Goddess that Steely Dan made up for it!
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Most of the clips from this time show mime and ornamental instrument playing I find. The surprise for mine was The Moody Blues playing beat.
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