Tagged: 1960s

Credit usually goes to the Byrds for founding the folk-rock movement, but the Beau Brummels were actually the first band to not only play such a style but obtain commercial success in the process. Based out of San Francisco, California, the group dispensed a pair of back to back TOp 20 hits with “Laugh Laugh” and “Just A Little” early [...]

I have a strange relationship with song lyrics that is well-documented. Google "not a lyrics guy" and "Saleski" and you will find a surprising amount of evidence. The thing is, I do occasionally pay attention to the words, though I'd be hard-pressed to say when, specifically. Generally speaking, I'm more apt to be listening when dealing with folk-ish material, or [...]

[Throwback is a weekly (Thursday, natch) segment where we share a song or album from the past that we wouldn't otherwise have the occasion to discuss. We usually try to focus on the new, the fresh, and the undiscovered music here at DUL. This series gives us a chance to share songs and artists that we enjoy from other eras. They might be well-known classics, they might be hidden gems. They might be from 1969, or 1999, or even 1929. Who knows? There's lot of music out there, and this lets us share a small slice of what we like.] [...]

Not to be confused with the Beefeaters who released a solitary single (“Please Let Me Love You/Don’t Be Long”) for the Elektra label in 1964 before switching their name to the Byrds and winging to the top of the charts, these guys came from Dallas, Texas. But like the Los Angeles, California-based band of the same handle, they too issued [...]

"SAGA RECORDS Teléfono: ARChway 044 (2 líneas) / ARChway 6777 (3 líneas) Oficina de ventas y Almacén: 6-7 EMPIRE YARD, 538-540 HOLLOWAY ROAD, LONDRES, N.7 18 de Febrero de 1960 Estimado Distribuidor: Adjunta a esta carta encontrará completa información  sobre las nuevas publicaciones de Saga bajo la etiqueta Triumph, que en el futuro albergará nuestros lanzamientos más 'pop'. Estos discos se publican con el mercado adolescente [...]

It's amazing to me that, after all these decades, there are still unknown bands putting out great music. England's Hi-Fi's rest firmly in that category. They eventually went to Germany, as several other like-minded British Invasion bands did back then, looking for greener pastures to hit it big in the mid-'60s. There, English bands were treated as special, even if [...]

The first in what would become a series of forlorn triumphs from the Band's Richard Manuel. Even today, it engenders a kind of shattering wonder, as Manuel reveals the very shape of his heart on songs like "Katie's Been Gone." Co-written by Manuel and Robbie Robertson, who seconds Rick Danko on a desperately sad backing vocal, "Katie's Been Gone" was [...]

Or “Why Thou Shall Not Tamper with the Vegetation In the Garden of Eden” - A Combination Counterculture Sermon and Horticulture Guide by JC Mosquito ... Good morning to you all, my Brothers and Sisters in Rock and Roll, Please open your Billboard Charts Reference Bible and find where it says Iron Butterfly – “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” (single edit: 2 minutes, 53 [...]

Over the years, Robert Fripp has developed his own legend within King Crimson, both has its only continuous member over the decades and for his famously eccentric stage presence. Greg Lake, who co-founded the band and remained through its first two albums, takes us into the genesis of both. "It's funny how these things start up," Lake tells Rockin' Rich [...]

El 3 de febrero de 1967, el mismo día en que se cumplía el octavo aniversario de la muerte de Buddy Holly, el productor y compositor británico Joe Meek disparó a su casera, para a continuación girar el cañón hacia su sien, y volver a apretar el gatillo. Muy pronto, y en este mismo blog , nuevos documentos del asombroso expediente Joe Meek. Archivado en: Canciones Escondidas Tagged: 1960 , 1991 , Exotica , [...]

Here's a chance to take in everything that Lulu - the firecracker from Glasgow - recorded for Decca Records UK between 1964-67 - including all of her singles, the first two albums, non-album singles, a rare EP and a German language single. Her bouncy and peppy single version of Isley Brothers classic "Shout!" leads the charge on Shout! The Complete [...]

While The Basement Tapes' "Orange Juice Blues" found the Band taking their first tentative steps toward something utterly brand new, the fable-teller's yowl of "Yazoo Street Scandal" provides a road map to their destination. "Orange Juice Blues" - our focus on the debut installment of Across the Great Divide - possessed much of the danger and emotion, the knife's-edge sense [...]

Nico and friends in the apartment of Henri Samuel, Paris, 1960 by Mark Shaw ( source )

If there's any question as to how off-the-cuff, how gloriously in the moment, this ultra-rare one-off concert collaboration in fact was, one need only hear the lead tune - a fizzy, improv-filled take on "Lullaby of Birdland." Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck were tandem performers at the Sylvan Theater, in the shadow of the Washington Monument, on August 28, 1962, [...]

People forget that it was Richard Manuel, that lost, beautiful soul, who created some of the Band's first original compositions - including this one, which serves as the debut track for Across the Great Divide. A song-by-song exploration of the Band's legacy, our new weekly feature actually begins before their celebrated 1968 debut Music from Big Pink, with Band-fronted tunes [...]

Operating out of Alhambra, California, the Second Helping signed on the dotted line with the local Viva label, where they issued three singles during their livelihood. None of these discs troubled the charts, but they were quite good and makes one wish the band would have pursued their craft a bit longer so they would have recorded a whole album. [...]

John Cohen, a photographer who took a series of pre-fame pictures of Bob Dylan, says he knew from the first that there would be more to Bob Dylan than the legacy sounds of folk and old blues. Dylan arrived for the 1962 shoot, Cohen says in a newly posted video, having not yet issued his celebrated self-titled debut. They worked [...]

Operating out of Alhambra, California, the Second Helping signed on the dotted line with the local Viva label, where they issued three singles during their livelihood. None of these discs troubled the charts, but they were quite good and makes one wish the band would have pursued their craft a bit longer so they would have recorded a whole album. [...]

Georgia breezy... Johnny Adams | Georgia Morning Dew

• Johnny Adams - Georgia Morning Dew

Pete Seeger bluntly refutes the oft-told notion that he tried to pull the plug on Bob Dylan's first electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. In fact, Seeger says he was upset over the primitive sound system. "I was furious that the sound was so distorted, you could not understand a word he was singing," Seeger says, in [...]