Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1961 (pg 62)

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

To make it manageable from a listener perspective you can illustrate your text by featuring no more than 5 songs and 5 albums.

Is that a 5 total or 5+5?

Those looking near and far for Thanksgiving leftover scraps would like to know.

 

[threespires]

Who was the artist? I cant find those in 1960.

They sound like the sort of thing George Formby would sing so I've missed the boat on getting them in a playlist. Actually 1960 was when he died, was only in his mid 50s.

 

[mrbelfry]

Is that a 5 total or 5+5?

Those looking near and far for Thanksgiving leftover scraps would like to know.

Oh man I really screwed this up. 1997 will be much more disciplined

 

[stonerblue]

Yes and it was cool but not as perilous. Mind you getting into a car with blacked out windows with a bloke you don't know could have been pretty dodgy and in fairness that did have a sliding door moment too - what would your life had been like had you taken up the job offer?

I will never know mate. One of those points in a life where it could have been so different if i'd taken another path.

 

[KS55]

Will you still love me tomorrow The Shirelles
Georgia on my mind Ray Charles

Will you love me tomorrow written by Goffin and King was banned by many stations for its sexual context. Will you love me was taken as will you make love to me. The ‘still’ was added as a softener.
Loving this thread, it’s like being 16 again.
The great Carole King is still going. Like so many writers at the time in the Brill building, she is Jewish; see also Lieber and Stoller.
The contribution of Jews to rock and pop is often underestimated. See 10cc.

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

Will you love me tomorrow written by Goffin and King was banned by many stations for its sexual context. Will you love me was taken as will you make love to me. The ‘still’ was added as a softener.

In 60's hip american black slang...ref blaxploitation movies and Iceberg Slims autobiography..a 'Georgia' was the act of cunnilingus...pretty sure a famous swordsman like Ray Charles woulda known that...

 

[threespires]

In 1960 Berry Gordy consolidated the nascent Tamala and Motown labels into the Motown Record Corp. (carried on using the label names in a variety of territories)

Shop Around - The Miracles (Featuring Bill "Smokey" Robinson)

 

[RobMCFC]

Sorry I absolutely forgot there was an initial playlist limit. Makes sense though to give room for people to add some bangers.

I had 11 initially. Am prepared to remove Japanese Banana if decorum demands

No need to remove any songs, I was just querying what we had agreed on.

Is that a 5 total or 5+5?

Those looking near and far for Thanksgiving leftover scraps would like to know.

So I was right? A playlist of 5 songs which can, but don't necessarily have to be, from the 5 albums that a writer may or may not want to call out as being the most significant of the year.

I think in the early 60s, albums as we know them, weren't really a thing.

 

[RobMCFC]

Loving this thread, it’s like being 16 again.

Whilst most of us won't be able to say this, this is the kind of feel that I was hoping for, and I'm glad that you are enjoying it.

It's also why whilst it may seem that I'm being heavy-handed, I'm trying to enforce some rules. I don't want people talking about Jimi Hendrix now because nobody knew who he was. The idea is that we experience music as we come to the appropriate year - and we should only be referencing back to artists and songs in the past, not what was to come.

But at the end of the day, it is supposed to be fun :)

 

[Saddleworth2]

Will you love me tomorrow written by Goffin and King was banned by many stations for its sexual context. Will you love me was taken as will you make love to me. The ‘still’ was added as a softener.
Loving this thread, it’s like being 16 again.
The great Carole King is still going. Like so many writers at the time in the Brill building, she is Jewish; see also Lieber and Stoller.
The contribution of Jews to rock and pop is often underestimated. See 10cc.

Carol King is a particular favourite of mine, as an artist and human being. A totally lovely lady.