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

Saddleworth2 said:
On the subject of musicals, one of the greatest had its debut in 1960. It has particular relevance for me as my school performed it in 1970. I starred as an Orphan.
I knew all of the songs and fancied Nancy, played by a six former like mad. Whilst food glorious food was my song. I will choose ‘As long as he needs me’ in tribute to whatever her name was.

As long as he needs me (torch song from Oliver) - anyone really but the original stage version was by Georgia Brown.
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Fantastic musical and great song, loads of versions - some awful but some really good ones like Sarah Vaughn and Doris Day (who never really gets the credit for what a good singer she was).

Lionel Bart also wrote imo one of the best bond themes.
 
threespires said:
Fantastic musical and great song, loads of versions - some awful but some really good ones like Sarah Vaughn and Doris Day (who never really gets the credit for what a good singer she was).

Lionel Bart also wrote imo one of the best bond themes.
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Agreed TS .

For me I only place FRWL behind You Only Live Twice.
 
Brilliant write up and I loved how you did it!

It's quite incredible to my ears just how varied the music is in 1960, but just how much of it was just not very good. I know we can't jump about but the dea that pop music would ever become a serious art form looks miles away in this year.

Of course the songs by Elvis, The Everleys, Ray Charles etc still sound good to me but this is very much a mixed bag. It's almost like in Thai year we weren't really sure what we liked!
 
I think mrbelfry mentioned this in his write-up so I’ll add it. It’s a great song and it has the added bonus of an artist crafting a song after a chance encounter with a chain gang on a highway.

“Chain Gang” - Sam Cooke
 
Need Lonnie Donegan too - My Old Man's A Dustman hardly does him justice so it's between his version of The Wreck of the John B, or Lorelei which wins by virtue of it's barking lyrics.

Lonnie Donegan - Lorelei
 
threespires said:
Need Lonnie Donegan too - My Old Man's A Dustman hardly does him justice so it's between his version of The Wreck of the John B, or Lorelei which wins by virtue of it's barking lyrics.

Lonnie Donegan - Lorelei
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She kissed me ocean deeply. She kissed me mountain high. What a lyric! And a twist ending to rival Lola by the Kinks
 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
There's no way we should leave 1960 without hearing what some believe is the greatest song title of all time. And some of you might be hearing this song for the very first time. Both can be true:

"Stairway to Heaven" - Neil Sedaka

(reminder too: Waterloo - ABBA ;-) )
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Much prefer Sedaka's song compared to the pompous Led Zeppelin one
 
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