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.
Agreed TS .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.
Agreed TS .
For me I only place FRWL behind You Only Live Twice.
She kissed me ocean deeply. She kissed me mountain high. What a lyric! And a twist ending to rival Lola by the KinksNeed 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
Much prefer Sedaka's song compared to the pompous Led Zeppelin oneThere'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 ;-) )
She kissed me ocean deeply. She kissed me mountain high. What a lyric! And a twist ending to rival Lola by the Kinks
Yup it's on thereHave we included Carole King and Boffin 1960 The Shirelles nothing heralds in the sixties more than “ will you still love me tomorrow”
Just failures in my research than a deliberate omission. I got distracted by the ChipmunksBelfry's excellent intro has some thematic threads that it might be interesting to try and follow through, I'll have a crack when it comes to 1961.
One somewhat more prosaic omission was the world of sport (in general, not Dickie Davies et al who didn't start up to for another 5 years). So a few random facts from 1960...
Two countries that no longer exist fought out the first Euros final in Paris.
GB took home a paltry two Golds from the Rome Olympics but managed to get embroiled in controversy by seemingly fielding two intersex athletes.
It's possible Belfry chose to draw a veil over sport as it wasn't a great year for City, we managed to get beat 1 - 5 at home by Div 3(?) Southampton in the 3rd round of the FA Cup and despite some big name players managed 16th in the league.
How to get a song out of those? From the 1960 film Can Can, Lev Yashin and co probably felt this way...
I Love Paris - Frank Sinatra
In amongst a plethora of novelty songs, in Sam Cooke, The Miracles and Barrett Strong, among others, I think we are seeing beginning of what will be a strong run of soul music.Belfry's excellent intro has some thematic threads that it might be interesting to try and follow through, I'll have a crack when it comes to 1961.