A Music Thread

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The Four Seasons and the B Side of 'Lonesome Road', 'Around & Around & Around &...'

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Some sweet-toothed sounds from Jay & The Techniques from 1967, 'Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie' :

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The Guess Who ? from Canada pump it up with 'It's My Pride' :

Let's rawk!!!!

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Verdelle Smith gives a lament that prefigures 'Big Yellow Taxi' in its critique of urban sprawl's effect on the pastoral life... 'Tar & Cement' from 1966 :

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Addams Family dancing on 'Shivaree'- Ted Cassidy shows us how to do 'The Lurch' :

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1965 comes around and with it The Chantelles- 'I Want That Boy':

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Storming into 1964 with Andee Silver & 'To Young To Go Steady'- oh the miseries of teenage heartbreak....

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The Chants express their indifference, sounding a little like The Four Seasons (or the other way around) ... 'I Don't Care' :

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The Marcels & 'I Wanna Be The Leader' (the baritone is Walt Maddox) :

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Mmm-hmmm, 1963, year of my birth and The Rivingtons announce that everyboy's heard 'The Bird's The Word' :

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Those Liver Birds The Vernons Girls from 1962 sing about those natural 'twisters', boys... 'You Know What I Mean' :

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The Tokens from 1961-1962 and their version of 'Wimoweh/The Lion Sleeps Tonight' :

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Still 1961 and the creative genius that was Joe Meek is behind this from The Outlaws, 'Swingin' Low' (oohh-err, missus!!!) :

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1961 and it's Popette Linda Starr with 'I've Told Every Little Star'... love that ripply, shimmery guitar sound...

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Time tunnel to the 1960s. Year by year:

1960 and it's Buzzy King who has the 'Schoolboy Blues' :

Doo wop doo wop, oh baby....