In this Part 2, Matt covers the second half of his 60s collection. Support Pop Goes the 60s with PATREON: rb.gy/nhcy3 Pop Goes the 60s MERCH: www.popgoesthe...
On the general topic of flipping through a collection of record albums, and commenting on them, discovering something new... As you know, many vintage paper album sleeves were advertisements for additional albums in the record company catalog. Columbia, A&M, Atlantic, Warner Bros, many of them, if not all, did that for a time. The late 60's and early 70's are what comes to mind when I think of that inner sleeve style. So one day a few years back while playing some of my albums, I was looking at a Columbia Records sleeve, and noticed that many of the acts, and albums, were unknown to me. I thought, the record company thought these acts were worth spending money to produce and promote their music, so there must be something there worth checking out. I began looking up the band/act names, reading about their history, charted singles, legacy, career duration... I discovered quite a few new-to-me songs/acts I really liked! A few come to mind: Nino Tempo and April Stevens, the brother sister act known for their early 60's body of work. Their cover of Indian Love Call is quintessential 60's gold! Another is Tony Joe White. Sure, those two acts are hardly unknowns, but they are examples of music/acts that never filtered into my generally broad range of music interests.
Forgot THE ASSOCIATION... The drummer Ted Bluechel was my neighbor in Malibu... The Association knocked The Beatles off the #1 spot several times..."Cherish" , "Windy" , "Never My Love" , "Along Comes Mary"...HUGE HITS!...Great band , great harmony...
As an Elvis fan, I strongly urge you to toss those soundtrack albums in the trash and replace them with Elvis Is Back and From Elvis In Memphis, his first and last album from the 60s. Both are strong from start to finish. Elvis grew to hate making those movies and no doubt hated making those soundtrack albums just as much.
I'm going to go against the grain, and say I love some of the Elvis movie tunes. E.g. "Wolf Call" and "Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce" from the movie Girl Happy are super groovy!
I’m highly impressed with your Ventures collection. Yeah the Kinks and the Stones are both “ how far do you go” Both deserve creds for staying relevant well into the 70s(and beyond) Me and my friend Norm expended numerous brain cells listening to We’re Only in it lol I’m old enough to remember Gary Puckett and the union gap getting massive airplay on AM radio. Ton of hits but the arrangements are SO sappy! I’d definitely love to learn more about Moby Grape….Cheers
Matt, I must say you have an extensive 1960's vinyl record collection I am impress. Do you have any record albums by the folk group "The Brothers Four" they recorded 17 record albums on the Columbia Record label from 1960 through 1969. they are best known for the song "Greenfields" cool records bins by the way. 👍
Matt- thanks for pulling out The Litter Emerge album. Minneapolis group that I saw a few times in Duluth in ‘70 & ‘72. A great band. I posted a TH-cam video of the Litter playing at the Duluth Armory May 15, 1970. Very rare. Search ‘The Litter Emerge Video’. Carry on.
Matt, no Smother's Brothers? But they played folk music. Tommy is gone now. I always picture him sitting on John and Yoko's bed singing 'Give Peace A Chance'. The stories aren't necessarily in their recordings. They protested the war in Vietnam, the government, and CBS, who tried to gag them. They were great. I was a kid, but I never missed their show. Your collection is amazing. I'm sorry you didn't show the back wall. Hey, Tony Bennett? Boss!! 😊 So many groups I never heard of that I can't wait to hear about! If you do Sergio Mendez and Brazil '66, I would love that. My folks played them often. That would take me back. Wonderful as always. Thanks Matt!❤
This is the second time I’ve heard you mention that Them did not have a hit with Gloria. I don’t know where you grew up but I was playing in bands in the ‘60s and all the local bands covered Them’s version Gloria. It was a huge hit in Southern California. I was in San Diego. Almost any local band could do a better cover of Gloria than the Shadows of Knight; their version was universally despised back in the day. 😂 A rarity you might look for is “Gloria’s Dream.” It was by Van Morrison’s group that he formed after Them called the Belfast Gypsies. (I found it here on TH-cam just search for Belfast Gypsies Gloria’s Dream)
Yes the national charting in the US of Gloria by Them was only #78 (I think) compared to Shadows of Night who stole it and went top-10. I didn’t realize it charted well regionally. Thanks for that info, Jim. I’ll have my facts together when I cover Them, which I have some research to do!
"The Beatles (& British Invasion) destroyed folk music" (?) That's not entirely accurate, especially if one includes folk-rock, which actually peaked in the early 70's. America, Fogelberg, J. Mitchell, J. Baez, J. Denver, G. Lightfoot, C. King, The Pentangle, Steeleye Span, etc., etc.
Happy to see you mention The Shangri-Las. Mary Weiss was amazing! Looking forward to your take on their albums. The RSD 2 LP set from 2021, "The Shangri-Las - The Best of the Red Bird and Mercury Recordings" is an excellent source of information.
I like them too. In the Tarantino movie "One Upon a Time in Hollywood" they more or less implied PR and Raiders was "not cool" in the late 60s (even though the soundtrack heavily featured them)... can someone explain why? They seem like a great rocking band
@@bucksdiaryfan Their goofiness on "Where the Action Is' and the Revolutionary war outfits contributed to their "uncoolness', but their music was very good at that time.
Great to see the Great Aussie band , The Twilights in your collection. You talk of Folk, and doing Pentangle, what about looking at Fairport Convention as well.
John Renbourn also worked as a duo with Barbadian singer Doris Henderson. She later formed a group Doris Henderson’s Eclection, who morphed into Fotheringay and three of whose members ended up in Fairport.
I was just listening to that Rising Sons the last couple of days. Got it when it came out, 2001, it really grew on me. they only had 1 45 at the time, no wonder they are not remembered. Pentangle are among the very very top for me, several great albums by Bert and John before them, as you pointed out. Pretty Things? Where to start? AMAZING, all the way to their 1970 album Parachute for sure. Spirit! Unique 😊
Fun tour, Matt. The last LP you showed but didn't comment on was one of the best TV soundtracks of the '60s: jazzy and exciting The Man From UNCLE, with performances by Hugo Montenegro and compositions by the great Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin. And talk about "girl" covers!
The Them album you showed is a later Parrot pressing (1966) that came out when the Shadows of Knight version of Gloria was becoming big nationwide (except in California). The original cover artwork for the first pressing from 1965 says "featuring Here Comes the Night", since that song was a bigger nationwide hit that year. But as a previous commentator said who was around in So Cal at the time it came out, the original Them single was a monster hit - the radio chart history shows that it was #1 on stations in Los Angeles and San Diego for quite a few weeks even before the first Them album ever came out. That's why the band managed to get a residency at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles for 3 wks. on their first visit to the U.S. in 1966. The Doors early on cited them as an influence and even managed to jam with them at the Whiskey. I NEVER heard the Shadows of Knight version on L.A. radio - first heard it when I got the Sundazed reissue of the first SoK album on CD sometime in the early 2000s.
Love visiting someone's record collection, so many memories and some new finds from the past. Best thing about watching a video on it as opposed to actually going over someone's place is, I don't feel like I wore out my welcome and have to put all the LPs back in order. There's another vinyl collector channel called Retro Musings which would make a great collab vid or a throwdown on who's is bigger.
Have you ever reviewed SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS,they had a lot of hit songs, I know SAM the lead singer became a street preacher , Praise Jesus, he got saved
A tour thorough your 60s record collection was the perfect way to unwind after a busy market weekend! Blue Cheer has been recommended to me many times, I'm definitely going to check them out. Love seeing all the Canadian gems, we have The Guess Who on at work all the time! I had no idea that Chilliwack had an early name as the Collectors, I gotta search that up too. The Incredible String Band is one of my very favourite 60s (and early 70s) groups - I know you've got so many amazing bands to do a series on, but man, they were an interesting crew!
No Rick Nelson? His late 60’s material is ground breaking country rock He was a good song writer and all ways had excellent sidemen such as James Burton 32:23
I still have 800+ albums from the '60s until the mid 80's, when my collecting fever abated. I am envious of your remarkable collection and your undeniable dedication to the art. Love your channel.
Love your channel Matt. Any chance that you would consider doing a video on the subject of care and maintenance of your vinyl collection, and the type of equipment you use?
Not a bad idea, William. I've had several very good suggestions about my personal collection and equipment. I must warn you it isn't too fancy! I appreciate the support - thank you!
When something is available that you are interested in, and you have a choice, do you prefer vinyl or cd? Do you really hear a great difference between the two formats?
I generally buy original or used vinyl but I have a good collection of cds as well. I recently purchased the Beau Brummells box set on cd - 7 discs. Sometimes I go with affordability.
Liking your Collection Yes please do the history of The Hollies think even though they were really popular in Britain. We do not know their Full History. I've two greatest hits albums. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long.
Just to note that the "Mann Made" LP you showed is the ONLY Manfred Mann LP with the Ascot label where the UK and US versions were EXACTLY THE SAME in terms of song content - all 13 songs made its way on the US release. Also, what you have is the American reissued version from the 90s or early 2000's, not the original 1965 album from either the UK or the U.S., easily identifiable by the modern hype sticker on the front cover (which mistakenly says 1966). Also, outside the obvious compilation albums, it would be nice to know which ones are actual original 1960's LPs and which ones are reissues or reprints from the 90's or 2000's.
@@popgoesthe60s52 The UK version used the same front cover shot of the group, but with a "cleaner" cover artwork. The UK released 2 studio albums during the Paul Jones era, while the U.S. managed to squeeze out 5 during his time (?!) - this was possible because the band put out EPs as stand alone works in the UK, not as extracts from albums or singles. I see you have "The Manfred Mann Album", "The Five Faces of Manfred Mann", and "Pretty Flamingo". Besides "Mann Made", the fifth album is "My Little Red Book of Winners" - as you know, Arthur Lee heard the Manfred Mann version of "My Little Red Book" (most likely from the "What's New Pussycat" movie) and it became Love's first single.
Emitt Rhods, shocking blue, cat mother and the all night newsboys, sacred mushroom, blood rock, blue cheer, Ten Years After, big Sandy and his fly-rite boys, Kate Taylor (James Taylor sister,) You might like this song I wrote: O6dOpgNUNos
Hi Matt - really interesting, as always. I didn’t see any Fairport Convention - as you like the folky side of things, they are a must listen, particularly the early albums with Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny. A couple of tiny points - Bert Jansch’s name is normally pronounced as ‘Yansh’, and I think I saw Blind Faith’s album in with Traffic….in case you wondered where it had gone! Pleased to see you use the sensible way of ordering alphabetically rather than the iTunes method..!
So many bands, so little time! Bert actually pronounces his surname with a hard ‘J’ although the ‘soft j’ is also common. To confuse matters further, his bandmate pronounces it ‘nance’! This is one of the common confusions I will be covering in my video on him, so stay tuned!
Thanks for the Introduction to your Record Collection, very nice especially for my German ears and eyes. When you talk about the wood quality, I just thought “the cheap presswoods” would be a pretty good band name.
Ian and Sylvia are probably more revered than listened to - but they are definitely remembered. Does anyone remember the duo Hedge and Donna? They appeared on one of the last Smothers Brothers TV episodes in 69 and made 2 albums., I believe.
The Racket Squad (19:40) were a Pittsburgh group that had local success. Joey Covington (J.A) was the drummer for awhile. Most of their music are found on 45s. The Shondells were from Pgh too. Tommy James arrived by himself on Pgh TV. You've probably read his book. That should be a great program!
Ian and Sylvia's "Northern Journey" is an album I have and highly recommend their other records and their solo albums Sylvia Tyson and Ian Tyson ....steller song by Ian "Someday Soon"...Alberta Ian meets Sylvia from Ontario and woo Jim and Jean ...the song "One Sure Thing" from the album "Changes' AND Kensington Market (Toronto band) appreciate the Canada call out there...by the way my patreon feed stops at Strawberry Alarm Clock...searched this post and it does not appear...oh well...hopefully the internet will figure it out
Hi Matt. Thanks for mentioning Mick Taylor! I think you're right tho, you'll probably have to cover up till Tattoo You, which would bring you to 81? But, Ronnie Wood and Some Girls would be worth the five or six part series.
Look forward to upcoming folk stuff. Don't see much talk of how early psych, rock, garage, and pop grew (often) from folk/roots groups like Fred Neil in the Greenwich Village scene and folk/roots guys like Rising Sons on the west coast. The rediscovery of American blues artists through 60's touring "Folk Festivals" was also a big influence on the Brits.
The Racket Squad was a Pittsburgh group! They began as the Fenways, scoring a big hit in Pittsburgh with "Walk," I believe in '64. They evolved into the Squad as the decade went on. I need to check out more of their music.
You should do a special called "Forget the music contained on this album, but look at this great album cover", where you just highlight great album covers (photos and art).
Great collection of 60's albums Matt👍👌Thanks for another entertaining show & tell, I also made note of bands and artists Ive never heard of that you talked about- I'll have to hunt down that Supremes album Love Child, -and I hope you show us your 70's collection as well 🙂
An item you might add to your collection was the odd hit, Leo Kottke’s 1969 debut, 6 and 12-string Guitars, commonly known as the Armadillo album from its front cover graphics. It was odd because it was neither folk, nor blues, nor country, and certainly not rock n roll, yet it made a big splash on college campuses largely due to the lightning-fast slide guitar on Vaseline Machine Gun.
ok...one more comment...if I was asked for my top 5 albums...Buffy Ste Marie's album "Illuminations" would be in my top 5....let's notice how through her music she enlightened us to the First Nation's history...."Illuminations" is start to finish...every song memorable and so ahead of it's time electronically altering her guitar and voice...the song "Poppies" at the end of the album to this day takes me to a place...the best of the Beatles' music takes me, I have almost all her albums on vinyl..cheers Mike
Look forward to your Kinks video. Ray Davies was the best British songwriter of the 60s, IMHO. I'd end it at the Lola album, don't know too many Kinks fans who get excited about what came after it. I agree with your comment about the Stones' best period ending with Mick Taylor but I think it would be worth taking a video on them as far as Tattoo You as it's a very good album, almost like their last hurrah.
Thanks for sharing your 60's collection parts 1 & 2. I made a few notes on artists I am less familiar with. Looking forward to part 3, the 70's and 80's 😀
For early R&B cover, find The Loading Zone. A Berkeley band that went R&B instead of folk, one of the first to have a horn section, fronted by Linda Tillery who, after the Zone split and reformed on the Blue Thumb label, went on her own as Sweet Linda Devine. After that Linda formed the Cultural Heritage Choir with friends and is doing well in that groove.
Speaking of Paul Mauriat his one big hit in the United States. Love is blue was redone in a vocal version by the group the Dells. Are you a fan of that group? That’s a group that may need some treatment from you. Great band that last from the 50s into the 90s.
Manfred Mann were huge. Their first hit 54321 was the theme tune to the Friday night tv pop show Ready Steady Go. It actually runs for less than a minute.
I saw The Scaffold with my parents in Canterbury. They did no singing. All poetry and sketches. They also got a children’s tv series Score with the Scaffold. I think the establishment had no idea what to do with them.
I do enjoy some Ian & Sylvia, but like you haven't really been able to get into them fully. In your last video you mentioned Glen Campbell - I do collect his albums and have most of them! Great music1
I had to check my closet to make sure my records are still there. I could swear you stole half of them. Francois Hardy would be an interesting topic. Somehow I wound up with one of her records, but don't know how that happened. Talk about girl covers - she had few peers.
I hope you make more videos about music bands and singers....because they make me feel good...instead of most of other you tube channels that make me feel ddpressed and miserable.
Great video. I’m not sure if you have the Grass Roots first LP but it’s pretty good folk rock. I’d love to see a video on them as they seem to have an interesting story. Keep this stuff coming Matt
i might be more impressed with the magnificent cabinets than i am the magnificent LP's and you don't need me to tell you that you are a great archivist of this stuff and have been since childhood. i wish i had spent mine in california where mine might've resembled the first 4 seasons of "chips" of which you have posters. i love the sergio mendes album especially. great video of things i would fear losing due to a natural disaster! thanks.
Thank you for sharing Matt! Question: Do you have a seperate shelf for Jazz? I’ve picked up about 200 Jazz albums over the years in discount bins and Goodwills; some real gems. Just curious if you were at all interested in collecting Jazz records. Also, why did you skip over your Roy Orbison records?
Great collection and I’m glad you had a couple of signed albums. I try to get as many albums as I can signed by the original artists that way they become one of a kind and it is something that I possibly can pass along to my family eventually.
As fascinated as you are about 60s British pop artists I can't believe you don't have any LPs by The Move. They had a lot of hit singles that were never heard on this side of the pond. And kudos for having a copy of "Ventures in Space." A landmark album that featured a bunch of guitar effects that were way before their time. Their stuff always sounded great.
Glad too see you got some crooners in there too as much as i love the teen idols, pop rock surf, and garage rock. I enjoy myself some connie francis pat boone the letterman etc.. too
Hey Matt~~ great Chnl & great to see your collection of LPs. When I was a kid in the early 1960s and 1970s we had a 45 of this really cool pop song from an obscure Band from the '60s and the song's chorus was stuck in my head for about 50s yrs or so and I couldn't remember the name of the Band,..then I finally found them on YT after many attempts, a very strong pop song called,'Race With The Wind' by The Robbs. I was watching this Part 2 of yours here today to see if you had any of their vinyl. Perhaps you can check them out if you have not already heard of them. Thanks for you killer fun TH-cam uploads. I look forward to your newest video uploads on Pop Goes the 60s pretty regularly . Take care and ....beautiful collection you have there. Take good care.
More good stuff, thanks for sharing. Sounds like you're going to be very busy with all these promises to feature artistes. Only black mark: no PF Sloan - tut tut.
A video on Nilsson would be very welcome. One of the most underrated artists of the 60s in my opinion.
Agreed. Great voice.
On the general topic of flipping through a collection of record albums, and commenting on them, discovering something new... As you know, many vintage paper album sleeves were advertisements for additional albums in the record company catalog. Columbia, A&M, Atlantic, Warner Bros, many of them, if not all, did that for a time. The late 60's and early 70's are what comes to mind when I think of that inner sleeve style. So one day a few years back while playing some of my albums, I was looking at a Columbia Records sleeve, and noticed that many of the acts, and albums, were unknown to me. I thought, the record company thought these acts were worth spending money to produce and promote their music, so there must be something there worth checking out. I began looking up the band/act names, reading about their history, charted singles, legacy, career duration... I discovered quite a few new-to-me songs/acts I really liked! A few come to mind: Nino Tempo and April Stevens, the brother sister act known for their early 60's body of work. Their cover of Indian Love Call is quintessential 60's gold! Another is Tony Joe White. Sure, those two acts are hardly unknowns, but they are examples of music/acts that never filtered into my generally broad range of music interests.
Forgot THE ASSOCIATION...
The drummer Ted Bluechel was my neighbor in Malibu...
The Association knocked The Beatles off the #1 spot several times..."Cherish" , "Windy" , "Never My Love" , "Along Comes Mary"...HUGE HITS!...Great band , great harmony...
As an Elvis fan, I strongly urge you to toss those soundtrack albums in the trash and replace them with Elvis Is Back and From Elvis In Memphis, his first and last album from the 60s. Both are strong from start to finish. Elvis grew to hate making those movies and no doubt hated making those soundtrack albums just as much.
Absolutely right!!! Those two are also my favourites of Elvis in the 60's
Thank you for that advice. I view those albums as “so bad they are good” but I have many of his regular lps that are on my list. 🙂
I should have kept my glasses on, when I saw that hair and you said ' everybody was cutting a record's I thought ... Eddie Munster sings the hits
I'm going to go against the grain, and say I love some of the Elvis movie tunes. E.g. "Wolf Call" and "Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce" from the movie Girl Happy are super groovy!
Those two McCoys albums are both excellent.
I’m highly impressed with your Ventures collection. Yeah the Kinks and the Stones are both “ how far do you go” Both deserve creds for staying relevant well into the 70s(and beyond)
Me and my friend Norm expended numerous brain cells listening to We’re Only in it lol
I’m old enough to remember Gary Puckett and the union gap getting massive airplay on AM radio. Ton of hits but the arrangements are SO sappy!
I’d definitely love to learn more about Moby Grape….Cheers
looking forward to a kinks video. great coverage. thank you!!
Looking forward to your Pentangle video including or separately their influential and incredible guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn🎉
Matt, I must say you have an extensive 1960's vinyl record collection I am impress. Do you have any record albums by the folk group "The Brothers Four" they recorded 17 record albums on the Columbia Record label from 1960 through 1969. they are best known for the song "Greenfields" cool records bins by the way. 👍
I'll add the " Dave Clark 5" group to your request list!
Matt- thanks for pulling out The Litter Emerge album. Minneapolis group that I saw a few times in Duluth in ‘70 & ‘72. A great band. I posted a TH-cam video of the Litter playing at the Duluth Armory May 15, 1970. Very rare. Search ‘The Litter Emerge Video’. Carry on.
Great Taste in music Matt Great collection thanks for shareing .
Matt, no Smother's Brothers? But they played folk music. Tommy is gone now. I always picture him sitting on John and Yoko's bed singing 'Give Peace A Chance'. The stories aren't necessarily in their recordings. They protested the war in Vietnam, the government, and CBS, who tried to gag them. They were great. I was a kid, but I never missed their show.
Your collection is amazing. I'm sorry you didn't show the back wall. Hey, Tony Bennett? Boss!! 😊
So many groups I never heard of that I can't wait to hear about! If you do Sergio Mendez and Brazil '66, I would love that. My folks played them often. That would take me back. Wonderful as always. Thanks Matt!❤
I do have about 5 Smothers Brothers lps but I was skipping some artists to save a little time. 🙂
This is the second time I’ve heard you mention that Them did not have a hit with Gloria. I don’t know where you grew up but I was playing in bands in the ‘60s and all the local bands covered Them’s version Gloria. It was a huge hit in Southern California. I was in San Diego. Almost any local band could do a better cover of Gloria than the Shadows of Knight; their version was universally despised back in the day. 😂 A rarity you might look for is “Gloria’s Dream.” It was by Van Morrison’s group that he formed after Them called the Belfast Gypsies. (I found it here on TH-cam just search for Belfast Gypsies Gloria’s Dream)
Yes the national charting in the US of Gloria by Them was only #78 (I think) compared to Shadows of Night who stole it and went top-10. I didn’t realize it charted well regionally. Thanks for that info, Jim. I’ll have my facts together when I cover Them, which I have some research to do!
Ian and Sylvia, yes! “Four strong winds”
Some of their harmonies were really delicious.
"The Beatles (& British Invasion) destroyed folk music" (?) That's not entirely accurate, especially if one includes folk-rock, which actually peaked in the early 70's. America, Fogelberg, J. Mitchell, J. Baez, J. Denver, G. Lightfoot, C. King, The Pentangle, Steeleye Span, etc., etc.
Happy to see you mention The Shangri-Las. Mary Weiss was amazing! Looking forward to your take on their albums. The RSD 2 LP set from 2021, "The Shangri-Las - The Best of the Red Bird and Mercury Recordings" is an excellent source of information.
Buffy St Marie would be VEEERY interesting...I know very few things about her. Her music is excellent. Top quality protest folk.
P.R. and the Raiders brought the garage sound into the mainstream, IMHO.
I like them too. In the Tarantino movie "One Upon a Time in Hollywood" they more or less implied PR and Raiders was "not cool" in the late 60s (even though the soundtrack heavily featured them)... can someone explain why? They seem like a great rocking band
@@bucksdiaryfan Their goofiness on "Where the Action Is' and the Revolutionary war outfits contributed to their "uncoolness', but their music was very good at that time.
Great collection you have and very good you mentioned The Pretty Things as well!😀
Gary Lewis from Gary Lewis and the playboys lives in Rochester New York and I have seen him perform in the city many times. Really nice guy.
Great to see the Great Aussie band , The Twilights in your collection.
You talk of Folk, and doing Pentangle, what about looking at Fairport Convention as well.
Wow. I didn't think anyone else had that "Orpheus" album. Took it with me to college, based on "I Can't Find the Time to Tell You."
Love that you got The Ventures. Looking forward to a video on them. Apparently the McCoys are named after the Ventures song The Real McCoy.
John Renbourn also worked as a duo with Barbadian singer Doris Henderson. She later formed a group Doris Henderson’s Eclection, who morphed into Fotheringay and three of whose members ended up in Fairport.
I was just listening to that Rising Sons the last couple of days. Got it when it came out, 2001, it really grew on me. they only had 1 45 at the time, no wonder they are not remembered.
Pentangle are among the very very top for me, several great albums by Bert and John before them, as you pointed out.
Pretty Things? Where to start? AMAZING, all the way to their 1970 album Parachute for sure.
Spirit! Unique 😊
Fun tour, Matt. The last LP you showed but didn't comment on was one of the best TV soundtracks of the '60s: jazzy and exciting The Man From UNCLE, with performances by Hugo Montenegro and compositions by the great Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin. And talk about "girl" covers!
David McCallum was junior. His father, a dance band leader of the same name, used to be on TV here. We saw David jr on the box singing way before MFU.
Great collection!
The Them album you showed is a later Parrot pressing (1966) that came out when the Shadows of Knight version of Gloria was becoming big nationwide (except in California). The original cover artwork for the first pressing from 1965 says "featuring Here Comes the Night", since that song was a bigger nationwide hit that year. But as a previous commentator said who was around in So Cal at the time it came out, the original Them single was a monster hit - the radio chart history shows that it was #1 on stations in Los Angeles and San Diego for quite a few weeks even before the first Them album ever came out. That's why the band managed to get a residency at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles for 3 wks. on their first visit to the U.S. in 1966. The Doors early on cited them as an influence and even managed to jam with them at the Whiskey.
I NEVER heard the Shadows of Knight version on L.A. radio - first heard it when I got the Sundazed reissue of the first SoK album on CD sometime in the early 2000s.
Thanks for that info, Terry - much appreciated!
Love visiting someone's record collection, so many memories and some new finds from the past. Best thing about watching a video on it as opposed to actually going over someone's place is, I don't feel like I wore out my welcome and have to put all the LPs back in order.
There's another vinyl collector channel called Retro Musings which would make a great collab vid or a throwdown on who's is bigger.
I’ll check out that channel - thanks!
Great collection Matt ! Alot of artists and bands I forgot even existed. I Enjoyed this ,thanks !
Amazing collection Matt! Thanks for sharing this!
Have you ever reviewed SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS,they had a lot of hit songs, I know SAM the lead singer became a street preacher , Praise Jesus, he got saved
I haven't done Sam the Sham yet. My list is very long so I hope to get to him!
A tour thorough your 60s record collection was the perfect way to unwind after a busy market weekend! Blue Cheer has been recommended to me many times, I'm definitely going to check them out. Love seeing all the Canadian gems, we have The Guess Who on at work all the time! I had no idea that Chilliwack had an early name as the Collectors, I gotta search that up too.
The Incredible String Band is one of my very favourite 60s (and early 70s) groups - I know you've got so many amazing bands to do a series on, but man, they were an interesting crew!
Thank you, Jennie! This was a fun 2-parter to do.
You ever hear of The Travel Agency? That is a great psych album. They only had one album produced by Snuff Garrett. 1968
Yes I have some of their songs on my computer - very rare!
Many of these bands I've never heard of. Many I've heard one song or so.
Thanks for sharing Matt - I could get lost in that collection over a weekend!
No Rick Nelson? His late 60’s material is ground breaking country rock
He was a good song writer and all ways had excellent sidemen such as James Burton 32:23
I don’t have any Rick Nelson on vinyl, just digitized.
I still have 800+ albums from the '60s until the mid 80's, when my collecting fever abated. I am envious of your remarkable collection and your undeniable dedication to the art. Love your channel.
Thank you Elmo - it’s been such a pleasure to share it!
Love your channel Matt. Any chance that you would consider doing a video on the subject of care and maintenance of your vinyl collection, and the type of equipment you use?
Not a bad idea, William. I've had several very good suggestions about my personal collection and equipment. I must warn you it isn't too fancy! I appreciate the support - thank you!
When something is available that you are interested in, and you have a choice, do you prefer vinyl or cd? Do you really hear a great difference between the two formats?
I generally buy original or used vinyl but I have a good collection of cds as well. I recently purchased the Beau Brummells box set on cd - 7 discs. Sometimes I go with affordability.
It would be cool to see a video on The Youngbloods. They don’t get enough love, even if just for their first three albums.
I agree, the Youngbloods are seldom recognized among the other bands of their time.
Would really enjoy a video on the New Colony Six! Great group out of Chicago and it would be cool to hear your take on their tunes.
"Things I'd like to Say" turns me back into an inarticulate schoolboy every time I hear it.
There was also Brazil '77 and'88 as well.
Do you have Metamorphosis Iron Butterfly? Their best album.
The easybeats the smoke.
Rotary Connection - 1967 - Ruby Tuesday cover - That was my introduction to the alternate programming of FM radio - something new was in the air...
Liking your Collection
Yes please do the history of
The Hollies think even though they were really popular in Britain. We do not know their Full History.
I've two greatest hits albums. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long.
Can you make a video of Cryan Shames history 😊☮️
Yes, they are on my very long list.
i love ian and sylvia - still listen to them periodically......the royal canal is one of my favourites
I’m still acquiring their catalog. They have soMe very good stuff.
The Knickerbockers yeah!
Just to note that the "Mann Made" LP you showed is the ONLY Manfred Mann LP with the Ascot label where the UK and US versions were EXACTLY THE SAME in terms of song content - all 13 songs made its way on the US release. Also, what you have is the American reissued version from the 90s or early 2000's, not the original 1965 album from either the UK or the U.S., easily identifiable by the modern hype sticker on the front cover (which mistakenly says 1966). Also, outside the obvious compilation albums, it would be nice to know which ones are actual original 1960's LPs and which ones are reissues or reprints from the 90's or 2000's.
Thanks for the info on the Mann album- I didn’t know that.
@@popgoesthe60s52 The UK version used the same front cover shot of the group, but with a "cleaner" cover artwork. The UK released 2 studio albums during the Paul Jones era, while the U.S. managed to squeeze out 5 during his time (?!) - this was possible because the band put out EPs as stand alone works in the UK, not as extracts from albums or singles. I see you have "The Manfred Mann Album", "The Five Faces of Manfred Mann", and "Pretty Flamingo". Besides "Mann Made", the fifth album is "My Little Red Book of Winners" - as you know, Arthur Lee heard the Manfred Mann version of "My Little Red Book" (most likely from the "What's New Pussycat" movie) and it became Love's first single.
@@terrynakdamn - somebody knows his sh$#t!
Emitt Rhods, shocking blue, cat mother and the all night newsboys, sacred mushroom, blood rock, blue cheer, Ten Years After, big Sandy and his fly-rite boys, Kate Taylor (James Taylor sister,) You might like this song I wrote: O6dOpgNUNos
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Hi Matt - really interesting, as always. I didn’t see any Fairport Convention - as you like the folky side of things, they are a must listen, particularly the early albums with Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny. A couple of tiny points - Bert Jansch’s name is normally pronounced as ‘Yansh’, and I think I saw Blind Faith’s album in with Traffic….in case you wondered where it had gone! Pleased to see you use the sensible way of ordering alphabetically rather than the iTunes method..!
So many bands, so little time! Bert actually pronounces his surname with a hard ‘J’ although the ‘soft j’ is also common. To confuse matters further, his bandmate pronounces it ‘nance’! This is one of the common confusions I will be covering in my video on him, so stay tuned!
Thanks for the Introduction to your Record Collection, very nice especially for my German ears and eyes.
When you talk about the wood quality, I just thought “the cheap presswoods” would be a pretty good band name.
Great collection
Hey Matt, I love this series. You promised a 70s/80s followup, hint hint ...
Iron Butterfly made at least 5 albums as well as some very good rare( Live releases that have come out in the past 10 years!)
Ian and Sylvia are probably more revered than listened to - but they are definitely remembered. Does anyone remember the duo Hedge and Donna? They appeared on one of the last Smothers Brothers TV episodes in 69 and made 2 albums., I believe.
The Racket Squad (19:40) were a Pittsburgh group that had local success. Joey Covington (J.A) was the drummer for awhile. Most of their music are found on 45s. The Shondells were from Pgh too. Tommy James arrived by himself on Pgh TV. You've probably read his book. That should be a great program!
No Incredible String Band or Wilcox Sullivan & Wilcox?! Regardless, a fantastic collection you’ve got there!
Thanks much for sharing, Matt! Really enjoyed it! I have the Neil Hefti Batman album and that Man From UNCLE lp too!😂
Ian and Sylvia's "Northern Journey" is an album I have and highly recommend their other records and their solo albums Sylvia Tyson and Ian Tyson ....steller song by Ian "Someday Soon"...Alberta Ian meets Sylvia from Ontario and woo Jim and Jean ...the song "One Sure Thing" from the album "Changes' AND Kensington Market (Toronto band) appreciate the Canada call out there...by the way my patreon feed stops at Strawberry Alarm Clock...searched this post and it does not appear...oh well...hopefully the internet will figure it out
Hi Matt. Thanks for mentioning Mick Taylor! I think you're right tho, you'll probably have to cover up till Tattoo You, which would bring you to 81? But, Ronnie Wood and Some Girls would be worth the five or six part series.
Look forward to upcoming folk stuff. Don't see much talk of how early psych, rock, garage, and pop grew (often) from folk/roots groups like Fred Neil in the Greenwich Village scene and folk/roots guys like Rising Sons on the west coast. The rediscovery of American blues artists through 60's touring "Folk Festivals" was also a big influence on the Brits.
The Racket Squad was a Pittsburgh group! They began as the Fenways, scoring a big hit in Pittsburgh with "Walk," I believe in '64. They evolved into the Squad as the decade went on. I need to check out more of their music.
You should do a special called "Forget the music contained on this album, but look at this great album cover", where you just highlight great album covers (photos and art).
Great collection of 60's albums Matt👍👌Thanks for another entertaining show & tell, I also made note of bands and artists Ive never heard of that you talked about- I'll have to hunt down that Supremes album Love Child, -and I hope you show us your 70's collection as well 🙂
Interesting albums collection but too little of Procol harum and the Who and too much of Ventures......
An item you might add to your collection was the odd hit, Leo Kottke’s 1969 debut, 6 and 12-string Guitars, commonly known as the Armadillo album from its front cover graphics. It was odd because it was neither folk, nor blues, nor country, and certainly not rock n roll, yet it made a big splash on college campuses largely due to the lightning-fast slide guitar on Vaseline Machine Gun.
ok...one more comment...if I was asked for my top 5 albums...Buffy Ste Marie's album "Illuminations" would be in my top 5....let's notice how through her music she enlightened us to the First Nation's history...."Illuminations" is start to finish...every song memorable and so ahead of it's time electronically altering her guitar and voice...the song "Poppies" at the end of the album to this day takes me to a place...the best of the Beatles' music takes me, I have almost all her albums on vinyl..cheers Mike
Look forward to your Kinks video. Ray Davies was the best British songwriter of the 60s, IMHO. I'd end it at the Lola album, don't know too many Kinks fans who get excited about what came after it. I agree with your comment about the Stones' best period ending with Mick Taylor but I think it would be worth taking a video on them as far as Tattoo You as it's a very good album, almost like their last hurrah.
The Litter´s Breakfast At Gardensons is one of my favorites
No Led Zeppelin? No Phil Ochs? No Who?
Zep is filed with my 70s stuff. The others I have but I simply couldn't show everything. I didn't think this collection warranted a 1960s part 3 🙂
Thanks for sharing your 60's collection parts 1 & 2. I made a few notes on artists I am less familiar with. Looking forward to part 3, the 70's and 80's 😀
Voting for 2 parts re Pentangle , John Renbourn. Bert Jansch. My periodic suggestion of Pentangle .
For early R&B cover, find The Loading Zone. A Berkeley band that went R&B instead of folk, one of the first to have a horn section, fronted by Linda Tillery who, after the Zone split and reformed on the Blue Thumb label, went on her own as Sweet Linda Devine. After that Linda formed the Cultural Heritage Choir with friends and is doing well in that groove.
Speaking of Paul Mauriat his one big hit in the United States. Love is blue was redone in a vocal version by the group the Dells. Are you a fan of that group? That’s a group that may need some treatment from you. Great band that last from the 50s into the 90s.
Far out Matt
Manfred Mann were huge. Their first hit 54321 was the theme tune to the Friday night tv pop show Ready Steady Go. It actually runs for less than a minute.
I saw The Scaffold with my parents in Canterbury. They did no singing. All poetry and sketches. They also got a children’s tv series Score with the Scaffold. I think the establishment had no idea what to do with them.
You don't seem to have many greatest hits albums. Most of my 1955 to 1970 groups are greatest hits albums
I do enjoy some Ian & Sylvia, but like you haven't really been able to get into them fully. In your last video you mentioned Glen Campbell - I do collect his albums and have most of them! Great music1
I had to check my closet to make sure my records are still there. I could swear you stole half of them. Francois Hardy would be an interesting topic. Somehow I wound up with one of her records, but don't know how that happened. Talk about girl covers - she had few peers.
Mat, thanks for your reply about the creation, I missed that one. Please consider a Move-Elo video.
I love this mini-series!
I hope you make more videos about music bands and singers....because they make me feel good...instead of most of other you tube channels that make me feel ddpressed and miserable.
Great video.
I’m not sure if you have the Grass Roots first LP but it’s pretty good folk rock. I’d love to see a video on them as they seem to have an interesting story. Keep this stuff coming Matt
i might be more impressed with the magnificent cabinets than i am the magnificent LP's and you don't need me to tell you that you are a great archivist of this stuff and have been since childhood. i wish i had spent mine in california where mine might've resembled the first 4 seasons of "chips" of which you have posters. i love the sergio mendes album especially. great video of things i would fear losing due to a natural disaster! thanks.
Thank you for sharing Matt! Question: Do you have a seperate shelf for Jazz? I’ve picked up about 200 Jazz albums over the years in discount bins and Goodwills; some real gems. Just curious if you were at all interested in collecting Jazz records. Also, why did you skip over your Roy Orbison records?
I have some jazz, which I do enjoy but I don’t have too many.
Great collection and I’m glad you had a couple of signed albums. I try to get as many albums as I can signed by the original artists that way they become one of a kind and it is something that I possibly can pass along to my family eventually.
As fascinated as you are about 60s British pop artists I can't believe you don't have any LPs by The Move. They had a lot of hit singles that were never heard on this side of the pond. And kudos for having a copy of "Ventures in Space." A landmark album that featured a bunch of guitar effects that were way before their time. Their stuff always sounded great.
I have all four of the Move albums, just not on vinyl. I also had to leave some bands out for the sake of time.
Bill Clinton got Ronnie Spector to sign his copy of that Ronettes album when he was president.
Glad too see you got some crooners in there too as much as i love the teen idols, pop rock surf, and garage rock. I enjoy myself some connie francis pat boone the letterman etc.. too
I have several Sergio Mendez and Brasil'66 albums
Hey Matt~~ great Chnl & great to see your collection of LPs. When I was a kid in the early 1960s and 1970s we had a 45 of this really cool pop song from an obscure Band from the '60s and the song's chorus was stuck in my head for about 50s yrs or so and I couldn't remember the name of the Band,..then I finally found them on YT after many attempts, a very strong pop song called,'Race With The Wind' by The Robbs. I was watching this Part 2 of yours here today to see if you had any of their vinyl. Perhaps you can check them out if you have not already heard of them. Thanks for you killer fun TH-cam uploads. I look forward to your newest video uploads on Pop Goes the 60s pretty regularly . Take care and ....beautiful collection you have there. Take good care.
Yes! The Robb’s are from my hometown and I’ll be doing a video on them at some point.
In the mid 70s, lofton kline from new Christy minstrels was teaching at my high school in san Antonio
No Music Machine?
No, but they are on my list to get. I do have their stuff in digital form including the Bonniwell solo lp from 1967 which is very good.
More good stuff, thanks for sharing. Sounds like you're going to be very busy with all these promises to feature artistes. Only black mark: no PF Sloan - tut tut.
I did skip over several lps for the sake of time. My hard drive is filled with even more!