'60s Gold playlist

[sadchild]

I did their bio on Genius a while ago. The shorter version:

The Angels, originally The Starlets (Allbut Sisters + Bernadette Carroll + Linda Malzone), mostly sang backups for other groups. Linda Jankowski replaced Malzone, and Carroll went solo. That's when they became The Angels and released "Till". Then Jankowski went solo, replaced by Peggy Santiglia. That's when they hit #1 with "Boyfriend". They also kept singing backups for Neil Diamond, Lesley Gore, Tony Orlando, Jackie Wilson, Frank Sinatra, and Lou Christie. Santigilia went solo (under the name Peggy Sans) and was replaced by Toni Mason and they became The Halos. But after scoring no hits under that name, they re-formed The Angels with Debbie Swisher. But they still had no hits. However, they went on to be a nostalgia touring act when Santiglia rejoined the group in 1969.

 

[Channel98]

I found another top-ten hit that is missing from the list! Sheesh! Dusty Springfield's Wishin' & Hopin' was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and reached #6 on the Hot 100 in July 1964. Dusty is backed by the British trio The Breakaways. The song had first been recorded by Dionne Warwick and was the B-side of her second single, This Empty Place, released in February 1963.

 

[sadchild]

The song had first been recorded by Dionne Warwick and was the B-side of her second single,

Wonder if this qualifies for the "B-Side Wins Again" thread. Not sure it fits if it's by two different artists...

 

[Channel98]

It's another month and I found another big hit missing from the list. Baby I'm Yours by Barbara Lewis reached #11 on the Hot 100 in August 1965. It was written by Van McCoy, best-known for his 1975 number-one hit The Hustle. He is also one of the background singers on this one:

 

[Aaron]

It's another month and I found another big hit missing from the list. Baby I'm Yours by Barbara Lewis reached #11 on the Hot 100 in August 1965. It was written by Van McCoy, best-known for his 1975 number-one hit The Hustle. He is also one of the background singers on this one:

I always like that song

 

[Channel98]

The Association's 1966 number-one hit Cherish is missing from the list! Yikes! One of these days I will have to re-post the entire list with all the missing songs added – but then what if I discover more missing songs? Here is a live performance from 1979:

 

[Channel98]

Another addition, heard during a countdown show. Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell was written by Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson and reached #30 in March 1969.

 

[Channel98]

Three more additions, heard during a countdown show. Ray Charles' Hide Nor Hair was written by Percy Mayfield and reached #20 on the Hot 100 in May 1962. Caterina by Perry Como & The Ray Charles Singers was written by Maurice "Bugs" Bower and Earl Shuman and reached #23 on the Hot 100 in May 1962. Bower, a trumpet player and bandleaders, also co-wrote Donna Lynn's 1964 hit My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut and co-wrote Don't Dilly Dally, Sally, the B-side of Brian Hyland's 1960 number-one hit Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini. Nut Rocker by B. Bumble & The Stingers was a rock version of March Of The Toy Soldiers from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and got to #23 on the Hot 100 in April 1962 and went to number one in the UK. The studio group included Ernie Freemnan on piano and Earl Palmer on drums. The label credited Kim Fowley – and not Tchaikovsky – as the writer.

 

[Channel98]

We can also add this one. The Cascades formed in 1962 at Public School 14 in Jersey City. After 12-year-old Ronnie Goodson joined the group, they recorded a demo of I Wish That We Were Married. ABC-Paramount and Atlantic Records turned it down. Joy Records, a label founded by George Joy in 1958 in New York City, released the song under the group's new name, Ronnie & The Hi-Lites. This got to #16 on the Hot 100 in May 1962.

 

[sadchild]

The label credited Kim Fowley – and not Tchaikovsky – as the writer.

One more scummy move from a major scumbag. See 'Creepy Stories' thread to be disgusted.

 

[Channel98]

Another addition. Fly Me To The Moon was written by Bart Howard and first recorded by Kaye Ballard in 1954. What is arguably the best-known version appears on the 1964 Frank Sinatra and Count Basie album It Might As Well Be Swing. Five versions of the song made the Hot 100: Bobby Womack, Tony Bennett, LaVern Baker, the R&B duo of Sam & Bill (Sam Gary & Bill Johnson) and this instrumental version by Joe Harnell (real name: Joseph Hittelman), which reached #14 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the adult contemporary chart in February 1963:

 

[Channel98]

I discovered another song that is missing from the list. Traces was the biggest of the four hits the Classics IV had in 1968-69. It reached #2 in March 1969 behind Tommy Roe's Dizzy. Here is a live performance from 50 years later:

 

[Channel98]

Will this list ever be complete? Maybe not. We can add While My Guitar Gently Weeps from the Beatles' November 1968 album cleverly titled The Beatles and more commonly known as "The White Album." Eric Clapton plays guitar on this one.

 

[Channel98]

Gadzooks! I found another song that is missing from the list, Thank The Lord For The Night Time by Neil Diamond reached #13 on the Hot 100 in August 1967. Here is a live version recorded July 15, 1970 at the Troubador in Los Angeles and released on the album Gold: Recorded Live At The Troubador. Carol Hunter plays guitar and is one of the background singers. She also played and sang on albums by Janis Ian and Richie Havens and with Bob Dylan on the Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid soundtrack.

 

[Jon]

One more scummy move from a major scumbag. See 'Creepy Stories' thread to be disgusted.

I remember his story from being the manager of the Runaways. Saw the movie that goes in to that story, in which, by the way, Kristen Stewart (who I normally don't like) does a fantastic Joan Jett!

 

[Channel98]

Another song was missing from the list: Look For A Star reached #16 in August 1960. Garry Miles (real name: James Cason) had another hit that same month as a member of the Statues, whose remake of Blue Velvet got to #84. Look For A Star was written by Tony Hatch under the pseudonym Mark Anthony. Hatch also wrote or co-wrote Bobby Rydell's Forget Him, the Searchers' Sugar & Spice and 14 Petula Clark songs including Downtown, My Love, I Know A Place, Round Every Corner, Who Am I, Colour My World, Don't Sleep In The Subway, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love and The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener.

 

[kingchuck69]

Another song was missing from the list: Look For A Star reached #16 in August 1960. Garry Miles (real name: James Cason) had another hit that same month as a member of the Statues, whose remake of Blue Velvet got to #84. Look For A Star was written by Tony Hatch under the pseudonym Mark Anthony. Hatch also wrote or co-wrote Bobby Rydell's Forget Him, the Searchers' Sugar & Spice and 14 Petula Clark songs including Downtown, My Love, I Know A Place, Round Every Corner, Who Am I, Colour My World, Don't Sleep In The Subway, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love and The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener.

When I was a teen in the 90s, my local oldies station used ABC's "OldiesRadio" format late nights and weekends. They had a jock on there who played "Look For A Star" off of a very scratchy 45. Haven't heard it in years. Thanks for the memory, 98!

 

[Channel98]

Garry Mills – not to be confused with Garry Miles – was the first singer to record Look For A Star. Mills was born in West Wickham, Kent, England and learned guitar and harmonica as a child. He occasionally sat in with Adam Faith at the 21's Coffee Bar in London. (Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele also performed there early in their careers.) At 17, Mills signed with Top Rank Records and released three singles, Hey Baby (You're Pretty) and remakes of Paul Evans' Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat and Johnny Preston's Running Bear. None of them charted. Then he recorded Look For A Star, which played over the closing credits of the horror film Circus Of Horrors. The song reached #7 in the U.K. and #26 in the United States, where it debuted on the Hot 100 in the same week as the version by Garry Miles.



Garry Mills' version and Deane Hawley's version (which reached #29 on the Hot 100 in August 1960) are now officially added to the list – which I will probably repost on New Year's Day and I hope I don't find any more omissions.

 

[Channel98]

The '60s channel just played Karate by the Emperors, an R&B sextet from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The song was written by group members Tyrone Moss and Milton Brown Jr. and reached #66 on the Hot 100 in January 1967. Moss and Brown shared songwriting credit with Carlos Santana on Santana's 1971 hit Everybody's Everything, which used the same tune. The Emperors released four other singles but Karate was their only chart hit.

 

[Channel98]

This #16 hit from September 1963 is on the '50s Gold list but not the '60s Gold list. It is now. The Ran-Dells were cousins Robert Rappaport, Steve Rappaport and John Spirt from Villas, New Jersey. They wrote, arranged and produced all six songs on the three singles they released in 1963-64. Martian Hop was their only hit. The label shows one of the writers as "Lawrence." That was Robert's middle name.