Moderators Travis In Austin Posted May 29, 2016 Moderators Share Posted May 29, 2016 The Letter Incense and Peppermint- Strawberry Alarm Clock A+ (X2) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Not from MI, but "New Colony Six" on Sentar Records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 A couple of the New Colony Six guys played on an album I worked on. That was a long time ago... Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 Not from MI, but Bands need not be from Michigan, but extra credit will be given for the somewhat Midwest hits that will be familiar to those of us who graduated from high schools in Michigan in 1967. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) The Letter Definitely included. The lead singer in the Boxtops was a 17 yo white boy. People were always asking where is the older black man who they assumed was the lead singer. Edited June 12, 2016 by DizRotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 A friend had a hard drive with the top Billboard hits from 1950 - 2004, so the bulk of the rich music available is covered. It still remains to locate and include worthy songs that were not hits. The other side of the coin is whether to exclude"hits" that were bad songs. I'm listening to the full version of each song to be included. The former school teacher in me knows better than to play something for the class that I didn't listen to first. As to deleting bad "hit" songs, that is a form of censorship, which I'm generally against. So far I've not felt the need to exercise a veto. As that occurs, I'll run it past this group for feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 (edited) I made my first deletion from Billboard Top 100 of 1964. #96 A fool Never Learns, Andy Williams I don't feel the least bit guilty. Spider Sabich thanks me. Edited June 11, 2016 by DizRotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 (edited) Think about it. The average top 40 song was ~2.5 minutes. Multiply by 100 for 1964 and that's 300 minutes, or 5 hours. Now multiply by 4 years and that's 20 hours without repeats. Since there are definitely songs to be added that did not make the top 100, I will delete marginal songs with no qualms. Edited June 11, 2016 by DizRotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Think about it. The average top 40 song was ~2.5 minutes. Multiply by 100 for 1964 and that's 300 minutes, or 5 hours. Now multiply by 4 years and that's 20 hours without repeats. Since there are definitely songs to be added that did not make the top 100, I will delete marginal songs with no qualms. You could put all that on a single disc in DVD Audio (if you don't care about the quality). I did it with most of what Simon & Garfunkel did together and apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 (edited) Storage and/or playback is not a problem I'm about half way through Billboard's Top 100 1964 and have deleted 5 and labeled 8 as suspects. What I'm finding is that some unfamiliar hits by artists such as Dean Martin, Andy Williams or Sammy Davis Jr. were hits because my parents' generation bought them; they won't make the cut, for the most part. Edited June 12, 2016 by DizRotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 If you wanna try to get lucky that night, end the evening with Nights in White Satin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 (edited) Several Moody Blues songs make the cut. That one's from '67, so it's in. I don't know about getting lucky. More later, but I must Go Now. Edited June 12, 2016 by DizRotus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 The walker brothers... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 The lead singer in the Boxtops was a 17 yo white boy. Pepole were always asking where is the older black man who they assumed was the lead singer. I used to live in Memphis, where they were from. Alex Chilton died in 2010. The group had reformed and had been doing a lot of touring. Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maccagirl83 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Piper at the Gates of Dawn... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 It's Father's Day, I'm sittin' on the deck and working on this project. I'm a little more than half way though '65. One thing I've noticed is that the songs sound much better coming from my DIY stereo boombox than they did from the single dash mounted speaker in my dad's 63 Olds. For example, #46 A Walk in the Black Forest, by Horst Jankowski. I can hear strings I never noticed in '65. The playback system is enough better to more than compensate for nearly five decades of hearing degradation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 I've whittled it down to 276 songs, which is still too many. #46 mentioned above did not make the cut. I'd post the list printed out by Pono as a PDF but the file size is too large to be attached to a post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rummy Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 You were ahead of us weasels by about 6 years, about the same age as my older brother, no VN baggage for you, but in my Junior High years, Wild Thing was pretty cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Didn't read this entire thread; but, for what it's worth ... Love Me Two Times by The Doors; and Different Drum (Linda Ronstadt version was in 1967). Music trivia time: Different Drum was written by Mike Nesmith while part of The Monkees. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 "Different Drum" is worthy of inclusion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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