Joe Cocker – Joe Cocker!
Despite the fact that this album came out in 1969, and despite the fact that I got into music just a little after Joe Cocker’s heyday, and right about at his commercial peak, I...
Category: ’60s
Sam Cooke — Mr. Soul
Another acquisition from the recent Forever Changes pop-up here in Phoenixville (currently the first Saturday of the month at Steel City Coffeehouse). Despite the fact that I have any number of Sam Cooke songs...
The Dave Clark Five — Try Too Hard
So I’ve been dumping on the DC5 a little bit, despite owning quite a number of their records. Part of that is just time . . . over the decades, I’ve become less enamored...
The Dave Clark Five — Having a Wild Weekend
It’s 1965, and you’re a British Invasion band that has ridden the wave across the pond and conquered America with the “(Insert English Region Name Here) Sound.” Just like The Beatles. So naturally, you’re...
The Dave Clark Five — American Tour
You have to be careful with ’60s records that try to fool you. You might think that an album titled “American Tour” would be a live album. No. Not in any way. There isn’t...
The Dave Clark Five – The Dave Clark Five Return!
I established last time that I’m really not in a Dave Clark Five headspace right now, and this album, their second American release, isn’t really helping anything. It starts out solid, with the bomping...
The Dave Clark Five — Glad All Over
Part of the problem with doing this tour of my record collection in alphabetical order is that, thematically, there can be some hard turns. We’ve just been through 11 discs by The Church, one...
Chubby Checker — For Teen Twisters Only
I don’t know the genesis of this album. It is in a bag from Peter Dunn’s Vinyl Museum, a spot in Toronto that we visited exactly once, in February of perhaps 1986, but I...
We’re Gonna Change The World: The ’60s Chicago Garage Sound of Quill Records
Another new one. I had never heard of Quill Records, but my history with garage rock compilations thus far has been that I have never found one I didn’t like. A lot. As I...
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