Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Category: ’60s

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'60s / Pop

The Mamas & The Papas — The Mamas & The Papas

If you didn’t grow up in the ’60s, it may be impossible to relate how huge a phenomenon The Mamas & The Papas were. They crossed over from the counterculture to mainstream in perhaps...

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'60s / Pop / Psychedelic / Rock

Love — Forever Changes

Despite being pretty new to me, this one is special to my heart because it’s special to a friend’s heart – so special that he named his record store after it! Recorded and released in...

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'60s / Psychedelic / Rock

Love — Da Capo

My interest in Love piqued by my friend Shawn at Forever Changes records, and having picked up their first album from Sundazed, I went back to him for more. He gave me this, but...

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'60s / Garage / Psychedelic / Rock

Love — Love

Love is one of those bands that I should have been into decades earlier. This release from 1966 fits squarely with the other garage rock psychedelia that I was snapping up in the early...

Claudine Longet Colours front cover 0

'60s / Pop

Claudine Longet — Colours

I bought this in the dollar bin at Forever Changes, same as “Claudine,” earlier this year. It’s from 1968, a somewhat better album than the other, including some very nice versions of “Scarborough Fair,”...

Claudine front cover 1

'60s / Pop

Claudine Longet — Claudine

Earlier this year, when things were opening up again and Forever Changes was getting back to normal (¯_(ツ)_/¯ emoji) with a monthly pop-up at Steel City Coffeehouse here in Phoenixville, I was digging through...

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'60s / Blues

Lightnin’ Hopkins — Mojo Hand

Incredibly, I only had one Lightnin’ Hopkins album prior to this, a CD titled “The Legacy of the Blues vol. 12,” that I bought back around 1990 or so at the lamented Records ‘n’...