Billboard magazine (browse 1960s)
Billboard top songs of the year (year end charts)
Brill Building
- Spectropop: Brill Building
- “Mike Stoller on the Musical Universe of the Brill Building” (3/25/2014, vulture.com)
- “Burt Bacharach Remembers Writing Songs at the Brill Building” (3/25/2014, vulture.com)
- Folk Music links (musc125)
Beatles
- Beatles LP album covers; on NME
- Discography
- Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s LP cover with interactive map of characters
- Frank Zappa’s We’re Only in it for the Money LP cover parody of Sgt. Pepper’s
- “Hard Day’s Night” first chord
- Live
- at the Odeon, London, 12/3/1963
- Melbourne, 6/17/1964
- “Help” (Aug. 1965)
- The Making of Sgt. Pepper’s (documentary)
- White album on wikipedia (1968)
Motown
- James Jamerson’s bass line, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
Girl Groups
1960
- Operation Abolition (SF student protest at HUAC hearings; 21:00)
- Operation Correction (ACLU response to Operation Abolition)
- “Walk Don’t Run,” The Ventures (American Bandstand, 8/27/1960)
1961
- The Continentals (Ted Mack Amateur Hour, 7/9/1961)
1962
1963
- March on Washington
- Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (w/Len Chandler)
- Peter, Paul, and Mary (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” “If I Had a Hammer”)
- Mahalia Jackson (“How I Got Over”)
1964
- The T.A.M.I. Show (Wikipedia), on youtube
- The Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show (1st appearance, Feb. 9, 1964): “All My Loving,” “Til There Was You,” “She Loves You,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”
- “Fun, Run, Fun,” Beach Boys (1964)
- Muddy Waters on the Rolling Stones, Beatles and others (“Muddy Waters: The Blues Had A Baby… And They Called It Rock ‘N’ Roll,” Charles Shaar Murray, 1977)
- Sam Cooke
- Cassius Clay introducing Sam Cooke after win over Sonny Liston (2/25/1964) (41:20)
- singing with Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali (Feb. 1964)
- “Blowin’ in the Wind“
- Decision in the Streets (Berkeley Free Speech Movement)
1965
- British Invasion 1965: 7 of the Top 10 singles on the Billboard chart were from the UK (May 1, 1965)
- Dylan
- excerpts of performances from Dont Look Back (23:20–“It’s Alright Ma”)
- “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Bob” (2003), parody of Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues“
- Folk rock
- “Like a Rolling Stone” Billboard chart #2
- September 4, 1965 (James Brown #8)
- September 11, 1965
- Ski Party (w/James Brown)
- Jimi Hendrix
- First tv appearance, with Buddy and Stacy
1966
1967
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jimi Hendrix, The Who at the Beat Club
- Live in Chelmsford, England (early 1967?)
- Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix, “Wild Thing“
- Grace Slick vocal track from “White Rabbit“
- “The Negative Dialectics of the Summer of Love: Frank Zappa’s We’re Only In It for the Money” (Michael J. Kramer, 8/2/2017)
- Velvet Underground
- Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (PBS, American Masters)
1968
- “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” by James Brown at #1 r&b and #10 pop (Oct. 18, 1968, pp. 47, 78)
- Two Jimi Hendrix albums in Top 10 (Billboard, 11/23/1968)
1969
- David Bowie, “Space Oddity”: original video from 1969; live 1970; remake from 1972; live 1973
- Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) playing guitar on tv in 1958 (wrong year listed on youtube)
- Jimi Hendrix live in concert
- Woodstock
- Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner”
- on the Dick Cavett show talking about the Star Spangled Banner (2:09–)
- Santana, “Soul Sacrifice“
- Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner”
- Stonewall Inn riots, June 28, 1969 (wikipedia)
- Stonewall and Beyond (Columbia U. exhibit)
- Lou Reed’s Sister Sets the Record Straight (medium.com, 4/13/2015)
Miscellaneous
- Rolling Stones with Al Franken (1982)
- Haight Ashbury in the 60s (part 1, 2:30; CD-Rom video)
- “How Rock Festivals Helped Change America,” Bill Mankin 2012 (Like The Dew: A Journal of Southern Culture and Politics)
- Gilliland, John. 1969. Pop Chronicles: Show 15—The Soul Reformation; More on the Evolution of Rhythm and Blues. Pt. 1. Track 3. Pasadena, CA: KRLA.
- Ray Charles (3:55), Lou Rawls (5:55), Clara Ward (6:15), Count Basie (6:35), Janis Joplin (7;30), Little Richard (7:40).
- SNL: James Brown (W/Kevin Hart)
- James Brown’s drummers: Clyde Stubblefield, John “Jabo” Starks; “Cold Sweat,” “Funky Drummer” (Clyde Stubblefield); 22 rappers who sampled (XXL mag, 8/1/2014)
- Wrecking Crew
- Meet Carol Kaye, the genius musician (loudersound.com, Feb. 2018)
- Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture (2016)
- “The Gay Architects of Classic Rock” (Jim Farber, NYT, 10/17/2017