1960s

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 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)

Rolling Stones

• • Rolling Stones with Al Franken (1982)
  • “Brown Sugar” Is a Dirty Song About Slavery and Sex, and I Love It (Lauretta Charlton, Vulture, 4/3/2015)

Motown

• James Jamerson’s bass line, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
• Martha and the Vandellas
  • “Dancing in the Street” (1964, American Bandstand)
  • “Heat Wave” (1965, UK)

Girl Groups

• 1960s Girl Groups
• The Ronettes
  • “Be My Baby”:  American Bandstand, 1963; hi-res, 1963?; Shindig, 1965;   1965 again

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

• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS): Port Huron Statement

1963

• March on Washington
  • Bob Dylan, “Only a Pawn in Their Game“
  • Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, ” When the Ship Comes In“
  • Peter, Paul, and Mary (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” “If I Had a Hammer”)
    • “Blowin’ in the Wind” lyrics
  • Len Chandler (with Dylan, Baez), “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize“
  • 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”
• Billboard Top LP chart, April 4, 1964
• “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“
• Dionne Warwick
  • Dionne Warwick Walk on by 1964 (Paris)
  • Dionne Warwick – Walk On By (Red Skelton Show, 11/29/1966, Tom Hansen choreographer)
  • Dionne Warwick “Hits Medley” on The Ed Sullivan Show (10/6/1968)

  • Dionne Warwick “This Girl’s In Love With You” on The Ed Sullivan show (3/23/1969)

  • Dionne Warwick – That’s What Friends Are For (1985)

• 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
  • Dont Look Back (1:21:00–“It’s Alright Ma”)
    •  audio-only performance at Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England (3/7/65)
  • “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Bob” (2003), parody of  Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues“
  • Folk rock
    • June 12: “Folkswinging Wave On—Courtesy of Rock Groups.” (Billboard, pp. 1, 10)
    • August 21: “Rock + Folk + Protest = an Erupting New Sound.” (Billboard, pp. 1, 14)
    • September 4: “West Coast Clamors for Dylan Tunes.” (Billboard, pp. 12, 47)
  • “Like a Rolling Stone” Billboard chart #2
    • September 4, 1965  (James Brown #8)
    • September 11, 1965
• Ski Party (w/James Brown)

1966

• Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” studio footage

1967

• Jimi Hendrix
  • Jimi Hendrix, The Who at the Beat Club
  • Live in Chelmsford, England (early 1967?)
  • Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix, “Wild Thing“
  • Pete Townshend on Jimi Hendrix at Monterey 
  • Experience (film by Peter Neal, 1968; aka See My Music Talking)
• 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)
• Dusty Springfield, “The Look of Love“
• Jackson Browne: The Story Behind “These Days” (b. 10/9/1948)
  • Jackson Browne – ‘The Nina Demos’ January 7, 1967 (4:53, “I’ve Been out Walking”)
  • Jackson Browne – These Days (2002)

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)
• Eddie Kramer’s story behind “All Along The Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
• “59th Street Bridge Song,” with Liberace on the Red Skelton Show

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 Experience | Live in Maui | Full Concert 1970
•  Woodstock
  • Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner”
    • on the Dick Cavett show talking about the Star Spangled Banner (2:09–)
  • Santana, “Soul Sacrifice“

• Stonewall Inn riots, June 28, 1969 (wikipedia)
  • The Stonewall Uprising of 1969 (Library of Congress)
  • Stonewall and Beyond (Columbia U. exhibit)
• “The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter” (Frere-Jones, New Yorker, 2019)

• Lou Reed’s Sister Sets the Record Straight (medium.com, 4/13/2015)

Jimi Hendrix

• First tv appearance, with Buddy and Stacy (1965)
• From the documentary Jimi Hendrix (1973)
  • On Monterey: Clapton (3:50); Townshend (5:28); H (6:50)
  • Hendrix: gimmicks (7:58); destruction (9:35); in NY, apprenticing (14:30); feedback (20:45); new band (40:05); (49:40); expectations–natural (1:06:00); money (1:12:25)
  • Hendrix performances: Like a Rolling Stone (51:40); Star Spangled (1:00:45); Fillmore East 1969 (1:08:20); acoustic guitar (1:13:55)
  • Dick Cavett (9:00); compliments (58:10); on Woodstock (1:04:26)
  • Little Richard (18:00); perseverance (21:35); rock and roll (27:27); as a star (51:05); (1:00:28)
  • Fayne: on sitting in (18:25-22:05); leaving Harlem (23:00-23:50); on Dylan (28:50-29:50); in the Village (31:50); acid, high tolerance (46:50); (1:13:25)
  • Twins (Ghetto Fighters): do you know him? (22:05); self-conscious, the Village (30:20); return from England (40:25); LSD (47:35); women (49:20); what Black people thought (58:45); Black Panthers (1:06:40); (1:12:55)
  • Linda Keith: at Cheetah (27:50); on Dylan (28:40); record producers (30:55)
  • Eddie Kramer: on vocals (30:08); handgers-on (49:10)
  • Clapton: in England (32:25); 37:50; seeing Hendrix play (38:38); expectations (1:05:14)
  • Jagger: in England (32:40); amazing (40:25);  expectations (1:05:40)
  • Townshend: first time he saw(36:50); w/Clapton (38:55)
  • H: w/Clapton (37:55); (39:50)
  • Alan Douglas (48:25)
  • Lou Reed (48:50); just the music (1:10:05); (1:11:45)
  • Juma Sultan (1:00:10)
  • Frankie Crocker: Black radio (1:06:20)
  • Buddy Miles (1:07:55)
  •  (outtakes)
    • Lithofayne Pridgon on Jimi Hendrix (1973)
    • Pete Townshend on Jimi Hendrix (1973)
• Jimi Hendrix Pepsi Vs Coca Cola Commercial
• Jimi Hendrix on his Native American Heritage featured at the Jimi Hendrix Hall of Fame Induction (Native American Music Awards)

• Jimi Hendrix Wore A Coat of Many Colors

Miscellaneous

• 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).
• James Brown
  • 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)
  • The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown (NPR, 2015)
  • OED, “funk“
• 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