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
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- 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
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”)
- 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)
- 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”)
- “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)
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“
- 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“
- Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner”
- 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)
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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)
- 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)
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