Monthly Archives: April 2025

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,572) The Golden Earrings — “That Day” This song is by my favorite British beat group . . . from the Netherlands. But warning: If you are Dutch, read no further! The Golden Earrings’ (see #63, 163, 319, 1,215, 1,504, 1,560) 3rd A-side, writtenContinue reading “The Golden Earrings — “That Day”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 30, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,571) The Jynx — “How” A mysterious UK band gave us a ‘64 beat classic and then disappeared. Vernon Joynson says “[n]o other details known”. (The Tapestry of Delights Revisited) Thankfully, 06m.jones can tell us that the Jynx was “[a] group from BirkhamsteadContinue reading “The Jynx — “How”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 29, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,570) Los Brincos — “Cry” I’ve played their star-making B-side (see #1,172), here is the power ballad (if there even was such a thing in ’64) A-side by “The Spanish Beatles”. Diego Manrique writes: [T]he Spanish answer to The Beatles[,] Los Brincos wereContinue reading “Los Brincos — “Cry”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 28, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,569) The Applejacks — “What’s the Matter Little Girl” A delightful British Invasion charmer from a band (see #973) that was the first from the Birmingham area to join the hit parade. But they get no respect! Richie Unterberger says that “[w]hile theirContinue reading “The Applejacks — “What’s the Matter Little Girl”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 27, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,568) Ola and the Janglers — “Blow My Blues Away” Sweden’s Ola and the Janglers (see #196, 323) give us a killer cover of a Mark Leeman song. They were founded in Stockholm in 1962 and are most well known for being theContinue reading “Ola and the Janglers — “Blow My Blues Away”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 26, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,567) Tuesday’s Children — “Summer Leaves Me with a Sigh” Here is a “dreamy psych Byrds meets freakbeat fuzz guitar affair” (happening45, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLC-mNhFScY&pp=ygU7VHVlc2RheeKAmXMgQ2hpbGRyZW4g4oCUIOKAnFN1bW1lciBMZWF2ZXMgTWUgd2l0aCBhIFNpZ2jigJ3SBwkJhAkBhyohjO8%3D), “Beatlesque mod rock” (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/strange-light-from-the-east-the-complete-recordings-1966-1969-mw0000575123), “irresistible . . . . [m]elding one of [singer Phil] Cordell’s yearning harmony popContinue reading “Tuesday’s Children — “Summer Leaves Me with a Sigh”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 25, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,566) Roek Williams and the Fighting Cats — “I’ll Cry” Another lost Beatles ballad from ’65? Nope, just another uncanny and irresistible ‘65 replica, this time by the Dutch Buddy Holly. It reached #40 in the Netherlands. Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes/Underrated Songs tells us (courtesyContinue reading “Roek Williams and the Fighting Cats — “I’ll Cry”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 24, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,565) The Quiet Five — “Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone”  I’ve played the A-side (see #676), here’s the B-side, the band’s “only ‘cool’ track”, “a great Mod Beat raver” (teabiscuit, https://www.45cat.com/record/r5273), “a quite tough Merseybeat-flavored number”. (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/when-the-morning-sun-dries-the-dew-mw0000516568) Richie Unterberger gives us someContinue reading “The Quiet Five — “Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 23, 2025″

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,564) René & His Alligators — “I Can Wait” A lost Beatles ballad from ’65? Sounds like it, except it comes from a formerly instrumental Dutch group that was big in the Netherlands. The moral of the song? Girl, don’t worry, René isContinue reading “René & His Alligators — “I Can Wait”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 22, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,563) The Hellions — “Tomorrow Never Comes” This “slab of sunshine fun” (Kingsley Abbott, liner notes to the CD comp Ripples, Vol. 1: Look at the Sunshine (British Summer Tyme Pop)) was the second A-side from the Hellions (see # 1,500), a pre-supergroupContinue reading “The Hellions — “Tomorrow Never Comes”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 21, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,562) Thor’s Hammer — “If You Knew” This wonderful uptempo Beatlesque number naturally enough comes from Iceland’s Beatles! — “I was in U.S. Navy stationed at Keflavik in 1967-68 and these guys performed on the base many times. We called them the IcelandicContinue reading “Thor’s Hammer — “If You Knew”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 20, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,561) The Blue Rondos — “Little Baby” I’ve played the B-side (see #351), here is the “utterly magical” (Joe M’Geek, https://www.45cat.com/record/7n15734) A-side by the Blue Rondos, “[a] classic gem which never got the credit deserved”. (Joemeeksyoungestfan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQw9BnDKrs8) “The melody is buoyant and youContinue reading “The Blue Rondos — “Little Baby”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 19, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,560) The Golden Earrings — “Call Me” Don’t call Debbie Harry, call the Golden Earrings (see #63, 163, 319, 1,215, 1,504)! They gave us this uncannily Beatlesque ballad on their second LP — Winter Harvest — written by founding guitarist George Kooymans. The EarringsContinue reading “The Golden Earrings — “Call Me”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 18, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,559) The Mockingbirds — “How to Find a Lover” Maybe he’s gonna buy you a mockingbird, but he couldn’t buy Graham Gouldman’s [see #226] Mockingbirds a hit. This “very catchy” (HorseMouth, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the-mockingbirds/how-to-find-a-lover-my-story.p/) “strong, upbeat pop song [is] made distinctive by the stop-and-start arrangementContinue reading “The Mockingbirds — “How to Find a Lover”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 16, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,558) Edwin Starr — “I’m Still a Struggling Man” This ’69 A-side by Edwin Starr (see #693) is a “jewel[]” that “feature[s] one of Starr’s most moving vocal performances, and in its lyric was the distant precursor to the musical/social vision that wouldContinue reading “Edwin Starr — “I’m Still a Struggling Man”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 16, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,500) Piero Umiliani — “Bob And Hellen” Get ready for an “overload” of joyful and exuberant “coolness” (OakHillAcademy, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ruA_skKro&pp=ygUnUGllcm8gVW1pbGlhbmkg4oCUIOKAnEJvYiBBbmQgSGVsbGVu4oC) from “one of the unsung heroes of soundtrack music”. (Efrén del Valle Peñamil, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/piero-umiliani-mn0000240758#biography) Italy’s Piero Umiliani “[i]ncorporat[ed] styles like jazz, easy listening/lounge, rock,Continue reading “Piero Umiliani — “Bob And Hellen”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 15, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,556) Powder — “Grimbley Leitch” (see #789) Before Thomas and Richard Frost had a minor hit and created one of the great lost albums of the 1960s (see #209, 211, 247, 385, 595, 775, 967), these two Who-obsessed brothers had ignited Powder (as inContinue reading “I Shall Be Released: Powder — “Grimbley Leitch”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 14, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,555) Buffalo Springfield — “Expecting to Fly” Off of Buffalo Springfield’s second LP and reaching #98, here is “perhaps the most beautiful melody Neil Young would ever create and the most ethereal singing from just about anyone of his era” (serendipity_, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the-buffalo-springfield/expecting-to-fly-everydays/), “perhaps Neil’sContinue reading “Buffalo Springfield — “Expecting to Fly”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 13, 2025”

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,554) The Artwoods — “Goodbye Sisters” “A great [’65] R&B Freakbeat rocker” (VinylAddict5, https://www.discogs.com/master/924706-The-Art-Woods-Goodbye-Sisters-) by the incredible Artwoods (see #58, 845, 1,241). Yes, they were founded by Art Wood — Ronnie Wood’s older brother — and were a top touring UK R&B band. Alas,Continue reading “The Artwoods — “Goodbye Sisters”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 12, 2025”

“Oh Baby Please” starts at 7:41. THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD 1,553) The Soul Explosion — “Oh Baby Please” Oh baby, “Oh Baby Please” should have been big, big, big! A Granadilla Music press release puts it well: “Detroit? Chicago? Well, no not at all. This 1968 [LP]Continue reading “The Soul Explosion — “Oh Baby Please”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 11, 2025”