Sunshine Pop a ’60s Soundtrack
Influenced by the Beach Boys, sunshine pop performers gave popular music a light touch in the ’60s. What Is Sunshine...
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Folk Music Shaped the ’60s Countercultural Revolution
Overcoming the Red Scare of the ’50s, folk music enjoyed a resurgence of goodwill in the ’60s. High school, mid-’60s....
Feeling Funk, Y’all! Soul Music Gets a Facelift in the Seventies
George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Kool & the Gang took the reins from the great James Brown....
Rock Songs About Drugs
Recreational drugs and rock ‘n’ roll: It was fun until it wasn’t. The songs endure. In the rock ‘n’ roll...
1962 Instrumental Oddity ‘Telstar’ – It’s the Melody
The rise and fall of ‘Telstar’ creator Joe Meek, who never saw a dime in royalties from his sixties megahit....
The Yardbirds’ Sixties ‘Rave-Up’ with Three Legendary Guitars
Two original Yardbirds have kept the flame burning long after the band’s final 1968 concert. Three Guitars It is a...
Unheralded Session Players ‘Funk Brothers’ Key to Motown Sound
Ace songwriting and production team Holland-Dozier-Holland helped make Berry Gordy’s dreams come true. Back in the Day If you came...
The Musical Journey of ‘House of the Rising Sun’
British Invaders Eric Burdon’s Animals made the song famous in 1964. A young Bob Dylan gave it a whack two...
After Phenomenal Success, Cat Stevens Hit the ‘Road to Find Out’
This fall marks 50 years since the groundbreaking ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ hinted at Cat Stevens’ escape from pop stardom....
A Youthful Adventure Along the Mississippi Blues Highway 61
We dropped in on Sam Chatmon, who found some fame with a family string band called the Mississippi Sheiks. Prologue...
Songs of 1970: Last Hurrahs for the Sixties’ Top-Selling Acts
The dawn of the seventies saw a Beatles farewell and Motown in disarray. It Was 50 Years Ago Today… An...
What Happened to Hitchhiking?
Hitchhiking peaked in the sixties and seventies. Then, it just vanished. Suppose you’re an urban or suburban Philadelphian making a...
The Sixties Blues Revival
The blues had a baby and they named it rock ‘n’ roll. There’s this thing we call the blues. In...
