ITT: /mu/ in 1965
>>131731109Please don't b8 the schizo. You know who I mean.
>OHMYGOD PAUL MCCARTNEY IS SOOOOO CUUUUTTEEEEShut the fuck up already.
YEAH BUT I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET BACK IN THE STATESBACK TO THE CUTEST GIRLS IN THE WORLD
And so...
The Yardbirds are fucking awesome
Bob Dylan Goes Electric: Dylan shocked traditionalists by playing with an electric band at the Newport Folk Festival, transforming folk music into folk-rock with anthems like "Like a Rolling Stone." Like a Rolling Stone - recorded and released Summer of '65Dylan performed the song live for the first time within days of its release, when he appeared at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965, in Newport, Rhode Island.[66] Many of the audience's folk enthusiasts objected to Dylan's use of electric guitars, looking down on rock 'n roll, as Bloomfield put it, as popular amongst "greasers, heads, dancers, people who got drunk and boogied".[50] According to Dylan's friend, music critic Paul Nelson, "The audience [was] booing and yelling 'Get rid of the electric guitar'"Columbia Records, unhappy with the song's six-minute length and electric sound, hesitated to release it. A month later, a copy of "Like a Rolling Stone" leaked to a popular new music club, and influential DJs encountered it. It was then released as a single. Although many radio stations initially refused to play such a long track, "Like a Rolling Stone" reached No. 2 in the US Billboard charts (No. 1 in Cashbox) and became a worldwide hit.Critics described "Like a Rolling Stone" as revolutionary. The song completed the transformation of Dylan's image from folk singer to rock star. It is considered one of the most influential compositions in postwar popular music.
>>131731277...it is
>>131731184I know, right? Some snaggle-toothed limeys stroll over here from their gray rainy rock and try to steal _our_ groupies? This will not stand!
>>131731184That would include 1964>1964>Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' is released >The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time.>The Beatles arrive in the United States and are greeted by thousands of screaming fans at New York's Kennedy Airport.>The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.>Billboard Magazine reports that sales of Beatles records make up 60% of the entire singles market>The Beatles occupy all five top positions on Billboard's Hot 100 with their singles "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist and Shout", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", and "Please Please Me".>The Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, is released>Elvis Presley's 14th motion picture, Kissin' Cousins is released to theaters>The Rolling Stones release their eponymous début album>The Rolling Stones start their first U.S. tour.>The Rolling Stones perform on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time>The Who begin destroying guitars and drums on stage.>The Kinks release their iconic single "You Really Got Me".>Simon & Garfunkel release their debut album, >Also big: Beach Boys, Dean Martin, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix etc etc etc
Yep yep yep.
#FiredAbout fucking time already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_VkrVYqgHwAh I hate Dick and Dee Dee so much. Fortunately this was their last one.
Attention everyone. Dylan has started playing an electric guitar. I repeat, Dylan has started playing an electric guitar, that Judas.
Jackie moves from Liberty to Imperial and moves from being a R&R princess to draggy AC slop.
>>131731380Looks like Warner bros let him out of his cage.
>>131731433You're dead to me, Bobby.
>>131731489Liberty and Imperial were basically the same label
>>131731526yet in this time pop music is still singles based and albums don't overtake singles in sales until 68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1-f1YhbH-sThey had more than one hit? Apparently they did.
>>131731377Elvis has a #1 hit with "Crying in the Chapel" but it's an old unused cut from 1960 that RCA dusted off and sounds very outdated by 65.
>>131731505>Looks like Warner bros let him out of his cageimagine if they made him cover "Downtown" or something. how funneh that would be.
Cast your votes, /mu/!
>>131731593otherwise he's doing nothing anymore except shitty movies that are just background noise for jocks to fuck their girlfriend to in the backseat of their Impala at the drive-in theater
>>131731395This was a good nine years overdue.
>>131731593I think it only became a hit because people were just desperate for any "new" Elvis material that didn't suck. He released his last proper studio album in 1962 and hadn't put out a single that wasn't from a soundtrack since '63.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_o2cis980Oh hey, he had more than one hit too?
>>131731711despite all that it was really AC and more something that appealed to moms than the kids
Darn you Herbie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8AwYcf2HhkBit song-songy for my taste.
Well, Concetta, it looks like the days of you hogging the Billboard all to yourself may be coming to an end.
>>131731863https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HwJivLR5Ustryna give a scrap of meat to your Italian brothers and sisters here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvXUdD9OGf0More of Shirley's weird kiddie R&B.
FUCK THE BEATLES
Back in your top 10.
>>131732074oh fuck off already
>>131732074>>131732081At least his hitmaking days are done and the last time he was in the top 20 was three years ago.
>>131732132James finds his way back after having struggled through the early 60s and has among his only crossover pop hits this year.
>>131732093just as long as he doesn't pull off a surprise butt secks comeback hit like Patti there
>>131732072>The Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte movie, directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Mary Astor featured the title song, written and composed by Frank de Vol and sung by Al Martino. Patti Page performed a rendition at the 1965 Grammys and shortly afterward went into the studio to make a recorded version, which made #8 on the Billboard and became her last major hit as well as her first appearance in the top 15 in seven years. Martino's original "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" was also released as a single but made only #52.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM! Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EiA3qqtr9U
>>131732275>at the 1965 Grammys*Oscars that should read.
Three LPs in 65 after two in 64 and TLC could only manage three in seven years. They were much harder workers in the 60s.
>>131731341still, that came out at the end of the year and is associated more with 66 than 65
>>131732339You do realize TLC actually disbanded after CrazySexyCool and the third album was a reunion, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfEdQUxEh9gThe nepo babby no one asked for.
>>131732339Ever heard of "sleeping with the boss?" Yeah...
>>131732275Page had a lot of radio support. Even through the early 60s she still consistently had low level hits peaking in the 30s and 40s on the Billboard when most of her contemporaries had disappeared from the charts completely by then.
>>131732451"My Girl" is one of Christgau's favorite songs of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUJMWTRAkwYou know it's bad when you have to remake...
>>131732544Even three anniversaries was too many, Pat.
the confusing days when the US and Britain got two completely different versions of the same LP
>>131732557poor guys' entire legacy is reduced to one lyric in a Billy Joel song
>>131732598yeah and the US always got the butchered track listings and worse cover arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3503pkqDIk8Keep Jack away from supper club goo and orchestras and plug him into pop rock and the results can be not half-bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVo4cFnFri8
>>131731489Proof's in the album covers too when you're compare Don't Turn Your Back On Me.
>>131732736>blow on some other guy's diceThat shit's filthy.
This gonna be a classic, fucking rocknroll man!
>>131732736Hello Dolly again, Frank? I don't think you're beating last years rendition on IMAWBS.
>>131732865He kind of also had a problem during this period with remaking too many of his 40s records instead of doing new songs. At least Perry Como steadfastly refused to remake old stuff unless it was Christmas songs.
>>131732840>The Who's first hit and iconic song "My Generation" was hyped up by rock critics as a battle hymn for the baby boom generation, but the actual truth around the song was a little more base--guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend at the time owned a '35 Cadillac hearse that he parked along a certain street in London that happened to be along the Queen Mother's daily route, causing her to see it every time she was driven by. She became disturbed by the sight of the hearse and finally ordered it towed away. Townshend was inspired to pen "My Generation" in a fit.
>>131732918tl;dr he was just a 20 year old kid writing a "fuck old people" song that critics took way out of context
>>131732110YOU LOOK AROUND THE ROOM AND YOU SAY "WHY IS THAT MAN NAKED?"
>>131731395I guess I'm fired, too. Oh well, we had a good run. Time to leave things to Terry and his crazy rock-and-roll friends.
Album number 45 or 46 I think.
>>131731687*sigh*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edcwX66zTvIYou think this was directed at her ex-husband?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6OA9bJdbM
>>131732736Just a compilation of previously released reprise tracks
>>131732676The Stones first few US albums are actually better than the British releases. Andrew Oldham had direct control over all aspects of the American LPs and personally selected the track listings.
>>131733214Fucking Mafiaslop group.
>>131732676they would remove songs they thought were too British and not appealing to Americans
SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS, AND RAINBOWS EVERYTHING THAT...
>>131733397not that most realize it but this was originally an album track from Gore's 63 LP Sings of Mixed-Up Love and Mercury put it out as a single almost two years later. it sounded pretty outdated by then.
>>131733246Reprise was a haven for Frank's cronies once their music went out of fashion
>>131733442>Reprise was a haven for Frank's cronies once their music went out of fashion...for two years. After Warner bought them they dropped all his buddies and re-stocked the roster with rock acts.
>>131733424>not that most realize it but this was originally an album track from Gore's 63 LP Sings of Mixed-Up Love and Mercury put it out as a single almost two years later. it sounded pretty outdated by then.One thing that gives it away is the lack of echo reverb which was very commonly used in 1965.>>131733176See here. This is the definition of a '65 record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xul0yZYk1CM
>>131733479the biggest seller of the year but could pass for 1959
>>131733540Cuckgau hates this song btw.
You sucked in 1952, Steve, you sucked in 1955, you sucked in 1958, you sucked in 1961, and you suck now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTP6Tkl97B0Thanks, BB.
>>131731109This was the greatest thing to come out of 1965. Thank you Beatles. This is their only album I’ve ever even heard. I own it on vinyl and I actually like it too. It’s actually got some listenable songs for my broken, mutated, satanic eardrums.
>>131733660Fuck you, Steve, sincerely.
>>131733660https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPNHE8gA22kAbsolutely vile. Also Youtube recommends me the Talking Heads song which would be infinitely preferable if it was a 1980 thread.
>>131733680this was part of a contractual obligation session he was forced to do for his former label Kent
Brenda's last big year on the pop charts with six singles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bHFCP1WFWUThis uncomfortably Doris Day-like tune was not one of Peggy's better moments. The album was a little awkward too especially with the Beatles cover.
Goodnight sweet prince.
>>131733938this one hurts...
>>131733938granted, though it probably wouldn't have gotten better as his generation gave way to rock. his 60s material was a noticeable downgrade from the 50s in any case.
>>131733960That applied to all of the pre-rock generation. Sinatra, Ella, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, even Julie London. Their 60s output was noticeably worse than their 50s stuff.
IMPEACH LYNDON JOHNSON!
I COME LATE AT NIGHT AND IN THE MORNING I JUST LAY IN BED
>>131734052she was so cute and innocent before the Stones defiled her
>>131734061took you this long?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdAZx42cxQYThe Raiders blast off after Mitch Miller is finally shown the door at CBS.
sigh
>>131734052https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eR2SJCgsvwthis proto-Joanna Newsom act was a long long way from Broken English
>>131734155Is that a Beatles cover? It had better not be.
>>131734155Pack it up Grandma
>>131734231that more applies to >>131733246. she's pushing 50. Teresa is only 34 lol.
>>131734530so much for the Shirelles now that Sceptre has a new ATM machiine
>>131734059Eventually after years of addiction and insanity she rebooted her career. If she was a Millenial she would just whine on SM about being raped or something by the Stones instead of picking herself up from the ashes and making some cool music out of her agonies.
>>131734155"Three Coins in the Fountain" would have been better to cover, oh, I dunno, ten years ago when the song was actually relevant. The Mary Poppins song...there we go. That's exactly what she's made for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beW9AH1Goxg
>>131731489https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRURf6SHEvYThe followup single to WTWNNIL kind of bombed.
Clooney's last LP for a long time to come.
YOU TRY SO HARD BUT YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTANDJUST WHAT YOU SAY WHEN YOU GET HOMEBECAUSE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HEREBUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS
>>131734155https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u73MZxqhLIYit's about what you'd expect. her Philips albums were also pretty low budget compared to the Decca era. much less effort put into the production and arrangements.
>>131734964also the Hard Day's Night cover is not as bad as it could have been
>>131734940yeah as i said he did too many remakes of his 40s material during this era
Ah yes, five LPs in one year. Welcome to 60s Nashville.
>>131735091I heard on Steve Hoffman Forum that online rips of her Phillips albums are mostly taken from the original LPs because Phillips evidently didn't take very good care of the master tapes and they looked like they'd been used as a doggie chew toy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDau-o39nsg
>>131735277took that long to post Roy? this was the last year he was still hot. like most early 60s heavyweights he didn't last long past the British Invasion.
>>131735309It's funny in his case, he had the biggest hit of his career during Beatlemania but then completely vanished from the charts
>>131735309music evolved quickly back then. a lot of big early 60s acts were instantly dismissed as old news and lost label and radio support after 65. yes, even the Beach Boys.
>>131734116they're underrated nowadays for a number of reasons but they were one of the hardest rocking bands of the 60s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAyaK18ZyWU
>>131735662>they're underrated nowadays for a number of reasons but they were one of the hardest rocking bands of the 60sSingles band, no stable lineup aside from Paul and Mark, costumes looked silly to later generations, and didn't write a lot of their material.
>>131731109Man, this Charles Manson fella writes some killer songs, he should get a record deal.
>>131735860Mark said he can't remember who actually played on "Louie Louie"
Four LPs this year.
>>131735938Patsy's six feet under, so...but really she's more the successor to Kitty Wells.
>>131735952https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmCbUI6J-W4And nepo baby just ain't Ma.
Oh dear, this isn't going to be pretty at all.
>>131736000at least she's back in her natural habitat instead of that...um..."country" album last year
>>131731109Fellas, I’m a huge Beatles fan and I’m a little, uh, confused about how I feel about some of my guy friends and some of the games we like to play together while we listen to Help!
>>131736012That Loretta album was enjoyable to put on. This thing however is like the music equivalent of the Vogon poetry reading in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Dammit.
>>131734061Hot take, I like The Chimes of Freedom more than Mr. Tambourine Man.
Christy's second-to-last LP.
>>131731341The first good album ever made
>>131740345this was the last of the old R&B Freddie before he comes back in a few years and reinvents himself as a blues rocker
>>131740285>>131739880No Blossom Dearie this year.
>>131740366you saying there weren't great jazz and standards albums in the 50s-early 60s?
>>131740366only pleb boyband fans think this
>>131740434rockists*
>>131740411Nonetheless RS and Highway 61 did start the general move of pop music towards albums. Prior to that only jazz really used concept albums and the LP format for pop was just a best-of collection of singles.
>>131731395don't let the door hit you on your way out
>>131740889as you may know, this was Day's finale before being cut by the new Clive Davis regime at CBS. to be perfectly fair, they did keep a number of existing acts such as Tony Bennett, Steve and Eydie, and Patti Page for the adult audience so it's not like the pre-rock lineup was all just immediately cut. Day was just running on inertia by that point however and had not had a hit since 1958 whereas those others had recent chart success.
>>131735309Roy could've pulled through he hadn't switched labels and management at a crucial time and gotten writer's block from all the shit going on in his life. The new regime didn't understand what made him tick and made him churn out light, ponderous MOR mush. Ironically though he was always more popular in Britain and continued having big hits and touring there long after his clout in the States had dried up.
>>131740954even her movie career tumbled into the abyss in the late 60s
HELLO MUDDERHELLO, FADDERI'M AT CAMP GRANADA
>>131740994>The new regime didn't understand what made him tick and made him churn out light, ponderous MOR mush.Jackie DeShannon at Imperial all over again.>no, don't do rock>do Andy Williams kind of material instead
>>131741148sort of
that Louie Louide song has really great lyrics
FUCK THE BUTTLES
SO GO DOWNTOWN WHERE THINGS WILL BE GREATWHEN YOU'RE DOWNTOWN, NO KIND OF PLACE FOR SURE
>>131740954>as you may know, this was Day's finale before being cut by the new Clive Davis regime at CBS. to be perfectly fair, they did keep a number of existing acts such as Tony Bennett, Steve and Eydie, and Patti Page for the adult audienceoh and this fine fellow here
isn't 65 around the time when Cuckgau momentarily tried to be a sports writer or something?
>>131741924Fuck that guy.
>>131741957Is he still boycotting jazz at this point?
You suck too, Stanley.
>>131743837She was 18-19 here.
>>131735049that was out in 66.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50PuToooZZcPatti LaBelle and the Bluebelles had only this one single in 65 and it only charted at #68. A lot of people hate her voice though.
>>131744368Not trading those versions of Sentimental Journey or White Cliffs of Dover for the better-known originals, no thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyjOPzIGbKAThe Dells' comeback hit, the first time they've been heard from since 58.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAJPNCJn_IOne of Jackie's last big hits. He got extincted pretty fast by the rise of Motown and I'm not even sure if this was actually a fresh 65 recording or if it's not an old one from 1960 they dusted off. Sure sounds like 59-60 rather than 65.
>>131744735These are recordings from various dates going back to 1956. only two were from 65.
>>131744817>implying people in 1965 were only allowed to talk about music from 1965 and not from before that
>>131744398https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81R27-Uij8Teresa can't into standards. She's a novelty song singer and that's all she'll ever be.
>>131744986"Sinnerman" was like her most famous/signature song. I agree with Cuckgau that "Strange Fruit" is annoying and nobody likes it.
>>131745247Goldsboro fucking sucks, man.
>>131745561yes, yes he does
>>131744368This was 1966
>>131743863Country stars seemed to used to get their start in Nashville a lot younger back then. After a while the industry got to be such a closed shop that it would take you 10 years of ass kissing before someone finally gave you a break.
>>131748665Not hardly. Lots of them took years to get big.>Kitty Wells (didn't record her first disc until age 30)>Willie>Loretta>Merle>George Jones
>>131734693anon was right. that was Brewer's only 65 LP release the other one posted was in fact from 66.
>>131749135took that long to post it?
>>131749343a shame, they had good songs but American radio only played their stupidest, most Schlager tier ones
HELP ME RHONDA, HELP ME
ugh, the worst
>>131750270Trini Lopez really sucked. He was basically housewife pop updated for the new decade, with rock and folk sounds replacing 50s wicky wacky orchestra shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOwa_yBC0XU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giCf5vu86NE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1MSgSaNL7oThese guys had two 61 hits on Del Fi but this 65 hit sounds quite behind the times. Perhaps it was an old recording contemporary to the others they dusted off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek2NucwOOvsNuts to you, Trini.
Sigh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDus0RAMr5c
Young CBS Aretha, still more Sarah Vaughan at this point than how she'll sound on Atlantic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI7ipMElrYw
>>131733660fortunately he had no more pop hits after 64
