6 of the 60s: 11/6/13 (1968)...

Hey gang, it's time for this week's trip to the sixties, and I've got a half-dozen more nuggets from 1968, the year Richard Nixon was elected president for the first term...(As usual I've included links to buy anything if possible)

Mason Williams - "Classical Gas"
from the album The Mason Williams Phonograph Record (1968)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2
Songwriter: Mason Williams

Before he made millions off of Christmas music with Mannheim Steamroller, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour writer scored with this baroque-pop piece of fluff.

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Classics IV - "Spooky"from the album Spooky (1968)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3
Songwriters: Buddy Buie, R. Cobb, Harry Middlebrooks, Mike Shapiro

The band's Buie and Cobb added lyrics to a jazzy instrumental to make this eerie little pop nugget.

The Troggs - "Love Is All Around"
from the album Love Is All Around (1968)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7
Songwriter: Reg Presley

The garage rock band that gave us "Wild Thing" softened up for this sweet little picnic-ready ditty.

 People - "I Love You"
from the I Love You (1968)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13
Songwriter: Chris White

This rock group from San Jose, California had their moment in the sun with this cover of a Zombies track with one of the most spooky "I Love You"'s set to record.

Bobby Goldsboro - "Autumn Of My Life"
from the album Word Pictures (1968)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19
Songwriter: Bobby Goldsboro

The Flower Power generation's Christopher Cross, with a face made for radio, Bobby had a song about growing old, just in time for the leaves to fall.

Frankie Valli - "To Give (The Reason I Live)"
from the album Timeless (1968)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29
Songwriters: Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio

Sassy emo king Morrissey is a fan of this song, covering it in concert incessantly.

That's it for this week's 60s trip...I'll be back tomorrow with 7 more from 1978 and 8 from 1988..