6 of the 60s: 2/6/13...

Hey gang, it's time for this week's trip back to the 60s, and this time out I'm back to 1965, the year Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang appear on the cover of Time magazine.

The Byrds - "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)"
from the album Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1

Never before nor after has the Bible been so cool, with this excerpt from Ecclesiastes set to music written by Pete Seeger.

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Barbara Mason - "Yes I'm Ready"
from the album Yes, I'm Ready (1965)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5

Philadelphia native Mason had one of the rare female self-penned soul classics with this nugget revived in the late 70s by KC and Teri DeSario.

The Yardbirds - "For Your Love"
from the album For Your Love (1965)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6

Probably the most important rock supergroup that ever was, the Yardbirds spawned legendary guitar careers of Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton, who was on this track before he scuttled off for the Bluesbreakers.

The Strangeloves - "I Want Candy" 
from the album I Want Candy (1965)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11

The 60's version of Milli Vanilli - the group of songwriters hired musicians to pose as themselves on tour and pretend they were a sheep-farmer family from Australia. No wonder Malcolm McLaren revived the song for his prefab Bow Wow Wow.

The Beau Brummels - "Laugh Laugh"
from the album Introducing The Beau Brummels (1965)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15

These San Fran boys bridged the gap between sunny California pop and British Invasion rock.

Chad & Jeremy - "If I Loved You"
from the album The Best Of Chad & Jeremy (1966)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23

The English folk-rock duo brought Rodgers & Hammerstein to the bedrooms of teen girls all over the US with this cover of the Carousel classic.

That's a wrap on this flashback, I'll return tomorrow with 7 more fro 1975 and 8 from 1985, but tonight I'll have the latest from Australia....