6 of the 60s: 1/29/14 (1967)...

It's time for this weeks 60's trip, and this week I'm back to 1967, the year Charlie Chaplin's last movie A Countess From Hong Kong opens in Britain. (I've included links to buy anything on CD or MP3)

The Doors - "Light My Fire"
from the album The Doors (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 
Songwriters: John Densimore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison

The Doors' debut came out in January of 1967, and this moody and seductive number kept a lot of women warm during that winter.

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The Happenings - "I Got Rhythm"
from the album Psycle (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3
Songwriters: George & Ira Gershwin

This vocal group from Paterson, New Jersey straddled the bridge between the Four Seasons and the Four Preps with this clean-cut take on the Gershwin classic.

Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - "Sock It To Me-Baby!"
from the album Sock It To Me! (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6
Songwriters: L. Russell Brown, Bob Crewe

It's funny to remember this song, banned by radio for being racy, would be nothing like what we hear today.

Tommy James & The Shondells - "Mirage"
from the album I Think We're Alone Now (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10
Songwriters: Ritchie Cordell, Bo Gentry

This song came to be when they mistakenly loaded their "I Think We're Alone Now" in reverse, so the chords are in the opposite order.

Dionne Warwick - "Alfie"
from the album Here Where There Is Love (1966)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15
Songwriters: Burt Bacharach, Hal David

Dionne's version of this oft-covered song was the biggest hit, no doubt helped by her performance on the Oscars.

The Byrds - "My Back Pages"
from the album Younger Than Yesterday (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30
Songwriter: Bob Dylan

This take on Dylan's song from Another Side Of Bob Dylan comes off like a Protestant hymn, with the protagonist rejecting the activism of his youth.

That's it for now, I'll return tomorrow with 7 more from 1977 and 8 from 1987...