6 of the 60s: 4/2/14 (1966)...

Hey gang, it's time for this week's humpday 60s flashback, and this time out I've got a half-dozen more nuggets from 1966, the year Leonid Brezhnev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union...

The Royal Guardsmen - "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron"
from the album Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron (1966)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2
Songwriters: Phil Gemhard, Dick Holler

Their name was even an April-style Fool, as these boys from Ocala Florida rode the charts in the middle of the British Invasion with a comic send-up of World War antics through the eyes of a beagle.

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The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"
from the album Revolver (1966)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2
Songwriters: John Lennon, Paul McCartney (really just Paul)

Arguably the oft-most remembered of Ringo's vocal contributions to the Beatles' work, its quirkiness is just as vital to my favorite Fab Four album as the more "serious" tracks.

Herman's Hermits - "Dandy"
from the album There's A Kind Of Hush... (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5
Songwriter: Ray Davies

The British musical 'grandfathers' to the likes of One Direction took this Kinks cut to America before the Davies brothers could.

Peter & Gordon - "Lady Godiva"
from the album Lady Godiva (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6
Songwriters: Mike Leander, Charles Mills

In 2012 this vaudevillean ditty about the famous naked horseback rider was revived by British YouTube star Alex Day and climbed back into the top-20 on the UK chart.

Jackie Lee - "The Duck"
from the album The Duck (1966)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14
Songwriters: Earl Nelson, Fred Smith

Despite what he sings on this record, "Jackie Lee" is not who he says he is, but rather Earl Nelson, one half of "Bob & Earl", who recorded the original version of "Harlem Shuffle", which the Rolling Stones covered for a top-5 hit in the late 80s.

Norma Tanega - "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"
from the album Walkin' My Cat Named Dog (1966)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #22
Songwriter: Norma Tanega

This folk-rock singer committed 100% to this oddly-titled but quite pretty song. She would go on to write for Dusty Springfield.

That's it for this week's goofy post-April Fools trip...I'll be back tomorrow with 7 more from 1976 and 8 from 1986...