6 of the 60s: 4/9/14 (1967)...

Humpday 60s flashback time is here, and I've got a half-dozen more nuggets from 1967, the year that Martin Luther King Jr denounced the Vietnam War at a church in New York...

The Music Explosion - "Little Bit O' Soul"
from the album Little Bit O' Soul (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2
Songwriters: Ken Hawker, John Shakespeare

"When you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite, you need a little bit o'soul to put you right." A-freakin'-men.

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Petula Clark - "Don't Sleep In The Subway"
from the album These Are My Songs (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5
Songwriters: Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent

I am so in love with Petula's music - it was a more mature breath of fresh air from the horde of British Invasion boys that flooded the market with baser fare...

Brenton Wood - "Gimme Little Sign"
from the album Gimme Little Sign (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9
Songwriters: Joseph Hooven, Alfred Smith, Jerry Winn

The big hit for the Lousiana soul singer would eventually be a minor British hit for All In The Family alum Danielle Brisebois....

The Hombres - "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)"
from the album Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12
Songwriter: B.B. Cunningham

This highlight of the garage-rock compilation Nuggets was the moment in the sun for this Memphis quartet, half of whom would end up being killed by guns (one of his own hand)...

The Bee Gees - "Holiday"
from the album Bee Gees 1st (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16
Songwriters: Barry & Robin Gibb

Barry and Robin traded off vocals on this sweet answer to the Rolling Stones' ballad style.

The Yellow Balloon - "Yellow Balloon"
from the album Yellow Balloon (1967)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25
Songwriters: Jay Lee, Dick St. John, Gary Zekley

I had to include this early appearance of the legend Casey Kasem with a performance by a studio group helped out on stage by none other than Don Grady, the actor who played Robbie on My Three Sons, on drums incognito...

I'll return tomorrow with 7 more from 1977 and 8 from 1987...