Monday, July 20, 2015

Forgotten Hits: 50 Year Flashback - July 20th, 1965

Forgotten Hits: 50 Year Flashback - July 20th, 1965

9 comments:

Deb said...

Maybe some of those K-Maker Picks would have been bigger hits if the layout in that section was not so awful. I can't tell who sings what or if I'm reading an artist's name or a song title ("Jack Frost"? "Black Bart"?). Like the person who wrote the article, the only song I'm familiar with in that block is Donovan's "Colours."

Jeff Meyerson said...

But where's Lenny Welch?

Deb, I think "Jack Frost" and "Black Bart" were the DJs.

NYC top 10 of 7/21/65:


1 1 (I Can’t Get No) SATISFACTION - The Rolling Stones
2 4 I’M A HAPPY MAN - The Jive Five
3 3 CARA, MIA - Jay & The Americans
4 2 I CAN’T HELP MYSELF - The Four Tops
5 5 WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT? - Tom Jones
6 6 I’M HENRY VIII, I AM - Herman’s Hermits
7 15 SAVE YOUR HEART FOR ME - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
8 10 SEVENTH SON - Johnny Rivers
9 14 THEME FROM “A SUMMER PLACE” - The Lettermen
10 7 YES, I’M READY - Barbara Mason

Jackie DeShannon, What the World Needs Now is Love went from 28 to 16. I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher took the big jump from 45 to 18. (Hint: it will be #1 very shortly.) Papa's Got a Brand New Bag by James Brown went from 50 to 20. It's the Same Old Song, The Four Tops, went from nowhere to 21.

Jeff

Unknown said...

There was great music in the Olden Days.

Don Coffin said...

"You Were On My Mind" was written by Sylvia Fricker and first recorded by Ian (Tyson) & Sylvia in 1964. (No, I didn't remember this, but I did google it.) Ian & Sylvia was one of my favorite groups, and both of them had worthwhile solo careers. Her 1989 album (1994 on CD) "You Were On My Mind" is amazing (I have it somewhere, but can't find it). Her 2001 CD, "The Very Best of Sylvia Tyson" is also well worth having. An amazing singer.

Ian Tyson's solo career was mostly in country [try his two "greatest hits" CDs, "All the Good 'uns" (1996) and "All the Good 'uns, Vol. 2" (2013)].

Deb said...

Not, I assume, to be confused with the Sylvia of Mickey & Sylvia ("Love Is Strange") and later a solo act as just Sylvia ("Pillow Talk")?

/Sylvia Tyson is my boss's maiden name! No relation, I'm sure, but I'm sending her a screenshot of that record!

Unknown said...

I have a double LP of Ian & Sylvia's recordings. Great stuff, all right.

As for Mickey & Sylvia, I don't know what happened to Mickey, but Sylvia went on to even greater fortune as a recording company executive.

Deb said...

Yes! I remember (sadly) reading her obit a few years ago and it lead with her importance in the development of rap/hip-hop as an executive at one of the key record companies. Her career as a singer (which was the only way I knew her) was shunted off with a couple of sentences in the second paragraph.

Jeff Meyerson said...

Mickey [Baker] was a music instructor and Sylvia one of his pupils. Baker was inspired to form the group by the success of Les Paul & Mary Ford. They had a Top 20 hit with "Love Is Strange" in 1956, which sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.[3] The duo eventually bought their own nightclub, established a publishing company, and formed their own record label. Although Mickey & Sylvia disbanded by the end of the 1950s, they continued to record together on an infrequent basis until 1965, when Mickey quit the music industry in the United States.

He died in France, where he had moved in the 1960's, in 2012 at age 87.

Jeff

Unknown said...

He was a great guitar player.