Unusually for the time (or now, for that matter), this one had an explicitly anti-drug theme.

Before "Electric Avenue," there was this.

A few more from my youthful pre-teen days in the '60s...



Mom got us a box of cereal one shopping trip with a free record on the box by this group, sometime in '66 or so.



September, 1975 and this oldie from Jan and Dean in '64 came to mind thanks to a new girl that I sat behind in two classes..



I don't think this lady gets much airplay now, but she had a great voice and stage presence; from 1960.

Now I remember...the free record on back of the cereal box was this tune:



And one from my favorite Mouseketeer featured in her first beach movie.



ETA; nope the Gary Lewis and The Playboys record wasn't "Green Grass" but some folks still have their box of cereal from '65 with the offer.

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And now, a video with some brief clips from the highest viewer rated episode of "Batman!", the TV series. Sorry, but Julie Newmar as Catwoman doesn't make a cameo.



The Sir Douglas Quintet was posted earlier, but not this one (IIRC).

Whoever compiled this is ignorant. Melanie and Bobby Vinton had considerably more than a single hit. Have they never heard "Brand New Key?"

Had the car radio XM on '70s on 7 with the old Kasey Kasem American Top 40 program from this week in '79 going this morning. Not a song, but an instrumental that got quite a bit of airplay on AFRTS then.



Somehow this video showed up recommended from YT after watching something on Custer's Last Stand. Can't recall if it's been posted earlier. A little psychedelic in the warm-up.

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Funny. I was sitting out on the deck enjoying a cigar last night listening to the Moody Blues greatest hits and thought about posting that same song.

Great band and great music.

My favorite band from The British Invasion!

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^^^

Piling on. Been wanting to learn this one.



There's a pretty good new film out on Dylan. A Complete Unknown.. An interesting side note on Dylan that I learned from this film is that he revered Woody Guthrie. So, I did a little reading on Guthrie and as it turns out, he had a particular hatred of none other than Fred Trump. He even wrote a song about him.

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Following movie protocol, “drug content.”

I always thought Mick Taylor played slide guitar on this track; I was always wrong, it’s Ry Cooder. The song was written by Marianne Faithful, Jagger and Richards. When Charlie Watts comes in with that drum riff at about 2:35, leading into a tempo change, it always sets me back in my chair.