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Thread #54196   Message #840035
Posted By: Bobert
03-Dec-02 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: Two Top Tens
Subject: RE: Two Top Tens
Okay, thanks Jerry. Don't mind if I do.

Yeah, as musicans most of us Catfolk had to get thru the 60's startin' with Mo Town and endin' up where ever?....

To me this was my second round of education and here's my 60's'ish Top Ten:

"Baby, I need your Lovin" by the Four Tops. Heard them at the Atlantic City Concert Hall in '65 (with the Supremes) and, well.... Whew! Blown away!

Then, bam, it was Beatles and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" but I always liked "I feel Fine" or "Paper Back Rider". (i'll count that as 2...)

Next thing ya' know there were the Byrds playin' "Turn, turn turn"...

Then things got real interestin' as music just *took off*!

"Crossroads" (written by Robert Johnson) debuted with Cream and....

"As Safe as Yesterday" by Peter Frampton's Humble Pie, and...

"All Along the Watchtower" (written by Bob Dylan) by Jimi Hendrix.

Oh, things were gettin interestin'!

Spooky Tooth takes a crack at the Beatle's "I Am the Walrus" and puts it into the cheap seats!!! Best single song of the 60's!!!!!

Jethro Tull hits the ground runnin' with their "Stand Up" LP which is the best LP of the 60's with "Fat Man" and the great, great "New Day Yesterday". WOW!

Then just when ya think things were coolin' off, a college band from New Engalnd comes along by the name of McKendree Springs and takes Neil Young's song "Down by the River" and KIlls the danged song so bad that no one will ever try to cover that song again. I mean, that electric violin just took rock 'n roll to a new place....

Well, this wraps up Bobert's second *phase8 and I'll go ahead and post it now and go on to *new business*...

Bobert