Favorite OLDIES

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:48am

Oldies on the radio:

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Windy - The Association
Lazy Day - Spanky and Our Gang

[mominator]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:02am

The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Locomotion - Grandfunk Railroad

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:18am

I'm looking for "Georgy Girl" at the iTunes Store but can't find the original artist recording. Who was/were the original artist(s)?

I can tell that I will soon need a 12 step program to keep me from shopping at the iTunes Store.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:25am

I heard Up On The Roof recently and I had forgotten how much I love that song.

[musicalmjk]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:30am

classical gas, and the side two the B side what ever you want to call it of Abbey Road.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:32am

Smoke From a Distant Fire - Sanford-Townsend Band

[kjklo]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:44am

Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly and the Family Stone
California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas
Jimmy Mack - Martha and the Vandellas
Stoned Soul Picnic - The Fifth Dimension
You Send Me - Aretha Franklin (prefer her cover to the original)

[Therese]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 12:31pm

Glebb, the original recording of "Georgy Girl" was by a group called The Seekers.

I listen to the local Oldies station at work all day. For faves, I'm going to pick:

"There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" by Herman's Hermits
"Dedicated to the One I Love" by The Mamas and The Papas
and
"Hey, Jude," my all-time favorite Beatles song (gotta sing along!)

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:28pm

Wow, soo many! My mom had me listening to all of these when I was little...let's see how brief I could keep it:

Mama's & Papa's-California Dreaming, No One's Gettin Fat Except Mama Cass, Twelve Thirty, I Call Your Name, For the Love of Ivy

Beach Boys-Wouldn't It Be Nice, I Get Around, Good Vibrations, Surfing USA, Fun, Fun, Fun

Simon & Garfunkel-Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cecilia, Sound of Silence

Beatles-Hey Jude, Yesterday, Octupus' Garden

Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody

Fifth Dimension-Aquarius, Wedding Bell Blues

The Turtles-Happy Together

Random songs I don't remember artists: Lightning Striking, I Will Follow Him, Downtown(Petula Clark), Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes(Edison Lighthouse)

[Forester]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:30pm

I've been listening to a lot of Edith Piaff's music lately.

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:35pm

Wow, too many. I'll keep it to 5.

Come Saturday Morning - The Sandpipers
Nathan Jones - The Supremes
September - Earth Wind and Fire
Turn Down Day - The Cyrkle
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family

[Elphaba]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:10pm

Cherish, The Association
I Got You Babe, Sonny and Cher
We've Only Just Begun, Carpenters
A Hard days night, The Beatles
Lodi, Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Need You, America
Nothing but Heartaches, the Supremes
You're So Vain, Carly Simon (is that considered old?)
Que Sera Sera, Doris Day
You Can't Always Get What You Want, the Rolling Stones

[kjklo]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:41pm

Elphaba, I like your juxtaposition of Que Sera Sera and You Can't Always Get What You Want. Pop music teaching us the virtues of stoicism.

[LorelaiGilmore]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 6:53pm

i'm not sure if this would be considered old or not, but i love do you believe in magic, one of my favorite songs

[kjklo]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 7:01pm

The Lovin' Spoonful. Yep, I think 40 years counts as old.

[liotte]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 7:35pm

I love oldies music.

Hard to pick favs, but some are:

Summer Song (Chad and Jeremy)
Ferry Cross the Mercy (Gerry and the pacemakers or something like that)
Love Grows Where my rosemary goes

I can't even think of more right now but when they come on the radio, I sing along!

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 9:38pm

Kj, lovin spoonful sing Darling Be Home Soon right?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 9:57pm

Rath

[kjklo]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:16pm

Yeah, it was on the soundtrack of You're a Big Boy Now. Remember them in the musical interludes of Woody Allen's What's Up Tiger Lily?

[Kringas]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:21pm

Diana Ross and The Supremes - "Love Child," "Baby Love," "I'm Living in Shame"

The Mamas and the Papas - "Creeque Alley," "Safe in My Garden," "My Heart Stood Still," "I Saw Her Again," "Rooms" and their version of "My Girl" is exquisite

Gladys Knight and the Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"

Barry Manilow - "Copacabana," "I Write the Songs," "Mandy"

Edited- I can't believe I forgot Don McLean's "American Pie"

Updated On: 9/11/05 at 10:21 PM

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:40pm

Ooh Copacabana, good call.

KJ, no, see know how I mentioned my mom had us listening to all these oldies tapes when we were younger? Well aside from Mamas and Papas, Beach Boys, Beatles and simon and Garfunkel, they were all mixes, a lot of them WCBS tapes I think. "Darlin Be Home Soon" was on one of those, that's why I mentioned it, think it's the only one. Good tape had Happy Together, Wedding Bell Blues, Dedicated To the One I love on there among others.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:42pm

Eric Clapton's "I Shot the Sheriff"
Updated On: 9/11/05 at 10:42 PM

[Kringas]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:45pm

I meant to list "Dedicated" on my list as well. Frankly, with the exception of about four songs, I love everything The Mamas and The Papas ever recorded.

[kjklo]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:46pm

Wow, your mom had great taste!

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:04pm

Yup to both of you. We debate this sometimes but honestly out of all of them Mamas and the Papas are my fav. I think they had the most singing talent of them all and I can just listen to so many of their songs. They're the only ones who's songs sound different, I always say the Beatles' songs all sound exactly alike, that's why I never love loved them.

Out of curiosity Kringas, what's the 4 you don't like? The only one I used to skip on my tape was Twist and Shout, put me to sleep.