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hey hey!!! welcome to the blog!! this is dedicated mostly to music from the 60s and 70s!! if I remember, I'll have a song of the day most days!! and at least once a month, I'll do a deep dive on a band or artist from the time period!! and I'll leave my playlist below!! peace n love guys!!!✌️🪴🌱🌈🧿
Deep dives will also be linked here!!
I feel like somethin I dont see explored too often with the time The Outsiders is set in is how insane the music scene was at the time. ok like let's look at the billboard top 100 singles for both 1967 n 1969 (the billboard top btw was The Rankin for the time) (also I'm about to be a Huge Fuckin Nerd about this so. fair warnin.)
the song of the day is Movin' out by Billy Joel!! written as a critique of workin' class workers strivin' solely for the outward signs of success to distance themselves from their roots. Billy Joel once said of Anthony that he wasn't speakin' of a single person but rather "every Irish, Polish, and Italian kid tryin to make it in the U.S.". Originally written n released in the Autumn of 1977 n then pulled when Joel's other single started to climb the charts. It was then re-released in March of 1978!!
the early Beatles stuff is all “come home to me little girl you’re the one for me and I can’t imagine a life without you little girl we could be as happy as can be girl” and then somewhere around rubber soul they decided to make a new genre where they go “look at this weird little man. look at him. look at how quaint and odd he is. he is the mustard and marmalade man he lives in a shoe and eats apricot jam tiddly dee tiddly dum tiddly doo.” and they said “this is very good we will put at least one of these on each of our successive albums.”
The Kinks
it took me two days to crop every single shot from this post (x) and since they’re in random order i then arranged all 123 shots in a moving sequence so please don’t steal them, enjoy!
February 21st, 1958: The logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, broadly called the 'peace symbol', is designed by Gerald Holtom.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament badge (1960s)
song of the day!!
Mostly recorded in August of 1974 and debuted on Bowie's "Soul Tour" the following month!! The song features contributes from the then unknown singer Luther Vandross!! The song reached number 18 on the UK singles charts but was a breakthrough for Bowie in America, becoming his second highest charting single for him at the time at 28 on the Billboards Hot 100!!
song of the day!!
Written by American songwriter Chip Taylor and popularized by The Troggs! It was originally recorded and released by the band (appropriately named) The Wild Ones in 1965 but failed to chart at all. However, when rerecorded and released by The Troggs in 1966, hit number 2 on the UK singles charts and 257 on The Rolling Stone's 2004 "500 Greatest Hits of All Time"!!
song of the day!!
Composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka with lyrics written by Phil Cody and featuring a 20 second solo with Jim Horn on sax!!! After hearing a cover of the song on the radio before the singles release Niel rushed the label and they released it in 5 days in 1974!!! It was a Billboard number 1, Niel's first since 1962!!
