Favorite song of the 50's and 60's ?

66ford · Post by **66ford** » May 25, 2011, 9:15 pm

Just thought it'd be cool to find out what song's you guys were into.
My first favorite is "Teenager in love" By Dion & the belmont's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYdcwun ... 6Y&index=4

But one of my ALL-TIME favorite songs is "Last kiss" By j Frank and the Cavaliers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4se9YMV3A

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » May 25, 2011, 9:42 pm

it has it all. good vocals and killer guitar all with a little good humor mixed in for good measure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0NVxohHfRU

LM14 · Post by **LM14** » May 25, 2011, 9:54 pm

I'll take it another direction! Crank it up to get the full effect. Leslie West abused a guitar better than almost anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR0SMNeik7w&feature=fvst

SPark

beagle · Post by **beagle** » May 25, 2011, 10:30 pm

Man, there are ALOT of them- but the minute I first heard the opening notes on this song, I liked it right away- never grows old no matter how many times I listen. Fun to play on the guitar, and not a bad movie either. I just don't listen to it when I drive...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwUpxkfSJw

Rich
64 F 100 with an almost done 302...

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » May 26, 2011, 8:04 am

I'm stuck in the 50's and 60's, but if I had to pick an all time favorite it would be a tie between
LaVern Baker in 1955
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDCp7OcSMQ
and Tina Turner 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOz_k9zvzo
I just can't hep it.
U@ss

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » May 26, 2011, 9:16 am

Wow Skip that Tina turner vid reminded me how much I miss the bra-less era

I have had a theme song my whole life.
Originally written by some dude from St Louis, my favourite version is by a little known English band...
Status Quo and Bye Bye Johnny http://youtu.be/8FUY0evDf3M

and the band who didn't even know me, when they wrote the description of my life http://youtu.be/yRv34Cat3Vw

Max · Post by **Max** » May 26, 2011, 9:21 am

beagle wrote:Man, there are ALOT of them- but the minute I first heard the opening notes on this song, I liked it right away- never grows old no matter how many times I listen. Fun to play on the guitar, and not a bad movie either. I just don't listen to it when I drive...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwUpxkfSJw

This was great!

Max · Post by **Max** » May 26, 2011, 9:24 am

There were so many, especially the popular ones of the 50s and 60s to just name a favorite of mine.

I've always liked this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3i_t094xqo

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » May 26, 2011, 9:30 am

Beagle. Got to be one of the greatest of all time. But there is something that has buged me since the first time I ever saw the movie.
And I've seen that movie at least a brazillion times...

"On the first of April, 1954, the federal agents said......"
Dude is driving a '57 Fairlane when he goes south. I know its minor, but it still bugs me.

U@ss

deadheadno1 · Post by **deadheadno1** » May 26, 2011, 9:35 am

Where do you start let alone stop, Chuck berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Roy Orbison, Fats Domino, Rick Nelson just to name a few, and of course ANYTHING done by Buddy Holly. I will say that the likes of Elvis or the Pat Boone types are not on my list. If one song has to say it all give me " Hot Rod Lincloln ". Tom

azjake · Post by **azjake** » May 26, 2011, 11:29 am

I loved this song when I was 11 years old in '62, played it to the love of my life 10 years later in '72 and still think it is great now, after 37 years of marriage.

Yea, I am a romantic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZChPBo-ENAY

Jake

tomquist · Post by **tomquist** » May 26, 2011, 12:12 pm

This is one of my all time favs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmW2ek7WkQ

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » May 26, 2011, 1:15 pm

Oh yeah.
I love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDbON8udTPo

Post by **Casey 65** » May 26, 2011, 3:36 pm

These are pretty cool...

1. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
2. Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
3. No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
4. I Get Around - Beach Boys
5. Low Rider - War
6. Radar Love - Golden Earring
7. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
8. You Shook Me All Night Long- AC/DC
9. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
10. I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
11. Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
12. Drive My Car - the Beatles
13. Rock & Roll - Led Zeppelin
14. Route 66 - Nat King Cole
15. Green Onions - Booker T & the MG's
16. Peter Gunn Theme - Duane Eddy or Ray Anthony
17. Groovin - Young Rascals
18. Jenny Take A Ride! - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
19. Ramblin' Man - Allman Brothers Band
20. 409 - Beach Boys
21. Move It On Over - George Thorogood
22. Aint Going Down Till the Sun Comes Up - Garth Brooks
23. Who's Makin Love - Johnnie Taylor
24. Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
25. Drive - the Cars

26. Get the Party Started - Pink
27. Wild One - Bobby Rydell
28. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
29. Woo-Hoo - Rock-A-Teens
30. Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
31. Stepping Out - Joe Jackson
32. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osborne
33. Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group
34. Ready To Go - Republica
35. Let It Ride - Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO)
36. Cars - Gary Numan
37. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
38. Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealer's Wheel
39. Take it Easy - The Eagles
40. Turn the Page - Bob Seger
41. Wild Thing - Troggs
42. Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels Band
43. Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
44. Running with the Devil - Van Halen
45. Wild Thing - Tone Loc
46. Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
47. Little Red Corvette - Prince
48. I Was Made for Loving You - Kiss
49. Truckin' - Grateful Dead
50. Convoy - C.W. MCall

LM14 · Post by **LM14** » May 26, 2011, 4:58 pm

Casey!

I just didn't picture you a bif fan of some of those groups. Ton Loc and Prince?

As a side note, song #50. I went to high school with a kid that loved that song and sang it all the time when it came out. Asked him why one night and got it explained to me. At one point in the song the "break for the Sodbuster at mile marker 54". The Sodbuster is his dad and his dad went to school with CW McCall and got the mention in the recording. Asked his dad about it a few days later and his dad pulled out a whole box of autographed "Convoy" records and gave me one. He was pretty proud.

Great mix of songs guys. Who is leading the sing-along at Slick Stock of each of these?

SPark

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » May 26, 2011, 6:54 pm

Casey got way to much time on his hands..... ROTF

betfm · Post by **betfm** » May 26, 2011, 7:04 pm

50's and 60's music is my favorite since I grew up in this era.
This is one of my favorites from 1960 when I worked in New Mexico and driving the hilly highways from Santa Fe.
I had a 60 Bonneville convertible and just loved flying down the highways listening to this song--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3usXFCh56iA

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » May 26, 2011, 7:25 pm

Damn guys.
We're really digging deep.
I always liked Ferlin Huskey.
But REAL Rock and Roll is where my soul really is, and that died in the 70's with the advent of disco. I pity the fools that listen to the crap on the radio now.

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » May 26, 2011, 9:22 pm

skip, there is lots of good music now a days, you just have to know where to look... and no, it's not on commercial radio. lol

beagle · Post by **beagle** » May 26, 2011, 9:23 pm

I always liked this 60's one by The Sir Douglas Quintet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XboE3_7K ... re=related

a lot of people (including my older sisters) thought they were from England

In the early and mid 80's I really got interested in the TexMex rock and roll that was coming out of Texas-- Doug Sahm & Texas Tornadoes, Fab T-Birds, the Wagoneers, Joe "King" Carrasco and my favorites the Leroi Bros.
Did any of you Texans get to see any of those bands back then? I used to catch them on Austin City Limits.

Leroi Bros. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-dstf01mwM

and yeah, Skip, agree with you about "Thunder Road"...when the years and models of cars don't match the year a movie is supposed to be set in it drives me nuts...

Rich

I think I got too much time on my hands too...