1964 was another “Big Bang” year for music in the 20th century. In one fell swoop the British Invasion seemed to wipe away nearly everything that came before it and set the path for all sixties music that came after. The truth is much murkier than that as plenty of great pre-Beatles music did survive and Motown and Girl Groups as well as to a slightly lesser extent surf music played key roles in the musical landscape of 1964 as well. That said British beat groups did descend on America like nothing since the original rock n’ rollers almost ten years before and like probably nothing since. Though the Beatles were already huge in their native England in 1963, having already released their first two albums, they were nowhere in America until the beginning of 1964. The very popular president, especially among young people, John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated in December of 1963. The assassination marked the end of a somewhat idyllic era (at least for middle class and above white males) and signaled the beginning of darker, more tumultuous times ahead. The Beatles performances on the Ed Sullivan show made them stars in America overnight and record companies scrambled to break as many British groups in America as quickly as possible to capitalize on the new sound. In those days rock n’ roll music was considered trendy and faddish- artists didn’t think about making careers in music, but catching lightning in a bottle. As a result the most successful artists worked at a furious pace churning out song after song. The Beatles for example released two full albums in 1964 (A Hard Day’s Night & Beatles For Sale) as well as a handful of non-album singles. In America, their two 1963 albums were also released as well as additional compilations so satiate the marked. Most teenagers couldn’t get enough and they became the biggest band in the world.

Some other great bands followed the Beatles success. The tougher, more outlandish Rolling Stones were the second most successful and became both their friends and archrivals, particularly in the press. The Stones also released a pair of albums, “England’s Newest Hitmakers” and “12 X 5”- the first was made up of pure covers but did contain their first big hit “It’s All Over Now”. “12 X 5” included their first self-written hit single with “Tell Me”. The ultra Bluesy Animals busted out with a huge #1 single “House of the Rising Sun”, which remains a rock standard to this day. The Kinks burst onto the scene with two great proto-punk singles “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night” which anticipated the garage rock movement as well as both punk & Heavy Metal. Less successful (at least in America) but huge in the U.K. were the electric blues group the Yardbirds which featured a young Eric Clapton on lead guitar. Their 1964 album “Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds” is considered one of the classic live albums of all time. In addition to the above legendary bands were a slew of other Brit Invasion groups who had hits (often more than one) in ’64 as well. Some were heavy on pretty ballads like Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Searchers, Chad & Jeremy, the Merseybeats & Peter & Gordon, sharing mucyh in common with the lighter side of the Beatles. One of the biggest was the Dave Clark Five who were both incredibly clean cut and fairly raucous. Bands like the Pretty Things & the Swingin’ Blue Jeans along with one hit wonders like the Honeycomb & the Roulettes rocked hard and had more in common with the blues-based groups like the Stones and the Kinks. Another fantastic, if underrated band the Zombies released their first big single in ’64 as well with “She’s Not There”. All said an incredible amount of new bands and great singles came about in ’64 and despite the hyperbole that the invasion cleared away everything in its path, it truly felt like a new era.

The huge fame and success of the Beatles, Stones etc… encouraged thousands of kids to start bands to play music, get rich and get laid like their idols. The vast majority of those bands never had sustained careers. Some were indeed terrible, some were great but fizzled out after a few years and many others managed a hit song or two before returning to obscurity. Many of these bands tried to directly emulate their British heroes. Some did that so well it was tough to tell them apart from the original. The whole phenomenon is commonly known now as “garage rock” as many of these bands started in their parents’ garages. Most of the best of the music happened between ’65-’67, but ’64 saw some great tracks by early adopters like the Sonics, the Primitives, the Gestures, the Mojos and the Beau Brummels. The Sonics were the only one of those bands with more than a couple of great songs and none of the groups, including the Sonics had a major career. But their limited success did help kick start the movement, which would help to define the middle of the decade’s psychedelic era.

By ’64 beach and surf music had already been around several years and especially in 1963 was known as the hottest sound in America before being quickly eclipsed by the Beatles and their like. The best and most popular group was the Beach Boys who had their first hit in 1962 with “Surfin’ Safari”. In 1964 they continued on their incredible streak with #1 hits like “I Get Around” and “Fun, Fun, Fun” as well as the “Warmth of the Sun” album, which though laden with filler, saw them moving in a more musically sophisticated direction setting the stage for the greater heights achieved with future albums like “Today!” and especially “Pet Sounds”, The Beach Boys closest competition were Jan & Dean, a pop duo who also wrote their own music. 1964 was a huge year for them as well with the release of tracks like “Dead Man’s Curve” & “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena”. One hit wonders like The Rivieras (California Sun) and Ronny & the Daytonas (GTO) also had hits mining similar territory- the car and beach culture of southern California. Other groups like Dick Dale, who really created the whole surf sound, the Surfaris & the Pyramids stayed truer to actual surf music- the majority of their songs were instrumental, with choppy guitars, wet bass lines and frenetic drumming. ’63 and ’64 was really the first time southern California became a dominant rock n’ roll scene. With a few dips depending on the genre it has remained a musical focal point ever since.

Though much of the old rock n’ roll guard had evaporated by 1964 some still hung in there. Chuck Berry released his comeback album “St. Louis to Liverpool” after getting out of jail and it was as good as much of his previous material and contained four hits including one of his signature songs “No Particular Place to Go”. Little Richard also came back from life in the church with a few comeback hits. Elvis Presley was still enjoying hits but his career became increasingly focused on movie making and both his movies and most of his music in the mid 60’s were incredibly cheesy. He did release the pretty great “Viva Las Vegas” track, which would be his last really good song for several years at least. Jerry Lee Lewis’s career took a nosedive after it was found out that he was married to his 13 year-old cousin. He began reinventing himself as a country star in the sixties but also released the unbelievably great live rock n’ roll album, “Live At the Star Club, Hamburg”. He was clearly still very appreciated in Europe even if many Americans wanted nothing to do with him anymore. Three of the most successful American make rock n’ roll crooners of the early 60’s maintained their success into ’64 as well- Del Shannon, Gene Pitney and especially Roy Orbison, who actually headlined the Beatles first American tour, at least until the Beatles became too popular to keep opening for him.

Another one of the most popular music genres of the early 60’s was morphing into something else entirely. Folk music was hugely popular, particularly amongst the college-educated set. In the 50’s and early 60’s many felt rock n’ roll was for teenagers only, so they moved onto deeper, more meaningful music upon entering college or early adult hood. I’m no expert on folk music, and there certainly are exceptions, but to my ears much of the music wasn’t all that memorable until Bob Dylan burst onto the scene. His 1962 debut was little noticed, but he had a big hit with the 1963 album “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” and 1964 brought two more albums- “The Times They Are A-Changing” & “Another Side of Bob Dylan”, both of them laden with brilliant protest anthems as well as several love songs. Dylan wrote all of his own material and was a much more sophisticated writer than most of his folk forebears. Along with the Beatles and the Stones, he would become arguably the most important artist of the decade.

Both Blues and Country were thriving in ’64 as well. Perhaps the most renowned of all then-modern Blues artists, Muddy Waters released his “Folk Music” album, which proved extremely influential on the British blues-loving set. Artists like B.B. King & Bobby “Blue” Bland continued to wrack up multiple hits on the R&B charts. In the country world artists who emerged in the mid 50’s like Johnny Cash & George Jones enjoyed continued chart success, while future “Hee Haw” host Buck Owens was smack dab in the middle of his most fertile period. Another future country legend Merle Haggard got his start in ’64 with “Sing A Sad Song” and arguably the best female country artist of the 60’s Loretta Lynn had a huge hit with “Mr. & Mrs. Used To Be”. Some great jazz records were released in 1964 as well including the great John Coltrane’s extremely underrated “Coltrane’s Sound” as well as perhaps his definitive live recording “Live at Birdland”. Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto redefined the brilliant Bossanova sound with their album “Gets/Gilberto” which included Bossanova’s definitive tune “The Girl From Ipanema”. Herbie Hancock & Lee Morgan released two of the great hard bop albums with “Empyrean Isles” and “The Sidewinder” respectively. Frank Sinatra enjoyed huge smashes with tracks like “Fly Me To the Moon”, “The Best Is Yet to Come” & “The Way You Look Tonight”, all among his very most popular songs. The versatile Nina Simone released key tracks like live recording “Mississippi Goddam” & “Don’t Let Me By Misunderstood”, covered by the Animals a year later.

The Motown label, already prolific in the early 60’s, was beginning to dominate the marketplace. It’s biggest groups the Supremes, the Temptations & Four Tops were some of the only groups to even come close to rivaling the popularity of the Beatles. The vast majority of the labels hits were then either written by the amazing songwriting team of Holland/Dozier/Holland or by Producer/Singer/Songwriter Smokey Robinson (also sometimes regarded as Motown president Berry Gordy’s number two). The label had huge hits in 1964 with the three above groups as well as Smokey Robinson’s Miracles, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Mary Wells, the Marvelettes and more. “Come See About Me”, “Where Did Our Love Go”, “Baby I Need Your Loving”, “My Guy”, “Dancing In the Street” & “The Way You Do the Things You Do”, all some of the biggest hits in the history of the label and now standards came out that year, among many other brilliant lesser hits. Another one of the labels biggest stars, Marvin Gaye, enjoyed a bevy of hits in ’64 as well, including one of his first of many duets “What A Matter With You Baby” with Mary Wells.

Martha & the Vandellas, the Supremes & the Marvelettes were three of the many successful girl groups in 1964. Despite the ascendency of the British Invasion groups, the girl group sound was still more popular than ever. The vast majority of the groups did not write or play on their own records (this is also true of the many male groups popular at the time as well). Many of their songs were written by the best crack teams of writers in L.A. and New York City’s Brill Building, including familiar names like Carole King & Gerry Goffin, Neil Diamond, Mike Leiber & Gerry Stoller, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil & Burt Bacharach & Hal David. Bacharach as well as other super producers like Shadow Morton & especially Phil Spector used these songs and vocal groups as tools to create their own pop symphonies. Amazing session musicians were employed to play on the records and though the subject of the songs nearly always dealt with teenage concerns, the arrangements were anything but simplistic. Some of the more popular female vocal groups and solo stars at the time were the Shangri-La’s, the Ronettes, Lesley Gore, Dionne Warwick, Jackie DeShannon, Sandi Shaw & Dusty Springfield. Two of the most popular male vocal groups, The Four Seasons & the Righteous Brothers also enjoyed tremendous success in ’64, though the lead singer of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli co-wrote many of their songs along with co-member Bob Gaudio and producer Bob Crewe.

Another male vocal group who wrote their own songs were the Impressions out of Chicago. Their most prominent member, Curtis Mayfield would go on to have a huge solo career in the early 70’s. 1964 was one of their biggest years. Tracks like “You Must Believe Me”, “Keep On Pushing”, “I’m So Proud” and “Amen” became Civil Rights anthems and inspired much hope during such turbulent and changing times. The incomparable Sam Cooke released “That’s Where It’s At” album, which would be the last album release before his murder on December 11th of that year. A song from the album “A Change Is Gonna Come” (a hit in 1965 and included on my best of 1965 mixes) became one of THE anthems of the entire civil rights movement and Sam Cooke’s signature song. Atlantic Records recording artist Otis Redding cut and released some great music in ’64 including “Security”, “Chained and Bound” & “That’s How Strong My Love Is”. James Brown practically invented Funk in ’64 with “Out Of Sight”. Other soul artists like Irma Thomas, Solomon Burke, Jerry Butler & Joe Tex also enjoyed major successes. Soul music was in the beginning of its heyday and would continue to rise throughout the rest of the decade.

 

 

 

 

THE BEATLES- HARD DAY’S NIGHT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE ROLLING STONES- ENGLAND’S NEWEST HITMAKERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JOHN COLTRANE- COLTRANE’S SOUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JERRY LEE LEWIS- LIVE AT THE STAR CLUB, HAMBURG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BOB DYLAN- THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE ROLLING STONES- 12 X 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LEE MORGAN- THE SIDEWINDER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JOHN COLTRANE- LIVE AT BIRDLAND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BOB DYLAN- ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE BEATLES- BEATLES FOR SALE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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STAN GETZ/JOAO GILBERTO- GETZ/GILBERTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Best of 1964 Volume 1 (9/9/02)

1. The Animals- House Of the Rising Sun

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2. The Kinks- All Day and All Of the Night

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3. Chuck Berry- No Particular Place To Go

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4. The Beach Boys- Don’t Worry Baby

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5. The Drifters- Under the Boardwalk

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6. The Four Tops- Baby I Need Your Loving

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7. Solomon Burke- Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

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8. Betty Everett- (Shoop Shoop) It’s In His Kiss

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9. The Righteous Brothers- You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling

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10. The Supremes- Where Did Our Love Go?

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11. Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells- What’s A Matter With You Baby

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12. The Beatles- No Reply

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13. The Rolling Stones- It’s All Over Now

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14. Jan & Dean- Dead Man’s Curve

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15. The Shangri-La’s- Leader of the Pack

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16. Lesley Gore- You Don’t Own Me

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17. Lenny O’Henry- Across the Street

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18. Roy Orbison- Oh Pretty Woman

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19. The Four Seasons- Rag Doll

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20. Jay & the Americans- Come a Little Bit Closer

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21. The Searchers- Needles and Pins

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22. Dionne Warwick- Walk On By

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23. Gene Pitney- It Hurts To Be In Love

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24. The Ronettes- Walking In the Rain

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25. Sam Cooke- Good Times

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26. The Impressions- Keep On Pushing

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27. Bob Dylan- My Back Pages

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Best of 1964 Volume 2 (9/10/02)

1.  The Kinks- You Really Got Me

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2.  Manfred Mann- Do Wah Diddy

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3.  The Rivieras- California Sun

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4.  Martha & the Vandellas- Dancing In the Street

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5.  The Temptations- The Way You Do the Things You Do

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6.  Mary Wells- My Guy

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7.  Dusty Springfield- Wishin’ & Hopin’

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8.  Frank Sinatra- The Best Is Yet to Come

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9.  Petula Clark- Downtown

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10.  Del Shannon- Keep Searchin’ (I’ll Follow the Sun)

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11.  The Beatles- A Hard Day’s Night

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12.  James Brown- Out Of Sight

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13.  Chuck Berry- You Never Can Tell

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14.  Sam Cooke- That’s Where It’s At

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15.  Otis Redding- Mr. Pitiful

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16.  Brenda Holloway- Every Little Bit Hurts

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17.  Irma Thomas- Wish Someone Would Care

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18.  Eddie Holland- Leavin’ Here

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19.  The Four Seasons- Dawn (Go Away)

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20.  Joe Tex- Hold What You’ve Got

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21.  Little Anthony & the Imperials- Goin’ Out Of My Head

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22.  Bob Dylan- All I Really Want To Do

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23.  The Rolling Stones- Time Is On My Side

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24.  The Ronettes- Do I Love You?

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25.  The Dixie Cups- Chapel Of Love

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26.  The Shangri-La’s- Give Him a Great Big Kiss

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27.  The Supremes- Come See About Me

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28.  The Beach Boys- All Summer Long

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29.  Roy Orbison- It’s Over

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Best of 1964 Volume 3 (1/14/04)

1.  The Beach Boys- I Get Around

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2.  The Rolling Stones- Route 66

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3.  Chuck Berry- The Promised Land

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4.  Herbie Hancock- Cantaloupe Island

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5.  Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto- The Girl From Ipanema

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6.  The Zombies- She’s Not There

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7.  The Animals- I’m Crying

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8.  The Kinks- Stop Your Sobbing

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9.  The Marvelettes- Too Many Fish in the Sea

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10.  The Shangri-La’s- Remember (Walking In the Sand)

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11.  Dusty Springfield- I Only Want to be With You

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12.  Otis Redding- Security

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13.  Muddy Waters- You Can’t Lose (What You Ain’t Never Had)

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14.  B.B. King- How Blue Can You Get

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15.  Merle Haggard- Sing a Sad Song

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16.  Loretta Lynn- Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be

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17.  Dionne Warwick- You’ll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

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18.  The Impressions- Amen

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19.  Sam Cooke- Rome (Wasn’t Built In a Day)

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20.  Gene Pitney- That Girl Belongs to Yesterday

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21.  Bob Dylan- It Ain’t Me Babe

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22.  Jerry Butler- I Stand Accused

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23.  The Sonics- The Witch

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24.  The Gestures- Run, Run, Run

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25.  The Beatles- Eight Days a Week

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26.  The Supremes- Baby Love

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27.  The Ronettes- (The Best Part Of) Breakin’ Up

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Best of 1964 Volume 4 (1/17/04)

1.  Professor Longhair- Big Chief (Part 2)

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2.  Little Richard- Bama Lama, Bama Lu

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3.  Chuck Berry- Nadine

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4.  The Yardbirds- A Certain Girl

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5.  The Rolling Stones- Tell Me

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6.  The Beatles- What You’re Doing

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7.  The Searchers- Don’t Throw Your Love Away

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8.  The Kinks- You Still Want Me

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9.  Marvin Gaye- Try It Baby

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10.  Smokey Robinson & the Miracles- I Like it Like That

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11.  Martha & the Vandellas- Live Wire

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12.  Otis Redding- Chained and Bound

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13.  Gloria Jones- Tainted Love

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15.  Jerry Butler (with Betty Everett)- Let It Be Me Buy Let It Be Me – Sweet & Soulful 60’s
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16.  The Dixie Cups- People Say

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17.  King Curtis- Soul Serenade

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18.  Sam Cooke- Ain’t That Good News

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19.  The Beau Brummels- Laugh Laugh

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20.  Manfred Mann- Sha La La

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21.  The Beach Boys- Fun, Fun, Fun

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22.  Jan & Dean- The Little Old Lady From Pasadena

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23.  George Jones- The Race Is On

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24.  The Nashville Teens- Tobacco Road

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25.  The Premiers- Farmer John

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26.  The Pretty Things- Rosalyn

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27.  Bob Dylan- Spanish Harlem Incident

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28.  The Four Season- Silence Is Golden

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29.  Frank Sinatra- The Way You Look Tonight

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Best of 1964 Volume 5 (3/23/06)

1.  Bob Dylan- The Times They Are A-Changing

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2.  The Rolling Stones- Not Fade Away

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3.  Irma Thomas- Time Is On My Side

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4.  Lesley Gore- Maybe I Know

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5.  Jackie Ross- The Selfish One

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6.  Maxine Brown- Oh No Not My Baby

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7.  The Impressions- You Must Believe Me

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8.  The Marvelettes- You’re My Remedy

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9.  Marvin Gaye- You’re a Wonderful One

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10.  The Dave Clark Five- Glad All Over

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11.  B.B. King- Rock Me Baby

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12.  Major Lance- Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um

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13.  Smokey Robinson & the Miracles- That’s What Love is Made Of

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14.  Earl Jean- I’m Into Something Good

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15.  The Searchers- Love Potion No. 9

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16.  The Honeycomb- Have I the Right?

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17.  The Beatles- Can’t Buy Me Love

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18.  Shorty Long- Devil With the Blue Dress

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19.  Bobby Bland- Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do

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20.  Howlin’ Wolf- Killing Floor

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21.  Tommy Tucker- Hi-Heel Sneakers

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22.  The Larks- The Jerk

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23.  Ronny & the Daytonas- Little GTO

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24.  The Beach Boys- Little Honda

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25. Jean & Dean- Ride the Wild Surf

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26.  James Brown- Out of the Blue

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27.  The Maytals- Broadway Jungle

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28.  Peter & Gordon- A World Without Love

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29.  The Butterflys- Good Night Baby

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Best of 1964 Volume 6 (3/26/06)

1.  The Dave Clark Five- Bits and Pieces

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2.  The Swingin’ Blue Jeans- The Hippy Hippy Shake

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3.  The Newbeats- Bread and Butter

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4.  The Rolling Stones- I Just Want to Make Love to You

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5.  The Pyramids- Penetration

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6.  Lesley Gore- That’s the Way the Boys Are

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7.  The Jelly Beans- I Wanna Love Him So Bad

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8.  The Honeys- The One You Can’t Have

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9.  Gerry & the Pacemakers- Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’

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10.  Marianne Faithful- As Tears Go By

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11.  Gloria Lynne- I Wish You Love

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12.  Sam Cooke- Meet Me At Mary’s Place

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13.  The Four Season- Stay

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14.  Little Anthony & the Imperials- I’m On the Outside (Looking In)

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15.  Dionne Warwick- Reach Out for Me

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16.  Lulu- I’ll Come Running

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17.  The Beach Boys- Wendy

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18.  Chad & Jeremy- A Summer Song

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19. The Murmaids- Popsicles & Icicles

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20.  The Beatles- I’ll Follow the Sun

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21.  Marvin Gaye- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

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22.  The Impressions- I’m So Proud

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23.  The Mojos- Everything’s Alright

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24.  Martha & the Vandellas- Wild One

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26.  The Yardbirds- I Ain’t Got You

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27.  Johnny Cash (with June Carter Cash)- It Ain’t Me Babe

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28.  Bob Dylan- Only a Pawn In Your Game

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29.  Brenda Lee- Is It True

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30.  Solomon Burke- Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)

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Best of 1964 Volume 7 (5/25/13)

1.  Shirley Bassey- Goldfinger

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2.  Jerry Lee Lewis- Money (That’s What I Want) (Live at Star Club)

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3.  Elvis Presley- Viva Las Vegas

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4.  Link Wray- Deuces Wild

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5.  Dick Dale- Mr. Eliminator

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6.  The Yardbirds- Smokestack Lightning (Live)

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7.  The Beatles- I Feel Fine

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8.  The Primitives- You Said

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9.  The Rolling Stones- Empty Heart

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10.  Bob Dylan- I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We’ve Never Met)

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11.  The Four Tops- Without the One You Love (Life’s Not Worthwhile)

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12.  The Temptations- Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)

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13.  Martha & the Vandellas- In My Lonely Room

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14.  Sandi Shaw- Always Something There To Remind Me

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15.  France Gall- Laisse Tumber Les Filles

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16.  Francois Hardy- Je N’Attends Plus Personne

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17.  The Beach Boys- The Warmth of the Sun

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18.  The Ronettes- You Baby

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19.  Jackie DeShannon- When You Walk Into a Room

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20.  Buck Owens- My Heart Skips a Beat

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21.  Muddy Waters- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

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22.  Lee Morgan- The Sidewinder

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23.  Nina Simone- Mississippi Goddam (Live)

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Best of 1964 Volume 8 (5/25/13)

1.  The Yardbirds- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

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2.  Mississippi Fred McDowell- Write Me a Few Lines

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3.  The Animals- Baby Let Me Take You Home

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4.  Millie Small- My Boy Lollipop

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5.  Alvin Robinson- Down Home Girl

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6.  Muddy Waters- My Home is in the Delta

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7.  Doc Watson- Deep River Blues

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8.  Nina Simone- Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

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9.  John Coltrane- Afro Blue (Live at Birdland)

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10.  Bob Dylan- Chimes of Freedom

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11.  Simon & Garfunkel- Bleeker Street

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12.  The Beatles- Things We Said Today

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13.  The Wallace Brothers- Precious Words

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14.  Mitty Collier- I Had a Talk With My Man

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15.  Marvin Gaye- Baby Don’t Do It

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16.  Chuck Jackson- Beg Me

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17.  Otis Redding- That’s How Strong My Love Is

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18.  The Beach Boys- The Girls On the Beach

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19.  The Surfaris- Hiawatha

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20.  Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto- Corcovado (Quiet Night of Quiet Stars)

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21.  James Brown- Maybe the Last Time

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22.  Frank J. Wilson- Last Kiss

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