1960's mainstream performers who never went Psychedelic

Dusty Springfield?

 

Electric Stories

 

The only thing musically that might have counted was the title song from the movie Casino Royale, but it's not a psychedelic piece per se, just very trippy in its own highballs-and-lampshades way. Someone was on something, but it wasn't Herb.

Even the jacket photo on the single shows him as anything-but decked out in patchouli and gypsy garb. I think he qualifies for this thread.

 

"Relax" also

 

Wicked Annabella, Death of a Clown , Two Sisters, See My Friends...sound Psychedellic to me.

 

Buck Owens

 

Anthony Newley

 

Very clear. Some treat it like the broadest genre out there but it's really not.

Bob Dylan is a 1960s mainstream performer who never went "Psychedelic". His music isn't "Psychedelic" by any stretch of the imagination.

 

Well.......pertaining to Dylan...Jimi Hendrix The Byrds, Richie Havens. and hundreds of other recording artists may disagree about his music not being psychedelic.

 

I do.

 

Did I see Darren number 2 from Bewitched dancing around Elvis just past the one minute mark? Now that's psychedelic!!!

 

Far out, man.

 

100% disagree . Listen to bringing it back home / highway 61/ blonde & blonde. It's all drug induced.

 

He liked the Beatles & the Byrds

 

https://www.relix.com/articles/detail/my_page_robyn_hitchcock_psychedelic_blues_again

 

My drug knowledge is pretty minimal but I haven't seen anywhere that says that heroin is a psychedelic drug...as I said the VU were the flipside of that whole scene.

 

Just because a song is drug induced doesn't make it Psychedelic. It has to have a specific sound to be Psychedelic. People are forgetting that and artificially stretching it so they can believe their favorite acts created psychedelic music when they didn't.

Those artists' arrangements of the songs made them psychedelic. As I said, psychedelic music has a specific sound.

 

Hell, even Pet Clark went a little crazy with the flange knob on HAPPY HEART...that's kinda psychadelic.....as much as you would ever expect from Petula Clark, anyway!

 

Andy Williams never went psychedelic ? This is truly cosmic man.

 

Phil Ochs' "The Crucifixion" was pretty out there with Joseph Byrd's dissonant Ivesian orchestral and electronic arrangement. Not only is it one of the trippiest recordings of 1967, but it was almost certainly the very first piece of "folktronica." Form his brilliant Pleasures of the Harbor album.

 

Her "Color My World" is also pretty psych.

 

And the "Whoever."

 

I basically agree, although Buck owned one of the first Moog synthesizers, and his great concept album I Wouldn't Live in New York City has sound effects on every song.