What are the coolest, funkiest, sexiest tunes of the 1960s?

How big a hit was this in the UK? Would Van Morrison likely have heard it?

 

Most people are familiar with "Funk #49" but most forget the James Gang's 1969 masterpiece "Funk #48" It does exactly what it says on the tin!

 

Boogaloo down Broadway - The Fantastic Johnny C.

 

I don't generally like funk, but I always liked this one -

The Parliaments, (I Wanna) Testify:

 

"Polk Salad Annie" - Tony Joe White

1968

 

It wasn't a big hit. The shame with Lulu is that she was and still is a fantastic singer who loves soul and R'n'B. She went towards the middle of the road / light entertainment road very quickly though and had her own TV show at 18. The records got very patchy with some being complete crap. The crappiest ones were usually the biggest hits. When Lulu songs songs she likes and are suited to her, she's one of the best few female singers Britain's ever had. She's been directionless and sometimes tasteless for a lot of her career though.

As for Love Loves To Love, it reached number 32 in 1967. The album was a big seller though. Does it sound like something by Van or Them? Lulu released Here Comes The Night before Them, but her version is slow. It's superb with an excellent vocal, a real blue eyed soul record, but it didn't chart. So Them had a hit with their equally great faster and more commercial arrangement of it. Both versions are produced by Bert Berns, who wrote it along with other Them songs, and feature Jimmy Page.

 

First Stones lp I had was No Stone Unturned so I've known that since I was an early teen.

 

I Can Only Give You Everything by the Little Boy Blues.
Mohair Sam by Charlie Rich (actually probably most of the Smash stuff)
Erotica by Aguaturbia
Afro Blue by John Coltrane
Real Cool Time by the Stooges
I Feel Free by Cream
Spoonful by Ten Years After

 

“Big Bird” - Eddie Floyd

 

If I had a nickel for every time I have listened to this I would be a rich man. A classic!

 

Cool and sexy as always.

Dusty Springfield - The Look Of Love

 

Soul Finger by the Bar-Kay’s

 

Jerry Lee Lewis Ramblin Rose very slinky and 2 stages away from the MC5 version via a soul cover
MC5 I want You , think this was teh band recreating a Troggs song which is kind of lusty itself

 

I think this is the winner:

 

I was thinking of the line from Astral Weeks - "the love that loves to love the love that loves to love"

 

The Laughing Gnome?

 

One of my favorites. Thanks for reminding me of it.

 

You listed two songs listed from 1969 by 1969 the 60s were over the . I think gimmie shelter or Dizzy by tommy Roe represent 1969 .
satisfaction 1965 ticket to tide 1965 beach boys help me rhonda 1965

 

That's what came to my mind as well.

 

The OP said funky. In the 60s, the white artists couldn't touch funky. It just wasn't in their vocabulary. They got much better at it and eventually equaled what black artists invented. But if you define a 60s song as "funky" it's automatically a black artists.

 

Seriously, page three and I have to post Aretha?

 

The OP said-pop-rock music.I stand by my statement.