Your favorite music from 1960?

Can be a single, album, a later compilation focusing on the year . . . whatever.

Doesn't have to be a list, though of course you can post a list if you want. You can also just post one title at a time as you think of it/run across it (which is what I do in these threads).




(I'm going to eventually be doing one of these for every year from 1920 to 1963 (we already have threads for every year from 1964), and then for wider periods prior (decades, etc.) Of course, anyone else is free to start the others before I get to them, but just let me know if you do so we can avoid duplicates.)

 

Bo Diddley - Have Guitar, Will Travel

 

A great year!

These are merely my 5 favorite singles of that year:

Are You Lonesome To-night? : Elvis Presley
Beyond The Sea : Bobby Darin
Stay : Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
Walk-Don’t Run : The Ventures
This Magic Moment : The Drifters

 

johnny kidd & the pirates - shakin' all over
henry brant - quombex
charles mingus - weird nightmare
wayne shorter - the albatross
odetta - sometimes i feel like a motherless child

 

'Don't Mess with My Man' by Irma Thomas

 

'Fannie Mae' by Buster Brown

 

Off the top of my head...

Album: Chuck Berry Rockin' At The Hops

Singles:

The Everly Brothers Cathy's Clown
Johnny Kidd and The Pirates Shakin' All Over
The Shadows Apache
The Ventures Walk Don't Run
The Gamblers Moon Dawg

 

'Good Timin' by Jimmy Jones

 

The only song I remember from that year - Lonnie Donegan's No. 1 hit single My Old Man's a Dustman. Used to hear it on the BBC's Light Programme, which my mother would have on during the day.

 

^ Played this Kingston Trio CD over the weekend. Two #1 albums from '60.

 

Portrait In Jazz - Bill Evans Trio
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Walk Don't Run - The Ventures

 

Etta James - At Last
Elvis Is Back - A seemingly, terribly under appreciated album
- It's Now Or Never
- Swing Down Sweet Chariot
Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
- Let It Be Me
- So Sad
- When Will I Be Loved
Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
El Paso - Marty Robbins
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
- Wonderful World
Platters - Harbor Lights
Chuck Berry - Bye Bye Johnny
- Jaguar and the Thunderbird
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain

A really good year in music

 

favorite lp: Elvis Is Back

favorite songs:
Roy Orbison - Only the lonely, Blue angel
Elvis - A mess of blues, Such a night
Everly Brothers - So sad, That's just too much
Etta James - At last, All I could do was cry

 

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Julie London - Julie... At Home
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Sinatra - Nice N Easy

 

This was kind of what I was trying to do with my make a compilation threads, but that backfired terribly ....
I could only realistically go back to 1955, because my knowledge of earlier music is much too slight ...
It seems all those years pre-B are very under appreciated and there is some fantastic music to be listened to ...
These were my 1960 compilations

Rock and Roll
Mess O Blues - Elvis Presley
Bye Bye Johnny - Chuck Berry
Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers
Let The Good Times Roll - Ray Charles
Road Runner - Bo Diddley
Because They're Young - Duanne Eddy
A Rockin good Way - Brook Benton
Dirty Dirty Feeling - Elvis Presley
Walk Don't Run - The Ventures
Down the Road Apiece - Chuck Berry
When Will I be Loved - Everly brothers
Such A Night - Elvis Presley
Let It Rock - Chuck Berry
It Feels So right - Elvis Presley
Jaguar and the Thunderbird - Chuck Berry
Apache - The Shadows

Pop
It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley
Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters
Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
Stuck On You - Elvis Presley
Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison
Tell Laura I Love Her - Ray Peterson
Poetry In Motion - Johnny Tillotson
Running Bear - Johnny Preston
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Fever - Elvis Presley
El Paso - Marty Robbins

Ballads/Love Songs/ Mellow
True Love Ways - Buddy Holly
Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
A Thousand Stars - Billy Fury
So Sad - Everly Brothers
Soldier Boy - Elvis Presley
Love Hurts - Everly Brothers
Wooden heart - Elvis Presley
Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers
Georgia On My Mind (live) - Ray Charles
At Last - Etta James

Jazz
Solea - Miles Davis/ Gil Evans
Giant steps - John Coltrane
My Jelly Roll Soul - Charles Mingus
If I Should Lose You - Hank Mobley
Four On Six - Wes Montgomery
Bird Food - Ornette Coleman
Mood Indigo - Charles Mingus
It's Only A Paper Moon - Art Blakey

Blues
Got My Mojo Workin' (live) - Muddy Waters
Spoonful - Howlin Wolf
I Just Wanna Make Love to You - Etta James
Whiskey and Wimmen - John Lee Hooker
Memories Of You - Lonnie Johnson
Back Door Man - Howlin Wolf
Walkin to New Orleans - Fats Domino

 

Hit it! "Madison Time" Ray Bryant Combo...I was four in 1960...some great tunes that year.

 

Albums

Bo Diddley - In The Spotlight
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Johnny Cash - Now, There Was a Song!
Johnny Cash - Ride This Train
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain



Singles

Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind
Marty Robbins - El Paso
Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans
The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
The Drifters - Save the Last Dance for Me
Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely

 

Elvis - A Mess Of Blues
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin` All Over
Johnny Burnette - You`re Sixteen
Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Ventures - Walk Don`t Run
Shadows - Apache
Julie London - `Round Midnight

 

"Elvis is back!" LP

Individual tracks:
- A mess of blues
- Surrender
- Such a night
- Reconsider baby
- Are you lonesome tonight?

 

Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard album) - Wikipedia his debut, features the great Harold Floyd 'Tina' Books.

 

Sketches Of Spain

 

Rosie and the Originals "Angel Baby"

 

'Bumble Bee' by Lavern Baker