Your favorite music from 1961

'Come Tomorrow' - Marie Knight


later hit for Manfred Mann

 

"Air France made me. We walked out with $420,000 without using a gun, and we did the right thing: we gave Paulie his tribute."

 

This record is on the Mount Rushmore of instrumental 45s. Smokin'!

 

Great song...I don't recall hearing it before by either Marie Knight or Manfred Mann. I was scratching my head for a minute there because I was getting it confused with the Yardbird's "Shapes Of Things" which has 'Come tomorrow' featured prominently in the lyrics.

 

Janie Grant-"Triangle"....I first remember hearing this in 1979 on a syndicated Wolfman Jack show...the "Oh Oh Oh's" in the intro became a real earworm for me!

 

A great year for Bill Evans:
Explorations
Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Waltz For Debby

 

What Dan said...

 

Coltrane too...

 

'Some of your lovin' - Johnny Nash


Phil Spector production

 

I once put together these tunes for a best of 1960 comp. Off topic I know!

1 Bill Black's Combo White Silver Sands (Stereo)
2 Brenda Lee I'm Sorry
3 Jim Reeves He'll have To Go
4 Owen Gray Running Around 1960
5 Derrick Morgan Fat Man
6 Chubby Checker The Twist
7 Johnny Preston Running Bear
8 Connie Francis Everybodys Somebodys Fool
9 Johnny Burnette Dreamin'
10 Eddie Cochran Three Steps To Heaven
11 Floyd Cramer Last Date
12 Johnny Horton North To Alaska
13 Brother's Four Greenfields
14 Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight
15 Marty Robbins El Paso
16 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates Shakin' All Over
17 Mark Dinning Teen Angel
18 Miss Toni Fisher The Big Hurt
19 Ray Peterson Tell Laura I Love Her
20 Jimmy Jones Handyman
21 Theophilus Beckford Easy Snappin'
22 Jack Scott What In The World's Come Over You
23 Wanda Jackson Let's Have A Party
24 Everly Brothers Cathy's Clown
25 Solomon Burke Just Out Of Reach
26 Johnny Horton Sink The Bismark
27 Bobby Vinton Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
28 Steve Lawrence Pretty Blue Eyes
29 Keith & Enid & Trenton Spence & His Group Worried Over You
30 Sam Cooke Chain Gang
31 Donnie Brooks Mission Bells
32 Drifters Save The Last Dance For Me
33 Shadows Apache
34 Skip & Flip Cherry Pie
35 Shirelles Will You Love Me Tomorrow
36 Bobby Vee Devil Or Angel
37 Conway Twitty Lonely Blue Boy
38 Hank Locklin Please Help Me Im Falling
39 Shirelles Tonight's The Night
40 Roy Orbison Only The Lonely
41 Roy Orbison Blue Angel
42 Johnny Tillotson Poetry In Motion
43 James Brown Do The Mashed Potatoes
44 Jack Scott Burning Bridges
45 Anita Bryant Paper Roses
46 Jerry Butler He Will Break Your Heart
47 Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs Stay
48 Jim Reeves I Missed Me
49 Jiving Juniors Lollipop Girl
50 Jiving Juniors & Duke Reid & His Group My Heart's Desire
51 Johnny Horton Jim Bridger
52 Laurel Aitken Boogie In My Bones
53 Paul Anka Puppy Love
54 Brook Benton & Dinah Washington Baby You've Got What It Takes
55 Laurel Aitken Honey Girl
56 Andy Williams Dear Heart
57 Larry Verne Mr. Custer
58 Johnny Preston Cradle Of Love
59 Lew Pryme Come On
60 Little Willie John I'm Shakin'
61 Louvin Brothers Blues Stay Away From Me
62 Louvin Brothers I Love You Best Of All
63 Johnny Burnette Youre Sixteen
64 Safaris Image Of A Girl
65 Platters Harbor Lights
66 Browns The Old Lamplighter
67 Gary "U.S." Bonds New Orleans
68 Jesters The Wind
69 Sam Cooke Wonderful World (Dont Know Much)
70 Jim Coyle & His Glittering Guitar Hiccups
71 Jimmy Clanton Go Jimmy Go
72 Marty Robbins Big Iron
73 Jeanne He'll Have To Stay
74 Bobby Rydell Swingin' School
75 Maxine Brown Out Of Mind
76 Fats Domino Walkin To New Orleans
77 Miracles The Feeling Is So Fine
78 Miracles Shop Around
79 Miracles (You Can) Depend On Me
80 Little Dippers Forever
81 Annette Funicello O Dio Mio
82 Dion & The Belmonts Wonder Why
83 Larry Hall Sandy
84 Drifters This Magic Moment
85 Harold Dorman Mountain Of Love
86 Ricky Nelson Young Emotions
87 Garry Miles Look For A Star
88 Neil Sedaka Stairway To Heaven
89 Owen Gray Jenny Lee
90 Paul Evans Happy Go Lucky Me
91 Joe Jones You Talk Too Much
92 Red Hewitt & The Buccaneers Pretend
93 Guy Mitchell Heartaches By The Number
94 Bob Luman Let's Think About Living
95 Paul Anka My Hometown
96 Charlie Rich Lonely Weekends
97 Steve Lawrence Footsteps
98 Ricky Nelson You Are The Only One
99 Dion Lonely Teenager
100 Blues Busters Little Vilma
101 Clarence "Frogman" Henry (I Don't Know Why) But I Do
102 Clarence "Frogman" Henry Just My Baby & Me
103 Clyde Scott & The Zanyopolis A.U. Students Gravedigger's Rock
104 Crests Step By Step
105 Everly Brothers Let It Be
106 Everly Brothers Like Strangers
107 Everly Brothers When Will I Be Loved
108 George Jones The Window Up Above
109 Heartbeats One Day Next Year
110 Jackie Edwards Your Eyes

 

Wilfred Edwards (aka Jackie Edwards) - I Love You No More



Wilfred Edwards - I Love You No More

 

Nice one. There was a direct answer to You Talk Too Much by Irma Thomas and possibly someone else.

 

The sumptuous and Moorish influence of Olé Coltrane.

 

This, by the criminally overlooked Link Wray.....

 

Good lord, 1961 had a lot of great records!

 

Karen James (Accompanying Herself on Guitar)

 

The Blues Busters with Luther "Wee Willie" Williams & his orchestra


'Pleading for Mercy'

 

'Raincoat in the River' - Sammy Turner

 

'You Ain't Nothin' but Fine' - Rockin' Sidney

 

'Heart and Soul' - the Cleftones

 

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Miles Davis - Someday My Prince will Come

 

For 1961 there are lots of good things for me to pick from. Here are a few.


Baby Face Willette ‎– Stop And Listen



Bill Evans Trio ‎– Explorations



Grant Green ‎– Green Street


Jimmy Reed ‎– Jimmy Reed At Carnegie Hall


Oliver Nelson Sextet ‎– The Blues And The Abstract Truth

 

'I don't like it like that' - The Bobbettes' answer record to Chris Kenner

 

'No Love' b/w 'Looking for a Man' - Mable John



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