Sixties on Sunday

I think those guys in the white suits were more interested in watching Andy Williams than the girls.

The song Music to Watch Girls By was also an instrumental hit, and when I was a kid I thought it was by Herb Alpert, but it was done by Frankie Valli’s producer Bob Crewe. The influence of the “Bond, James Bond” theme is also apparent.

The tune actually started as a Diet Pepsi commercial, written by Sidney Ramin, with words for the vocal version by Anthony Velona.

http://youtu.be/G1RXYEr4O_g

My confusion about Bob Crewe’s recording was understandable, because of this Sixties TV commercial.

The Teaberry Shuffle was Herb Alpert’s Mexican Shuffle.

Which brings me to my point, that watching the past two seasons of Mad Men didn’t give me a feeling of the Sixties as I knew them, starting in 1965. The series nailed the short-lived Kennedy Camelot era, but as a period piece it seems to have had trouble leaving it behind.

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