Category: Music

Every Big Planet Noise with Bob Irwin & Gina Bacon is a blast. Monday’s show had a tribute to someone I admit to having never heard of — Wayne Proctor, who had a band I’d never heard of, called We the People.

https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=161259&archive=283898

There shall never be, at least in what’s left of my lifetime, another fantastic explosion of musical creativity as was unleashed in the mid-Sixties. After Surf Music there was Garage Rock, and this record is a perfect example. Were We the People the American Troggs?

(Note: Bob is the founder and former owner of Sundazed Records.)

Wrightson “Sonny” Tongue was a founding member of the Sixties band The Hello People. Along with tastewar, I worked with his brother for many years. Tongue is on the right.

If ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ was a concept album, The Hello People took the idea one step further by being a concept band. They wore full-face makeup years before Kiss.

Wrightson continues to make music. He’s been giving AI a try.

Hearing the Troggs in a TV commercial for dog food made me laugh out loud.

‘With a Girl Like You’ was released on 8/6/66, peaking at #29 on Billboard.

It was the follow-up to the Troggs’ #1 hit ‘Wild Thing’, released on 6/25/66.

As is required of every hard rock band, the Troggs had a soft, romantic ballad. Released on 2/24/68, ‘Love is All Around’ cracked the Billboard top 10, reaching #7.

Another single from early ’69. Perhaps not as compelling as the previous two I featured, but it’s nice enough. Released on 12/28/68, ‘Things I’d Like to Say’ was the highest charting single for The New Colony Six, peaking at #16.

Here’s lots more from the year of Woodstock to hear. This playlist is supposed to have 341 songs, but when embedded it shows only 200 tunes. A fair trade-off, considering there are no commercials when embedding videos from YouTube.

This link should include all 341 selections, but beware of commercials, unless you have one of the ways of stopping them. I use the Brave browser for that purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P71VGlwsqZM&list=PLMxAGUGGn2xLcDYavRMMNTD64xOCRvXr7