THE ROCK-N-ROLL ERA

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:05 am

1964

It was a strong year for female vocalists, amoung them Lesley Gore, who was able to combine a successful singing career with undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Gore's fourth top-10 hit.You Don't Own Me, was a dramatic declaration of female independence that anticipated Helen Reddy's liberationist anthem,I Am Woman, by nearly nine years.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:23 am

1964

Betty Everett's Shoop Shoop Song, in which Betty fills in her girlfriends on the litmus test of true love (i.e., 'it's in his kiss")

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:19 am

Knock Three Times - Dawn

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:41 am

1964

Along with Phil Spector's Philles label, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's new Red Bird label became a major source of girl-group hits. Red Bird's first release and #1 song was Chapel of Love by the Dixie Cups, a New Orleans trio managed by Joe Jones of You Talk Too Much (1960) fame.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:46 am

A Fool Such As I - Elvis Presley

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:11 pm

The Big Hurt - Miss Toni Fisher

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:08 pm

Where did our love go----The Supremes

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:12 pm

California Sun----The Rivieras

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:45 am

Before the Dixie Cups released Chapel of Love Phil Spector, one of the writers had already recorded but not released versions by the Crystals and the Ronettes.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:37 pm

Under The Boardwalk

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:37 pm

1964

Red Bird's most successful act was the Shangri-Las,composed of two sets of sisters from Queens (only three of the singers toured). The group specialized in teen-age minidramas wherein lead vovclist Mary Weiss was caught between the temptations offered by " bad boys" and peer-group and partental pressures.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:24 pm

It hurts to be in love

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:11 am

On The Street Where You Live - Vic Damone

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:40 am

Silhouettes - The Platters

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:17 pm

little old lady from Pasadena

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:08 pm

1964

In Leader of the Pack, Mary's love affair with a motorcycle ace is cut short by a smash-up, stunningly conveyed by producer Shadow Morton's sound effects.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:46 pm

You don't own me

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:21 pm

On.Pretty Woman

Roy Orbison

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:52 pm

The Detergents, in 1964 put out "Leader of the Laundromat."

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:38 pm

1964

Last Kiss a oneshot hit by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers from Texas.Producer Sonley Roush had heard the original version of Last Kiss by Wayne Cochran (known as "the white James Brown) and, in desperate need of a singer, called in Wilson, who was working in a slaughterhouse. Three girls were pulled off the street for backup vocals and, not surprisingly, by song'd end they were hopelessly flat. The record became somewhat prophetic when, in a car crash near Canton, Ohio, Roush was killed and Wilson was seriously injured.