https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScabBZgOSME
Music
You’re No Good – Betty Everett [1963].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwfT1AV155M
This version of the song is vastly better then the later version by Linda Ronstadt.
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sounds Of Silence – YouTube.
This week a half century ago, Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence was the number one song on the radio based on the redubbed single that was released fall of 1965.
The 1966 album of the same title -- featuring this song -- and many other classics like Kathy's Song and Anji were released two weeks later on January 17, 1966.
Jackie DeShannon – What The World Needs Now Is Love
New Christy Minstrels – Ride, Ride, Ride.
Barry McGuire is the famous baritone on a few of the New Christy Minstrels albums in the early 1960s. He really belts it out on this song, giving it a real wild west flavor.
Randy Sparks ran into him at a bar in Oklahoma and heard him preform, and asked him to join their informal group. Previously, Barry McGuire was a commercial fisherman, and then became a journeyman pipe fitter. His accent was authentic.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Barry_McGuire
Over the years, the New Christy Minstrels have had over 200 different members, many of are artists who then went on to own right -- like the Byrds, the Association, Kenny Rogers, etc.
Barry McGuire went on to fame with his song the Eve of Destruction, and eventually became a contemporary christian music singer, after the great born-again Christian movement of the late 60s that many artists became involved in.
The Marshall Tucker Band – Fire On The Mountain.
I was playing this song a lot down in West Virginia, just because it seemed like an appropriate song to be listening to ...