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Everyone's actual favourite songwriter, Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, turned 75 last week.
Rather than just post links to every Kinks song ever to mark the occasion, I thought it might be more challenging to try to find all the good singles from 1969 by absolutely everybody. That is, for those of you too young to understand, songs that were actually released on a two track, 7" record, either from an album (eg, "Victoria", which opens The Kinks' "Arthur") or just as singles that were never album tracks (eg, "Honky Tonk Women, which wasn't on "Let It Bleed", even though it is one of the most famous songs from those sessions). I think there's probably only 4 or 5 songs by The Kinks in the bunch - a certain discipline is imposed by being limited to the songs that were actually intended for airplay.
So, here goes. There's a few in there that people may not know but most of them are still well-known, 50 years later - and some of the songs included are amongst the most identifiable sounds in 20th Century music. It's kind of pot luck - just click a few links and see what happens.
No, they're not in any particular order.
Let me know what I've missed from the single releases of 1969 (apart from "Take a Letter, Maria" and whatever rubbish late middle of the road Elvis was by then annoying children with) and post links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEhQugz-Ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNqsfFUwhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQmmByJwKFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNqZnjbIGzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJRnlfNAiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f775c_KgXE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfyEpmQM7bw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEESfv-11ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HlJvIMw-BQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BP2KlPD4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKaK6fm6Gu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61jfm219ArA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clJb4zx0o1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f47TZePukuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqbGXl5lxEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl78pTmpz8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7dmu4G8oc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbn6a0AFfnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboRijhWFDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JacHyPaEwDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xfdpjeT1Gc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5fQXVZGug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzIxpWwIVPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgGHeT9U9g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs99a-5vgA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MHWzUbU4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYmKWXawC1c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxwutvlTw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrkDGxZexA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QoWdrY7zQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGGW4IezbC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT51FwsFtE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylEB-P76nA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iCPrKTdPHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0l4p12bMK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jyiQsNw-2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUO_jUqSbLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPi9ueQJobk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdKrHYUZCwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpZ7BOSmO64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VFEIfh2m-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMj7UcjPZ0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFaN3VxRDbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MHxHjcvWjM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe5fYlXF9-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE_0RIB4yIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Zn6o_R8JE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bSBLctK0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw4BjU62t5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_I3L-An7IE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_9s4ZTA0J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e06hBcBp8T8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UCx4Z6J_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFTgrFSKbkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgpmebgHoFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt1inf8CRnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7blXU6NcwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKLjy3x39A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9YspFIdck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU9Dsl89UGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupeVLtXWLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-BMDnti4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlP-PXnwM3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoAO0851FwA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYq9RjdYYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyquqw6GeXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8fT7rnRotY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dzRbH-Rttk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlmxT9iNgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbMJGLSVwl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oWXbGB-7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvCqU9Ym7XM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqyx4TW4Ptw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmeEyVd5w8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM&t=63s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhzEsb2tNbI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JaosE-gZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwQiWXYnuK0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YymGJKhGgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-1OgNqBkVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSpW6MePb10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xx1_CbJTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oolpPmuK2I8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACLkNNBwBAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8REIw0amb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dzu4kdkRj4
And, yes, this is the sort of thing that one turns to as a form of distraction when Collingwood plays like that. |
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Lol!! The bottom line was exactly what I was thinking!
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Pies4shaw
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David
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Here's my fav single from that year (and probably one of my favourite Moody Blues songs in general):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD7r22sjdDM
'Something' by The Beatles is okay, but I'm not a fan of much of the other stuff they were bringing out by then. Oh, and 'Space Oddity' by Bowie is still great.
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Whole lotta love Led Zeppelin,
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I've checked a few of them out and pleasantly surprised how many I knew.
As a little kid, the only music was the very occasional playing of a Charley pride or Johnny Cash record on the radiogram. The kitchen radio was fixed on the ABC. The only reason I got given music lessons was the parents used to go to a particular pub each Friday night for a counter meal, there was an old upright piano there and once I'd eaten (at 5 or 6) I'd either go behind the bar and help wash glasses or much around on the old piano.
Only once we got the milk bar in '71 I had a Juke Box to play with, when I could pinch the keys.
Overall, I think you've just created the soundtrack for Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
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Pies4shaw
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| KenH wrote: | | Whole lotta love Led Zeppelin, |
It's in my list, Ken. |
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Pies4shaw
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Thanks. I would have listed it if I'd realised it was released in '69 - I actually thought it came out in '68. But you're quite correct. |
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KenH
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | KenH wrote: | | Whole lotta love Led Zeppelin, |
It's in my list, Ken. |
Sorry P4S I should have said that is my favourite on the list!
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Pies4shaw
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| David wrote: | Here's my fav single from that year (and probably one of my favourite Moody Blues songs in general):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD7r22sjdDM
'Something' by The Beatles is okay, but I'm not a fan of much of the other stuff they were bringing out by then. Oh, and 'Space Oddity' by Bowie is still great. |
Really? I went out and bought To Our Children's etc a couple of years back when you mentioned it somewhere on here. I did listen to it but I have no memory at all of "Watching and Waiting".
Don't much like "Something". Space Oddity is in my list - there are not too many tracks that can boast of having Terry Cox and Herbie Flowers as the rhythm section. |
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Pies4shaw
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David
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| Pies4shaw wrote: |
Really? I went out and bought To Our Children's etc a couple of years back when you mentioned it somewhere on here. I did listen to it but I have no memory at all of "Watching and Waiting". |
It's the final track on the album – perhaps tends to get lost amidst some of the more ambitious pieces on that album (and apparently it totally flopped as a single, so I suspect you were far from the only one who found it unmemorable!). It's grown on me a lot over the years, though, and I particularly like the melancholy, relatively minimalist verse sections and lead-out.
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| Well from your list I say Fortunate Son and himself says Honky Tonk Woman |
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Pies4shaw
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| ^ Have you got your own favourite single releases from 1969 that aren't in my list, Morrigu? |
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