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A sight for sore ears. Power pop, freakbeat, and psychedelic songs for all six senses.
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July 6, 2014: Fillin' in for Nate K. ... while surfing through the sleepy city.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | New | Approx. start time | ||
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Mighty Avengers |
Walking Through The Sleepy City
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VA: The Beat Scene | Deram | 1965 | CD | 1965. Written by Mick Jsgger and Keith Richards. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||
Hi-Fi's |
Tread Softly For the Sleepers
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Snakes and HiFis | Wooden Hill | 2008 | CD | 1967. original mono single version. | 0:01:40 (Pop-up) | |||
Pretty Things |
She Says Good Morning
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S.F. Sorrow | Snapper Music | 1998 | CD | 1968 | 0:03:52 (Pop-up) | |||
Philippe DeBarge with the Pretty Things |
A New Day
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The Pretty Things Philippe DeBarge | CD-R | 1969. From an acetate. Recorded originally for DeBarge's affluent circle of friends. Later issued commercially by Ugly Things records. | 0:07:30 (Pop-up) | |||||
Rainy Daze |
Good Morning, Mr. Smith
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Uni | 1968 | 7" | c/w "Discount City" | 0:11:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Reign |
Sea of Dreams
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VA: Fading Yellow, Vol. 2 - 21 Course Smorgasbord of US Pop-Sike & Other Delights 1965-69 | Flower Machine | 2002 | CD | 1967 | 0:14:36 (Pop-up) | |||
Unknowns |
Dream Sequence
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Dream Sequence | Sire | 1981 | EP | 0:16:21 (Pop-up) | ||||
John Walker |
Sun Comes Up
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This is John Walker | Carnaby | 1969 | LP | From his first LP after leaving the Walker Brothers. | 0:19:49 (Pop-up) | |||
Gerry and the Pacemakers |
Ferry Cross the Mersey
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OST: Ferry Cross the Mersey | EMI | 2009 | CD | 1964. Previously unreleased version with no strings. Bonus track on reissue of soundtrack album. | 0:22:05 (Pop-up) | |||
Willie Wright |
It's Only Life, That's All
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Telling the Truth | Numero Group | 2011 | CD | 1977. CD issue of private-press LP | 0:24:24 (Pop-up) | |||
Mothers of Invention |
Trouble Comin' Every Day
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Freak Out! | Verve | 1966 | LP | mono edition | 0:37:50 (Pop-up) | |||
Traffic |
Paper Sun
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Heaven Is In Your Mind | Island | 2000 | CD | 1968 | 0:43:16 (Pop-up) | |||
Rockin' Ramrods |
Bright Lit Blue Skies
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VA: Bosstown Sound 1968 - The Music & the Time | Big Beat | 1996 | CD | 1966 | 0:46:45 (Pop-up) | |||
Beau Brummels |
Sometime At Night
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Volume 2 | Sundazed | 1998 | CD | 1965 | 0:48:57 (Pop-up) | |||
Scott Henderson |
Saturday Night People
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VA: Fairy Cakes For Tea: Fairy Tales Can Come True Vol. 2 | Psychic Circle | 2007 | CD | 1967 | 0:50:53 (Pop-up) | |||
Wright of Waye |
Sun God
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VA: A Forest of Gold Tops in the Land of Oz: 26 Tabs from the Semiconscious Sixties | Gift | 1997 | CD | 1968 | 0:54:01 (Pop-up) | |||
Timebox |
Walking Through the Streets of My Mind
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VA: The Great British Psychedelic Trip Vol. 2 1965-1970 | See For Miles | 1988 | CD | 1967 | 0:55:46 (Pop-up) | |||
Nancy Sinatra |
Summer Wine
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Reprise | 1967 | 7" | the b-side of "Sugar Town" | 0:58:53 (Pop-up) | ||||
Zombies |
Walking in the Sun
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R.I.P. | Varese Sarabande | 2014 | CD | 1968. From an unreleased proposed last LP by the band. | * | 1:02:23 (Pop-up) | ||
Los Shakers |
Me Reire
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VA: Los Nuggetz: '60s Garage & Psych from Latin America | Rock Beat | 2013 | CD box set | 1966. Correction to what I stated -- this is NOT the Uruguay Shakers. This band is from Spain. | 1:12:01 (Pop-up) | |||
Basement Wall |
Orange
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VA: The Incredible Sound Of... The Basement Wall & The New Breed | Collectables | 1993 | CD | 1967 | 1:14:49 (Pop-up) | |||
GTVs |
Walk Right Up To You
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Sh'bang! | Teen Sound | 2014 | LP | July 12 -- The GTVs' album release show at Ardmore Music Hall (23 E Lancaster Ave, Ardmore, PA) with St. James & The Apostles and Weird Hot! | * | 1:16:47 (Pop-up) | ||
Bent Scepters |
She Freak
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Prescription | 1993 | 7" | c/w "The Curse" | 1:19:49 (Pop-up) | ||||
Nirvana Banana |
Lovin' Man
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Atlantic | 1967 | 7" | c/w "Rainy Day Stagedoor Mama" | 1:22:43 (Pop-up) | ||||
Alan Price Set |
Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
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Parrot | 1966 | 7" | c/w "Take Me Home" | 1:25:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Lloyd Alexander Real Estate |
Gonna Live Again
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VA: Looking Back: 80 Mod, Freakbeat & Swinging London Nuggets | RPM | 2011 | CD box set | 1968 | 1:28:09 (Pop-up) | |||
Electric Mess |
There's Nothing You Can Do
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House on Fire | Soundflat | 2014 | CD | * | 1:30:54 (Pop-up) | |||
Four O'Clock Balloon |
Less Than Nowhere
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Four O'Clock Balloon | Teen Rebel | 1997 | CD | 1:34:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
Gram Parsons & the Like |
Just Can't Take it Anymore
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The Early Years Vols. 1 & 2 | Sierra | 2014 | CD | 1966 | * | 1:39:11 (Pop-up) | ||
Crispian St. Peters |
But She's Untrue
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The Pied Piper: Complete Recordings 1965-1974 | RPM | 2014 | CD | 1966 | * | 1:48:48 (Pop-up) | ||
Michael Lynch |
This Girl
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Market Square | 2014 | 7" | b-side of "She's On Her Way" | * | 1:51:56 (Pop-up) | |||
Cilla Black |
Work Is a Four Letter Word
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Completely Cilla: 1963-1973 | EMI | 2012 | CD box set | 1968 | 1:54:58 (Pop-up) | |||
Gary Lewis & The Playboys |
She's Just My Style
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Liberty | 1966 | 7" | c/w ""I Won't Make That Mistake Again" | 1:56:01 (Pop-up) | ||||
Cliff Wade |
I See I Am Free
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Looking for Shirley: The Pop-Sike World of Cliff Wade | Edsel | 2003 | CD | 1969 | 1:59:05 (Pop-up) | |||
Jawbone |
Million Times Before
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Jawbone | Rev-Ola | 2007 | CD | 1970 | 2:00:59 (Pop-up) | |||
Johnny Rivers |
Jesus is a Soul Man
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Imperial | 1970 | 7" | c/w "Into the Mystic" | 2:04:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
Focal Point |
Girl On the Corner
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First Bite of the Apple: The Complete Recording 1967-1968 | Kissing Spell | 2005 | CD | 1967 | 2:07:29 (Pop-up) | |||
Faine Jade |
On the Inside There's a Middle
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Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital | Radioactive | 2006 | CD | 1969 | 2:09:46 (Pop-up) | |||
meddyEVILS |
Place Called Love
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VA: Doin' the Mod, Vol. 1 - The Go-Go Train | Sanctuary | 2000 | CD | 1965 | 2:24:17 (Pop-up) | |||
Tony Knight's Chessmen |
Surfer Street
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VA: That Driving Beat, Volume 3 - 31 Track Collection of Rare Freakbeat 1964-1966 | Past & Present | 2003 | CD | 1965 | 2:26:39 (Pop-up) | |||
Alvin Robinson |
Down Home Girl
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Red Bird | 1964 | 7" | c/w "Fever | 2:29:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
Syramip |
Must Catch a Train
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Skinhead Moonstomp | Trojan | 1995 | CD | 1969 | 2:33:42 (Pop-up) | |||
Amboy Dukes |
Journey to the Center of the Mind
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Mainstream | 1967 | 7" | c/w "Mississippi Murderer" | 2:35:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
Phillip Goodhand-Tait & The Stromsville Shakers |
Number One
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VA: Do You Dream? UK Pop and Psychedelia 1965-1970 from the Angel Air Catalog | Angel Air | 2010 | CD | 1966 | 2:38:21 (Pop-up) | |||
Nick Gilder |
Here Comes the Night
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Chrysalis | 1978 | 7" | c/w "Rockaway" | 2:40:48 (Pop-up) | ||||
Pussycat |
Le Temps Ont Change
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Boof! The Complete Pussy Cat 1966-1969 | Cherry Red | 2014 | CD | 1966 | * | 2:43:51 (Pop-up) | ||
Chase |
Get It On
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VA: Super Hits of the 70s, Have a Nice Day Vol. 5 | Rhino | 1990 | CD | 1971 | 2:45:51 (Pop-up) | |||
Dagenites |
The Fugitive
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VA: Psychedelic States - Marlyand in the '60s | Gear Fab | 2014 | CD | 1965 | * | 2:49:09 (Pop-up) | ||
Final Solution |
Gotta Get Through to You
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VA: South Side Story, Vol. 23 | Numbero | 2014 | CD | 1975 | * | 2:50:53 (Pop-up) | ||
The Forum |
It's Sunday
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VA: It's a Sunshine Day - Joe McGasko's 2014 WFMU Premium | WFMU | 2014 | CD-R | * | 2:55:32 (Pop-up) | |||
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Arthur spared you I trust?
Mike Sin:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
kat330:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
kat330:
@RR: That's good then.
Holly in NC:
I am rarely up this early thanks to Mary Wing :-; but had to get up to listen to Mike. Arthur had zero impact in Durham, in fact it's lovely here. Thanks for asking! How are you?
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Holly in NC:
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