8/22/2023 0 Comments All top easy listening songs 60s![]() #7 Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul & Mary The song’s b-side was simply the original single in reverse, entitled ‘!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT’ The song was pulled from some stations after complaints from mental health professionals, although it still charted at #3. This odd record with its minimal percussive backing was inspired by the Scottish folk tune ‘The Campbells Are Coming’. Record producer Jerry Samuels recorded this novelty single under the pseudonym Napoleon XIV. #8 They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! by Napoleon XIV Paul Anka’s gormless ‘Puppy Love’ is a case in point – it was later revived by Donny Osmond in the 1970s. The early 1960s witnessed important developments like the launch of Motown, but popular music felt a little toothless. ![]() The first wave of 1950s rock and rollers disappeared abruptly from view – Elvis joined the army, Buddy Holly perished in a plane crash, and Little Richard switched to gospel music. Puckett has some impressive vocal chops, ideal for melodrama, but ideally he’d find other songs than icky underage ballads ‘Young Girl’ and ‘This Girl Is A Woman Now’. “And though you know that it’s wrong to be/Alone with me/That come on look is in your eyes” is a particularly abhorrent line. ‘Young Girl’ is easily my favourite song on this list from a musical perspective, but its lyrics are a relic of a disturbing past. Gary Puckett was born in the mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota, and ‘Young Girl’ is his most successful recording. ![]() #10 Young Girl by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap As always, there’s often a fine line between a well-written hook that’s welcome in your head and an infuriating hook that you want to permanently erase. Therefore this list is mostly comprised of weird novelty songs that somehow cracked the big time in the 1960s. Other decades’ worst lists on this site have documented the songs that I hated on the radio, I didn’t live through the 1960s and the bad stuff had already been erased from playlists. But as in every other decade of recorded music, there was a ton of terrible records as well. Major artists like Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones began their recording careers. ![]() The development of recording technology allowed new sounds, and the decade saw the rise of Motown, the British Invasion, and psychedelia. The 1960s were a great time for popular music. ![]()
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