60s Mix Suggestions for my 61-Year-Old Dad?

[isle of lucy]

Hello. I could have sworn I posted here a year or two ago but my log-in no longer exists. Hm.

But my father turns 61 (!) in a few weeks and I want to make him a mix of 61 songs from the 60s. He was a huge influence on my musical tastes as a kid and into adulthood. He loves The Beach Boys, The Moody Blues, Herman's Hermits, The Beatles... and thinks ? and the Mysterians is the best band name of all time. And he tells me this often.

I want to make him a mix comprised of the style of music he loves (and maybe some of the artists) but introduce him to some lesser-known, maybe not top-40 60s music. I am familiar with, and have, all the songs from the Nuggets collection and lots of Kinks, Faces, Guess Who, etc. But I would love any suggestions and/or mp3s.

Thank you!

[Vega-Table Man]

Strange, I just made myself a mix with an idea similar to that.

My picks included:

"I'll Come Running," The Mad Hatters (if you like Nuggets-style garage, this is great ... I found it on the Sundazed comp Garage Beat '66 Vol. 7)
"From Home," The Troggs (B-side of "Wild Thing" ... cool tune!)
"Mrs. Bluebird," Eternity's Children
"Sunshine Girl," The Parade
"From Claudia on Thursday," The Millennium
"Song to the Magic Frog (Will You Ever Know?)," Sagittarius
"Oh How Happy," The Shades of Blue
"Love You So Much," New Colony Six

[isle of lucy]

My picks included:

Thank you so much! I will definitely check all of these out. Much appreciated.

[Sheriff John Stone]

A few suggestions:

1. "I Saw Her Standing There" - The Beatles
2. "Lola" - The Kinks
3. "Be My Baby" - The Ronettes
4. "Don't Worry, Baby" - The Beach Boys
5. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"(single version) - Iron Butterfly
6. "Folsom Prison Blues" - Johnny Cash
7. "Wichita Lineman" - Glen Campbell
8. "Some Velvet Morning" - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
9. "Lay Lady Lay" - Bob Dylan
10. "Flowers On The Wall" - The Statler Brothers
11. "One Fine Day" - The Chifons
12. "The Sound Of Silence" - Simon & Garfunkel
13. "Arnold Layne" - Pink Floyd
14. "On The Road Again" - Canned Heat"
15. "California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
16. "She's Not There" - The Zombies
17. "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane
18. "Incense And Peppermints - The Strawberry Alarm Clock
19. "Eight Miles High" - The Byrds
20. "Just Dropped In" - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
21. "Aquarius" - 5th Dimension
22. "She's My Girl" - The Turtles
23. "Hush" - Deep Purple
24. "Hey Joe" - Jimi Hendrix
25. "Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues
26. "See Me Feel Me" - The Who
27. "I'm Waiting For The Man" - Velvet Underground
28. "Chelsea Girls" - Nico
29. "Break On Through" - The Doors
30. "The House Of The Rising Sun" - The Animals
31. "Under My Thumb" - The Rolling Stones
32. "Ball And Chain" - Janis Joplin
33. "For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield
34. "Heatwave" - Martha & The Vandellas
35. "Goin' To A Go-Go" - The Miracles
36. "Heard It Through The Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
37. "Born On The Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival
38. "Runaway" - Del Shannon
39. "Valleri" - The Monkees
40. "Puff The Magic Dragon" - Peter, Paul & Mary
41. "It Was A Very Good Year" - Frank Sinatra
42. "Up On Cripple Creek" - The Band
43. "Wooly Bully" - Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
44. "Runaround Sue" - Dion
45. "Rag Doll" - The Four Seasons
46. "Any Way You Want It" - The Dave Clark Five
47. "I Fought The Law" - Bobby Fuller Four
48. "Little Bit Of Soul" - The Music Explosion
49. "Journey To The Center Of The Mind" - Amboy Dukes
50. "Walk Don't Run" - The Ventures
51. "I'm A Man" - Spencer Davis Group
52. "Heart Full Of Soul" - The Yardbirds
53. "Lazy Day" - Spanky And Our Gang
54. "She's About A Mover" - Sir Douglas Quintet
55. "Twistin' The Night Away" - Sam Cooke
56. "Unchain My Heart" - Ray Charles
57. "Dead Man's Curve" - Jan & Dean
58. "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" - James Brown
59. "Nothing But A Heartache" - The Flirtations
60. "Polk Salad Annie" - Elvis Presley
61. "Green Onions" - Booker T. & The MG's
   
       
 

[donald]

Since he is 61 he probably graduated from high school around 1964.  This would mean that his main musical influences as a young teenager would have been hits from the earlier 60's.

You might want to include songs such as Del Shannon's Runaway, Blue Moon by the Marcels, Early Motown such as Miracles and Mary Wells 1st stuff.  Some Shirrelles, Dion's The Wanderer, Loco-Motion by Little Eva, and Isley's Twist and Shout.  Add a little Cameo-Parkway and Spector, some selections from BeachBoys and Beatles 1st 5 albums, and you'll seriously push his nostalgia button.

[Surfer Joe]

Ideas:

"Just a Little Lovin' ", opener from Dusty In Memphis
"I'll Be Back Up On My Feet" - (TV version) Monkees 
"I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better"- Byrds 
"Positively Fourth Street"- Dylan
"Friends Of Mine", "Whenever You're Ready"- Zombies.
"Turn Down Day"- Cyrkle 
"Never To Be Forgotten", "Let Her Dance", "Baby My Heart"- Bobby Fuller Four
"Cathy's Clown"- Everly Brothers
"Traces"- Classics IV
"Mary Ann With The Shaky Hand (single version)- The Who 
"I'm On An Island", " 'Till The End Of The Day", "David Watts", "Death Of A Clown", "Waterloo Sunset", "Picture Book"- The Kinks
"Pretty Ballerina"- Left Banke
"Fire"- Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Little Red Riding Hood"- Sam The Sham
"The Girl's All Right With Me- Temptations
"No Milk Today"- Herman's Hermits 
"Are You There (With Another Girl)"- Dionne Warwick
"The Look Of Love"- Dusty Springfield
"Such A Night"- Elvis
"I Am A Rock"- Simon And Garfunkel
"Walk Away, Renee"- Four Tops
"Heart Full Of Soul"- Yardbirds
"Are You A Boy (Or Are You A Girl)"- Barbarians (a must!)
Whole Capitol Catalog- Beach Boys

PM me if you need anything rare- I have the whole sixties.  Except for Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.  And Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler.

[Aegir]

PM me if you need anything rare- I have the whole sixties.  Except for Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.  And Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler.

You have every recording ever released from January 1st, 1960 through December 31st, 1969, excluding about 50 songs?

[Surfer Joe]

Like I said, no Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, no Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, let's see...no Tiny Tim; I'm missing Mrs. Miller Does The Fugs...possibly one or more Shari Lewis and Lambchop records that have not been reissued...Did Bill Frawley Sings The Old Ones come out in the fifties or sixties?

Seriously, off a comprehensive list like SJS's, I probably have nine of ten or eight of ten songs on CD somewhere, so that's about where I stand..  I'm sure some folks here have much better collections.

 I mostly have a single-disc collection by singles bands like Sam The Sham or The Mindbenders or the Tremeloes or the American Breed or Sonny and Cher or The Swingin' Blue Jeans (now someone will say that those were album artists, o.k., o.k.!) .  Bigger sets for groups like the Hollies or the Four Seasons- three discs plus random other stuff.  For Motown I have mostly collections.  I don't have every Byrds album, but I have the first six, I think, and the 1990 box set.  Missing a little bit of the early Kinks on CD.  I only have a collection on Jefferson Airplane; I'll fill them in eventually. The Grateful Dead is another hole- need more of them. For Pink Floyd's sixties stuff I still only have their first album on disc at the moment, but after all these years I'm closing in on a lot of territory.

About five or so discs of the Yardbirds, but I know I don't have the Little Games set or Roger The Engineer. Simon and Garfunkel- missing a few studio albums on disc, and don't have their Tom And Jerry stuff, but have several discs, the box set and Simon's first from 1965.  James Brown- the box set and the two Apollo sets, but not every album. Hendrix- basic catalog, but certainly not all the archival stuff. So that's a sample.

Biggest bands or acts still unrepresented in my music closet, off the top of my head: the Youngbloods, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Fugs, Quicksilver Messenger, Hank Ballard, Jose Feliciano, John Mayall (except for what's on the Clapton box), B.J. Thomas.  Need a good set of the Small Faces.

Some time in about 2021 I'll buy the last Yma Sumac disc, and come back in here and edit my answer to "yes, except for Gary Puckett."

I'm  a little less so on the seventies, there was more stuff, and more stuff I just don't like.  I'm dreading my Uriah Heep phase.

[donald]

Surfer Joe, I must say I appreciate and respect the conspicuous absence of Gary Puckett.

There is just something weird about a grown man parading around in a civil war costume and obsessing abut young girls and whether or not he wants them to leave or hang anround.