Thought it was gonna be Beatles but Spector easily the mvp of '63

oh yeah it is

Thought on those Peggy March? I think one of the dudes that went on to the Shangri Las a year later was helping produce

just listened, they were aight but I liked I Will Follow Him

beach boys 1964 mvp incoming

Takes a couple listens I would suggest putting it in rotation if you don't have any other hyperpop going

wont be surprised

early waylon jennings single sounds more like roy orbison than i expected

Waylon b-side eulogizing all the deceased rockers up to'63 he famously lost a coin toss with Buddy Holly for a seat in the plane that killed him and the last thing he said to Buddy was "i hope your plane crashes"

ill see your Cash concert and raise you one tremendous James Brown concert

vimeo not work?

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@Lawdie was waiting for you to post it

the ramones cover >>>

we can’t forgive dead mans curve a brian song written for jan & dean

it was part of the short lived teenage tragic sensation going on at that time and is an emblem of that era

One day, Brian and I were chilling and trying out this tiny Honda that the company had sent him as a thank you for writing the Hondells "Little Honda." (the song was not yet released, but Wilson had already written it for a Honda commercial) We were cruisin' about three miles from his ex-wife, Marilyn's mom's house. Brian, as he was known to do, was pushing two hundred pounds way over what a 60 cc Honda could handle. I said Bry you should slow down, as in Santa Monica there is a lot of sand on the streets. We went over and the bike and were torn apart. We carried half a Honda each three miles, bleeding like crazy, to an open door in an empty house. We noticed a piece of blank paper on the piano and Bry sat down and I pulled up a chair and, I guess because of recent events I wrote down the words, "Dead Mans Curve."

Brian started a two four piano rhythm but I don't have any idea for the lyric... except I always envied Jan's Corvette, sang to Brian's chords" I was crusin' in my Sting Ray late one night and an XKE pulled upon the right…" Bran repeated what I wrote down with the melody and I almost finished the lyric in about 30 minutes with me writing the words, some with Brian, as being a New Yorker after I put us on Sunset Blvd.
I had no idea what landmarks we would pass to that curve after Doheny where it turns right and heads into Beverly Hills.

We were laughing and Brian said, lets hear what we have, laughing at the whole trip and tripping on our wipeout still. I jumped up and said Brian stop, "I think we need an accident here." He responded, "You are nuts Artie," but stopped and hit a chord, for some reason at that moment I thought of Robert Frost Poem about two roads in the woods and went metaphoric putting in an accident.

In my mind symbolic with the point we make those decisions that may change or end our lives. I wrote something like it says on the record and Brian Started a Kick Ass chorus. In walks the ever great loving talented Jan Berry who with Bry and a little me worked out the complete song. As Jan tightened up the song for a Jan and Dean Record, he was already hearing a finished product. Jan sat down at a table, hardly touched the piano, except to find the changes and as only Jan with Brian there could do…wrote out the entire arrangement, that as I remember, and was not a note off when we went in with it to play for Lou Adler. It just seems like moments but it was really days later when we went in and recorded it. The reason we had to put DJ Roger Christians name on the song, Lou Adler would know more than I.

The musicians on the date included Glen Campbell, then a tough T-shirted ass kicker on guitar, and Leon Russell (wearing a suit). Then there was Earl Palmer and Hal Blaine, the only drummers you could put together, and it came out great. Of course being about 19 or 20 I could not help but notice Lou's Fiancée Shelly Faberes, in a very tight sweater. Dean did not show. I did stand behind Bry to get a falsetto sound that was a little different.

When the record came out it was the B-side to "New Girl in School." I guess I did my first promotion as for reasons so few know I reversed the Charts and "New Girl in School" stopped shooting up the charts and "DEAD MANS CURVE" RULED! Brian, Jan and I all lived "Dead Mans Curve" in our separate lives.

covered by carpenters

and blink 182

oh it thought it was 1964 for some reason, thats what i had it in my library as. it would be in my HM. also very briefly considered surf city but its not as good

duprees song criminally slept on

bbs should’ve covered it

missed on 1962 but shout out to matt bellamy (muse) father for this song

wait wtf his dad was in that band unexpected connection

yessir! he plays the guitar didn’t write that telstar classic but did write this next one which leads us into 1963 and was a hit in the US:

the sound and production is very ahead of its time

i believe it was the inspiration for knights of cydonia

definitely a strong resemblance

i never was able to get into muse much but i respect the talent

i had a muse phase as a young teen bc it was so new and that’s what you like hearing a band that stands out right, it what makes creativity exciting

but yeah they fell off big time and even looking back their best stuff it doesn’t hit the same however i still gotta give credit to Matt for mixing ratm riff with jeff buckley type vocals and throwing rachmaninov ripoffs in there - it sounds batshit on paper but he worked it out and got rich out of it, impressive