Sixties Charts – Page 13 – Every Top 10 of the 1960s

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Norman Petty – Musical Genius
Norman Petty (1927-1984) was an American musician and an innovative record producer, mostly famous for his role in Buddy Holly’s rise to stardom, for ‘The …
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Starry Eyed Michael Holliday. 1924 – 1963
Sixty years ago this week saw Michael Holliday score his 2nd UK Number One single with ‘Starry Eyed’. It would be his last. Born in …
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The Doors – their best songs from each album.
Walking home late from work last week I passed a charity shop that had ‘LA Woman’ on CD for £1.99 in the window. The next …
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New Alexa Skills for The Beatles and Paul McCartney
Hello, I have created an Alexa skill on The Beatles and on Paul McCartney. If you have the time can you please test it out …
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The Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney releases
Beatle-related releases seem to be coming more frequently in previous years than at any other time. We have recently had Paul’s deluxe re-issues including Flowers …
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Emile Ford – The First Number One of the Sixties
Michael Emile Telford Miller (1937 – 2016) was born in Saint Lucia, West Indies. Son of a politician father and soprano mother, he moved to London …
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The Beatles – 50th anniversary Abbey Road releases.
Like previous deluxe 50th anniversary issues Sgt. Pepper and The White Album, Apple are bringing out multiple formats to celebrate 50 years of Abbey Road. …
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Graham Gouldman – Manchester’s Hitmaker.
“My late father was a writer. He was great to have around. I would write something and always show him the lyric and he would …
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Bob Lind and the Elusive Butterfly
Elusive Butterfly was written after an all-nighter in 1964 while living in Denver while watching the sun coming up. Inspired by W.B Yeats’ poem ‘The Song of the …
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Space Oddiity, Major Tom, Apollo and the Space Race
Space Oddity, Major Tom, Apollo and the Space Race April 1961 and the Soviet Union put Yuri Gagarin into space, the first spaceman. Many Americans …
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How To Buy … Compilation
So, how to buy a 1960’s compilation album. The obvious thing to remember is to choose one that has the original artists, some seem to think it’s …
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How to buy 1960’s…
… well I don’t know. There are so many versions of studio albums, so many compilations, a mine-field of special editions and choices of mono …
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