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Classic Love Songs of the '60s

Fall in love with the '60s all over again with Time Life's Classic Love Songs of the '60s -- a collection of the most romantic oldies. Revisit your first love with all your favorite romantic melodies featuring artists like Percy Sledge, The Temptations, The Beach Boys, The Shirelles, The Bee Gees, and many more. You won't find a better compilation of rock love songs of the decade. You'll also receive 2 bonus CDs -- that's 152 songs in all!

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Classic Love Songs of the '60s: This Magic Moment
Jay and the Americans: This Magic Moment * Little Anthony: Going Out of My Head * The Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice * B.J. Thomas: Hooked on a Feeling * The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow * Letterman: When I Fall in Love. 32 songs in all!

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: Love Letters
Love Letters: Ketty Lester * The Guess Who: Undun * Elvis Presley: Suspicious Minds * Van Morrison: Brown-Eyed Girl * Roy Orbison: Oh, Pretty Woman. 32 songs in all!

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: Sealed With A Kiss
Stevie Wonder: My Cherie Amour * Four Tops: Baby I Need Your Loving * Marvin Gaye: How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) * Tom Jones: It's Not Unusual * The Supremes: Baby Love. 32 songs in all!

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: My Special Angel
Dionne Warwick: I Say a Little Prayer * Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is * Ben E. King: Stand By Me * The Cascades: Rhythm of Rain * The Monkees: I'm a Believer * The Drifters: Under the Boardwalk. 32 songs in all!

Singers and Songwriters: 1970-1971
James Taylor: Fire And Rain * Carole King: It's Too Late * John Denver: Take Me Home, Country Roads * Cat Stevens: Wild World * Carly Simon: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be * Joan Baez: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. 24 in all!

Flower Power: Groovin'
The Young Rascals: Groovin' * Peter, Paul & Mary: Leaving on a Jet Plane * Seals & Croft: Summer Breeze * Tommy James and the Shondells: Crystal Blue Persuasion * Jonathan Edwards: Sunshine * Sonny & Cher: I Got You Babe. 34 songs in all!

Flower Power: The Time of the Season
The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin * Brewer & Shipley: One Toke over the Line * The Shocking Blue: Venus * Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt: Different Drum * Oliver: Good Morning Starshine * The Zombies: Time of the Season. 35 songs in all!

Flower Power: Born to Be Wild
Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild * The Mamas & the Papas: California Dreamin' * The Grass Roots: Midnight Confessions * Marvin Gaye: What's Going On * The Impressions: People Get Ready * Smith: Baby It's You * Elton John: Your Song. 32 songs in all!

Flower Power: Age of Aquarius
Big Brother & the Holding Company: Piece of My Heart * The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man * Donovan: Mellow Yellow * The Guess Who: American Woman * Santana: Black Magic Woman * José Feliciano: Light My Fire. 34 songs in all!

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: This Magic Moment

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Different Drum
- Linda Ronstadt
- 2:39
- 2
- This Magic Moment
- Jay and the Americans
- 2:59
- 3
- Traces
- Classics IV
- 2:48
- 4
- Abraham, Martin and John
- Dion
- 3:22
- 5
- Going out of My Head
- Little Anthony
- 2:33
- 6
- Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
- Gerry and the Pacemakers
- 2:37
- 7
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- The Beach Boys
- 2:36
- 8
- Hooked on a Feeling
- B.J. Thomas
- 2:47
- 9
- Good Morning Sunshine
- Oliver
- 3:39
- 10
- I'll Never Find Another You
- The Seekers
- 2:44
- 11
- All I Really Want To Do
- Cher
- 3:00
- 12
- Stop And Think It Over
- Dale and Grace
- 2:38
- 13
- Put A Little Love in Your Heart
- Jackie DeShannon
- 2:32
- 14
- Wichita Lineman
- Glen Campbell
- 3:06
- 15
- A World Without Love
- Peter and Gordon
- 2:41
- 16
- The Birds and the Bees
- Jewel Akens
- 2:14

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: This Magic Moment

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Calfornia Girls
- The Beach Boys
- 2:38
- 2
- This Diamond Ring
- Gary Lewis and the Playboys
- 2:14
- 3
- Elusive Butterfly
- Bob Lind
- 2:53
- 4
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
- Mel Carter
- 2:30
- 5
- Spooky
- The Classics IV
- 2:54
- 6
- What The World Needs Now Is Love
- Jackie DeShannon
- 3:11
- 7
- Honey
- Bobby Goldboro
- 4:00
- 8
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- The Shirelles
- 2:43
- 9
- Cara Mia
- Jay and the Americans
- 2:35
- 10
- Only Love Can Break a Heart
- Gene Pitney
- 2:53
- 11
- When I Fall in Love
- Letterman
- 2:29
- 12
- He's So Fine
- Chiffon
- 1:55
- 13
- Don't Worry Baby
- The Beach Boys
- 2:52
- 14
- Hurt So Bad
- Little Anthony and the Imperials
- 2:19
- 15
- Popsicles and Icicles
- The Murmaids
- 2:34
- 16
- Come Back When You Grow Up
- Bobby Vee and the Strangers
- 2:43

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: Love Letters

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Brown Eyed Girl
- Van Morrison
- 3:08
- 2
- More Today Than Yesterday
- Spiral Staircase
- 3:02
- 3
- Kind of Drag
- Buckinghams
- 2:13
- 4
- These Eyes
- Guess Who
- 3:43
- 5
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Roy Orbison
- 3:00
- 6
- Are You Lonesome Tonight
- Elvis Presley
- 3:10
- 7
- The Letter
- The Box Tops
- 1:55
- 8
- Get Together
- Youngbloods
- 4:40
- 9
- Do You Believe in Magic
- The Lovin' Spoonful
- 2:08
- 10
- Everybody's Talkin'
- Nilsson
- 2:47
- 11
- We'll Sing in the Sunshine
- Gale Garnett
- 3:00
- 12
- Lady Willpower
- Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
- 2:49
- 13
- Wedding Bell Blues
- The 5th Dimension
- 2:45
- 14
- Worst That Could Happen
- Brooklyn Bridge
- 3:04
- 15
- San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
- Scott McKenzie
- 3:03
- 16
- Angel of the Morning
- Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts
- 3:13

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: Love Letters

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Suspicious Minds
- Elvis Presley
- 4:22
- 2
- Young Girl
- Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
- 3:06
- 3
- A Summer Song
- Chad and Jeremy
- 2:39
- 4
- Undun
- The Guess Who
- 3:29
- 5
- Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind
- The Lovin' Spoonful
- 2:01
- 6
- Blue Velvet
- Bobby Vinton
- 2:50
- 7
- Chapel of Love
- The Dixie Cups
- 2:51
- 8
- Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)
- Roy Orbison
- 2:28
- 9
- Little Green Apples
- O.C. Smith
- 3:56
- 10
- Downtown
- Petula Clark
- 3:04
- 11
- Light My Fire
- Jose Feliciano
- 3:30
- 12
- Carrie-Anne
- The Hollies
- 2:58
- 13
- I Will Follow Him
- Little Peggy March
- 2:28
- 14
- You've Made Me so Very Happy
- Blood, Sweat and Tears
- 4:15
- 15
- To Sir with Love
- Lulu
- 2:46
- 16
- Love Letters
- Ketty Lester
- 2:43

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: Sealed With A Kiss

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Baby I Need Your Loving
- Four Tops
- 2:46
- 2
- Midnight Confessions
- The Grass Roots
- 2:44
- 3
- My Cherie Amour
- Stevie Wonder
- 2:53
- 4
- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
- Marvin Gaye
- 2:58
- 5
- What a Wonderful World
- Louis Armstrong
- 2:18
- 6
- My Guy
- Mary Wells
- 2:52
- 7
- The Tracks of My Tears
- The Miracles
- 2:53
- 8
- Sunny
- Bobby Hebb
- 2:42
- 9
- Baby Now That I've Found You
- Foundations
- 2:37
- 10
- Sealed with a Kiss
- Brian Hyland
- 2:39
- 11
- 1-2-3
- Len Barry
- 2:26
- 12
- Love Is All Around
- Troggs
- 3:01
- 13
- Wishin' and Hopin'
- Dusty Springfield
- 2:55
- 14
- You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
- Righteous Brothers
- 3:49
- 15
- Go Now!
- The Moody Blues
- 3:12
- 16
- Hey Paula
- Paul and Paula
- 2:31

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: Sealed With A Kiss

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough
- Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
- 2:31
- 2
- My Girl
- The Temptations
- 2:44
- 3
- Our Day Will Come
- Ruby and The Romantics
- 2:31
- 4
- Ooo Baby Baby
- The Miracles
- 2:44
- 5
- Baby Love
- The Supremes
- 2:44
- 6
- The Look of Love
- Sergio Mendes and Brasil
- 2:42
- 7
- Love is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
- Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra
- 2:34
- 8
- Crazy
- Patsy Cline
- 2:44
- 9
- Dedicated to the One I Love
- The Mamas and the Papas
- 3:03
- 10
- It's Not Unusual
- Tom Jones
- 2:03
- 11
- I'm Sorry
- Brenda Lee
- 2:42
- 12
- You Were on My Mind
- We Five
- 2:36
- 13
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- Dusty Springfield
- 2:49
- 14
- What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
- Jimmy Ruffin
- 2:57
- 15
- Hey Baby
- Bruce Channel
- 2:23
- 16
- Unchained Melody
- The Righteous Brothers
- 3:40

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: My Special Angel

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Crystal Blue Persuasion
- Tommy James and the Shondells
- 4:09
- 2
- Happy Together
- The Turtles
- 2:55
- 3
- A Beautiful Morning
- Rascals
- 2:34
- 4
- Tell It Like It Is
- Aaron Neville
- 2:43
- 5
- The Shoop Shoop (It's in His Kiss)
- Betty Everett
- 2:16
- 6
- Stand By Me
- Ben E. King
- 3:01
- 7
- A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)
- Aretha Franklin
- 4:28
- 8
- Cherish
- Assocation
- 3:26
- 9
- Rhythm of the Rain
- The Cascades
- 2:33
- 10
- Since I Fell for You
- Lenny Welch
- 2:55
- 11
- I Say a Little Prayer
- Dionne Warwick
- 3:03
- 12
- Both Sides Now
- Judy Collins
- 3:17
- 13
- If I Were A Carpenter
- Bobby Darin
- 2:25
- 14
- Dawn
- The 4 Seasons
- 2:50
- 15
- Turn Around, Look at Me
- The Vogues
- 5:35
- 16
- Love (Can Make You Happy)
- Mercy
- 3:15

Classic Love Songs of the '60s: My Special Angel

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- I'm A Believer
- The Monkees
- 2:49
- 2
- Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
- Frankie Valli
- 3:23
- 3
- I Think We're Alone Now
- Tommy James and the Shondells
- 2:21
- 4
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Percy Sledge
- 2:52
- 5
- See You in September
- The Happenings
- 2:34
- 6
- (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
- Otis Redding
- 2:45
- 7
- Under the Boardwalk
- The Drifters
- 2:42
- 8
- I Got You Babe
- Sonny and Cher
- 3:12
- 9
- Walk on By
- Dionne Warwick
- 2:53
- 10
- How Can I Be Sure
- The Young Rascals
- 2:54
- 11
- Last Kiss
- J. Frank Wilson and the Cavliers
- 2:28
- 12
- Baby, I'm Yours
- Barbara Lewis
- 2:31
- 13
- Never My Love
- The Association
- 3:08
- 14
- I've Gotta Get a Message to You
- The Bee Gees
- 3:10
- 15
- Let's Hang On
- The Four Seasons
- 3:19
- 16
- My Special Angel
- The Vogues
- 3:01

Singers and Songwriters: 1970-1971

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Maggie May
- Rod Stewart
- 5:49
- 2
- It's Too Late
- Carole King
- 3:55
- 3
- Me And Bobby McGee
- Janis Joplin
- 4:31
- 4
- What's Going On
- Marvin Gaye
- 3:54
- 5
- Wild World
- Cat Stevens
- 3:21
- 6
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Bill Withers
- 2:07
- 7
- Mr. Bojangles
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- 5:12
- 8
- Woodstock
- Matthews' Southern Comfort
- 4:28
- 9
- Uncle John's Band
- The Grateful Dead
- 4:45
- 10
- Here Comes The Sun
- Richie Havens
- 3:48
- 11
- Love The One You're With
- Stephen Stills
- 3:07
- 12
- Only You Know And I Know
- Dave Mason
- 4:06

Singers and Songwriters: 1970-1971

- Track
- Title
- Artist/Composer
- Time
- 1
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- John Denver
- 3:13
- 2
- Fire And Rain
- James Taylor
- 3:24
- 3
- Gypsy Woman
- Brian Hyland
- 2:35
- 4
- Peace Train
- Cat Stevens
- 4:05
- 5
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
- The Hollies
- 4:16
- 6
- That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
- Carly Simon
- 4:17
- 7
- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
- Marvin Gaye
- 3:17
- 8
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Joan Baez
- 3:23
- 9
- If
- Bread
- 2:35
- 10
- Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)
- Melanie With The Edwin Hawkins Singers
- 3:56
- 11
- Jealous Guy
- John Lennon And The Plastic Ono Band
- 4:16
- 12
- Sunshine
- Jonathan Edwards
- 2:15

1970-1971
One of the interesting shifts in pop music during the early 1970s was a return to the kind of acoustic-oriented songs that had been associated with the folk revival of the previous decade. As a physical alternative to the mounting decibel level of hard rock, as well as an emotional respite from the cultural aftershocks still resonating from the late '60s, the gentler sounds of folk-based music turned out to be just the right tonic for a generation hoping to lighten its load.

Not surprisingly, then, a good number of performers who emerged as pop stars in the early '70s had roots in '60s folk music. John Denver started his career as a member of the folk group the Chad Mitchell Trio, and began to make a name for himself as a songwriter when Peter, Paul and Mary took his Leaving on a Jet Plane to the top of the charts in 1969. Two years later, Denver's solo career took off like that aforementioned jet with Take Me Home, Country Roads, the first of his many folk-tinged '70s hits.

Carly Simon likewise made her first recordings as part of a folk group: the Simon Sisters. She and her older sibling Lucy put music to the children's poem Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod and scored a minor hit with it in '64. It wasn't until 1971, though, that Carly released her first solo album--source of her top-10 debut single, the haunting coming-of-age ballad That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be.

During the heyday of the '60s folk scene, long-haired, guitar-strumming Joan Baez was the very model of the altruistic, cause-driven female folksinger. While she was internationally famous (as much for her strongly anti-war politics as her music), Baez had never had anything approaching a hit single before her dynamic version of Robbie Robertson and the Band's Civil War-themed The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, which gave her the only top-10 entry of her distinguished career.

Richie Havens was a veteran presence on the fabled Greenwich Village coffeehouse circuit and was known to folk aficionados for his 1968 album Mixed Bag before his crowd-pleasing set at 1969's mythic Woodstock concert finally made him a household name. Highly acclaimed for his unique interpretations of well-known rock and pop tunes, Havens had a sizable hit in 1971 with his take on the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun. (Also on the subject of Woodstock, it should be noted that it was Englishman Iain Matthews and his band Matthews' Southern Comfort who scored a No. 1 U.K. hit with their stirring arrangement of Woodstock, Joni Mitchell's chronicle of the event. Matthews' folk roots ran deep, too; along with guitarist Richard Thompson, he co-founded England's highly influential Celtic rock group Fairport Convention.)

Richie Havens and Joan Baez weren't the only folk-leaning Woodstock performers to score hits in 1970 and '71. Another New York club regular, Melanie Safka, had already recorded her anthemic Beautiful People at the height of the flower-power era in 1969. Her appearance at Woodstock inspired the singer-songwriter to pay tribute to its water-soaked attendees with the equally anthemic 1970 hit Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).

Stephen Stills, who registered a solo hit in 1970 with the high-spirited Love the One You're With, had also been at Woodstock--as a member of the then budding supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash. While many were familiar with him as a former member of Buffalo Springfield (for whom he wrote and sang lead on the 1967 hit For What It's Worth), not many knew he had started out as a folk musician. In fact, it was while he was a part of the short-lived Au Go Go Singers that Stills met future Springfield partners Richie Furay and Neil Young.

Actually, folk music was also very much a part of the backgrounds of several of Woodstock's rock acts. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead--heard here on Uncle John's Band, their autobiographical salute to Dead manager John Cutler--played banjo and guitar in numerous folk and bluegrass bands during the early 1960s. In fact, the Dead themselves grew out of an acoustic band Garcia played in called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions.

Garcia's Haight-Ashbury musical neighbor Janis Joplin cut her teeth as a folk and blues singer in her native Texas before rising to prominence in the late '60s as lead vocalist for the psychedelic Big Brother and the Holding Company. The versatile Joplin was also well versed in country music, however, and it was a country song, Kris Kristofferson's Me and Bobby McGee, that gave the troubled star a posthumous No. 1 hit in 1971.

Speaking of country music, folk-country singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker authored the classic Mr. Bojangles in 1968, and a few years later the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band turned his heart-touching story of an aging dancer into a memorable top-10 hit. Like the Dead, the Dirt Band had started life as a jug band (one of its early members was Jackson Browne) before gaining fame as pioneering proponents of country-rock, a style that drew heavily on elements of acoustic and folk music as well.

Nimbly blending folk and country music was something that James Taylor began doing quite well in the early 1970s. The title tune of his breakthrough 1970 album, Sweet Baby James, found him imagining himself a carefree cowboy camping out on the open plains--quite a far cry from the true-to-life mental hospital setting depicted in his soft-spirited but sorrow-filled hit Fire and Rain.

Equally gentle-sounding was Sunshine, the only hit for singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards. This country-tinged tune also featured a good old-fashioned folk protest slant--a slant that was, after all of the tumult of the '60s, still very much a part of early-'70s music. "He can't even run his own life/I'll be damned if he'll run mine," sang Edwards in this song about an individual seeking to escape society's rat race. That same general sentiment about the evils of a society filled with "bad air" also ran through Londoner Cat Stevens' 1971 hit Wild World, a song neatly counterbalanced by his same-year invitation to end all wars by hopping aboard a global Peace Train.

Stopping violence--both human against human and humans against the earth--wasn't only on the mind of folk-related artists of the early '70s, either. In songs such as What's Going On and Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), both stemming from his groundbreaking 1971 concept album, What's Going On, Marvin Gaye bemoaned everything from police brutality in America's inner cities to the ecological brutality taking place throughout the world's forests and oceans. This melding of soul and protest music neatly demonstrated just how far-reaching the folk influence had extended. Powerful stuff, indeed--and without any blaring electric guitars or pounding drums, either.

-- Billy Altman

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