50 Year Vintage: 1967 Immortal

Over at the vintage blogs, I've highlighted a number of songs from releases, singles, EPs, scores, et al. that came through 10/20/30/40/50/60 years ago.   For the purpose of these lists, each artist will only appear once on each list

Here are the 50 best singles from 1967, a year of so many memorable tunes:

1. The Beatles - "A Day in the Life"
2. Scott Walker - "The Plague"
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "May This Be Love"
4. The Doors - "The End"
5. Nico - "These Days"
6. Dawn Penn - "You Don't Love Me (No no no)"
7. Les Yper-Sound - "Psyche Rock"
8. Classics IV - "Spooky"
9. Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive"
10. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - "Some Velvet Morning"
11. The Marvelettes - "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game"
12. Odetta - "Sail Away Ladies"
13. Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne"
14. Buffalo Springfield - "Expecting to Fly"
15. Nina Simone - "The Turning Point"
16. The Red Crayola - "Hurricane Fighter Plane"
17. James Brown - "Cold Sweat (pt 1 & 2)"
18. Terry Riley - "You're Nogood"
19. Jerry Reed - "I Feel For You"
20. Perrey-Kingsley - "Carousel of the Planets"
21. Tintern Abbey - "Vacuum Cleaner"
22. Alton Ellis - "I'm Still in Love With You"
23. The Kinks - "David Watts"
24. The Zombies - "Care of Cell 44"
25. The Paragons - "The Tide is High"
26. The Turtles - "Happy Together"
27. Thelonius Monk - "Straight No Chaser"
28. David McCallum - "The Edge"
29. The Elastik Band - "Spazz"
30. The Bar-Kays - "Soul Finger"
31. Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"
32. Frankie Valli - "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"
33. The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
34. Archie Bell & the Drells - "Tighten Up"
35. The Minstrels - "People Get Ready"
36. Janis Ian - "A Song for All the Seasons Of Your Mind"
37. Love - "Alone Again Or"
38. Lou Rawls - "Dead End Street"
39. The Third Bardo - "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time"
40. John Harris and the Soul Sayers - "Hangin In"
41. The Grass Roots - "Depressed Feeling"
42. Desmond Dekker - "Unity"
43. The Supremes - "The Happening"
44. Gene Pitney - "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart"
45. The Peddlers - "Sneakin Up On You"
46. Glen Campbell - "Gentle on My Mind"
47. The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "74 Miles Away"
48. The Amboy Dukes - "Baby Please Don't Go"
49. The Youngbloods - "Get Together"
50. Small Faces - "Itchycoo Park"

Here are 30 Best Albums from 1967, a year when albums came into their own:

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks
3. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
5. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Nico - Chelsea Girl
7. The Walker Brothers - Images
8. The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
9. Nina Simone - Silk & Soul
10. Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
11. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
12. The Who - Sell Out
13. The Paragons - On the Beach
14. The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds
15. Letta Mbulu - Letta Mbulu Sings
16. The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
17. Perrey-Kingsley - Kaleidscopic Visions
18. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Picnic
19. Astrud Gilberto - Beach Samba
20. The Doors - Strange Days
21. Hal Blaine - Psychedelic Percussion
22. The Standells - Try It
23. Peter Walker - Rainy Day Raga
24. Henry Mancini - Wait Until Dark OST
25. The Free Design - Kites are  Fun
26. Love - Forever Changes
27. Booker T & The MG's - Hip-Hug Her
28. Dionne Warwick - Windows of the World
29. Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
30. The Monkees - More of the Monkees

1968 is Undead

Hello folks,
I'm back from honeymoon and yes, I'm officially married now. It feels good. Also, I'd like to point out that I hate the Phillies fans who were screaming and honking outside my window until 3AM last night.

In lighter news, let's talk about death.

Marco Lanzagorta has assembled a collection of 30 fantastic essays prepped for the 40th anniversary of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (including an intro by the man himself) and not only is this a fascinating compendium, but yours truly has an essay in it, published in today's segment.

1968 is Undead touches on the ways that we are "haunted" by the 1960s, even today (and this essay was written before Bill Ayers, a Weather Underground member turned college professor, became such a central figure behind John McCain's campaign).

Here's the rest of the feature. When you get a chance, you really should go through a check out a few or all of them.