Songs that could be '60s garage...if they weren't hits

[bosshoss]

Just a place to list a few great ones, for fun.
Lots of songs like this are listed in TBM as honorable mentions. But there's others...Beach Boys, Byrds, Bob Dylan.. etc.
Please join in if you can think of any. There's no rules, anything goes.
The Beach Boys had a few. Here's one (my favourite Beach Boys track), pure 60s garage even with the harmonies. What an amazing song structure, and performance.

 

[Frantic]

Just a place to list a few great ones, for fun.
Lots of songs like this are listed in TBM as honorable mentions. But there's others...Beach Boys, Byrds, Bob Dylan.. etc.
Please join in if you can think of any. There's no rules, anything goes.
The Beach Boys had a few. Here's one (my favourite Beach Boys track), pure 60s garage even with the harmonies. What an amazing song structure, and performance.

Top 3 B. Boys

 

[Jim]

 

[Jim]

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Top 3 B. Boys

Glen Campbell on Rickenbacker electric 12-string...

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

THEM. Both of these

 

[Dave Baldwin]

THEM. Both of these

"Gloria" was a chart hit for both Them and The Shadows Of Knight. "Mystic Eyes"...not so much.

 

[13th Floor Garage]

Dave Clark Five - I'm Thinking
Beatles - Bad Boy
Rolling Stones - Fortune Teller
Turtles - She'll Come Back
Cowsills - All I Really Wanna Be Is Me

Monkees (or Paul Revere/Raiders version) - I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone
(l believe already mentioned in TBM - it's late and I'm too lazy to check)

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Dave Clark Five - I'm Thinking
Beatles - Bad Boy
Rolling Stones - Fortune Teller
Turtles - She'll Come Back
Cowsills - All I Really Wanna Be Is Me

Monkees (or Paul Revere/Raiders version) - I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone
(l believe already mentioned in TBM - it's late and I'm too lazy to check)

Killer songs all...but none were "chart hits" in the U.S.A. Don't remember hearing any of them on the radio, except maybe "Bad Boy".

 

[haigo]

Glen Campbell on Rickenbacker electric 12-string...

actually carl wilson on rickenbacker 12 string glenn campbell used an acoustic

 

[last_heard]

# 530 on TBM top 1000 list

 

[Dave Baldwin]

actually carl wilson on rickenbacker 12 string glenn campbell used an acoustic

I dunno...Carl usually played a Fender or Gibson electric-12 and Glen a Mosrite. "Dance, Dance, Dance" sounds like a Ric.

 

[Rythmn Boy]

Don't know if they were hits in the US, but lots of tunes by The Troggs could probably be classified as garage. They had a run of great B-sides in 1966 including:

From Home [B-side of Wild Thing]

I Want You [B-side of A Girl Like You]

66-5-4-3-2-1 [B-side of Any Way That You Want Me]

 

[haigo]

I dunno...Carl usually played a Fender or Gibson electric-12 and Glen a Mosrite. "Dance, Dance, Dance" sounds like a Ric.

per craig slowinski and other beach boys experts carl wilson electric 12 string intro riff and solo and glen campbell 12 string acoustic bill pittman intro on danelectro 6 string bass

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

"Gloria" was a chart hit for both Them and The Shadows Of Knight. "Mystic Eyes"...not so much.

"Mystic Eyes" made number 33! in US charts on October 30, 1965, but didn't chart in uk.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

"Mystic Eyes" made number 33! in US charts on October 30, 1965, but didn't chart in uk.

Never heard it on the radio...and my local AM jocks played 'Top-100' fare like "Til The End Of The Day",
"Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" and "I've Got To Have A Reason" that the bigger stations didn't play.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

per craig slowinski and other beach boys experts carl wilson electric 12 string intro riff and solo and glen campbell 12 string acoustic bill pittman intro on danelectro 6 string bass

Cool...I guess Carl had everybody's confidence by then as a session-ready picker. Those John Maus guitar lessons really paid off.

 

[Jim]

 

[Jim]

 

[Jim]

3 UK bands. Tracks were b sides to hit 45's or off of hit albums