1964 - 1965 Compilation Info

1.	Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing In the Street	This song was adopted by some leaders of the civil rights movement and was played while organizing demonstrations. For that reason, it was taken off the playlists of some radio stations. Listen to the loud drum beat...it's emphasized by the sound of someone banging a crowbar.
2.	Beatles - Tell Me Why	With it's Doo-Wop style chord progression and brisk tempo, John Lennon jokingly referred to this song as a "black New York girl-group" song. The song was also included in the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night".
3.	Beatles - And I Love Her	Another song from "A Hard Day's Night". Notice that the song never really settles into a key for more than a few seconds. It's an odd composition that sounds completely normal until you really listen to it.
4.	Beach Boys - I Get Around	The Beach Boys' first #1 single topped the charts July 4, 1964.
5.	Zombies - She's Not There	Jazzy and laid back, this single took it's time climbing the charts - taking 2 months to reach #2. It was the Zombies first single.
6.	Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good	This was the youngest and cleanest-cut of the "British Invasion" bands. Lead singer (and British soap opera star) Peter Noone was only 16 years old when this song was recorded. The song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
7.	Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman	This song sold more copies in the first 10 days of it's release than any other single in history.
8.	Animals - The House of the Rising Sun	An American folk ballad that dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. "House of the Rising Sun" is a euphamism for a brothel.
9.	The Kinks - You Really Got Me	Guitarist Dave Davies got his distorted sound by slashing the speaker cones in his amplifier with a razor blade. The piano was played by John Lord, who would go on to form the band Deep Purple.
10.	Rolling Stones - Time Is On My Side	This was the band's first top-10 hit in the US. In October they played it on their first Ed Sullivan appearance. Sullivan was so disgusted by the way they looked that he banned them from any future appearances. The ban only lasted about a year.
11.	Petula Clark - Downtown	Originally intended for the Drifters, this song was a #1 hit during the winter of 1964-65. Clark's recording career went back 10 years earlier and she was also a film star since her childhood.
12.	Beatles - I Feel Fine	Possibly the first use of guitar feedback on any record. Definately the first use of it on a #1 hit single.
13.	Supremes - Come See About Me	Took 2 trips to the #1 position on the charts, one in Dec 1964 and one in Jan 1965.
14.	Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come	An anthem of the American civil-rights movement. Cooke was inspired to write it after being arrested in Alabama for "disturbing the peace" when he tried to check into a "whites-only" hotel.
15.	The Impressions - People Get Ready	The best-known song of the Impressions long career. Their songs inspired many involved in the American civil rights movement.
16.	Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week	A Tribe member who knew this would probably have heard it because they have a sibling in college. A bit ahead of his time, Harvard student (and later MIT math professor) Tom Lehrer wrote witty, scathing songs about politics and social concerns. In 1965 this would be a record you'd be hiding from your parents.
17.	Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual	Tom Jones' first top 10 hit in the US.
18.	Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling	A classic example of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" production technique. This style was a huge influence on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys.
19.	Beatles - Please Please Me	Many people believe this song to be about oral sex.
20.	Temptations - My Girl	This Smokey Robinson composition was the Temptations' first #1 hit and is still their best-known song.
21.	Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues	A musical "beat poem" about the issues of youth culture. "Mixing up the medicine" = dropping acid. "Better stay away from those that carry around a firehose" is a reference to the American civil rights struggles. "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" would inspire the name of the American Maoist activist group The Weatherman in the last 60's. This song has one of the earliest music videos ever made, filmed as part of a documentary on Dylan's 1965 British tour.
22.	The Yardbirds - For Your Love	The first big hit by the British band that featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar.
23.	The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic?	Title track from the folk-rock band's first album.
24.	The Lovin' Spoonful - Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind	An amusing minor hit from the band. Both this and Do You Believe in Magic were written by John Sebastian, who went on to a successful solo career as well.
25.	Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody	Another "Wall of Sound" production, this one with the classic "magic (chord) changes" of rock and roll ballads - I-vi-IV-V.