1966 - 1967 Compilation Info

1.	The Beatles - Yesterday	This is the first song the Beatles did that doesn't have the "rock band" sound. It's just a voice accompanied by a string quartet.
2.	Temptations - Get Ready	Written and produced by Motown legend Smokey Robinson.
3.	Zappa - Trouble Comin' Everyday	The acid-witted Frank Zappa never left you wondering where he stood on any issue. This song is from his debut album.
4.	Rolling Stones - Paint It : Black	A #1 hit in June 1966. The culture of India, with it's peaceful zen philosophy and hypnotic music, was becoming very popular. The Indian instrument sitar appears in many popular songs of this time, including this one. Some bands would hire professional Indian musicians but in this case it's played by band member Brian Jones, who taught himself to play.
5.	Troggs - Wild Thing	Not the first version of this song, but easily the most popular one. It reached #1 in July of 1966 and was knocked off that spot 3 weeks later by the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City".
6.	Left Banke - Walk Away, Renee	The keyboard player in this band had a thing for the bass player's girlfriend. He wrote this song about his feelings for her.
7.	Beatles - Eleanor Rigby	The Beatles' interest in orchestration at this time is attributed to their fixation on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Like "Yesterday", this song is just vocals and string quartet. You can hear a lot of Wilson's influence on both the Revolver and Sgt. Pepper albums.
8.	Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City	The band's only #1 hit. Eric Clapton used the keyboard riff from this song for the 1967 Cream song "Tales of Brave Ulysses". Lovin' Spoonful drummer/vocalist Joseph Campbell Butler replaced Jim Rado in the original Broadway production of Hair, playing Claude for 4 months.
9.	Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops	If this lead singer sounds familiar, his name is Levi Stubbs and he was the voice of Audrey 2 in the original production of Little Shop of Horrors.
10.	Bus Stop - The Hollies	Although Crosby, Stills and Nash were not making music together until 1969, music fans knew Graham Nash as the lead singer of British band The Hollies.
11.	59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkel	59th Street Bridge = Queensboro Bridge.
12.	Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks	A number one hit single in England. The song appeared on the album Face to Face, which is considered by some to be the first rock "concept album". All the songs on the album are social commentaries.
13.	Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding	This song was written back in 1933. Grandparents of Tribe members might recognize the song from the recordings they'd heard by Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante or Frank Sinatra. A slow instrumental version of the song runs under the opening credits of the movie Dr. Strangelove.
14.	Break on Through - The Doors	First song on the first Doors album. People listening to the song at the time would have not heard the word "high" in the middle section of the song, because the label censored it out.
15.	Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group	Sung by a 19-year old Steve Winwood, who later went on to form the band Traffic, then have a solo career of his own.
16.	Get Together - The Youngbloods	This song was written in 1963 and covered several times before and after this version. It peaked at #62 on the charts in 1967, but it became a top 10 hit two years later when it was used in a TV public service announcement by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
17.	Superbird - Country Joe and the Fish	One of the many psychedelic bands of San Francisco. Joe was the lead singer, the lead guitarist's nickname was "the Fish"...hence the name.
18.	Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane	Singer Grace Slick brought this song with her from her previous band, The Great Society. New York music fans wouldn't know the older version because it got almost no distribution outside their hometown of San Francisco.
19.	Dedicated to the One I Love - The Mamas and the Papas	Sung briefly by Hud in his Abie Baby monologue. Parents or older siblings of Tribe members might recognize the song from the minor 1961 hit by The "5" Royales, or the #3 hit later that year by the girl-group The Shirelles.
20.	Let's Spend the Night Together - Rolling Stones	The band was instructed to sing "Let's Spend Some Time Together" on the Ed Sullivan show. Mick Jagger rolled his eyes during a closeup shot of that performance, mocking the censors. This song was released as a single, with "Ruby Tuesday" as the flip side. Radio stations that were uncomfortable with the subject matter just played Ruby Tuesday instead, making it a big hit as well.
21.	For What It's Worth - The Buffalo Springfield	Stephen Stills and Neil Young were members of this band. Although the song deals with many issues, Stills wrote the song after a specific incident between police and youth that resulted in the closing of the West Hollywood nightclub Pandora's Box.
22.	Mellow Yellow - Donovan	Some people believed this song is about smoking dried banana peels to get high (the rumor that this actually works was started by Country Joe McDonald right around the time of the song's release). Donovan fans of the time would know that he suffered from liver disease in the winter of 1966 and the song was a crack at his own appearance.
23.	I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes	Some dark psychedelic music from an LA band whose name was suggested as a joke.
24.	Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum	The keyboard lines are inspired by 2 pieces by JS Bach - The cantata "Sleepers, Awake" and the "Air on a G String".
25.	"I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" Rag - Country Joe and the Fish	More biting political music from San Francisco. At live performances the "Fish cheer" that starts the song often became the "Fuck cheer" instead.