The Best of the 60s / The UK TOP 10 of the 60s / The Sound of the 60s / 3x Audio CD Set 2008 /

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MADE IN THE E.C

In North America and Europe the decade was particularly revolutionary in terms of popular music, as it saw the evolution of rock. At the beginning of the 1960s, pop and rock and roll trends of the 1950s continued; nevertheless, the rock and roll of the decade before started to merge into a more international, eclectic variant known as rock. In the early-1960s, rock and roll in its purest form was gradually overtaken by pop rock, beat, psychedelic rock, blues rock, and folk rock, which had grown in popularity. The country- and folk-influenced style associated with the latter half of 1960s rock music spawned a generation of popular singersongwriters who wrote and performed their own work. Towards the decade's end, genres such as Baroque pop, sunshine pop, bubblegum pop, and progressive rock started to grow popular, with the latter two finding greater success in the following decade. Furthermore, the 1960s saw funk and soul music rising in popularity; rhythm and blues in general remained popular, and this style was commonly associated with Boy groups of the time, whose fusion of R&B and Gospel with rock and roll enjoyed success until the mid-part of the decade. Aside from the popularity of rock and R&B music in the 1960s, Latin American as well as Jamaican and Cuban music achieved a degree of popularity throughout the decade, with genres such as Bossa nova, the cha-cha-cha, ska,and calypso being popular. From a classical point of view, the 1960s were also an important decade as they saw the development of electronic, experimental, jazz and contemporary classical music, notably minimalism and free improvisation.

In Asia, various trends marked the popular music of the 1960s. In Japan, the decade saw the rise in popularity of several Western popular music groups such as The Beatles. The success of rock music and bands in Japan started a new genre, known as Group Sounds, which was popular in the latter half of the decade.

In South America, genres such as bossa nova, Nueva canción and Nueva ola started to rise. Rock music began leaving its mark, and achieved success in the 1960s. Additionally, salsa grew popular towards the end of the decade. In the 1960s cumbia entered Chile and left a long-lasting impact on tropical music in that country.

Tracklist:

CD 1

1 Donovan Sunshine Superman

2 Drifters Save the last dance for me

3 Crystals Da doo ron ron

4 Foundations Build me up buttercup

5 Percy Sledge When a man loves a woman

6 Freddie and the Dreamers You were made for me

7 Searchers Sweet for my sweet Bachelors Dianne

9 Gerry and the Pacemakers How do you do

10 Billy J Kramer Do you want to know a secret

11 Clodagh Rogers Come back and shake me

12 Shangri-las Leader of the pack

13 Drifters Saturday night at the movies

14 The Troggs Wild thing

15 Searchers Don't throw you love away

16 Dionne Warwick Walk on by

17 Percy Sledge Warm and tender love

18 Sam and Dave Soul man
 

CD 2

1 Billy J Kramer Do you want to know a secret

2 Susan Maughan Bobby's girl

3 Freddie and the Dreamers You were made for me

4 Heinz Just like Eddie

5 Dave Berry The crying game

6 Nashville Teens Tobacco Road

7 Hermans Hermits Wonderful world

8 Ivy League Funny how love can be

9 Karl Denver Mexicali Rose

10 Billy J Kramer From a window

11 Rockin' Berries He's in town

12 Gerry and the Pacemakers Ferry cross the Mersey

13 Eric Burdon We gotta get out of this place

14 Ivy League Tossin' and Turnin'

15 The Troggs Wild Thing

16 Freddie & The Dreamers If You Gotta Make Fool Of Somebody

CD 3

1 Nashville Teens Tobacco Road

2 Merseybeats Sorrow

3 Drifters Under the boardwalk

4 Crystals Then he kissed me

5 Bachelors Marie

6 Wayne Fontana Groovy kind of love

7 Foundations Baby now that I've found you

8 The Diamonds Little darlin'

9 Freddy and the Dreamers I'm telling you now

10 Herman's Hermits No milk today

11 Drifters Up on the roof

12 Edison Lighthouse Love grows

13 Brian Poole Silence is golden

14 Shangri-las Remember (walking in the sand)

15 Searchers Needles and Pins

16 Mary Wells My guy

17 Dionne Warwick San Jose'

18 Vanity Fare Hitchin a ride