13: Your 1960-1964 one track per album faves

This is the lucky thirteenth topic in a series with one track per album for a set of given years. In this it is one track per album for the years 1960 through 1964. I started with the 202Os and have been working backwards in time. I hope to see some of your favourite tracks from these years. If it seems daunting, consider just listing, say, five or ten tracks from the years. You can always make another list later, or add to your existing list later.

As for my list, I decided to only include one track from one album per act for my list.

The Animals "The House of the Rising Sun" (The Animals, 1964)
Joan Baez "The Trees They Do Grow High" (Joan Baez, Vol. 2, 1961)
John Barry "James Bond With Bongos" (From Russia With Love, 1963)
Bobby Christian "The Call (Theme from Space)" (Strings for a Space Age, 1962)
John Coltrane "Giant Steps" (Giant Steps, 1960)
Miles Davis "Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio" (Sketches of Spain, 1960)
Eric Dolphy "Something Sweet, Something Tender" (Out to Lunch, 1964)
Esquivel "Autumn Leaves" (Infinity in Sound, 1960)
Stan Getz & João Gilberto "The Girl From Ipanema" (Getz / Gilberto, 1964)
Herbie Hancock "The Egg" (Empyrean Isles, 1960)
Françoise Hardy "Saurai-je" (Le premier bonheur du jour, 1963)
Serge Gainsbourg "Les goémons" (No. 4, 1962)
Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo "Maid of the Moon" (Moon Gas, 1963)
Mingus "Duet Solo Dancers" (The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, 1963)
Karlheinz Stockhausen "Gesang der Jünglinge" (Gesang der Jünglinge · Kontakte, 1962)
Sun Ra "Tapestry From an Asteroid" (The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra, 1962)
The Tornadoes "Ridin' the Wind" (Telstar: The Sounds of The Tornadoes, 1962)
The Ventures "Out of Limits" ((The) Ventures in Space, 1964)

I made a youtube playlist of my choices and will share it in case any might like to hear any of the tracks.




Here are the past topics for reference (you might wish to add your own choices to any of the topics if you have not done so already).

12: Your 1965-1969 one track per album faves
11: Your 1970-74 One track per album track faves (CLICK)
10: Your 1975-79 track faves - One track per album (CLICK)
9: Your 1980-1984 track faves. One track per album (CLICK)
8* Your 1985-1989 track faves One track per album (CLICK)
7: Your 1990-1994 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
6: Your 1995-1999 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
5- Your 2000-2004 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
4: Your 2005-2009 track faves (one track per album) (CLICK)
3: Your 2010-2015 tracks faves (one per album) (CLICK)
2: 2016-2019 Album tracks, one track per album (CLICK)
One per act: 2020s tracks under ten minutes, or... (CLICK)

Thanks for any and all participation.

Edited by Logan - November 26 2023 at 23:26

^ I have far, far fewer albums from this period than later years. I guess I have a fair number of jazz albums from the time. Although music had been around for thousands of years -- caveman rock was quite boring, it became much more interesting when they invented paper and scissors -- and despite very sophisticated music having been around for considerable hundreds of years, so much of the music of that time sounds so naive and embryonic, like it had been born so recently (well, rock & roll and kinds of electric/ electronic music was pretty new or new). And so much has dated in a way that music not many years later did not partially because that later 60s-and-up music has remained popular and relevant. There is a kind of naive innocence to a lot of the early rock & roll, surf pop, chanson music.... Sure, there was interesting jazz then, and experimental music, and various lovely folk music as ever, but it was like there was this explosion of music just a short while later. This period is largely of a much neglected time for me (and for PA), almost like it was before music proper... Before the music that made me (not literally).... Some fun stuff from the period. Amazing to me how far rock-related and electric music progressed in just a few short years, and generally how music largely developed and changed.