Micky:  Right you are (music before ’67), I decided to theme mine on psych, but did think about British Invasion, Merseybeat, Motown etc.  The Mar-Keys “Last Night” Completely forgot about this great tune, Micky!  Thanks for putting it back on my radar.  You can hear shades of Sir Douglas to come with this one.  Freddy Cannon “Palisades Park”  Remember this one well, too.  This would have been more my sister’s influence in the house, the Mar-Keys would have been from my mom spinning the platters (also, spinning The Platters, one of her favourite groups).  Fun upbeat music, this.  Reminds me of watching Lloyd Thaxton and Hullabaloo on tv.  King Curtis “Soul Twist”  Here’s more of my mom’s music…we all loved all of it, but she would have brought this one to our attention.  Barbara Lewis “Hello Stranger” What a smooth beautiful voice she had.  Yeah, miss those radio days, too.  The Dave Clark Five, “Any Way You Want It”  This would be my sister’s choice…and by now we were also playing local LA bands like Love and The Seeds with our British Invasion music.  The Marvelettes “Don’t Mess With Bill”  A huge hit, I can remember seeing these ladies making the rounds of TV variety shows, this is where my mom’s edumacating us about music and my sister’s ears tuned to the hits really merged.  Thank you for the walk down memory lane.  😊

Lewian: Delia Derbyshire “Pot Au Feu” I’m either gonna really love what you bring forth, or I might not quite get it, but whatever, always interested to hear what you are bringing to these polls.  In this case, not sure it’s love, but it’s certainly very intriguing.  Minimalist and experimental.  Definitely an attention-grabber, in wondering what is coming next in it.

suitkees:   It’s A Beautiful Day “Bulgaria”  And a fine San Francisco psychedelic classic you picked here.  😊  Great piece, a precursor to progressive music.  Here, as in my choice of HP Lovecraft’s “The White Ship,” you have the very slow pacing and hypnotic side of psych.  Henry & Colombier “Too Fortiche”  Here is something completely different from your last.  Here some electronic buggy stuff with electric guitar zipping along underneath, with a lot of fuzz.  Tom Dissevelt “Intersection”  More electronic dibbling and dabbling about.  I like the sort of scary orchestral hit stuff that goes on about a minute in.  It’s actually very sound-tracky to my ear, for a sci fi or horror film.  Then gets kinda sixties jazzy with horns.  John Coltrane “Sun Star” Here is what I think of, when I think of jazz of a certain style.  He just epitomizes I here.  Wife, Alice Coltrane, played the harp, an interesting side note. 

Someone_else:  Velvet Undergroud & Nico “All Tomorrow” A completely different sound from what was happening elsewhere in 1967, it foresaw what was going to happen quite a few years later…The Buffalo Springfield “Broken Arrow”  I once used this song as a backdrop for an article in my junior high school newspaper about various emotions and how they can be described in imagery.  A favourite of all time.Sweeney’s Men “Dreams for Me” Here we have some nicely done folk-type acoustic music.  I hear some echoes of early Donovan and Bert Jansch here, prettily done, nice fingerpicking on guitar.  The Fugs “CIA Man”  This one crawled into my hand, honest!  JK.  The Fugs shared a record label (Reprise) with my favourite psych/folk guy, Tom Rapp and his Pearls Before Swine band, he had some funny stories about them (as one could no doubt imagine)….Now on to the CIA Man (and a different record)…They were so irreverent and funny.  No wonder they had a cult following.  No one else quite like them.

My favorite is Bliss -Cry for Love. A great psychedelic blues song-jam with a nice electric guitar solo. 

Then I really like the Animals ballad, which have a picturesque arrangement with that almost mariachi trumpet. 

The last song is also good, combining beat with psychedelia and has an excellent instrumental interlude. 

The Doors song is discreet, with great work on the drums, certainly a better song than Touch Me, the single of that year. 

Nice but I'm not crazy about the ballad of Easy Rider by the Byrds: I actually like the more folk version of Roger McGuinn's guitar and vocals (without strings) that ended up on the soundtrack of the film.

Raff:  Nomadi “Noi  non ci saremo”  Very Byrds-esque, as far as the production and jangly sound. Less complex harmonies than The Byrds.  Still, very nostalgic sound to this for me.  Equipe 84 “29 September” Another very iconic 60’s kind of sound to this, along with a news report, so much have been a big event?  Very cool bass that guy is playing!  And now to another iconic piece, “Fotheringay,” by Fairport Convention.  Huge fan of the band and Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson.  This is just lovely, of course.  An absolutely wonderful song by CSN&Y, of course.  I also am enamoured of the Jefferson Airplane version of it.  A collaborative piece by David Crosby, Steven Stills and Paul Kantner.  I honestly love each version, equally.  An apocalyptic vision of the future, boiling it all down to what is really important and what could still be the fate of the human race.

Mike:  Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra  “My Elusive Dreams”  I didn’t know that I knew this song before I opened the video, but I actually do.  A really nice country take for Nancy Sinatra, really and very much the Nashville sound of the time.   The Moving Sidewalks “You Don’t Know the Life”  That heavy, bluesy Texas sound with a sprinkling of psych.  Great soulful singer.  The Steve Miller Band “Dime-a-Dance Romance”  This is much more rocky than your previous two.  Not as much of a fan of the Steve Miller kind of sound as some of the other psych-era bands, though.  The Hollywood Persuaders “Grunion Run”  Being a big Zappa fan, I have heard this before!  Already such a talented guitarist.  You’ve probably seen the video of his on The Tonight Show, playing the bicycle….he’s a much better guitarist than “bicyclist,”athough it was a great novelty. 

George:  Kyu Sakamoto “Sukiyaki”  I remember this well, however, I didn’t know the story about the real lyrics.  It’s a very pretty melody, no wonder it was a big hit.  The Count Five “Psychotic Reaction”   Garage at it’s finest here! I really am fond of garage music, remembering it’s sheer energy and experimentation.  Nice representative choice! Ken Nordine “Olive”  Now over into 60’s hip-jazz.  Makes me think of 60’s films Hollywood party scenes, I could certainly hear this in one of those films.  Staccato keys and spoken vocals here.  The Stooges “1969”  Another iconic band…I actually have seen Iggy Pop in his peanut-butter days. Great pick here.  You did a great job picking out a wide variety representing the era. 

Samuel:  Carlos Paredes “Variacoes em re maior”  Here he is playing a Portuguese guitar, which has resonating strings, hence the unusual sound.  Really excellent sound, I am not so sure I like this piece, as it’s “happier” than most music I like, but I have been made curious to check out others of his work to see if he’s got a minor key one on that very cool instrument. Edited to add:  I looked up this recording and found a piece I really love on it, Cancao Verdes Anos.  Just beautiful. 

dr wu23:  The Sonics “Strychnine”  Great garage piece!  Such a lot of dark, rockin’ energy with these garage bands.  The Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”  One of those phrases I actually use from time to time!  Here on American Bandstand. Autoharp!  Great early psych song, as things started to change from more garage to more difficult songs.  Paul Revere & The Raiders “Just Like Me”  Here’s pop, but kinda more cool than straight pop, with the sort of garage-y lead, kind of Mod look with their costuming.  Bringing their English humour to the performance, too.  What a fun band they were.  Good, too!  Always enjoy what you bring to these polls, we know a lot of the same music.