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  1. Twist à Léo with Manu!

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    The year 1960 found Dibango playing the Anges Noirs in Brussels where he met Congolese singer Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz. Dibango made his first recordings with African Jazz the following year, then joined the band in Congo-Kinshasa for a re-introduction to Africa that would encompass two years, gigs with African Jazz, and jobs […]

    #60smusic #Cameroon #Congo #ManuDibango #OldAfricanMusic

  2. Blind singer, guitarist and songwriter Clarence Carter, born January 14, 1936, in Montgomery, Alabama, has died at age 90. He was part of the classic Southern soul sound.

    youtube.com/watch?v=30JzGZYI_Hw

    Read more: soultracks.com/clarence-carter

    #Soul #Blues #60sMusic #70sMusic

  3. The drummer relaxes and waits between shows …

    Shakey releases his second album -- his first with Crazy Horse (and the only one with his dog Winnepeg on the cover) -- on May 14, 1969. It's #407 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. #neilyoung #everybodyknowsthisisnowhere #neilyoungandcrazyhorse #60srock #rockmusic #60smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #dannywhitten #billytalbot #ralphmolina

    robinbannks.com/2026/05/14/the

  4. Cool Cats Invasion

    amf.didiermary.fr/cool-cats-in

    “Cool Cats Invasion” is a classic collection (102 tracks) of Highlife, Palm-wine music & Jùjú from Nigeria & Ghana, from the 50’s & 60’s.

    This compilation includes unavailable tracks by Earnest Olatunde Thomas, known as Tunde Nightingale or The Western Nightingale, as well as legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome Kuti‘s first [...]

    #50smusic #60smusic #Compilation #FelaKuti #Ghana #JujuMusic #Nigeria #PalmWineMusic

  5. The Mamas and the Papas' "Monday, Monday" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 7, 1966 and spent three weeks at the top of the chart.

    #Music, #TheMamasAndThePapas, #60s, #60sMusic, #1960s, #1960sMusic

  6. Highlife Music of Ghana and Nigeria

    amf.didiermary.fr/highlife-mus

    70s Highlife Music from Ghana and Nigeria in this documentary, unfortunately lacking all the songs and performers names. If you know, please comment below.

    Post also includes "Highlife On The Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66" with the 2 first ever recordings by Fela Ransome Kuti & his band The Highlife Rakers.

    #60smusic #70smusic #Compilation #Documentary #FelaKuti #Ghana #Highlife #Nigeria

  7. RON GEESIN
    A Raise Of Eyebrows
    1967 UK pressing

    One of the weirdest and most eccentric underground albums of the #60s .

    It’s an absolute masterpiece of electronic experimentation and absurdist British art; mixing humorous and satirical spoken word with musique concrète, avant-garde jazz, all built with tape manipulation and sound collage.

    Throughout the record, Geesin uses milk bottles and gas cans, along with more traditional instrumentation like guitar, banjo, and piano.

    It’s also mixed very interestingly and uniquely. Sounds ping-pong back and forth between channels, creating very unique stereo placements.

    The album is a real showcase for ALL of Geesin’s talents, and he played everything himself, at his home studio in Notting Hill, London.

    A real wild and unique artistic experience.

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #1960s #60smusic #artrock #experimental

  8. Clouds

    Joni releases her second album on May 1, 1969. She continues her look at love, loss and the heavy social issues of the time. It includes her classic, Both Sides Now. Stephen Stills helps out on bass and guitar. Joni produced almost the entire album and that's her self-portrait on the cover. The album garnered her a Grammy for Best Folk Performance 1969. "The Fiddle and the Drum" still haunts and is still relevant today. #jonimitchell #clouds #60smusic #music

    robinbannks.com/2026/05/01/clo

  9. Last Voice of The Ronettes Silenced

    Nedra Talley Ross, the last original member of The Ronettes, has died at 80. Her death marks the end of the iconic 1960s group.

    #NedraTalleyRoss, #TheRonettes, #RIPNedraTalley, #MusicHistory, #60sMusic

    newsletter.tf/nedra-talley-ros

  10. VARIOUS ARTISTS
    Anthology Of British Rock (The Pye Years - A Compleat Collection)
    1985 U.S. 2xLP pressing

    Bought this from a thrift store this morning.
    The whole first side (and the first song of side B) is all David Bowie, and it’s got other great songs by Donovan, Sandie Shaw, The Kinks, and Status Quo amongst others.

    Pretty solid $1 find, man.
    Cool little compilation.

    The two Donovan tunes are without question his two best songs, IMO.

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #british #uk #60s #1960s #60smusic #1960smusic #davidbowie #TheKinks #donovan

  11. The Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 30, 1966.

    #Music, #TheYoungRascals, #60s, #60sMusic, #1960s, #1960sMusic

  12. JOHNNY CASH
    Now, There Was A Song!
    1960 Canada pressing

    A bit of a change of pace for last spin of the night.
    I wanted to listen to some Johnny, so I did a blind pull from the Cash section of my library, and this was the one.

    This is one of Cash’s “songbook preservation” records; focusing on traditional folk and country songs. Much older songs that had long been in the American consciousness, but stripped down and totally Cash-ified.

    Old railroad tunes, frontier songs and murder ballads, all carrying heavy weight with Johnny’s baritone voice. Songs of moral compass, regrets, the pain of heartbreak and longing.

    This kind of acts like a bridge between Cash’s SUN stuff and the kind of records he made in the late 60s.

    Repeat after me:

    ALL CASH IS GOOD CASH.

    Tip your waitress well.
    She worked hard tonight.

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #country #johnnycash #1960s #60s #60smusic

  13. All the squares go home!

    April 27, 1968 ~ Sly and The Family Stone release Dance To The Music. The album lays the foundation for funk music to follow and is the standard bearer for psychedelic soul. Beyond the great music, the band was a rare example of a racially integrated, multi-gender group. Ah, the communal spirit of the 60's. Dig it. #slyandthefamilystone #60smusic #musicsky #music #musiciansky #rockmusic #soul #rnb

    robinbannks.com/2026/04/27/all

  14. Tunde Nightingale & His Highlife Boys – Omo Lafiah / Araba

    amf.didiermary.fr/tunde-nighti

    Earnest Olatunde Thomas, known as Tunde Nightingale, was a Nigerian singer and guitarist, best known for his unique Jùjú music style, following in the tradition of Tunde King…

    #60smusic #Highlife #JujuMusic #Nigeria

  15. Lagos Baby 1963-1969

    amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-baby-1

    Some of Fela Kuti’s earliest recordings, with the Koola Lobitos band, are featured on the compilation Lagos Baby: 1963-1969, but the music he played at the time stretches from mostly fairly classic Highlife music to variations of jazzy-bluesy Highlife… […]

    #60smusic #FelaKuti #Highlife #LiveMusic #Nigeria

  16. Fela Kuti – Waka Waka

    amf.didiermary.fr/waka-waka-fe

    “Waka Waka” and “Se E Tun De” on this 45T from the sixties by Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos.

    There’s a live version on the 3-disc set Highlife: Jazz and AfroSoul (1963-1969) below.

    A collection of recordings made between 1963 and 1969 that provide unique insight into the beginnings of Kuti’s craft. […]

    #60smusic #Compilation #FelaKuti #Highlife #Jazz #Nigeria #AfroJazz

  17. THE BYRDS
    The Notorious Byrd Brothers
    1968 Canada pressing

    Last spin of the night.

    Unequivocally one of my three all-time favorite #60s albums.

    This was the very first Byrds album I heard start to finish. My uncles (all 9 of them) all listened to country and folk music, but a few branched out into the more #psychedelic areas of those genres.

    That’s where I first heard The Notorious Byrd Brothers. From my Uncle Ed, who sadly, passed away last week.

    I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to hear this album without thinking about him, and how he taught me that they were much more than those few hit songs I heard on oldies and classic rock radio as a kid.

    This album features a lot of different studio effects for the time, & it’s one of the first LPs to ever feature a Moog synth.

    Gene Clark actually came back for a few weeks, & may or may NOT be on some backing vocals on 2 songs.

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #thebyrds #1960s #60smusic

  18. Del Shannon's "Runaway" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 24, 1961 and spent four weeks at the top of the chart.

    #Music, #DelShannon, #60s, #60sMusic, #1960s, #1960sMusic

  19. Le Star Band de Dakar

    amf.didiermary.fr/star-band-da

    Star Band was a music group from Senegal, the resident band of Dakar’s Miami Club. They, along with the many off-shoots of the band, are responsible for many of the crucial developments in Senegalese popular music.

    For Senegal, importing Cuban culture could achieve the ultimate goal — dignity — and radically change the notion of […]

    #60smusic #AfroCuban #Cuba #Sénégal #OldAfricanMusic

  20. Gnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes

    amf.didiermary.fr/gnonnas-pedr

    Gnonnas Pedro [with or without his Dadjes band] had always excelled in many styles of music but if one had to associate him with a particular genre it would be Agbadja. Agbadja is a rhythm hugely popular in Togo, Benin and Ghana. Its based […]

    #60smusic #70smusic #AfroCuban #AfroFunk #Agbadja #Bénin #Compilation #GnonnasPedro

  21. THE WOZARD OF IZ
    An Electronic Odyssey
    1968 Canada pressing

    A truly bizarre and twisted gem.

    I’ve been digging into a lot of Mort Garson lately, and I pulled this out of a box I had in my basement this morning, totally unaware that I had it.

    The music on this album was composed and executed by Garson, but the whole project is conceived and written by Jacques Wilson.

    It trippily re-imagines the 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz, but sets the story in the #psychedelic 60’s, giving all the characters a hippie identity.
    Dorothy is an acid-head flower child seeking the “far-out” and “where it’s at”.

    It’s all quite hysterical and ridiculous, but Garson’s music is the PERFECT backdrop for what’s going on. By this point, Garson had MASTERED the Moog #synth , and these was nothing he couldn’t do with it.

    A really wild and entertaining record.

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #mortgarson #1960s #60s #60smusic

  22. JOHNNY CASH
    Ride This Train
    #60s Canada reissue
    [Columbia “Two Eyes”, black text]

    I’m starting the daunting task of going through all of my boxes in the basement; sorting them, cleaning them, and filing the really excellent stuff into my regular library.
    At least half of it will be culled, but I’ll worry about that later.

    This morning, I came across a box that was mostly filled with outlaw country stuff; Johnny, Waylon, some Hank, and other legends.

    I love the early Johnny Cash, and this is a great one. It’s got “Slow Rider”, “Going To Memphis” and “Old Doc Brown” on it.
    Just great songs.

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #country #outlawcountry #countrymusic #johnnycash #1960s #60smusic

  23. #music #musicsky #60smusic I of course love well-know music from the 60s (British Invasion, Motown, Beach/Surf, etc.,) but I have a penchant for Garage Rock, Freakbeat, Sunshine Pop, and Psychedelic stuff. If you like that sort of thing, check out LeeCo Radio 22: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Yj...

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  24. Pat Thomas & The Sweet Beans – Revolution

    amf.didiermary.fr/pat-thomas-s

    Ghanaian highlife master and “The Golden Voice Of Africa,” here’s Pat Thomas’ first full career retrospective, “Coming Home,” covering his career from his late ‘60s big band highlife recordings through to the “burger highlife” movement of the early ‘80s.

    Growing up with music around him (“my uncle, [...]

    #60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic #Reggae

  25. The Righteous Brothers' "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 9, 1966 and spent three weeks at the top of the chart.

    #Music, #TheRighteousBrothers, #60s, #60sMusic, #1960s, #1960sMusic