A Few Things about ’60s Rock Music

Excitations and good vibrations about the music of the ’60s

All about all of the articles about all of the #1 records of the ‘60s

Looking at the Toppermost of the Poppermost #1 records of 1961 with John Ross and Lew Shiner

Looking at the Toppermost of the Poppermost #1 records of 1962 with John Ross and Lew Shiner

Looking at the #1 records of the ’60s with John Ross and Lew Shiner

The Dead have had 21 of their albums certified for Gold Record Awards from the RIAA

A look at the difference betwen Richard Berry’s original recoring from 1956 with that of the “banned” record by the Kingsmen from 1963

Are there many albums where the covers are worth more than the records? Hell, yes!

The meaning of “normal” for record collectors changed in the ’70s with the publication of the hobby’s first price guides.

A Complement to Malcolm Searles’ “Back Through the Opera Glass: The Stories Behind the Album Covers”

Distinguishing original copies of the ’60s from later pressings

Distinguishing original copies of the ’60s from later pressings

An Introduction to “Elvis: That’s The Way It Was,” a new Medium publication

Looking at the Toppermost of the Poppermost #1 records of 1968 with John Ross and Lew Shiner

A few words about 78 rpm albums, 33⅓ rpm albums, the White Album, and so-called double-albums

That depends on what you mean by “Beach Boys album”

Looking at the Toppermost of the Poppermost #1 records of 1967 with John Ross and Lew Shiner

Looking at the Toppermost of the Poppermost #1 records of 1966 with John Ross and Lew Shiner

For his single “Echoes,” Gene Clark donned a Bob Dylan mask

Apparently not on the same day as the Byrds’ “Younger than Yesterday”

Byrds founder a pivotal influence on folk-rock, psychedelia, country-rock, singer-songwriter, and Americana

Answering the objectively unanswerable can be fun!

Looking at the Toppermost of the Poppermost #1 records of 1965 with John Ross and Lew Shiner

The band was inducted after waiting through nineteen years of eligibility (“Yippee!”)

Do you really want a man in his sixties running the country?

A look at the unauthorized “pirate” albums of Taiwan

Looking at Brigitte Bardot, Ann-Margret, and Eartha Kitt (who were sex kittens) and Diana Ross (who should have been)

Looking at the Toppermost of the Poppermost #1 Records of 1964 with John Ross and Lew Shiner

Should a writer call it “rock & roll” or “rock and roll” or even “rock’n’roll”?