(You're My) Soul And Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers (With Rare Long Intro)
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore) - The Walker Brothers
I Will Always Think About You - The New Colony Six
Bend Me, Shape Me - The American Breed
The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap) - Shirley Ellis (Orig. Version Debut)
Israelites - Desmond Dekker & The Aces (Rare)
Mendocino - The Sir Douglas Quintet
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight -Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes
Keep On Dancing - The Gentrys
Peter Rabbit - Dee Jay & The Runaways (Cd Debut)
You Wouldn't Listen - The I'des Of March (Rare)
Things I'd Like To Say - The New Colony Six
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Silkie
Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) - Janis Ian
Love Is All Around - The Troggs (Stereo Debut)
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum (Stereo Debut)
Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Dick Bartley, the best-loved oldies DJ in America, presents 18 tracks from the Golden Age of Top 40, a wide open era when bubblegum pop like Boyce & Hart's "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" could play alongside craze... more »d psychedelic rock like Arthur Brown's "Fire." In these days of narrow-casting and micro-formatting, Dick Bartley helps us remember what made 60's radio so great. But the fun doesn't stop there! Dick throws in Janis Ian's controversial protest classic, "Society's Child," the Silkie's Top 10 Beatles cover, "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away," Sir Douglas' stoner travelogue, "Mendocino," and Desmond Dekker's 1969 freak reggae smash, "Israelites." Classic Oldies 1965-1969 collects the wildest, best music possible, mirroring the great Top 40 stations of the late 60's. Classic Oldies 1965-1969 has been digitally mastered in true stereo wherever possible. Many songs, such as the I'des Of March's "You Wouldn't Listen" (released years before their best-known hit, "Vehicle") are sought-after rarities, and one track, "Peter Rabbit" by Dee Jay & The Runaways, makes it's CD debut. Two other tracks, Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade Of Pale" and the Troggs' "Love Is all Around" although widely released, have never been available in STEREO in the original versions - until now!« less
Dick Bartley, the best-loved oldies DJ in America, presents 18 tracks from the Golden Age of Top 40, a wide open era when bubblegum pop like Boyce & Hart's "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" could play alongside crazed psychedelic rock like Arthur Brown's "Fire." In these days of narrow-casting and micro-formatting, Dick Bartley helps us remember what made 60's radio so great. But the fun doesn't stop there! Dick throws in Janis Ian's controversial protest classic, "Society's Child," the Silkie's Top 10 Beatles cover, "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away," Sir Douglas' stoner travelogue, "Mendocino," and Desmond Dekker's 1969 freak reggae smash, "Israelites." Classic Oldies 1965-1969 collects the wildest, best music possible, mirroring the great Top 40 stations of the late 60's. Classic Oldies 1965-1969 has been digitally mastered in true stereo wherever possible. Many songs, such as the I'des Of March's "You Wouldn't Listen" (released years before their best-known hit, "Vehicle") are sought-after rarities, and one track, "Peter Rabbit" by Dee Jay & The Runaways, makes it's CD debut. Two other tracks, Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade Of Pale" and the Troggs' "Love Is all Around" although widely released, have never been available in STEREO in the original versions - until now!
CD Reviews
Dick Bartley is the oldies lover's friend.
David Kenner | Fort Worth, Texas United States | 04/07/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"What makes an essential oldies CD compilation? First, a great track listing, full of songs you love but aren't sick of hearing on oldies radio, movie soundtracks or TV commercials. Second, great remastering from original sources to get the best sound quality. Third, something that hasn't been found elsewhere. Collections that are compiled by disc jockey Dick Bartley always hit the nail on the head in all three of these crucial areas. This disc is the best collection he's come up with (and that's really saying a lot!). The sound quality of this CD is excellent and the track listing is incredible.
To finally have stereo mixes of Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" and The Troggs' "Love Is All Around" is enough to warrant purchase of this disc. To have the restored original instrumental intro to The Righteous Brothers' "Soul and Inspiration" is also worth buying this disc for. To have so many other great tunes on the same disc ("I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight", "The Clapping Song", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine", "I Will Always Think About You", "Fire", "Mendocino", etc.) makes it even more worth the dough. Throw in a cool tune that's never been on CD before (Dee Jay & The Runaways' "Peter Rabbit") and you have a perfect oldies compilation. I've had this disc in my car for weeks now and keep playing the Boyce/Hart and Procol Harum tracks over and over and over.
I don't think I could ever be satisfied by the mono version of "Whiter Shade of Pale" again.
Besides all of the above, how cool is it to have The Righteous Brothers and The Walker Brothers back to back?"
WHEN TWO CLASS ACTS COLLIDE...
HippoRadio | Charleston, SC | 12/02/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Dick Bartley is THE master at playing "Oh-Wow Oldies"...Eric is the master at finding the highest quality source of them. This collaboration has yielded what may be Eric's best release yet!
Bartley's "Classic Oldies 1965-1969" comes packed with many elusive tracks from the bygone MGM-Fontana-Mercury and UNI (MCA-Universal) catalog. New Colony Six fans-read on with glee...BOTH of their desperately sought after Mercury-era pop hits are here! Not since Rhino axed the "Colonized" compilation several years back, have "I Will Always Think About You" and "Things I'd Like To Say" been available on CD outside an inflated online auction.
This collection includes essential British "Oh-Wows" from The Walker Brothers, Fortunes, Troggs, and Silkie that disappeared many years ago--again, courtesy of Rhino--when they discontinued the nine-CD "British Invasion" series. Also in attendance are several "delicious" out-of-print Top-10 tracks including: Desmond Dekker & The Aces' "Israelites" from the UK-Island label's prog-reggae period in the late 60s; A rare stereo mix of Shirley Ellis' sound-alike follow-up to "The Name Game"--"The Clapping Song"; and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown's #2-charting "Fire"--one of the initial introductions of R&R psychedelica to a broader Top-40 audience.
While there are a few easily-available staples here, much of this disc truly meets the "hard-or impossible to find" standard, including: The Sir Douglas Quintet's final 1969 #27 hit--"Mendocino"; The Ides Of March first chart appearance in 1966--"You Wouldn't Listen"; and yes...Dee Jay & The Runaways' 1966 oldie from hell week--"Peter Rabbit"...Your frat reunion will thank you! Finally, as a nice bonus, the "extended intro" alternate take of The Righteous Brothers' "Soul And Inspiration", and a STEREO version of The Trogg's "Love Is All Around" are EXCLUSIVE to this compilation.
EVERY one of the 18 tracks on "Bartley--Classic Oldies 1965-1969" exhibits audio quality that is equal to-or better than any previously-released source material. The Gentrys' "Keep On Dancing" (never a protege amoung hi-fi master tapes) featured here, is the finest currently available. Only a long-unavailable version on Mercury's "45s on CD" series (1988) is comparable in fidelity.
Eric's latest offering is EXCEPTIONAL, and requires a special, rarely-bestowed "SIX-STAR" rating!
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Superior sound oldies.
Marc Comfort | Niigata City; Niigata-ken; Japan | 09/04/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Eric Records continue their release of remastered from the 'first generation mastertapes' series under the "Dick Bartley Presents...." logo.
This disc contains - among its 18 tracks - the original long version of (You're My) Soul and Inspiration/Righteous Brothers; and true stereo versions of Love Is All Around/Troggs, and A Whiter Shade of Pale/Procol Harum.
The biggest reason to get this set is the superior sound quality and the original mixes."
Great cd / great sound
DAVID A MILLER | Heyburn, ID United States | 02/26/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is a great cd with some great songs. Nice to hear Whiter shade of pale and Love is all around in true stereo. I love the Righteous Brothers Soul & Inspiration a great song and even though the song is only extended a few seconds at the beggining, its just a great song. There are a few throw away songs like Peter Rabbit, but is overpowered by many other great songs. I love Bend Me Shape Me, Society Child, I wonder what she's doing tonight, great to hear Sir Douglas Quintet's Mendocino. A lot of songs not that commonly found on other "various artist" cd's are here. I was excited before I bought the CD that the Shirley Ellis song "The Clapping Song" was included. I remember that I loved that song when I was 12 or 13 and haven't heard it since. But hearing it now 30 some years later, what the heck was I thinking, what a stupid song. But it did bring back memories..."
Track Listings (18) - Disc #1