The fifth of five volumes of Razor & Tie's 60 Number One Hits of the '60s appropriately contains 12 tracks, or one-fifth of the total. All the selections are indeed number one hits -- three from 1961, two from 1963, four from 1964, one from 1965, one from 1967, and one from 1968 -- and they are drawn largely from the vaults of EMI-Capitol Records. Several major musical trends of the decade are sampled: post-Elvis Presley male pop singers (Dion, Ricky Nelson); surf music (the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean); girl groups (the ...
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The fifth of five volumes of Razor & Tie's 60 Number One Hits of the '60s appropriately contains 12 tracks, or one-fifth of the total. All the selections are indeed number one hits -- three from 1961, two from 1963, four from 1964, one from 1965, one from 1967, and one from 1968 -- and they are drawn largely from the vaults of EMI-Capitol Records. Several major musical trends of the decade are sampled: post-Elvis Presley male pop singers (Dion, Ricky Nelson); surf music (the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean); girl groups (the Chiffons, the Dixie Cups); the British Invasion (Manfred Mann, Peter and Gordon); and maudlin country-pop (Bobbie Gentry, Bobby Goldsboro). Not that this is done in any scholarly or even coherent manner; rather, the selection (beyond choosing from among the 204 number one hits of the '60s) and sequencing seem random, and there are many odd juxtapositions, especially for anyone who actually remembers this music (presumably, the primary intended audience). The 60 Number One Hits of the '60s series certainly delivers what its title claims, but nothing more than that, reducing the decade musically to a bunch of catchy songs with no apparent relationship to each other or to the times in which they were made. But it serves the same purpose as the soundtrack to The Big Chill and countless other such collections, providing a basis for nostalgic singalongs for those old enough to remember and inclined to be uncritical. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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