Label: Lakeshore Music
1979
Tracklist
A1 –The Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Lovin’
A2 –Alive ‘N’ Kickin’* Tighter And Tighter
A3 –Boxtops* Cry Like A Baby
A4 –American Breed* Bend Me Shape Me
A5 –Steam Na, Na, Hey, Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye
B1 –Zombies* Time Of The Season
B2 –Eric Burdon & The Animals San Franciscan Nights
B3 –Santana Evil Ways
B4 –Grassroots* Let’s Live For Today
B5 –The Rascals People Got To Be Free
C1 –Left Banke* Pretty Ballerina
C2 –Kinks* Tired Of Waiting
C3 –Outsiders* Time Won’t Let Me
C4 –Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild
C5 –Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels Sock It To Me Baby
D1 –The Electric Prunes I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
D2 –Vanilla Fudge You Keep Me Hangin’ On
D3 –Blues Magoos We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet
D4 –The Strawberry Alarm Clock* Incense And Peppermints
D5 –Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Although rock and roll, teenage music at its finest, had its beginnings in the fifties, it wasn’t until the following decade that great numbers of people began to consider rock music an essential part of living, as nourishing as the food they ate and the air they breathed. Rock musicians used this spotlight to explore the potential of popular music as never before, with the result that the records of the time show a remarkable diversity. CROSSROADS presents to you many of the biggest hits of the sixties, songs that both reflected and fueled the social and political changes of that turbulent decade.
Here, the classical-rock of “Pretty Ballerina,” the good-natured protest of “People Got To Be Free,” and the psychedelic nightmare of “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)” can be found alongisde the happy pop of “Bend Me Shape Me.” Each track evokes a particular place and time as effectively as a news photograph. Each is full of memories.
We’ve assembled all of them here at the CROSSROADS, where their paths come together as they did once before. (by M. Widener)