Al compás del mundo – programa #95 - British rock from the 60s: Kinks, Animals, Rolling Stones and Yardbirds

How hard can it be to write about our birthright? All of you who remember the Ed Sullivan Show know of what I speak. The British Invasion of the 1960s introduced both mods and rockers to us Statesiders, but my allegiance went to the rockers, like the four groups presented here. Each burned indelible earworms into our souls that persist 60 years later until, I expect, death do us part. Some were major hits: All Day and All of the Night, I’m Crying, Get Off of My Cloud, For Your Love. Others were for those who dug a little deeper into the LPs that accompanied those hits: I’m Not Like Everybody Else, Boom Boom, She Smiled Sweetly, I Ain’t Done Wrong. The Yardbirds’ and Animals’ first albums got me started once upon a time and while I no longer buy vinyl (new pressings of Rolling Stones albums, for example, now cost $25-30 and up), the musical obsession lingers on. As in the portable harddrive I ferry back and forth from Mexico to San Francisco with over 40,000 mp3 titles. The upshot? Voila – program #95 of Al compás del mundo! -J.H.

Run List: British rock from the 60s: Kinks, Animals, Rolling Stones and Yardbirds.
First broadcast 9-28-2023

01 The Kinks - Till the End of the Day

02 Animals - Boom Boom

03 Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away

04 Yardbirds - I'm Not Talkin'

05 The Kinks - She's Got Everything

06 Animals - I'm Crying

07 Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud

08 Yardbirds - For Your Love

09 The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night

10 Animals - It's My Life

11 Rolling Stones - She Smiled Sweetly

12 Yardbirds - I Ain't Done Wrong

13 The Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else

14 Animals - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place

15 Rolling Stones - The Last Time

16 Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down

17 The Kinks - It's All Right

18 Animals - Bright Lights, Big City

19 Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now

20 Yardbirds - The Train Kept A-Rollin'

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