It has been such a beautiful spring day around these parts, so let's start an adjunct to the infamous "Edmundo Ros" thread.
I was just a kid when these feelgood songs were released but even after nearly 50 years they are still completely grin-inducing, alhough they will not go down well with the panel, but.... the love affair is particularly good on omni speakers
Time for Livin' by The Association.
Lazy Day by Spanky and Our Gang
And Rainbow Valley by The Love Affair
More sunshine pop will be gratefully received on this thread.
Sunshine Pop
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Here's another one:
The Turtles:
The Turtles:
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So do the Lemon Pipers qualify ?
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Your wish is my command, oh Guru :
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I'm going to blame you if I have to buy an original copy of 'The psychedelic sounds of the 13th-floor elevators' now, Steve, thanks to Youtube and EBay
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I've Got Rhythm - The Happenings
More Today Than Yesterday - The Spiral Starecase
Lovely American AM radio toons from 1967.
Heard these on Caroline at the age of 9 years, or maybe it was Radio 1.
I wonder if our Meredith has a few examples that didn't make it to this side of the pond.
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One of my more sophisticated faves, that rocketed out of the radio and shook me my the earholes, a couple of years later:
Blood Sweat and Tears
Blood Sweat and Tears
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This was a fave amongst the kids in our neighbourhood, in the late 60s, along with Leapy Lee.....but some things are best left buried, where they belong
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Sunshine pop (originally "soft pop")[1] is a subgenre of pop music originating in Southern California in the mid-1960s, although it only acquired the name later. According to Noel Murray of The A.V. Club, its practitioners were rooted in "the pretty sounds of easy-listening, the catchiness of commercial jingles, and the chemically induced delirium of the drug scene, ... [expressing] an appreciation for the beauty of the world mixed with a sense of anxiety that the good ol’ days were gone for good."[2]
The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park and Other Things.
Sunshine pop (originally "soft pop")[1] is a subgenre of pop music originating in Southern California in the mid-1960s, although it only acquired the name later. According to Noel Murray of The A.V. Club, its practitioners were rooted in "the pretty sounds of easy-listening, the catchiness of commercial jingles, and the chemically induced delirium of the drug scene, ... [expressing] an appreciation for the beauty of the world mixed with a sense of anxiety that the good ol’ days were gone for good."[2]
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