1960
3 - Max Roach - We Insist!
2 - Charlie Mingus - Blues & Roots
1 - Etta James - At Last!
1961
3 - John Lee Hooker - The Folk Lore Of…
2 - Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
1 - Bobby Bland - Two Steps From The Blues
1962
3 - Max Roach His Chorus And Orchestra - It’s Time
2 - Françoise Hardy - Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles
1 - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Mosaic
1963
3 - Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’
2 - Sam Cooke - Night Beat
1 - Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
1964
3 - The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
2 - The Ronettes - Presenting The Fabulous…
1 - Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
1965
3 - The Beatles - Help!
2 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1 - The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics!!!
1966
3 - The Beatles - Revolver
2 - Monks - Black Monk Time
1 - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
1967
3 - The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
2 - The Velvet Underground & Nico
1 - The Creation - We Are Paintermen
1968
3 - The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
2 - Silver Apples - Silver Apples
1 - The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
1969
3 - The Beatles - Abbey Road
2 - The Kinks - Arthur
1 - Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
You know how it’s done. And my opinions are - as the NHMRC forces us to say these days - of someone with lived experience in that period. Not of someone going back through the bibliotheques to see what was released in what year.
?It was released as a “Double A single” not on an album. The record company was anxious that they were taking too long to make Sgt Pepper’s that they forced this early release. It was later put onto that compilation album.
Yeah, they had those great non-album songs around 66-67. I wasn’t sure if MMT would qualify as an album or not, but that’s how they released it in the US with the stacked Side 2.
Just want to share something I discovered while researching “Charlie Drake” who had one of the top Aussie singles in 1961:
Bookcase incident
In 1961, the later series was brought to an abrupt end, however, by a serious accident which occurred during a live transmission. Drake had arranged for a bookcase to be set up in such a way that it would fall apart when he was pulled through it during a slapstick sketch.
It was later discovered that an overenthusiastic workman had “mended” the bookcase before the broadcast. The actors working with him, unaware of what had happened, proceeded with the rest of the sketch which required that they pick him up and throw him through an open window. Drake fractured his skull and was unconscious for three days. It would be two years before he returned to the screen
