Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Saturday Night at the Oldies: British Invasion, the Ds

British invasion 2Last time I left out one of the Cs, Petula Clark. A major omission, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.  Here's 1964's Downtown.

From the sweet to the Dionysian hard core of rock and roll, Spencer Davis, Gimme Some Lovin.  A great driving song.  Try not to pound a hole in the dashboard.

And from there to the folk strains of Donovan, Catch the WindColours.  Here is a dumbassed YouTube comment:  "The singing style, the guitar style, even the cap: everything here screams, 'Dylan impersonator!'" You may as well argue that Dylan was a Woody Guthrie impersonator. Though not on Dylan's level, Donovan was a major ingredient in the flavor of the fabulous and far-off 'sixties.

Colours duet with Joan Baez at Newport Folk Festival.   Here's another great duet version of Catch the Wind: Joan and Mimi Baez. Season of the Witch.  Drifting psychedelic . . . .

And then there was the Dave Clark Five, Glad All Over.   A little plastic . . . .  'Plastic' is '60s slang for fake, less than authentic, artificial.  Here is a glossary of '60s slang.  Not entirely accurate, but pretty good.


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