The Everly Brothers – LIVE 1961 – The Alma Cogan Show

Howlin’ Wolf – “Dust My Broom” – 1966

The Woody Herman Big Band – “Caldonia” & “Northwest Passage” – 1947

Amazing big band! Jazz buffs will recognize a young Stan Getz and Shorty Rodgers.

The Mellotron – Changing Pop Music in the 1960’s

A Mellotron M400 in clear lucite

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tapes, which have approximately eight seconds of playing time each. Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds. (Info via Wikipedia)

The Mellotron was used by British rock artists Graham Bond and Mike Pinder before it was used and brought to public popularity by The Beatles in the song “Strawberry Fields Forever”

Check out the Mellotron below in action:

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Sounds in Space – Pop Music of the 1960’s

The sounds of space age pop filled bachelor pads far and wide in the 1960’s. Below are some of my favorite album covers! Images via.

This cover features Charles Eames' solar powered "Do Nothing" toy!

The Musical Office – 1961 – Music by Esquivel!

I found this amazing innovative short produced by Ernie Kovacs in which the various objects of an office workspace come to life. The music they dance to is a medley (“Jalousie/Sentimental Journey”) by space age pop maestro Juan Esquivel.

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