1966
What’d I Say — The Korean Kittens
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The Kittens performed at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, on the BBC in London, and were regulars with Bob Hope’s USO tours in Vietnam. When lead singer Yoon Bokhee stepped off a plane in 1967, she made history as the first woman in Korea to wear a miniskirt. Bokhee is still performing and sang at the Hollywood Bowl in 2014.
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Mas que Nada — Enoch Light and the Light Brigade
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(But, That Is Nothing) from Enoch Light’s Permissive Polyphonics album, one of the first ever records using synthesized music recorded in surround sound.
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Meditation — Claudine Longet
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Claudine’s performance of Meditation on an episode of Run for Your Life launched her singing career.
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1 - 2 - 3 — Len Barry
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1-2-3 climbed to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Gracias a la vida — Davichi(Thanks to Life) Live 2015 performance at the United Nations 70th anniversary concert by Euterpean duo Davichi (Shining Light), Kang Min Kyung (left) and Lee Hae Ri (right). Written in 1966 by Chilean composer Violeta Parra, this modern day folk song was introduced in the U.S. by Joan Baez.
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1967
1968
To Be or Not to Be and It Was a Very Good Year — William Shatner
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From Shatner’s 1968 album of dramatic readings, The Transformed Man.
The first reading is Hamlet's To Be or Not To Be soliloquy and the second is It Was a Very Good Year. The pair are in contrast. In the first is a life contemplating suicide. Whereas, in the second is a life brimming full of happy memories |
An Angel Is Love — The Glitterhouse with the Bob Crewe Generation
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In the cataclysmic ending of the sci-fi fantasy Barbarella, Pygar, the blind angel, rescues both Barbarella and the Black Queen. Pygar replies to Barbarella’s query as to why he saved the woman who molested him with, “An angel has no memory.”
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Jefferson High, Class of 1968, Alexandria, Minnesota