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Are We nearly There Yet?
Family songs of the 60s. Memories of long, hot summers recalled by a wonderfully nostalgic selection of favourite hits from the 60s. An album which remembers those endless car journeys with everyone joining in the songs on the car radio - and the kids in
Family songs of the 60s. Memories of long, hot summers recalled by a wonderfully nostalgic selection of favourite hits from the 60s. An album which remembers those endless car journeys with everyone joining in the songs on the car radio - and the kids in
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Family Songs of the 60s
Memories of long, hot summers recalled by a wonderfully nostalgic selection of favourite hits from the 60s. An album which remembers those endless car journeys with everyone joining in the songs on the car radio - the kids in the back forever asking 'Are we nearly there yet?'
1. Do you want to know a secret? Billy J.Kramer & The Dakotas
2. You've got your troubles The Fortunes
3. Little things Dave Berry
4. I'm into something good Herman's Hermits
5. Tell him Billie Davis
6. Midnight in Moscow Kenny Ball
7. Tell me when The Applejacks
8. The pied piper Crispian St. Peters
9. Are you sure? The Allisons
10. Twist and shout Brian Poole of The Tremeloes
11. Don't treat me like a child Helen Shapiro
12. Good Timin' Jimmy Jones
13. Winchester Cathedral New Vaudeville Band
14. Bobby's Girl Susan Maughan
15. Diamonds Jet Harris
16. Baby love The Supremes
17. I'm the one Gerry and The Pacemakers
18. My guy Mary Wells
19. The Legend of Xanadu Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick &
Titch
20. Everlasting love Love Affair
CCL CDG1086
This compilation P & C 2004 Classical Communications Ltd
Image: Nearly There Yet? John Chillingworth/Hulton Archive
Programme notes by Martin Moritz
Made in Great Britain
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Are We Nearly There Yet?
Family Songs of the 60s
Cast your mind back to the 60s, when, somehow, life seemed more fun and pop music was fresh and alive. And what music it was - a colourful and heady mixture of wonderful songs and exciting rhythms: from those early, heady days with rock 'n' roll giving way to new and revolutionary sounds emanating from Liverpool to its closing chapters and to music which had evolved into something more complex and angry. There were such generic styles as Motown, Merseybeat, Flower Power, Psychedelia, Surf Sound, Bubblegum to name just a few.
And then in 1964, the offshore pirate radio stations arrived. Noisy and irreverent, they mirrored the excitement and recklessness of what would be known as 'The Swinging 60s'. The rather less than sympathetic Government decided, that apart from depriving record companies, artists and publishers of revenue, they were a risk to shipping and so, in 1967, they were, unceremoniously, removed. However, in their wake, it made the BBC realise that their rather staid and dated way of delivering pop music needed a drastic overhaul and Radio 1 emerged. One-time renegade DJs such as Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett and John Peel became part of the new station's line-up.
TV had already realised the potential of this all- pervasive, radical, new music. 'Top of The Pops' and 'Ready, Steady, Go!' had both brought to millions the glamour, buzz, the new bands and the new sounds well in advance of radio. Of course, they were shown in black-and-white but a series like "Ready, Steady, Go!" was able to generate a lot of hysteria and genuine excitement.
The Hit Parade was now well established and each weekly chart would reflect both a proliferation of new stars and groups as well as long-standing names who were offering what we now refer to in an all-embracing way as easy-listening. It was by no means seemed strange, in those innocent times, to find the hirsute and contemporary-sounding group, The Pretty Things closely followed by a svelte and more sensibly coiffured Shirley Bassey on 'Top of the Pops'!
For our compilation of 60s memories, we recall a heartfelt phrase that must have fallen on the ears of millions of sympathetic but increasingly frustrated parents, particularly fathers, who had not reached the destination which their anxious off-spring had been repeatedly told would not take long. Those memorable few words were, of course: 'Are we nearly there yet?'!
To remind us all of those motoring trips, we offer you twenty happy hits which have been selected with a two-fold purpose. First, to remind you that when things got more fractious in the back seat, these were probably the songs that the car radio would provide for a jolly sing-along. Or, second, if you do not accept that premise, we ask you to assume that this affectionate selection should have been the one to be readily available to come to the rescue on those never-ending journeys. Wishful thinking aside, we invite you all to enjoy this delightful programme of 60s musical souvenirs.
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