This is my first posting of an actual mix of 60 songs to this blog. This mix will run for about three hours so I'm breaking it up into three parts for listening on Mixcloud. This is a throwback mix to my very early days spinning records as a high school kid in Philadelphia. I was an obsessive collector starting in the mid 60s. I visited record stores and read everything I could find on new music. I had my first job in 1968 making decent money back then working in a machine shop shoveling the hot chips flying off the lathes. Most of my pay went for buying records and going to shows. During that summer I was checking out the West Coast bands playing at the original Electric Factory down on Arch Street, hanging out downtown at the head shops on Samson Street and groovin' at the Be-Ins in Fairmount Park. There were also many house parties in the neighborhood and I was the guy with the music so I got invited along with my box of 45s.
I had playlist of stuff that worked good at these parties but this was not some DJ setup that would evolve later on. There would just be a record player with a changer that would play a stack of singles in the order they were placed on the spindle.
So long before mixes were created on mp3 playlist, burned CDs and cassettes there was the carefully selected stack of 7" 45 rpm singles sitting on a record changer. The mix listed here is taken from my collection of 45s from 1968 which I still have. In fact I probably still have every single, album, tape and CD that I have be accumulating for about 46 years now. I've never sold or gotten rid of anything from my collection much to my wife's chagrin.
This mix here is a sample of our neighborhood party music. Lots of soul music and especially Motown. We also played lots of what would later be called Nuggets. People loved to dance so everything here had the house shaking. Not all the parties were non stop dancing and more and more albums of head music were getting played but that is another post and another mix.
So here it is. House party music from my stack of 45s in 1968.
Soon to be available on Mixcloud.
- Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
- Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations
- You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
- Too Many Fish In The Sea - The Marvelettes
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips
- I'll Be Doggone - Marvin Gaye
- This Old Heart Of Mine - The Isley Brothers
- There Is - The Dells
- Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
- I Thank You - Sam & Dave
- Land Of A Thousand Dances - Wilson Pickett
- Funky Broadway Pt. 1 - Dyke & The Blazers
- Boogaloo Down Broadway - The Fantastic Johnny C
- Ain't Nothin' But A House Party - The Showstoppers
- Mickey's Monkey - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
- (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandallas
- Jenny Take A Ride - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
- I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
- Twist and Shout - The Beatles
- Peppermint Twist - Joey Dee & The Starlighters
- You Can't Sit Down - The Dovells
- South Street - The Orlons
- Keep On Dancing - The Gentrys
- Dance Dance Dance - The Beach Boys
- Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
- Shake A Tail Feather - Five Du-Tones
- The 81 - Candy & The Kisses
- Get On Up - The Esquires
- Cool Jerk - The Capitols
- Some Kind Of Wonderful - Soul Brothers Six
- Gimme Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group
- Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
- Fire - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- I Got The Feelin' - James Brown
- Think - Aretha Franklin
- Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops
- Needle In A Haystack - The Velvelettes
- Just A Little Misunderstanding - The Contours
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
- Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder
- Shake and Fingerpop - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
- Expressway To Your Heart - The Soul Survivors
- I'm A Man - The Spencer Davis Group
- (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet - The Blues Magoos
- Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondells
- Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz
- Over Under Sideways Down - The Yardbirds
- Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound
- 96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians
- Suzie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Little Bit O' Soul - The Music Explosion
- Going To A Go-Go - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
- Dance To The Music - Sly & The Family Stone
- Devil With The Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
- Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
- Gloria - The Shadows of Knight
- I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops
- Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandallas
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
- Ooo Baby Baby - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
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