Sounds of the 60s Rewound Part 4 Quiz

Answer: Marianne Faithfull

There was some disapproval at the time of the lyrics of "Come And Stay With Me" which, it was interpreted, were an invitation from one person to another to spend the night together - and just remember the controversy the Rolling Stones faced over a song with the last four words of that sentence.

This was a UK number four for Marianne Faithfull in 1965. It reached number 26 on the Hot 100. The song was written by American singer Jackie DeShannon. The 'B' side might have been chosen as an answer to those questioning the single - "What Have I Done Wrong?"

Faithfull had four top ten hits in the UK in the mid 1960s.

Answer: Booker T. & The M.G.'s

"Time Is Tight" had been around for a while before Booker T Jones rewrote it for the 1968 James Coburn movie "Duffy".
It did not make the movie: after Jones was told he would have to give up publishing rights to the song, he pulled out. It did appear in another Coburn movie, "Uptight", but renamed "Time Is Tight".
The song was a UK number four and a US number six.
Meanwhile, the instrumental track "Soul Limbo" by the band was for many years the theme music for test cricket broadcasts by the BBC.

Answer: Johnny Tillotson

"Poetry In Motion" was a 1961 UK chart topper for Johnny Tillotson. In the US, it reached number two on the Hot 100.
A native of Jackonsville, Florida, Tillotson had nine top ten hits in the US. His peak years were the early 1960s, but he kept on performing for the next 30 years.

Answer: Buddy Holly and the Crickets

This one I hope did not get you too confused.
"(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" was written for the 1957 movie "Jailhouse Rock", in which Elvis Presley starred. (When he sang the song in the movie he was actually miming to a pre-recorded track.)

But the version played in the radio show was by Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Buddy included the song on his second album "Buddy Holly". This version reached number 12 on the UK in 1961.

Answer: Frank Sinatra

Fun fact: Frank Sinatra has often been cited as the source of naming that great television dog Scooby Doo because of his outero on the song "Strangers In The Night".

Well maybe not. Sinatra recorded the song in 1966, but in a 1961 episode of "The Flintstones, Barney Rubble was seen walking to his house singing "Scoobie Doobe Do..."

The origins of "Strangers In The Night" were in a song written by Ivo Robic for a music festival in Split, Croatia.
Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder wrote the English lyrics and Bert Kaempfert rewrote it for the 1966 film "A Man Could Get Killed". It won a Golden Globe in 1967.

Frank Sinatra made it a chart-topper in both the USA and UK in 1966.

Altogether now:
Dooby-doooby-doo
Doob-dooob-doob-dee-daa
Daaa-daaa-daaa-daaa-daaa..."

Answer: The Johnny Mann Singers

"Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly, we can fly..."

What a wonderfully happy song: don't you just feel like hitting those high notes and scaring the neighbours' cat?

The song was written by Jimmy Webb, who gave so many hits to Glen Campbell.

In the UK, the Johnny Mann Singers made this a number six in 1967.

Meanwhile the 5th Dimension version won four Grammy awards. It reached number seven on the Hot 100.

Answer: Crosby, Stills & Nash

Graham Nash wrote "Marrakesh Express" while he was still with The Hollies in the UK, but his bandmates did not think it was commercial enough.

After he was head-hunted by Steven Stills and David Crosby, the new CSN made this their first single. It made number 28 on the Hot 100 and number 17 in the UK.

Nash was inspired to write the song during a trip he took in 1966 on a train in Morocco.

Answer: The Foundations

"Build Me Up Buttercup" was written by Mike D'Abo and Tony Macaulay and initially offered to the English singer David Essex, but he turned it down.
The Foundations picked it up and took it to number three in the US and number two in the UK.
Although The Foundations were a multi-race band from Great Britain, they hooked onto the Motown sound and had a UK number one with "Baby, Now That I've Found You" in 1967. This and "...Buttercup" were to be their only top ten hits.

Answer: Peter Sarstedt

This quiz has featured happy songs like ""Build Me Up, Buttercup"and "Up, Up and Away", now we turn to a dreary one, "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?" Still it was a UK number one in 1969.

That may say something about this quiz author's taste in music, however in a 'New Musical Express' interview, the influential BBC radio presenter John Peel named this record as his personal worst of all time.

Answer: Simon & Garfunkel

"A Hazy Shade Of Winter" reached number 13 in the USA and number 30 in the United Kingdom in 1966.
Twenty years later, The Bangles took it to number two on the Hot 100 and number 11 in the UK.

Answer: The Move

Well of course Tony Blackburn included "Flowers In The Rain" on his "Sounds of the 60s" show in August 2025: it was the first song heard on BBC Radio 1 when it first broadcast in September 1967. The DJ then was...Tony Blackburn.

(Blackburn had built up a solid reputation as a DJ on pirate radio stations.)

Written by Roy Wood, "Flowers In The Rain" was a UK number two in 1967. Often now overlooked, The Move had ten top 30 singles in the UK between 1966 and 1974,

Answer: Dusty Springfield

"Goin' Back" was another carefully crafted song from the pens of Carole King and Gerry Goffin.

Dusty Springfield recorded the song in London in 1966. It reached number ten in the UK.

Goldie, of Goldie & the Gingerbreads, was the first to record the song, but her version was withdrawn over disagreements with the writers over the lyrics.
Carole King was to record it herself, but then offered it to Dusty Springfield.

Years later Dusty's vision was used by Ireland's state-owned electricity group ESB in a nostalgia-heavy television advertisement.

[You can hear it with an internet search for "ESB advertisement goin back"]

Answer: Billy Fury

English singer Billy Fury released "In Summer" in 1963. It reached number four in the UK on the 'New Musical Express' charts.

Fury had 23 top 30 hits in the UK between 1959 and 1999.

I may have noted this before, but to reiterate, in the United Kingdom in the 1960s four or five organisations released weekly charts, some conflicting.

Many years ago on a skiing holiday to Austria, I got talking to a chalet host who was one half of The Allisons who had a hit with "Are You Sure?" in 1961. If you look that up you will see it credited with topping out at number two, but Harry insisted it had been a number one on one chart, holding the Rolling Stones off the top.

Answer: Ricky Valance

When Tony Blackburn played "Tell Laura I Love Her" on "Sounds of the 60s" in August 2025, it reflected a bit of a change for the BBC: the song was banned by the corporation when first released. They thought the subject matter was too morbid.

Despite the ban - because of the ban? - it made the top of the charts, selling more than one million copies in 1960.

Ray Petersen took it to number seven on the Hot 100 in the USA.

Answer: The Drifters

Well, what do you know? "Up On The Roof" was another song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

Little Eva was first to record it, but The Drifters took it to number five on the Hot 100.

In the UK a cover version by Kenny Lynch reached number ten.

Let's not leave Gerry and Carole for the moment: in the 1960s they wrote more than 50 songs that were top 40 hits. Four were chart-toppers.