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This song comes on my Ipod and I stop in my tracks. That voice. It draws you into another world, Roy's world, deep and rich and exciting, and why be anywhere else?

Groovy French boy song, form the ye ye era I adore! France commanded that early 60s sound, and I just keep finding gems.

I love Tammy's original, but this Candi version is SO much more my kind of music. I thought so in the 70s when it hit the charts, and I still groove each time I hear it.

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Of course those things are real, and probably more than an 11-year-old was ready to think about, in those days.

Rosemarie, that song continues to chill me to my soul, decades later. All the more because it so eerily beautiful.

This is what 60s instrumentals are all about. Nifty tune with wild variations -- you think of a movie you'd like to make, and here this song would be in the perfect scene.

Perfectly wonderful light 60s soul!

Driving beat, groovy young voices I dig, and a tune that makes me dance!

What an enchanting surprise! Looking for the Shalimars and there was the Nicholas brothers, dancing to that song I adore.

A labour of love, I can see and appreciate, and I thank you. Time to watch it again!

Lou's strangest song. Does snow fall in the summer, except in Greenland?

I'm off into very bizarre, and pleasantly weird thoughts when I listen to this Lou oddity.

What a great song: just listen to Jay sing that opening, then off we go into 60s rock!

Weren't they the best, Jay and the Americans -- an opera-exquisite voice thrilling us to that driving beat, that we knew and loved as kids?

An intelligent song. The man mourns a romance gone wrong, while thinking about the older loving older people in his life, who advised him to slow down. Mom and the preacher had seen her type before, but they knew better than to get pushy about it.

Percy is sad as hell, but he's going to move on.

Sorry, but that lovely white gal singing a nice version of this song is NOT Verdelle!

Charming and soulful version of Verdelle's classic song.

Scratchy old 45 is making me too weak to fight. Clarence, soul personified.

This is Billy's Fat Boy song I know, not that jazzed up thing.

Lovely 60s tempo. way more relaxed and appealing.

Superb bubblegum soul, charming and tuneful, and what pleasing gang of eye candy.

I love that pre-disco, early 70s pop stuff in a big way. This one's a fave on my I-pod.

Imagine losing a love, and to be able to grieve about it with such gorgeous, uptempo sorrow!

Jackie throws his blues at dance lovers, with a song of a soul beauty that makes you hit the floor, as you dance yourself wild!

Definitive and original version of this groovy song, Billy Joe's blue eyed soul at its nifty best.

The anemic hit version by the Osmonds, for Tiger Beat set of the the early 70s, pales by comparison.

Lou sings this one for outsiders, gays and straights, wild people out of the norm. His best falsetto, those drums and those insane gal singers, wildly beyond the pale. The song is so crazily beyond anything, even today.

I think this is Lou's masterpiece.

Groovy song! Loved it as a kid when I saw this film first run. My only real objection to Buford's clean-up campaign: run by the thugs or not, leave this cool hang-out alone!

I LOVE this song! I've waited for years for it to show up around here.

Treads that borderline between 70s disco and funk, has a nifty grittiness about it.

Wrong images, should of 50s/60s suburbia like where I grew up, and the recording is too slow, these aren't the the lively girl voices of the 1960s on my Ipod, and what I remember as a child on the radio, A disappointing offering of a wonderful song by a nifty group.

Brigette! That gal was the sexiest, and this little twist era item is proof. Wow!

Isn't this song to just relax and groove to? That Francoise voice, and that always slightly C&W sound of hers, cosmo-country but French, and so intoxicating!

Stunning! Maybe a quickie "Shindig" spot, but Billy is pure wild soul.

Look at those gals really start enjoying themselves, as they sing the original murder version the 50s radio stations banned.

Mr. Lee, in reality, was a mean and horrible teacher they detested.

Wouldn't this make the perfect title song to a quiet, intelligent horror movie? It is very eerie and beautiful.

My favourite Percy! What an enchanting soul song, listen to it, and that VOICE!!!

Now here's a perfect piece of 70s funk. Listen to those musicians, those horns and background singers, and that lovely lead voice, and what an involving tune. You just get lost in it.

Isn't the rise to falsetto, as the song is leading out, just out of this world? What a beautiful song.

Is this the only y-tube version of this song? I have an old VHS copy of them singing this on Ed Sullivan, and they're wonderful. Groovy and soulful, my favourite Union Gap song.

I've introduced this song to people over the years, and watched them become entranced.

It has, perhaps, the most perfect pacing, and wild throw-offs into something else, as it just keeps building... and you don't even realize it, until Brenda has you back and into the finale.

This is a very int...

I way preferred this flip side to "Boots" --- though I was 10 that year, listening to my big brother's 45 on the sly.

Those horns are stunning, and they perfectly compliment Nancy's strong warm voice, and it's a groovy tune. If not the hit side, this should've been released to the charts.

There's some fun bubblegum soul! Bouncy and delightful, slight but pleasing.

Wonderful singing group, and this was their best.

I think "Break Away" was a bigger hit in western Canada than most places. Well remembered by people in the prairie provinces, but I've noticed it's a vague memory with people I've met from elsewhere, including the American South.

I think that's Toni Basil as the lead Torch Bearer. The really slick choreography of this sequence certainly looks like her work.

I loved this scene as a child in 1966, watched it again and again in repeats, and would leap up and dance along with it, just like during "Shindig", which it charmin...

I hate to see these lovely young people, four decades ago, courting their own doom. I sure hope some of them broke free and they are still with us.

Perfectly wonderful early 60s bubblegum, Canadian style! Warm and catchy piece of long ago, with a fab beat.

60s Brit mod goddess, with a song of groovy joy.

I can't hear this without getting utterly lost in it.

Possibly the best video of this iconic song.

Millie sings it as a silly-sexy teen, a girl in the 2000s.

I remember Devo coming to Calgary, around 1980, and the lead singer sitting on a stool in his mongoloid mask and singing this in a piercing, poignant falsetto, as a solo. It was so utterly tasteless and so charmingly sweet.

Thank you for a perfectly lovely cover, by someone who certainly adores that song like I do.

You're about my age, and I can imagine you as a kid with your ear glued to the radio, each time it came on in 1967.

This great song figures prominently in the James Ellroy novel, "Blood's a Rover", the latest in his Underworld U.S.A. series.

A senile J. Edgar Hoover decides that it sounds subversive and orders a file opened up on Archie Bell. From then on it keeps popping up amidst the intrigue, playing on r...

Is there a GRANDER country narrative than this Dudley classic?

A working man's horror tale, with a beautiful melody and driving beat that doesn't let you go. Dave reminds you of the fragility of life, in a terrifying way.

I can't imagine Sandy singing this brilliant, musically complex song, with its spellbinding lyrics, to that flopping beach goof without total embarrassment.

God, but what interesting singers had to go through, back in the 60s.

Sandy's strangest song, and wildly thrilling. Is it rock or country? And how on earth does the song hold together so wonderfully, switching tempos and pop moods so radically?

I'd venture to say that Sandy achieved something here that nobody else has ever dared attempt.

60s cosmo-country perfection! Listen to that lovely voice, those vulnerable lyrics that capture an urban truth, and that hard driving beat that builds to just the right finale.

Sandy got the cross-genre exactly right with this song,

Beautiful song, stunningly lovely woman.

I experienced these lyrics: from when Verdelle sang them, when I was a kid in the 60s, to my middle age, when I've gone back to my small town and very little is left.

Lots of songs around on this theme, but "Tar and Cement" is tough and real, a song to...

Superb bubblegum -- a song that won't let you go, with its tight musicianship and Bobby's perfect singing.

I'm a Canuck and I love good bubblegum, and this vintage stuff makes me proud.

Just a song to get lost in -- I skip around my I-pod, full of grand mid-century soul. "Tighter Tighter" is never skipped, whatever my mood.

It is a song of my teenage being back then, not at all normal, just like this utterly and joyfully weird song.