Margo Guryan - Sunday Morning - 1968

And after a short, well, let's be honest, long respite - Analog Pop is back and enhanced.



For starters, I've never been one for turtlenecks. But for Miss Margo Guryan, I'm willing to look the other way - or even stare in her general direction.

"Sunday Morning," the lead track off her 1968 pop masterpeice, 'Take a Picture' approximates what Belle and Sebastian could have sounded like back when they had Isobel Campbell in their ranks. But in classic Scottish fashion, they blew it. I blame it on their willy-nilly use of flutes.

Anyway, Margo's Sunday morning's sound like they were a little more rocking than mine. But it's probably good she didn't sing about eating peanut butter Cap'n Crunch straight from the box. Otherwise I'd be fresh out of ideas for my yet-to-be recorded concept album.

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Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces - Searching For My Love - 1966

The perfect mid-1960s R&B track. No smart-ass introduction necessary.

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Anna King - If You Don't Think - 1964

If I could have a female voice for a day, I'd take Anna King's. And I'd sing this song on repeat. And the year would be 1964. And while singing, I'd amass all sorts of hip-1960s artifacts to bring back to the future (because being a woman of the 60s, I'd have a huge purse). And on my way back, I'd take a pit-stop in 1992 and stockpile Crystal-Clear-Pepsi©, which could later be used to fund my retirement.

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Wilson Pickett - Take a Little Love - 1965

Yes, that's a young Jimi Hendrix on the right. No, I'm not sure if he's playing on the track, but we can just cross our fingers real hard and pretend.

In addition to the giant horn riff, I'm a big fan of the song's jangly piano. Which brings me to my next point: Jangly is a perfectly acceptable adjective to describe piano sound. A college prof once gave me crap (in front of a several hundred person lecture) for using jangly to describe the piano on an old Jelly Roll Morton recording. The thing is, the piano was jangly. And so is the piano on this track. And per usual, I'm right. The end.

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***BONUS***

I Found a Love (also from Wilson Pickett's 'In the Midnight Hour LP')

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Young Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut - 1968

I figured it was time to upload a full proper album...like I did back in the day. Granted back in the day was only something like February.

With the exception of the first two songs (Just do yourself a favor and start on track No. 3), Young Holt Unlimited's Soulful Strut holds up as some one of my favorite r&b/jazz/pop albums to be put to acetate in the 1960s. Being mostly instrumental, the album makes a fine sonic backdrop for whatever it is that you do. Or don't do.

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Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - 1965

"He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks." It sounds borderline painful, but for some reason it's always been one of my favorite lines penned by Dylan.

Recorded during the Highway 61 Revisited Sessions, 'Can I Pease Crawl Out Your Window' was released as an obscure single and all-too-soon forgot about. I like to think of it as a slightly less angry 'Positively Fourth Street' - which happens to be one of my favorite songs. Ever.

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Marvin Gaye - Groovin' - 1968

Motown has a seemingly endless deluge of unreleased music just sitting around in their vaults gathering dust. And frankly, it irritates me.

That's exactly the case with this 1968 cover of The Young Rascal's 'Groovin’. Cut during a late-1960s Norman Whitfield produced session, the song didn't see the light of day till' nearly 30-years later. And it's a shame, because Marvin's funk-infused version is nothing short of a gem.

It also really makes me wonder what else they're all sitting on. I swear, if I ever find out there's some top-secret Supremes sing Beach Boys album they didn't bother releasing, there will be hell to pay. Berry Gordy, consider yourself warned.

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