The Year Was: 1964
02.19.26
The Year Was takes you on a journey through time. In each show, Annett travels back in time to explore a different year. What did music sound like around the world, across different genres and scenes of pop culture? What else was happening at that time? And how does that resonate today?
This time: The Year Was 1964!
A time of intense cultural transition – which of course you can’t talk about without The Beatles, who started their “British Invasion”, taking first the US and then the world by storm. (Was that the first band to go viral, foreshadowing today’s pop culture?) But music in 1964 was so much more than that. Motown perfected the fusion of bubblegum pop and rhythm and blues. The Shangri-Las reinvented girl group pop with their teenage tragedy “Leader of the Pack”. The Beach Boys provided a young, restless and increasingly self-aware generation with a sunlit Californian anthem. All this was happening while America was still suffering the aftershocks of JFK’s assassination and the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Meanwhile, tensions in Vietnam intensified. Daily life in Berlin was shaped by the newly built Wall. Stanley Kubrick made nuclear war funny. And London’s Mod culture took over fashion with its bold colors, geometric patterns, and miniskirts.
1964 brought the growing generational gap to the forefront – building up the dynamite that would set the Sixties on fire in the years to come.
Tracklist:
Joan Baez – There But For Fortune The Zombies – She’s Not There The Animals – House of the Rising Sun The Impressions – Keep On Pushing Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Live at Philhamonic Hall, New York, 1964) The Beatles – Things We Said Today The Shangri-Las – Leader Of The Pack Brenda Holloway – Land Of A Thousand Boys Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Live Wire Eric Dolphy – Hat And Beard Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor Dionne Warwick – Walk on By Serge Gainsbourg – New York USA E. C. Arinze – Chukwu Fulum Nanya Jair Rodrigues – Deixa Isso Pra Lá Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964) Buffy Sainte-Marie – Universal Soldier The Kinks – All Day and All of the Night Scene from Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mixtur The Beach Boys – I Get Around (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964) The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go Otis Redding – Security Charles Mingus – II B.S. Herbie Hancock – Cantaloupe Island Stan Getz, Joao Gilbert, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto – The Girl From Ipanema Mary Wells – He’s The One I Love Rita Pavone – Datemi Un Martello Sabah – Hully Dabke Yaba Off Vince Guaraldi Trio – Linus And Lucy Andrew Hill – Flight 19 Marvin Gaye – How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Irma Thomas – Time Is On My Side Sylvie Vartan – La plus belle pour aller danser The Ronettes – Baby, I Love You Yukiko Ninomiya – まつのき小唄 Manfred Krug – Twist in der Nacht Maya Kristalinskaya – Листья кленов The Velvelettes – Throw A Farewell Kiss
