Peg’s music during the Eisenhower Era is great too but there is just something so hopeful and upbeat about her ’40s recordings. Nat, Peg, and Frank pretty much defined the classic Capitol sound.
In the 1940s, Peggy Lee and Nat King Cole helped establish Capitol Records, an artist run West Coast indie that would solidify into a major when they took a chance on a nosediving Frank Sinatra right before his career took off again. Of course, she was once a young mother balancing raising a family (including this sunny collie), going on tour, appearing on radio shows, and knocking out hit records.
FRANK SINATRA RADIO ECHOES TV
When I was a kid I knew Peggy Lee as a weird old lady who would show up on TV or in the paper in a wig and giant sunglasses. Spotlights on albums From the 1967 best-sellers list: Its the year when the general public had great taste in music! Still…if you want to collect great records just randomly buy chart hits from 1967. Two great records that didn’t make the Billboard Top 100 chart all year were The Velvet Underground & Nico and Love’s Forever Changes. Not every 1967 masterwork was a bestseller. The Kinks are represented by their Greatest Hits, which would remain their biggest seller in America until the end of the 1970s.
Motown, Stax, James Brown, and Elvis are still riding high while I can only see one ranking instrumental jazz album on the list - Wes Montgomery’s California Dreaming which is still on the pop LP charts after 26 weeks - it was still #1 this week over on the Jazz charts. Brazil is further represented by Sergio Mendes while some of its finest Bossa Nova numbers get translated into French on A Man & A Women. Sinatra is well-represented with a number of lesser releases in the Top 100 but there is one masterwork on the list - the first collaboration between him and Jobim, which is still on the charts after 23 weeks. Two sublime soundtracks just missed the Top 10 this week - A Man & A Woman and You Only Live Twice. If this is pre-fab commercial product please sign me up! Today, if anything the Grateful Dead debut deserves some more love and is somewhat neglected by their forever furry fanbase while The Monkees catalog is more respected today then when it was originally released. Back in 1967 the fanbases of these two bands were diametrically opposed - freaks and older teen boys dug the SF psych rock bands while kids and girls loved The Monkees. The Grateful Dead also debut on the Top 100 charts while there are numerous Monkees albums on here - they were outselling The Beatles catalog wise at this point. 1967 was also the most successful time to be a San Francisco group on the Billboard charts. The Moby Grape LP is a GREAT album that had 1967 hit written all over it but the record label messed up and released 4 songs from the album as singles at the exact same time and it caused a backlash. Jimi Hendrix jumped from a chart debut at 100 all the way up to #35 this week while SF’s own Moby Grape drops down to #42 after debuting at #29. Go a little further down the chart and its just as good. You can’t win ’em all 1967 Billboard Album chart. OK… I have stopped and listened to ‘Bert’s Release Me and I am going to keep things at 9 out of 10. The only one I don’t have is the Engelbert Humperdinck LP at #7.
The Beatles, The Stones, Aretha, The Temptations! Two amazing debuts from The Doors and Jefferson Airplane! I own 9 out of 10 records here. Here is the Billboard Top 10 for a random week in ’67. Way back at the start of this blog I spotlighted my most listened to Byrds platter and noticed how amazing LP Year 1967 was.Īnd it wasn’t only that there were true masterwork records being released in 1967 - people were buying them.
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