Poetry Cafe: The 1960s (no.4: 1964)
Texts read & Music played:
Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome
Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night
Robin Denselow: When the Music’s Over – The Story of Political Pop (extract)
Dusty Springfield: I Just Don’t Know What To Do with Myself
Mary Wells: My Guy
Cilla Black: Anyone Who Had a Heart
Roy Orbison: Pretty Woman
The Animals: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Lulu and the Luvvers: Shout
PM Harold Wilson: Speech Held at the Cavern Club, Liverpool
Petula Clark: Downtown
The Rolling Stones: It’s All Over Now
The Kinks: You Really Got Me
The Kinks: Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas: Dancing in the Street
Simon and Garfunkel: The Sound of Silence
Very, very interesting – as ever!
I’m waiting for 1965 now: will the programme contain my choices for 1965, I wonder? That’s part of the fun of this fascinating series!
Rob Hill