Sunshine Pop
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Harpers Bizarre was perhaps the most anachronistic pop band to hit the charts during the Summer of Love. This collection condenses the band to its best element–the single side of a 45 record. Read more
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Harpers Bizarre was perhaps the most anachronistic pop band to hit the charts during the Summer of Love. This collection condenses the band to its best element–the single side of a 45 record. Read more
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Sunshine pop for a rainy day? Why not?!? Read more
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Much like the aforementioned Turtles, selecting a love song from Sunshine Pop masters The Association is a difficult task, as gorgeously produced love songs were their specialty. So we’ll go with this classic, from 1966. Dig those harmonies, baby… Read more
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The Turtles, one of psychedelic pop’s greatest bands, recorded a number of great love songs, and here are two of them. 1967’s “Happy Together” is their best-known and most beloved hit, a tale of love, and an innocent love at that. 1968’s “Elenore” was a song that was meant to be a “screw you” to Read more
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A little sunshine pop is a great way to start off a new week! Let us then proceed to enjoy the first hit from Baltimore-based Peppermint Rainbow. This lovely little tune was a hit in 1968, and rightly so. You can’t resist the harmonies of sisters Bonnie and Pat Lamdin, and the catchy melody will Read more
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“Incense and Peppermints” by the California-based Strawberry Alarm Clock will forever be associated with 1967 and The Summer of Love. It’s easy to understand why; it’s exotic, with a hypnotizing keyboard melody over a crunchy garage-rock melody and some great vocal harmonizing. Released at the beginning of 1967, it signaled that something different was coming. Read more
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