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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Four Seasons is the name of four violin concertos composed by Vivaldi in the 1700s, when violin concertos were considered popular music.
 
That may not exactly be related to 50's, 60's, 70's oldies but I dig it!

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to my knowledge never had a "Concerto" song, but they did have "Opus 17," and while I don't know the difference between Opus and Concerto, I do know that The Toys had a one hit wonder called "A Lover's Concerto."
 
The Toys "Lover's Concerto" melody was written by Johan Sebastian Bach, adapted from a minuet. Concerto is a short piece. Opus is Latin for "work". (12 years of Catholic School)
 
Clyde McPhatter, who was a member of the Dominoes and the Drifters, had a #6 solo hit in 1958 with A "Lover's Question." McPhatter died of a heart attack in 1972 at the age of 39.
 
Clyde McPhatter sang one of my favorite records with The Drifters on the Atlantic record label called "Three Thirty Three," a song about a house of ill repute.
 
One of the more memorable songs by The Mamas & The Papas was "Twelve Thirty," which is better known as "Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon."
 
I could have gone in a thousand different directions with that one , but I went with this:

"Music To Watch Girls By" was a hit in 1967 for both The Bob Crewe Generation, and Andy Williams, but it was also recorded by Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass, and The Ventures, the great group from Seattle who recorded "Walk Don't Run" and many other great instrumental rock tunes.
 
The Kingston Trio was one of the early folk music successes of the rock era with hits that included "Tom Dooley," "M.T.A.," and "The Tijuana Jail."
 
Herb Alpert, whose gained renown with The Tijuana Brass, purchased the Charles Chaplin studio to house his A & M records, which Chaplin, who was raised in the London slums, had it designed to resembled an English village; Chaplin was also a composer as well as an actor, director, screen writer and producer.
 
Herb Alpert was also responsible for introducing Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 to the states, also on A & M records, who were responsible for great tunes like "The Look Of Love" and "Fool On The Hill."
 
At the height of the Top 40 era, the most-listened to rock 'n roll radio station in the nation was WABC Musicradio 77 in New York, and its morning man, from 1960-1968, was Herb Oscar Anderson, "H-O-A, go go go!"
 
Many New Yawkas listened to MusicRadio 77 "Morning, Noon, and Night," just like the title of the great song by Big Joe Turner, which is not to be confused with Flip Flop & Fly, Shake Rattle & Roll, or Lipstick, Powder & Paint, 3 other gems from The Boss Of The Blues.
 
After Sam Cooke was murdered by a woman hotel manager under suspicious circumstances in December 1964, two terrific songs, "Shake," a Top 10 hit, and "A Change Is Gonna Come," A- and B-sides respectively, made up his first posthumously-released record.
 
Donnie Elbert wrote "Open The Door To Your Heart" but Darrell Banks took full credit for writing and recording it while Elbert was on the road, much to Donnie Elbert's dismay.
 
This thread is more like free association. So guess the word here is Door.

Dead Door Jim Morrison may receive a pardon from dropping his drawers at a Miami concert sometime in the long ago early 70s (or late 60s, who remembers); apparently, he only pretended to expose little Jim, or so that's what everyone is saying, but he may be exonerated yet.
 
The word is whatever you want it to be from the previous post. Any word at all. You dont pick the word for the next post. The person posting picks the word.

Jim Morrison with The Doors recorded a couple of my favorite tunes such as "Hello I Love You" and "Touch Me."
 
Like I said, Stream of Consciousness

Jim Morrison liked to think of himself as a poet; I hope nobody disabused of that pleasant fiction.
 
Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote "Pleasant Valley Sunday," the hit for the Monkees, about life in their suburban home on Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, New Jersey.
 
Will You Be Staying After Sunday or Comin' Home on Monday...part of the lyrics to the great tune by The Peppermint Rainbow, one hit wonder stuff from 1969 led by Bonnie Lamdin on Decca Records.
 
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