Here is a You Tube channel that is a "must" for those baby-boomers with a fondness for the pop-music of the Sixties.
It doesn't concentrate on the Top Forty, or even the Top Fifty and it doesn't focus on the "A-side" of the 45 rpm records that we were buying and listening to back then: The core of MaltShopPopsicle is the "B-side" of those hits and also any record that slipped under the Top 100 on the American charts.
At last we can hear those songs which we ignored back then as we popped the record onto the turntable - that side was always underneath the one for which we forked out our pocket money or meagre earnings.
The radio stations tended to ignore them as well, giving very little airplay to those tracks.
After all - it was essentially the DJs who held sway over what was played and that influence directly impacted on what was sold.
My thanks go to Tom, who operates the MaltShopPopsicle site, for providing us with this great selection of music that was, by and large, overlooked during our youth.
It's really nice to be able to catch up with them at last.
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