...''AT WORK I JUST TAKE TIME..."

I know I left out The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Johnny Rivers, and a lot of other great artists from the '60's in yesterday's blog. I'll leave out some great Black or Soul singers and groups today.

I started with Dionne because I liked this picture. But she was really good. I saw her at the DuQuoin State Fair one Labor Day when it rained and rained, a typical SoIl thunder boomer.

Another of my faves was Little Anthony and The Imperials. "It Hurts So Bad" and "Tears on My Pillow" mellowed me out after failed relationship(s). In that same vein, Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman" was awesome. I didn't know what love was, but he sure made it seem like "that's the way it's supposed to be".

The Supremes, of course, could not be overlooked. I still remember the shock of seeing Ed Sullivan give Diana Ross a kiss on the cheek on national tv. Boy, that was a stunner for a Midwesterner. I don't know what a Southerner must have thought back then. But The Supremes were well, supreme.

The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, and Lou Rawls were also great. I was hard though to beat "The Duke of Earl," back then.

What really surprises me, though, is the popularity of 60's music today. Most of us cared very little for the music of our parents and grandparents generation. Oh, certainly there were some classics that endured; that lasted. But not like the 60's sound. That is truly classic.