Sounds of the Sixties
Sounds of the Sixties
TV ShowEnded

Sounds of the Sixties

7.0 / 10
1991
1 season
10 episodes
Documentary

Series featuring rock, pop and R&B performances from the BBC archives.

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  • The First Steps

    1.The First Steps

    05-10-1991

    The rock and pop series kicks off with the very birth of the decade, when pop was consigned to Crackerjack and rebellious singers still wore cardigans. But then Beatlemania came al...

  • 1964-5: Getting in on the Act

    2.1964-5: Getting in on the Act

    12-10-1991

    More pop, rock and rhythm and blues from the archive as Sounds of the Sixties shifts up a gear with the great and lamentable from 1964 to 1965. It features the Seekers, the Byrds,...

  • 1964-66: The Beat Room

    3.1964-66: The Beat Room

    19-10-1991

    Things get cool and serious in the archive rock show as it highlights the BBC's cutting-edge pop programme The Beat Room amongst others, with great performances from John Lee Hooke...

  • The Folk Revival

    4.The Folk Revival

    26-10-1991

    A trawl through the BBC's archives for 60s music with an acoustic bent. Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Tim Buckley feature.

  • 1967-68: The Pop Boom

    5.1967-68: The Pop Boom

    02-11-1991

    By now Top of the Pops was an established part of the pop scene, and a group's appearance on the show was essential to a single's success. With footage of the Bee Gees, the Rolling...

  • 1968-69: The Swinging Sixties

    6.1968-69: The Swinging Sixties

    09-11-1991

    this time looking at the height of the hippie era. Featuring the music of Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger, the Alan Price Set, the Crazy World of Arthu...

  • The Singer and the Song

    7.The Singer and the Song

    16-11-1991

    Rock, pop and R'n'B performances from the BBC archives, with Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Long John Baldry, Lulu, Tom Jones, Brenton Wood, Cliff Richard, Cilla Black and Peter S...

  • Hip to the Trip

    8.Hip to the Trip

    23-11-1991

    This edition features psychedelia and counter-culture, with performances by The Who, Pink Floyd, Joe Cocker and the Greaseband, The Nice and The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

  • In Living Colour

    9.In Living Colour

    30-11-1991

    More from the BBC archive music programme. 1968 brought colour transmission to the BBC and artists such as The Kinks, The Moody Blues and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band appear in all t...

  • 1968-69: The Progressive Tendency

    10.1968-69: The Progressive Tendency

    07-12-1991

    The BBC's music archive programme reaches the end of the sixties and features Pink Floyd, Donovan, Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell.

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