Tim Rose’s cover of this song is the one I remember from the 60s. His is a powerful performance but he kind of bludgeons the song to death.

Morning Dew has been covered many times - even by last week’s featured band, Nazareth.

The song’s writer was Bonnie Dobson. Her version is completely different from either of the above.

A track from 1970. Like Fleetwood Mac’s 1960s song Man Of The World which I featured as Friday On My Mind: 7, this is more evidence of the dark state of composer Peter Green’s mind. There’s a definite air of menace surrounding this. Not to mention weird.

For various reasons I was listening to “California Saga” from the Beach Boys’ Holland album this week, which, yes, is a 1970s recording. Referencing, among other things, John Steinbeck “and his travellin’s with Charley” it also mentions that at a festival, “Country Joe will do his show,” and I thought “Hmm.. I’ve not done that one.”

I don’t think Country Joe and the Fish are remembered for more than the one song but that song certainly caught a mood.

It is the quintessential musical protest against the war in Vietnam.

As this is a live version – Joe performing at a festival, Woodstock no less – it is not suitable for work.

As a gimmick goes, stripy jackets wasn’t very cool, was it?

Last week I watched a TV programme about Dave Davies of the Kinks. In it he said his brother Ray had been playing two notes on the piano and he (Dave) thought that he could do something with it. To get the right effect – not the clean recorded sound they had had up to this – he tried cutting his amp’s loudspeakers with a razor blade, not expecting this to work. The result ended up as You Really Got Me. So maybe it was Dave, and not Ray, who invented heavy metal. Maybe.

The following programme was a retrospective of Kinks performances from the BBC archive which included this gem.

Not a hit at the time – nor was the LP from which it came despite it being a critical success and now much revered – The Village Green Preservation Society prefigures Ray’s movement into the chronicling of Englishness. It hits perfectly that note of wistful nostalgia encompassed by John Major quoting Orwell’s remark about old maids bicycling to Holy Communion. But Ray’s lyrics are a bit more amusing.

Just to show that, even putting Bob Dylan to one side, the 1960s were not a singer/songwriter desert.

Hardin wrote a lot of good songs including:

Reason To Believe, better known perhaps for Rod Stewart’s version.

If I Were A Carpenter a hit for The Four Tops

and The Lady Came From Baltimore (loads of people.)

For some reason I had remembered this as being from 1970 but it was actually 1969.

According to Wikipedia Pete Townshend called it a “clumsy piece of writing.” Whether that comment relates to the music or lyric is not entirely clear.

I tend to the lyric as the intro (in a style much imitated later by U2) is a classic bit of rock guitar; and the booming out of that first loud note made the song instantly unforgettable.

Someone else who listened to Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds) – but took the piss.

This only just scrapes in as a 60s track. It was released in late 1969 but made the charts in January 1970.

Bizarrely there seems to be an extract from Blue Peter at the beginning of this.

However, one of the reasons I’m putting it up is that it features the inventor of bling at the end of the video.

Yes. One James Savile esquire.

Somebody’s been listening to Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds.)

But only as far as the lyrics are concerned…..

The above makes much more sense to British listeners when you remember that USians use the word jelly for what we call jam.

The Lemon Pipers were of course more famous for Green Tambourine.