You often include a Blue Note album in your 1960's favorite albums list and I thank you for that. Both Cantaloupe Island and Night Dreamer are wonderful albums and I still often reach for them - My favorite era of bebop and avant-garde jazz recordings. ☮
I had to start my top ten videos with 1965. I just didn’t have enough records from the earlier years. Another Side Of Bob Dylan and Freewheelin are my favorite early Dylan albums. One of the best 1964 albums is Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club.
My Favorite Albums From 1964: 01 - BITTER TEARS (Johnny Cash) 02 - OUT TO LUNCH (Eric Dolphy) 03 - VENTURES IN SPACE (The Ventures) 04 - PRESENTING THE FABULOUS RONETTES (The Ronettes) 05 - ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN (Bob Dylan) 06 - EMPYRIAN ISLES (Herbie Hancock) 07 - GETZ/GILBERTO (Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto) 08 - MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS (Charles Mingus) 09 - BLACK FIRE (Andrew Hill) 10 - IT'S MY WAY (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Another great year ! My 10 favorite albums, in alphabetical order : - Beach Boys - All Summer Long - Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over - Four Seasons - Rag Doll - Lesley Gore - Girl Talk - Hondells - Go Little Honda - Jan & Dean - Little Old Lady From Pasadena - Jan & Dean - Ride The Wild Surf - Rip Chords - Hey Little Cobra - Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
A lot of nice choices from a significantly important year in rock. “ A Hard Day’s Night “ is my favorite of the early Fab Four. Unfortunately, I don’t own enough albums from that year to assemble a top ten, but I’d be interested in acquiring the Coltrane album you mentioned. I do however, own a copy of the Herbie Hancock. Incredible early work from him considering how young he was then. I must also give a shout out to “ House of the Rising Sun “, one of the great covers of all time from the Animals debut.
I wasn't surprised you chose 1964 after 1963. But it was still a bit before the beginning of the album era, so filler tracks still had to be expected, as we were still in an era when albums were usually only released on the back of hit singles, and usually only sold on the back of hit singles. The Beach Boys released four albums that year, all of which contained great tracks, but also filler. It was right to mention The Rolling Stones, as Keith Richards now joins Mick Jagger into becoming an octogenarian. 1964 was the first major year of the British Invasion, as it was the year it exploded into the States, out-fashioning almost everything before it, making many of their successful predecessors virtually redundant, The Beatles being the first British Pop stars ever to crack it in the States, but not surprising that The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison completely weather the onslaught of the British Invasion, as they already developed advanced and futuristic sounds of their own, that the British Invasion did not out-fashion. Here are my favorite 1964 albums. A lot of them are not perfect, but just good albums for 1964. The Beatles- Hard Day's Night (Beatles For Sale had too much filler) The Rolling Stones - (self-titled UK version of their first album The Rolling Stones 12x5 (U.S. album only) The Ronettes - Presenting Dave Clark 5 - Session With (UK album) Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart Otis Redding - Sings Soul Ballads The Beach Boys - Shut Down Volume 2 (there was no volume 1) The Beach Boys All Summer Long The Beach Boys - Concert The Beach Boys - Christmas Album Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3AM The Kinks - (self-titled first album) Manfred Mann - Five Faces Of (first UK album) Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey The Hollies - Stay With The Hollies The Hollies - In The Hollies Style Bob Dylan - Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan - Another Side Of The Impressions (featuring Curtis Mayfield) - Never Ending The Impressions - Keep On Pushing The Byrds - Pre-Flyte Sessions (double CD containing their vast 1964 demos) Mary Wells - My Guy Marvin Gaye And Mary Wells - Together (but recorded February and April 1963) Ben E King - Seven Letters The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (U.S. album) Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is The Four Tops - (self-titled first album) The Righteous Brothers - You Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (original 1964 album, not later compilations with that title) According to some sources, the latter three were released January 1965, according to other sources, December 1964. I could have included The Yardbirds' first UK album Five Live Yardbirds, as that was recorded live in March 1964 before they recorded their first single. But it was not released until January 1965, so assume it doesn't qualify for 1964. But a few of the albums here were recorded in 1963, but not issued until 1964. Try the greatest albums of 1962, and see how many you can think of. But we mustn't forget the various artists download only release Motown Unreleased 1964, of which I have posted here, via one of the great instrumentals by Earl Van Dyke And His Soul Brothers, which all sounded like a cross between Jimmy Smith and Booker T/M.G.s. They were better known as The Funk Brothers, who were the house band for Motown, and played on virtually all the Motown recordings of the sixties, including all the classic hits. ua-cam.com/video/9UH9WFMeLSw/v-deo.html
The cover songs on Beatles For Sale are mostly really awesome! Mr Moonlight, perhaps, not so much. Important to remember that Beatles For Sale was not originally issued in America. The tracks were spread over over on Beatles 65 and Beatles IV.
Good list. I agree with A hard Day's Night at #1, and I agree with the inclusion of Another Side of Bob Dylan, All Summer Long, Getz/Gilberto, Empyrean Isles, and probably also Crescent and Night Dreamer. I would have also included The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan and probably Coltrane's Sound by John Coltrane.
I really like your lists and expected you to struggle in 1964, but they're all familiar and wonderful albums. I love jazz but personally couldn't include the Shorter, Hancock or Coltrane in what is clearly a pop/rock list. But Otis Redding Pain in my Heart, Etta James Rocks the House and maybe Girl Talk by Lesley Gore could fill out the list.
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity John Coltrane - Crescent The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan Charles Mingus - Town Hall Concert The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure Sun Ra - Other Planes of There Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land Charles Mingus - The Great Concert, 1964 Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5 The Beatles - Beatles For Sale Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel, Vol. 6 Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News Solomon Burke - Rock 'n' Soul King Curtis - Soul Serenade Chuck Berry - St. Louis to Liverpool Wayne Shorter - Juju Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care Major Lance - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um Johnny Cash - Bitter Tears (Ballads of the American Indian) The Kinks - The Kinks Muddy Waters - Folk Singer Solomon Burke - Rock 'n' Soul The Animals - The Animals Albert Ayler - Prophesy
Not a great year for albums, except by the Fab Four, the Stones, and Dylan. I liked The Times They Are A' Changin' better than Another Side, but the difference between those albums is in the ear of the listener. The album was not considered anything but a vehicle for singles, until the Beatles turned the music world upside down, and no year demonstrates that better than 1964. The Beach Boys put out 3 LPs in '64, but in terms of songs worth listening to, they'd have done better to issue only two. Other artists followed the same old A&R formula, a method that did great disservice to one of the year's stellar talents, Dusty Springfield. It was hard to come up with 20 releases, but I did not include any jazz, folk (Holy Modal Rounders put out their 2nd LP that year -- it wouldn't be until Easy Rider, 5 years later, the public would "discover" them), or pure pop (Barbra Streisand put out 2 LPs that year, the Third Album, and People -- only the latter is listenable, almost 60 years later). I almost included Meet the Beatles, despite it being carryovers from 1963's Please, Please Me, and With the Beatles. It was such an influential album, and still sounds good, to my jaded ears, 60 years on. Best of 1964 01 A H A R D D A Y ' S N I G H T the Beatles 02 T H E T I M E S T H E Y A R E A ' C H A N G I N ' Bob Dylan 03 F I V E L I V E Y A R D B I R D S the Yardbirds 04 A N O T H E R S I D E O F B O B D Y L A N Bob Dylan 05 1 2 x 5 the Rolling Stones 06 K I N K S the Kinks 07 T H E A N I M A L S the Animals 08 A L L S U M M E R L O N G the Beach Boys 09 F O R S A L E the Beatles 10 E N G L A N D ' S N E W E S T H I T M A K E R S the Rolling Stones 11 P A I N I N M Y H E A R T Otis Redding 12 S T A Y A W H I L E / I O N L Y W A N T T O B E W I T H Y O U Dusty Springfield 13 F R O M S T L O U I S T O L I V E R P O O L Chuck Berry 14 G L A D A L L O V E R the Dave Clark Five 15 Y E S T E R D A Y ' S G O N E Chad & Jeremy 16 I T ' S T H E S E A R C H E R S the Searchers 17 S H U T D O W N , V O L U M E 2 the Beach Boys 18 A L L T H E N E W S T H A T ' S F I T T O S I N G Phil Ochs 19 W E D N E S D A Y M O R N I N G 3 A M Simon & Garfunkel 20 I D O N ' T W A N T T O S E E Y O U A G A I N Peter & Gordon
1964 was a better year for albums than you may think. Many of the albums that you chose here, I already put in my list above. The Beach Boys released four albums that year. But I already pointed that they all contained some great tracks on each, plus filler material. I also pointed that The Yardbirds' live album here was recorded March 1964, but released January 1965, so it may not qualify for 1964. This album was not released in the States then, but Rhino back released it there on CD decades later. But Capo has featured albums for a particular year that were recorded over previous years, of which I pointed examples in the past. We both did that here.
I wanted to say, because of UA-cam's irrational sorting system, I did not see your comment, or list. However, I turned 15, in 1964, started playing rock 'n' roll because of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds. Folk Music, once as popular as it would get, was suddenly passé, electric guitars the new plastic Jesus. What 1964 did, beyond a shadow of a doubt, was show how bad the old system was, and what possibilities existed. The 20 LPs on my list are the few efforts that transcended mainstream views that music was interchangeable, words were only relevant if they elicited an emotional response, and only "seasoned professionals" knew how to do it. @@paulgoldstein2569
@@TheAnarchitek In reply to your middle paragraph, Folk music did not pass. Like the rest of the music world, it changed and became more electric or more sophisticated,, with acts like The Kingston Trio, The Journeymen, The Limeliters and Peter, Paul & Mary getting replaced by Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, and from Scotland, Donovan. But during the mid sixties, Dylan and Donovan shifted away from their acoustic roots and branched out into more sophisticated styles, but already had more modernized sounds. But Peter, Paul & Mary still survived as a live act, but saw a slump in their record sales during the mid sixties. But the British Invasion that I mentioned, exploded at a time when nothing else was really happening in the music world. The novelty of Rock 'N' Roll had worn off, but nothing definite took it's place other than straight ahead commercial High School Pop that was just aimed for the mainstream, through the likes of Bobby Vee, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Rydell,, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Brenda Lee, and the appalling Connie Francis. Then all of a sudden, we had The Beatles, and then we had The Rolling Stones who were a different kettle of fish yet again. And these bands with the help of their contemporaries were just going to completely change the whole world as I explained previously, and turn the whole world into a massive teenage party, that the older generation just didn't belong to, and anarchy had seemingly hit the world. The idols of previous years had suddenly become old timers, and may have just had to look forward to their future pension days, as the teenage music fans of the mid sixties were completely addicted to their present day idols like The Beatles and The Stones, and could not find any time for the idols of yesteryear.
I wouldn't confuse Folk Rock with Folk, PPM ran out of steam with 1967's I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music. Their last hit of any substance was 1969's Leaving on a Jet Plane, written by John Denver about being a traveling musician. Kingston Trio would end their run in 1966, with the lackluster Children of the Morning. Donovan left Folk music behind, with the timeless Sunshine Superman album, for some kind of mostly children's music, while continuing to release great rock singles until 1971. Simon and Garfunkel were folkies, after being Doo-Woppers, fbecame Folk-Rockers, then pop stars. The Byrds were the on same treadmill, until Gram Parsons made 'em into Country Rockers. Country Music IS "folk music", with steel guitars and banjos. The other acts you mention don't rise to a level of significance, just also-rans in a three-horse race, Rock, Country and Pop. Dylan left fFolk with Highway 61 Revisited, briefly revisited it with John Wesley Harding, never to return. Folk Music is still waiting on it's c;lose-up, Mr DeMille. @@paulgoldstein2569
Long live The Kinks.
Very good job picking only 10 in such an iconic year... Peace and Love and Happy Holidays, Terry and Julia Tutor
You often include a Blue Note album in your 1960's favorite albums list and I thank you for that. Both Cantaloupe Island and Night Dreamer are wonderful albums and I still often reach for them - My favorite era of bebop and avant-garde jazz recordings. ☮
Great list, I love Crescent, one of my top 3 Coltrane albums.
I had to start my top ten videos with 1965. I just didn’t have enough records from the earlier years. Another Side Of Bob Dylan and Freewheelin are my favorite early Dylan albums. One of the best 1964 albums is Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club.
Impeccable choices from the early annus mirabilis of popular music. "Virgo" is my favorite from Shorter's 'Night Dreamer.'
My Favorite Albums From 1964:
01 - BITTER TEARS (Johnny Cash)
02 - OUT TO LUNCH (Eric Dolphy)
03 - VENTURES IN SPACE (The Ventures)
04 - PRESENTING THE FABULOUS RONETTES (The Ronettes)
05 - ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN (Bob Dylan)
06 - EMPYRIAN ISLES (Herbie Hancock)
07 - GETZ/GILBERTO (Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto)
08 - MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS (Charles Mingus)
09 - BLACK FIRE (Andrew Hill)
10 - IT'S MY WAY (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Another great year ! My 10 favorite albums, in alphabetical order :
- Beach Boys - All Summer Long
- Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
- Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
- Four Seasons - Rag Doll
- Lesley Gore - Girl Talk
- Hondells - Go Little Honda
- Jan & Dean - Little Old Lady From Pasadena
- Jan & Dean - Ride The Wild Surf
- Rip Chords - Hey Little Cobra
- Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
A lot of nice choices from a significantly important year in rock. “ A Hard Day’s Night “ is my favorite of the early Fab Four. Unfortunately, I don’t own enough albums from that year to assemble a top ten, but I’d be interested in acquiring the Coltrane album you mentioned. I do however, own a copy of the Herbie Hancock. Incredible early work from him considering how young he was then. I must also give a shout out to “ House of the Rising Sun “, one of the great covers of all time from the Animals debut.
1964 and......"A girl called Dusty" by Dusty Springfield .
JOHN COLTRANE 💙❤💛💚
I wasn't surprised you chose 1964 after 1963. But it was still a bit before the beginning of the album era, so filler tracks still had to be expected, as we were still in an era when albums were usually only released on the back of hit singles, and usually only sold on the back of hit singles.
The Beach Boys released four albums that year, all of which contained great tracks, but also filler. It was right to mention The Rolling Stones, as Keith Richards now joins Mick Jagger into becoming an octogenarian.
1964 was the first major year of the British Invasion, as it was the year it exploded into the States, out-fashioning almost everything before it, making many of their successful predecessors virtually redundant, The Beatles being the first British Pop stars ever to crack it in the States, but not surprising that The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison completely weather the onslaught of the British Invasion, as they already developed advanced and futuristic sounds of their own, that the British Invasion did not out-fashion.
Here are my favorite 1964 albums. A lot of them are not perfect, but just good albums for 1964.
The Beatles- Hard Day's Night (Beatles For Sale had too much filler)
The Rolling Stones - (self-titled UK version of their first album
The Rolling Stones 12x5 (U.S. album only)
The Ronettes - Presenting
Dave Clark 5 - Session With (UK album)
Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart
Otis Redding - Sings Soul Ballads
The Beach Boys - Shut Down Volume 2 (there was no volume 1)
The Beach Boys All Summer Long
The Beach Boys - Concert
The Beach Boys - Christmas Album
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3AM
The Kinks - (self-titled first album)
Manfred Mann - Five Faces Of (first UK album)
Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey
The Hollies - Stay With The Hollies
The Hollies - In The Hollies Style
Bob Dylan - Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan - Another Side Of
The Impressions (featuring Curtis Mayfield) - Never Ending
The Impressions - Keep On Pushing
The Byrds - Pre-Flyte Sessions (double CD containing their vast 1964 demos)
Mary Wells - My Guy
Marvin Gaye And Mary Wells - Together (but recorded February and April 1963)
Ben E King - Seven Letters
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (U.S. album)
Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is
The Four Tops - (self-titled first album)
The Righteous Brothers - You Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (original 1964 album, not later compilations with that title)
According to some sources, the latter three were released January 1965, according to other sources, December 1964.
I could have included The Yardbirds' first UK album Five Live Yardbirds, as that was recorded live in March 1964 before they recorded their first single. But it was not released until January 1965, so assume it doesn't qualify for 1964. But a few of the albums here were recorded in 1963, but not issued until 1964.
Try the greatest albums of 1962, and see how many you can think of.
But we mustn't forget the various artists download only release Motown Unreleased 1964, of which I have posted here, via one of the great instrumentals by Earl Van Dyke And His Soul Brothers, which all sounded like a cross between Jimmy Smith and Booker T/M.G.s.
They were better known as The Funk Brothers, who were the house band for Motown, and played on virtually all the Motown recordings of the sixties, including all the classic hits.
ua-cam.com/video/9UH9WFMeLSw/v-deo.html
The cover songs on Beatles For Sale are mostly really awesome! Mr Moonlight, perhaps, not so much. Important to remember that Beatles For Sale was not originally issued in America. The tracks were spread over over on Beatles 65 and Beatles IV.
Good list. I agree with A hard Day's Night at #1, and I agree with the inclusion of Another Side of Bob Dylan, All Summer Long, Getz/Gilberto, Empyrean Isles, and probably also Crescent and Night Dreamer. I would have also included The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan and probably Coltrane's Sound by John Coltrane.
The Sidewinder is great. Big Morgan fan here. 😉
yep! A hards days nignt has my favorite beatles song "Anytime at all"
Looking forward to top 25 XTC songs.
That's bloody difficult.
No doubt about it. 😉
I really like your lists and expected you to struggle in 1964, but they're all familiar and wonderful albums. I love jazz but personally couldn't include the Shorter, Hancock or Coltrane in what is clearly a pop/rock list. But Otis Redding Pain in my Heart, Etta James Rocks the House and maybe Girl Talk by Lesley Gore could fill out the list.
Etta Rocks The House is awesome. I put that on my ‘63 list.
George Benson and Jack Mc Duff.
Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes would be somewhere in my top ten of 1964, even though Phil Spector turned out to be such a dick.
Ha! Well put. 😉
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch!
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
John Coltrane - Crescent
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan
Charles Mingus - Town Hall Concert
The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father
Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure
Sun Ra - Other Planes of There
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
Charles Mingus - The Great Concert, 1964
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5
The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel, Vol. 6
Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
Solomon Burke - Rock 'n' Soul
King Curtis - Soul Serenade
Chuck Berry - St. Louis to Liverpool
Wayne Shorter - Juju
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care
Major Lance - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um
Johnny Cash - Bitter Tears (Ballads of the American Indian)
The Kinks - The Kinks
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer
Solomon Burke - Rock 'n' Soul
The Animals - The Animals
Albert Ayler - Prophesy
Eric Dolphy
Thelonious Monk
Jimmy Smith The Cat
Dusty Springfield
Not a great year for albums, except by the Fab Four, the Stones, and Dylan. I liked The Times They Are A' Changin' better than Another Side, but the difference between those albums is in the ear of the listener. The album was not considered anything but a vehicle for singles, until the Beatles turned the music world upside down, and no year demonstrates that better than 1964. The Beach Boys put out 3 LPs in '64, but in terms of songs worth listening to, they'd have done better to issue only two. Other artists followed the same old A&R formula, a method that did great disservice to one of the year's stellar talents, Dusty Springfield. It was hard to come up with 20 releases, but I did not include any jazz, folk (Holy Modal Rounders put out their 2nd LP that year -- it wouldn't be until Easy Rider, 5 years later, the public would "discover" them), or pure pop (Barbra Streisand put out 2 LPs that year, the Third Album, and People -- only the latter is listenable, almost 60 years later). I almost included Meet the Beatles, despite it being carryovers from 1963's Please, Please Me, and With the Beatles. It was such an influential album, and still sounds good, to my jaded ears, 60 years on.
Best of 1964
01 A H A R D D A Y ' S N I G H T
the Beatles
02 T H E T I M E S T H E Y A R E A ' C H A N G I N '
Bob Dylan
03 F I V E L I V E Y A R D B I R D S
the Yardbirds
04 A N O T H E R S I D E O F B O B D Y L A N
Bob Dylan
05 1 2 x 5
the Rolling Stones
06 K I N K S
the Kinks
07 T H E A N I M A L S
the Animals
08 A L L S U M M E R L O N G
the Beach Boys
09 F O R S A L E
the Beatles
10 E N G L A N D ' S N E W E S T H I T M A K E R S
the Rolling Stones
11 P A I N I N M Y H E A R T
Otis Redding
12 S T A Y A W H I L E / I O N L Y W A N T T O B E W I T H Y O U
Dusty Springfield
13 F R O M S T L O U I S T O L I V E R P O O L
Chuck Berry
14 G L A D A L L O V E R
the Dave Clark Five
15 Y E S T E R D A Y ' S G O N E
Chad & Jeremy
16 I T ' S T H E S E A R C H E R S
the Searchers
17 S H U T D O W N , V O L U M E 2
the Beach Boys
18 A L L T H E N E W S T H A T ' S F I T T O S I N G
Phil Ochs
19 W E D N E S D A Y M O R N I N G 3 A M
Simon & Garfunkel
20 I D O N ' T W A N T T O S E E Y O U A G A I N
Peter & Gordon
I need to get that Dusty Springfield album. I Only Want To Be With You is such a great tune. Dusty was unique.
1964 was a better year for albums than you may think. Many of the albums that you chose here, I already put in my list above. The Beach Boys released four albums that year. But I already pointed that they all contained some great tracks on each, plus filler material. I also pointed that The Yardbirds' live album here was recorded March 1964, but released January 1965, so it may not qualify for 1964. This album was not released in the States then, but Rhino back released it there on CD decades later. But Capo has featured albums for a particular year that were recorded over previous years, of which I pointed examples in the past. We both did that here.
I wanted to say, because of UA-cam's irrational sorting system, I did not see your comment, or list. However, I turned 15, in 1964, started playing rock 'n' roll because of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds.
Folk Music, once as popular as it would get, was suddenly passé, electric guitars the new plastic Jesus. What 1964 did, beyond a shadow of a doubt, was show how bad the old system was, and what possibilities existed.
The 20 LPs on my list are the few efforts that transcended mainstream views that music was interchangeable, words were only relevant if they elicited an emotional response, and only "seasoned professionals" knew how to do it. @@paulgoldstein2569
@@TheAnarchitek In reply to your middle paragraph, Folk music did not pass. Like the rest of the music world, it changed and became more electric or more sophisticated,, with acts like The Kingston Trio, The Journeymen, The Limeliters and Peter, Paul & Mary getting replaced by Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, and from Scotland, Donovan. But during the mid sixties, Dylan and Donovan shifted away from their acoustic roots and branched out into more sophisticated styles, but already had more modernized sounds. But Peter, Paul & Mary still survived as a live act, but saw a slump in their record sales during the mid sixties.
But the British Invasion that I mentioned, exploded at a time when nothing else was really happening in the music world. The novelty of Rock 'N' Roll had worn off, but nothing definite took it's place other than straight ahead commercial High School Pop that was just aimed for the mainstream, through the likes of Bobby Vee, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Rydell,, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Brenda Lee, and the appalling Connie Francis. Then all of a sudden, we had The Beatles, and then we had The Rolling Stones who were a different kettle of fish yet again. And these bands with the help of their contemporaries were just going to completely change the whole world as I explained previously, and turn the whole world into a massive teenage party, that the older generation just didn't belong to, and anarchy had seemingly hit the world. The idols of previous years had suddenly become old timers, and may have just had to look forward to their future pension days, as the teenage music fans of the mid sixties were completely addicted to their present day idols like The Beatles and The Stones, and could not find any time for the idols of yesteryear.
I wouldn't confuse Folk Rock with Folk, PPM ran out of steam with 1967's I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music. Their last hit of any substance was 1969's Leaving on a Jet Plane, written by John Denver about being a traveling musician.
Kingston Trio would end their run in 1966, with the lackluster Children of the Morning. Donovan left Folk music behind, with the timeless Sunshine Superman album, for some kind of mostly children's music, while continuing to release great rock singles until 1971.
Simon and Garfunkel were folkies, after being Doo-Woppers, fbecame Folk-Rockers, then pop stars. The Byrds were the on same treadmill, until Gram Parsons made 'em into Country Rockers. Country Music IS "folk music", with steel guitars and banjos.
The other acts you mention don't rise to a level of significance, just also-rans in a three-horse race, Rock, Country and Pop. Dylan left fFolk with Highway 61 Revisited, briefly revisited it with John Wesley Harding, never to return. Folk Music is still waiting on it's c;lose-up, Mr DeMille.
@@paulgoldstein2569