Sunshine Pop

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It has been such a beautiful spring day around these parts, so let's start an adjunct to the infamous "Edmundo Ros" thread.

I was just a kid when these feelgood songs were released but even after nearly 50 years they are still completely grin-inducing, alhough they will not go down well with the panel, but.... the love affair is particularly good on omni speakers :wink:

Time for Livin' by The Association.



Lazy Day by Spanky and Our Gang



And Rainbow Valley by The Love Affair



More sunshine pop will be gratefully received on this thread. :flower: :flower: :flower:
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Here's another one:

The Turtles:
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So do the Lemon Pipers qualify ?
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indeed!
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Your wish is my command, oh Guru :
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I'm going to blame you if I have to buy an original copy of 'The psychedelic sounds of the 13th-floor elevators' now, Steve, thanks to Youtube and EBay :confused3:
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:flower:

I've Got Rhythm - The Happenings



More Today Than Yesterday - The Spiral Starecase


Lovely American AM radio toons from 1967.
Heard these on Caroline at the age of 9 years, or maybe it was Radio 1.

I wonder if our Meredith has a few examples that didn't make it to this side of the pond.
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One of my more sophisticated faves, that rocketed out of the radio and shook me my the earholes, a couple of years later:

Blood Sweat and Tears
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This was a fave amongst the kids in our neighbourhood, in the late 60s, along with Leapy Lee.....but some things are best left buried, where they belong :lol: :lol:

The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park and Other Things.





Sunshine pop (originally "soft pop")[1] is a subgenre of pop music originating in Southern California in the mid-1960s, although it only acquired the name later. According to Noel Murray of The A.V. Club, its practitioners were rooted in "the pretty sounds of easy-listening, the catchiness of commercial jingles, and the chemically induced delirium of the drug scene, ... [expressing] an appreciation for the beauty of the world mixed with a sense of anxiety that the good ol’ days were gone for good."[2]
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