Chartbusters Hits Of The 60s & 70s

Chartbusters Hits Of The 60s & 70s

A broad-strokes compilation that captures the wildly diverse soundscape of two transformative decades in popular music. Rather than focusing on a single genre or scene, it brings together rock pioneers, soul vocalists, psychedelic pop acts, glam-era hitmakers, and early hard rock legends into one fast-moving snapshot of chart history.

The tracklist jumps between styles in a way that reflects how rapidly popular music evolved during this period. Early 60s British beat and R&B influence appears in tracks like The Kinks’ All Day And All Of The Night and The Moody Blues’ Go Now, while lighter pop and jazz-inflected hits such as Kenny Ball’s Midnight In Moscow and Joe Brown’s A Picture Of You reflect the mainstream chart sound of the era.

As the compilation moves forward, psychedelic and experimental pop enters the picture with The Lemon Pipers’ Green Tambourine, before heavier rock edges appear in Black Sabbath’ Paranoid and Status Quo’ Mean Girl, marking the shift toward hard rock and proto-metal in the early 70s.

Soul, reggae-influenced pop, and disco also feature prominently, with standout moments from The Trammps, The Real Thing, and Bonnie Tyler helping to close the timeline in the late 70s era of polished, powerful vocal-driven pop.

The result is less a cohesive album and more a musical time capsule — a snapshot of how quickly popular music expanded in style, attitude, and production across two defining decades.

Tracklist:

1. P.P. Arnold – The First Cut Is The Deepest
2. The Kinks – All Day And All Of The Night
3. The Moody Blues – Go Now
4. Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen – Midnight In Moscow
5. Joe Brown And The Bruvvers – A Picture Of You
6. Lou Christie – I’m Gonna Make You Mine
7. Joe Dolan – Make Me An Island
8. Jimmy Justice – When My Little Girl Is Smiling
9. The Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine
10. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
11. Jimmy James & The Vagabonds – Now Is The Time
12. Melanie – What Have They Done To My Song, Ma?
13. Mungo Jerry – You Don’t Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War
14. Status Quo – Mean Girl
15. The Trammps – Hold Back The Night
16. Bonnie Tyler – It’s A Heartache
17. The Real Thing – Can’t Get By Without You
18. Johnny Wakelin – In Zaire