Mikel's Record Bin

sharing bits of my passion for music

Posts filed under: ’60s

’60s

Tall and tan and young and lovely – Getz / Gilberto

Sure. Everyone knows "Girl From Ipanema." It's the track that launched Astrud Gilberto's career, but it's the entirety of the album that has you sipping your whisky sour and...

The Japanese Surf Rock God – Takeshi Terauchi

While California had Dick Dale, The Ventures, and The Beach Boys to develop those reverb heavy guitars and vocal surf, Japan had its own master bringing in a taste of...

Lounging in 60’s Cuba

I picture lounging around in a fedora and white, short-sleeved button-up while sipping mojitos from a hotel balcony and watching Havana on the streets below with this music wafting in....