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60s

:Note: Sometimes the '60s is used as shorthand for the 1960s, the 1860s, or other such decades in various centuries – see List of decades

Villava – Atarrabia

For several centuries, Villava was just a little town, but in the 60s, it grew considerably and became an important industrial suburb of Pamplona.


105th and Euclid

During the turbulent, riot-torn '60s, in one of the most racially polarized cities in the country, this same parcel witnessed the creation and rise of an urban paradise; imagined, engineered, owned and operated by a young African-American entrepreneur, Winston E. Willis.

A Sufi and a Killer

Allmusic's Jason Lymangrover gave the album four stars out of five, describing it as "weird, ‘60s-rooted, psychedelic hip-hop", sounding "like if J. Dilla produced George Clinton after visiting with the Dalai Lama, or if Dan the Automator recorded Cody Chesnutt after the two shared a plate of magic mushrooms", and calling it "truly visionary".

Antonio Morelli

The albums feature credits to many of the legendary musicians who performed on the albums and at the Copa Room and to band leader, producer, and musical conductor Antonio Morelli who appeared on hundreds of such albums by these artists throughout the 1950s and 60s.

Arthur Fitzsimons

His coaching career took him to Libya where he spent five and a half years in Tripoli in the 60s before Muammar Gaddafi appeared on the scene and Fitzsimons was advised to leave.

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Towards the end of her life - in her mid-60s - she worked alongside Florence Nightingale, nursing casualties of the Crimean war.

Breakestra

The style in which the breakestra plays in the live setting & on record is much influenced by late 60s and early 70s funk & soul-jazz music and the respective samples that were used in late 80s/early 90s hip hop as The Live Mix, Part 1 and The Live Mix, Part 2 show.

Carl Esser

In the late 60s, he formed a band, A More Perfect Union, and developed a multimedia, rock theater adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.

Carlos Lapetra

He helped the club to four Copa del Rey finals in the 60s, winning twice and scoring in both finals, against Atlético Madrid in 1964 and Athletic Bilbao in 1966.

Crème Simon

By the 1950s, Creme Simon took a heavier stance by leveraging on the drawing power of movie stars, from Dominique Wilms, a femme fatale in several French thriller and action movies in the 1950s to 60s; Christine Carère, Irène Tunc, and many other celebrities.

Croatian Museum of Naïve Art

The work of the second generation of Hlebine School artists, such as Ivan Večenaj, and Mijo Kovačić date from the 1950s and 60s, and include burlesque and grotesque figures, as well as works inspired by Biblical topics, with a strong use of colour.

Dario Di Palma

In mid-60s he started working in more significant films, such as Un uomo a metà by Vittorio De Seta and Le stagioni del nostro amore by Florestano Vancini.

Digital Be-In

However, producer Michael Gosney also brought in key figures from the Human Be-In such as Allen Cohen, Chet Helms and Timothy Leary to maintain the 60s influence, as well as 60s icons Ken Kesey, Ram Dass and Wavy Gravy.

Dimosthenis Manousakis

He was only the second Lemnian footballer who played in Super League, after Vertsonis who had played in Apollon Smyrni in the late '60s

Douglas Huebler

Initially a painter, Huebler moved on to produce geometric Formica sculptures in the early '60s, which aligned him with the Minimalist movement.

East Bay Ray

These experiments were represented most prominently in the guitar playing of East Bay Ray, who took cues from sources such as film music (spy movie scores and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western scores), instrumental surf rock (the guitar stylings of Dick Dale and George Tomsco of The Fireballs), as well as the psychedelic music of the 60s (especially early Pink Floyd) with his trademark echo effects.

Eddie Cano

He found an appreciative audience for a series of albums under his own name released in the '50s and '60s by labels such as Atco, Reprise, and RCA, his following similar to that of vibraphonist Cal Tjader and bandleader Les Baxter.

Eddie Mooney

The band released six albums, "The Dakotas", "The Beat Goes On", "Don't Look Back", "Everlasting", "Strong" and "Evolution" and were a regular fixture on the successful "Solid Silver 60s" tours (six to date), where they also backed acts such as Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana, John Walker of The Walker Brothers and others.

Electric Love Muffin

While the band's original songs won raves from critics, imaginative covers of The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and the '60s chestnut "Venus" (then best known for Bananarama's version) were highlights of the live set.

Gene Trautmann

He began playing in punk bands in high school and eventually joined a group called the Miracle Workers, who were dedicated to reviving the first-generation punk of mid-’60s garage bands like the Sonics and the Count Five.

Gharara

Ghararas were also made popular in Pakistan & Bangladesh, in the 1950s and 60s with popular public figures like Fatima Jinnah and Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan wearing them.

Hartal

In Malaysia, the word was used to refer to various general strikes in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, such as the All-Malaya Hartal of 1947 and the Penang Hartal of 1967.

Helen Shapiro

Aged ten, Shapiro was a singer with "Susie and the Hula Hoops," (with her cousin, 60s singer, Susan Singer) a school band which included Marc Bolan (then using his real name of Mark Feld) as guitarist.

Henry Seyrig

Throughout the 1950s and '60s he was a visiting scholar invited by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, living part of the year in the United States.

Hunt Sales

Hunt Sales is the son of 1950s/60s television comedian Soupy Sales.

Jack Marx

It was during his time as a music journalist that Marx went in search of his childhood rock and roll idol, Stevie Wright, of legendary Australian '60s band, The Easybeats. He found Wright allegedly living as a drug-addicted recluse in a small coastal town in southern New South Wales and Wright's life story, along with Marx's near-disastrous attempts to extract it from him, was documented in Sorry: The Wretched Tale of Little Stevie Wright (1999).

James McCartan

James McCartan, Senior, Down Gaelic footballer in the 1950s-60s and manager in the 1980s

Julije

Julije Knifer (1924–2004), Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as Gorgona Group

Mark Kemp

In 1997 he received a Grammy nomination for his liner notes to the CD Farewells & Fantasies, a retrospective of music by '60s protest singer Phil Ochs. His book Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South was published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster in 2004 and issued in soft cover by the University of Georgia Press in 2006.

Molly McGrann

Her first novel, 360 Flip, looked at the tensions lying below the surface of the "American Dream" in a 60s Levittown-style suburb, through the eyes of a disillusioned young poet growing up there in the 1950s.

Qadir Bakhsh

Qadir Bakhsh, (born 1945, in Lyari, Pakistan), was a Pakistani professional footballer, who was known as Putla during his hey days in 60s and 70s.

Ray Cooney

Cooney began to act in 1946 appearing in many of the Whitehall farces of Brian Rix throughout the 1950s and '60s. It was during this time that he co-wrote his first play One For The Pot.

Red Top Young

He recorded an album for Quincy Jones on the Mercury Label in the 60s, prior to that he recorded the song Tequila for Charlie and Opal Lanze (Lanso Records).

Rick Shubb

During the folk boom of the 60s he played in coffeehouses and taverns in Berkeley and San Francisco, playing with such musicians as Doc Watson, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, and others.

RPS10

Ribosomes, the organelles that catalyze protein synthesis, consist of a small 40S subunit and a large 60S subunit.

Stalag

In Israel of the 1950s-60s, "stalag" was a generic term for pornographic material with a theme of sadistic sexual activity between female SS officers and prisoners of war.

Strange Nature

Formed in 1986 by Gordon Mills, son of 60s pop producer and music manager Gordon Mills Snr.

Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema

The book discuss the movies from late the 60s and early 70s that constituted the basis of the legend of Swedish sin—such as Ur kärlekens språk, Hon dansade en sommar and Thriller - en grym film.

Sydney Filmmakers Co-op

Founding members were the experimental filmmakers of the 60s and early 70s, including Aggy Read, David Perry, Albie Thoms, Phillip Adams, Phillip Noyce, and later Bruce Petty.

Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine

Music journalist, Robert K. Oermann and anthropologist, Mary A. Bufwack called this song, among Jackson's other late 60s recordings, "self-assertive about women's issues".

The Originals

The group found modest success in the latter half of the 60s, often working as background singers for recordings by artists such as Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life" and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday", David Ruffin "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)", Marvin Gaye's "Chained" and "Just to Keep You Satisfied", Edwin Starr's "War" and "25 Miles", and many more.

Triklino

It was abandoned during the early 60s, when the government compensated the farmers in order to construct a large dam at a place known as "Kremasta".

U.S. Snowboarding

Through the late 60s, 70s and early 80s snowboard designs with the help of snowboard innovators Jake Burton, Tom Sims, Mike Olson, Dimitrije Milovich and others.

Une petite française

The song was composed by Olivier Toussaint and Paul de Senneville, a very successful team whose compositions were recorded by major French singers such as Michel Polnareff, Christophe, Dalida, Petula Clark, Claude François and Mireille Mathieu all through the 60s and 70s.

United Voice

Famous campaigns during the 1950s and 60s included organising workers paid to be Santa Clauses at Christmas and a group of dance instructors who were locked out for four months before winning their jobs back.

WABX

107.5 WABX plays classic rock from the late 60s, the 70s, the 80s selected rock of the 90s and today, featuring artists like: Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Rush, Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, Boston, ZZ Top, Bad Company, Ozzy Osbourne, Styx, Pink Floyd, and more.

WAQY

Now known simply by the stations call letters WAQY, they played a mix of new rock music from the 1980s mixed with older rock artists of the '60s (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix etc.) and 1970s (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc.) Artists played included then current and popular Arena rock favorites Blue Öyster Cult, Journey, Foreigner and Fleetwood Mac as well as singer and songwriter artist from Tom Petty to Billy Joel.

WODA

WGSX was an affiliate of Casey Kasem's American Top 40 throughout the '80s. In 1992, the station changed to an Oldies music format airing Top 40 music from the '50s, '60s and '70s.


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