Most underrated oldies

[namethebats]

This guy reviewed every top 10 song from 1966 (http://www.theilliterate.com/topten/archive_1966.html). I'd like to find the person who programmed our oldies station and smack them for not playing "I'm Your Puppet."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcD2iexGqZQ[/youtube]

How have I not heard this song before now?

Also, Paul Revere & the Raiders should be remembered far more fondly than they are. I blame the uniforms.

[thecramedog]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-BYzaDwNoE[/youtube]
an oldie but actually a newish oldie that never was.

[Vambo]

The Litter:  Action Woman
The Pretty Things:  Midnight To Six Man
The Shocking Blue:  Venus
Soupy Sales:  Do The Mouse
The Kingsmen:  Jolly Green Giant
The Who:  The Good's Gone
Sam The Sham:  How Do You Catch A Girl
Link Wray:  take your pick

[masterofsparks]

This has been covered by a Mick Collins band, which means it's officially hip.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-BYzaDwNoE[/youtube]
an oldie but actually a newish oldie that never was.

[Matt]

The Louvin Brothers - Must You Throw Dirt in My Face
more Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl (a murder ballad hipsters might now from Nick Cave's version; it includes the following stanza;

"She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
Within her blood did flow."

we play for keeps down here, yo.

I could play this game all day, but a few that come to mind are Ben Folds' Hospital Song, Blue Oyster Cult's Zen Archer, and let's go with The Majestic Twelve's Condoleeza Check My Posse.

Don't get me started on the Louvin Brothers, Dave. "I Wish It Had Been a Dream" never fails to get me all misty-eyed.

It's not obscure or anything, but Jan Bradley's "Mama Didn't Lie" has to be one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life.

Another good one: "The Madman Running Through the Fields" by Dantalion's Chariot.

Another "newish oldie that never was":
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE[/youtube]