'66 Sunset Strip: Night Club Hopping
01.26.24
Take a trip to ’66 Sunset Strip as dublab steps into the wayback machine and revisits 1960s Hollywood nightclubs like The Trip, Hullabaloo, Whisky a Go Go and Pandora’s Box.
Let’s take a ride through the Greater Los Angeles area and hit all the clubs… in one night! Hosted live by Domenic Priore from belly dancing venue The Seventh Veil, Sunset Blvd.
Tracklist:
The Pastel Six – The Strange Ghost (house band at The Cinnamon Cinder, Studio City)
The Regents – Delano Soul Beat/Comin’ Home Baby (live at Jack Martin’s A.M./P.M., La Cienega Boulevard)
Tony, Vic & Manuel – 319 La Cienega (live at that address, the original location of Gazzarri’s)
Billy Lee Riley – Mojo Workout (live at Whisky a Go Go)
The Beatles – You Can’t Do That (live at The Hollywood Bowl)
The Ramsey Lewis Trio – A Hard Day’s Night (live at The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach)
Johnny Rivers – Can’t Buy Me Love (live at Whisky a Go Go, Sunset Strip)
The Standells – Help Yourself (live at P.J.’s, Santa Monica Boulevard & Crescent Heights)
The Sin-Say-Shuns – I’ll Be There (live at P.J.’s, Santa Monica Boulevard & Crescent Heights)
Big Jay McNeely – Big Jay’s Shuffle (live at Cisco’s, Hermosa Beach)
The Doors – Baby Please Don’t Go (live at The London Fog, Sunset Strip)
Iron Butterfly – Evil Temptation (live at The Galaxy, Sunset Strip)
Canned Heat – When Things Go Wrong (live at the Topanga Corral, Topanga Canyon)
Alice Cooper – Changing, Arranging (live at Whisky a Go Go, Sunset Strip)
Electric Flag – Losing Game (live at Whisky a Go Go, Sunset Strip)
Buddy Rich w/ Cathy Rich – The Beat Goes On (live at The Chez – formerly The Action – Santa Monica Boulevard)
Donovan – Mellow Yellow (live at The Anaheim Convention Center)
Chet DeMilo – Sunshine Superman/The In Crowd (live at Donkin’s, Marina Del Rey)
Lee Dresser – El Camino Real (live at Ye Little Club, Beverly Hills)
J.J. Mack – Brown Eyed Girl (live at The Lucky Lion, Long Beach)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (live at The Hollywood Bowl)
Three Dog Night – Eli’s Comin’ (live at The Forum, Inglewood)
The Jackson 5 – I Want You Back (live at The Hollywood Palace, Vine Street)
The Gerald Wilson Orchestra – Viva Tirado (live at Marty’s on the Hill, Baldwin Hills)
Neil Diamond – Cherry, Cherry (live at The Troubadour, Santa Monica Boulevard & Doheny)
Kool & the Gang – Ronnie’s Groove (live at P.J.’s, Santa Monica Boulevard & Crescent Heights)
Rufus Thomas – Do the Funky Chicken (live at P.J.’s, Santa Monica Boulevard & Crescent Heights)
COVER IMAGE: The Hollywood Palace, from Los Angeles Times’ WEST magazine
The Cinnamon Cinder, 11345 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City w/ The Pastel Six on the marquee
Hollywood Bowl marquee, August 1964
The Beatles at The Hollywood Bowl, 1964
Whisky a Go Go, 1966, w/ the band Love on the marquee
Whisky a Go Go, inside, 1964
P.J.’s, at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Crescent Heights
The Standells play the main room at P.J.’s
The London Fog (8919 Sunset Strip)
The Doors at The London Fog, 1966
The Galaxy (8917 Sunset Strip)
The Galaxy, Sunset Strip, with Iron Butterfly on the marquee
The Corral, Topanga Canyon
Anaheim Convention Center
Batman shows you the forthcoming “Fabulous” Forum, Inglewood (open, 1968)
This is the Capitol Records acetate of the original 1964 mix of “The Beatles Live at The Hollywood Bowl,” an unreleased album slated for 1965 in the United States only… that was the original idea. “You Can’t Do That” as heard on this show is from that original mix, the authentic ’60s item. In 1977 Capitol Records released a “Hollywood Bowl” album, but the mix is tamer, and includes stuff mostly from their 1965 show, where as the original album was a document of their entire ’64 Bowl concert. (“You Can’t Do That” is not on the officially-released thing from ’77). It should be mentioned that The Beatles’ playing on their ’64 tour was … much tighter.
