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Librarian: Christine Kickels
Office: SRC 3050
Phone: (630) 942-2313
E-mail: kickels@cod.edu
It’s about the music
You can’t talk about the ‘60s without discussing the music of the era. Here are some samples from the Library’s CD collection. Find them in the catalog under artist or album name.
Bands and Artists
- The Beach Boys
- •Pet Sounds: MP 11 .B34 P4 1990
- The Beatles
- •Abbey Road: MP 13 .B4 A33 1987
- •Let it Be: MP 13 .B4 L4 1987
- •Magical Mystery Tour: MC 11 .B42 M3 1987
- •Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: MP 13 .B4 S4 1987
- •The white album: MP 13 .B4 B29 1987
- The Doors
- •The Doors Box Set: MP 13 .D65 D6 1997
- Bob Dylan
- •The Essential Bob Dylan: MF 11 .D9 E4 2000
- •Live 1966: MF 11 .D9 B68 1998 v.4
- The Grateful Dead
- •Europe '72: MP 13 .G67 E8 2003
- •What a long, strange trip its been: the best of the Grateful Dead: MP 13 .G67 W4 1977
- Jimi Hendrix
- •BBC Sessions: MP 13 .H4 J5 1998
- •Electric Ladyland: MP 13 .H4 E5 1997
- Janis Joplin
- •The Essential Janis Joplin: MP 13 .J66 E7 2003
- •Live at Winterland '68: MP 13 .J66 L5 1998
- The Mamas and the Papas
- •Greatest Hits: MP 13 .M32 G7 1998
- The Who
- •Live at Leeds: MP 13 .W4 L5 2001
- •Tommy: MC 11 .T6 T62 1996
Compilation Albums and Soundtracks
- The British are coming. Vol 1
- •MP 13 .A1 B7 v.1 2001
- The British are coming. Vo1 2
- •MP 13 .A1 B7 v.2 2002
- Hair: the American tribal love-rock musical
- •MC 11 .M224 H34
- A hard day's night
- •MC 12 .B42 H3 1964
- Hear it Now!: The Sound of the ‘60s
- •MP 11 .A1 H43 1999
- Help!
- •MC 12 .B42 H4 1965
- Jesus Christ Superstar: A Rock Opera
- •MC 11 .L5 J4 1985
Books about music
- The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits
- •REFERENCE COLLECTION ML156.4.P6 B76 2003
- The Rockin' '60s: The People who Made the Music
- Brock Helander
- •GENERAL COLLECTION ML156.4.R6 H46 1999
- Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and other Satisfactions
- Michael Hicks
- •GENERAL COLLECTION ML3534 .H53 1999
- A Generation in Motion: Popular Music and Culture in the Sixties
- David Pichaske
- •GENERAL COLLECTION ML3447.P5 1989