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Well, looking through my Schwann catalog, which I have handy, I see stuff
like (in reverse alphabetical order):
	The Who (most of their stuff)
	Woodstock (contains a lot of good stuff)
	Santana
	Rolling Stones (not much)
	Grateful Dead (a few)
	Doors (well, maybe into the 70s)

In other words, there isn't much outside of collections.  Also, please
don't flame at me if I've included some non-60s stuff above - it's been
a while.
					Steve

I just saw a Steppenwolf disc the other day (greatest hits) at Rock 'n
Mania.

Jill

I've seen Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" on CD.
Buddy Holly and Bill Hailey too, but maybe those don't count
as 60s.  You maybe mean LATE 60's?

Well, in my sordid past, as a 'child of the 60s', I did enjoy the occasional
mind-splitting hard/acid rock band.  I find that especially in these high-
tech days that there was actually a tremendous amount of 'pure' (i.e. human-
generated, not machine-generated) sound and music going on in some of those
groups from the 60's.

Dan

Sounds like you are looking for Deep Purple.  They have a greatest hits out
on CD.  Creedence Clearwater has Chronicle and another of their early albums
out.  

						Doug

The other day I saw the Best of Tommy James and the Shondells at Strawberrys.


				Peter

In addition to those mentioned in previous responses, there are disks of
BeeGees
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Sam Cooke
Cream
Bob Dylan
Everly Brothers
Jimi Hendrix
Jethro Tull
Janis Joplin
The Kinks  
The Monkees
Moody Blues
Procol Harum
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Rolling Stones
Simon & Garfunkel
The Supremes
The Turtles

Note: In a lot of these cases, there is only one or two discs in release,
and in many of *these* cases, it's just a "Greatest Hits" collection.
Some of them are imports, so they aren't likely to be found at say,
Lechmere.

--- jerry

 I picked up Procol Harum - A whiter Shade of Pale - the other day and it
 sounds GREAT.. Much beter than my old LP.

	(___)
	 o o
	 \./
	  -	-Bob.

re:.8

Then that makes two Procol Harum discs out. Great! The one I already
knew about was A SALTY DOG. The one I'm waiting eagerly for, though,
is their LIVE WITH THE EDMONTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

--- jerry

The only Moodies album I know of that's out on CD is THE PRESENT, which is
their latest (1984 release, I think).  That, and a "best of" collection.

--PSW

Schwann also shows BEST OF VOICES IN THE SKY.

j

VOICES IN THE SKY is the name of the "best of" collection that I was referring
to.

--PSW

I have King Crimson, Court of the Crimson King (1969)
as well as several more recent ones,
several by Jimmy Hendrix, including Electric Ladyland,
several by the Doors,
a couple by the Dead (1980's albums tho),
a few by the Who (and I have seen about a dozen more),
Several by Mike Oldfield (including Tubular Bells),
And don't forget Bob Dylan's Biograph,
 which contains 3 1/2 hours of Dylan music from the sixties to the present.

One thing you have to watch out for with some CD's of older albums is
that they might not be in stereo. I bought two today that weren't (I knew
before I paid for them that they were just mono) --- The Rolling Stones'
12X5 and Procal Harum's A WHITER SHADE OF PALE. The P.H. disc *still*
sounds great, but it's still not stereo. I haven't tried the Stones' disc
yet.

--- jerry

Well, I've picked up at BCD in Harvard square:

	The YARDBIRDS 20 greatest hits

	The YARDBIRDS first recordings (live)

Other disc's I have found:

	The Who , TOMMY

	Tommy James and the Shondell's

	In the Court of the Crimson King

	In the Wake of Posiedon (see above)  Import from a friend, not avail
						here in states

Jeff

Just as a friendly service, I recommend against the Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest
Hits package and the Turtles GH from Rhino. Both sound much better on analog,
as the compression from the "masters" used make both collections sound much
muddier than on their analog forebearers. 

Has anyone heard Santana "ABRAXAS" yet??? I would love to get it if it's
clean sounding...I have an old 'QUAD' record of it, and it sounds great,
but always looking for improvement. 

			Al_in_Cal

re: .16
  
Some may take this information with a grain of salt, but "Digital Audio"
says to stay away from `Abraxas'.  They claim that it is one of the worst
jobs of translating from LP to CD.  Haven't heard it myself.  `Tis a shame
if it really is that bad, it's one of my favorites. 

We already picked up Simon and Garfunkel's greatest.   I've heard worse.
(My wife's old vinyl copy, for example. :^)

Gary

Almost all of the Simon & Garfunkel albums are out on CD anyway. It's
not clear to me that one *needs* to get the GREATEST HITS collection.

I haven't heard ABRAXAS on CD yet. Their GREATEST HITS sounds fine to
me, though.

--- jerry

Re .18:
    I disagree that "almost all of the Simon & Garfunkel albums are out
on CD anyway" - I know of only three:
	Bridge over Troubled Waters
	Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
	Sounds of Silence (new)

I have all of these plus "Greatest Hits".  They sound ok, and a lot better
than vinyl, but they're not great demos of CD capabilities.
				Steve

"Bookends" is also available.

Dave

re:.19,.20

And the only one left is WEDNESDAY MORNING, 3 A.M.

--- jerry

    Well, I just mounted my copy of Abraxas and it does have a lot of
    hiss... but I was replacing a 3 3/4 ips tape, so it compares
    favourably.
    
    Much better is "Beyond Appearances" -- sixties music in the 80s.
    
    /john

MCA has VINTAGE collectors series MUSIC on CD.  Vol 9 & 10 has Born To Be
Wild and Magic Carpet Ride.   Not to mention some Three Dog Night and some
from most of Dunhill's other stars.  Digitally Remastered from original
master tapes... Incense and Peppermints and Sealed With a Kiss are mono.

For something like Electric Prunes and Vanilla Fudge, try Highs of the
Sixties from Warner Special products.. Though In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is
the 2:52 version.  On a lot of these tracks there is nothing much above
8K except hiss on s's, that may be faithfull to the originals :-).
_bill