Song that dealt with controversial themes for 1968 that was recorded by Motown girl-group that was missing two of its original members.

Child star turned teen idol who had a string of hits in the 1950’s found himself out of demand in the 60’s. One concert event brought him back into the spotlight that made respectable showing on the Pop, Easy-Listening and Country charts.

With the short run-up to Halloween week, we compiled the short list of some of the scary pop songs from the 1960’s . With apologies to Dr. Demento.

A number one song October 1974 that came from a child prodigy keyboardist that never took a lesson whose work can be found on other artists records.

What happens to songs that don’t make it onto the current album? They are either thrown out or shelved for a new idea. In this case, the song sat on a shelf for four years before becoming one of the signature songs for The Rolling Stones.

Song that came from a band that was formed in Spain that had a German lead singer who could sing in English that sounded like the American singer, Gene Pitney.

What do you do with unfinished parts of songs? Turn it into one song that became Paul McCartney’s first American hit as a solo artist.

Song that cemented a Nashville secretary as an international recording artist as well as crossing over different music charts in September 1968.

The Supremes’ song Reflections broke the Motown mold in 1967 with a venture into psychedelic sounds that were being used by many well established pop bands.