Cal said:

No one on this group really thinks Margaret is a female, of either
orientation.

And the wise ones don't really care, since it's irrelelvant.

to me nothing says Sixties more
than, oddly enough. "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band.

So you like novelty records, got any Dr. Demento?

After JFK was shot and the
initial yeah-yeah-yeah of the early Beatles and the surf-and-turf Beach
Boys tunes were de facto unhip to the nascent generation, you wouldn't
have heard anything like that. Pet Clark is up there too, with "I Know
a Place" and "Downtown".

Beach Boys tunes weren't so much about hip, but rather about fun. They
were about things the guys in the band knew, which is what people tend
to write about if they are good.

The early Beatles stuff reflected their desire to do what they were
hearing, only better. When they found their voice after meeting Dylan,
nobody could top them in any area they chose.

Petula Clark's Greatest hits would be 45 and she wrote nothing. The
songs were eminently singable and fun but far from hip.

Tomorrow Never Knows, as has been said, really did usher in the 60's
that I think most people think about. I quite enoyed the entire album,
especially Harrison's Love To You.

There were other memorable bands with more than one hit wonder status,
that weren't trying to be heavy philosophical stuff. Songs by Spanky
and Our Gang, The Mama's and Papa's, The Association, 3 Dog Night, and
so on, then all the Motown stuff, Stax/Volt, the peopel who thought
they were part of the "Revolution" like Jefferson Airplane, the Doors,
and so on. It was indeed, a great time to listen to the radio. No
formats, just great bands and great tunes. Some clunkers but that was
inevitable, with the amount of stuff getting played.