The sixties was a highly interesting period musically and stylistically. It was the time of the Vietnam war, free love, experimentation with drugs, sex and some radical political changes. Musically, rock'n roll was developing into something more like what we are listening to today and there was also a lot of great jazz music, Beat music (e.g. The Beatles), soul / Motown, Bossa Nova / Latin jazz and early Funk. In the UK, the term Swinging Sixties or Swinging London described a lifestyle and movement, created iconic fashion that lives on to this day.
Laidback, feel-good 60's style Soul with a romantic, carefree vibe. With influences from vintage Motown and Stax records through to contemporary artists such as Amy Winehouse and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings featuring Brass, Organ, Guitar, Piano, Bass and Drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
This melodically strong, guitar based track is western, retro and easy on the ears. It takes one back to country radio days rife with twangy guitars and catchy melodies. Electric guitars in harmony, acoustic guitars, bass and drums make up this track. Highly suitable for dramas, road movies, commercials, travel and rural themes. [Tempo: Fast / 115 BPM]
Feel-good 60s Soul revivial influenced by artists such as Fitz and the Tantrums, Amy Winehouse as well as classic Motown. Features piano, retro organ, baritone sax, vibraphone, guitar, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Funky, sexy, and warm mid-tempo track, with a 70s funk music feel to it. It brings to mind the Motown classics of that era. Suitable for productions that require a vibrant, timeless, and intense feel. Great for commercials, features and shows, this track creates a nostalgic, yet exciting soundscape. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Inspired by 60s and 70s action packed detective and spy movies and TV shows such as Bullitt, Mission Impossible and James Bond featuring flute, brass, organ, guitar, bass and a funky drum groove. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Soulful and funky 70's Blaxploitation style track featuring wah-wah guitar, horns, strings, piano, bass and drums. Cool and uplifting with some afrolicious attitude. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
A new take on a classic style. 1960's Spy action style. Busy and upbeat, this track would suit a Retro production with a "swinging 60's" feel. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 142 BPM]
An ideal advertising track that offers a cute, playful mood. Ideal for comedy and kitsch scenes. Features a hip bass line, drum groove, organ, bluesy guitar licks. The vibe is retro modern and borrows from the soul, Motown sounds of the 1960s and 1970s. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
1960's era Indian summer, hippies, peace and love. Historical pop, mellow and hypnotic. [Tempo: Medium / 106 BPM]
Authentic retro surf rock. Cheeky retro cool with attitude. Great for pulp and retro style action and adventure films & trailers. Twangy guitars with a 1960's / 1970's sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Homage to Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. Heroic western theme, with a mysterious high noon duel introduction. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A care free, uplfting indie pop groove that has a slight retro feel. Ideal for advertising, marketing and youth based media projects. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Upbeat, retro, orchestral theme reminiscent of old time 50s, 60s, game shows and TV series. Featuring orchestral percussion, pizzicato strings. Full horn section in B section. Sting ending. Ozzie And Harriet and Leave It To Beaver, come back to life! Great for award shows, retro game shows, broadway, fanfare, walk ons. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Lounge chillout track in an ambient electronic style. Live flute and ac/guitar play together with airy contemporary electronic sounds. Well suited for the weather report, video background, news. Medium tempo, friendly, light, positive. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A mixture of traditional Hindu instruments and psychedelic musical atmosphere of the 60's. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Heartfelt gospel instrumental features soulful sax and organ. Ref. David Sanborn, Jimmy Smith [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
An edgy and driving Surf Rock / Pulp Rock track that combines elements of Pulp, Surf rock and Tex-Mex with the sound of classic Western and Spaghetti Western movies. The rapid Tom-Tom rhythm gives the track a sense of urgency, perhaps a chase or fight. A cinematic rock track that would not be out of place in a classic Tarantino movie or a dark, edgy Western. Urgent, intense, and doom-laden. [Tempo: Fast / 137 BPM]
A smooth, lush and warm vocal pop track with a retro 1960's / 1970's sound. Think the Beatles and other 1960's-1970's flower power, also perhaps early David Bowie. Soft male vocal. Somewhat psychedelic, dreamy, trippy. Very pleasant sound, featuring all live instruments and string section. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Lyric about lover leaving, most of us feel this at some time in life, done in 50s style, Buddy Holly style electric guitar, acoustic bass and drums, vocal harmony, melancholic. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 124 BPM]
Fun and bouncy with a retro flavour, 1960's pop style. Vintage lead synths and guitars make this track perfect for any funny situation involving kids or teenagers. [Tempo: Fast / 155 BPM]
Soulful rendition of the patriotic classic. Groovy Hammond B3 organ and tight blues rhythm sections. Influenced by Ray Charles version. Bluesy, strong, and proud. Made in the U.S.A.! [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 64 BPM]
Happy go lively jazz theme inspired by those classic sixties sitcoms such as Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie and Father Knows Best. Great for spoofs and comedy. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Danger, excitement and mystery in the style of the Mission Impossible theme and other classic crime, thriller and secret agent soundtracks. Features horns, strings, electric piano, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
An irresistibly catchy, fun, groovy and authentic sounding retro Soul track with influences from classic TV and films of the 60s and 70s as well as Motown and Stax records. Features horns, guitar, piano, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
This song has punchy guitar riffs and solos teamed with a locked rhythm section of drums and bass with a melancholy trumpet line. The lyrics describe how the ending of a relationship brought heartache and loneliness and empty bottles of wine. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 117 BPM]
Retro surf rock / pulp rock. 1960's / 1970's sound. Lively and uptempo, but also a bit sneaky, expectant. Danger and adventure. Bad-ass attitude combined with a free flying spirit. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A fun and cheeky Indie-pop, Retro, Vintage bubblegum pop/jazz track with a sense of 1960's hippie pop culture and also an influence from 60's or 70's surf rock. Great for comedy, cool and chic, retro, vintage and just fun and upbeat videos, commercials, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
1960's style. Boys watching groovy girls. Easy listening, sound-alike, spoof, cheesy, fun. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Retro, mysterious, funky spy music. Tension and danger with a quirky 70s edge. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
Uptempo 70's style latin jazz, with trumpet over electric piano, guitar, bass and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 162 BPM]
Funky Nu Jazz groove. Horns, flute, guitar, rhodes, bass and drums create a classy, modern club sound where jazz meets electronica. Great for projects aimed at a young, trendy audience. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Fun, quirky, with a tropical vibe, this track is the perfect backdrop for a bright, vibrant and uplifting production. Light percussion, sparse orchestral arrangement, and a pleasurable melody, it makes it for a perfect soundscape for comedies, family-friendly features and shows, and for scenes that require a rhythmic, heartening vibe. [Tempo: Medium / 184 BPM]
A smokey sexy lounge jazz track that kicks into double time and grooves into a nice ambient cool vibe. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Medium swing vocal jazz with a classic 50’s and 60’s sound. Story of a young jazz musician trying to impress an older veteran saxophone player. The old guy joins him to jam a few verses; is his laughing a sign of approval or is he mocking him? This song is full of ultra-cool vibe and atmosphere. Tenor sax and piano solos. [Tempo: Slow / 98 BPM]
Entertaining tune featuring brass stabs, quirky guitar, and a cool groove. This is fun and comical all in one. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 126 BPM]
Old time Ska, with organ top line. Genuine retro 1960's / 1970's sound. Fun and cheeky. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
This upbeat, vintage-inspired R&B track is excellent to injecting enthusiasm into your media. The energy created around electric guitar, fingered bass, vintage organs and funky drums heightens as the arrangement keeps modulating up. The applications for this track are many: commercials, 1960’s period pieces, dramas, comedies, documentaries, how-to videos, lifestyle/cooking shows, etc. [Tempo: Fast / 0 BPM]
Cool, groovey jazz-tinged groover with an air of suspense, anticipation and excitement. Almost a Bond/Spy theme but with a city vibe to it. Could be a theme to a high-flying business-based project. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 145 BPM]
This track features a rockabilly train beat drums with a bass line that locks in the rhythm and guitar riffs that reflect that of surf rock with a metal/hard rock ambiance. The lyrics describe being in a relationship with someone that is adventurous and carefree. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Fast / 94 BPM]
Raw 1950's or 1960's style R&B / Blues in the style of Blues Brothers etc. Guitars, drums, electric bass, organ and saxophone. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
This track starts out with chords on a Mellotron, similar to the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' which leads to a funky laidback groove with melody on piano and slightly dark undertones due to the descending notes played by tremelo guitar. [Tempo: Slow / 94 BPM]
A fun and kitsch tribute to 60s crime and detective tv and movie soundtracks similar to Peter Gunn and the original Batman theme. Complete with horn stabs, cheesey vox organ, guitar, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
Classic rock / rockabilly with cool retro sound. Good for men & motors. Upbeat and happy music with a care free, rock 'n roll sound. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Broadway type show tune. Very theatrical in the style of the 40s, 50's and 60's. Harp sweeps, fluttering clarinets and flutes add a comic flair. Playful, campy and retro could work for game shows, cartoons, comedy and many offbeat situations. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 140 BPM]
A fun, unique blend of southern folk and soul with a funky hip hop breakbeat. Imagine Fatboy Slim remixing an old soul song. Starts with piano and acoustic guitar before the beat kicks in, adding horns, banjo, drums and bass. A feel good, positive groove that will appeal to a wide audience. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Retro Jazz with live instruments and vintage style production. Light, soft and romantic with hammond organ, guitar, flute and drums. Perfect for happy-go-lucky times in the swinging sixties, innocence, romance, comedies and kitsch elevator music. [Tempo: Slow / 139 BPM]
Back to the hey-days of Surf rock, with the Beach Boys, Dick Dale, the Del-tones and 1960's / early 70's with twangy guitars and surfin' the Californian waves. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 164 BPM]
Beatles soundalike, 1960's era Liverpool haircuts with electric guitars. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
Upbeat, retro and playful Jazz with catchy horn riffs and a cookin rhythm section that captures the sound of classic Blue Note records artists such as Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley etc. [Tempo: Fast / 117 BPM]
A kitsch retro-style mid-60's parody with big horns, Latino rhythms and an infectious flute & synth lead. Guaranteed to evoke the swinging sixties with its bright & bouncy easy listening style. Well matched with the Elliot Simons track 'Sambatastico' [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
