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Perfect Pop Songs

Those with the kind of music, lyrics, performance, arrangement and production that you could easily repeat all day.

How about starting with this one? Somewhat outside of her usual cannon and none the worse for it. Perhaps also a contender for the sexiest vocals ever?

Louie Louie  by Julie London
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These two (indie classics?) kind of remind me of each other what with both being drenched in reverb and echo.

The Jesus and Mary Chain -
Some Candy Talkin (1986)

https://youtu.be/oIIdLAQ3nvc

and Cigarettes After Sex - Starry Eyes (2012)

https://youtu.be/F_6Emq5dyXQ
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mapman
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“Windsurfer” by Roy Orbison. 
“That Happy Feeling” by Bert Kaempfert.
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The Zombies - "This Will be Our Year"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmuswTEGF-U


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This one is just so 1960s.

Twelve Thirty - The Mamas & the Papas


https://youtu.be/RWb7F1mxljE


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bdp24
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"Halfway To Paradise". This masterpiece of a Pop song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin in The Brill Building in NYC. Though first recorded by Tony Orlando (!) in 1961, I didn't hear it until Nick Lowe recorded and released it as a single in 1977. Glorious!
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