Trying to avoid seventies and eighties stuff is pretty hard!
Some sixties stuff...
Joe Meek was a genius. Any music fan should try and watch "Telstar-The Joe Meek Story" if they can. He produced quite a few gems during the early sixties. Love this one, reminds me a bit of Stan Ridgway's Camouflage mashed up with Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, two other "ghost story" songs.
John Kidd and The Pirates...a good enough song for Motorhead to cover decades later.
The Banana Splits were the best American band of the late sixties!