best song of the 1960's?

[mark414]

Poll question: best song of the 1960's?

[In_The_Wind]

1. Darn! I'm going to bed with an ear-worm tonight.

Thanks a whole lot!

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. Come gather 'round people, Wherever you roam...

And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

[mark414]

3. there's a song by the carter family called "the wayworn traveler"

that a young robert zimmerman redid under the name 'paths of victory'

a year or so later he rewrote the lyrics and changed the tempo for a song called "the times they are a changin"

good choice

[wildhorses]

7. gotta agree with you on this one...

it was the song that came immediately to my mind when I think about how to define the 60's with just ONE song:wow:

[Richard Steele]

4. Folsom Prison Blues! But how could you forget 'White Rabbit'?

[Telly Savalas]

5. John Coltrane - Impressions

[saltpoint]

6. "Don't Sleep in the Subway" by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent.

One of Petula Clark most dazzling singles.

[seemunkee]

8. Louie Louie

I know it was written in the 50s but The Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the Raiders did it 63.

[Richardo]

9. Before I even clicked in I was thinking Desmond Dekker

Kudos, mark414!!! :bounce:

[mark414]

15. his career is one that is criminally overlooked

now overshadowed by mr. marley, i believe, but unfortunate nonetheless - he got a whole beatles song to himself and put together some of the best damn music ever heard...what more does he need?

[tigereye]

17. although I love Dekker

I think that few folks knew who(m) he was in the 60s....

[rockymountaindem]

10. I voted for the Beatles, but how the hell could you forget the Kinks!?!

If all they did was record Waterloo Sunset and then break up, I'd still love them.

[catmandu57]

11. Buffalo Springfield

For What It's Worth.

[Serial Mom]

21. Crosby Stills Nash & Young played a new arrangement

of For What Its Worth at their current Freedom of Speech tour and I loved it as much as the original!

Good Choice - and I love so many other songs from then!

[Dulcinea]

12. Woodstock.

The Joni Mitchell version or the CSNY version....I like 'em both.

[MissMillie]

13. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love

followed by the Stones "Gimme Shelter"

[El Fuego]

27. I met Grace Slick last Saturday night!

At an art gallery. I have her autograph.

[MrCoffee]

14. Desmond Dekker? that's badass, dude.

[mark414]

16. that's only cause he is

[redqueen]

18. How could anyone pick just one?

Still... Desmond Dekker... sweet.

[Tyo]

19. Venus in Furs n/t

[elperromagico]

20. You've given some hard choices.

I'm not sure I can choose between "God Only Knows" and "A Day in the Life." They're brilliant for completely different reasons.

[Serial Mom]

22. Piece of My Heart

Big Brother & the Holding Company - Janis Joplin

What a voice Janis had!!

[Zomby Woof]

23. Like A Rolling Stone

It's easy now to forget the ENORMOUS impact of that song in 1965. It changed everything forever. It cannot be underestimated.

[Va Lefty]

24. Monday, Monday--The Mamas and The Papas

[kwassa]

25. Yummy Yummy Yummy I Got Love in My Tummy.

[Burma Jones]

26. Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

[querelle]

28. Crimson & Clover

Tommy James and the Shondells are da bomb!

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