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Aug 17, 2006 · The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s. From James Brown to Etta James, Jimi Hendrix to Patsy Cline, here are the tracks that lit up the decade. By Pitchfork. August 17, 2006. Graphic...
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- Roxy Music - 'Dance Away' Roxy Music - Dance Away. Read more: Roxy Music's 10 greatest ever songs. Bryan Ferry originally wrote this for his 1977 solo album In Your Mind and his 1978 follow-up The Bride Stripped Bare, but it was finally included on the next Roxy collection.
- The Osmonds - 'Crazy Horses' The Osmonds - Crazy Horses. Despite being known as a schmaltzy boyband, The Osmonds released this surprisingly brilliant hard rock track in 1972.
- Glen Campbell - 'Rhinestone Cowboy' Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy (Official Music Video) Larry Weiss first recorded this song, but it was Glen Campbell's cover a year later that became a huge hit.
- The Clash - 'London Calling' The Clash - London Calling (Official Video) Released right at the end of the decade in December 1979, this apocalyptic and politically charged track showcased the Clash's post-punk style.
- Roger Miller – King of The Road
- Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames – Yeh, Yeh
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- Roy Orbison – Crying
- Russell Morris – The Real Thing
- Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
- Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World
- Tom Jones – It’S Not Unusual
- The Monkees – Daydream Believer
- Del Shannon – Runaway
Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” shines a light on the traveling man. The track, a delightful country-pop crossover, tells the story of a nomadic hobo, untethered from all obligations and material goods. The song’s most famous line, “I’m a man of means, by no means, king of the road” was bitingly cynical, reveling in the freedom of refusing to con...
Georgie Fame and his band, The Blue Flames, found the perfect intersection of pop, jazz, and R&B. Audiences agreed. The group’s version of “Yeh Yeh,” topped the Beatles’ “I Feel Fine” on the UK chart, ending a five-week run from the Liverpool chaps. Shortly after topping the UK charts, “Yeh, Yeh” reached #21 on the Billboard Pop charts, proving tha...
The instrumentation for Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” is as crisp as it gets. The bass sounds like it was recorded in a hermetically sealed vacuum, while the iconic conga groove pops without a crinkle or crack. All Wilson had to do was show up. And show up he did. The instrumental for the 1967 hit was written by G...
Roy Orbison had plenty of 60s hits to choose from, including “Oh, Pretty Woman” But we opted for “Crying,” which begins with a seminal line, familiar to those even who have never heard the song: “I was alright for a while, I could smile for a while.” The song is Orbison at his most vulnerable, admitting that the feelings hidden from a former partne...
Written by Johnny Young and produced by Ian “Molly” Meldrum, “The Real Thing” was initially envisioned as a soft-rock ballad in a similar vein as The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.” But the demo was superseded by Meldrum’s expansive vision, and “The Real Thing” became one of the first studio masterpieces of the modern era. Alongside engineer ...
Leonard Cohen drew a throughline straight from poetry to folk music. “Suzanne,” his stirring acoustic track from Songs of Leonard Cohen is one of the most powerful examples of this style, with Cohen’s lyrics first appearing as a poem in 1966. (Cohen ripped the poem for a second use because he was short of material for his forthcoming album.) The so...
“What a Wonderful World” is a lesson in perseverance. It’s also one of the best pop ballads ever recorded. Armstrongfirst started making records in 1923, but it was in February of 1968, when Amstrong was 66, that he released “What A Wonderful World,” which would become the biggest-selling song of his massively influential career. Armstrong made mus...
It’s hard to believe now, but Tom Jones was deemed far too sexy for the BBC when he first arrived in the 60s with this song. As such, it was the efforts of pirate radio station Radio Caroline that drove the initial success of Jones’s “It’s Not Unusual.” The upbeat tale of heartbreak was Jones’s second single for Decca Records and his first No.1. Ru...
John Stewart wrote “Daydream Believer” shortly before he left the Kingston Trio, the third track in a trilogy aimed at capturing the malaise and boredom of suburban life. In that respect, he was an innovator, bringing life to the lifeless suburbs in a cry for help – or, at least, a helicopter back to the city. The song was turned down by both We Fi...
“Runaway” almost never happened. Back in 1960, Charles Westover and keyboard player Max Crook earned a recording contract. The recording contract ended disastrously. Perhaps it was another tale of small-town kids intimidated by the Big Apple, but Crook and Westover (who had recently taken on the stage name Del Shannon) failed to impress the bosses ...
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Greatest Hits of the Mid 60s to the Early 70s · Playlist · 339 songs · 1.4K likes.
Rolling Stone's Greatest Songs of All Time: '60s & '70s - Listen to Free Radio Stations - AccuRadio. From the 2021 edition of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, a subset of Classic Rock, Soul, and Oldies. Share. Featuring songs by: The Jackson 5. Bob Dylan. The Beatles. Pink Floyd. You may also like: Motown Sound.
Some of the greatest 60's and 70's music of all time! Songs from the 1960's and 1970's joined with other classic music of all eras.
