The song that Bob Dylan described as the "greatest ever written"

Far Out Magazine ^ | 6-18-22 | Tom Taylor

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Yesterday When I was Young sung by Roy Clark.

[Fiji Hill]

I used to think Galveston was a Vietnam War song, but it is about a young man fighting in the Spanish-American war in Cuba and remembering his girlfriend in Galveston. Wondering if he would survive the war and, if he returned, would his girlfriend be waiting for him.

If he survives the war and reunites with his girlfriend in Galveston, let's hope that they quickly bail out of there and relocate someplace else. If they're still living in Galveston two years after the war is over, they will be very, very sorry.

[Jeff Chandler]

The Beatles once declared that their favorite band was Harry Nilsson.

[mairdie]

Alias - for Marshall - Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

https://youtu.be/pWRxpooc06E

[Clemenza]

The key changes on the song are amazing - sudden but they work.

[MtnClimber]

I did not think about that, but you are very right.

[Rio]

I dunno. They played “Funky Town” on the radio the other day. Now that was some song-writing.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve always liked that.

[Fiji Hill]

The current #1 song on my personal Top 10 is Have You Forgotten by Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys. Others that made the chart are Alone, At Last by the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks and Dream a Little Dream of Me by Wayne King.

[Old Yeller]

The Hokey Pokey.

[Alberta's Child]

The perfect country & western song is “Amarillo By Morning” by George Strait. When it comes to C&W, you can’t beat a tune about a rodeo rider ... with a great fiddle track and steel guitar. :-)

[Jamestown1630]

For most, it’s not always just the song - it’s also the personal associations one connects it with, often from youth.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Charlie Daniels is on it.

[Blurp2]

Oh gosh, there is no end to the number of best songs ever...

Operator by Manhattan Transfer
Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum
You Are the New Day by the Kings Singers
Slow Train by the Kings Singers
all the songs on Alison Moyet’s album Voice (almost all)
Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes from the movie Roberta
Lovely to Look At from Roberta
ah, there’s no end...

[metmom]

I have to go with The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

[Carriage Hill]

Great song. On my Top 10 List.

[nesnah]

Nothing touches the absolutely pure heart of Americana than this:

https://youtu.be/bohTOHvz1G8

[Jamestown1630]

Gordon Lightfoot was the greatest general ‘troubadour’ of my generation.

[HKMk23]

“...one of those people who writes with his thesaurus nearby.”

Feel bad for that thesaurus; writer was FLOGGING it down the backstretch.

[Hot Tabasco]

Gotta say, probably my most favorite song of all time as well as him being my favorite artist. I think it's the song and the year it came out, 1968, which was the best year of my life as a teenager of 18.

Life was so good then, as was Glen's music.........