100 Best Songs of the 1960s

NME(New Nusical Express) ^ | 3/26/12 | NME(New Musical Express)

[DallasBiff]

1 A Day In The Life

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 1960s; music; playlists; songs

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here - The Mothers
Fire - Arthur Brown

[Fiji Hill]

My Top 10 songs of the sixties:

1. Six Days on the Road--Dave Dudley (1963)

2. Presumida (smug)--Luis Bravo (1961)

3. Just Come Home--Hugo & Luigi (1960)

4. (Welcome) New Lovers--Pat Boone (1960)

5. Al di là (beyond)--Emilio Pericoli (1962)

6. Mecca--Gene Pitney (1963)

7. Vision of Love--The Explorers (1960)

8. Leave Me Alone--Baby Washington (1963)

9. I Want to Be Your Lover--Diane Emond (1963)

10. Walk Slowly Away--The Starglows (1963)

[Fiji Hill]

When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge

When a Woman Loves a Man

[Fiji Hill]

Ring of Fire Smoke--Ben Colder (1963)

Love is a ring of smoke.
Smoke makes me choke.

[PGR88]

The Skyliners had several great hits

And I wasn’t even alive in the 1960s

[Fiji Hill]

No Meanwhile, Back at the Pad
No Senate Hearing
No Ringo for President
No I Love Onions
No The Eggplant that Ate Chicago
No Loving You Has Made Me Bananas

[af_vet_1981]

In no particular order from 1969

• Quicksilver Messenger Service: Who/How/When Do You Love from Happy Trails album
• Blind Faith: Sea of Joy live at Hyde Park
• Blind Faith: Do What You Like live at Hyde Park
• Crosby, Stills, and Nash: Wooden Ships live at Woodstock
• duane allman & boz scaggs ''loan me a dime'' 1969
• Grateful Dead Live at Fillmore Auditorium on 1969-11-08

[conserv8]

I just learned 78 records eventually had a flip-side

She used the vibrato-voice that was so very common in that era.

Thanks

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Days of Future Passed on a reel to reel was better than just “Nights in White Satin.”

Days of Future Passed - an ALBUM which INCLUDES "Nights In White Satin" is better than JUST "Nights In White Satin"? Do you wanna put down the beer and try again at that?

[Flash Bazbeaux]

“No Loving You Has Made Me Bananas”

I think you’ve just solved a big mystery. I remember hearing something, which I remembered as “My love for you is bananas”, in 1968, maybe four or five times. I’ve been wondering about it for decades. For years I thought it was a line from Cinderella Rockefeller, which also was a pretty goofy song, also from 1968, but there’s no such line in the song.

“Loving You Has Made Me Bananas” must be the song I remember.

[PLMerite]

bump for later list poaching

[Lean-Right]

How old are you?
That would explain things.

[Lean-Right]

Great post!
Thanks!

[higgmeister]

Days of Future Passed - an ALBUM which INCLUDES "Nights In White Satin" is better than JUST "Nights In White Satin"? Do you wanna put down the beer and try again at that?

How could you not understand what I typed?   The album, as John Lodge said, was

"a concept album tracking a day in the life of Everyman, with original songs relating to different parts of the day performed in chronological order, introduced and interspersed with orchestral music."

You cannot get the full effect of the last song on the album without listening to the previous songs in order.

[AnglePark]

See #72.

[Fiji Hill]

“Loving You Has Made Me Bananas” is done in the style of a Big Band radio broadcast from the 1930s-early ‘40s and sounds authentic, although it doesn’t make sense (”one mile high, two-and-a-half blocks from the center of old New Orleans”). Nonetheless, it was a hit.

[Fiji Hill]

“Nights in White Satin” was a hit by itself in 1972. But I first heard “Days of Future Past” all the way through on a cassette while on a long drive to Flagstaff. The LP is a masterpiece.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Loving You Has Made Me Bananas”

That song is so funny.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How about the flip side! The whole song BACKWARDS!

[wardaddy]

I was 3-13

It was The Era as far as Rock birth

and catchy top Forty some of which was great

And excellent black music