What's your favorite song from the 1960s

Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) is from 1972.

Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke

Georgy Girl - The Seekers

The Zombies had some great songs, Like Tell Her No, Time of the Season and She's Not There.

This. Quintessential Four Tops. Quintessential HDH; Quintessential Motown.

Despite OP's massive fail, this could be a good thread.

I have two favorites:

Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell

And this:

Never My Love by The Association

Brandy is an early 70s song.

Hair - The Cowsills

Psychedelic Pet Clark's , Colour My World

Coda of the decade.

The sublime Dusty Springfield's, Some of Your Lovin'

You Showed Me, the Turtles

I Hear A Symphony....Supremes

Classical Gas...Mason Williams

Let's Hang On...Four Seasons

My fave instrumental, Raymond Lefevre's Soul Coaxing from '68

96 Tears

Be My Baby

sunshine of your love by cream

Ummm...okay let's try Soul Coaxing again

Beautiful song

"Deep Purple" by Nino Tempo and April Stevens, but that could change in a few weeks.

BIly Joe never had a lick a sense :(

Still makes me want to get down!

Maggie May was released in the late 60s

Someone left the damned cake out in the rain....

Probably this is my fave

May This Be Love by Jimi Hendrix. Sunshine of Your Love is a good choice too though

I wonder if Bob Crewe was schooling all the blonde's in the band....

Impossible to pick just one, so I'm going with one of my favorite 60s songwriters: "A Well Respected Man" by the Kinks, written by Ray Davies.

I have a lot of favorites from the sixties but White Rabbit always reminds me of the 60's. Here Grace Slick sings it live at Woodstock she manages to hold that last note as she sings it live. It always impressed how she could hold that note so long.

Admittedly Bubblegum Rock...but in my defence I was only 7 years old :)

Harpers Bizarre, Come to the Sunshine

I woke up with that Brandy song in my head today, OP! The odds...

I love Brandy! I never heard it before I started working at my current job. Thinking it's my new karaoke standard.

I lost my Mum that I introduced to Stevie Nicks. She sang Gypsy to a girl. I loved this song, She's like a rainbow...which played into the show as you see. Anyway, my mum bought me Johnny Cash and Stevie Nicks records for me when I was a kid. I was a weird showbiz kid. My family is even more strange. I grew up with the likes of the Kennedy's and Fairweather's etc. I had 5 siblings that grew up "privileged" which means I had books, an easel for watercolors and oils. My grandmother's mum was married into a big American corporate named family. Huge to this day. When my great grandfather died his family arrived, scooped up assets and threw a single mother immigrant on to the winter streets of elite North Cambridge MA. All her kids went on to become very successful and humble. My grandmother followed in her Mum's footsteps. 5 kids alone and then me. My dad used to beat me up because I was shockingly blond....and he didn't die but, his weird parents fucked up his life and marriages until they died. I started on Romper Room. My grandmother's kids all became successful. I have even seen my rumors on here about who I banged in the 90s sitcom/drama and comedy/romcom male star circuit. Well, you got some right but, you just will never know because if you're creative and you're blond....many doors will open for you. I'm just stating a fact about being a genetic freak of being tall, handsome and blond...in hollywood in the 90s pussy, dick and ass were thrown at you from all directions up in the parties on the hill in the canyon. I didn't even need a line or whiskey to skinnydip for attention, I guess. So, to the weirdos I worked with that went to the gym or used the same group men's shower/dressing room common area at Universsal/NBC and gym, You freak me out with comments about my junk in the "celebrity's big dick" comments section. I know what I have but I know exactly who some of the comments came from and it's fucking weird to hear a gaggle of size queens staking you out when you're in the gym with your trainer and you guys are talking about my nuts showing while on the weight lift and takj ti everyone about my dick.the rumors about my and my ex. I'm way off topic but, I got another google alert to my name being mentioned and it made me think of it. Anyway Stevie wasn't at her best circa 1992. We spent time together and talked sometimes...we oddly had a lot in common. She's not this big ass space cadet and neither am I. I'm old country Catholic Magic rituals and invocatiuons to St Brigit and using Rushes to tie up the bad into her cross. Stevie's heritage is a little on the Native American/Mexico Aztec kind of thing so she had that in her family. She was the chosen one....like I was. She told me she started working on Gypsy before her friend got her cancer diagnosis, and while working on different versions of the song which was competd before her death she wrote almost prophetically that she's still sees her bright eyes as she danced away from her. Steve knew Robin was going to die...so when she was alone and high and dating "the 2nd to Buckingham asshole" she spent a lot of time sad, waiting for him...and his promises and...guess what? He was an asshole and she made a mural in her ffriends hospice as she was dying and holding on to deliver the baby Stevie sort of adopted. Wow, I look back and with we were still in touch but I spend a lot of time in Manhattan or Beacon Hill at home. see next post

It's a great catchy song, I just had to listen to it today because I couldn't get it out of my head! I'm a Millennial and yes, I hate my generation's music. I wish we still made sweet simple little dittys like this one. Not too deep or bloody, just easy breezy and light. Luckily with YouTube, you can listen to just about era in seconds. Brandy is definitely karaoke material! I love 60s and 70s music. This is one of my favorites, an obscure, melodic, moody yet hopeful tune:

part 2 from a ninety Hollywood guy.....Stevie took the girls face and spoke the words to the song softly...she's dancing, and she's gone, and you still see her bright eyes...as she's being taken from you now. i'm battling my family over this house I bought my mother. Petty people. Petty lives. I paid off mortgages, credit card bills...etc. I'm like, dudes...where were you when she needed you? I could make almost 100k in less than a week if the family I paid for showed uo,,,,and they just arrived. I feel like I'm in Tijuana and the tiny little cute kids help their parents get by by panhandling. Strangers are kinder to me. sorry about this long non nonsensical post. maybe someone will see through the mess to get the jest of it. only to them will this matter.

I grew up in the 90s late 80s but I was into 60s r and b. Precious Moments. Someone I loved that I layed my life down for....now this song no longer makes me smile. It's horrible when trust is broken. Not trump loyalty bullshit but, people that are supposed to have you're back just push you down because that's the best they've got...anyone learn this from someone they loved so much.

Ready boot?

Melanie Safka....this just makes me smile. I don't know why.

Dolly Grande Ole Opry

The Vogues - Five O'Clock World

"When Will I See You Again" = 1974

Try again.

r42 sorry. I messed up Dolly too. It was written in 1967

The Urge for Going by Tom Rush. It was written for him by Joni Mitchell.

What the fuck just happened upthread?!?! Holy shit that was a deluge. You okay, JHF?!?! That's a serious unload.

How this is not the Datalounge anthem I'll never know:

After all jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers Mary A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife And the wind, it cries Mary The traffic lights they turn a blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed The tiny island sags downstream 'Cause the life that they lived is dead And the wind screams Mary Will the wind ever remember? The names it has blown in the past And with its crutch, its old age and its wisdom It whispers "no, this will be the last" And the wind cries Mary

That's beautiful, r44.

Sneaking in in 1969, the movie version of Come Saturday Morning from the movie The Sterile Cuckoo. Beyond what happens in the movie, there is still an underlying melancholy to the song, that sounds happy, but off. It was up for the best song Oscar, but lost out to Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.

I will say it’s interesting to read the comments on Youtube for old songs and the nostalgia they inspire. Most of the ones for this song related to the Vietnam war and being called up or serving.

Georgie Girl

RESPECT ! Aretha Amsterdam, 1968!

Hard to think all those A'dam boys are in their 70s now.

But what a great time to be young!

MONDAY MONDAY by the Mamas and the Papas.

Have I The Right by the Honeycombs

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The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

‘I Hear A Symphony’ by The Supremes just makes me feel joyful. (A live performance below.)

The opening of this song never ceases to give me the chills. An epic song for the end of the decade.

What a Wonderful World

This because in reality not much has changed since then.

"Little Bit of Rain" by Miss Karen Dalton.

Win: "Walk Away, Renee" by The Left Banke

Place: "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones

Show: "Different Drum" by The Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt

already answered but another good one is The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) by Fleetwood Mac is another great one

Can't Find My Way Home -- Blind Faith

Glad you liked it, r47! I first heard Urge for Going in late '65 or early '66 when I was in my early teens and it pretty much became and has stayed my favorite song of all time. Several years ago I finally heard Tom Rush perform it in live - he still sounds just the same. I believe he's about to turn 80.

There are lots of great songs mentioned in this thread!

Here's another of my favorite 1960s songs!

Another Supremes hit

Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) is from the 70s.

Can't Take My Eyes Off You from 1967

The Hollies, Carrie Ann, 1967.

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Summer Wine

OP, I love the song Brandy too! My fave is Marvin Gaye's, Inner City Blues

Get Back

Cass Elliot - It's Getting Better

Just missed the 60s by a few months, but a fantastic song

"I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" by The Byrds, b-side to "All I Really Want to Do," a Dylan song that was a hit for Sonny and Cher.

"Groovin'" by The Young Rascals. Something about that mournful harmonica contrasted with the upbeat lyrics just gets me!

Bitches, back off OP. That’s a fucking fantastic song. So he’s a few years off? So what? Good taste, OP.

I love this one, Bitches. I’m a low key romantic at ❤️

There are so many great songs from that decade that it's impossible to choose just one favorite, but this one would be a contender for the top 10:

Dusty Springfield's sexy and seductive version of "The Look of Love".

And another favorite (despite the stupid spelling in the title) is "Mr Dieingly Sad" by the Critters. This hauntingly beautiful, bossa nova inspired song isn't as well known as some of the really big hits from the '60s, but it's one of the prettiest songs of the decade.

Along with the Twist, one of the iconic songs of the early '60s was "Stranger on the Shore" by Mr Acker Bilk. It's gorgeous.

This is a doozy!

The Monster Mash.

Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson...

Sweetwater- Through an old story book....magic.

Pink Lemonade- Peppermint Rainbow

But I wasn't even born in the 1960s OP. Probably some Elvis Presley song.

This Old Heart of Mine, 1966.

Moonlighting used the song to great effect in a scene with Bruce Willis and Dana Delaney.

Loved this one and the one about a cake in the rain.

For the longest time. I had thought that Grace Slick had done this originally, but it turns out that it's from the early 60s after all...

Street Fighting Man

This was covered by so many people (as were many good songs in the 60s) and this was the British version by Georgie Fame, which I prefer, but not by much, to American original by Bobby Hebb...it really has the sound of Swinging London of 1966...I love the way it starts slowly and builds.

Because it's topical again - the Mitchel Trio's Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan.

Nights in White Satin

Light My Fire

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'

R61 I didn't know Fleetwood Mac originally did Green Manalishi! I knew it from Judas Priest. Who says DL isn't educational? :)

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies (1969)

There are too many good ones to pick just one and so many already listed, but I love the Dancing Bear by the Mamas & Papas. It really captures the era, released in 1966.

Make Your Own Kind of Music - Cass Elliot (1969)

Make Your Own Kind of Music - Cass Elliot (1969)

Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles

Get Ready - The Temptations (1966)

"Seven & Seven Is" by Love. YouTube commenters say this was used in the major motion picture "The Dead Don't Die."

Not well known in America, but she was an icon in Britain.

The 5th Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues

Alone again

Petula Clark - Kiss Me Goodbye

"End Of The World" by Brenda Lee

Maybe not my favorite (there are too many), but this is an unexpectedly haunting version of a song that someone else later made famous.

Fun Fact, R105: Brenda Lee is younger than all the Beatles.

Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison

Sugar Shack, Jimmy Gilmore and the Fireballs

Come A Little Bit Closer, Jay and the Americans

California Nights, Lesley Gore

Last Train to Clarksville, the Monkees

Mr. Lonely, Bobby Vinton

Along Comes Mary, The Association

What's That Sound, Buffalo Springfield

The Rain, the Park, and Other Things, The Cowsills

Sounds of Silence, Simon & Garfunkel