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Thread #122841   Message #2698156
Posted By: Richard Bridge
11-Aug-09 - 08:32 PM
Thread Name: Best ten songs of the 60's
Subject: RE: Best ten songs of the 60's
I do think we ought to have two lists - non-electric and electric (to avoid the arguments about "what is folk").

Turn, turn, etc is surely ineligible. The words are the Book of Ecclesiastes. A bit pre-60s.

I also think that traditional songs are ineligible. What we receieved of them in the 60s were interpretations.

Now, of course, I don't know what to put on the two lists!

Acoustic:
We shall overcome
Streets of London
Anji (not a song, but a tune)
The Gipsy Boy and I
Anthem of the Rainbow
There but for Fortune
I shall be released
With God on our Side
Was "Tolpuddle Man" written in the 60s?
Is it called "Dancing in the Sky"? Jansch, I think.


Electric: (some of these may be a bit later)
The Fish Cheer
Price of Love (performed by Everlies)
Desdemona (performed by Marsha Hunt - or should I go for Walk on Guilded Splinters?)
Wheel's on Fire
Fire (Arthur Brown)
Let me Stand next to your Fire (Hendrix)
The End (Doors)
Great Balls of Fire
White Rabbit
My Generation


Hell, that is some hard choices!