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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