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Posted By: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
12-Aug-09 - 03:31 AM
Thread Name: Best ten songs of the 60's
Subject: RE: Best ten songs of the 60's
And here's a second round of possibilities in no particular order of importance:
Mr Tambourine Man - Dylan There But For Fortune - Ochs We Shall Overcome - ? Bird On A Wire - Cohen Me And Bobbie McGee - Kristofferson (recorded first by Lightfoot?) Until It's Time For You To Go - Buffy Sainte-Marie Summer Wages - Tyson Song For A Winter's Night - Lightfoot Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Dylan Pack Up Your Sorrows - Richard Farina (and Mimi Baez/Farina)
As to whose recording of these various songs you like best...well, that all depends on your taste, right? Joan Baez did sterling recordings of many of 'em, for instance....but only Buffy Sainte-Marie did "Until It's Time For You To Go" convincingly, and she's the one who wrote it and it came directly from her own life experience, so that figures. Elvis and many others recorded it too, but their versions were seldom convincing at all...usually verging on pure schlock. When Buffy does it, it's real and it's beautiful.