Tell Us: What's Your Favorite Song from the '60s?
We're starting a Spotify playlist decades series and we're kicking it off with the swingin' '60s.
The Swinging Sixties was a time for space, sexual and technological exploration. It brought us a British Invasion, Elvis, Motown, the Rolling Stones and more.
Patch is starting a new Spotify playlist series that features the best songs from each decade, and this week we're starting with — you guessed it — the Sixties.
Tell us your favorite songs from the iconic decade in the comments and we'll create a Spotify playlist that runs on Friday morning.
Catherine Victoria Lane Grossi
7:13 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" is my favorite and very appropriate for today's returning hero's too!
KW
9:23 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many but if I had to pick just one I guess it would be my first 45 RPM record purchase from Clarkins in downtown Canton: I wanna hold your hand- Beatles
Karen Kananian
12:01 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
I was about to write the same thing....the first of the British Invasion songs, I wanna hold your hand by the Beatles. What else could be more memorable than that particular song?
Megan Millisor
9:34 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
It is probably a tie between "California Dreamin" by The Mamas and the Papas and "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane.
jo flesher
1:06 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
California Dreamin, is mine, I moved to Ohio in the late 60's and was really homesick and that song was so real to me. But I also loved all things Beatles, Stones, and Loving Spoonful.
Geoffrey Watson
11:08 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Wow, KW brought back a little bit of memory when he mentioned Clarkin's. I had forgotten about them. I, like KW, say wayyyyyyyyy too many to pick from but my choice would be "Double shot of my babies love" by the Swingin Medallions
KW
11:20 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Anyone remember "Little Black Egg" by the Nightcrawlers ? Terrific garage band song to play! Easy 3 chord song .
Jamie Emerson
6:13 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
;) Our high school garage band did that one as well as Hang On Sloopy (The McCoys)
THOMAS KANE
1:54 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
''SOUL AND INSPIRATION'' BY THE RIGHTEOUS BROS.SEEM TOO CAPTIVATE THE VERY NATURE OF THE TIMES.ALTHOUGH I M SURE WE COULD COME UP WITH 100 SONGS RIGHT NOW DO THE SAME .I KNOW I WOULD LIKE TOO GIVE IT A TRY`!ANYBODY REMEMBER THE CHOIR OUT OF CLEVELAND AREA HIT SONG" BABY ITS COLD OUTSIDE"?MUSIC MACHINE,"LITTLE BIT SOUL"
KW
9:15 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Hey Thomas! Yes..remember both of them. Little Bit O Soul was another popular garage band song. Good memories!
Jenny
2:10 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
I like California Soul by Marlena Shaw. It was also the song for the Dockers commercial a while back. It's a great song still today!
PJ Apostle
3:20 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
Too many to list but if I had to choose, my pick is Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone!
Morgan Day
3:23 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
Ben E. King, "Stand By Me."
Brenda Mayo
11:33 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
That one is also one of my favorites.
Jamie Emerson
6:14 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies (1969)
lyn
7:47 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
"The House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals
KW
9:17 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Lyn... One of the very first songs I learned on the guitar. Extremely popular. I went to see Eric Burden play at one of the "Moondog Coronation Balls" in Cleveland a few years ago. He of course did that song.
Patch reader
9:26 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
"Time of the Season" - The Zombies
Brenda Mayo
11:40 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
"Chain Gang" - Sam Cooke, "Crazy" - Patsy Cline and "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" - Nancy Sinatra
Richard Ian Tracy
4:15 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012
What sprang to mind: "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield, "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies (Ron Dante), "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)" by the Byrds, "Crazy" by Patsy Cline, "I Got You (I Feel Good)" by James Brown and "Vietnam Song (I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag)" by Country Joe & The Fish.
KW
10:22 am on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Actually you all could name song after song and chances are I'd probably like it for one reason or another. Fact is...there were very few bad songs that made the top 100 during the decade of the 60's. I have a sirius radio in my car and channel 6 is the 60's. No commercials and song after song...I highly recommend it if that's your pleasure!