Lotsa iconic songs came out of the 1960's, but I'm gonna vote for Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth". It's like a prophetic prediction that is sadly coming true.
1963 Louie Louie by the Kingsman. First R&R song to be investigated by the FBI as a threat to morality.
In the winter of 1963, a team of FBI agents spent their days hunched over portable record players, struggling to decode a message that threatened the morality of America’s youth.
It wasn’t from the Russians or Castro, but a band of Portland teenagers called The Kingsmen. And the song was Louie Louie.
“J. Edgar Hoover felt we were corrupting the moral fiber of America’s youth,” Mike Mitchell, guitarist and founding member of The Kingsmen, told me in 2016. “The FBI guys came to our shows, and they’d stand next to the speakers to see if we were singing anything off-colour. It was a different time.”
How can it be a threat to morality, when no one knows what the lyrics are or even know what the song is about.
RUMs are like woman in Stiletto heals, you know they are going to put you in the poor house, but that has never stopped anyone from pursuing them.
This is my vote above all others, for the most Iconic Song of the 1960s. I graduated High School in 1970. From when it came out in 1964, right up thru 1970 when I graduated from High School this was played at ever school dance and was ALWAYS the last dance of the night.
The band could be really good, but if they didn't do a good job on this song, they usually weren't asked to come back.. or the band could be not really that good, but if they did a darn good job on this song, they were ALWAYS asked back...
Enjoy the blast from our pass.
From 1964, Erick Burden and the Animals.:
Great version of a great song. I always knew that the House of the Rising Sun is a whorehouse. My brother was just telling me yesterday that this song is supposed to be sung from a female perspective, ie a gal who has thrown away her life as a whore.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Smothers Brothers TV show in the 70s used this recording in skit to represent the 60s.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
1963 Louie Louie by the Kingsman. First R&R song to be investigated by the FBI as a threat to morality.
In the winter of 1963, a team of FBI agents spent their days hunched over portable record players, struggling to decode a message that threatened the morality of America’s youth.
It wasn’t from the Russians or Castro, but a band of Portland teenagers called The Kingsmen. And the song was Louie Louie.
“J. Edgar Hoover felt we were corrupting the moral fiber of America’s youth,” Mike Mitchell, guitarist and founding member of The Kingsmen, told me in 2016. “The FBI guys came to our shows, and they’d stand next to the speakers to see if we were singing anything off-colour. It was a different time.”
How can it be a threat to morality, when no one knows what the lyrics are or even know what the song is about.
Dude,
teenagers have secret codes and stuff the adults have to investigate to figure out what they talkin' about.
Now, it's emojis on the cell phones.
If you don't know, look up what an eggplant means to kids today.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
No mention (that I've seen) of a song/artist that changed the sound of "rock and roll" forever:
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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