For those of us who were around in those days,

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.:

As far as iconic goes, this would be my choice.

that was the first thing I thought of too

I love the Animals though, a white boys take on classic blues

You Really Got Me by the Kinks

Boom, nailed it

If you would just edit out that awful Neil Young spastic guitar playing.

Nice sideburns Neil.

Dead skunk in the middle of the road by Louden Wainwright

another strong contender

I graduated n 1968, Suzy Q. I remember that being played at the dances!!

Ohio by CSNY. Recorded in May of 1970 so technically it missed the cut. But it played off of the anti war culture of the late 60's.

Genre?

Country - many will say Ring of Fire but I love this one as a 1b

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.”

I submit "Blowin' in the Wind" by Dylan.

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.

How can it be a threat to morality, when no one knows what the lyrics are or even know what the song is about.

Satisfaction!

War, by Edwin Starr




Phil

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.

Nailed it.

Smothers Brothers TV show in the 70s used this recording in skit to represent the 60s.

This is my all time favorite tune.

A great one from the late 60’s.

That one is a close second....

Eight Miles High - Byrds

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.

Very very surprised by you folks.

No mention (that I've seen) of a song/artist that changed the sound of "rock and roll" forever:

good one!

Then there's this:



Phil

I'd guess these guys were pretty iconic for the times:

Graduated in 63, this was always the last song. Never had bands, just a good DJ
Last dance usually meant who you'd take home.

WITCHITA LINEMAN-GC!!!!

Come on Wabbi DEL!!

You loved your lying commie bud repeating daily how the US Military was not good enough to shut down the Ho Chi Minh trail and telling us we could never win against them

After uniting enough people to get us out of the War LBJ and Sec McNamara opened to get rich and to enrich the MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL Complex and the CY A, strong arm of the Illuminati NWO cabal and which McNamara later revealed on his death bed that he and your bud LBJ discussed beforehand that we would not win the war, we found out from a top general of the North Vietnamese that they were on their last hurrah and on the verge of giving up.

We withdrew and hundreds of thousands of our allies were starved, raped,tortured and murdered by you commie friends.

It's kind of a typical MOA for your Dimocommie traitors.

You're too stupid to learn any more than CNN tells you and you're too stupid to learn open borders and unlimited illegal alien invasion is not good for the nation.

Great song but it doesn't master the 60s.

There was not one song for the 60s.

For the flower children it was:



For the lovers it was:



For the puzzy grabbers it was



For the dopers it was White Rabbit.

For the dreamers it was





For the rape of America's innocence and preminence iit was




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A few honorable mentions......















I can remember being 16 or 17. There was an FM station in Houston KLOL,
The DJ called himself "Jack Smack" and his trademark eptitaph was "Jack Smack, Stackin' Wax on Country K-LOL.
Guy prolly got more Nookie than..........

At that time FM was takin' the market by storm, cause you never heard any such thing on AM/





ya!

GWB

PS: They say if you remember the 60's, you were not there. On reflection KFMK came first, then KLOL........

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kfmk-fm-mother-radio-koop-kuper

Sure, we're old, but we had good music. GD

Carmen Appice gave those drums a beating. Probably one of the best drummers of all time.

A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum

And folks think the crystal/crank/speed problem started in the 80s?

1968

IIRC,

Back then you could get Benedrex inhalers', for a couple $ at any stop-n-rob, crack em' open and swallow the cotton. 1-Desoxephedrine!

Yowsir!

Burping up the camphor was a bitch!

Or so i was told!

ya!

'GWB

Heard of that, never had to resort to it.

SoCal, being close to the border, had reliable suppliers of prescription cross tops and such.

Or so I heard

San Francisco by Scott McKenzie 1968

I posted it.

1957.

Honorable mention.

I was going to nominate this one and include the video, but I have forgotten how to post them.

Youngbloods - Get Together

This, right there. It came out in September 1969.

My dad who was in Vietnam asked me to record it live and send it to him in a cassette, which I did (along with fighting side of me). He'd listen to it and play it for others as well.

Yep. GayGhost’s Hero. Bet he loves him some Dan Rather dick too.

Was 6 and 7yrs old in 69 and 70.
My uncles Groff and Brett back from Vietnam.
Dudes were my hero,s. I listened to alot of Doors and Hendrix and all the other music they would have playing.
Classic rock sorta guy.
But I cant say what song defined you guys generation.
Hard too do....

Nation was divided on alot of schit back then which has compounded 10 fold to now and not for the good at all, unless you are a scumball Liberal Socialist Democrat.

tag

----- If ya ever had butterflies in your hand-- The song is iconic

Great pick! .... That is my favourite Christmas album by far. Some good jazz on that.

Yer damn right, it was not a very good song music wise, but if your mailing address was APO San Francisco...it pretty well summed up the situation.

ya!


GWB

Tommy James n Shondells

Crystal Blue Persuasion

Pinball anyone??




ya

GWB

What a great find. Thanks! added to favorites

Congrats to everyone on here who made cogient arguments. My Dad is 75 and he could no sooner find this website on a computer than he could pilot the Space Shuttle.

You're doing good boys! I approve!

Cross

No distractions, plays by sense of smell

Got such a supple wrist.

When my youngest son was just over a yr old he could sing this song word for word.

A few years before my time, but I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned

“Dykes and Fairies”

“Tax the rich, feed the poor, til there are no rich no more.”


That song could be sung today. It is a classic, I loved it then and still love it today…

Couple from Roger. Seems everyone knew the lyrics back then:

In the late sixties and early 70's I "ushered" for Pace Concerts in Houston, Tx.

Got to see these guys, twice IIRC........



ya!

GWB

"White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane

That would have been some good deals.

This.




Or this.

I wasn't even born in the 60's, but I certainly know the answer.

Geez....

Eve of destruction.................Klatchy

Barry McGuire then.......






Barry McGuire today!





Quite a difference.........


Saved, Sometimes shaved, and mostly well-behaved.

Some of us made it through on the journey to faith!

ya!

GWB

I've been to Arlo Guthrie's house in like 1974 in Stockbridge Mass...and met him.

My roommate my senior year at Framingham, was a friend of Arlo growing up.

My roommate Jim, had a draft notice, and so joined the Navy when in college doing a 6 year tour. In 1974 at age 29 he returned to finish out his senior year. He knew I liked Alice's Restaurant, and some of Arlo's other stuff. When it was Thanksgiving, the campus was closed for the week, and I had no where locally to go. My folks were living in Hawaii, the old man stationed at Hickham, closest relatives were back home in Virginia, so he invited me out to the Berkshires for the week.

Day after Thanksgiving, he took me by an old church about a mile from his place, and asked me if it looked familiar. It did but I couldn't place it...
It was the church from Alice's Restaurant. Then he said, we were going over to visit an old friend from school. Old New England House, built in the late 1700s, and old vintage Mercedes and a couple of older eclectic type cars.. and the lawn needed mowing. Knocked on the door and there is this old Black Butler. He knew Jim real well, spoke of being happy to see him, then he said he would check with "the master" to see if he was accepting guests.

He comes back, opens the front door to let us in, and I hear "Heeeeyyyyy Jimmie!!!" IN comes Arlo Guthrie stoned out of his mind. Jim introduces me, as his roommate at college, Arlo grabs my hand and shakes it profusely with "HHHHeeeyyy Johnnie! Glad to meet ya!"

Offered us the chance to hit the bong, but Jim and I passed... Arlo didn't. He was a cool host tho... but definitely needed a bath and a clean set of clothes...

At one time, I had the whole +/- 19 minutes of Alice's Restaurant committed to memory.

Due to a change in lifestyle, I did not do any 'concerts' between 1976 and when I saw Arlo Guthrie in 2015 at his 50th Anniversary "Alice's Restaurant' Tour at the 1894 Grand Theater in Galveston, Tx. A venue that holds 800 or so folk IIRC.

https://www.gratefulweb.com/article...0th-anniversary-alices-restaurant-w-tour


He pretty much told the story of his life from 1965 to at that time the present day. I came away with an different view and an new appreciation of the man. But it's late and that is a story for another time.

Ya!

GWB

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1968 - The greatest decade

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1965 Wooley Bully; Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs

I remember this as a youngster

1999

This song, but Santana came to prominence at Woodstock. 1969

They had a great lineup for their first album:

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They are in my top 10 bands of all time.

And how could anyone forget this classic!

Time - SSGT Sadler, 1966

Mine too ..... I saw him live in the late 70s early 80s 3 times in Toronto.

Nice!

I saw them in 80 something at the sunrise music theater in Hollywood Fla. excellent show!

A couple great Santana songs with John Lee Hooker.