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Set Yourself Free by AG Music. Cool surf-pop indie folk music with a laid back chill vibe of the '50s or '60s and a little strike of melancholy. Ideal emotive background music for ocean 09/09/ · Discover Sixties Hits: Classic No. 1 Songs from the 60s by Various Artists released in Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic 07/09/ · MUSIC for free, no copyright song, (60s & 70s Rock Inspired Instrumental by Hyde) FREE DOWNLOAD SONG The video " MUSIC for free, no copyright song, (60s & 70s Rock 08/03/ · Greatest Hits Of The 60s Super Oldies Of The 60s: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive. Webamp. Volume 90%. 13/09/ · With that preamble out of the way, enjoy the list! Looking to explore some of our best songs of the 60s? Check out our two playlists on Spotify: Volume 1 and Volume 2. ... read more
Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Topics na Language English. plus-circle Add Review. There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. download 1 file. download 12 Files download 6 Original. Community Collections. Easy enough, right? It bombed, and Elvis re-recorded it with producer Chips Moman. It promptly went 1. Mulatu Astatke is the undisputed king of Ethio-jazz, a style of music that blends jazz, traditional Ethiopian sounds, and Latin rhythms. The golden age of Ethiopian jazz occurred in the s and s, with Astatke at the forefront of the scene. It originally appeared as a musical break while results were pouring in for a election referendum in France. She went back to bed. When she woke up the next morning, she had changed her mind.
Recorded by legendary drummer Hal Blaine and members of the world-famous Wrecking Crew, the song was practically an extended arm of the counterculture hippie movement, an infectiously catchy ode to the comfort of true love. Each phrase may be repeated an unspecified number of times by each musician in the ensemble, and each musician has control over which phrase they play. Players are encouraged to play the phrases starting at different times. This is, in theory, a practice in chaos, but when executed correctly, it becomes a wonderful, sprawling, ever-evolving body of work. So why is it in this list of the best songs of the 60s? The music for Peanuts was composed and recorded by Vince Guaraldi, a Bay Area-based jazz pianist, and his ensembles. After a stint in the Army as a cook during the Korean War, Guaraldi returned to the Bay Area where he began playing in groups heavily influenced by Latin styles like bossa nova.
The drums bang and clash in the style of rock groups like Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He quickly gained fame in New York throughout the s for his playing, leading to regular gigs across the city with Latin musicians but also some jazz greats like Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie, and more. The title of this classic 60s Latin song refers to the large Watusi tribesmen of Rwanda , who feature prominently in the nonsensical lyrics. Remarkably, every single version listed above charted either in the United States or overseas. Her voice runs just a bit ahead of the backing choir, producing the image of a sprinter creating distance from the rest of the pack.
Hers is one of the iconic sets of pipes in soul music history, powerful yet mightily precise. According to legend, Norman finished writing the words just moments before Thomas entered the studio. That melody is mostly propelled in the early going by Joe Zawinul. The Wurlitzer he used on the track was once owned by none other than Ray Charles. The song became a crossover hit when The Buckinghams recorded it in , though the original, with the audience spurred on by an open bar, conjures a special type of magic. The narrative is only half the story, though. Watch this video on YouTube Click to load video Van Morrison — Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison entered into a two-day recording session in , during which he recorded eight songs, making up four singles. A testament to its timelessness, covers have been made by artists as varied as Adele, Reel Big Fish, Steel Pulse , and U2.
But we wanted to highlight just how amazing Ray Davies has been since his earliest days as a songwriter. The song was inspired by college lust, a particular night in which Davies was performing and saw a girl in the crowd that tickled his fancy. When his set finished and he went to find her, she had disappeared. This is a claim that Page has always denied. Gentry sits in on a family reacting to a local boy jumping off a bridge to his death. In , the Ramsey Lewis Trio sat in a Washington, D. coffee shop, stumped, trying to figure out what song to add to round out their set list. The group was booked for a run at Bohemian Caverns, the same venue where they recorded a live album a year prior. The setlist they were shaping up was set to inform the follow-up live album.
Lewis worked out a rendition with his band, and they ended their set at the Caverns with it that very night. Watch this video on YouTube Click to load video The Kingsmen — Louie Louie The Kingsmen played garage rock before the term existed. Everyone at the club would pile onto the dancefloor, giving the jukebox hit far more attention than the band ever received. The new instrument was, to say the least, a finicky beast. Bataan brought his reality to tape, weaving brilliant tales of life in his working-class neighborhood from the perspective of a passionate participant. An original acoustic version was included on their album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A. But in , the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts, and throughout Florida. Two years later, and it became the soundtrack to one of the most important films of the s, The Graduate.
Sure, it was one of the first popular songs to glamourize slinging drugs, but it was also one of the most forward-thinking, cool rock songs of the 60s. And, crucially, stands up just fine on its own as a classic piece of rock songwriting. Drummer Levon Helm handles the vocals, while Rick Danko is on the bass and takes a crack at the fourth verse. Every member of the group could sing, but while The Beach Boys laced their vocal parts in technicolor candy, The Band liked to rough up their performances with a little bit of dirt and tobacco. The song was originally written in , with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel. The song and album marked a groundbreaking collaboration between the American saxophonist Getz and the Brazilian icon Gilberto. The song we know and love is actually shortened from the version on the album which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by João Gilberto.
The song was a hit throughout the world, taking home a Grammy for Record of the Year. Shortly after the song became a hit, though, Cline was seriously injured in an automobile accident, forcing her to spend a month in the hospital. Who knows what happened in that hospital, but Cline emerged a megastar. The song was originally penned by Willie Nelson , and her husband, Charlie Dick, implored her to record it. Cline refused. When she arrived at the studio, Dick convinced her to try her hand at it, and the result is self-explanatory. Patsy Cline was a female country star before people were used to the concept, carving a lane for herself and influencing a generation of future women ready to croon. Gainsbourg was dating Bardot and she asked him to write the most romantic song he could.
He came up with two. He acquiesced but revisited the song a year later when he began dating Birkin. Celia Cruz will make you dance, but her songs also force you to confront the political realities of the 60s in Cuba. Whereas Kubrick is sterile and exacting, Bowie is free-wheeling and ecstatic. The drums perform a rough variation of a military march, while Bowie counts us down and implores us to take our protein pills. Turn away from each other, take three steps forward, turn around, draw. Few soundtrack moments in film history match its sheer emotional force. Cash recorded the song as his dream intended, and the result is a country-western song decades ahead of its time. It blends traditional country structure with a blurring of genres, making it an all-time crossover hit amongst country fans and Latin music devotees alike. Alongside Masekela, Greenwich Village legend Bruce Langhorne and jazz bass legend Henry Franklin rounded out the all-star cast.
Watch this video on YouTube Click to load video Loretta Lynn — Fist City Loretta Lynn has a few rules. Loretta changed all of that, swaggering onto the scene with a mean left hook and the sweetest voice you ever heard. But then comes an extended chorus, accompanied by whistles, backing vocals, and a bevy of percussion, and all of a sudden, Gil treats his instrument like it wronged him in a past life. All this to say, Gil is a master of manipulation, able to use volume and crescendos to emphasize emotion and the movement of his songs. The Byrds consisted of some of the best songwriters in American history, including the perpetually underrated Gene Clark, Jim Roger McGuinn, and David Crosby.
But the drama surrounding the song is less interesting than the style it helped usher in, which blended the psych-rock of bands like The Beatles with the experimentation happening in the jazz world. It was there that Makeba took her inspiration for the track, which she originally recorded with her band The Skylarks. After making a name for herself in the States, she re-recorded the song in with Jerry Ragovoy, and it quickly became a hit. To be young and in love is the best feeling on Earth. To be young and heartbroken feels like a tragedy never before replicated in the history of this planet. Sure, the song was a lightning rod upon its release in the late 60s as the American feminism movement was making headway in the mainstream in the following decade, but Wynette always insisted that the song was less about subservience than overlooking the flaws in the ones you love.
The song was supposedly written in 15 minutes by Wynette and her producer, Billy Sherrill, and the singer initially expressed hesitancy because it was a clear black sheep in her discography up to that point — and included a note she had trouble reaching. Sometimes a nice walk in the park can spur your greatest idea. He was eating some popcorn, minding his own business, when a couple started arguing about how much money was exchanging hands. Dekker landed on the sentiment of working all day for not enough pay, and by the time he got home from his sojourn, the song was complete. It remains one of the most successful reggae songs of all-time, infiltrating the Billboard charts and bringing rocksteady vibes to an unfamiliar audience in Glen Campbell liked to sing about places. Webb delivered a completed version of the song to Capitol Records, but his version was crucially missing a middle section.
Campbell came up with the idea to fill this empty space with an all-time guitar solo. It was originally composed by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David, for singer Dionne Warwick in Hard to top, right? He was originally inspired to write the song because of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in November that pit forceful cops against young adults rebelling against the status quo sound familiar? The song, which featured Neil Young on guitar, is as catchy as it is powerful. Oh, how wrong O Estado de S. Paulo was! The album, whose title translates to New Style Samba , is clear in its aspirations. Ben brought a new perspective to the genre, a style that would influence a new generation of samba and South American players. Shortly after, organist Ray Manzarek added the Bach-influenced introductory organ motif, because…why not? Densmore circled back to suggest that it should open with a single snare drum hit.
They acted as a blender, taking ingredients from across the rock, jazz, and blues scenes, and turning it into something otherworldly and impossible to replicate. The blues bled into hard rock. Pop music felt its soul. Jazz felt free. Although we at Paste had previously compiled the 60 Best Albums of the s , we felt that a number of songs were missing. However, bands with votes for multiple songs were limited to two tracks each. Being of a certain age, this song will forever be cemented in my mind as the one that soundtracks Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore getting all sensual with clay in Ghost. The real story is that the song had been around for about a decade before The Righteous Brothers decided to record it for their album Just Once In My Life.
Here, the plea for reconciliation feels more agonized and terrified. We once designated this song as one of 10 songs people need to stop covering. Apparently the Sinatra gene runs strong. Girl-group perfection, this song took The Marvelettes to the top of the charts right out of the gate. Fun fact: On drums is none other than Marvin Gaye. Though hailing from Hitsville U. in Detroit, the song has been covered by everyone from The Beatles to The Carpenters to The Saturdays. Before there was a mainstream feminist movement, Loretta Lynn was tackling the hardcore throw-down. One of many Lynn songs banned for their candor, the Kentuckian singer lobs a perky opening salvo at the bigmouth homewrecker. An apt follow-up No. Stevie Wonder was just 12 years old when he recorded what would go on to become one of the first live songs to hit number one, making him the youngest person in history to top the Billboard Hot What did you do when you were 12?
This song is showcase not only for those delightful vocals by lead singer Dolores Brooks and her cohorts, but also the strange genius that was Phil Spector. The arrangement of this song is flat out ridiculous with those incessant castanets and the string section that dips and dives through the song like an excited bird. King and Queen , consisting of duets between Stax stars Otis Redding and Carla Thomas, was the last album Redding would release in his lifetime. If this song sounds suspiciously like a Motown rip-off, fear not. Columbia Records was more than happy to bring in members of the Wrecking Crew for session work to help supplement their meager earnings from Berry Gordy. The Hollies, one of the more underrated groups to come from the British Invasion, finally broke through in America with this chirpy single that charmingly tells the tale of finding love while waiting for public transit.
Written by future 10cc member Graham Gouldman, the song still works in the way that romantic movies still capture our attention. Back in , Diamond told us the history of the song, written for John F. I was an unknown songwriter at the time and it was just an idea I had. She was thrilled. Somehow, I suppose somebody from the press was there and it got picked up. The news went everywhere…I was overwhelmed by it. The song, which was dressed up with over-distorted guitars, finger-flying note runs and radio-filtered hooks, brought a new focus to rock music by leaning on jazz and classical influence over the English love of blues music.
Starr was given the chance to record this snarly, iconic protest song after it was decided that it was too controversial for The Temptations. The iconic single appeared on her masterpiece album Dusty in Memphis. It would be years before the band finally stepped out of their borderline-derivative blues-meets-rock fusion. But its titular song stands today as an immortal girl-group pop hit, a nuanced juxtaposition of little-girl sweetness and adult tragedy. Fifty years later, the chemistry between organist Booker T. The music was phenomenal. The marriage—not so much. Supposedly, this ballad was written as a response to the turbulent times when the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war protests were reaching their peak temperatures. If it was a balm, it failed, but if it was just another gentle song and career highlight for jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong, the tune was still a huge success.
The s are often considered the best decade for music in America. Folk enjoyed a political revival, yet, the British Invasion was blessedly not political. The blues bled into hard rock. Pop music felt its soul. Jazz felt free. Although we at Paste had previously compiled the 60 Best Albums of the s , we felt that a number of songs were missing. However, bands with votes for multiple songs were limited to two tracks each. Being of a certain age, this song will forever be cemented in my mind as the one that soundtracks Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore getting all sensual with clay in Ghost. The real story is that the song had been around for about a decade before The Righteous Brothers decided to record it for their album Just Once In My Life. Here, the plea for reconciliation feels more agonized and terrified. We once designated this song as one of 10 songs people need to stop covering. Apparently the Sinatra gene runs strong. Girl-group perfection, this song took The Marvelettes to the top of the charts right out of the gate.
Fun fact: On drums is none other than Marvin Gaye. Though hailing from Hitsville U. in Detroit, the song has been covered by everyone from The Beatles to The Carpenters to The Saturdays. Before there was a mainstream feminist movement, Loretta Lynn was tackling the hardcore throw-down. One of many Lynn songs banned for their candor, the Kentuckian singer lobs a perky opening salvo at the bigmouth homewrecker. An apt follow-up No. Stevie Wonder was just 12 years old when he recorded what would go on to become one of the first live songs to hit number one, making him the youngest person in history to top the Billboard Hot What did you do when you were 12? This song is showcase not only for those delightful vocals by lead singer Dolores Brooks and her cohorts, but also the strange genius that was Phil Spector. The arrangement of this song is flat out ridiculous with those incessant castanets and the string section that dips and dives through the song like an excited bird.
King and Queen , consisting of duets between Stax stars Otis Redding and Carla Thomas, was the last album Redding would release in his lifetime. If this song sounds suspiciously like a Motown rip-off, fear not. Columbia Records was more than happy to bring in members of the Wrecking Crew for session work to help supplement their meager earnings from Berry Gordy. The Hollies, one of the more underrated groups to come from the British Invasion, finally broke through in America with this chirpy single that charmingly tells the tale of finding love while waiting for public transit. Written by future 10cc member Graham Gouldman, the song still works in the way that romantic movies still capture our attention. Back in , Diamond told us the history of the song, written for John F. I was an unknown songwriter at the time and it was just an idea I had. She was thrilled. Somehow, I suppose somebody from the press was there and it got picked up. The news went everywhere…I was overwhelmed by it.
The song, which was dressed up with over-distorted guitars, finger-flying note runs and radio-filtered hooks, brought a new focus to rock music by leaning on jazz and classical influence over the English love of blues music. Starr was given the chance to record this snarly, iconic protest song after it was decided that it was too controversial for The Temptations. The iconic single appeared on her masterpiece album Dusty in Memphis. It would be years before the band finally stepped out of their borderline-derivative blues-meets-rock fusion. But its titular song stands today as an immortal girl-group pop hit, a nuanced juxtaposition of little-girl sweetness and adult tragedy. Fifty years later, the chemistry between organist Booker T. The music was phenomenal. The marriage—not so much. Supposedly, this ballad was written as a response to the turbulent times when the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war protests were reaching their peak temperatures.
If it was a balm, it failed, but if it was just another gentle song and career highlight for jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong, the tune was still a huge success. Try to listen to this song, even in our current cynical and overstretched times, and remain unmoved or unemotional. You will either start tearing up or looking out your nearest window to watch the world drift by. The Sonics were uglier, louder and scarier than anything that had floated this way during the British Invasion. They were also playing what was essentially punk rock in the small town of Tacoma, Wash. one year before bands like The Seeds and the 13th Floor Elevators had done anything, three years before the Brits gave us The Pretty Things or The Deviants, and almost five years before The Stooges and MC5 blew up Detroit.
Some insist that punk rock started in the U. The debut single from The Zombies put them on the charts in both the U. and the U. This was only a prelude to the true greatness to come. Hendrix exudes soulful swagger, dripping with leering bravado and uncoiled sexuality. Not bad for a song reportedly written after Hendrix wanted to sit by a fireplace on a cold English day. The English rockers hit No. Rather, the glinting harpsichord and lightly Eastern-influenced percussion simply nudged the door open for the group to embrace more psychedelic sounds. And it helped bring their second guitarist Jimmy Page into the fold. Up until that point, the song had been bouncing along the runway, fueled by handclaps and those tightly wound harmonies of the backing vocals. And as we all know, the song went on to be a huge hit, giving this California-based pop group their lone No.
By the time MacLean completed it, though, Love was already working on their seminal record Forever Changes. The extra time, no doubt, added to the songs depth and drama, accentuated by mariachi-inspired horns and a striking string section. Stevie Wonder wrote the music for this song, but he went to Robinson for help with the lyrics. One of our favorite performances of this song actually came almost 20 years later, though, after divorce and solo careers. But the prominence of the form undermines our knowing anything about all that. When the Byrds got started, somebody in Hit Parader, I think said that their first album was very nice, but it all sounded the same.
Now we are up to taking that. What started out as a folk-rock style on the first album has been turned, via repetition, into a form. The formal structure of a constant rhythmic ground can overcome any material. The rhythmic ground is so dependable that once, when lying on a cliff overlooking the Long Island Sound, not so far from where Walt Whitman did it, I thought I heard the earth turning beneath my head and it reminded me of—of all things—the Byrds. But it never comes to rest. And yet, in , when bands such as Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones were playing stadiums with electric guitars, he got his band of violins and horns together to record this emotional song in his unique style that endures to this day. Phil Ochs, the Texan-born singer, self-described social democrat, and revolutionary, epitomized this. California, land of Ronald Reagan and P.
Sloan, deserves the credit for latching on to these four wanderers long enough to record them and turn them into superstars. The Mamas and the Papas are extremely sensitive to their material and to the impact of their finished product producer Lou Adler probably deserves quite a bit of the credit here ; their whole gimmick, if you want to call it that, is complex harmonies, each group member singing on one or several tracks which, when all mixed together, produce a new sort of harmony, not at all choral. The ancient concept of the round figures importantly, as do the very modern innovations of the Beatles and the Beach Boys. And the vocal is framed with precision and love by the instrumental solos: guitar at the opening, electric violin and flute in the middle of the song. The poignant effect of the flute is a tribute both to the orchestration and to John Phillips, who arranged and wrote the song.
In this performance from —the first time the trio had performed together in years—their harmonies are ragged and the delivery unrehearsed, but regardless, just having these musicians playing together again, and more importantly, obviously enjoying it, was a cause for celebration. Saying The Monkees were successful during is a dramatic understatement, though. Haggard had already landed four No. I was already on the way to prison before I realized it, actually. As much as we love David Bowie and Mick Jagger, the fact that their ridiculous cover of this has nearly twice as many YouTube views as the classic original is an absolute crime.
This single maybe have been the last time Roy Orbison reached the top of the charts in the U. Co-written by the artist with his longtime collaborator Bill Dees, the tune remains iconic thanks to its perfect structure, the range of emotions it hits on joy, sadness, lust, envy, and more in just under three minutes, and that opening guitar hook that will remain part of the rock canon until this planet disintegrates. The song is vocally percussive, yet smooth and swaying; its bold lyrics are both timely for the era, yet utterly timeless in an age where Black Lives Matter. On Stand! Etta James was one of those rare singers who absolutely defied genre. Soul, blues, jazz, pop—put it in front of her, and she could sing it, breaking your heart on one track by sounding gritty, raw and broken before putting a big, stupid grin on your face on the next song with vocals that were smooth and pristine. Her performance embodies joy, romance and triumph.
Plus, it helped those boys in Remember The Titans work out their differences. One of the first supergroups, Cream—composed of Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton—moved from blues to psychedelic rock with their second album Disraeli Gears. As for the central metaphor, comparing love to a burning ring of fire was a creative, almost counterintuitive step that successfully brought together both the joy and the pain of falling hard for someone. Jazz has a supernatural presence when crafted correctly. This song became a big deal even before the 13th state in the union officially decreed it the official state song in The early days of rock music found its many stars and wannabe stars digging through the treasure trove of folk and blues for inspiration. So it was with Eric Burdon of The Animals who heard this song first from a British folk singer and then brought it to his band who helped him turn it into a Hammond organ drenched hit that somehow felt both soothing and electrifying.
Naturally, that was a recommendation flagrantly disregarded. The Supremes were, bar none, the most successful Motown girl group.
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29/07/ · (But don’t worry, you can just click here to find our best-of lists for some of those bands like The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Velvet 08/03/ · Greatest Hits Of The 60s Super Oldies Of The 60s: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive. Webamp. Volume 90%. 60s & 70s PLAYLISTS Trending gold My Love for the Past by LittleLovlyMe Vintage Warrior Princess by melodust Power to the People by phantasma gold records for a spiritual journey 11 rows · Music from The rise of the counterculture, particularly among the youth, created a huge market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music produced by drug-culture Discover Greatest 60s: Golden Oldies from the Sixties by Various Artists. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic Set Yourself Free by AG Music. Cool surf-pop indie folk music with a laid back chill vibe of the '50s or '60s and a little strike of melancholy. Ideal emotive background music for ocean ... read more
Hang on Sloopy. This single maybe have been the last time Roy Orbison reached the top of the charts in the U. Mean Woman Blues. The Beach Boys 2,, listeners. Brown redefined what it meant to be cool in the 60s with this song, infiltrating mainstream rock and soul with his intoxicating brand of self-loving funk music. Articles Features Interviews Lists.
When the Boy in Your Arms. Sign Up Yes, I would like to receive Paste's newsletter. Gregory Olverson May 4, at am. Gene Chandler. Drummer Levon Helm handles the vocals, while Rick Danko is on the bass and takes a crack at the fourth verse. The Capitols.
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