List Your Favorite Songs from the 60’s
courtesy of Music Listography : Your Life In (Play)Lists

Editor’s Note: I feel like I may say this everytime, but this one was tougher than I thought it would be. I forget how much the music of the 60’s shaped me as a young girl, and just how much I lived in my mother’s record collection. I could have gone to 100 songs, but in respect to space and my reader’s time, I narrowed it down to 40.

1. America :: Simon & Garfunkel

2. Both Sides Now :: Joni Mitchell

3. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) :: The Beatles

4. Space Oddity :: David Bowie

5. Wonderful World :: Sam Cooke

6. Baby It’s You :: Smith

7. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue :: Bob Dylan

8. Ring of Fire :: Johnny Cash

9. Baby (You Got What It Takes) :: Brook Benton & Dinah Washington

10. Can’t Find My Way Back Home :: Blind Faith

11. Hello, I Love You :: The Doors

12. Son of a Preacher Man :: Dusty Springfield

13. In the Midnight Hour :: Wilson Pickett

14. Downtown :: Petula Clark

15. I Fall to Pieces :: Patsy Cline

16. Suspicious Minds :: Elvis Presley

17. Sugar, Sugar :: The Archies

18. Stand By Me :: Ben E. King

19. Be My Baby :: The Ronettes

20. God Only Knows :: The Beach Boys

21. Last Train to Clarksville :: The Monkees

22. Only the Lonely :: Roy Orbison

23. Beyond the Sea :: Bobby Darin

24. Honky Tonk Women :: The Rolling Stones

25. Sweet Caroline :: Neil Diamond

26. Time of the Season :: The Zombies

27. I Wish It Would Rain :: The Temptations

28. Runaway :: Del Shannon

29. Blue Velvet :: Bobby Vinton

30. Then He Kissed Me :: The Crystals

31. Natural Woman :: Aretha Franklin

32. The Weight :: The Band

33. You Ain’t Woman Enough :: Loretta Lynn

34. Monster Mash :: Bobby Pickett

35. Please Mr. Postman :: The Marvelettes

36. California Dreamin’ :: Mamas & the Papas

37. House of the Rising Sun :: The Animals

38. Pale Blue Eyes :: The Velvet Underground

39. I Can See For Miles :: The Who

40. A Whiter Shade of Pale :: Procul Harum