That voice-sounding pissed and possessed-lit up the band’s two releases, 1965’s Here Are The Sonics and Boom, released the following year.
“Rock and roll-it’s the only place you can scream like that without going to jail,” Sonics vocalist-keyboardist Gerry Roslie told me a few years ago. You will either start tearing up or looking out your nearest window to watch the world drift by. Try to listen to this song, even in our current cynical and overstretched times, and remain unmoved or unemotional. 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. 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.
Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World” This song in particular, the first song off 1966’s album of the same name, was an especially soulful and successful example of their musical spark. Their turbulent domestic life (Tina accused Ike of being an abusive husband) has overshadowed their legacy, but there’s no denying the electricity the two had on stage. Ike & Tina Turner, “River Deep – Mountain High” The news went everywhere…I was overwhelmed by it.”ħ4. Somehow, I suppose somebody from the press was there and it got picked up. I was an unknown songwriter at the time and it was just an idea I had. I said “hi” to Caroline, said a few words, and then I told her the story about how the song title came from a photo I’d seen of her and her little pony. I asked if they’d mind if I sang “Sweet Caroline.” So the connection was made to this gathering at the New York Public Library. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline: “It was her birthday and her husband called up and said, “Neil, could you sing happy birthday to Caroline?” I agreed to do it so we set up a cross-country satellite thing in my little studio here in LA. Back in 2008, Diamond told us the history of the song, written for John F. Even if its demarcation of “soft rock” is a bit belittling, this sing-along has endured over the decades. This platinum-selling 1969 single was one of Neil Diamond’s biggest hits. 1 to the equally conjugal boundary setting “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind),” it cemented her no-mess reputation with a song that’s been covered by Pistol Annies, Johnny Paycheck, Nanci Griffith/Eilen Jewell/Kelly Willis* and the Little Willies. In 1968, “Fist City” was a revolution-a woman with no shame taking care of what’s hers. With a chorus that boasts she’s going to grab that hussy “by the hair a your hand / and lift you off of the ground,” this is worthy of the WWF, and Lynn ain’t playing. Owning her man “ain’t” a “saint,” Lynn has no trouble suggesting to the brazen gal stay clear. She sings, “You been making your brags about town/ That you been lovin’ my man/ But the man I love, when he picks up trash/ He puts it in a garbage can.” One of many Lynn songs banned for their candor, the Kentuckian singer lobs a perky opening salvo at the bigmouth homewrecker. While blues singers Irma Thomas and later Koko Taylor were howling “You Can Have My Husband (But Please Don’t Mess With My Man),” Lynn drew a line in the sand around her catting around lesser half Doolittle “Mooney” Lynn. SNAP! Before there was a mainstream feminist movement, Loretta Lynn was tackling the hardcore throw-down. “Israelites” was one of native Jamaican Desmond Dekker’s first international hits and offered the world its first taste of this now-beloved genre. Reggae originated in the Jamaica in this decade, combining elements of ska, R&B, and Caribbean percussion to give sound to the country’s diaspora and social issues. (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 Underground.) Here are the 100 best songs from the ‘60s. However, bands with votes for multiple songs were limited to two tracks each. With two dozen people voting for more than 500 songs, we whittled the list down to the top 100 hits of the ‘60s. Jazz felt free.Īlthough we at Paste had previously compiled the 60 Best Albums of the 1960s, we felt that a number of songs were missing. Folk enjoyed a political revival, yet, the British Invasion was blessedly not political. The 1960s are often considered the best decade for music in America.
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