100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #21 The Shangri-Las – Leader of The Pack

Released: 1964 More often than not it isn’t the greatest musicians that are the most influential; nobody for instance wants … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #22 Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walkin’

Released: 1965 Cool is such an ephemeral, fleeting status, one usually conferred by hipsters on a purely subjective basis to … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #23 Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth

Released: 1966 Traffic jams play their part in American culture, and none more so than in Los Angeles, a city … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #24 The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset

Released: 1967 Sometimes in researching these pieces you can search forever to get an introductory hook workable enough to draw … More

100 Greatest Song of the 60’s #25 The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

Released: 1969 As with any success, punk rock has many fathers. Famously notable in it’s lineage are Bowie, the New … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #26 James Brown – Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag, Part I

Released: 1965 Writing in The Observer in 1990, profiler Cynthia Rose was barely into the first paragraph before she was … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #28 The Byrds – Eight Miles High

Released: 1966 Let he who is without sin, or words to that effect. Speaking at a $100 a plate dinner … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #29 The Ronettes – Be My Baby

Released: 1964 Everyone loves a story. Writing in the Record Mirror in the wake of Be My Baby’s success, Peter … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #30 Stan Getz & João Gilberto – The Girl From Ipanema

Released: 1964 One of, if not the most powerful quality music has is the power of evocation, just a few … More

100 Greatest songs of the 60’s #31 Pink Floyd – See Emily Play

Released: 1967 Conformity – belonging if you want to use the nicer metaphor – is an ingrained aspect of the … More