penned for a teenage girlfriend
1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 240 to 231
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1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 250 to 241
“’Daydream Believer’ kept me alive for all these years”
1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 260 to 251
The music industry didn’t treat blues singer/guitarist Bobby Parker particularly well.
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“When I heard Howlin’ Wolf, I said, ‘This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.’”
1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 280 to 271
it’s a higher level of humiliation when the entire world knows you’re the abused puppet
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“We just turned off his mikes in the control him and listened to what everyone else was doing.”
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“We’re putting the word ‘peace’ on the front page of the paper next to all the words about war.”
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“Useful to just about any group with any cause in history”
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Orbison detonated a small emotional explosion
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“Sittin’ here in la la/Waitin’ for my ya ya.”
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Alexander is the only songwriter whose material was covered by Bob Dylan (“Sally Sue Brown”), The Beatles (“Anna (Go to Him)”), The Rolling Stones (“You Better Move On”), and Elvis Presley (“Burning Love”)
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“That’s why I left. I was so alone. They gave me everything – coats, cars. But not love.”
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The Rolling Stones learned the song from Irma Thomas
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the first female artist to be signed to a Motown related label
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He worked construction. He hauled sugar cane. He bought a truck; he’d haul scrap iron, he worked at a service station.
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A strange, tormented sermon
1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 400 to 391
“I was just a painted doll, nobody could ever reach me.”
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hits the mark for the abiding attributes of lovable losers and no account boozers
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“money for old rope!”
1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 420 to 411
“I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes”
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“Success” was Loretta’s first Top Ten single
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“it’s not you, it’s me; breakup song.”
1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 460 to 451
fuzzy, dirty, live, filthy
1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1960s – 500 to 491
the moment when Brown fully moved from soul to funk
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doesn’t contain a single rhyme, yet nothing sounds forced in its structure
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too heavy for The Supremes
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an amazing simulation of Elvis
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beginning his rise as an international superstar
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another beginning, musically and professionally
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Townshend developed the concept album
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represents Vegas well
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Michael Martin Murphy and I Monkee around.
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an almost inconceivable 95% supertax during 1966
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a perfect pop confection
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Resulted in his touring band being named The Strangers
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her best work has a timeless quality that continues to be influential
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Otis Redding took the song from Wright in the same way that Aretha took “Respect” from Otis
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“we pinched from the very first Velvet Underground album”
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they evolved into the pop band
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inspired by an innocent event
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this forlorn look at departure
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given the last name “Checker” by Dick Clark’s wife Barbara
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a variation on the concept that the more things change
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a playful number that evolved into the de facto “Peanuts” theme song
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Vegas sex appeal image
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A new kind of imagery
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‘What about this then?’
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“Shirley Owens was the leader of the girl group to lead all girl groups”
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those were simpler times
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