Soul Struts top 200 songs of the 60's

[pickwick33]

I'll nominate No Woman No Cry for Bob Marley

No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up. I think anything off of legend should be automatically void from this list.

Anything off of Legend is from the '70s and '80s, so it would be void from this list anyway.

 

[JustAlice]

I don't think No Woman No cry is even from the 60's though now that I think about it.

Anything off of Legend is from the '70s and '80s, so it would be void from this list anyway.

well Stir it Up is from 60's, but I had already realized that NWNC wasn't.



Either way...just a tad too much Jukebox burn out for me on that one.

 

[funkfromthesun]

This list needs A LOT more jazz

Joe Henderson - Recordame
Wayne Shorter - Infant Eyes, Deluge, Armageddon, JuJu so many
Herbie Hancock - Oliloqui Valley, Succotash

Of course Miles Davis could easily fill up at least a quarter of that list. So What gimme a break. Every cut from Miles Smiles and ESP belongs on that list.

 

[pickwick33]

I don't think No Woman No cry is even from the 60's though now that I think about it.

Anything off of Legend is from the '70s and '80s, so it would be void from this list anyway.

well Stir it Up is from 60's
That was likely a '70s remake on Legend, but the fact is, I agree with you on this here:

Either way...just a tad too much Jukebox burn out for me on that one.

 

[waxjunky]

This list needs A LOT more jazz

Joe Henderson - Recordame
Wayne Shorter - Infant Eyes, Deluge, Armageddon, JuJu so many
Herbie Hancock - Oliloqui Valley, Succotash

Of course Miles Davis could easily fill up at least a quarter of that list. So What gimme a break. Every cut from Miles Smiles and ESP belongs on that list.

I think the "Kind of Blue" LP was technically from 1959. "Love Supreme" by John Coltrane could rate, although it's difficult to dissect great jazz LPs for individual tracks.

 

[SPlDEY]

For some reason, I can't update/edit the top post anymore?

Soul Strut's top 200 songs of the 60's.

1 Stevie Wonder - I Was Made to Love Her[color:red]+ 1/Place in the Sun[color:red]+ 1/Hey love[color:red]+ 1
2 CAN - Uphill
3 Galt MacDermot - Coffee Cold
4 Giles, giles & fripp - why don't you just drop in
5 Silver Apples- Program
6 The Supremes- Reflections
7 Ray Barretto - The Soul Drummer
8 Solomon Burke - Home in Your Heart
9 Aretha Franklin - One Step Ahead
10 Impressions - I Wonder[color:red]+ 1/Keep on Pushin[color:red]+ 1/Mighty Mighty[color:red]+ 1
11 Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made Of Sand
12 Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
13 Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
14 Dave Brubeck - Take 5
15 Miles Davis - So What
16 Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
17 Jr Wells - Snatch It Back
18 Carla Thomas - BABY
19 James Carr - You've Got My Mind Messed Up[color:red]+ 2/Dark End of the Street[color:red]+ 2
20 MC 5 - Kick Out The Jams
21 Thirteenth Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me
22 Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road
23 Gene Chandler - Nothing Can Stop Me
24 Dyke & the Blazers - Funky Broadway
25 Davie Allan & the Arrows - Blue's Theme
26 ? & the Mysterians - 96 Tears
27 Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
28 Wendy Rene - After Laughter Comes Tears
29 Meters - Cissy Strut
30 Lee Dorsey - Get Out Of My Life, Woman [color:red]+ 2
31 Barbara Lynn - You'll lose a good thing
32 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
33 Al Johnson - Carnival Time
34 Professor Longhair - Big Chief
35 Gilberto Gil - 2001
36 Caetano Veloso - Alfomega
37 Gal Costa - Tuareg[color:red]+ 1/Baby[color:red]+ 1
38 Eddie Bo - From this day on
39 France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles
40 Arthur Conely - Sweet soul Music
41 Francoise Hardy - Le Bonheur Du Jour
42 The Birds - No good without you baby
43 Nazz - Open My Eyes
44 Heptones - Baby
45 Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping
46 Ken Boothe and Stranger Cole - Artibella
47 Rufus Thomas - Memphis Train
48 Jimmy mcgriff - the worm
49 Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come[color:red]+ 3
50 Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused[color:red]+ 1/Ramble on[color:red]+ 1
51 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme[color:red]+ 1/Alabama[color:red]+ 1
52 Nat Kendricks & the Swans - Mashed Potatoes
53 Sam and Dave - Soul man[color:red]+ 1/Wrap It Up[color:red]+ 1
54 Barbara Mason - Yes I'm ready
55 Tommy James - Crimson & Clover [color:red]+ 1[color:green]- 1
56 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By
57 Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
58 Ben E. King - Stand By Me
59 Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
60 James Brown and the Famous Flames - I'll Go Crazy[color:red]+ 1/Cold Sweat[color:red]+ 1
61 James Brown and the Dapps - I Can't Stand Myself
62 James Brown - It's A Mans World[color:red]+ 1/Give it up or turnit a loose[color:red]+ 1
63 Irma Thomas Ruler Of My Heart[color:red]+ 1/Time Is on My Side[color:red]+ 1
64 Booker t and the mg's - hip hug her
65 The Dapps - bringing up the guitar
66 The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
67 Nick Drake - River Man
68 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
69 Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
70 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
71 The Left Bank - My Friend Today
72 Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
73 Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
74 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tracks of My Tears
75 Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour
76 Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
77 The Velvet Underground - Heroin[color:red]+ 1/Waiting for the man[color:red]+ 1
78 The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
79 Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
80 Neil Diamond - Girl You'll be a woman Soon [color:red]+ 1[color:green]- 1
81 Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia
82 Marlena Shaw - California Soul [color:red]+ 2
83 Tony Basil - I'm 28
84 Patsy Cline - Crazy
85 Association - Never My Love
86 Brenton Wood - Gimme a Little Sign
87 Al Green - Back Up Train[color:red]+ 1/I'll Be Good To You[color:red]+ 1
88 Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
89 Barbara lewis - hello stranger
90 Barbara George - I Know
91 The Wailers - It Hurts to Be Alone
92 Hopeton Lewis - Take It Easy
93 The Flames - Broadway Jungle
94 Skatalites - Guns of the Navarone
95 brenton wood - gimme little sign
96 the shirelles - baby its you
97 Desires - Let it please be you
98 Rosie & the Originals - Angel Baby
99 Thee Midniters - Town I Live in
100 Billy Stewart - Sitting in the Park
101 Paul Ortiz & Orquesta Son - Tender Love
102Etta James - At Last
103 Jorge Ben - Mas Que Nada
104 Electric Prunes - Holy are you
105 El Gran Combo - La Muerte
106 Beatles - I want you (she's so heavy)[color:red]+ 1/Rain[color:red]+ 1
107 Focus 3 - 10,000 years behind my mind
108 Joe Henderson - Recordame
109 Wayne Shorter - Infant Eyes
110 Herbie Hancock - Oliloqui Valley
111 Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
112 Sonics - Got Your Head on Backwards
113 The Chantays - Beyond
114 The WHO - I can see for miles
115 Donovan - Season of the Witch[color:red]+ 2/Hurdy Gurdy Man[color:red]+ 1
116 Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo
117 Five Stairsteps - Don't Change Your Love
118 Love - The Red Telephone
119 Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
120 Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself
121 Carolyn Franklin - I Don't Want To Lose You
122 Marva Whitney - It's My Thing
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- spidey

*updated*

 

[Guzzo]

Electric Prunes - Holy are you

interesting choice, also brings up another question
.

By the time they made the Release of An Oath LP the Electric Prunes had none of its members from the "I had Too Much To Dream Last Night" era. Essentially it was just an axelrod album.

So if someone wanted to put in both songs would it count as 2 songs from the same group/ people?

 

[HarveyCanal]

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
Sonics - Got Your Head on Backwards
The Chantays - Beyond

 

[kinjames]

I can see for miles - the WHO
Rain - Beatles
Ramble on - Led Zeppelin
Season of the Witch or Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan

 

[SPlDEY]

interesting choice, also brings up another question
.

By the time they made the Release of An Oath LP the Electric Prunes had none of its members from the "I had Too Much To Dream Last Night" era. Essentially it was just an axelrod album.

So if someone wanted to put in both songs would it count as 2 songs from the same group/ people?

We all know it's 2 different bands so, fasho 2 different groups.

- spidey

 

[Burns]

There are some odd selections on that list, many fall into private mindgarden playlist genre.



** **Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo

 

[LaserWolf]

Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come[color:red]+ 2
I'll add a bunch more votes for this one.

Irma Thomas Ruler Of My Heart[color:red]+ 1/It's Raining[color:red]+ 1/Time Is on My Side[color:red]+ 1
I'll withdraw my nomination of It's Raining and lobby for Ruler Of My Heart or including both ROMH and TIOMS.

Donovan - Season of the Witch[color:red]+ 1/Hurdy Gurdy Man[color:red]+ 1
I'll vote for SOTW

 

[holmes]

I don't even know where to start with this!!

 

[Junior]

I'd suggest allowing multiple entries per artist. There's no real rationale not to, from what I can see. If we even manage to get this list to 200 (kind of slow going right now), we can always debate the merits of cutting someone's third or fourth entries off it. I'm not about to nominate 10 songs by a single artist but it'd be nice to include, you know, three Beatles tunes or a handful of James Brown songs or Coltrane tracks or...you get the pic.

A few off the top:

Association: Never My Love
Brenton Wood: Gimme a Little Sign
Al Green: Back Up Train
John Coltrane: Alabama
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love

I'm leaning towards Green's I'll Be Good To You off the same album. It's funny but having a quick flick through my collection I noticed that a lot of my favourite music comes from around 70-71 - so close and yet so far.

I guess the obvious choice for Obison would be Crying but I'd like to nominate In Dreams instead.

Um where do you start with the others? Off the very top of my head basically using what I have on my mp3 player right now.

Five Stairsteps - Don't Change Your Love
Love - The Red Telephone
Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself
Carolyn Franklin - I Don't Want To Lose You
Marva Whitney - It's My Thing
Marlena Shaw - California Soul