#20 Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Originally formed in 1964 Lynyrad Skynyrd rose to worldwide recognition due to its driving live performances and signature tune, "Free Bird." At the peak of its success, three members died in an airplane crash, putting an abrupt end to the band's most popular incarnation.
#19 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a landmark song in the history of Motown. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, the single was first recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. It has since become a signature song for Marvin Gaye, who released it on October 30, 1968. Gaye's version has since become a landmark in pop music.
#18 Light My Fire - Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. The band took its name from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, the title of which was a reference to a William Blake quotation: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
#17 Layla - Derek & the Dominos
"Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally released by their blues rock band Derek and the Dominos. It is considered one of rock music's definitive love songs, featuring Eric Clapton and Duane Allman's unmistakable guitar. Inspired by Clapton's then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison, "Layla" has earned great critical and popular acclaim, and is often hailed as being among the greatest rock songs of all time.
#16 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Written in the first person, the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy for whom the hot-rod-riding protagonist certainly has enough passion to love, but perhaps not the patience. Springsteen has noted that it has a much simpler core: getting out of Freehold.
#15 Imagine - John Lennon
In Lennon's own words: "It's not a new message: Give Peace a Chance. We're not being unreasonable. Just saying 'give it a chance.' With 'Imagine' we're asking, 'can you imagine a world without countries or religions?' It's the same message over and over. And it's positive."
#14 (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967, 6 weeks before this was released and 3 days after he recorded it. It was by far his biggest hit and was also the first ever posthumous #1 single in the US. Redding was a rising star moving toward mainstream success at the time of his death. There is a good chance he would have recorded many more hits if he had lived.
#13 Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
Brown recorded this song in one take - the released version was merely supposed to be a run-through, but sounded so good it was kept anyway. Brown, who still hadn't memorized the song's lyrics, read from a sheet in front of him; at the beginning of the original take, he can be heard saying "There's a lot of words here, man." He also can be heard exclaiming "This is a hit!" just before the band kicks in.
#12 All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Hendrix: "All those people who don't like Bob Dylan's songs should read his lyrics. They are filled with the joys and sadness of life. I am as Dylan, none of us can sing normally. Sometimes, I play Dylan's songs and they are so much like me that it seems to me that I wrote them. I have the feeling that Watchtower is a song I could have come up with, but I'm sure I would never have finished it. Thinking about Dylan, I often consider that I'd never be able to write the words he manages to come up with, but I'd like him to help me, because I have loads of songs I can't finish. I just lay a few words on the paper, and I just can't go forward. But now things are getting better, I'm a bit more self-confident."
#11 Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Townshend: "It is not precisely a song that decries revolution – it suggests that we will indeed fight in the streets – but that revolution, like all action, can have results we cannot predict. Don't expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything. The song was meant to let politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the center of my life was not for sale, and could not be co-opted into any obvious cause. When I wrote Won't Get Fooled Again, there was a transition in me from refusal to be co-opted by activists, to a refusal to be judged by people I found jaded and compliant in Thatcher's Britain."
#10 What'd I Say - Ray Charles
"What'd I Say" may not have been much of a song — a handful of short, unconnected verses, the chorus and that bridge — when Charles cut it on February 18th, 1959, at Atlantic's New York studio. That night on the bandstand Charles had turned to the black gospel experience he knew so well, the shared, mounting ecstasy of call-and-response. "Church was simple," he said in his autobiography Brother Ray. "Preacher sang or recited, and the congregation sang right back at him."
#9 Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
This was recorded over a two month period using top Los Angeles session musicians - the Beach Boys didn't play any instruments on the track. About 90 hours of studio time and 70 hours of tape were used, and at least 12 musicians played on the sessions.
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