1968? Perhaps you missed it. The song. I saw Harris on Johnny Carson; when asked about the lyrics, Harris said he had no clue what any of it meant.
Oh, and I would add: anything done by Ravi Shankar.
Good lord.
It’s going to take a while to shake that.
You, Sir, are buying the beer next time.
The song I most surprised not to see mentioned yet is “Reach Out of the Darkness” by
Friend & Lover, closely followed by “Journey to the Center of the Mind” by The Amboy Dukes.
Would it have been a bigger hit than the 1973 original by Stevie Wonder?
also, “Signs” by the Five Man Electrical Band and “Almost Cut my Hair” by CSN&Y.
Wow…man. Wizard!
Fortunate Son, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, CCR
I Shot the Sheriff, Bob Marley & The Wailers
Friend of the Devil, The Grateful Dead
American Pie, Don McLean
Alice’s Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie
Well sure … if it had come out in the 60s ahead of Stevie Wonders’ version! 
This one was SOOO popular among the hippie chicks and the hippie chick wannabees, and well, most young women of the time … you could almost feel the estrogen curdling whenever it came on … I swear, it could make women ovulate …
[Nitpick] The title is Not so sweet Martha Lorraine. [/nitpick]
Donovan’s already been mentioned; which leads me to mention The Incredible String Band. Remember Way Back In the 1960’s? Or maybe First Girl I Loved…
T Rex started out in that same folky vein & morphed into something else. Here’s an early Ride A White Swan.
Sensitive psycho-folk from America: Pearls Before Swine with Another Time.
Earlier, I mentioned The Chambers Brothers’ “Time Has Come Today.” Here it is; the long version, of course.
(Of course we listened to the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan & the other big names; I’ve just been hitting some of the oddities.)
We definitely need more Byrds in this thread:
Oops! No I meant Forever Changes (by Love), but somehow this got attached to the line below the one that it belonged too, which actually did list a song off Forever Changes (it must be all the drugs!) :o
I agree that there are a lot of other good songs on Surrealistic Pillow too, and it is probably the best Airplane album, but I do not love it as an album the way I love Forever Changes.
Your link, she no work no more. Could you just tell us the song? I want to see if it makes this old hippie chick ovulate…
And nobody mentioned “It’s a Beautiful Morning” by the Rascals?
I love this thread!
Magic Carpet Ride-- Steppenwolf
Frankenstein-- Edgar Winter
Sound of Silence-- Simon & Garfunkle
Cloud Nine-- Temptations
For something a little newer, Prince’s cover of Crimson and Clover/Wild Thing.
The Who: My Generation and Magic Bus
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour, Strawberry Fields, Lucy In The Sky, and many others of that age.
Joe Cocker: With A Little Help From My Friends
Sugar Magnolia - Dead
Stella Blue - Dead
Sugaree - Dead or Garcia
Deal - Dead or Garcia
Wheel - Dead or Garcia
You Shook Me - both Beck and Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven - Zeppelin
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
(i recall hearing on the radio a mashup of the drums of the last two songs, while you would think it would sound like crap it was kind of interesting.)
Steve Hillage made some great hippie music in the 1970s. I especially like “Garden of Paradise” and “Four Ever Rainbow”, the two 20+ minute tracks that comprise the album Rainbow Dome Musick.
Sorry about that. It’s “Our House” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. It actually inspired fear in young hippie males. (I may be exaggerating here … a little.)
America: Ventura Highway and A Horse With No Name These were more California pop of the 70s.