Your ONE favorite song from the decade you were born

you’re asking for your favorite now from that decade? if you want your favorite some from back then it would produce a different answer.

Eurythmics, “Sweet Dreams” - I’ve always thought it a remarkably apt description of the world. :slight_smile: Though this actually came out eight months before I was born.

Born in the 60s - Penny Lane

“(Ya Got) Trouble”

I was born in the late 90s, and although this is kind of sad, I’m having trouble thinking of songs from then that I like - I listen to music mainly from the 60’s to the early 70’s. Maybe something by Lyle Lovett, like “If I Had a Boat”? I honestly have no idea.

1977: CB Savage, just because it’s completely insane (and hilarious!), a lot the like 70s in general.

1970s. Steve Goodman’s * City of New Orleans.*

1970s. Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.” Although David Bowie’s “Heroes” is a close second.

1960s: ** Dear Mr. Fantasy**

or Hey Joe (Hendrix version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr6BBTC2so4

1958 * Make Believe* by Conway Twitty

1970s. The Clash, “Complete Control”.

1950s. Mack the Knife.

1950s. If we’re allowing instrumentals, I’d have to say Thelonious Monk’s Straight, No Chaser.

Old fart alert:

Born 1960–fave song “Puff, the Magic Dragon.” :slight_smile:

I was born on the very day that the Beatles finished “With a Little Help From My Friends”, and the same day they shot the cover for Sgt. Pepper, so there you go. :slight_smile:

There’s no way I can possibly pick just one favorite from the 1960’s (born in the Summer Of '69…oh yeah).

Superstition came out while my mom was pregnant with me, and I like to think it infused me with a love of both funk and skepticism at a cellular level.

Yes, I mean it’s your favorite from that decade now. Depending on how late in the decade you were born, you might not have *had *a favorite back then. (but according to my mom my favorite 70s song during the 70s was Cher’s “Dark Lady” which is an odd choice for a 2-year-old…)

Only one! Oh, you are cruel! Well, I was torn between “Beyond the Sea” and “Mack the Knife”, both by Bobby Darin, but since I can’t decide, I will offer up “Why Do Fools Fall In Love” by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

I won’t even mention “White Christmas” by the Drifters.

“Why Do Fools Fall In Love” it is!

I was born in 1962, and I have vague memories of hearing “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at a bus stop, playing on a transistor radio, when I lived in Northern Ireland.
The 1960s contained an explosion of music though, and picking one song from that decade is impossible.

I didn’t start appreciating music until I was close to my teen years, and my tastes have progressed through the decades, but “I Want to Hold Your Hand” is a song I actually remember hearing when it was popular, so I’ll go with that.