Originally Posted by Nigel Quin
A lot of great songs on the list, nice to see a Charlie Chaplin song in there too smile


Really? Could you enlighten me as to which song you are referring?

Also, on a side note, it is true the Boyce and Hart wrote for the Monkees, but I'm A Believer was written by Neil Diamond.

I believe the sixties was a monumental time in transition in every form of popular music, and that defined nearly EVERYTHING that has come since. Younger folks hear the regurgitated stuff from their own generation and cannot understand the impact that the original sounds had on those who lived through it.

The fifties was a huge time for changing musical attitudes and introducing a music that had been around at least since the mid-1940's (listen to Louis Jordan, for example) and I love the stuff from that era, but the sixties took the original impact of rock and roll and diversified the sounds like no other era. The sheer diversity of this list speaks to that.