Songs that have stood the test of time.


Jackson Browne "These Days"...

Covered by Nico, Gregg Allman and more... it has the staying power, even now!

This has to be one of THE great songs still!

There are many more. What are yours?

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I rarely remember "Don't Worry Baby" Tom, and I can't figure out why. It was definitely the high point of their set when I saw The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic in the Summer of '64, my first live concert. When Brian got to and sang the line "and she makes love to me" the girls in the audience went INSANE. The following summer I saw The Beatles at The Cow Palace, and the screaming was throughout the entire performance. The year after that everyone was sitting on the floor smoking jazz cigarettes. Things had changed that rapidly.

And The Beach Boys had been completely written off. That is, until "Good Vibrations" came on the radio. But "Don't Worry Baby"---real good song. I'm gonna listen to it right now! 

Hava Nagila  by unknown, but sang and played by whole bunch of artists and all together too.
Money For Nothing... sang by whole bunch of R&R singers and musicians at a time in famous video.
Hava Nagila of course. (We are, after all, talking about songs that have stood the test of time.) I have no idea what that song is about but I have danced to it many, many times. It's a mitzvah!?!

Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is a great song and covered by many. But his "All Along The Watchtower"is more personal and subversive. Hendrix covered it best but there are many others....