What's your favorite song (or songs) from 1966?

[red dog 1]

There are many great songs from 1966 - here are but a few:

Monday, Monday - The Mamas & The Papas
You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
Good Lovin' - The Young Rascals
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
Daydream - The Lovin' Spoonfull
Time Won't Let me - The Outsiders
I Fought the Law - Bobby Fuller
Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks

[Glorfindel]

1. One of the best years for songs ever. But I would have to go with Paul & Art

[emulatorloo]

3. Oh yeah!

[emulatorloo]

2. Just about anything from Pet Sounds

Wouldn't it be nice
God Only Knows
I know there's an answer
Caroline No
And on and on.


Beatles Revolver too
Got to get you into my life
Eleanor Rigby
She Said She Said
And yr Bird Can Sing

[SethH]

4. I want you

[LeftInTX]

5. ...

Painted Black - Rolling Stones
Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound

Sunshine Superman - Donovan (I swear this was 67, but Billboard says 66)
Devil with the Blue Dress - Mitch Ryder
Uptight Everything is Alright - Stevie Wonder
Summer in the City - Lovin Spoonful
Just Like Me - Paul Revere
Gloria - Shadows of Night
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
Five O'Clock World - The Vogues

[TexasProgresive]

8. Gloria was originally done by Them w/ Van Morrison 1965

We preferred it. The DJs would play the Them- Gloria and say it was the Shadows of Night (1966). Go Figure. We knew one from the other.

[klook]

6. "Trouble Every Day"

from Freak Out by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. That whole album is a classic, so it's hard to pick one track -- but that one probably has the broadest appeal, so I'll go with it.

[LeftishBrit]

7. One of the best years for music ever!

Apart from those already mentioned:

The Beach Boys: The Sloop John B

Simon and Garfunkel: Homeward Bound

The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon

The Kinks: Dedicated Follower of Fashion

The Rolling Stones: 19th Nervous Breakdown

The Beatles: Paperback Writer

The Who: I'm a Boy

[red dog 1]

12. Great picks!

I'm adding the first 3 to my list

I especially love Sloop John B.
It's an old folk song originally called "The John B. Sails"
The Kingston Trio did a 1956 version of it called "The Wreck of the John B"
Al Jardine was a fan of The Kingston Trio, (and folk music too), and one day he laid out the chord pattern of "The John B. Sails" and then said to Brian Wilson, "Remember this song?"
Brian Wilson replied, "I'm not a big fan of the Kingston Trio." (Brian Wilson wasn't into folk music)
But Jardine persisted...He modified the chord changes (The original is basically a 3-chord song)
Anyway, he got Brian Wilson interested enough to start working on a version of it, and the rest is history.
"Sloop John B" closes the first side of "Pet Sounds"..the only song on the album that Brian Wilson didn't write.

[Skittles]

9. Dusty

[msongs]

10. love is like an itching in my heart/he's all I got nt

[Hoyt]

11. Eight Miles High-- Bryds

5D (Fifth Dimension) -- Byrds
Daydream -- Lovin Spoonful
Try a Little Tenderness -- Otis Redding
California Dreamin' - Mama's and The Papa's
(You Keep Me) Hang'in On -- Surpremes
We Can Work It Out - Beatles
Wild Thing - Troggs
A Groovy Kind of Love - Mindbenders
Mustang Sally -- Wilson Pickett
Just Like a Woman -- Bob Dylan

[Tikki]

13. "Talk Talk"......The Music Machine

Tikki

[Tikki]

14. "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"....The Standells

Tikki

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke

[Eugene]

16. I'm a Believer - The Monkees

...others in alphabetical order:

Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Mellow Yellow - Donovan
Monday, Monday - The Mamas & The Papas
River Deep - Mountain High - Tina Turner
These Boot Are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes

[pressbox69]

17. A good year

but this was my favorite back then.

[Tikki]

18. "7 and 7 is" and "My Little Red Book"....LOVE

Tikki

[WinkyDink]

19. "Good Lovin". LOVED the Rascals!

[red dog 1]

21. I love the Young Rascals too

Good Lovin' is a great song.

(The Grateful Dead do a good version of it)

[Phentex]

20. Gotta go with your mention of

Paint it Black

[Doc_Technical]

22. Yardbirds- Happenings ten years time ago

[retread]

23. "I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head until my darkness goes"

[red dog 1]

24. "I see people turn their heads and quickly look away

Like a newborn baby it just happens every day"