The Top 200 Songs from the 1960s 

Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Year	Sample
1	1	Bob Dylan	Like a Rolling Stone	1965	Listen
2	2	The Rolling Stones	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	1965
3	3	The Beach Boys	Good Vibrations	1966	Listen
4	5	Aretha Franklin	Respect	1967	Listen
5	6	Otis Redding	Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay	1968	Listen
6	7	Marvin Gaye	I Heard It Through the Grapevine	1968
7	10	The Kingsmen	Louie Louie	1963
8	12	The Beatles	Strawberry Fields Forever	1967
9	13	The Ronettes	Be My Baby	1963	Listen
10	16	The Who	My Generation	1965	Listen
11	17	The Kinks	You Really Got Me	1964	Listen
12	20	The Beatles	A Day in the Life	1967
13	22	Ike and Tina Turner	River Deep Mountain High	1966
14	25	The Beatles	I Want to Hold Your Hand	1963
15	26	The Righteous Brothers	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'	1964
16	30	The Four Tops	Reach Out (I'll Be There)	1966
17	31	The Jackson 5	I Want You Back	1969
18	32	The Doors	Light My Fire	1967	Listen
19	35	The Rolling Stones	Jumpin' Jack Flash	1968
20	36	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	1965	Listen
21	37	The Beatles	Hey Jude	1968
22	46	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Purple Haze	1967	Listen
23	48	The Rolling Stones	Sympathy for the Devil	1968	Listen
24	49	Martha and The Vandellas	Dancing in the Street	1964
25	50	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	The Tracks of My Tears	1965
26	51	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Proud Mary	1969	Listen
27	52	The Beach Boys	God Only Knows	1966	Listen
28	59	The Kinks	Waterloo Sunset	1967	Listen
29	60	Ben E. King	Stand by Me	1961
30	63	Percy Sledge	When a Man Loves a Woman	1966
31	68	The Animals	House of the Rising Sun	1964
32	69	Elvis Presley	Suspicious Minds	1969
33	70	Del Shannon	Runaway	1961
34	73	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	All Along the Watchtower	1968	Listen
35	75	Booker T. & The MG's	Green Onions	1962	Listen
36	83	Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come	1965
37	84	Led Zeppelin	Whole Lotta Love	1969	Listen
38	87	Wilson Pickett	In the Midnight Hour	1965
39	90	The Temptations	My Girl	1964	Listen
40	95	The Beatles	Yesterday	1965
41	98	The Beatles	She Loves You	1963
42	99	The Mamas and the Papas	California Dreamin'	1965	Listen
43	100	Buffalo Springfield	For What It's Worth	1967	Listen
44	102	Roy Orbison	Oh, Pretty Woman	1964
45	106	The Shirelles	Will You Love Me Tomorrow	1960
46	107	Van Morrison	Brown Eyed Girl	1967
47	108	James Brown	Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	1965
48	110	The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women	1969
49	111	Them	Gloria	1964	Listen
50	113	Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade of Pale	1967	Listen
51	114	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fortunate Son	1969	Listen
52	119	Dionne Warwick	Walk On By	1964
53	122	The Byrds	Eight Miles High	1966	Listen
54	123	David Bowie	Space Oddity	1969
55	127	The Beach Boys	Don't Worry Baby	1964
56	130	Roy Orbison	Only the Lonely	1960
57	136	The Impressions	People Get Ready	1965	Listen
58	140	Bob Dylan	Subterranean Homesick Blues	1965	Listen
59	142	The Beatles	Help!	1965
60	144	The Beatles	In My Life	1965
61	145	The Rolling Stones	Gimme Shelter	1969	Listen
62	149	The Beatles	Penny Lane	1967
63	152	The Supremes	Stop! In the Name of Love	1965
64	158	The Velvet Underground	Waiting for the Man	1967	Listen
65	159	Patsy Cline	Crazy	1960
66	161	Chubby Checker	The Twist	1960
67	162	The Troggs	Wild Thing	1966
68	163	The Crystals	Da Doo Ron Ron	1963
69	170	Glen Campbell	Wichita Lineman	1968
70	174	Jimmy Cliff	Many Rivers to Cross	1969	Listen
71	177	Question Mark and the Mysterians	96 Tears	1966
72	179	Spencer Davis Group	Gimme Some Lovin'	1966
73	180	The Beatles	Tomorrow Never Knows	1966
74	184	The Rolling Stones	Paint It, Black	1966
75	191	The Supremes	Where Did Our Love Go	1964
76	198	Dusty Springfield	Son of a Preacher Man	1968	Listen
77	199	The Who	I Can't Explain	1965
78	204	Simon and Garfunkel	The Sound of Silence	1965	Listen
79	205	James Brown	I Got You (I Feel Good)	1965
80	206	The Band	The Weight	1968	Listen
81	213	The Lovin' Spoonful	Summer in the City	1966
82	214	Steppenwolf	Born to Be Wild	1968	Listen
83	223	Bob Dylan	Blowin' in the Wind	1963	Listen
84	224	James Brown	It's a Man's Man's Man's World	1966
85	225	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)	1968	Listen
86	230	The Beatles	Paperback Writer	1966
87	231	The Beach Boys	I Get Around	1964
88	235	Jefferson Airplane	White Rabbit	1967	Listen
89	236	The Everly Brothers	Cathy's Clown	1960
90	239	Desmond Dekker	The Israelites	1969
91	240	Johnny Cash	Ring of Fire	1963
92	241	Pink Floyd	See Emily Play	1967
93	243	Otis Redding	Try a Little Tenderness	1966	Listen
94	244	Aretha Franklin	I Say a Little Prayer	1968	Listen
95	245	Jimi Hendrix	Hey Joe	1966	Listen
96	247	Jackie Wilson	(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher	1967
97	253	The Crystals	He's a Rebel	1962
98	262	Aretha Franklin	Chain of Fools	1967	Listen
99	264	Sly and the Family Stone	Dance to the Music	1968
100	265	Roy Orbison	Crying	1961