Acclaimed Music - The Top 200 Songs from the 1960s

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
101	267	Love	Alone Again Or	1967	Listen
102	272	Tammy Wynette	Stand by Your Man	1968
103	273	The Box Tops	The Letter	1967
104	274	The Velvet Underground	Heroin	1967	Listen
105	292	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bad Moon Rising	1969	Listen
106	299	Ray Charles	Georgia on My Mind	1960
107	300	Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin	Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus	1969
108	301	The Beatles	Ticket to Ride	1965
109	308	The Beatles	Revolution	1968
110	314	Sly and the Family Stone	Thank You (Falettime Be Mice Elf Again)	1969
111	315	Dion	Runaround Sue	1961
112	327	The Stooges	I Wanna Be Your Dog	1969	Listen
113	330	The Shangri-La's	Leader of the Pack	1964
114	336	The Beatles	Happiness Is a Warm Gun	1968
115	344	B.B. King	The Thrill Is Gone	1969	Listen
116	348	The Beatles	Eleanor Rigby	1966
117	356	Sam and Dave	Soul Man	1967
118	358	Little Eva	The Loco-Motion	1962
119	363	Patsy Cline	I Fall to Pieces	1961
120	371	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night	1964
121	375	Sly and the Family Stone	Everyday People	1968	Listen
122	396	The Who	I Can See for Miles	1967	Listen
123	398	Sam the Sham and The Pharaos	Wooly Bully	1965
124	399	Gene Chandler	Duke of Earl	1962
125	402	The Beatles	While My Guitar Gently Weeps	1968
126	407	Jefferson Airplane	Somebody to Love	1967	Listen
127	410	The Beatles	I Am the Walrus	1967
128	414	Bob Dylan	Positively 4th Street	1965
129	417	Otis Redding	I've Been Loving You Too Long	1965	Listen
130	425	Bobbie Gentry	Ode to Billie Joe	1967
131	430	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	1967	Listen
132	433	Mary Wells	My Guy	1964
133	437	MC5	Kick Out the Jams	1969	Listen
134	441	Cream	Sunshine of Your Love	1967	Listen
135	455	Stevie Wonder	Uptight	1965
136	457	Fairport Convention	Who Knows Where the Time Goes	1969	Listen
137	462	The Beatles	Something	1969
138	468	The Beach Boys	Surfin' U.S.A.	1963	Listen
139	470	The Miracles	You've Really Got a Hold on Me	1962
140	472	The Monkees	I'm a Believer	1966
141	478	The Supremes	You Can't Hurry Love	1966
142	493	Ben E. King	Spanish Harlem	1961
143	494	The Searchers	Needles and Pins	1964
144	495	The Young Rascals	Groovin'	1967
145	497	Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto	The Girl from Ipanema	1963	Listen
146	498	The Walker Brothers	The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore	1966
147	499	The Left Banke	Walk Away Renee	1966
148	503	Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	1967
149	510	Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changing	1964	Listen
150	513	The Beatles	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	1965
151	517	The Doors	The End	1967	Listen
152	520	The Marvelettes	Please Mr. Postman	1961
153	525	The Chiffons	He's So Fine	1963
154	526	Simon and Garfunkel	Mrs. Robinson	1968	Listen
155	535	Sam Cooke	Shake	1965
156	539	The Zombies	She's Not There	1964
157	543	Van Morrison	Madame George	1968	Listen
158	550	Led Zeppelin	Dazed and Confused	1969	Listen
159	552	Etta James	At Last	1961	Listen
160	553	The Shadows	Apache	1960
161	554	The Rolling Stones	You Can't Always Get What You Want	1969	Listen
162	559	Bobby Fuller Four	I Fought the Law	1966
163	560	The Lovin' Spoonful	Do You Believe in Magic	1965	Listen
164	571	Ray Charles	I Can't Stop Loving You	1962	Listen
165	578	Louis Armstrong	What a Wonderful World	1967
166	590	The Beatles	Come Together	1969
167	592	Nilsson	Everybody's Talkin'	1968
168	597	Martha and The Vandellas	Heatwave	1963
169	603	The Drifters	Save the Last Dance for Me	1960
170	607	Aretha Franklin	Think	1968	Listen
171	614	The Rolling Stones	The Last Time	1965
172	615	The Beach Boys	California Girls	1965	Listen
173	620	The Easybeats	Friday on My Mind	1966
174	622	The Byrds	Turn! Turn! Turn!	1965	Listen
175	624	The Beatles	Rain	1966
176	627	Roger Miller	King of the Road	1965
177	631	Grateful Dead	Dark Star	1968	Listen
178	633	Big Brother and The Holding Company	Piece of My Heart	1968	Listen
179	642	The Tornados	Telstar	1962
180	646	The Young Rascals	Good Lovin'	1966
181	649	Roy Orbison	In Dreams	1963
182	657	The Supremes	Baby Love	1964
183	660	George Jones	She Thinks I Still Care	1962
184	667	James Carr	The Dark End of the Street	1966	Listen
185	669	The Band	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down	1969	Listen
186	679	Sam and Dave	Hold On, I'm Coming	1966	Listen
187	680	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Green River	1969	Listen
188	681	Simon and Garfunkel	The Boxer	1969	Listen
189	682	The Monkees	Last Train to Clarksville	1966	Listen
190	686	The Ventures	Walk, Don't Run	1960
191	688	Barrett Strong	Money (That's What I Want)	1960
192	689	Joe Cocker	With a Little Help from My Friends	1968	Listen
193	691	Glen Campbell	By the Time I Get to Phoenix	1967
194	696	Bob Dylan	Visions of Johanna	1966	Listen
195	697	Bob Dylan	Desolation Row	1965	Listen
196	698	Sly and the Family Stone	Hot Fun in the Summertime	1969
197	700	Brenda Lee	I'm Sorry	1960
198	719	John Lee Hooker	Boom Boom	1962
199	721	Ketty Lester	Love Letters	1962
200	725	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Crosstown Traffic	1968	Listen