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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	7	Otis Redding	Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay	1968	Listen
6	8	Marvin Gaye	I Heard It Through the Grapevine	1968
7	11	The Kingsmen	Louie Louie	1963
8	12	The Ronettes	Be My Baby	1963	Listen
9	13	The Who	My Generation	1965	Listen
10	16	The Beatles	Strawberry Fields Forever	1967
11	17	The Kinks	You Really Got Me	1964	Listen
12	18	The Beatles	A Day in the Life	1967
13	21	The Beatles	I Want to Hold Your Hand	1963
14	22	Ike and Tina Turner	River Deep Mountain High	1966
15	24	The Righteous Brothers	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'	1964
16	30	The Jackson 5	I Want You Back	1969
17	31	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	1965	Listen
18	33	The Doors	Light My Fire	1967	Listen
19	34	The Rolling Stones	Sympathy for the Devil	1968	Listen
20	36	The Four Tops	Reach Out (I'll Be There)	1966
21	37	The Beatles	Hey Jude	1968
22	39	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	The Tracks of My Tears	1965
23	40	The Rolling Stones	Jumpin' Jack Flash	1968
24	41	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Purple Haze	1967	Listen
25	52	The Beach Boys	God Only Knows	1966	Listen
26	53	Martha and The Vandellas	Dancing in the Street	1964
27	55	The Kinks	Waterloo Sunset	1967	Listen
28	56	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Proud Mary	1969	Listen
29	62	The Animals	House of the Rising Sun	1964
30	66	Elvis Presley	Suspicious Minds	1969
31	67	Ben E. King	Stand by Me	1961
32	73	Percy Sledge	When a Man Loves a Woman	1966
33	76	Led Zeppelin	Whole Lotta Love	1969	Listen
34	77	Del Shannon	Runaway	1961
35	81	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	All Along the Watchtower	1968	Listen
36	82	James Brown	Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	1965
37	87	Booker T. & The MG's	Green Onions	1962	Listen
38	89	Wilson Pickett	In the Midnight Hour	1965
39	91	Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come	1965
40	97	The Mamas and the Papas	California Dreamin'	1965	Listen
41	98	The Shirelles	Will You Love Me Tomorrow	1960
42	99	The Beatles	She Loves You	1963
43	101	Van Morrison	Brown Eyed Girl	1967
44	102	Buffalo Springfield	For What It's Worth	1967	Listen
45	106	The Temptations	My Girl	1964	Listen
46	108	David Bowie	Space Oddity	1969
47	109	Dionne Warwick	Walk On By	1964
48	113	Roy Orbison	Oh, Pretty Woman	1964
49	114	The Beatles	Yesterday	1965
50	115	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fortunate Son	1969	Listen
51	116	Them	Gloria	1964	Listen
52	120	Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade of Pale	1967	Listen
53	122	The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women	1969
54	123	The Byrds	Eight Miles High	1966	Listen
55	127	The Rolling Stones	Gimme Shelter	1969	Listen
56	132	The Beatles	In My Life	1965
57	137	Bob Dylan	Subterranean Homesick Blues	1965	Listen
58	138	The Impressions	People Get Ready	1965	Listen
59	139	Roy Orbison	Only the Lonely	1960
60	142	The Beach Boys	Don't Worry Baby	1964
61	143	The Supremes	Stop! In the Name of Love	1965
62	146	Patsy Cline	Crazy	1960
63	155	The Velvet Underground	I'm Waiting for the Man	1967	Listen
64	156	The Beatles	Help!	1965
65	160	The Beatles	Penny Lane	1967
66	166	Jimmy Cliff	Many Rivers to Cross	1969	Listen
67	169	The Crystals	Da Doo Ron Ron	1963
68	175	The Troggs	Wild Thing	1966
69	179	Glen Campbell	Wichita Lineman	1968
70	186	The Velvet Underground	Heroin	1967	Listen
71	187	The Beatles	Tomorrow Never Knows	1966
72	188	Desmond Dekker	The Israelites	1969
73	191	The Lovin' Spoonful	Summer in the City	1966
74	192	The Band	The Weight	1968	Listen
75	196	Spencer Davis Group	Gimme Some Lovin'	1966
76	197	The Rolling Stones	Paint It, Black	1966
77	199	Dusty Springfield	Son of a Preacher Man	1968	Listen
78	202	The Who	I Can't Explain	1965
79	204	Steppenwolf	Born to Be Wild	1968	Listen
80	205	Aretha Franklin	I Say a Little Prayer	1968	Listen
81	208	Question Mark and the Mysterians	96 Tears	1966
82	209	Chubby Checker	The Twist	1960
83	211	The Supremes	Where Did Our Love Go	1964
84	215	Jefferson Airplane	White Rabbit	1967	Listen
85	216	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)	1968	Listen
86	218	Simon and Garfunkel	The Sound of Silence	1965	Listen
87	219	Love	Alone Again Or	1967	Listen
88	229	Johnny Cash	Ring of Fire	1963
89	231	James Brown	It's a Man's Man's Man's World	1966
90	238	James Brown	I Got You (I Feel Good)	1965
91	239	Jimi Hendrix	Hey Joe	1966	Listen
92	241	Otis Redding	Try a Little Tenderness	1966	Listen
93	243	The Beatles	Paperback Writer	1966
94	251	Sly and the Family Stone	Dance to the Music	1968
95	256	The Beach Boys	I Get Around	1964
96	257	Pink Floyd	See Emily Play	1967
97	260	The Everly Brothers	Cathy's Clown	1960	Listen
98	264	Jackie Wilson	(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher	1967
99	279	Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin	Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus	1969
100	280	Tammy Wynette	Stand by Your Man