In 1965, a double shotgun blast exploded through popular music with the Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” and Bob Dylan’s
“Like a Rolling Stone” establishing
folk-rock as the latest hip sound to accompany a worldwide youth movement. By year’s end, the Mamas and the Papas and
the Beatles had added their contributions with
“California Dreamin’” and
Rubber Soul respectively. Dylan’s
folk and
the Beatles’ rock had influenced the development of
folk-rock years earlier- Dylan had even gone electric on
Bringing It All Back Home months before the Byrds’ electric version of his “Mr Tambourine Man” was released. Yet now the two genres had merged into something new and
folk-rock- with roots in both folk revival and
British Invasion- was where the money was. Here are some of my favorite
folk-rock songs. Enjoy!
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01. The Byrds – “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
02. The Byrds – “Mr. Spaceman” (1966)
03. Simon & Garfunkel – “At the Zoo” (1968)
04. The Mamas and the Papas – “Words of Love” (1966)
05. The Lovin’ Spoonful – “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice” (1966)
06. The Byrds – “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (1965)
07. Grateful Dead – “Friend of the Devil” (1970)
08. The Turtles – “You Baby” (1966)
09. The Mamas and the Papas – “For the Love of Ivy” (1968)
10. The Turtles – “Cat in the Window” (1967)
11. Simon & Garfunkel – “The Only Living Boy in New York” (1970)
12. Bob Dylan – “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (1965)
13. The Lovin’ Spoonful – “Butchie’s Tune” (1966)
14. The Searchers – “When You Walk in the Room” (1964)
15. Tim Buckley – “Once I Was” (1968)
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