TOP 100 SONGS OF 1967 ― NUMBER 94

50 years ago this year these songs were released. I took the top 100 from Rolling Stone for 1967 and put them in the order in which I think they should have listed, since this was the decade of the music I grew up on. Enough of the formalities, here we go. Enjoy.


I DIG ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC ― PETER, PAUL AND MARY 

GENRE ― Folk rock/psychedelic folk

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Credited to Stookey-Mason-Dixon, the song's lyrics references contemporary rock artists including: the Mamas & the Papas, Donovan, and the Beatles. The song parodies and satirizes the vocal style of the Mamas & the Papas in the first verse, Donovan in the second verse and the Beatles in the third verse. Matthew Greenwald of AllMusic commented that the song "simply celebrates the simple joy of pop music at the time." The song was a hit single for the group and reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

In an interview with the Chicago Daily News in 1966, a year before the song's release, Mary Travers had expressed contempt on the emergence of the folk rock genre, "it's so badly written. ... When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers."

The line about Donovan and "his crystal images" refers to the mention of "crystal spectacles" in "Epistle to Dippy". The song is also noted for its psychedelic feedback effects, miming the volume swell on the electric guitar from Donovan's 1966 song "Sunshine Superman". The backing vocal effect in the verse, parodying the Beatles, reflects "Yellow Submarine".

From Wikipedia and Google (image)