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Picking my best songs of all-time happened to be a difficult task.
My first go at it resulted in the next list:
Summer in the city - Lovin' Spoonful, 1966
Fool on the hill - The Beatles, 1967
It's all over now - The Rolling Stones, 1964
Boom boom - John Lee Hooker, 1961
Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces, 1967
The beat goes on - Sonny & Cher
The happening - The Supremes, 1967
Who'll stop the rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1970
You really got me - The Kinks, 1964
Little sister - Elvis Presley, 1962
Two days later I wrote down the following list (without having consulted the previous one):
Lazy Sunday - The Small Faces, 1968
bad moon rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1969
Great balls of fire - Jerry Lee Lewis, 1957
Georgia on my mind - Ray Charles, 1960
The letter - The Box Tops, 1967
I'd rather go blind - Chicken Shack, 1969
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds, 1965
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles, 1966
My generation - The Who, 1965
I never loved a man - Aretha Franklin, 1966
When I visited in bar a week later I heard a great song. I wrote down this top-10 on a piece of paper:
All I have to do is dream - The Everly Brothers, 1958
Baby what you want me to do - Jimmy Reed, 1960
Be-bop-a-lula - Gene Vincent, 1956
No particular place to go - Chuck Berry, 1961
It's a beautiful day today - Moby Grape, 1967
Son of a preacher man - Dusty Springfield, 1968
All along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix, 1967
Last train to Clarkesville - The Monkees, 1966
Here comes the night- Them, 1966
Venus - Shocking Blue, 1969
And the next ten also sound reasonable to me:
Help me - Sonny Boy Williamson, 1953
Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker, 1946
Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf, 1952
Dust my broom - Elmore James, 1952
My baby - Little Walter, 1959
So many roads - Otis Rush, 1958
My time after a while - Buddy Guy, 1961
Hoochie coochie man - Muddy Waters, 1956
As the years go pasing by - Albert King, 1962
Wang dang doodle - Koko Taylor, 1963
All American, all black, all BLUES.
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