Best Song

[Firetiger(MN)]

ONE song, and one song only.

 

Best song of all time....  The clock starts..now!

 

 

 

:urgent:

[miclri]

I'll bite. Radar Love (Golden Earing).

[LarryE]

40 Hour Week

 

 

Nuff' Said.

[k1500chevy97]

Well , that would be impossible for me to awnser with as much music as I listen too .

There is just too many great songs  :urgent:

 

Right now I'm listening to Eric Clapton - you look wonderful tonight  and ts a pretty good song so I guess I will go with that one

[s10mudder]

Free bird by LYNYRD SKYNYRD :thumb:  :thumb:

[Batgirl]

Whole Lotta Love

 

Led Zeppelin

[carguru]

I can't drive 55.

 

Sammy Hagar

 

[Off Road Red]

Alabama - I'm In A Hurry And Don't Know Why

[TxDoc]

My to favorite is:

 

Puff

 

Lenny Lipton grew up in Brooklyn. In 1958 he graduated from high school and headed off to college at Cornell in Ithaca, New York. Lenny came to the realization that he was not a little kid anymore and never would be; that made him sad.

 

One night in the Spring of 1959 Lenny headed for the Cornell library. He had just turned nineteen. He found a book of poems by Ogden Nash, one of which discussed a Really-o Truly-o Dragon. After he was finished he left the library, walked down the hill from Cornell into the town of Ithaca, and went to visit his friend Lenny Edelstein. The two friends were supposed to have dinner together that night.

 

No one was at home, but the door was unlocked so Lenny Lipton let himself in; this was not an uncommon practice in Ithaca in the late 50's. Lenny was thinking again about the loss of his carefree childhood days, and he was inspired by the poems he had been reading earlier in the evening. He sat down at the typewriter of Edelstein's roommate, Peter, and decided to write a poem of his own. He wrote for about three minutes and felt somewhat soothed. He left the poem in Peter's typewriter, and then left.

 

Peter returned and saw the sheet of paper in the typewriter. He was a singer/performer/concert organizer around Ithaca, in addition to being an undergraduate and doing some teaching. He liked what he saw and put some music to it, and later began to use it in some of his performances.

 

Peter later joined a group and used the song. It became more and more popular, and eventually the group recorded it. Within a few years it had become a top ten pop song. Peter went back and tracked down Lenny Lipton, who was by that time a counselor at a summer camp. Peter added Lenny Lipton's name as a co-writer, and Lipton has done well with the royalties he has received ever since.

 

Peter was Peter Yarrow, and his group was Peter, Paul and Mary. The song, which reached number 2 on the charts early in 1963, was Puff The Magic Dragon. According to Lenny Lipton, it is a simple, sentimental song about the loss of childhood and nothing more.

 

 

Lyrics:

 

PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

 

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

 

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal PUFF,

 

and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

 

OH PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

 

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail

Jackie kept a lookout perched on PUFF's gigantic tail,

 

Noble kings and princes would bow when'er they came,

 

Pirate ships would lower their flags when PUFF roared out his name

 

OH, PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

 

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys

Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.

One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more

And PUFF that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

 

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,

PUFF no longer went to play along the cherry lane.

 

Without his life-long friend, PUFF could not be brave,

So PUFF that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.

 

Oh! PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee

[elboberino]

The Beatles

Live and Let Die

[General Lee 01]

Bob, that wasn't  done by  the Beatles (but close). It was done by Wings (A band paul Mcartney started after the beatles were done).

 

 

I'd have to say Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody (I know he's not the original, but I like his version best )

[99silveradoz71]

Sting/The Police, "Every Breath You Take"...fits into so many genres.  I heard it the other day on our classic rock station.  I hear it on the 80's and pop stations as well as on the softy station in town.

[Guest Friz]

Lola (live version) by The Kinks.

It's just one of those songs that you can't turn up loud enough.

Lucky for me, my amp goes to 11 (how many people here remember that?!).

[Elwood]

There is no sucj thing as ONE ALL-TIME BEST SONG.  There are too many out there that qualify for different reasons.

[Elwood]

Bob, that wasn't  done by  the Beatles (but close). It was done by Wings (A band paul Mcartney started after the beatles were done).

 

 

I'd have to say Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody (I know he's not the original, but I like his version best )

He wrote it with his wife Linda.