Ok, so I've been meaning to start a thread about this for a while. I love the thread that's running about number 1's and thought it might be good to have a kind of sister thread, again running chronologically by year, that teases out some of the other, perhaps lesser known but still great, tracks from that year. I've been combing through my collection and have a number already set to go but please join in with your own. Let's see how it goes.
A few guidelines:
1) Try to avoid the tracks we all already know or are aware of.
2) Big artists are fine as long it's lesser known tracks
3) Try to say something about the track and/or the artist
4) I'll do the official 'turning of the year' when we have no new entries
Ok we'll start in 1962 as, totally arbitrarily for me, that's when 'modern' pop music really starts
To start us off, we have this little gem from the US folk revival scene:
Peter, Paul & Mary : Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Written by Pete Seeger in 1955, P, P & M formed in New York City in 1961 and this is from their debut album.
In 1963 they performed at the March on Washington, best remembered for the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBLSGy6g58&fbclid=IwAR2OiEHluXc1CdoC0QE9v4DaJR4pn67bwz-IyBRqtBUOg-UagKcaurYpl-A