Which British song sums up the 1960s for you?

Stones every single bloody time 🤗🤗

Yes! Reading your responses brought back happy memories. I'd like to add Engelbert Humperdinck (Release Me and The Last Waltz) and Tom Jones (You're My World, It's Not Unusual and I Who Have Nothing)

Tears of a Clown .
Message to Martha - Adam Faith

Everlasting Love by Love Affair. Number 1 in 1968.

Not 100 pc; it is the 1960s, but may I share with you all a precious memory?
I was waiting at the bus stop with Mum; I was aged about 3 years. Getting bored, I yelled at Mum, "Sing Rockapella, Mum!"
the song was actually Cinderella Rockefeller by Esther and Abi
The other was If You Go to San Francisco. Dad used to sing it to me to get me to sleep. Even though it is nearly 20 years since I lost my dad, I still cannot listen to the song without tears.
Lastly, The Walker Brothers' No Regrets. Dad loved it, and I can remember it playing on the battered old radio—no built-in ones in those days. We were going to the dairy to get cream for Mum's delicious homemade fresh cream horns. I can remember him singing along.
Oh dear, one more. My cousin saved up her pocket money to buy a Blackberry Way, and while she babysat me, she brought it along to play on Dad's radiogram. Before she could, I spilled my hot milk all over it! I think dad bought her a new copy

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Before my time but I know just about all the recommendations because they're always played at weddings and parties.
Guaranteed to get everyone up and dancing.

(A popular local DJ told me recently that he gets really fed up with people giving him a music list that is just boom-boom-boom. No-one gets up to dance. But as soon as he puts on 'Staying Alive' (Beegees) or 'Dancing Queen' (ABBA) the floor is packed with everyone from Granny to Grandchild)

Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo! Still my favourite band with my all time hero Francis Rossi! Took a couple of months fighting the grotty old man who owned our local record shop to get it for me! Finally he did & I still have it!

He Ain’t Heavy - The Hollies

I guess any teenager will think that their era had the best music, but we definitely did! I love all the songs suggested and probably know every word to all of them even if I don’t know what I was doing yesterday. Interestingly our four grandchildren who range from thirteen to twenty love their era of music, mostly rapping, dreadful! but also love sixties music although they probably wouldn’t admit it to their friends. Without a shadow of doubt the sixties will remain the best decade of music as history will show.

High Ho Silver Lining by Jeff Beck

All of those and more.

She’s not there - the Zombies
Gloria -Them
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Watch a gonna do about it - Small Faces
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones.

Any of Black Sabbath hits especially Paranoid . Saw them about 9 years ago with my eldest soon at O2 - he loved them and Ozzie looked fine close up then ! 🎶 🎸

I’ve just thought of another one, this is my ultimate pop song, the Temptations, the lyrics are pure gold and the joy just shines out of them as they are singing -Fe,fi,fo,fum look out baby cos here I come.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Ix4hKSnxQ

The 60s for me were Mods and Rockers, Mary Quant, Vidal Sassoon and The Beatles. So anything by The Beatles would be my choice.

California Dreamin and San Francisco by Mamas and Papas.

The two songs from the sixties that I loved the most were See Emily Play by Pink Floyd when they still had Syd and For Your Love by the Yardbirds. I bought the former even though I didn’t have a record player and I listened to the radio all the time in the hope of hearing the latter. I can still remember the first time I heard Fairport’s Meet on the Ledge and Good Vibrations ( there was such excitement about the release of that one but it was too complicated for me). Listening to some of those songs really make me feel emotional. Then there was the second music phase from the time when I was always driving my kids around when they were teenagers and they make me feel emotional too. The Nirvana, Faithless years.

Those were the days Mary Hopkins

keepingquiet

I'd go with Waterloo Sunset too- sums up so much of swinging London but has also passed the test of time.

So many others, but this really resonates more for me.

I do agree. KQ. Waterloo Sunset immediately makes me think of swinging London. So evocative. “Terry meets Julie “. Every Friday night. 🎵. Love it

Apologies
Just discovered that this song is from What a Crazy World musical.

'Kites' by Simon Dupree & Big Sound

Wow!
Thank you, everyone.
I’ve had a busy weekend so only just checked the thread.
Do appreciate all your suggestions.
My head was like a juke box playing a snippet of each one as I read through.
I had to keep pulling myself back and be reminded that it was not the song I liked best but the song that would enhance the talk and set the scene.
Bizarrely, as I was driving this morning I found myself singing “Fings ain’t what they used to be” by Max Bygraves and, even though it’s a song that would never have been on my radar, I think it would lend itself very well to the talk.
When I checked it out on YouTube, I found there was a film of that name with Marty Wild and Joe Brown etc.
There’s a great trailer for the film which only lasts a couple of minutes.
Check it out.
I will use this short YouTube trailer at the start of the talk.
P0sy, you made a very good suggestion re starting with a 1960 song and “Things Ain’t.. “is just that.
You also suggested finishing with a 1969 song. Brilliant idea so now I’ve finally made a decision, I’m still back to
square one looking for another one!!!
Thanks again, everyone.
I’m glad you enjoyed reminiscing.

Stoker48 please let us know what song(s) you settle on won’t you?

Granmarie and twaddle I daren’t tell you how many times I have seen EC in my lifetime 😳, but I saw him twice in Guildford last month and will be seeing him again in August.
When you both mentioned Cream I thought I might have ‘met’ another mad fan.

Ahh.Sandie Shaw singing puppet on a string bare-footed on top of the pops !

Quite a number of people on here seem to have completely missed the 'British' in the thread title...