❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[curious_slut]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

Gimmie Shelter - The Rolling Stones featuring Merry Clayton

I just really love this song. It is about the brutality of war...

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away

...but there are other meanings behind the song. It came to me when I was trying to remember an Irish artist who sang an Irish song in the 60's... virtually impossible task for me lol. I don't like posting songs I don't personally love and haven't heard before, so this is my offering.

Merry Clayton's voice makes this song. I listened to an interview with her on Fresh Air and she talked about being pregnant and getting the call to do it in the early hours of the morning and deciding that this was something she had to do despite being very tired.

️MAGIC️

+1 if the artist is a woman

Total so far: 28

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

I'm grateful for these categories because I forgot how much I love a band like Creedence and how I was raised on a lot of this. This one mentions a pot of gold and playing for the drunks, so while not wholly on theme, I think it plays a little. Not Irish, by any means, but the sentiments are so very universal. Have a great Sunday y'all.

 

[KamiyadoriOWL]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

Conny Francis 1961

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

Gimmie Shelter - The Rolling Stones featuring Merry Clayton

I just really love this song. It is about the brutality of war...

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away

...but there are other meanings behind the song. It came to me when I was trying to remember an Irish artist who sang an Irish song in the 60's... virtually impossible task for me lol. I don't like posting songs I don't personally love and haven't heard before, so this is my offering.

Merry Clayton's voice makes this song. I listened to an interview with her on Fresh Air and she talked about being pregnant and getting the call to do it in the early hours of the morning and deciding that this was something she had to do despite being very tired.

️MAGIC️

+1 if the artist is a woman

Total so far: 28

I was just talking about the Sisters of Mercy cover of this and how much I like the inversion of the chorus where they say” just a kiss away” instead of shot away. Changes the whole song. Doesn’t make it better I don’t think but it’s such a good way to make a cover your own.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

Gimmie Shelter - The Rolling Stones featuring Merry Clayton

I just really love this song. It is about the brutality of war...

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away

...but there are other meanings behind the song. It came to me when I was trying to remember an Irish artist who sang an Irish song in the 60's... virtually impossible task for me lol. I don't like posting songs I don't personally love and haven't heard before, so this is my offering.

Merry Clayton's voice makes this song. I listened to an interview with her on Fresh Air and she talked about being pregnant and getting the call to do it in the early hours of the morning and deciding that this was something she had to do despite being very tired.

️MAGIC️

+1 if the artist is a woman

Total so far: 28

I am not a Stones fan. I never have been. There are some songs I enjoy, usually the slower ones ("Wild Horses" and "Angie" are lovely), or really really weird ones ("Too Much Blood," for some reason, is near to my heart). And Charlie Watts is just a delight. Other than that...meh.

But yes, Merry Clayton's voice is the only reason I listen to that one.

Thank you!

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

+1 for 19

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Let's say the song was released on an album or single in 1963, but someone has a recording of a performance from the 1970s, whether that be a radio program, TV appearance or digitally transferred from vhs tape. Hell, maybe even a re-release on CD but the copyright data is wrong. Or maybe a performance by at least one of the original members later on. I could go on.

Haha, I went for the cover of the dubliners to at least get the seven drunken nights in, sort of.feelt is leaves us hanging at 5

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Day 18: A song from the 70s

my favourite version of Whiskey in the Jar is - Thin Lizzy

 

[MissLabelled]

Day 17: A song from the 60s

Cher - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

 

[Deleted member 6666935]

Day 18: A Song From the 70s

Can’t go wrong with ELO!

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Hi! I see you’re new here so I’ll let you off with a warning
There’s a very strict one song rule here, and that includes multiple versions of the same song. (Some leniency for that one if it’s a cover song prompt day.)

I am not a Stones fan. I never have been. There are some songs I enjoy, usually the slower ones ("Wild Horses" and "Angie" are lovely), or really really weird ones ("Too Much Blood," for some reason, is near to my heart). And Charlie Watts is just a delight. Other than that...meh.

But yes, Merry Clayton's voice is the only reason I listen to that one.

Thank you!

The guitar intro is very iconic. It's one of those things that is brilliant in its simplicity.

 

[KarenB59]

Day 16- A song from the 60's.

 

[Acktion]

Day 18: A song from the 70s

Well, they're Irish, out of Dublin (if I remember right), but I don't get any points since I've been DQ'd by breakin' the one and only rule.

 

[Shady_nz]

Day 18: A song from the 70's

Shady Lady -Gene Pitney

 

[onanismaddict]

Day 18: A song from the 70s

Ahh, my all-time favourite decade by far... by far... the 1970s. Woo-hoo!
So many amazing songs, albums, and artists to choose from that it's almost overwhelming... but fortunately there's no wrong answers.
This song definitely sprang to mind. The words, the imagery, the poetry, the haunting album cover... the queen!

Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot

 

[Biggalute]

Day 18: A song from the 70s
This from 71

 

[vagrantx]

Day 18: A song from the 70s
(Women +2, Whiskey +1 = 30)

Think I'm running low on stories!
Have I told you about the time I stepped on a thumbtack?
I wailed like a banshee.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 18: A song from the 70s

The Pointer Sisters - Fire

This song was written by Bruce Springsteen and he apparently recorded it, but I can only remember this version because it is

+2 if the artists are multiple women

Total so far: 30

 

[morelikeasong]

Decades week

Bonus points for decades week
(Happy St Paddy’s Day!)

+1 for Irish artist (either from Ireland or Irish descent)
+1 for song that mentions Ireland/Irish
+1 for a song that mentions green
+1 for a song that mentions booze
+1 for a song that mentions luck

Ongoing bonus point categories still apply.
And, per usual, play or don’t play, it’s just for fun. As long as you follow The Rule.


Day 17: A song from the 60s
Day 18: A song from the 70s
Day 19: A song from the 80s
Day 20: A song from the 90s
Day 21: A song from the 00s
Day 22: A song from the 10s
Day 23: A song from the 20s

Just Monday morning bumping this in case people didn’t see over the weekend

 

[KarenB59]

Day 18- A song from the 70's.
Not one of his most popular songs but one of my favorites. I sang this song as a duet at school.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Just Monday morning bumping

Wrong thread, and links are broken.

 

[Azuldrgon]

Day 18: A song from the 70s

Carly Simon. Nuff said.
MTD=+18