![]() ![]() Like I said, not everyone will agree, and the order of the songs is almost a moot point when listing such great music, but I doubt you could go wrong by assembling this group of songs for your listening pleasure. Besides, there are some who may not appreciate the classic sound of The Archies the way you do. I’m more than willing to listen to suggestions, but if you do send an e-mail, please make it a polite one the fact that your favorite song isn’t on the list shouldn’t be taken as a personal affront. It’s impossible, of course, to truly put together a list such as the one below that would satisfy everyone. But a few groundbreaking radio stations (I listened to WNEW-FM in New York) played the full song, which lasted six or seven minutes. AM radios adhered to a 3-minute rule for songs, and so only played the 3-minute version of Light My Fire, which simply eliminated the instrumental solo. Then The Doors’ Light My Fire came along. Most radios back in the 1960’s were AM-only, since FM broadcasting was reserved for primarily classical music, which few in America listened to. It occurs to me, as I write this, that many alive now think radios always came with FM and AM I know differently. If you did, too, then maybe I saw you at one of the concerts Grand Funk Railroad at Shea Stadium, or Jethro Tull at The Fillmore East, a few weeks before that hallowed hall forever closed its doors. I can still stake some sort of a claim to being a knowledgeable source of rock music, based largely on the fact that I lived through (and stayed awake for most of) the “classic rock” era.
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