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| Song title | Release date | Singer - Band | Singer-Band picture | Album | Country | Musical genre | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Along the Watchtower | Dec. 1967 | BOB DYLAN | John Wesley Harding | U.S. | Folk music | While Bob Dylan wrote it, it wasn't as popular until remade by Jimi Hendrix | ||
| She's a Rainbow | Dec. 1967 | THE ROLLING STONES | Their Satanic Majesties Request | England | POP | |||
| So Long, Marianne | Dec. 1967 | LEONARD COHEN | Songs of Leonard Cohen | Canada | Folk music | Marianne Jensen was living with Leonard Cohen at the time | ||
| Think | 1968 | ARETHA FRANKLIN | Aretha Now | USA | Soul music | Played in the movie "The Blues Brothers" | ||
| On the Road Again | Jan. 1968 | CANNED HEAT | Boogie with Canned Heat | USA | ROCK | |||
| Honey | Feb. 1968 | BOBBY GOLDSBORO | Honey | USA | Country music | |||
| Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille | Mar. 1968 | JACQUES DUTRONC | Il est cinq heures | France | Various | Lanzmann and Dutronc began writing it one evening and finished it at dawn | ||
| MacArthur Park | Apr. 1968 | RICHARD HARRIS | A Tramp Shining | Ireland | POP | It was written and composed by Jimmy Webb and initially brought to the band The Association, but they rejected it! | ||
| Mrs Robinson | Apr. 1968 | SIMON AND GARFUNKEL |  | Bookends | U.S. | Folk | An early version of the song appeared in the movie "The Graduate" | |
| Jumpin' Jack Flash | May 1968 | THE ROLLING STONES | Jumping Jack Flash | England | ROCK song | Written by Jagger and Richards, with Wyman; it was a kind of return to the Blues style of their early years | ||
| Initials B.B. | Jun. 1968 | SERGE GAINSBOURG | Initials B.B. | France | POP | Almería is the place of the final break between Serge and B.B ... | ||
| I Say a Little Prayer | Jun. 1968 | ARETHA FRANKLIN | Aretha Now | USA | Soul music | Originally recorded some months sooner by Dionne Warwick | ||
| Piece of My Heart | Aug. 1968 | JANIS JOPLIN | Cheap Thrills | USA | ROCK | Written by Norman Meade and Bert Berns for Aretha Franklin's sister Erma in 1967 | ||
| Hey Jude | Aug. 1968 | THE BEATLES | Hey Jude | England | POP | Written by McCartney; he wrote it to comfort Julian Lennon as his parents were getting a divorce | ||
| Revolution | Aug. 1968 | THE BEATLES | Revolution | England | ROCK | Written by Lennon, it was his response to the Vietnam War | ||
| I Started a Joke | Sept. 1968 | THE BEE GEES | Idea | Australia | POP | |||
| While My Guitar Gently Weeps | Nov. 1968 | THE BEATLES | The Beatles | England | ROCK | Written by George Harrison. Disappointed by the first recordings, he asked his friend Eric Clapton to play guitar | ||
| Sympathy for the Devil | Dec. 1968 | THE ROLLING STONES | Beggars Banquet | England | ROCK | This song was largely a Jagger composition. For him, it is about the dark side of man, not about satanism | ||
| North Country Blues | Dec. 1968 | JOAN BAEZ | Any Day Now | USA | Folk music | Song of Bob Dylan, releaseded in 1964 on his third album, "The Times They Are a-Changin ' " | ||
| I Shall Be Released | Dec. 1968 | JOAN BAEZ | Any Day Now | U.S. | Folk ROCK | Written by Bob Dylan in 1967. It is influenced by gospel music, combining imagery of religious redemption with implied literal release from prison | ||
| Essa moça ta differente | 1969 | CHICO BUARQUE | Chiquo buarque de Hollandia | Brazil | Latin music | |||
| Summer Wine | 1969 | GILLES MARCHAL AND MARTINE HABIB | Summer Wine | France | Various | Original song by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | ||
| Jane B | 1969 | JANE BIRKIN | Je t'aime moi non plus | France | Various music | |||
| Les poètes | 1969 | JEAN FERRAT | Ferrat chante Aragon | France | Various | |||
| Many Rivers to Cross | 1969 | JIMMY CLIFF | Jimmy Cliff | Jamaica | Gospel |
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