Music With a Message ~ For JAGUARDOG's W/O Jun 18 '05    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Books Rick Bragg - Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg From $6 260 Drum Machine Patterns From $8 The Bottom Line I'm always looking for meaningful songs sung beautifully. If you have a candidate, please share it with me in the comment section. As my list will show beyond doubt, the music of the 1960s made a still-lasting impression on my younger self. Even now, by and large, I prefer music with a message. As a result, music with political themes, folk rock, and ethnic music from many cultures are my preferred easy listening. I’m not into overpoweringly loud music of any kind. Give me something that touches my mind and my heart, and I’m happy. I believe a beautiful and meaningful song sung beautifully as perhaps the greatest gift one human can give another. By my accounting, Ave Maria sung by the young Israeli performer Noa (Achinoam Nini) is the most hauntingly beautiful song I’ve ever heard. For all those favorites I’ve left off the list, forgive me. Responding to this challenge proved much more difficult than I anticipated. . . . A Abba, Knowing Me, Knowing You Aerosmith, Cryin' America, A Horse With No Name Eric Anderson, Twilight Louis Armstrong, Blueberry Hill The Association, Cherish B Joan Baez, Annabelle Lee Joan Baez, Tears of Rage Joan Baez, The 33rd of August Joan Baez, We Shall Overcome The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby The Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds The Big Bopper, Chantilly Lace The Box Tops, The Letter C Glen Campbell, Wichita Lineman Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire Cher, Halfbreed Judy Collins, Maid of Constant Sorrow D The Diaspora Yeshiva Band, Up on Zion Mountain Marlene Dietrich, Lili Marlene Donovan, Catch the Wind Bob Dylan, A Satisfied Mind Bob Dylan, He Was a Friend of Mine E The Eagles, Hotel California Yvonne Elliman, I Don’t Know How to Love Him Melissa Etheridge, Nowhere to Go F Fairport Convention, Matty Groves Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song Aretha Franklin, Respect G Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billie Joe Gun's N Roses, My Michelle Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant Arlo Guthrie, Hard Times H Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit Buddy Holly, That’ll Be the Day Mary Hopkin, Turn, Turn, Turn I The Incredible String Band, Water Song The Irish Rovers, The Unicorn The Irish Rovers, Wild Mountain Thyme Burl Ives, A Little Bitty Tear Burl Ives, Big Rock Candy Mountain J Michael Jackson, Thriller Michael Jackson, Billy Jean Jefferson Airplane/Starship, White Rabbit Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee K Moira Kerr, Maclain of Glencoe Moira Kerr, Where Eagles Fly Kindred Spirits, Tunes from the Western Isles Carole King, So Far Away Carole King, Tapestry L Gordon Lightfoot, Harmony The Lovin’ Spoonful, Do You Believe In Magic The Lovin’ Spoonful, Rain on the Roof M Makem and Clancy, Four Green Fields The Mamas and the Papas, California Dreamin’ Don McLean, American Pie Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now N Nena, 99 Luftballons Rick Nelson, Garden Party Willie Nelson, Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, I Am a Pilgrim The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will the Circle Be Unbroken Noa (Achinoam Nini), Ave Maria O Phil Ochs, The Harder They Fall P Peter, Paul, and Mary, Puff the Magic Dragon Peter, Paul, and Mary, Blowing in the Wind Elvis Presley, The Ghetto Elvis Presley, Hound Dog R Ottis Redding, Dock of the Bay S Pete Seeger, Turn, Turn, Turn Naomi Shemer, Jerusalem the Golden Simon and Garfunkle, Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon and Garfunkle, The Sound of Silence Paul Simon, Graceland Sonny and Cher, I Got You, Babe Barbra Streisand, Papa Can You Hear Me? T James Taylor, Rainy Day Man The Traveling Wilburys, End of the Line U The Union Gap, Young Girl V Richie Valens, La Bamba W The Weavers, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Andy Williams, Exodus Wings with Paul McCartney, The Mull of Kintyre Z Led Zeppelin, Immigrant Song

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