the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

This one maybe is not a pick for best ever, but it at least makes my top 400. But I'm stretching the line to post this because it's my video! No-one had posted this when I decided to put some pictures with it (including of me) and upload it. Naturally it's my most popular video because it's a hit record (especially on the west coast) and very much an icon of its time. Live by the Merry Go Round was written by Emitt Rhodes who was also the lead singer. He went on to have a successful but fairly-tragic solo career in which the company that "owned" him demanded that the young genius produce, produce and produce hits every couple of months, and when he didn't work that fast, they sued him and broke his spirit and he never recorded again until more recently. But he helped others record after that. Although this video is blocked in some countries, I hear that he and his girlfriend appreciated my posting it. Released in early 1967 and recorded in late 1966.





Here he is in a radio interview in 2010. He's about my age, a core boomer, which he admits right away, but his health has suffered.
https://youtu.be/PfqEhZO7I3w

Lots more Emitt Rhodes videos are available on the side panel of the interview video. Interesting guy and musician.
Here's one:
https://youtu.be/3CvzawbXLS8