the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

There's a time for everything! It's time to post on this best songs ever thread, what the authors of The Fourth Turning identified as their theme song. The term "turning" may have come from it. The best version is by Judy Collins, singer of Both Sides Now and Suzanne. She gives the best shape (and the best voice) to the melodies that she sings. Turn Turn Turn (to Everything there is a Season).





This was released as a single in 1969, but it came from her 1963 album #3, and here is a version from 1966.
https://youtu.be/K3kKqfTjsj0

Here's another:
https://youtu.be/5PhZ0z8pBFw
Pete Seeger & Judy Collins perform "Turn, Turn, Turn" on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest from 1966.

Wow, there WERE lots of people "making up their own songs" while this show was on. It was 1966! Not only people who went on stages, but people in their own garages.

The Byrds hit number 1 in late 1965 with this song. I liked it, but not as much as Judy's. The song itself by Pete Seeger goes back to the 50s, and most of the lyrics, back about 2500 years.

There is a second theme song often cited for "Generations" which will be along in a while

Another Judy Collins goodie from 1969; country folk-rock written by Ian of Ian & Sylvia
https://youtu.be/ZIgnHPqp0Dk