Recommended Western music for women in their 60s: world classics and popular songs

These Boots Are Made for Walkin’Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made for Walkin’

A song by Nancy Sinatra, daughter of Frank Sinatra.

It was produced by Lee Hazlewood, who had a long and distinctive career as a producer and performer.

In the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, it is used in a scene featuring a Vietnamese prostitute.

Where Did Our Love Go?The Supremes

Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go (1964) HD 0815007

A song written by Holland–Dozier–Holland, the Motown songwriting team.

The word “baby” appears more than 70 times in the lyrics.

Released as a single in 1964, it became The Supremes’ first No.

1 hit on the charts.

Tangled Up In BlueBob Dylan

Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue (Official HD Video)

A song Bob Dylan wrote in the summer of 1974 on a farm in Minnesota.

It was inspired by an art class he attended in New York.

At Dylan’s concerts, it is often introduced and performed with the phrase, “It took ten years to live and two years to write.”

American PieDon McLean

Don McLean- American Pie (with Lyrics)

Originally, it was a song inspired by Buddy Holly’s death in a plane crash.

The lyrics are set up so that listeners can interpret them for themselves.

It was a hit that made the then-26-year-old Don McLean very famous.

Suspicious MindsElvis Presley

Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds (Official Audio)

A song written by Mark James, a singer from Memphis.

He released his own version, but it didn’t become a hit.

Chips Moman, a producer of Memphis soul, brought the song to Elvis Presley in 1969, and it became a big hit.

Fire And RainJames Taylor

Fire And Rain – James Taylor with lyrics

A song that James Taylor wrote in 1968 in three stages.

He began writing it in London, worked on it later in a Manhattan hospital, and ultimately finished it while undergoing drug rehabilitation in Massachusetts.

He was 20 at the time, struggling with and fighting depression and drug addiction.

SuzanneLeonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen – Suzanne (Official Audio)

A song inspired by Suzanne Vaillancourt, the wife of a friend of Leonard Cohen who lived in Montreal.

It was first published as a poem in 1966.

It is the debut single released from the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen.