By 1964, the music of the 60s was in full swing. The decade includes some of the best classic rock songs ever released, including these four songs, which all came out in 1964.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, Pretty Woman\u201d by Roy Orbison<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, Pretty Woman\u201d was inspired<\/a> by The Beatles\u2019 hit single, \u201cShe Loves You\u201d, released in 1963. <\/p>\n Written by Orbison and Bill Dees, the song says, \u201cPretty woman, walking down the street \/ Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet \/ Pretty woman \/ I don\u2019t believe you, you\u2019re not the truth \/ No one could look as good as you \/ Mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI Feel Fine\u201d by The Beatles<\/p>\n The Beatles were in the middle of their long winning streak when they released \u201cI Feel Fine<\/a>\u201d. On their Beatles \u201965 record, \u201cI Feel Fine\u201d is written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n \u201cI Feel Fine\u201d begins with, \u201cBaby\u2019s good to me, you know \/ She\u2019s happy as can be, you know \/ She said so \/ I\u2019m in love with her and I feel fine \/ Baby says she\u2019s mine, you know \/ She tells me all the time, you know \/ She said so \/ I\u2019m in love with her and I feel fine.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe House Of The Rising Sun\u201d by The Animals<\/p>\n \u201cThe House Of The Rising Sun\u201d is The Animals\u2019 second single. Their only No. 1 hit in the United States, \u201cThe House Of The Rising Sun\u201d is a traditional folk song, which the rock band put their own spin on. It appears on their eponymous debut album.<\/p>\n The song says in part, \u201cNow the only thing a gambler needs \/ Is a suitcase and a trunk \/ And the only time he\u2019s satisfied \/ Is when he\u2019s all drunk \/ Oh mother, tell your children \/ Not to do what I have done \/ Spend your lives in sin and misery \/ In the House of the Rising Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTell Me Why\u201d by Bobby Vinton<\/p>\n One of Bobby Vinton\u2019s biggest hits, he isn\u2019t the first artist to record \u201cTell Me Why\u201d. The song, written by Marty Gold and Al Albert, was first recorded by Jerry Gray in 1951. Other artists who recorded \u201cTell Me Why\u201d include Eddie Fisher <\/a>and Dinah Washington, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n Still, Vinton\u2019s take on \u201cTell Me Why\u201d remains among the most popular. The title track of an album Vinton also released in 1964, \u201cTell Me Why\u201d says, \u201cTell me why, when we danced until three \/ Tell me why, why my heart couldn\u2019t see \/ I never dreamed of romance \/ Never gave it a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo by John Rodgers\/Redferns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By 1964, the music of the 60s was in full swing. The decade includes some of the best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[24911,2617,88,216,2156],"class_list":["post-673632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1960s","tag-classic-rock","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}