Linda Ronstadt, 1967, Different Drum. Cf. Henry David Thoreau: "“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Byrds, Turn, Turn, Turn, 1965. Lyrics almost verbatim from the Book Of Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8. Pete Seeger did it first.
Bob Dylan, 1965, Highway 61 Revisited. Genesis 22.
Fever Tree, The Sun Also Rises. A great song by a great but forgotten '60s psychedelic band. The title alludes to Hemingway's 1926 novel and to Ecclesiastes 1: 1-5:
1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 3What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun? 4One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth stays for ever. 5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place where he arose. 6
Jaynettes, 1963, Sally Go Round the Roses. Based on the nursery rhyme Ring a Ring o' Roses (British)or "Ring Around the Rosie" (Stateside).
Inez and Charlie Foxx, 1963, Mockingbird. An R & B version of the eponymous nursery rhyme.
Serendipity Singers, 1964, Don't Let the Rain Come Down. Based on ther nursery rhyme, There Was a Crooked Man
Exercise for the reader. Identify the Biblical references in the following Dylan songs: The Times They Are a'Changin', All Along the Watchtower, When the Ship Comes In, The Gates of Eden.