{"id":216293,"date":"2025-09-10T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:36:13","slug":"3-forgotten-songs-from-1968-that-still-rock-our-world-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216293\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Forgotten Songs From 1968 That Still Rock Our World Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the mood to go back to the late 1960s? While the Summer of Love in 1967 tends to hog all the music history attention, <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/3-musicians-who-made-it-big-in-1968-and-then-disappeared-without-a-trace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the year 1968<\/a> was also a great year for music. And the following fantastic songs from 1968 have been more or less forgotten today. They really shouldn\u2019t be, though. So, let\u2019s refresh your memory! These tunes are all cover songs of older hits, so bonus points if you remember the original songs from before 1968!<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cI Love You\u201d by People!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Love You\u201d by People! is one of many amazing psychedelic rock songs from 1968, but I feel like it tends to be forgotten. It shouldn\u2019t be, though. The 1965 beat version by The Zombies is fantastic, and People!\u2019s 1968 psych-rock cover of the tune is similarly addictive. \u201cI Love You\u201d was People!\u2019s only major hit, and they are often referred to as one-hit wonders today.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: A few years after the original song was released, a Japanese-language version of the tune was released by The Carnabeats and charted even higher in Japan than the original version did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Good, The Bad And The Ugly\u201d by Hugo Montenegro<\/p>\n<p>Everybody knows the theme song from the classic Western film The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. It might seem like an odd song to cover and find chart success with, as it\u2019s an instrumental work. However, that\u2019s precisely what composer Hugo Montenegro did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Montenegro recorded his version of \u201cThe Good, The Bad And The Ugly\u201d and released it in early 1968 to much fanfare. The song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. And to be honest, after listening to the original 1966 version used for the film and Montenegro\u2019s version, I\u2019d have to say the latter is my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove Is Blue\u201d by Paul Mauriat<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove Is Blue\u201d by famed French orchestra conductor Paul Mauriat was quite a hit in early 1968. The original song, titled \u201cL\u2019amour est blue\u201d, came out just a year prior and was a similarly successful hit for Vicky Leandros. Mauriat\u2019s version, though, topped the Hot 100 chart that year. In my opinion, this song has been somewhat forgotten, but it\u2019s one of the best instrumental songs of 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Another fun fact: Mauriat was the only French artist to top the Hot 100 for decades until Daft Punk collabed with The Weeknd for the 2017 song \u201cStarboy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Post Staff Photographer\/South China Morning Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the mood to go back to the late 1960s? 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