I'm still working my way through this thread so not yet really in a position to comment!
I do however remember driving to an accountancy course in Wales every weekend and on the car radio we had
Tom Jones - Green Grass of Home
Easybeats - Monday I've got Friday on my Mind
Len Barry - 123
Some things you never forget.
Wishing I was still young I rather like hearing these ladies
Teddybears - To know him is to Love Him
Ponytails - Born too Late
The last one is very appropriate as when I was listening to it my unknown wife to be was only thirteen and I was in my 20s!
A further comment perhaps on lyrics. Paul Simon's The Boxer takes some beating (!) for telling a story. Now I'm grown up the line from Me and Bobby McGee that really gets to me is
....somewhere near Salinas I let her slip away, looking for the home I hope she'll find. I'd trade all my tomorrow's for a single yesterday holding Bobby's body next to mine.....
And propped up against the wall behind me is a black Burns guitar bought from Johhny Roadhouse in Manchester
P S I'm not allowed to listen to Sounds of the Sixties because apparently I get all introverted and depressed.