psychedelic songs that were Billboard hit singles?

NO BRASS! For me, anyway......
Either way, I don't think Crystal Blue Persuasion is a psych song.

 

That was NOT a Billboard chart hit!

I guess this is where a LONG list of Psych songs will now get randomly posted until the thread is exhausted.

 

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit.

 

Mentioned in opening post.

 

I don't think Kenny Rogers was a "country artist" when he was in the First Edition. He was a pop artist. He recorded songs that had tinges of whatever style was around then. "Ruby" has slight country overtones, but "Something's Burning" really doesn't.

 

Oops. You are right. I need to read a bit closer.

Then again, there is a lot of stuff in this thread that I really don't see as psychadelic music.

But I'll delete the post.

 

Mmmm...never thought of that as psychedelic, but I guess it could be...one song I've been thinking about as a maybe is "25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago.

 

The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down – it reached number 10 in the UK and number 13 in the US.

 

It's a VERY broad category.

 

Moody Blues-"Tuesday Afternoon"

 

"Shape Of Things To Come"-Max Frost & The Troopers

 

The First Edition tried a "Just Dropped In" rehash on the second album but it wasn't a hit. Other tracks on their first three albums were in the sunshine pop style. Last track on the third album was "Ruby" and when it became a big hit they became "Kenny Rogers and the First Edition" and dropped the psych/sunshine material.

 

Yeah! I wonder if one has to include wheezy Vox organ and fuzz guitar in order to be psychedelic!
The Chicago tune "25 Or 6 To 4" certainly doesn't have either. But the lyrics are kinda borderline psych!

 

Never heard this Jerry Lee version...and I think I like it better! Thanks.

 

Madonna - “Beautiful Stranger”

#2 UK
#19 US

 

"Don't Come Around Here No More" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Charted No. 13. A "sitar song" with an incredible psychedelic video to match.

 

Is “Good Vibrations” considered to be a psychedelic song?

 

Isn't Lelan of International Artists fame his brother? & responsible for the release of all that Texas psychedelic stuff.

 

Steppenwolf-"Magic Carpet Ride"

 

I'm one of those "big tent" people when it comes to psych songs...so for me, yes it is.

 

Mashmakhan - As the Years Go By:

 

Aretha's "Daydreaming" kinda counts.

 

Not going to get into the "is it psych" argument, that could go on and on. I do think it's worth arguing if something was a hit or not.

For me, a hit is any song that made the Billboard top 40 or its UK equivalent.

 

I have a first pressing See Emily Play on Tower records and the band is listed as The Pink Floyd.

 

And responsible for the ****ty-sounding records the Elevators had, the lack of touring opportunities, mismanagement, etc.