Posted on 01/07/2022 7:31:38 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel
Who would like to start up another tournament of chart-toppers from the '50s?
I have a whole new format planned.
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Please put me in again.
“It really didn’t end till the Beatles”
The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean were kind of a bridge between 1950s rock and the Beatles. Surf rock and hot rod rock. I recall that lasting for maybe a year or two. Others may have a clearer memory of it than I do. Beatles arrived in late 1963 right about the time of the JFK assassination. It sometimes seems to me that history got real crowded starting about then.
Yes. There is only so much I can handle, honestly. And it’s the easiest way to start, using known lists.
The only other way is to do the entire chart for the year, and only for the year. Could be done, but I bet alot of people would tire of doing just 1 year over a long time.
Much I despise about ‘60s even in music, but actually alot good. Beatles OK (overrated, I think), and some of the knock-offs they spun.
But I love beach/car rock (especially cars!), the 4 Seasons, Motown and girl groups. All were big.
Be My Love is definitely up there, as it was on the last poll.
Turns out, That’s Amore is on the year-end chart, but at #16 it won’t make it here!
Mario Lanza brings me back to my youth with my Great Aunt Irma cooking spaghetti once a week (she lived with us)...
She played his albums while drinking her Stroh’s in a glass...
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The Four Seasons = I love 💘..
They are the 60s...
Stroh’s? You must have lived in the Detroit area.
Stroh’s was around alot in those days. I remember it around Baltimore in the ‘70s at least.
Hey, you’re in MD? Good to know. Esp. if in central MD Commie-land.
As 1963 came to a close, a couple of oddities ruled the charts--perhaps a signal that the times were a-changin'. Dominique by Soeur Sourire, a French-language ballad about a medieval crusader and evangelist sat atop the Hot 100 for four weeks, followed by Bobby Vinton's revival of Vaughn Monroe's 1945 hit There, I've Said it Again. But early in the new year, a tune entitled "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was released, and the rest is history.
Come to think of it, I seem to remember finding Stroh’s in DC in the late ‘70’s.
Yup and it all got more childish from there....
Good history. I’d forgotten all about Dominique. Interesting how varied pop music was at one time. Dominique, 16 Tons, Battle of New Orleans, Roger Miller songs. Maybe it still is and I’m just not paying attention.
“Beatles OK (overrated, I think)”
Probably. Beatles For Sale, Revolver and Rubber Soul probably have the songs of theirs that I like best. But there were other groups in the British Invasion that I liked better. 10 Years After. Spencer Davis Group. Some of the Stones. There were so many to choose from. We were deluged with talent and took it for granted.
HoCo / Old Ellicott City.....
OMG! You’re here too?
There is another FRer who posts a bit and lives right around here.
I like the Beatles ok, but honestly they had 2 incarnations and frankly I like the original better. The hippie stuff can be ok but sometimes really goofy if you ask me. And, they were just too short-lived.
The Stones I really appreciate as staying the course for a solid 10 years if not more of hits, that were recognizable. They didn’t have a wholesale change.
Also loved Dave Clark Five!
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