I also point out that you can tell the difference between a song that came out in January of 1967 vs a song that came out in December of 1967.
Now I couldn’t tell you if a song came out in 2024 or in 2000. There’s been no new ground broken since then.
I miss the Monkees.
Indeed. Musical tastes and trends among Top 40 fans in the sixties changed rapidly.
In the summer of 1965, I went to Germany for a year. The Armed Forces Network (AFN) station in Frankfurt played mostly Adult Contemporary music, which I hated, and also a show featuring Hawaiian music, Dick Sinclair's Polka Party, and Jim Pewter's Oldies show--but no Top 40. When I got back home the first thing I did was to tune in to Boss Radio 93 KHJ. The music had changed considerably from the summer of 1965, but I still loved it.