Posted on 01/04/2025 7:19:14 PM PST by hardspunned
The Top Ten
Help!: By The Beatles, which spent three weeks at number one Like A Rolling Stone: By Bob Dylan California Girls: By The Beach Boys Unchained Melody: By The Righteous Brothers It's The Same Old Song: By Four Tops I Got You Babe: By Sonny & Cher You Were On My Mind: By We Five Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part I): By James Brown And The Famous Flames Eve Of Destruction: By Barry McGuire Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me: By Mel Carter
Also bubbling down the charts
Satisfaction: The Stones Down in the Boondocks: Billy Joe Royal The Tracks of My Tears: The Miracles Heart Full of Soul: The Yardbirds In the Midnight Hour: Wilson Pickett We Gotta Get out of This Place: The Animals What’s New Pussycat: Tom Jones Do You Believe In Magic: The Lovin’ Spoonful
(Excerpt) Read more at billboard.com ...
Just a single week of Billboard, but some all-time greatest hits. Amazing.
Absolutely, my high school years were ‘66 - ‘70. Great artists and years for music.
What a list, and we used to take that for granted, just like the still famous TV shows, hitting golf balls on the moon, historical scientific and medical breakthroughs almost being routine, few recognized what the poison pill of the new, barely reported immigration law was going to bring.
Who remembers where they were in September 1965?
I’m thinking....
I was starting fifth grade, my last year in a run-down city school.
I had gotten a transistor radio for my birthday two months before, and my ear was glued to it all the time. It was like the internet, for me back then.
Rick (Z)-Derringer made it to #1 later that year.
Starting 10th grade. I was not a music person, but even I remember allvthose songs.
mid 60s - my favorite music era - before FM ...
Those radios will rot your brain! Can't you young whipper snappers read a darn book anymore?!
Were you born in ‘56 too? My sister was 16 in ‘65 and a 45rpm junkie. She had most of those 45s and played them constantly. My dad was a Nashville freak and playing marbles was about as loud as I could get during the Grand Ole Opry on WSM.
I was born in June of ‘55.
Grew up on Rocky & Bullwinkle, and Beany and Cecil.
Ha ha! Yeah. But I was a constant reader too.
I would listen to my little radio at night, after lights-out. Under my pillow.
Just one week....
Yes, people around my age (78) were blessed with the greatest era in popular music.
Not without paying a price; I think I paid $1.75 to see the all acoustic Bob Dylan in concert to premier new songs like It Ain’t Me, Babe and a similar amount to see the Beatles live. Great days.
RE: a transistor radio for my birthday ....
Mad Magazine had a bit that said evolution was still in force and someday the 1960s teenagers with transistor radios held to their ears would have offspring born with radios growing out of their ears.
What an amazing list.
What’s even more amazing is that none of the songs sound alike. All were unique in their own way.
Unlike today’s pop music where there is just ONE song and many minor variations of that same crappy sone.
Fall ‘65 to spring ‘69 here. It was an amazing time for music, wasn’t it? Never to be repeated.
“I would listen to my little radio at night, after lights-out. Under my pillow.”
I did the EXACT same thing! I’d fall asleep and awaken the next morning with a dead battery in the radio. :(
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