Number 2 on the Bill Boards but Number 1 in our memories...

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One of the best internet radio stations is on Live 365 called ‘ Chart Toppers ‘ where most of the week they would play in order the top 5 tunes of the 60s starting from January 1960 to December 1969 Don’t know if it’s still on they went to pay only and I quit listening

It's only 21 minutes mate.

It's fun to recollect what I was doing, what grade I was in, who my playmates were during all of these different times.

I was born in 1952. I would have to say that it started in 1964 for me.

@@bluewaters3100 Debbie I was born in 1954 and feel 1964 started a special period too. At the ripe old age of 10 my mom and I (and little brother) went to a Beach Boys concert. My first album was one of theirs. I think my first single was Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. I was a Beatles fan too BTW.

For me 1965 - 1974 (completes ten years)is the ten year period I would pick,...in that time you had what are considered the five best Beatles albums beginning with 'Rubber Soul' (1965) and ending with 'Abbey Road' (1969). Dylan had albums like' Highway 61' and 'Blonde on Blonde' in the second half of the 60's...Creedence came along around '67 or '68 and finished up in that period of time, likewise Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Doors. Led Zeppelin had three or four of their best albums in that time. Santana had their best couple of albums in that time. Classic albums like 'Tubular Bells', 'Who's Next', 'Crosby, Stills & Nash', 'Tapestry', Exile on Main Street', 'Music From Big Pink' came out in that time. David Bowie started his career in that time as did Black Sabbath, T Rex and Deep Purple...Stevie Wonder was at the top of his game in that time. So called one hit wonders like Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky), Shocking Blue (Venus), Peter Sarstedt (Where do you go to My Lovely) had their hits in that time, the best solo years of the Beatles were in that time, they all had # 1 hits and hugely succesful albums ('Band on the Run', 'Imagine', 'All Thimgs Must Pass')...the list goes on and on and there's plenty I have left out....it was an incredibly fertile ten years in music.....There is no ten year period since the end of the 70's that has come close....2000 to 2009, 2011 to 2019....a depressing musical desert.

That's more or less spot on, that decade there, will take some beating.

I was born in 1959. But my favorite music is the rock from the 60's and 70's. When I was playing guitar I knew many songs. I should really spend less time on the internet and more time practicing again!

@tom the cat123 Lots! Here's one: I left home in 1966, met a long haired girl who worked in a care home school on the edge of Dartmoor, UK, we were only able to meet up at the weekend. The song 'Friday On My Mind' by The Easybeats had just entered the charts. I used to wait for her when her bus pulled into Bretonside bus depot in Plymouth, we would spend most of the weekend together, consequently I looked forward to every Friday, I was only 18/19, by the summer of next year, she returned home to her family in the Midlands of England, I chose to remain in the West country, mostly happy memories though, I still love 'Friday On My Mind', it is still a great feelgood record.

I thought that too :-)

@@rjjcms1 That, Ralph, is because the Beatles were pioneers and paved the way for groups. The others saw that what the Beatles could do, so could they.

well there were a few groups...but this was in the UK lists...some here in the States like the Kingsman, Beach Boys, Soul Groups like the Platters etc...had #2's...one lyric I'll always remember is...hey baby do you wanna dance...left my rubber in my other pants...still lingers

A great improvement after 63

i gruppi musicali esplosero con i Beatles e sopratutto con la "British invasion "... i gruppi rock invasero l'europa e fu una gioiosa invasione!!!...

@TMS - THAT'S COOL. WHO ARE YOU REALLY? AND WHERE ARE YOU NOW? (NOT BEING NOSY, JUST FIND IT FASCINATING).

I loved Ricky Nelson. You lucky son! (To have those memories.)

He surely is.

It is a miracle the kinks still achieved quite a lot. Nobody has been banned to get into the US, that is something unheard of. The media were making lot of free pubblicity to the like of beatles, rolling stones and who arguing who was more shocking and trangressive and in the meantime very quietly the kinks were silenced and put in a corner. No wonder the Kinks have been one of the few band respected and taken as inspiration from ealy punk band in the 70

Thanks Blues fan, make sure to check out Every Number 1 if you enjoyed this :)

Yes, I've already done that, and I remembered every song from both lists. Great stuff.

I totally agree. As someone who wasn't born then!

The best comment I've read about the 60s and so true about it being the most fertile era.

So true

Garage is missing, the b in the middle.

But it should be called "crap"!

Who's the guy on Eggheads who always refers to it as the C-word - "rap"? Very succinct. Although COOLIO was rather good - "Gangsta's Paradise".

That's a beauty, pal about the rap

Common Sensibility it’s called rap crap

Crochet Fun. So would I if I could. Love 60's.

I loved the 60s miss the great music wish I was young again 😉

It was Number 1 in pretty much every chart apart from Record Retailer, which is where Guinness and 'the official UK charts' retroactively get their information.

@@LordAmbrosia1 it wasnt number 1 it was number 2 i know

@@davidreed1995 It really wasn't. Find out why.

Good point !

Also, the singing ability (no autotune needed), emotion was not considered uncool, andgreat orcehestra background.

1957 me, but your comment applies

This pup born 1956, too!

@@Williamottelucas me too great times.

This takes me back doing my milk boy rounds 27/6d a week great days

Excellent. I have just subscribed. Great editing, as well, my friend :)

Looking forward to it! Cheers.

Subscribed. Looking forward to them!

Would love to see one for the Australian charts for these years as they tend to be a mix of brit, usa and australian music. It would be a great comparison.

Looking forward to the videos - and yes - the comparison will be good. Can I ask what program you use to make the vids. I want to make a couple - but have no idea which to use - thanks

I'm glad you enjoyed it and it was my pleasure! Make sure to check out the other decades too :)

@@UKMusicCharts-UK I certainly will!

Today's 'music' doesn't get played in my house at all

A lot of today's music will be forgotten by tomorrow.

Me too best years ever

Hello Karin, How are you doing?

I know, some fantastic songs on here, it's more intriguing to see what stopped it being No 1, in most cases it was not justified. Thanks for the comment!

It's funny how many No. 1's The Beatles had, but the one with probably the strongest combination of A-side and B-side, the one that would possibly the most deserved of them all, didn't make it because of fucking Engelbert Humperdink. God only knows what the British record buyers were thinking...

@@jefdarcy Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, a perfect single that gives me something new and makes me glad to be alive every time I hear it. The whole concept of the charts was debased for me after that moment. I realised it was just a marketing tool and subject to manipulation by interested parties. Also the sheep-like general public cannot be relied upon to spot a classic when it hears one. Check out Howard Goodall's excellent video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLeDbJSou8raiZc.html

It all depends on which of the Charts you use. The one I followed had Beatles all #1 from Please Please Me till they slipped with Paperback Writer

Nearly 69 and the same here, until the father-in-law moved in. He finds it a tad noisy.

It was a smash here too. The Beatles kept it off #1

Great sixties music all different types better than the rubbish that's out now

Hell yes. That decade sounded like 1950s-early 70s. Incredible. KZfaq will bring it to all back to the youth. The youth will be in awe of those who lived through it. Quite a few cranky ones on here tonight if I might add.

I was23, and all I want now is a chick to love when the music plays,

Jesusa De Leon ....1968, i had long hair, looked cool, dressed cool and listened to the coolest music. Now, i'm bald, a bit sore about the joints, still love 60’s music and i'm not cool. The thing is, i still think i'm cool, i now know everything and i know how to chill. If we ever meet Jesusa, the beers are on me. ✌🏻😎🍺

@charlie cheeseface yes I damn well would!

Simpler time for sure. A little more pure. I can dig that

It's hard to accept that a decrepit 90 year old man was once a 20 year old man who used to have sex. But evolution doesn't care about you, me or anyone else. You're put on this Earth for one purpose: the probability that you may procreate, so that someone else can be born, die and do the same. You think _you are 'you'_ and you're living _'your' life,_ but it's the DNA inside you - that's the controlling form of life - which is using 'you' as a means to _it's end._ Or imagine if you were somehow immortal - could you psychologically take living for 2000 years - while everyone else you loved dies around you? Imagine the number of heart wrenching losses you'd have to endure throughout time. Not to mention how increasingly difficult it would become to hide your immortality from the authorities -as society records everyone's historical presence with an ever increasing efficiency. It can only end in one of three ways: you either degenerate, decay and die slowly, you die early by accident or illness - or you end it all yourself.

@charlie cheeseface: Thank you, I did. My interests lie in philosophy, genetics, evolution, genocide, totalitarianism, space exploration, time travel and the essential pointlessness of society and consumerism. People have told me all my life that I should write a book. If I do - it'll probably be about the need for us all to develop some form of warp capability to get off this rock - before our sun ends up going supernova. Assuming we aren't all wiped out by an giant asteroid, bacteriological virus or a genetic race war - it's the essential problem that's facing the human race. And it can only end in one of two ways: either we all stay and get incinerated, or we all manage to get away and find _Omicron Ceti III_ in the _Delta Quadrant….._

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it :)

Edward, I love you! Same here.

I was ten yes old in 1965 Now going to be 65yrs old at the end of May. Sixty's & early seventies ,Motown. How about the song Sugar Surgar .my real favorite was The love Affair, & Dave Clark Five ,. God l feel old now.

Sugar

I thank this and UK Music Charts for putting an artist and title to several songs and tunes I've heard through the years but didn't know the title of.

The two most beautiful rock songs: God Only Knows and Waterloo Sunset. Good on ya.💂🇬🇧

Absolutely. As a native South East Londoner born and raised just 2 miles from there for my first 29 years until 1983 I can relate. My first job was at Somerset House and I used to hop off the bus ( you could then ) climb the middle of Waterloo Bridge ( you could then ) Enter The Tax Office Building on The West Wing , where I did not work without showing any Security ( you could then ) and cut through the square to my building overlooking The Thames. It was 1971-73...

And shockingly Lola only reached number 2 in the seventies.

I shall be on Waterloo Bridge in 3 hours time :)

Love Waterloo sunset one of my faves

Didn't those boys look nice in thier suits and ties?

Most #20's were better than the crap today.

There are very few of these songs that don't hold up after all these years!

Are you kidding? Every day in the 1960s I would hear a new song and every day it would be wonderful, whoever performed it. We didn't take much to Freddie and the Dreamers or Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, because we were snobs. We preferred The Kinks or The Who. Yeah, tough guys we were at 13-14. Oh, well, baby, look at you now. (That's a song from the swing era.)

Hello

My thoughts exactly. I bet quite a few of the early ones were #1 across the pond.

Yeah , real Talk

Strawberry Fields Forever is the Beatles highlight and it only got to No. 2???

It's ironic that two of the best ever Beatles songs, on a double A-sided single, failed to reach No. 1. Kept out by Tom Jones' Green Green Grass.

@@garethb1961 Get ya facts straight Gaz, Jones had nothing to do with it.

He had a few more U.S. hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with "We don't talk anymore." and "Dreamin" being the biggest. He also had a #25 BB-HOT-100 his in 1963 with his version of "It's all in the game." But he definitely have fewer hits here than in the UK, Australia or even Canada.

The same with US hits of the era (though UK artists dominated the US charts in 1964!) Groups like Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, meant nothing here in the UK

Oh he cried a lot then

Likewise, but 4 years younger.!!!

And me mate, nearly 69.

@@toothpick4649 Yeah..me too. Same ilk and I left Melbourne and moved to country NSW. To be frank, I really like our own people and see no reason to have neighbors with opposite values that do not speak my language

@@toothpick4649 Prisoner Of England. Aussie wit makes me laugh every time ;o)

Correct....