I totally agree. Mom and I had that conversation the other day as we were talking plans of when we go see Toto and Journey and then I said about if I was born in the 70's and went through my teens in the 80's that I'd be smack dab in the best era of music and I'm sure I'd still hear the great songs of the 50's and 60's too. To me as a 32 year old the music that is out there now sucks! The 90's-early 2010's weren't too bad, but now its like what happened?

Me Too

A men brother

I was there too! So good.

Yup..and they all still classics. Our cups had runneth over!

God saved me.

Good life to both of you

Thank him for his service and thank you for staying with him

You will miss it terribly????? I'm 70, and I know any day could be my last, so I figure, what's the point of worrying. I try to enjoy every day, and not let anything bother me. I don't go to the doctor anymore, since I lost my sweetie 10 yrs ago to cancer, what's the point? Be told I have a life ending disease, so spend the rest of whatever time I have left, worrying, when right now I chalk it up to getting old.

BAH BAH BAH LADY

❤

Congratulations on your anniversary 💕

I was born that month. 56 yrs ago.

God bless you thank you

My best buddy and I would do the same thing. Best of times.

We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose Those were the days Oh yes those were the days That's it that's all I got Peace ☮️ my friend

@@dougbonner7586 I was just reminiscing that song when I came across your comments, I still have that record along with many others from mid sixties to early seventies, had many after that but never were quite so nostalgic!

​@@carolparker6976 A truly great Russian song from 1925! My dad was 2 years old. But the English version from 1968 had a great impact on the pivotal 60s and the generation born in the late 40s and the 50s. It is certainly an appropriate set of lyrics for you, me and most of these other commenters in their sixties and seventies.

I recently heard a list of "top 20 songs about teachers" "To Sir With Love" wasn't anywhere on the list. I couldn't help but wonder who was the idiot that compiled the list.

I don't know. Some of these original tracks are pretty harsh and not all that good once you take off your rose colored glasses (or earphones). Most would never make it today - not necessarily because of the artists, but because the expectations of the audience. Remember, "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" was a top 10 hit in 1972.

And no rap !

Amen ! Yearning for the 60's

Huh. There was sampling, double tracking, signal manipulation, ... you didn't know this? Not to the same extent as now but there sure was sound manipulation.

​@@geraldhills41 ... they called it skat

you may be 44 but Stevie Wonder was 17 in ‘67

And 80s music was good too.

Rap came out in the 80s that was getto trash!

Same here with my parents they mostly are fans of the 60's and 70's music and some 80's. To me the 70's and 80's was the best era for music.

Me too! I’m 66!

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IM ALMOST 70 AND ALL MY BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES COME TO MY MIND, I REMEMBER HAPPYLY DANCING!

@@robinsnest4306 ²y

Yes, I’m another septuagenarian. Fond memories.

Congratulations Jim great achievement I'm not far behind you, this kind of music has been a help to me during lock down here in Ireland as it brings me to a better time.

We married in 69 too. It's devine you see

...Sue knew me when she came to Jr. High School...I didn't know she existed until 1966...graduated 68...military until 1970...married Feb. 13, 1971...still singing the songs...

Congratulations.

Another great saying. Music is the timeline of our lives!

Hi Rosey, How are you doing?

The aliens must’ve taken over

They’re all fantastic!

... and DIDN'T LOVE MOTOWN???

Do you think any of today’s music will still be alive and remembered 50 years from now?

Not a chance!!

Not to mention, an Oscar deserving movie!!!

Just got back from Vietnam, married Sandy and just celebrated our 51st. Music was everything…great times. Todays youth looking at a screen nothing to remember

Vietnam, civil unrest, killings of black and political leaders doesn't seem so simple.

Hello Janice, How are you doing?

77 years young and I really miss all the good music back then. Glad I had the chance to live through the 60's music mania. It was awesome!!!!

I'm not far behind you Gary. Not sure about god, but I know the music and sure helped...

Gary Kerkstra Me too. 70. I can’t believe it. 🙀🌺

michael anthony Me too. I’m still in the beatle boot/ mini skirt mentality. 🙄😂

One year younger but I know what you mean. Great music!!!!

Gary Kerkstra Same age mate.

The best year for music, film, and books. You know it!

I know, mija. But sit somewhere quietly. Close your eyes, and play all that great music that you loved. See yourself young, healthy, and happy. It will refresh your mind. Try to remember just the good for a few minutes. Count your blessings then. And as difficult as it seems sometimes, count your blessings today. God really does love you. ❤ I wish you well.

Not me. I'm the frog in the warm water and I don't have the strength to jump out of a kettle getting hotter..but if I went back to 1967 and then had to come back to THIS the very next day, I'd KILL MYSELF right then and there!

@@kenglavens6455 I mite not want 2 come back....I do remember what fun it was....need 2 rethink✌️✌️

... don't forget Motown and soul

@@tmcche7881 never forget that, some of the best stuff!

Some 50’s but 60’s and then 70’s where amazing. The eclectic aspect is certainly missed. The 80’s began the decline for sure. It’s never recovered. Obviously some great songs scattered through the years, but really too manufactured and way too sleazy. Just after this came Carol King, James Taylor, Eagles, Creedence Clearwater, Don McLean, more Soul the Beatles where still being played for 20yrs the Stones kept going… just off the top of my head without seriously composing a list….. Mammas and Poppas, Neil Diamond, Carpenters, Bread, Chicago, John Denver… it’s an enormous list of creative genius and talent…My adult sons all listen to the best from those eras and virtually nothing from 90’s onwards. So it’s not just what you heard in your formative years, there is a difference between eras.

Our life in a whisper.

David McGovan "Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream"

Ditto

Go find a DVD of “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”. Excellent movie about the backup bands that played with all the Motown artists.

@@jimbower9268 Thanks, Jim

Great quote; the soundtrack of our youth!

And I feel I was in the best era. The 80s especially the Australian 80s but l loved the 60s too.

What’s ‘the Nam”? We’re you really there and which regiment?

@@rivermoon6190 Show some respect.

Nice one mate, glad you're not suffering as many vets do

Welcome home . . . Tom CPL USMC CDR USNR

God bless. Hope you are well.

I was The Year before January 62

To ja już chodziłem do szkoły!

I was also born in 1963 but living in the UK half of these I have never heard before we only had the BBC 🤔😭

@@MichaelWilson-lt5lv Same here, and I seem to remember a whole load of other songs from that time that weren't on here. Having said that, I am more into the progressive stuff these days, for example The Nice.

ME TOO STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER, BUT GREW UP IN THE EAST SIDE OF SANJOSE, GOT THE BEST OF LA/ SF, MILK, ORANGE JUICE ON THE PORCH.

And yet in 67 the Beatles produced an entire album wrapped around electronic and vocal manipulations.

I agree. Late 50's, 1958 song by Jerry Butler, For Your Love, the 60's music, 70's and the 80's musice was pretty darn good to. Then it all dropped off the radar screen once that stupid rap crap took over the airwaves. Music wasn't the same anymore after that.

@@danbasta3677 music was great from the sixties to the early eighties ......then it slowly began to die.....I've been hoping for a resurgence of the old school style ....almost every genre of music including country sounded better back in the day.....so musically ....many of us have no choice but to live in the past......by the way do you mean for your love by Ed Townsend .......or for your precious love by Jerry Butler ......they both sounded great.

@@davidcarr7436 So what? Nobody said musicians couldn’t try different things even as they produced good, clear sounding music that was uncompromising in talent and quality.

@@davidcarr7436 No they didnt. It was like 1 song and it was purely experimental. It was new, not laziness or trying to mask a lack of talent.

Same here.

Ann.you and me both.😜😜😜

I was 7 .. best time for music 60's and 70's

Every week there was a new record out and they were great tunes. So lucky to be 14 then.

I was also 14 then. Some girls in one of my classes kept telling me one of the girls in that class likes me. She is sitting next to me now.

Yes, I am agree. I am 67 and married my high school sweetheart. A few months ago he was called by God. And I hope to be reunited soon with him.

Because you were young and full of life with decades ahead of you. Anything was possible. And now all that is gone and life is what it is. And you sense your mortality.

I do.we miss it.

I am 55 but understand totally

I am 66. Yes, I agree - for me happy because this is some of the greatest music of all time, and sad because I don't think the world will ever hear music like this again. I am elated that my kids, and so many other young people enjoy this music more than what is out there today - a powerful statement.

I was 11yrs.old by 3/30/1967. Uncle was kia in SouthVietnam mid 3/68 10 days before my 11 bday, but I think the The Rat Patrol was playing. I THINK 12 O'clock High was on its' last season?

Hello Joan, How are you doing?

At 22 years old you do remember 67 like it was yesterday! How palpable were the anti- vietnam war sentiments then? I was 10yrs. Old and had an uncle kia there mid-3/68, tsil end of TET. Ten days before my 11th bday the bad news came!

Why Not, Is Rt Joan! 👍 And I'd be swinging my hips with u if I lived nearby and so wld alot of us! SOOO happy I grew up in this Era even if it makes me Older Today! Wldn't give it up or trade it for Anything in the world... especially for Today's world and music!! 👎 Peace~

LOL hahaha I was only 4 yrs old and still can remember listening to this music in the late 60s and early 70s. It was nice clean no non-sense music. Love singing to it now. Glad to have it on KZfaq to take us back to a great time in music.

It's horrible now. I know I sound like my parents but it's true.

Temps forever

Innocense has been lost

Sign of the times 1964 on; 1964- NJ no bio 1972! 58, 138 lost lives. Didn't have too! One of them was my uncle. Bio mop hi kip

Absolutely! ♥️🎶♥️

Hi Mary, How are you doing ?

Omgosh, loved Woolworths ❤

I bet you were and still are beautiful

Wish I would have kept my Chevelle

your in good company I was 14 it is our music we share the sounds we own it all, thank you for memory ,John Rooney Manchester moss side aged 69yrs

Out of sight, hip to the groove,groovy , far out, dig it.❤🤩😎😄👍

I sold my 65 Chevy Malibu for $175.00 11 years later! Hello!

Man you said a lot, I thought the same thing, when disco hit which was ok it went down hill from there.

12 years old with an AM radio that played this stuff all through the night when I went to bed. Great memories.

Wade Kingston It’s like most of Modern Art - rubbish. The finer cultures are being eroded by AI ...

Wade Kingston SHOCK, more like. Today’s music is crap

Hard to believe music has degenerated this much,that’s people for ya.

Yes the whole decade of the 60's was indeed exceptional. I don't know the criteria by which this person chose these songs. Because although they were waaay ahead of their times with their landmark 1967 album Days of Future Passed, the Moody Blues did release two songs off that album which were important. Nights in White Satin and Tuesday Afternoon. Those tunes got heavy airplay on the FM stations that were exploding at that time. But It wasn't until 1972 that those two songs were released to AM stations and the masses became aware of them. Again, they were ahead of their times. But too often they get ignored or overlooked for their great contributions of the 60's, 70's and into the 80's they were still producing hits. Just had to get that off my chest.

Let me begin to list the bands who came on the seen Jimi Hendrix 10 years after Led Zeppelin the mothers of invention grand Funk Railroad the doors Jefferson airplane The who grateful dead

maybe music wasnt ascontrolled as it is today :(

Point Dexter exactly!!!! because the music was allowed to be different ... not as controlled

@M M I agree about fashion as it really was more colorful and pretty for at least girls and women. Soon the sea of blue-jeans would take over and make for less interesting fashions-sigh....

Nancy, I often share these thoughts! We didn't have all the negativity there is today!

Nancy, and everyone was kinder to each other.

Yes, everyone was kinder!

Hello Nancy, How are you doing ?

And we all had religious support and guilty conscious to keep us straight

If only I could go back to the sixties. I would ride my tricycle up and down the sidewalk.🤣

I was 11 years old back in 1967, however, this music is all totally, BEAUTIFUL to me and to my ears. The 60's music is one of the very best decades out there.

@Decimus Septimus Tutelus 1950 for me

From 1950 until about 1982 I know all or most of the hits. Somewhere after that my brain turned off to new music with a number of exceptions. Classical and Celtic, Zydeco and music history is my muse today.

Hey Decimus, now you dinosAur

Class of ‘68. Great music ‼️‼️‼️‼️

They certainly were the best times, best music with no worries ❤️

Hi Susan, How are you doing?

Hi Christine, How are you doing?

+AL Lopez Oh congratulations!!! That's awesome! Thanks for watching!

God Bless

Congrats 🎉 probably 51 years now 😎

Lol, I was born a year later

Well done Al and wife.. All my good wishes to you both.

1967 TOP 100 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6uolMaWzcmodIU.html

I know, I know!!! All special have special meaning. Not a bad one in the group! Damn!

God Bless you both and stay safe !

Awesome!!! 💝

Great to hear that. We are at 47 years and remember 67 like it was a year ago. Bless you both.

@@tomnaquin8903 same here, married 50 years this July married at 16 in 1971, loved end of 60s early 70s music, always thought 60s was the best music, loved the Moody Blues still do, OH how I would love to go back to the 60s young, carefree without a worry in the world!!

@@carolparker6976 your as young as you feel. That was the lesson of the 60’s. We’re Timeless…

Naw...! You're still living to enjoy this GREAT music!

Man you ARE old so am I ha ha ha !!!

Me too

Me too!

Music was so many different sounds by different groups- distinct from one another.Not copycats of each other.67 thru 75 was fantastic music!!

Yes, they were! I was 17, my first boyfriend, and enjoying this music. 🎶❤️

Get a time machine

U NE BOTH!!

In some ways, 70s were better.

Me. Too

And JOU still have NO IDEA?

@Fred Smith How strange, I was in fact there and I get what you are saying here. I was arresting a fella one night, and his name was Fred Allen Smith. He gave me about six stitches in the upper lip and I gave him a number of tracks from my black jack.Oh yeah, I was there alright, I'm 74 and Fred Smith was killed in a bar room fight.

@Fred Smith I was 17 that year and I remember all these songs. Not everyone did drugs. A lot of kids started after they graduated (or most dropped out when they reached age 16) from high school (not so many during high school). As years went on the age of kids experimenting with drugs got younger and younger and the percentage of them increased. It's sad that this happened.. Look at the way it is today. A lot more dangerous drugs available and a ton more deaths.

I know what you're saying. I wish I could have yesterday back. I was 11, but those days left such great memories in my heart.

We’re the same age and I was there as well - but as a young Marine headed to Vietnam. Crazy times, crazy people and sweet music. Oh yeah - mini skirts, see through tops and no bras!

What's this song where the young man is driving a motorcycle and he gets killed and the young lady is crying?

Leader of the Pack.

Hang on, some of these aren't American 😂😅

In the 80's it was RAP that killed any and all music. Nothing else was even allowed to be played. A disaster for the youth and music lovers of all generations.

And the UK.

Just America? 😒

I agree!🎉

And I bet you remember all of the words!

Me too! And yes, I remember the lyrics! Funny, even now in my 70th year young....I remember! This was real good music!

Also the 60's were the strongest decade for social justice. The great men , Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, all died in persuit of better america for all americans

I was born in 63 and I always say I was born too late.

I feel the same way! I was 7 then and I've always preferred this music all my life.

You are smart.

Born 57.. but loved 60s esp Beatles and 64-68

Me too

Me 3. How the hell did I get to be 71 years old.

@@howiehowder3238 simple, you didn't do enough drugs.

Me too

Carley Simon😁

Oh ya..

blue222blue oh ya ...

I am 65 and the worlds oldest teenager. These were the songs of our lives.

John Densmore was the anchor of the Doors !

The Following ....you young whippersnapper. I've been a teenager since i was 10, i'm now 67 and still in my teens. I'm going to have the entire Motown catalogue played at my funeral with the doors of the crematorium locked, they'll remember that one. You're invited.

Hi Gene, How are you doing?

just the said the same thing to another fan. still happy and grateful we're still alive to be watch and listen.

Amen to that!

There is a lot of wonderful music being created today, just not on the mainstream media. But I agree that the music from these years was something special.

I got a portable record player in 1963 or 64 and my first 45 record was Andy Williams "Cant Get Used To Losing You". Both were a gift from my Aunt. I still have the 45.

1967 I had my youngest child the 1965 my oldest child only had two daughters still had a good time

Same, but I got the Doors

Them as well

So did I, where are you from?

@@Shopmyst Brooklyn New York!!!!!

67 graduate here.@@annemariedimola1785

AGREED! Hate rap crap jungle junk.

Couldn't agree more, even the song ' evergreen ' is a classic, Roy Orbison's version of Evergreen is awesome.

@@danbasta3677 Dan, you just ruined the mood. Keep your hatred to yourself. People like you cause a lot of problems. You must be down with the proud boys.

There are a lot of bands still making music from big band to Acid rock bit people who claim that music isn't made anymore are the ones who don't bother to look for it now

We know them all!

WABC! I lived by that station.

I was 17 growing up in Houston! Hey there!☺️😜

I'm 68. Listened to 60s am bubble gum. And then someone gave me a Buffalo Springfield album for my 14th b d. No more bubble gum or am radio for me. Playing guitar got more difficult but more fun.

I was 14 growing up in San Antonio hey Texas family ❤️😍

@suiterd62 Aug 1967 arrived at Yankee Station

15, growing up in Wichita Falls!

And you never forget the lyrics.

Brenton Wood record holds particularly fond memories. :-)

Interesting how high quality songs are mixed with simple pop sings. Today it's only shxt that's in those top charts.

Great comment

Every one! 👍

Greetings from Mexico, I love what I am seeing on your profile. I apologize for jumping into your comment in such a way. I'm really looking forward to get to know you better. If you're comfortable with it, I'd love to talk somewhere outside the KZfaq comment section. and get to know each other a bit more intimately. What do you think about that?

Tenessy whiskey😎😁

My kids in their twenties also love the 60s and 70s for music.

Soul Survivors, mentioned in a steely dan song "hard times on soul survivors" dont know wth it was about

You're so right. We won't. ❣️❣️😥😓💔

That just might be why it was so great.

My worry is that if I am unlucky enough to end my days in a nursing home and I GET to go to the social hall,the staff will play Dean Martin and Lawrence Welk. Hope I am not on the first floor because I will try to do a final jump.

Hi Elaine, How are you doing?

We don't even have rock music played on the radio much less a variety

No criativity nowadays.

@@zampieritto Horrible!

Why? Why oh why can't they make music like this any more? Where has all the talent gone?

These kids ,or evan oeople in their early to late 50s too, have no idea if what it was like back then. It would consume most of my day just getting at the tip of the iceberg of this Vietnam Era time along with the music that coincided with it!

To Jeff Zitek - appreciate your thanks, I was in country during This time; the music has loads of bittersweet memories attached to it.

I would give everything to go back to the 60s to hug my Mum who died in 1968 at only 47 We used to drive her mad with the 4 seasons Lets Hang On to what we got

I'll always be proud of our Vietnam Vets!💕

JEFF ZITEK You bastard hypocrite, one moment you speak of 'love' and next you glorify mass murdering!

He knows!🌷

Well said.

Thank you for serving! I'm certain it wasn't easy, and I'm equally certain that it changed you. I hope the music helped, and continues to help, you heal.

once again i'm chasing, that bright, illusive butterfly, by, bob lind, & the Poppy family, '66

TA, OR THANKS, A KIWI TERM~ LOL

Both of my brothers went i was too young , one got a purple heart from injury the other was a medic. Thank you for serving.

Glad you made it back

Hi Virginia, How are you doing ?

Thank you for that great memories ❤❤❤❤

I agree with you. Objectively, the late 60s had the best music, and that's not even my generation. It's vibrant, creative, fun and gorgeous.

I’m may be nit-picking but please, it’s nursing student not student nurse. No one says student doctor, it’s medical student and law student not student lawyer. And yes, I’m a nurse.

Greetings from Mexico, I love what I am seeing on your profile. I apologize for jumping into your comment in such a way. I'm really looking forward to get to know you better. If you're comfortable with it, I'd love to talk somewhere outside the KZfaq comment section. and get to know each other a bit more intimately. What do you think?

1964 is my vote.

Both 1967 and 1968 were the best.

@@tomc642 And, I would add 1966!! I'd give anything ( almost) to relive those three years!!! Damn!

Actually, 1966 had the largest number of new pop songs introduced.

@@Melinda8162 What do you think we're doing here on KZfaq? Wasn't it great? OMG!!

Hi Sue, How are you doing?

Hi Shelly, How are you doing?

Richard Vollet Good luck to you

That’s a very concise history.

What happens to you after June?

Richard Vollet How are you

@@oldsrocket8841 going to switzerland

Ell Dee Funny your describing me in the seventh grade @ St. Stephens. A transistor radio for my 11th BD a year prior.

I was 2.

I was 8 then turned 9 when Windy was #1 all of July.

I was 0 🌸

I can't think what my teen age years would have been like without this music growing up.

Carol Strachan out of all the countries in the World none could compare with Britain and the USA for the staggering number of great pop records FACT.

Daniel Dennison welcome Home🇺🇸

Thank you for serving!

Daniel Dennison You’re a Marine. Semper Fi Brother.

You made it back...one piece i hope...seems like yesterday doesn.t it ??

Daniel Dennison - I was 11 months old. Thank you for your service

17 in ‘67…..best music

I would have a glass of wine with you

Hello Lynn, How are you doing?

What a great year

So was my daughter!

Those were the days.got back from viet nam in .the spring of 67.

.....i just gotta say i love your moniker...ha ha...at least the part i could see!~

Me too lnga.. The music and the people mini skirts etc were fabulous.. Love all the flowered clothes.. Think l am in a 60s time warp at times.

@@barbarapalmer8224 i am glad you think so too . 1966 is so special to me , i met the most incredible handsome man (a young Cary Grant look alike) and we had a unforgettable Love Affair . I am German and he was American visiting Berlin where i lived . We experienced a trilling moment in time it was never duplicated ! I received 2 letters from him(i still have them) asking me to come to America , but i could not go at that time . So needless to say we went on with our life's me in Berlin and he in NY , we never saw each other again . Many years later i married an American and immigrated to America . Sad to say we got divorced after 7 years . Then i started to search for my handsome stranger i could never forget . I found his Legacy /Obituary in 2018 and i was in shock he died suddenly of a fatal cardiac arrest alone he also was divorced . There was a phone # on his Obituary that led me to his wife . I called her and told her who i was and she was very gracious to me and we actually became friends . She also introduced me to their handsome grown son and after telling him my story he welcomed me into the family . I was overwhelmed i never thought in my wildest dream something like this could happen , i deem it a miracle ! His Son also told me that his father shared with him before he died our love story and he said that he could never forget this beautiful German Lady it was the happiest time of his life he spent with her (me). Take care and God bless you !

And know what you know now. Sigh....

@@isrberlinerin4063 nice story, so are you in love with his son, or do you look at him like the son that should have been yours?

@@shable1436 No i am not in love with his Son and Yes i look at him as a son i never had and as a precious gift from the man i could never forget !

Well said.

I agree. In the USA, the 60s began with President Kennedy, and with it a new hope and vision for a better Earth. But sadly his death, shed the cloak of the 50's and there then arose a culture ready to challenge and face the real world, unveiling the myths of cultural expectations (as depicted on TV). The explosion you speak of, begotten of a shared consciousness, unlike that never known before. We were part of it. For once it seemed, that what we believed mattered, and the world would yield to our expectations of it. This was our time. Let it not be ever forgotten.

These were all on Ed Sullivan