my two favorite 67' songs are "Brown-eyed Girl" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale" but I don't remember if they charted number one even though they were number ones to me.
More trivia ,one of the guitarists from The Strawberry Alarm Cock was Ed King who later joined Lynrd Skynrd and wrote the guitar riff to Sweet Home Alabama!
I was visiting my Aunt in Cleveland Ohio in the summer of '67. I was sitting alone in the kitchen, eating breakfast. She had one of those little tabletop radios with the clock up in an open shelf, tuned to a rock and roll station. The DJ came on and announced a new song he was about to play, called "The Ode To Billy Joe". The opening guitar notes captured my interest. But then the vocal came in and I was blown away! I stopped eating to listen to the rest of it. I was like "WOW!"
In late August 1967, my Dad who was a USCG officer was transferred from Coos Bay, OR to San Juan, PR. We piled into the '60 Olds and drove to Miami, from where the car was shipped to San Juan. Even as a 6-year-old then, I can remember as we were driving through the South there was no escape from "Ode To Billy Joe" on the radio. By then it was early September. As for Lulu, yes, a great song can be done in one take. The most enduring example of this took place on May 18, 1964, with The Animals' recording of "House of the Rising Sun". "Incense and Peppermints" was actually released earlier in the year under the group's previous name, Thee Sixpence. If you have one of the few released records by that name, you just might have a small fortune!
"PROUD MARY" by CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL was kept out of the number one spot by "EVERYDAY PEOPLE" by SLY AND THE FAMILY SYONE and "DIZZY" by TOMMY ROE .
Now that's funny - I remember almost all the songs mentioned in the comments, and can hear John Fogerty singing "Proud Mary" now that you've reminded me, but am not sure I can recall anything about the other two songs you mentioned.
NUMBER ONE HITS OF 1967 : @00:29 : "TO SIR WITH LOVE" : LULU @01:11 : "THE LETTER" : BOX TOPS @01:50 : "ODE TO BILLIE JOE" : BOBBY GENTRY @02:47 : "WINDY" : ASSOCIATION @03:23 : "I'M A BELIEVER" : MONKEES @03:58 : "LIGHT MY FIRE" : DOORS @04:32 : "HAPPY TOGETHER" : TURTLES @05:27 : "GROOVIN' " : YOUNG RASCALS @06:08 : "RESPECT" : ARETHA FRANKLIN @06:44 : "COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP" : BOBBY VEE @07:21 : "KIND OF A SRAG" : BUCKINGHAMS @08:17 : "EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART" : SOUL SURVIVORS @09:03 : "SOUL MAN" : SAM AND DAVE @09:44 : "NEVER MY LOVE" : ASSOCIATION @10:21 : INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS" : STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK
I was born in the early 1950's, and got my first "transistor radio" for Christmas, from my parents, in 1962. After that, it was never ending music & I'm sure I went through batteries as if they were candy (no AC adapters for transistor radios in the 60's). I grew up outside of Dayton, Ohio, and the big Billboard Top 100 stations there were WING, 1410, AM of course, and WONE, 980, AM. What the Hell was FM? Transistor radios only had one band, and yes, it was AM. Many decades later I leaned via the Internet that in the 60's, WING was considered one of the best radio stations in the USA. Very progressive... Over the decades I have done a pretty fair job of keeping up with the changes in music, but it was the 1960's that will always be my favorite decade. So much music, so much talent...
@@mahmoudibnemir8704 No Mah, unfortunately I didn't get those stations. I was born in Cleveland, & as soon as I was old enough to discover there was another country to the north of me, I fell in love with Canada, & have been in love with her ever since. If I didn't live in the good old USA, Canada would be my next choice, for sure...
Bobby Gentry didn’t totally leave show biz.Briefly in 1974,she had a 4 episode variety show on CBS that replaced Sonny and Cher.Talk about one 1960s icon taking over another!!!
Ed King of Strawberry Alarm Clock later joined Lynynd Skynyrd first on bass and then went to guitar. Skynyrd became the legendary three guitar powerhouse ever since then....
I remember hearing that ridiculous theory way back when. Like it would be easy for the girl to hide a pregnancy from her family. No, my guess it was some token of their teenage love, maybe cheap rings from Cracker Jack boxes they had exchanged - something, anyway, that signalled they were breaking up. Maybe the breakup came from her and that's why he was so distraught, and then her upset was from guilt. But a baby? Nah.
This is my whole theory. And it's probably way off. When kids are that age we all think we're invincible. He thought the river was deeper thought he could handle the dive but broke his neck. He'd been flirting with her in the movie theater and she had a thing for him but at that young age nothing had become of it then when he was killed it hit her real hard so she was dealing with it throwing flowers off the bridge in his memory.
@@DalokiMauvais Back in those days' abortion was illegal. Add to that those southern Baptist states were very religious. An unwed pregnancy was an extreme sin. Communities were tight knit, and everyone knew what everyone else was doing. The shame would cause a person to commit suicide.
@@stuartlent2645 My point is still that she could not have been pregnant and given birth to a baby (who was then thrown off a bridge) without her parents knowing it. This was a tight-knit family. It could not possibly have been a baby.
I remember all of these, hated some, liked many, loved one: "Ode to Billie Joe." Trivia: I read or heard, in 1967 or '68, that "Ode to Billie Joe" was planned to be the B side of the single. But halfway through recording the mesmerizing Ode, everybody realized that this was *It* - this _had_ to be the featured song. And oh, how right they were. I was a senior in high school then, and can still remember my creative writing teacher talking about the writing technique that made the song so captivating - that the person telling the story never says a word about her own feelings. Later I wrote a story using that technique, and got high praise from that same teacher, who called it "remarkable." And by the way, what became the B side was a "raunchy, swampy rock anthem" (Google AI's words) called "Mississippi Delta," that never would have gone anywhere because it _wasn't_ rock but pure loud, mindless country. I still have the single of "Billie Joe," but I think I only listened to a fraction of the B side once in the 57 years since it was released. More trivia: The clip you used is from the Smothers Brothers showed. It was not lip-synched. At the end, Gentry put her ukulele down, got up, walked to the back and sat down at the table with the figures of her mother, father and brother. It was pure genius. I think my dad even got misty-eyed. I know I did.
" that never would have gone anywhere because it wasn't rock but pure loud, mindless country." This is very funny considering Gentry was a country singer/songwriter.
And "Soul Man?" Okay, it did hit Number One on the R&B chart (for an impressive 7 weeks) but it stopped at #2 on the Hot 100. It did top the Cashbox pop chart for a single week but "Expressway to Your Heart" didn't even crack the Cashbox Top 5 so, again, what's your basis for "Number One Hit" status?
Um, what chart are you using? Bobby Vee's "Come Back When You Grow Up" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 3 weeks at that spot (held out of the top by "Ode to Billie Joe" for 2 of those weeks and "The Letter" for the 3rd week, with the Supremes' "Reflections" at #2 for the first 2 weeks and "Billie Joe" for the 3rd week). It's a good song but it's NOT a "Number One hit" from 1967.
With a lot of these videos about hits from a particular year, there is usually at least one song that really isn't that good, even in some very good years. Not a weak song in this group. Also, I like the photo of the Strawberry Alarm Clock with Ed King in front.
A few of those were certainly NOT No. 1 in Australia in 1967 , in fact I’ve never heard two or three of them . I was 17 in 1967 so was in the thick of things so to speak .
Forgot to add to your title no one under 40 listens anymore. What is it with appreciating older music while dissing current stuff, like what you like , and simply leave aside what does not interest you, we're living in a time where most music is heard through your headphones, why worry about other people's music? People who do this seem to be more interested shading contemporary sounds than actually enjoying music. It is quite prevalent in comment sections, and rather a turnoff .
I was 18 in 66-67 I enjoyed the birth of rock in the 50s followed by the fantastic 60s and 70s. I even enjoyed some music from the 80s and 90s. Still find some since then good but nearly as much. I hope musicians will get back to innovation and relying on talent as opposed to technology.
I don't know who told you that one. Larry Mondello's real life name was Rusty Stephens, and there never was any member of The Turtles with a name close to that. Here's something I find rather interesting. In 1976, there was a one hit wonder duo known as The Cate Brothers, who had only one hit with Union Man. I once heard that Gary Coleman, aka Arnode Jackson of Diff'rent Strokes, played the percussion on that song. Forward to 1982, I also heard that there was a group called Troubled Funk, who only had one album called Drop The Bomb, and that Robert Reed, aka Mike Brady of The Brady Bunch, was the leader of that group.
Just a few songs from '66 - '67 that probably never made it to the USA: Na na na by The Shoes, Russian spy and I by The Hunters, The life I live by Q65. Give it a try.
And, again, "Never My Love" did NOT top the Hot 100. It did top the Cashbox chart, but you're being inconsistent in the "Number One" status. If you're going by the Cashbox chart (with "Soul Man" and "Never My Love" being Cashbox #1s--but not "Expressway to Your Heart"), then you missed quite a few songs. "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers, "Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones, "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" by the Supremes, "Penny Lane" by the Beatles, "Somethin' Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra, "The Happening" by the Supremes (the last five of which also topped Billboard), "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" by the Monkees, "I Got Rhythm" by the Happenings, "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli, "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" by the Cowsills, "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees and "Hello Goodbye" by the Beatles (the last two of which also topped Billboard). I really like music-based channels but I also expect a little bit of consistency in presentation and a bit more fact-based information except where the channel is specifically designed as a kind of personal preference channel. I did get REALLY tired of the "things were better back in my day" attitude and I'm not exactly a millennial or even a Gen Xer. I remember Casey Kasem and "American Top 40." But, you kind of forgot that there was genuine garbage in 60s music. There was studio gimmickry in production and it wasn't always a bad thing. And, several of the things you tout as "positives" in this video were part of the "machine" of making music. (Yes, the Monkees had to fight to play their own instruments and write their own songs but all of their US Top 10 hits were written outside the group and their own material generally ended up as B-sides which did manage to chart due to the way Billboard worked back then, but rarely very high.)
And, again, "Expressway to Your Heart?" Another good song but another one that did NOT make it to "Number One"--it stopped at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a single week (behind "To Sir With Love," "Soul Man" and "It Must Be Him" in the top 3) and stalled at #3 on the R&B chart.
Gentry never really revealed what it was about, and there isn't any good fit,but... Logistics aside, I always assumed that the girl had an abortion/miscarriage and they threw the fetus off the bridge. I just can't think of anything bigger than a wedding ring, that would make even a little bit of sense
As someone who grew up on 60s music, thanks for making this video but the clip you chose for To Sir With Love looked like a later live performance and did not do it justice in my opinion. Also some of these songs did not top the Billboard Hot 100 fyi
The 60s & the 70s were the epitome of talent & great music ! The 80s were cool ,however,music from the 1990s through today is empty. It's too artificial & devoid of real talent & creativity.
Never having seen the group in the UK, I thought the Box Tops were a black group, brilliant. B Gentry influenced Dylan to write Clothesline Saga (originally titled Answer to Ode). Of the Monkees, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork had real musical chops. Mickey Dolenz was an actor, originally the child star of Circus Boy. He had never played drums before joining the Monkees. Davey Jones was an actor and singer of modest ability and also worked for a while as a race jockey. If you think these guys were great musicians, examine their careers following the Monkees. More generally, although I loathe a lot of today's music, several of the No 1s here are, honestly, very weak. The turtles, the buckinghams, bobby vee, strawberry alarm clock? Seriously? Like the Monkees, these were music by numbers just as poor as today's chart nonsense. I was 13 in 1967, and neither I or any of my friend thought these were great. In fact, the Buckinghams barely made it in the UK and the SAC bombed. You asked about other 1967 songs: we were listening to Sunshine of your love, Waterloo sunset, I can see for miles, White rabbit, Dance to the music, Let's spend the night together, Foxy lady, Bernadette, Gentle on my mind, I heard it through the grapevine, Heroes and villains. All songs of amazing creativity by enduring artists - I only had to look these up to check the date was right. I still remember all these classics. Strawberry alarm clock!
One of the best decades of music. Cannot pick a favorite song.
I was a teen during the 60s, real music by real talent, what a time that was.
I used to buy 45 rpm records of the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Dave Clark Five
I was 12 and 13 in 1967. Loved all of these songs! ❤
Great selection of 1967 music. Brings back so many memories.
Way too much talking... not enough music...
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a classic song by Otis Redding. It was recorded in 1967 and released posthumously in 1968.
Still hear these songs on the "oldies" stations here on the west coast (WA State). What I grew up with.
I did a lot of roller skating at the local roller rink back in 1967 !
What a great year to be a teenager !
Was 20 so not a teenager any more but still love this music. Best time to be a music buff.
We listened to all those Great songs on the radio n knew all the words ❤
I had a Zenith transistor radio I was gifted on my 10th birthday. I would lay on my bed and listen to these very songs. Loved Motown
Are u my sole mate did the same thing but I built mine 😂
my two favorite 67' songs are "Brown-eyed Girl" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale" but I don't remember if they charted number one even though they were number ones to me.
Even though I was only seven years old, I listened to this music lots, what a great video I like the trivia in between the songs keep up the good work
The 60s was the greatest decade in history for music.
More trivia ,one of the guitarists from The Strawberry Alarm Cock was Ed King who later joined Lynrd Skynrd and wrote the guitar riff to Sweet Home Alabama!
Loved that song of Letter!! Ode to billiejoe, soooo goood❤❤❤
I was 17 and loved them all !!!!!!
I LOVED THAT SONG WINDY, I WAS IN PRE-SCHOOL.
I had a daytime hob. Went to college at night. Windy was always playing on the car AM radio when I was going to college or returning home.
No mention of THE BEATLES songs "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE" and "HELLO GOODBYE"
both NUMBER ONE SONGS in 1967 !
I was visiting my Aunt in Cleveland Ohio in the summer of '67. I was sitting alone in the kitchen, eating breakfast. She had one of those little tabletop radios with the clock up in an open shelf, tuned to a rock and roll station. The DJ came on and announced a new song he was about to play, called "The Ode To Billy Joe". The opening guitar notes captured my interest. But then the vocal came in and I was blown away! I stopped eating to listen to the rest of it. I was like "WOW!"
In late August 1967, my Dad who was a USCG officer was transferred from Coos Bay, OR to San Juan, PR. We piled into the '60 Olds and drove to Miami, from where the car was shipped to San Juan. Even as a 6-year-old then, I can remember as we were driving through the South there was no escape from "Ode To Billy Joe" on the radio. By then it was early September.
As for Lulu, yes, a great song can be done in one take. The most enduring example of this took place on May 18, 1964, with The Animals' recording of "House of the Rising Sun".
"Incense and Peppermints" was actually released earlier in the year under the group's previous name, Thee Sixpence. If you have one of the few released records by that name, you just might have a small fortune!
Light my fire!!
If you have Light My Fire on the 7 inch 45 RPM single, you are missing a good 4 minutes of the song.
I was 14 in 1967 and a 14 yo girl in my class told me she liked me. She is sitting next to me now. We used to listen to a lot of these songs together.
Awww, that's so romantic. ❤
Loved Honey West, she was awesome and ahead of her time.
I was 15.
I was a little girl in Hawaii and Loved all of those songs, but Ode to Billie Joe...😢😢so sad.
"PROUD MARY" by CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL was kept out of the number one
spot by "EVERYDAY PEOPLE" by SLY AND THE FAMILY SYONE and "DIZZY" by TOMMY ROE .
Now that's funny - I remember almost all the songs mentioned in the comments, and can hear John Fogerty singing "Proud Mary" now that you've reminded me, but am not sure I can recall anything about the other two songs you mentioned.
great music
NUMBER ONE HITS OF 1967 :
@00:29 : "TO SIR WITH LOVE" : LULU
@01:11 : "THE LETTER" : BOX TOPS
@01:50 : "ODE TO BILLIE JOE" : BOBBY GENTRY
@02:47 : "WINDY" : ASSOCIATION
@03:23 : "I'M A BELIEVER" : MONKEES
@03:58 : "LIGHT MY FIRE" : DOORS
@04:32 : "HAPPY TOGETHER" : TURTLES
@05:27 : "GROOVIN' " : YOUNG RASCALS
@06:08 : "RESPECT" : ARETHA FRANKLIN
@06:44 : "COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP" : BOBBY VEE
@07:21 : "KIND OF A SRAG" : BUCKINGHAMS
@08:17 : "EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART" : SOUL SURVIVORS
@09:03 : "SOUL MAN" : SAM AND DAVE
@09:44 : "NEVER MY LOVE" : ASSOCIATION
@10:21 : INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS" : STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK
So many songs from 1967 bring back a lot of memories, but if I had to pick just one it would be "(Sittin on) the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding.
Yep.
hey, what about a whiter shade of pale by procol harum a multi million seller in 1967.
Great list.
With my name being Wendy, people used to sing to me Windy substituting my name when I was a kid!😂😂😂😂
I was born in the early 1950's, and got my first "transistor radio" for Christmas, from my parents, in 1962. After that, it was never ending music & I'm sure I went through batteries as if they were candy (no AC adapters for transistor radios in the 60's). I grew up outside of Dayton, Ohio, and the big Billboard Top 100 stations there were WING, 1410, AM of course, and WONE, 980, AM. What the Hell was FM? Transistor radios only had one band, and yes, it was AM. Many decades later I leaned via the Internet that in the 60's, WING was considered one of the best radio stations in the USA. Very progressive... Over the decades I have done a pretty fair job of keeping up with the changes in music, but it was the 1960's that will always be my favorite decade. So much music, so much talent...
Did you get CKLW from Windsor, Canada? How about WKNR Detroit? Those radios were the equivalent of today's cell phones...
@@mahmoudibnemir8704 No Mah, unfortunately I didn't get those stations. I was born in Cleveland, & as soon as I was old enough to discover there was another country to the north of me, I fell in love with Canada, & have been in love with her ever since. If I didn't live in the good old USA, Canada would be my next choice, for sure...
Bobby Gentry didn’t totally leave show biz.Briefly in 1974,she had a 4 episode variety show on CBS that replaced Sonny and Cher.Talk about one 1960s icon taking over another!!!
Great artists!
Love Neil Diamond.
Solitary Man !
I really liked "Pretty Ballerina" by The Left Bank!
To Sir with Love.
Loved the movie by that name, starring Sidney Poitier. And the song!
I automatically associate 1967 rock with the Jefferson Airplane.
I just wish you could play more of the song.
Ed King of Strawberry Alarm Clock later joined Lynynd Skynyrd first on bass and then went to guitar. Skynyrd became the legendary three guitar powerhouse ever since then....
Some good tunes in that list and some that make me wonder if it could be called music :-)
😊❤
The DOORS ❤
RESPECT is still widely heard and played. So is Light My Fire so I don't know what you mean that nobody hears them anymore.
What was thrown from the bridge was a baby. That was why Billy Joe McCalister jumped off the Tallhatchie bridge.
I remember hearing that ridiculous theory way back when. Like it would be easy for the girl to hide a pregnancy from her family. No, my guess it was some token of their teenage love, maybe cheap rings from Cracker Jack boxes they had exchanged - something, anyway, that signalled they were breaking up. Maybe the breakup came from her and that's why he was so distraught, and then her upset was from guilt. But a baby? Nah.
This is my whole theory. And it's probably way off. When kids are that age we all think we're invincible. He thought the river was deeper thought he could handle the dive but broke his neck. He'd been flirting with her in the movie theater and she had a thing for him but at that young age nothing had become of it then when he was killed it hit her real hard so she was dealing with it throwing flowers off the bridge in his memory.
@@DalokiMauvais Back in those days' abortion was illegal. Add to that those southern Baptist states were very religious. An unwed pregnancy was an extreme sin. Communities were tight knit, and everyone knew what everyone else was doing. The shame would cause a person to commit suicide.
@@stuartlent2645 My point is still that she could not have been pregnant and given birth to a baby (who was then thrown off a bridge) without her parents knowing it. This was a tight-knit family. It could not possibly have been a baby.
Had 3 of these on 45rpm.
And Ed King went into classical music as a classical piccolo player. The fun facts just keep on comin.😳😳😳😂
I remember all of these, hated some, liked many, loved one: "Ode to Billie Joe." Trivia: I read or heard, in 1967 or '68, that "Ode to Billie Joe" was planned to be the B side of the single. But halfway through recording the mesmerizing Ode, everybody realized that this was *It* - this _had_ to be the featured song. And oh, how right they were. I was a senior in high school then, and can still remember my creative writing teacher talking about the writing technique that made the song so captivating - that the person telling the story never says a word about her own feelings. Later I wrote a story using that technique, and got high praise from that same teacher, who called it "remarkable." And by the way, what became the B side was a "raunchy, swampy rock anthem" (Google AI's words) called "Mississippi Delta," that never would have gone anywhere because it _wasn't_ rock but pure loud, mindless country. I still have the single of "Billie Joe," but I think I only listened to a fraction of the B side once in the 57 years since it was released. More trivia: The clip you used is from the Smothers Brothers showed. It was not lip-synched. At the end, Gentry put her ukulele down, got up, walked to the back and sat down at the table with the figures of her mother, father and brother. It was pure genius. I think my dad even got misty-eyed. I know I did.
" that never would have gone anywhere because it wasn't rock but pure loud, mindless country."
This is very funny considering Gentry was a country singer/songwriter.
And "Soul Man?" Okay, it did hit Number One on the R&B chart (for an impressive 7 weeks) but it stopped at #2 on the Hot 100. It did top the Cashbox pop chart for a single week but "Expressway to Your Heart" didn't even crack the Cashbox Top 5 so, again, what's your basis for "Number One Hit" status?
Lulu is so pretty!
I was eight and remember all of these songs
I didn't use Happy Together for a love letter, but I did use a quote from "You Baby" by the Turtles
I wish this channel would dedicate a show to the great songs that only made it to #2
Jimi Hendrix never had a #1 hit, but he should have in 1967.
"Foxy Lady"
"The Wind Cries Mary"
"Purple Haze"
Um, what chart are you using? Bobby Vee's "Come Back When You Grow Up" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 3 weeks at that spot (held out of the top by "Ode to Billie Joe" for 2 of those weeks and "The Letter" for the 3rd week, with the Supremes' "Reflections" at #2 for the first 2 weeks and "Billie Joe" for the 3rd week). It's a good song but it's NOT a "Number One hit" from 1967.
Good music, but I wish you’d ditch the fake white dots in the film.
Agreed
I would have the Stones “Ruby Tuesday!”
Wasn't Judy in Disguise released in 1967? That song made no. 1
With a lot of these videos about hits from a particular year, there is usually at least one song that really isn't that good, even in some very good years. Not a weak song in this group. Also, I like the photo of the Strawberry Alarm Clock with Ed King in front.
Where is Up, Up and Away by the 5th Dimension?
This is the year that in May I was in the Navy
I hope you were able to take some pictures. I was in the Central Highlands at the time. Mostly Plieku.
Harrah's car collection behind Bobbie . She didn't become a recluse she married William Harrah and lived the millionaire lifestyle.
Married for four months.
A few of those were certainly NOT No. 1 in Australia in 1967 , in fact I’ve never heard two or three of them . I was 17 in 1967 so was in the thick of things so to speak .
98.6 by Keith played I'll bet 3 or 4 times an hr. Ed King from Lynyrd Skynyrd was in The Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Can't forget , If you're going to San Fransisco by Scott McKenzie .
I bought the original "Respect" by Otis Redding. I still prefer it..
Forgot to add to your title no one under 40 listens anymore.
What is it with appreciating older music while dissing current stuff, like what you like , and simply leave aside what does not interest you, we're living in a time where most music is heard through your headphones, why worry about other people's music? People who do this seem to be more interested shading contemporary sounds than actually enjoying music. It is quite prevalent in comment sections, and rather a turnoff .
I was 18 in 66-67 I enjoyed the birth of rock in the 50s followed by the fantastic 60s and 70s. I even enjoyed some music from the 80s and 90s. Still find some since then good but nearly as much. I hope musicians will get back to innovation and relying on talent as opposed to technology.
Song that should have been bigger - Could Be We're in Love by the Cryan Shames
Was Larry Mondello from leave it to Beaver really the lead vacals for the Turtles?
I don't know who told you that one. Larry Mondello's real life name was Rusty Stephens, and there never was any member of The Turtles with a name close to that. Here's something I find rather interesting. In 1976, there was a one hit wonder duo known as The Cate Brothers, who had only one hit with Union Man. I once heard that Gary Coleman, aka Arnode Jackson of Diff'rent Strokes, played the percussion on that song. Forward to 1982, I also heard that there was a group called Troubled Funk, who only had one album called Drop The Bomb, and that Robert Reed, aka Mike Brady of The Brady Bunch, was the leader of that group.
Let's add an epic Moody Blues' masterpiece "Nights in White Satin" to the collection here; what do you all think?
A masterpiece indeed 👍
1 of My FAVORITE SONGS❤❤❤
Russ Giguere sang on Windy, he didn't write it-- Ruthann Friedman did, and it was based on a guy she knew
Totally dig unique female vocals...Kim had just that.
Just a few songs from '66 - '67 that probably never made it to the USA: Na na na by The Shoes, Russian spy and I by The Hunters, The life I live by Q65. Give it a try.
I was 16 and don't remember any of. those songs.
Inaccurate info. Ruthann Friedman wrote windy by the association.
Good song. We had the 45 when it came out and I would keep playing it, I was 6 😁
Waterloo Sunset
Ode to billy joe was number 1 the week i was born
And, again, "Never My Love" did NOT top the Hot 100. It did top the Cashbox chart, but you're being inconsistent in the "Number One" status. If you're going by the Cashbox chart (with "Soul Man" and "Never My Love" being Cashbox #1s--but not "Expressway to Your Heart"), then you missed quite a few songs. "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers, "Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones, "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" by the Supremes, "Penny Lane" by the Beatles, "Somethin' Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra, "The Happening" by the Supremes (the last five of which also topped Billboard), "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" by the Monkees, "I Got Rhythm" by the Happenings, "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli, "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" by the Cowsills, "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees and "Hello Goodbye" by the Beatles (the last two of which also topped Billboard). I really like music-based channels but I also expect a little bit of consistency in presentation and a bit more fact-based information except where the channel is specifically designed as a kind of personal preference channel.
I did get REALLY tired of the "things were better back in my day" attitude and I'm not exactly a millennial or even a Gen Xer. I remember Casey Kasem and "American Top 40." But, you kind of forgot that there was genuine garbage in 60s music. There was studio gimmickry in production and it wasn't always a bad thing. And, several of the things you tout as "positives" in this video were part of the "machine" of making music. (Yes, the Monkees had to fight to play their own instruments and write their own songs but all of their US Top 10 hits were written outside the group and their own material generally ended up as B-sides which did manage to chart due to the way Billboard worked back then, but rarely very high.)
I think this was 1967; I Wish You Could be Here by the Cyrkle
Good imagination 😅😅
Love Power by the Sand Pebbles
La mayoría son clásicas y se siguen escuchando......
And, again, "Expressway to Your Heart?" Another good song but another one that did NOT make it to "Number One"--it stopped at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a single week (behind "To Sir With Love," "Soul Man" and "It Must Be Him" in the top 3) and stalled at #3 on the R&B chart.
While Rabbit Jefferson Airplane
Gentry never really revealed what it was about, and there isn't any good fit,but...
Logistics aside, I always assumed that the girl had an abortion/miscarriage and they threw the fetus off the bridge.
I just can't think of anything bigger than a wedding ring, that would make even a little bit of sense
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As someone who grew up on 60s music, thanks for making this video but the clip you chose for To Sir With Love looked like a later live performance and did not do it justice in my opinion. Also some of these songs did not top the Billboard Hot 100 fyi
Harper Valley PTA
Just seeing that title made me smile big!
You're Wrong The Jersey Boys are top Broadway Celebrities.
Not all number one songs are listed here .
What about
Rolling Stones
Ruby Tuesday
Beatles
Penny Lane
Supremes
Love Is Here Snd Now You’re Gone
The Happenng
Who told you no one listens to these anymore? Trump?
The 60s & the 70s were the epitome of talent & great music ! The 80s were cool ,however,music from the 1990s through today is empty. It's too artificial & devoid of real talent & creativity.
Would have been nice to actually hear the songs .
The back story on Windy isn’t even close to right. I wonder if everything else is made up.
Probably a tad of A.I. involved.
Never having seen the group in the UK, I thought the Box Tops were a black group, brilliant. B Gentry influenced Dylan to write Clothesline Saga (originally titled Answer to Ode). Of the Monkees, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork had real musical chops. Mickey Dolenz was an actor, originally the child star of Circus Boy. He had never played drums before joining the Monkees. Davey Jones was an actor and singer of modest ability and also worked for a while as a race jockey. If you think these guys were great musicians, examine their careers following the Monkees. More generally, although I loathe a lot of today's music, several of the No 1s here are, honestly, very weak. The turtles, the buckinghams, bobby vee, strawberry alarm clock? Seriously? Like the Monkees, these were music by numbers just as poor as today's chart nonsense. I was 13 in 1967, and neither I or any of my friend thought these were great. In fact, the Buckinghams barely made it in the UK and the SAC bombed. You asked about other 1967 songs: we were listening to Sunshine of your love, Waterloo sunset, I can see for miles, White rabbit, Dance to the music, Let's spend the night together, Foxy lady, Bernadette, Gentle on my mind, I heard it through the grapevine, Heroes and villains. All songs of amazing creativity by enduring artists - I only had to look these up to check the date was right. I still remember all these classics. Strawberry alarm clock!
less chat/trivia and more of the Songs please n thnx
Lets not talk about Wendy.
chatter
Too much talking bro. Want to hear the singing.