I turned 12 years old in 1966. Sometimes I think I am the luckiest man alive to live through this era. Just imagine turning 12 in 2024.... nobody will ever compile a list of today's "music". In 2082 they will still be listening to 60's and 70's music ! '
My Father was a doctor. He had seatbelts installed in our new chevy station wagon. The alley's behind our housed weren't paved so that was where kids settled scores with rock fights.
Same here. More he’ll is raised when we arrive, hooray for the Class of ‘65! So many vivid memories from those years. Life was magical and the music was the best!
The thing that's hard to believe is that stuff like this was coming out every couple of days back then, a geyser of talent and innovation. It was great.
Couldn't say your last sentence any better than you did! For me, 1962-70 had the best combination of pop ballads, hard rock, romantic, and some country-pop crossover songs, Skeeter Davis, "I Can't Stay Mad at You" (#7, Sep. 1963) was one I always enjoyed.
Yep. I don't really remember listening to FM until late Jr. High or early High school. Then realized there was a whole new world of great music that lasted longer than 2 1/2 minutes.
the joy of it was that we didn't have to watch them, just listen. I think if we had had to watch the 'performances' of many of these songs we'd have moved on, swiftly
@@jeffgarmon1 True. About the same time Woodstock happened is when I discovered harder rock on one of the FM stations in our city. That changed everything for me going into 10th Grade. First harder tune I heard that blew me away was The Doors "The Soft Parade". Then I heard Zeppelin's debut album, and that put the hook in me.
I played bass for the James Brown show for over 30 years. I often flew with Mr. Brown and his Learjet, because I took care of a lot of the logistics and had to go over several things with him. I asked him one time who his most inspirational artist was and he surprise me he said Bobby Helm ! I didn’t even know who he was. James looked at me and said Bobby is from Memphis, and everything that was ever good in his life. Turned bad. he lost his family his wife, his job everything. Just before he was without you kill himself he picked up the Bible and begin reading it, and he was Fascinating bye it , it came through to him as he read it! He went outside and took the bullets out of his gun, and he just sat on his porch, with his hands folded across his chest , and he was rocking back-and-forth, feeling the comfort that comes with knowing the Lord. He picked up a guitar that was there and just started strumming a few cords and then he made up this song. “I can see clearly now.” And that is the story and the beginning of the career of Bobby Helms
Born in 1953 I was blessed to have lived through this era and remember every one of these songs. Radio stations KHJ and KRLA and a life in the San Fernando Valley. Could it have been better?
It’s the strangest thing the memory of these songs, I was a small child and I have a memory of my Mum singing them to me and hugging me, I lost my Mum two years ago and this song mix gave me some tears, I miss her so much.
#44- In 66 I got home from 9th grade one afternoon and Mom was singing very softly and I asked her what was the song? She replied she just heard the most beautiful song on the radio today and then sang louder “Once on a meadow, while we were once on a meadow………..”. I laughed and said “Mom, you got the lyrics wrong, it’s ’One ton of metal, why he lifts one ton of metal’……”. We argued about it all afternoon. I sure do miss her.
I was 11 in 1966, fantastic music to grow up with!!! Cancelled out a lot of the shit in the house I grew up in!!! Thank you to all the singers, bands & groups!!!!
The same could be said for my home in the late 50's and sixties, but there was still some good stuff. Harry Belafonte, Herb Alpert, Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, etc, etc.
14 in 1966. I'm sitting in a time machine. I feel the same as then. My future all before me. Great expectations. Well.... - I still know every sound and every word of each of these songs.
Never forgot what a fantastic pop music year it was! Those acts you mentioned, and so many others: Bob Lind's "Elusive Butterfly", Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man", The T-Bones, "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In") incorporated into an Alka-Seltzer commercial; The Sandpipers, "Guantanamera", The Turtles, "You Baby", etc.
Damn man, vintage '61 here, hang in there! 👍 I'm prog for sure but my early love (hated my older sister's bubblegum pop) will always be DooWop, Motown, wall of sound R&B, and that early Rock and Roll! I was born just a tad late for my music tastes.... you, just a tad early. 😄 Eta: Though, I have a soft spot for quite a few hits by Deano, Wayne, Englebert, even Frank and many of their contemporaries. Hell, I'll even include some Como et al! 😛
Easy there sparky; go listen to some local shows with blues and rock and roll. Still lots of hoppin' stuff goin' on. All the kids who were doin' it back then came from local roots. The big reason they had something new was that recording companies and record stores hadn't been promoting black artists. That wasn't true in Europe.
NEVER ! I hadn't realized all these magnificent songs came out in 1966 - I adored and adore many of them- too many to list here - but including Monday Monday, Sound of Silence, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine...., Good Vibrations..... and on and on. I was 16 that year, a teenager growing up in Los Angeles- I don't think I could have been luckier !
@@freeguy77 I was never a fan of The Walker Brothers. Though I've all the 'normal' albums from The Beatles, John, most from Paul and George, I'm not a fan of Yellow Submarine. Never was. There were much better German songs, but I should have preferred a French one. Is this an American chart with a German singer??!
Great year, BUT: Remember the doo-wops? Of course you do, HS dances, drive-ins, sports, diners, etc. Right up there. Now please join me in asking everyone to get off our lawn.
Conspicuous by their absence for me were: Lightning Striking Again by Lou Christie; Lies by the Knickerbockers; Ballad of the Green Berets by Barry Sadler; You Didn't Have to be so Nice by the Lovin Spoonful; Georgy Girl by the Seekers: Cherish by the Association; multiple Beach Boys songs from per Sounds and Good Vibrations; etc.
Astonishing to see such a wealth of absolute classics in one year - and that was just the "pop" charts. The sixties were an amazing time for music, and I'm so glad that I did most of my growing up in that decade. I was 13 in '66 and all these songs sound as fresh and exciting to me as they did then Better times, that's for sure.
I was a 5yr old child in the Philippines, but i couldn't believe myself that i remember most of those songs played here. 😍 I agree, 60's decade in music is unsurpassed in beauty, impact, and gifted. 🙏🏽
58yrs. later, this video sure brought back some memories. Three of the songs I've never heard before - go figure. Thanks for a pleasant stroll down memory lane, & kind regards!
11 yrs old in 66. Gotta give a shout out to CKLW radio - 50 thousand watt station in Windsor, Ontario that played all these great hits back in those days.
Oh my oh my the memories of CKLW😂🎉❤. I’m About your age and we really did grow up is some great times. I’m kind of old - but my memory is very powerful. I won’t trade my memory, but will admit that I get saddened when I remember the “old days” and all those wonderful people that have already left us.
One of the songs that didn't feature here was Poetry In Motion by Johnny Tillotson. I had an Uncle Wally and when Poetry In Motion was played at family parties in the 1960s/70s all the youngsters would go over to Uncle Wally and sing "Wal, Wal, Wal, Wal, Wal" instead of Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. I hope you remember that song UncleWally3.
In 1964 I was 8 years old. I can't believe I remember so much of this music from then. What I heard was mostly AM radio - mono - from a car radio - or TV - also mono. Talk about a blast from the past, wow.
Some people would opt for '65, some for '67...actually the whole decade was full of wonderful music but '66 the year of The Beatles Revolver and Dylan's Blonde on Blonde is arguably the peak of that creative cauldron called The Sixties!
Yes it's difficult, if not impossible, to pick an individual year; they were all so good. I think everyone has their favorite based on their own personal memories from that era.
This is one person's opinion. Some of them were either 1965 or 67. Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys was like 1964. No Yardbirds! In 1966, they had at least three in the top 40, including "I'm a Man," "For Your Love," and, "Over, Under, Sideways, Down." But again, this is one person's favorites.
@@gsjackson34 It actually WAS a hit in spring of '67, that's when you would have been hearing it on the radio. On WABC in NY it peaked at #13 in April.
What's funny is that I can remember a specific place and time I heard these songs, probably the first time I heard them and was able to listen closely to the lyrics. My grandmothers house, the back of our station wagon, on a specific curve or bend in the road, or listening via earphone on my transistor radio on my bed.
In listening to these lists it strikes me as to how different the Beatles sound. Their sound was truly different, fresh. I could only imagine hearing their stuff for the first time. I would have been blown away.
USMC 64--68. March 1966 just coming Home from Vietnam, 20 years old. Two weeks later I'm at Camp Lejeune and I get picked for Sea Duty. From late March 66 to early February 1968, I was with the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Saratoga. But I still remember all of these great songs. And despite all the hard times back then, it was still a great time. Thank you for this great video, and God Bless.
You arre correct. But I'm always open to listen to suggestions from you guys as I wasn't alive at that time so there will be songs that I simply don't know. So you can name them if you like.
I was 11 in 1966 and had discovered the Beatles at the end of 65. My only complaint is why aren't Paperback Writer and Nowhere Man not #1 & #2? Great music! I love most of the songs.
Same here. I remember being blown away by Elusive Butterfly-- Bob Lind. Released in either very late '65 or early '66. Everyone's Gone to the Moon was '65 I believe.
We had no idea we were in music paradise back then. It was easy to think it would last forever. If 3/4 of those songs were released as a new recording today, they would be #1 hits.
I was 9 years old in 1966 and we always had the radio on top of the refrigerator on in the morning and we heard so many fantastic songs and they were playing in my mind all day.These songs werea big part of our lives it made life fun and happy you can't ask for more if you were a songwriter or musician.
What a wonderful time doing National Service in the army. Playing with howitzers in Sydney, jungle training in Queensland and time off during the weekend. At the beginning of '68 discharged and two weeks later my artillery battery went to Vietnam. Phew! Hearing these songs makes me want to do it all over again. Anybody got a Time Machine? 😊
WOW! What a year for music. I know all but 6 of these, and I was only 6 in ‘66. I still enjoy many of them 58 years later. Those of us who grew up in the 60s, 70s and 80s were truly blessed with an amazing musical heritage.
agree, my era too, although in my mind the 70s were a lull in mainstream music, all funk and disco, but there were still some great groups that were really alternative but now worshipped, like Steely Dan and Supertramp. the 80s had the wonderful New Wave era, but nothing could match the 60s, the birth of everything from reggae to psychedelic pop.
@@racketman2u ….but the 70s gave us Bowie, some of best Stones, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, the best of Pink Floyd, the Clash, Graham Parker, Neil Young, The Police, Roxy Music, Little Feat, ….and The Bay City Rollers😆
@@racketman2u Yes, of course. And Talking Heads, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, most of Grateful Dead, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Wonder …. And of course The Osmonds.
I was born in Germany in 1966 and feel very connected to the music from that year, even though I didn't get to know it until much later. My favorites tend to be the British bands, like The Who, The Beatles, The Kinks, Rolling Stones and many others. But Nancy Sinatra, The Beachboys and Mamas & Papas are also among them. The only German song in your video (Melanie - Er ist wieder da) was unknown to me until today.
On my 6th birthday, in 1966, my parents got me a small transistor radio. I discovered music that year, real music, not nursery rhymes. Mowton sound was my favorite. Later on the first three albums I purchased were The Troggs with wild thing, Donovan Mellow Yellow, and Paul Revere and the Raiders.
I got my 1st little transistor in '63 so I wouldn't monopolize the stereo console. My first two albums were Johnny Cash 's "Everybodr Loves A Nut" (considered by some to be a novelty album) and "Meet The Beatles".
Incredible collection of songs. Many have endured to this day. I was an army private and my favorites were the Stones, Hollies, Otis Redding, James Brown, The Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Doors. The Sinatras not so much.😂
I was born in 1954 and remember hearing almost all these songs on KXOK-AM in St. Louis. (FM was still mostly classical, jazz or "easy listening") For me the hormones were coming on hot and heavy, I had a crush on half the girls in school, and a few even had a crush on me(!). Vietnam was on the TV every evening, and some of the older brothers of people I knew were going there. It was just another part of the adult world I trying to understand. These songs were the sound track to all that.
@@JohnReitz-ps2ct No kidding!! I grew up in Winchester which is off sulpher springs Rd. I played little league at Manchester park. You must have known Stone Phillips then. My cousin was Eugene Moniz class of '73 I think. Well good to hear from an alumni
@@MerryHoneyBee-xc4tl Small world! Yes, I was in the same Boy Scout patrol as Stone. He was a star even back then. Would have been easy to hate but he was always a good guy. I haven't been back in almost 15 years. Thank you for the contact!
@@YakubibnEsau Thanks Guy. I had a duel MOS-Infantry and Intelligence. After telling me for three years I was going to Nam and assigning me to Philly for 3 months before going to Nam, the Army wisely decided the Nation was more secure leaving me in Philly than running around South East Asia with a gun. Apparently the Army was correct as not one NVA or VC crossed the Delaware River while I was in Philly! But fighting the little old women armed with shart umbrellas, for a seat on the Pen Central was Hell. 🙂
My 12 favorites (from this list) from the year I graduated from high school: Good Lovin'; Sunny; Wouldn't It Be Nice; Daydream; They're Coming To Take Me Away; Paint It Black; I Am A Rock; We Can Work It Out; Nowhere Man; The Sound of Silence; When A Man Loves A Woman; The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.
Thanks for this brilliant video , takes me back to when I was twelve and we were over the park all singing to They're coming to take me away ha ha , great tracks Nick 70 🏴
In 1966 I was finishing grade school, and would start into Junior High that Fall. These were all very great and memorable songs on radio and TV back then!👍
@@ShunyamNiketanaJerry Samuels, aka Napoleon XIV, died last year. He’d had minor hits since the fifties. I would place him as the missing link between Nervous Norvus and captain beefheart
This is brilliant thanks for sharing this great video with all of us die hard 60s music fans. I wasn't even born in the 60s I was born in the mid 70s! I wish that I'd have been born sooner though to witness all of this great music when it was around❤👍🙂
You can spin it any way you want. The song was released on the Rubber Soul album, which was released in 1965. So Helter Skelter was released as a single in 1976 to coincide with the Rock and Roll LP. So I guess you can say Helter Skelter was released in 1976 🤔
This list also leaves out at least two giant hits that were released in 1966: "Last Train to Clarksville" and "Eleanor Rigby." And who is Marion? I guess her 45 (and a couple of others listed) were big outside the U.S.
What a fabulous playlist. Hope you don't mind, but I'm going to play it in full in my Sixties radio show tomorrow (3KND in Melbourne, Australia). Great job and thanks for sharing your love of the sixties music. Rock on!
Thanks for putting together such a diverse list of music. I was only 6 years old in 1966 but I recognize many of these songs from back then because my dear Mom always had a radio on that was tuned into KEZY in Southern California.
I was 10 years old and I remember hearing these songs while driving in my parents car or with my transistor radio. Being alive at this time led to music being a big part of my life.
I turned 12 years old in 1966. Sometimes I think I am the luckiest man alive to live through this era. Just imagine turning 12 in 2024.... nobody will ever compile a list of
today's "music". In 2082 they will still be listening to 60's and 70's music ! '
And, that’s a fact!!
And you could buy firecrackers without restrictions. I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could.
My Father was a doctor. He had seatbelts installed in our new chevy station wagon. The alley's behind our housed weren't paved so that was where kids settled scores with rock fights.
I was 12 also, good times indeed! I was picking berries the summer of that year and I was really getting into the day's music.
I feel the same way. I’m about the same age and this was really a positive influence . Especially the Beatles , but so much more
Great collection. 77 here. Graduated High School in ‘65. Grew up in the best decades of music. So fortunate.
Same here. More he’ll is raised when we arrive, hooray for the Class of ‘65! So many vivid memories from those years. Life was magical and the music was the best!
I was right behind you in 1967. Central Illinois and played in a top hits cover band--great music, great fun.
@@patriciacee3106 Class of 65 also. Odessa High in Odessa, Tx. It WAS magical listening to the radio. No wand needed
The thing that's hard to believe is that stuff like this was coming out every couple of days back then, a geyser of talent and innovation. It was great.
I was 10 years old in 1966. What a great time to be growing up and listening to such great music. This was true talent.
can it be that all this fabulous music was our blessing one year ? WOW !
I was in Sussex 🇬🇧 - and was 11 til September
I was 10 in 1959 the year I started to play drums
Thank you. I turned 16 in 66, got my drivers license and met my first love. I loved the music of that year and all of the 60s!
Couldn't say your last sentence any better than you did! For me, 1962-70 had the best combination of pop ballads, hard rock, romantic, and some country-pop crossover songs, Skeeter Davis, "I Can't Stay Mad at You" (#7, Sep. 1963) was one I always enjoyed.
I was 14, what a great time for music!
This is why listening to AM radio in the 60s was always mind-blowing--always something new to blow your mind.
Yep. I don't really remember listening to FM until late Jr. High or early High school. Then realized there was a whole new world of great music that lasted longer than 2 1/2 minutes.
the joy of it was that we didn't have to watch them, just listen. I think if we had had to watch the 'performances' of many of these songs we'd have moved on, swiftly
@@jeffgarmon1 True. About the same time Woodstock happened is when I discovered harder rock on one of the FM stations in our city. That changed everything for me going into 10th Grade. First harder tune I heard that blew me away was The Doors "The Soft Parade". Then I heard Zeppelin's debut album, and that put the hook in me.
@@delavan9141 the music is gone now and AM is almost history
I played bass for the James Brown show for over 30 years. I often flew with Mr. Brown and his Learjet, because I took care of a lot of the logistics and had to go over several things with him. I asked him one time who his most inspirational artist was and he surprise me he said Bobby Helm ! I didn’t even know who he was. James looked at me and said Bobby is from Memphis, and everything that was ever good in his life. Turned bad. he lost his family his wife, his job everything. Just before he was without you kill himself he picked up the Bible and begin reading it, and he was Fascinating bye it , it came through to him as he read it! He went outside and took the bullets out of his gun, and he just sat on his porch, with his hands folded across his chest , and he was rocking back-and-forth, feeling the comfort that comes with knowing the Lord. He picked up a guitar that was there and just started strumming a few cords and then he made up this song. “I can see clearly now.” And that is the story and the beginning of the career of Bobby Helms
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Bobby Helms is from Martinsville Indiana, my hometown. I can see clearly now was sung by Bobby Nash
Born in 1953 I was blessed to have lived through this era and remember every one of these songs. Radio stations KHJ and KRLA and a life in the San Fernando Valley. Could it have been better?
Hi - I was living in Hollywood, and just 4 years older than you . Loved KRLA and KFWB with Bill Balance. Could it have been better ? I don't think so.
It’s the strangest thing the memory of these songs, I was a small child and I have a memory of my Mum singing them to me and hugging me, I lost my Mum two years ago and this song mix gave me some tears, I miss her so much.
#44- In 66 I got home from 9th grade one afternoon and Mom was singing very softly and I asked her what was the song? She replied she just heard the most beautiful song on the radio today and then sang louder “Once on a meadow, while we were once on a meadow………..”. I laughed and said “Mom, you got the lyrics wrong, it’s ’One ton of metal, why he lifts one ton of metal’……”. We argued about it all afternoon. I sure do miss her.
My dad use to sing to it, onetontomato.... LMAO
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A mondegreen!
@@MichaelKingsfordGrayRight! “…..they laid him on the green”!
One ton tomato, I’ll eat a one ton tomato. 😂
I was 11 in 1966, fantastic music to grow up with!!! Cancelled out a lot of the shit in the house I grew up in!!! Thank you to all the singers, bands & groups!!!!
The same could be said for my home in the late 50's and sixties, but there was still some good stuff. Harry Belafonte, Herb Alpert, Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, etc, etc.
Cannot believe that this music is nearly 60 years old. Play most of these tracks through my USB in the car, damn that was good music and still is.
Cannot believe that 'What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted' isn't on the list along with a bunch of others. Bummer.
14 in 1966. I'm sitting in a time machine. I feel the same as then. My future all before me. Great expectations. Well.... - I still know every sound and every word of each of these songs.
My first years as a teenager ..... Stones, Beatles, Kinks, Nancy Sinatra, Wilson Pickett, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder...... what a fab year
Never forgot what a fantastic pop music year it was! Those acts you mentioned, and so many others: Bob Lind's "Elusive Butterfly", Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man", The T-Bones, "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In") incorporated into an Alka-Seltzer commercial; The Sandpipers, "Guantanamera", The Turtles, "You Baby", etc.
Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, James Brown. The stuff holds up.
Agreed
I was born in 1940 and I believe the best music came in the 60's and70's. Still love it.
Damn man, vintage '61 here, hang in there! 👍 I'm prog for sure but my early love (hated my older sister's bubblegum pop) will always be DooWop, Motown, wall of sound R&B, and that early Rock and Roll! I was born just a tad late for my music tastes.... you, just a tad early. 😄
Eta: Though, I have a soft spot for quite a few hits by Deano, Wayne, Englebert, even Frank and many of their contemporaries. Hell, I'll even include some Como et al! 😛
I grew up in the 60’s! There will never be music like it! Sad!
Easy there sparky; go listen to some local shows with blues and rock and roll. Still lots of hoppin' stuff goin' on. All the kids who were doin' it back then came from local roots. The big reason they had something new was that recording companies and record stores hadn't been promoting black artists. That wasn't true in Europe.
NEVER ! I hadn't realized all these magnificent songs came out in 1966 - I adored and adore many of them- too many to list here - but including Monday Monday, Sound of Silence, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine...., Good Vibrations..... and on and on.
I was 16 that year, a teenager growing up in Los Angeles- I don't think I could have been luckier !
Born in the sixties
The best decade of music!
Don’t believe me???
There isn’t a bad song here ❤
#41 "Spanish Eyes" by Al Martino. Never liked that one!
@@freeguy77 I was never a fan of The Walker Brothers. Though I've all the 'normal' albums from The Beatles, John, most from Paul and George, I'm not a fan of Yellow Submarine. Never was. There were much better German songs, but I should have preferred a French one. Is this an American chart with a German singer??!
@@freeguy77 One out of fifty ain't bad...
Oh yes there are! And not just a few!!
The best year ever, I’m 75 now. Thank you so much for the wonderful memories
Great year, BUT: Remember the doo-wops? Of course you do, HS dances, drive-ins, sports, diners, etc. Right up there. Now please join me in asking everyone to get off our lawn.
75 year-old here too - Cheers, Diane !
So thankful I grew up with the best music 50's & 60's 😊
I was 7 in 1966.... I have been obsessed with Nancy's boots ever since!
I am not surprised the Beatles had five on this list, they are in a category by themselves.
Yeah, but Yellow Submarine?…..Nope
Music's greatest year. The absolute pinnacle.
1968 has entered the chat 😊
The year I graduated high school. 6 months later I was on my way to Vietnam. USN.
Good for you. You’re still around, and you made it through that ordeal.
Glad you made it back. So did both of my brothers.
Kudos to you sir! I wish that I'd have been around in the 60s. Best music decade! Greetings from UK
Thank you for your service. I missed it by 4 years. Thank God.
Lucky to be in the navy, so glad you are still here!
Not only the Music was great! So was the Cars, Clothes, Hair, and The Whole Generation!
I was born in 66. My parents had the 45's to most of these great songs!
The best year to be born😊
@@patrickschabel3955 Indeed
Man, what a trip down memory lane ! Those were my heyday years. Thanks!
"what a drag it is to get old"... let's do the time warp again. By far some of the best music ever performed. Flashbacks are hittin' me.
I certainly wouldn't have listed the songs in that order, but man, 1966 was a great year for music.
Yeah, I was curious as well. What criteria did he use when he listed these songs?
Make your own list then
Conspicuous by their absence for me were: Lightning Striking Again by Lou Christie; Lies by the Knickerbockers; Ballad of the Green Berets by Barry Sadler; You Didn't Have to be so Nice by the Lovin Spoonful; Georgy Girl by the Seekers: Cherish by the Association; multiple Beach Boys songs from per Sounds and Good Vibrations; etc.
British charts maybe
Good Vib rations was on this list at around sixteen
13yrs old in 66 some of the best music ever to be played onthe radio the best coming from all the pirate stations miss those times 😢
Yes, the pirate stations changed everything, there was no going back to the BBC "Light" programme after that :)
miss those years things today just ain't the same
Astonishing to see such a wealth of absolute classics in one year - and that was just the "pop" charts.
The sixties were an amazing time for music, and I'm so glad that I did most of my growing up in that decade. I was 13 in '66 and all these songs sound as fresh and exciting to me as they did then
Better times, that's for sure.
I was a 5yr old child in the Philippines, but i couldn't believe myself that i remember most of those songs played here. 😍
I agree, 60's decade in music is unsurpassed in beauty, impact, and gifted. 🙏🏽
Beautiful comment, summing it up nicely.
I wish I hadn't watched this. I was 14 then........and I want to go back........
58yrs. later, this video sure brought back some memories. Three of the songs I've never heard before - go figure. Thanks for a pleasant stroll down memory lane, & kind regards!
The top 50 songs of 1966 are a real nostalgia trip! Thanks for putting it up, Chrizly-Charts! Well done!
The Beatles were generations ahead of their time.
11 yrs old in 66. Gotta give a shout out to CKLW radio - 50 thousand watt station in Windsor, Ontario that played all these great hits back in those days.
Oh my oh my the memories of CKLW😂🎉❤. I’m About your age and we really did grow up is some great times. I’m kind of old - but my memory is very powerful. I won’t trade my memory, but will admit that I get saddened when I remember the “old days” and all those wonderful people that have already left us.
I was 7yrs old in 1966...If only I could turn back the hands of time!!
My coming of age music; still coming of age, only now it’s old age.
One of the songs that didn't feature here was Poetry In Motion by Johnny Tillotson. I had an Uncle Wally and when Poetry In Motion was played at family parties in the 1960s/70s all the youngsters would go over to Uncle Wally and sing "Wal, Wal, Wal, Wal, Wal" instead of Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. I hope you remember that song UncleWally3.
Me, too, but we’re lucky really! 1969 grad
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Times were great then,😊😊😢
Summer of 1966 (I was 17) - BEST MUSIC EVER!
John Sebastian is so underrated!
In 1964 I was 8 years old. I can't believe I remember so much of this music from then. What I heard was mostly AM radio - mono - from a car radio - or TV - also mono. Talk about a blast from the past, wow.
Some people would opt for '65, some for '67...actually the whole decade was full of wonderful music but '66 the year of The Beatles Revolver and Dylan's Blonde on Blonde is arguably the peak of that creative cauldron called The Sixties!
Yes it's difficult, if not impossible, to pick an individual year; they were all so good. I think everyone has their favorite based on their own personal memories from that era.
More great songs put out in 1966 than in the entire 21st Century. Heck, the Beatles alone put out more great songs than in the last decade
great music unlike today
True music lasts; some of today's not as singable as then.
This is one person's opinion. Some of them were either 1965 or 67. Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys was like 1964. No Yardbirds! In 1966, they had at least three in the top 40, including "I'm a Man," "For Your Love," and, "Over, Under, Sideways, Down." But again, this is one person's favorites.
Also The Animals. ! House of the Rising Sun, best song ever.
I would also have included For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield.
Totally agree. That song was never written about Viet Nam, but the lyrics sure fit.
Always thought it was '67, but looked it up and you're right -- released Dec. 5, 1966.
@@gsjackson34 It actually WAS a hit in spring of '67, that's when you would have been hearing it on the radio. On WABC in NY it peaked at #13 in April.
1:35 The Sandpipers version of Guantanamera here has wonderful production. Brilliant music.
What's funny is that I can remember a specific place and time I heard these songs, probably the first time I heard them and was able to listen closely to the lyrics. My grandmothers house, the back of our station wagon, on a specific curve or bend in the road, or listening via earphone on my transistor radio on my bed.
In many cases, me too. And each one plucks a different chord in my heart.
In listening to these lists it strikes me as to how different the Beatles sound. Their sound was truly different, fresh. I could only imagine hearing their stuff for the first time. I would have been blown away.
All great songs i remember them well from my teenage years,still like the same songs now and 76 yrs old 😊😊thanks for the upload,,
Thank you Chrizly-Charts for this collection. Born in '49 and I've always maintained that the 60s had the best music hands down.
Still listening to these ❤
Beautiful songs,golden days.
I wasn't born until 1972, and I knew all but 2 of these songs!!
Good on you, Matthew! "Keep on Rockin' in The Free World..."
USMC 64--68. March 1966 just coming Home from Vietnam, 20 years old. Two weeks later I'm at Camp Lejeune and I get picked for Sea Duty. From late March 66 to early February 1968, I was with the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Saratoga. But I still remember all of these great songs. And despite all the hard times back then, it was still a great time. Thank you for this great video, and God Bless.
Way to go Semper Fi! Thank you for your service.
Semper Fi, 72-76
Ty for your service
Some great music missing from this list and quite a few I wouldn't have bothered putting in. However, it is your list.
You arre correct. But I'm always open to listen to suggestions from you guys as I wasn't alive at that time so there will be songs that I simply don't know. So you can name them if you like.
@@ChrizlyChartswasn’t unchained melody around then?
@@butchie2752 One year earlier. And it's in that video =)
I was 11 in 1966 and had discovered the Beatles at the end of 65. My only complaint is why aren't Paperback Writer and Nowhere Man not #1 & #2? Great music! I love most of the songs.
Most of these lists have a top ten of songs, some of them good. 1966 was a goldmine of great tunes, and fifty tracks seems about right.
I was only 7 years old then, but I love and remember! Lovin’ Spoonful, lots of Beatles, Stones, Mamas & Papas, Beach Boys, Four Tops, etc. ❤
Me too!
We 59'ers are the best. We had the best music at the best time, I also love 80s music.
Same here. I remember being blown away by Elusive Butterfly-- Bob Lind. Released in either very late '65 or early '66. Everyone's Gone to the Moon was '65 I believe.
The Mighty top ten years of music 1965 until 1975… 🎶
You got that right
We had no idea we were in music paradise back then. It was easy to think it would last forever. If 3/4 of those songs were released as a new recording today, they would be #1 hits.
I was 9 years old in 1966 and we always had the radio on top of the refrigerator on in the morning and we heard so many fantastic songs and they were playing in my mind all day.These songs werea big part of our lives it made life fun and happy you can't ask for more if you were a songwriter or musician.
What an unbelievable number of memorable songs in that year.
there were more #1 songs that year too, none stayed on top longer than 2 weeks, according to the Billboard chart.
@@adotintheshark4848 They were ALL so good, they kept pushing each other aside !!!
What a wonderful time doing National Service in the army. Playing with howitzers in Sydney, jungle training in Queensland and time off during the weekend. At the beginning of '68 discharged and two weeks later my artillery battery went to Vietnam. Phew!
Hearing these songs makes me want to do it all over again. Anybody got a Time Machine? 😊
13 in 66 weres the time gone , great year for the footy Everton and England some great music 😊
I started medical school in 1966 and these songs tuned me out while studying - amazing to have grown up in the 60s music scene
I remember every one of those, I was 12 at the time.
Oh those were the days.
WOW! What a year for music.
I know all but 6 of these, and I was only 6 in ‘66. I still enjoy many of them 58 years later.
Those of us who grew up in the 60s, 70s and 80s were truly blessed with an amazing musical heritage.
agree, my era too, although in my mind the 70s were a lull in mainstream music, all funk and disco, but there were still some great groups that were really alternative but now worshipped, like Steely Dan and Supertramp. the 80s had the wonderful New Wave era, but nothing could match the 60s, the birth of everything from reggae to psychedelic pop.
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….but the 70s gave us Bowie, some of best Stones, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, the best of Pink Floyd, the Clash, Graham Parker, Neil Young, The Police, Roxy Music, Little Feat, ….and The Bay City Rollers😆
@@keefrasputin634 haha yeah, I also liked the American bands like the Doobies and Allmans, maybe I can overlook the Lieutenant Pigeons.
@@keefrasputin634 Yes! 60's and esp. truly 70's rocked!!
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Yes, of course. And Talking Heads, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, most of Grateful Dead, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Wonder …. And of course The Osmonds.
What a great musical year !
I bought many of these records then, and the Kinks were going to become my favorite group !
I was born in Germany in 1966 and feel very connected to the music from that year, even though I didn't get to know it until much later. My favorites tend to be the British bands, like The Who, The Beatles, The Kinks, Rolling Stones and many others. But Nancy Sinatra, The Beachboys and Mamas & Papas are also among them.
The only German song in your video (Melanie - Er ist wieder da) was unknown to me until today.
On my 6th birthday, in 1966, my parents got me a small transistor radio. I discovered music that year, real music, not nursery rhymes. Mowton sound was my favorite. Later on the first three albums I purchased were The Troggs with wild thing, Donovan Mellow Yellow, and Paul Revere and the Raiders.
I got my 1st little transistor in '63 so I wouldn't monopolize the stereo console. My first two albums were Johnny Cash 's "Everybodr Loves A Nut" (considered by some to be a novelty album) and "Meet The Beatles".
Incredible collection of songs. Many have endured to this day. I was an army private and my favorites were the Stones, Hollies, Otis Redding, James Brown, The Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Doors. The Sinatras not so much.😂
Really good editing, a few seconds that get to the core of what each song is !
I was just four years old but what a spectacular year in music. Still some of my favorite songs and artists!
1 yr older but same take on the music. Great stuff...
best looking women,best looking cars,best dope,best music,oh,yes
The year i left school. We still had a country then.😢🇬🇧
Jesus, take a pill, Mr. Depression. We still have a country and it’s doing better every day.
I was only 14 and loved them all. They live even today.
Great selection!! You can’t please everybody. I was a teenager in 1966 and this brought back some good memories. Thanks.
I was born in 1954 and remember hearing almost all these songs on KXOK-AM in St. Louis. (FM was still mostly classical, jazz or "easy listening")
For me the hormones were coming on hot and heavy, I had a crush on half the girls in school, and a few even had a crush on me(!).
Vietnam was on the TV every evening, and some of the older brothers of people I knew were going there. It was just another part of the adult world I trying to understand.
These songs were the sound track to all that.
Kxok haven't heard that in a long time. Parkway West class of '76
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I'm Parkway West class of 1972...
@@JohnReitz-ps2ct No kidding!! I grew up in Winchester which is off sulpher springs Rd. I played little league at Manchester park. You must have known Stone Phillips then. My cousin was Eugene Moniz class of '73 I think. Well good to hear from an alumni
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Small world!
Yes, I was in the same Boy Scout patrol as Stone.
He was a star even back then. Would have been easy to hate but he was always a good guy.
I haven't been back in almost 15 years.
Thank you for the contact!
@@JohnReitz-ps2ct thank you. The pleasure is mine. Haven't been back myself in over 20 years but still a die hard Cardinals fan.
Great list, great memories - I was 12yo in 1966 and I remember them all. Thanks for sharing.
I was two in 1966 and still listen to the music of the 60's. I liked Maxwell's silver hammer and let it be at the time. 😊
I was 11. Could sing every song on that list note for note.
Children I was 21 in '66 and in senior ROTC waiting my turn.
Hope you were ok.
@@YakubibnEsau Thanks Guy. I had a duel MOS-Infantry and Intelligence. After telling me for three years I was going to Nam and assigning me to Philly for 3 months before going to Nam, the Army wisely decided the Nation was more secure leaving me in Philly than running around South East Asia with a gun. Apparently the Army was correct as not one NVA or VC crossed the Delaware River while I was in Philly! But fighting the little old women armed with shart umbrellas, for a seat on the Pen Central was Hell. 🙂
My 12 favorites (from this list) from the year I graduated from high school: Good Lovin'; Sunny; Wouldn't It Be Nice; Daydream; They're Coming To Take Me Away; Paint It Black; I Am A Rock; We Can Work It Out; Nowhere Man; The Sound of Silence; When A Man Loves A Woman; The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.
Thanks for this brilliant video , takes me back to when I was twelve and we were over the park all singing to They're coming to take me away ha ha , great tracks Nick 70 🏴
The Beach Boys, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones ruled the 60's
Can't say I like the new videos for the Beach Boys classic songs though
The Byrds and Kinks should also be on that list.
In 1966 I was finishing grade school, and would start into Junior High that Fall. These were all very great and memorable songs on radio and TV back then!👍
I was ten that year and remember almost all of these great songs. I hope Napolean XIV got the help he needed.
Ich kam gerade in 09/1966 in die Schule, war 7 Jahre alt, kenne aber alle Songs 😏
@@ShunyamNiketanaJerry Samuels, aka Napoleon XIV, died last year. He’d had minor hits since the fifties. I would place him as the missing link between Nervous Norvus and captain beefheart
This is brilliant thanks for sharing this great video with all of us die hard 60s music fans. I wasn't even born in the 60s I was born in the mid 70s! I wish that I'd have been born sooner though to witness all of this great music when it was around❤👍🙂
I was, got some stories, before many were megastars..
Great list. Beatles Michelle was released on the Beatles Rubber Soul Album, 1965. Revolver was released in 1966.
Sure
But Michelle/ Girl was released as a Single in Europe in 1966 and became a huge Hit. It even earned the Beatles their first grammy😅
You can spin it any way you want. The song was released on the Rubber Soul album, which was released in 1965.
So Helter Skelter was released as a single in 1976 to coincide with the Rock and Roll LP. So I guess you can say Helter Skelter was released in 1976 🤔
This list also leaves out at least two giant hits that were released in 1966: "Last Train to Clarksville" and "Eleanor Rigby." And who is Marion? I guess her 45 (and a couple of others listed) were big outside the U.S.
I was 2 in 66. These are the songs my mum used to sing and dance with me. Precious memories xx
"One ton tomato, I ate a one ton tomato!" 😆
@@HarryF-tz5fo You have to be a boomer!
Heard a little differently, the joke used to be: 'That's one large Irishman.' One Ton O'Meara.
One ton of mayo. What you put on the world’s largest BLT.
A time of departure, change and a change of heart!
What a fabulous playlist. Hope you don't mind, but I'm going to play it in full in my Sixties radio show tomorrow (3KND in Melbourne, Australia). Great job and thanks for sharing your love of the sixties music. Rock on!
I like these walks down memory lane. Don't agree with the order of the songs but it's fun to hear them 👍
All songs my favorite when I was young now am very old I keep whatcing hearing till the end ~😃
If I hadn't heard The Mamas & The Papas by the end I would have been devastated. 😉
Me too!
Great Music Thank you so Much.
God Bless them.
Great music back then and its still there for you to listen to.
Great selection! I was 20 that year and almost all the songs were terrific. This is a RUclips to save.
Just after I was born. Know so many. It’s quite a variety😊 some of my favorite oldies ❤
Great year of music. I was 5/6 riding in the car with my mom in LA listening to KHJ.
Thanks for putting together such a diverse list of music. I was only 6 years old in 1966 but I recognize many of these songs from back then because my dear Mom always had a radio on that was tuned into KEZY in Southern California.
1966 was the year I started listening heavily to the radio pop-music stations. I was 11.
I was 10 years old and I remember hearing these songs while driving in my parents car or with my transistor radio. Being alive at this time led to music being a big part of my life.