In 1966, I was 19 years old. My whole life was still ahead of me. I was having the best time of my life with my friends. What dreams I had back then! This music takes me back to that time. And today? In 10 days I will be 74, all my friends from back then are dead and I am an old man.
God bless , I’m 55 and was born in 1966. As a little kid in the early 70s I caught the end of the malt shops the Beatles, woolworths ,grants ,Gino’s drive in movies. I love the 60s and 70s. I have a knot in my stomach knowing must of my friends and I will be gone in 15 years .
@@williamhenry1934 Hallo and thank you William! I would be happy if I could be 55 again! I can only tell you: enjoy every day, you must always think, today is the best day of the rest of my life. Enjoy it, now! Greetings from Germany.
KEEP PUSHING ON. NEVER GIVE UP. THATS. WHAT UR FRIENDS. WILL SAY..DONT. GO QUIET. AGAINST. THE NITE..(DYLAN) Thomas RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT..
I was born in 1966, the day after my mother's birthday! Her closest cousin still gives me a hard time about my mother not being able to participate in her wedding because she was hugely pregnant with me! Don't you love family California Dreamin' River Deep, Mountain High (Tina & Wall of Sound) Cherry, Cherry I Say a Little Prayer (Recorded on the day of my birth, 1966 ~ released in '67) 1,2,3 ~ Len Berry What's Becomes of the Brokenhearted Oh! Heard it Through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight & The Pips)
Congratulations on 55 years together Mary! I just turned 13 that year. As in all the other years,so many great songs came out in '66! Ballad of the Green Berets has always put a lump in my throat, every time I hear it!❤
I was born in March of 1973 and can remember these songs like it was yesterday and now I have most of them in my collection of old record album's and cd 💿and I love them ❤
1966 had a lot of great songs I do remember that era I used to listen to them on the radio WABC New York wmca cklw Windsor that was the rocking years some of the greatest music in 1966 a lot of energy on that radio in those years
The 1960s was a remarkable decade where country, pop, rock n roll and soul converged and commingled on the same charts. It was a great time with so much excitement and expectation in the air.
They changed the music, the way of recording, the culture.As Brian May from Queen said : I don’t think anybody come close to the Beatles, including Oasis or as Alice Cooper said : everybody was influenced by somebody but everybody was influenced by the Beatles. Lemmy kilminster said : the Beatles changed the world , they were magic, the greatest band of all time. Ozzy Osbourne : The Beatles changed my life, the best band on earth etc...
Hi , it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m joe by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends?? Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture.
Remember every one of these songs brings back memories of my ARMY DAY's 66-68 stationed at FORT STORY VA AND the close friends there Jack Soderbergh Wendy an GLADYS JOHNSON from VIRGINIA Beach 521 downy st Buddy Hall from Richmond VA Larry BURRIS from NC DOUG TURNER from TENNESSEE an I was called the hillbilly from Kentucky so many years ago
Hi , it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m Joe by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends?? Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture.
waoo! I was 8 but I guess in France these songs were still hits years later. Donovan, Mellow Yellow! Winchester Cathedral! My brother took me there (from France) in 1969! Thanks Françis. Élis.
I was only 9 back in '66. That fall, when I was in fourth grade, I started to listen to the Boss Jocks on Famous 56, WFIL, here in Philly. Although I might have been the only 9-year-old listening to Top 40 radio, 1966 was a great year for music. In fact, 1966 was my favorite childhood year.
My mother used to love that song 💓! "Don't Mess With Bill!" She would play that song almost ALL day long on the weekends! It was a 45 rpm record. It may be in a box in the basement! My mother live to see 93, but my father passed away before he turned 60. His middle name was: "Bill."
Hot Rod: Thank you. I know how you feel as well. When people like us who had a good relationship with our mothers lose them, it's very hard in the beginning. I was very close to my mom! I never got it twisted like I hear people talk these days. She wasn't my best friend. She was in life and will always be, even in death, my mother! She taught me well! How to respect myself! How to respect a woman! How to be the kind of Man that could live on my own, as well as with a Woman! The things that mattered, especially when my father found himself lost in the bottom of his liquor bottle before he passed away when I was 19! My mom, just like I'm sure, your mom, were very strong and special Women in our lives! I miss my mother very much and I thank God for choosing That Woman to be My Mother! I tell you, Hot Rod, if I had not turned to The Lord when I had in 2010, I don't know what I may have done to myself when He Called her home! I hope that you will find the Peace that God has given me. God Bless You!!! 🙏
@@derricklogan2058 I sure do miss my mom 👩and the way she would always pick on me when I at her house 🏠she made me feel like a good person who takes care of there mom and appreciate what time I had with her in her home
Hot Rod? Always carry the good memories of your mother within your heart; the things she taught you; the important and special moments that were all about the love she shared and gave to you! I always think 🤔 of my mother's smile; the pride she had when she would introduce me to people she knew, saying that I was her "baby boy!" It was kind of embarrassing at first, especially because I was 6'5 at the time. But it was true, being the youngest of my siblings! Later, I came to the point where I missed it when she stopped, because I understood why she said it so often! I think 🤔 of my mother often! About a year before she died, since I hadn't seen her in a while; (she was in Oklahoma; I was in Michigan)! I began having dreams about her; waking up in the night 💤 having talks with her.... and then after the year was gone, the dreams 🛑 stopped! I was in a store cashing a lottery ticket and my sister called to inform me that our mother had passed away! They both lived in Oklahoma. I went home and prayed and cried! Like you, Hot Rod, I miss my mother very much!!! Through those dreams and conversations during the night, my mom let me know that she is with God and is okay!!! I look forward to seeing her again when God Calls me home 🏠!!! Stay focused on your love for her and her love 💕 for you! Stay focused on The Lord!!! Faith will see you through! ☮️🙏
@@derricklogan2058 I have been staying strong 💪because I know that my mother would not want me to do anything stupid like suicide or anything like that at all she would like to see me happy and get on with my life and remember her the way she was when she was alive
Truly a transitional year. Beatles vs Bobby Darin. Frank Sinatra vs Temptations Patti Page vs The Music Explosion Sgt Pepper sets the pace for the next 10 years starting in 1967
Thank you for another round of great selections. Back then, I depended on my music to get me through some very rough times. Now, more than ever, I'm counting on that same music to help pull me through an extremely difficult period. Thank you.
I was born May 10th 1966. my favorites: I Fought The Law I Saw Her Again A Place In The Sun Mother's Little Helper Black Is Black If I Were A Carpenter Sweet Pea, Cryin Time I Could Cry, Pied Piper Illusive Butterfly, Sloop John B Walk Away Renee Time Won't Let Me, Yellow Submarine I Am A Rock, 19th Nervous Nowhere Man, Groovy Love September, 5 Oclock World Paperback Writer, Sunny Sunshine Superman, Paint It Black You Keep Me Hanging On Sounds Of Silence Secret Agent Man Strangers In Thd Night Born Free Devil, Last Train To Clarksville, 96 Tears, Green Berets
There must have been something in the air. The music that year exploded with creativity. harmony and invention. So many great songs. and so diverse. Sixty six was the year I graduated high school. I lived by my transistor radio and the music filled the airwaves. We would go out to the record stores and buy either the single, or the album. I had a reel to reel tape recorder and would record the songs off the radio. Usually the DJ's talked over the opening or closing. There was so much good music produced that year. An anomaly, A sudden and unexplained musical spike. I can honestly say that almost every song on this list is a favorite
@@dr.jamesolack8504 It's. In. The. Top. 5. Of. The. Greatest. Years. Of. Music. U N D E R S T A N D ??? Meaning there are 4 other years that make up the Top 5 Greatest Years of Music. Slow enough for you?
@@30over3 What other years are you referring to? I thought we were just talking about the top 100 of 1966. I see. You’re saying that 1966 is one of the top five years of the greatest music ever. Your syntax is misconstrued. Don’t get pissed at me. You’re the one who’s sentence structure is in need of help.
I was 11 in '66 and my favorite tune had to be "They're Coming to Take me Away". Once they banned it on ABC..I used to seek out AM radio stations that would play it. I was at my Uncle's cottage in the Adirondacks that summer and found a station in Canada. My second favorite had to be "96 Tears. I still love any early Dusty Springfield, the Stones and the Beatles. That music is timeless.
You and my best friend with that song! LOL He lived in upstate New York and would go down to the basement and play this 45 over and over and over until finally, his mother came down and broke it and said never again! LOL Was this the 1 that had the song played in reverse on the B-side?
THE single most amazing year in rock and roll, soul and R&B !! Walking around the neighborhood, eleven years-old with a transistor radio pressed against one ear for HOURS. Looking for Suzie and Barbra Ann
As good as 1966 was, I prefer 1964 and 1965. My real oldies favorites were from 1957-63, pre-Beatles and the British Invasion. Each year had its own special charms and good feelings, before the awful war and the emergence of the drug songs from md-1967 onward, although there were many fine non-drug songs through the 1970s through the 1980s.
Ah yes 1966, one of the best years in popular music. Not only were the best parts some of the best music I've ever listen to, but there were barely any bad songs from this year too. My personal Favorites are "California Dreaming" by The Mamas & Papas, "Good Vibrations" by Beach Boys, "I Am a Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel/ "The Sounds of Silence." I guess the only 3 Songs I didn't like were "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Green Barets" & "Born a Woman"
They were all superb, I loved Cherish by the Association, Paperback Writer, We can Work It Out, Nowhere Man by the Beatles, Lightnin Strikes by Lou Christy, Summer in the City. by The Loving Spoonful, Good Vibrations , Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Beach Boys. Reach Out by the Four Tops and Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrcle.. My least favorite that year, Ballad of the Green Barret. by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. Winchester Cathedral by the New Vaudivile band. and Lady Godiva by Peter and Gordon, Strangers In the Night was down there, and I like Sinatra. Sweet Pea by Tommy Roe was kiddie pop. ..
Great songs for a 15-year-old in 1966. Also good to see you put USA in the title. Some of these "year"compilations omit the country and here in UK I hear songs that were not a hit here.
Yes, The Ballad of the Green Berets was the number 1 song of 1966. Seemed like every time you turned the radio on it was playing. It did not disappear after it was out of number 1, but was played almost every day of the year.
Yeah!,1966 was a very good year for music too, with many excellent songs with artists like the Supremes, the Beach Boys, Tommy James, Percy Sledge and his great hit, (maybe inspiring Procol Harum the next year), the Mamas and Papas, the Monkees, Hebb , without forgetting Donovan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles and the Stones, of course...
The biggest selling single arrived to late in the year to hit the chart. I'm a Believer by the Monkees hit no.1 on the final week of the year, and the first six weeks of 1967.
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In 1966, I was 19 years old. My whole life was still ahead of me. I was having the best time of my life with my friends. What dreams I had back then! This music takes me back to that time. And today? In 10 days I will be 74, all my friends from back then are dead and I am an old man.
God bless , I’m 55 and was born in 1966. As a little kid in the early 70s I caught the end of the malt shops the Beatles, woolworths ,grants ,Gino’s drive in movies. I love the 60s and 70s. I have a knot in my stomach knowing must of my friends and I will be gone in 15 years .
@@williamhenry1934
Hallo and thank you William!
I would be happy if I could be 55 again!
I can only tell you: enjoy every day, you must always think, today is the best day of the rest of my life. Enjoy it, now!
Greetings from Germany.
This post pretty will sums it up…..
@@KingKong-ft9zo
bless you and the rest of us to be able to listen and respond to the music we grew up with!!!
KEEP PUSHING ON. NEVER GIVE UP. THATS. WHAT UR FRIENDS. WILL SAY..DONT. GO QUIET. AGAINST. THE NITE..(DYLAN) Thomas RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT..
Born in 1958 and I remembered most of these songs playing on the radio as a kid.
I’m 71. We were so spoiled. We just had to tut in the radio✌️
Me & my husband got married in 1966, were 18 & 19 years old, this April we hit 55 years together. Love grows stronger and stronger.
Congratulations and God Bless you both! You don't see much of this any more..A special love & bond. ⛪✝
Cannot read the names very well very fuzzy
Congratulation! And many more!
I was born in 1966, the day after my mother's birthday!
Her closest cousin still gives me a hard time about my mother not being able to participate in her wedding because she was hugely pregnant with me! Don't you love family
California Dreamin'
River Deep, Mountain High
(Tina & Wall of Sound)
Cherry, Cherry
I Say a Little Prayer
(Recorded on the day of my birth, 1966 ~ released in '67)
1,2,3 ~ Len Berry
What's Becomes of the Brokenhearted
Oh!
Heard it Through the Grapevine
(Gladys Knight & The Pips)
Congratulations on 55 years together Mary! I just turned 13 that year. As in all the other years,so many great songs came out in '66! Ballad of the Green Berets has always put a lump in my throat, every time I hear it!❤
This is the year I met my wife and we are still married. These songs bring alot of memories. The 60s was the greatest decade for music.
Fantastic year I remember these songs I was young though brings back lovely memories for me ❤️👍😘
Remember every hit on this video. 1966 had it all!
There's good music, there's great music, and then there's year 1966
So many great songs in one year!
For 11:36 minutes I was 14 again sitting in my room playing my record player..... I think I'll listen to this again LOL
My mother was born in 1966. Her birth year had great music!
I was born in March of 1973 and can remember these songs like it was yesterday and now I have most of them in my collection of old record album's and cd 💿and I love them ❤
1966 had a lot of great songs I do remember that era I used to listen to them on the radio WABC New York wmca cklw Windsor that was the rocking years some of the greatest music in 1966 a lot of energy on that radio in those years
These are songs like an old wine that got better over time..
The 1960s was a remarkable decade where country, pop, rock n roll and soul converged and commingled on the same charts. It was a great time with so much excitement and expectation in the air.
Yes. The Beatles changed things up and things started getting better and groovier starting in 1966! What a time to be a pre teen and curious.
Some truth to that but they were leaving the ROCK N ROLL BLUES and then the STONES took over ROCK
Stones ate the best
They changed the music, the way of recording, the culture.As Brian May from Queen said : I don’t think anybody come close to the Beatles, including Oasis or as Alice Cooper said : everybody was influenced by somebody but everybody was influenced by the Beatles. Lemmy kilminster said : the Beatles changed the world , they were magic, the greatest band of all time. Ozzy Osbourne : The Beatles changed my life, the best band on earth etc...
Fantastic list, happy memories. Thanks for sharing!
What a year!
OMG. Makes me think of the Vietnam war, and the guys who never came back! But, god.....these songs are all just engraved in my heart, forever!
Same here Ruby
Can't just forget about all this song . it brings back lots of memories.
Hi , it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m joe by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends??
Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture.
I do believe this was the best music year ever. One great hit after another.
15 year old boy then - greatest music year ever!
Painted Black was way ahead of its time...GENIUS !!
Paint it black
I was only 9 years old living in Los Angeles when I heard these songs on the radio. 93 KHJ.
This compilation is sheer bliss.
The music back then is so fantastic....the 1960's were about a 100 years too short.
Thank you for doing this ❤️
A great collection of the songs back in 1966,year I was born
Fabulous love it
So many good ones
These were definitely before My time but they really made some Great Music back then.
I was born that year, and I know and love almost all the songs.
I remember 95 out of a 100 Not bad for being 10 years old in 1966
It took 27 days in this year for me to arrive to this big ball on earth. What a great year in music.
I was born in 1958 and remember most of the song
Wow. So this is what was playing when I was born.
Good old music
Remember every one of these songs brings back memories of my ARMY DAY's 66-68 stationed at FORT STORY VA AND the close friends there Jack Soderbergh Wendy an GLADYS JOHNSON from VIRGINIA Beach 521 downy st Buddy Hall from Richmond VA Larry BURRIS from NC DOUG TURNER from TENNESSEE an I was called the hillbilly from Kentucky so many years ago
The 60’s had the best songs !!!
Yes it really do.
Hi , it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m Joe by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends??
Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture.
This is the best years I remember them well thanks Vernon
A great collection of the songs back in 1966, and also year I was born 💖
waoo! I was 8 but I guess in France these songs were still hits years later. Donovan, Mellow Yellow! Winchester Cathedral! My brother took me there (from France) in 1969! Thanks Françis. Élis.
I was only 9 back in '66. That fall, when I was in fourth grade, I started to listen to the Boss Jocks on Famous 56, WFIL, here in Philly. Although I might have been the only 9-year-old listening to Top 40 radio, 1966 was a great year for music. In fact, 1966 was my favorite childhood year.
Me too !
1966 was the GREATEST year in America.
How about the Oldsmobile Toranado
I was 10. Remember them all. First year for 77 Radio in NYC. BRINGS BACK A TON OF MEMORIES. Thank you
77 WABC !!
@@lizalewis9270 cousin Brucie. Then all the hits now talk radio
@@stephenfricke9298
"What a groovy show, come on and go go go with cousin Brucie !"
The year I was born... such a great music taste!!!!
In 1966 I became a high-school senior. Every time I hear the last lines of "I Am a Rock" I cry...
I am a rock I am an island and a rock feels no pain and an island never cries. I GET IT
Why are these songs still so popular? Nothing else compares----Vanilla Fudge, baby!!🙋👍❤️
I really liked those times.
I was six in sixty-six. This is the year I first began my musical memories.Yes, it was the Monkees...LOL
My mother used to love that song 💓! "Don't Mess With Bill!" She would play that song almost ALL day long on the weekends! It was a 45 rpm record. It may be in a box in the basement! My mother live to see 93, but my father passed away before he turned 60. His middle name was: "Bill."
So sorry for your loss my mother passed away November 16th 2013 and I miss her very much 😢😢💔💔💔😪😪😪
Hot Rod: Thank you. I know how you feel as well. When people like us who had a good relationship with our mothers lose them, it's very hard in the beginning. I was very close to my mom! I never got it twisted like I hear people talk these days. She wasn't my best friend. She was in life and will always be, even in death, my mother! She taught me well! How to respect myself! How to respect a woman! How to be the kind of Man that could live on my own, as well as with a Woman! The things that mattered, especially when my father found himself lost in the bottom of his liquor bottle before he passed away when I was 19! My mom, just like I'm sure, your mom, were very strong and special Women in our lives! I miss my mother very much and I thank God for choosing That Woman to be My Mother! I tell you, Hot Rod, if I had not turned to The Lord when I had in 2010, I don't know what I may have done to myself when He Called her home! I hope that you will find the Peace that God has given me. God Bless You!!! 🙏
@@derricklogan2058 I sure do miss my mom 👩and the way she would always pick on me when I at her house 🏠she made me feel like a good person who takes care of there mom and appreciate what time I had with her in her home
Hot Rod? Always carry the good memories of your mother within your heart; the things she taught you; the important and special moments that were all about the love she shared and gave to you! I always think 🤔 of my mother's smile; the pride she had when she would introduce me to people she knew, saying that I was her "baby boy!" It was kind of embarrassing at first, especially because I was 6'5 at the time. But it was true, being the youngest of my siblings! Later, I came to the point where I missed it when she stopped, because I understood why she said it so often! I think 🤔 of my mother often! About a year before she died, since I hadn't seen her in a while; (she was in Oklahoma; I was in Michigan)! I began having dreams about her; waking up in the night 💤 having talks with her.... and then after the year was gone, the dreams 🛑 stopped! I was in a store cashing a lottery ticket and my sister called to inform me that our mother had passed away! They both lived in Oklahoma. I went home and prayed and cried! Like you, Hot Rod, I miss my mother very much!!! Through those dreams and conversations during the night, my mom let me know that she is with God and is okay!!! I look forward to seeing her again when God Calls me home 🏠!!! Stay focused on your love for her and her love 💕 for you! Stay focused on The Lord!!! Faith will see you through! ☮️🙏
@@derricklogan2058 I have been staying strong 💪because I know that my mother would not want me to do anything stupid like suicide or anything like that at all she would like to see me happy and get on with my life and remember her the way she was when she was alive
Excelente
Bravo!!!!!!
Great songs!
1966 was the best year for music ever. But 'Groovy Kind Of Love' only at 36? It will always be #1 in my book.
Definitely one of my favorite years for music for the 1960's but my all time favorite year for music in the 60's was 1965.
@@robertshaw3711 1965 was a good year too, Robert. 63-66 was a golden period.
Was there ever a more wonderful year for music? I was 11 years old and remember every song.
Me too !
Born in '55
Gee I was 18 getting ready to go to Nursing School. And I did that for 49 years. Best career ever.
Great stuff!
In 1966, I was 39 years it was so beatiful!!
Époque très fertile en hits du monde entier avec des chansons sublimes dans la pop rock soul rythme 'n' blues etc... 💞❤️💗
I was 3. These are all classics. I know and remember about 95% and not from remakes. Some I even have original vinyl.
Best historic searcher hits of youtube.... congrats! One more nice video...
Agreed👍😄
It's true and ty 4 ❤
Yes 👍
Truly a transitional year. Beatles vs Bobby Darin.
Frank Sinatra vs Temptations
Patti Page vs The Music Explosion
Sgt Pepper sets the pace for the next 10 years starting in 1967
Sgt. Pepper’s is still setting the pace IMHO
You would be hard pressed to find a better year for music.
Agreed !!!
I'm with you on that. This is half of my music collection !
I graduated from high school in 1966
Thank you for another round of great selections. Back then, I depended on my music to get me through some very rough times. Now, more than ever, I'm counting on that same music to help pull me through an extremely difficult period. Thank you.
Hoping times get better for you real soon🙏
@@vicky8867
Hoping times get better for our COUNTRY real soon.🇺🇸
A true year of memories. Thank you.
1966 the golden year
I was born May 10th 1966.
my favorites:
I Fought The Law
I Saw Her Again
A Place In The Sun
Mother's Little Helper
Black Is Black
If I Were A Carpenter
Sweet Pea, Cryin Time
I Could Cry, Pied Piper
Illusive Butterfly, Sloop John B
Walk Away Renee
Time Won't Let Me,
Yellow Submarine
I Am A Rock, 19th Nervous
Nowhere Man, Groovy Love
September, 5 Oclock World
Paperback Writer, Sunny
Sunshine Superman, Paint It Black
You Keep Me Hanging On
Sounds Of Silence
Secret Agent Man
Strangers In Thd Night
Born Free
Devil, Last Train To Clarksville,
96 Tears, Green Berets
Same age as you. Good memories and great music.
Between Johnny Rivers and John Sebastian 1966 was truly the year of the bushy eyebrows.
I was 19 and in the Army. Taking me back.
There must have been something in the air. The music that year exploded with creativity. harmony and invention. So many great songs. and so diverse. Sixty six was the year I graduated high school. I lived by my transistor radio and the music filled the airwaves. We would go out to the record stores and buy either the single, or the album. I had a reel to reel tape recorder and would record the songs off the radio. Usually the DJ's talked over the opening or closing. There was so much good music produced that year. An anomaly, A sudden and unexplained musical spike. I can honestly say that almost every song on this list is a favorite
@ashellofamanformerlyknowna3694 LOL. Who knows? could be.
Dziękuje. W niedzielne przedpołudnie przypomniałam sobie przeboje ,przy których bawiliśmy się na spotkaniach towarzyskich - - ja melomanka 70 + .
Adoro queste canzoni grazie
Top 5 greatest years of music - 1966.
1966 was 1 year…..not 5.
@@dr.jamesolack8504 It's. In. The. Top. 5. Of. The. Greatest. Years. Of. Music. U N D E R S T A N D ??? Meaning there are 4 other years that make up the Top 5 Greatest Years of Music. Slow enough for you?
@@30over3
What other years are you referring to? I thought we were just talking about the top 100 of 1966.
I see. You’re saying that 1966 is one of the top five years of the greatest music ever. Your syntax is misconstrued. Don’t get pissed at me. You’re the one who’s sentence structure is in need of help.
@@dr.jamesolack8504 I like 1977, 1982, 83 and 84 to round it out. Top 5 off the top of my head.
I was 11 in '66 and my favorite tune had to be "They're Coming to Take me Away". Once they banned it on ABC..I used to seek out AM radio stations that would play it. I was at my Uncle's cottage in the Adirondacks that summer and found a station in Canada. My second favorite had to be "96 Tears. I still love any early Dusty Springfield, the Stones and the Beatles. That music is timeless.
You and my best friend with that song! LOL
He lived in upstate New York and would go down to the basement and play this 45 over and over and over until finally, his mother came down and broke it and said never again! LOL
Was this the 1 that had the song played in reverse on the B-side?
@@CalTxDude YES I believe it DID. I think I ended up with a 45 copy also. Never thought it would be a "collectable".
I loved that song too! Didn't know it had been banned. From Canada
@@CalTxDude I first heard it on Dr Demento in the 80s. I never heard it before then!
@@tangogrrl
I am humbled by your presence, Ms Rothschild…..
The background music to my 7th year on this here planet.
Just amazing 👏👏
THE single most amazing year in rock and roll, soul and R&B !!
Walking around the neighborhood, eleven years-old with a transistor radio pressed against one ear for HOURS.
Looking for Suzie and Barbra Ann
I wish I had been older. I was an infant. Don't remember any of the music till about 69'.
Chulada de canciones.
I think of the movie, THE ENDLESS SUMMER, THAT CAME OUT IN 1966. Had the poster in my bedroom for years.
yeah, i've been a sci-fi fan many years and star trek was released in 1966 too, i like to watch the scene were captain kirk fights with a gorn
It isn't today that's so special, it's the memories of it.
such a curious mix back then, some songs silly, some very serious, some sound so dated now, and others are eternal....
Every year (yes, I said EVERY year) has great songs in it.That being said, 1966 is arguably the greatest year in pop music history.
As good as 1966 was, I prefer 1964 and 1965. My real oldies favorites were from 1957-63, pre-Beatles and the British Invasion. Each year had its own special charms and good feelings, before the awful war and the emergence of the drug songs from md-1967 onward, although there were many fine non-drug songs through the 1970s through the 1980s.
Last great year of my life. In Sept 67 went on an all expense paid trip to that s#it hole in SE Asia. My life and body was forever changed..
In 1966 I was 5 years old. My oldest brother was drafted that year and missed him horribly. I do hope you are doing well considering.
Thank you for your service.
Welcome home.
GOD bless you & thank you for your service. You are a hero in my book!
Glad you enjoyed it
Qualquer música dos Beatles é melhor do que qualquer outra.
Best music ever made of all times.
In 1966 I was 19 in Dec but was listening country music I learned to like pop music Never did like the Beetles
The year that was...everything!!
I was 6, living in Chicago. Memory lane, for sure
I was nine ! But I know good music when I hear it. and this year was as good as any other you care to mention.
Ah yes 1966, one of the best years in popular music. Not only were the best parts some of the best music I've ever listen to, but there were barely any bad songs from this year too. My personal Favorites are "California Dreaming" by The Mamas & Papas, "Good Vibrations" by Beach Boys, "I Am a Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel/ "The Sounds of Silence." I guess the only 3 Songs I didn't like were "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Green Barets" & "Born a Woman"
They were all superb, I loved Cherish by the Association, Paperback Writer, We can Work It Out, Nowhere Man by the Beatles, Lightnin Strikes by Lou Christy, Summer in the City. by The Loving Spoonful, Good Vibrations , Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Beach Boys. Reach Out by the Four Tops and Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrcle.. My least favorite that year, Ballad of the Green Barret. by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. Winchester Cathedral by the New Vaudivile band. and Lady Godiva by Peter and Gordon, Strangers In the Night was down there, and I like Sinatra. Sweet Pea by Tommy Roe was kiddie pop. ..
@Garrett Ray
You know, California Dreamin peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 66. It never actually hit No. 1. (In 1966).
@@dr.jamesolack8504 Yes, because it was revised. It originally would've if the 1966 YE wasn't revised
Actually, Wipe out was three years old in 1966. It was big hit for me and my brother and sister as we were living in Huntington Beach Ca. at the time
It resurged in the Fall of 66
Wow Good Vibrations behind Winchester Cathedral sad
How about wouldnt it be nice at 89?
That top three proved that just because the masses like it doesn't make it good music!
A great year. Some of the American records never made it over here in England, though for some reason.
Great songs for a 15-year-old in 1966. Also good to see you put USA in the title. Some of these "year"compilations omit the country and here in UK I hear songs that were not a hit here.
Yes, The Ballad of the Green Berets was the number 1 song of 1966. Seemed like every time you turned the radio on it was playing. It did not disappear after it was out of number 1, but was played almost every day of the year.
Dionne Warwick became the best selling solo Female pop artist of 60s and early 70s.
g the year i was born have most of these songs on my playlist
Yeah!,1966 was a very good year for music too, with many excellent songs with artists like the Supremes, the Beach Boys, Tommy James, Percy Sledge and his great hit, (maybe inspiring Procol Harum the next year), the Mamas and Papas, the Monkees, Hebb , without forgetting Donovan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles and the Stones, of course...
Thank you, once again !
I think California Dreaming, the Sounds of Silence, Black is Black and Secret Agent Man we’re all ranked way to low! Four timeless songs!
The best year. I compared it to ‘67 and even the same artists (Stones, Beatles, Supremes) had gone slightly downhill compared to ‘66.
The biggest selling single arrived to late in the year to hit the chart.
I'm a Believer by the Monkees hit no.1 on the final week of the year, and the first six weeks of 1967.
Best time ever. Where is the time machine2
That’s Life was sung by Bill Pullman in Casper!