What HAPPENED to Music? This Top 10 Shows Just How FAR We've Fallen... | Professor of Rock
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2022
- It’s the Hit Song Redux where we will go behind the top 10 songs of this VERY same week from 1967 right before the summer of love.. This top 10 has some of the greatest songs of all time and we have he actual artists telling us the stories first hand. Who is the real #1 all of these year later Is it the The Beatles, The Stones, The Supremes or A Rookie or one hit wonder? You’re going to be very Surprised next on the Hit Song Redux!
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#10 you had one of the greatest rock bands of all time who are still going strong with a guitarist that might be 200 years old . It’s The Rolling Stones with Ruby Tuesday
At the #9 spot is a girl group who was always giving the Beatles and Stones a run for their money with the legendary writing and producing team of Holland Dozier Holland supporting them. It’s the Supremes with Love is here and Now You’re Gone
Coming in at #8 it’s an oldie but a goody. A easy listening song from a musical. It’s My Cup Runneth Over by Ed Ames.
At #7 it’s one of the most revolutionary songs in the history of popular music from an all star band who’s members would go on to make an impact as solo artists and in bands soon after.. It’s For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield.
So at #6 we have the high octane, turbo, supercharged spectacular Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels with their hit Sock it to Me baby
#5 It’s a remake of the Four Tops first big hit, from a singer who had quite a few successful remakes… It’s Johnny Rivers with Baby I Need You Loving
#4 slot on our count down it’s a band that at one point were going toe to toe with The Beatles and in 1965 actually outsold them… It’s Herman’s Hermits with There’s a Kind of Hush
#3: It’s one of the a sides of what I think maybe the greatest two sided single in the history of this planet… One of this band’s many classic Double A side hits. it’s the Beatles with Penny Lane.
And here we are at the Bridesmaid position .. just one away from crowning the king of the charts… It’s a song from an american group that was also very competitive at this moment and had a lot of promise before running into some major obstacles… But when they were on, they were as good as anyone.. It’s the Mamas and the Papas with Dedicated to the One I love
And at the #1 position the top of the heap A number one as the chairman of the board Frank Sinatra would say.. It’s a song that the second you hear the title, it’s melody and lyrics are in your head for the next three days. It’s The Turtles with the singalong classic Happy Together. 
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Poll: What is your pick for the greatest album of the 1960s?
Abbey Road
Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys
I would say The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's second album. The diverse topics covered in the songs, and there are songs on it, like Blowin' In The Wind, and Masters Of War, which still are relevant to these current times. That would be the greatest album of the 1960s, in my opinion. I saw Bob Dylan live in Edmonton, in 1990. Cheers! ✌️
I'm going with Axis: Bold as Love.
Pet Sounds, not for the number of hits, but for the overwhelming influence on popular music for the next few decades. Top 3 American albums of all time.
That side-by-side comparison at the end was hilarious! Rock music used to get a bad rap because of its tendency to use only three or four chords. Contemporary pop music has devolved to the point where it uses only two or three NOTES.
So true. 2 chords and no truth.
@@ProfessorofRock I'll take noise for 500, Adam 😮😉
@@ProfessorofRock Adam's alternate channel... Coming soon
If I were around back in 1967 and I knew music was gonna progressively get worse and worse in about 40 years, I would be jamming out to as many songs as I could until I got enough.
1970's - "I can name that tune in only three notes."
2022 - "I can write that tune with only three notes."
Professor, Ed Ames is actually most famous for being on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He was demonstrating the tomahawk throw because he played Mingo in the TV series Daniel Boone. But when he threw the tomahawk at the cardboard cutout it actually hit the man’s crotch. Johnny Carson quipped, I didn’t know you were Jewish!”
My mom was really into Ed Ames. I thought that music was always kind of boring, but I guess she liked his voice.
Hit in the crotch with the handle pointed upwards! It instantly became anatomically correct!
You are correct sir , that throw was on the highlight show every year . 🪓
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 there have been very few stars with low voices. If you like that register (I do), he's very appealing.
Yes indeed. The longest studio laugh of all time on late night tv. Johnny said…. “I didn’t know you were Jewish “ 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was 10 years old that year. Those songs remind me of laying on a blanket on My grandmother`s front porch reading comic-books with the Am radio playing in the background. Magic came out the speaker. There seemed to be new masterpieces released every week in those days.
When you do these top tens from the classic rock era, I remember every song. I was born in Jan of 59 and lived on a farm. Music wasn't much of a thing in our house. Then they consolidated the local school system which gave me a 75 min bus ride each way. The older kids pitched in to buy a radio and speaker system for the bus. The driver was happy to have anything to distract rowdy kids and kept it cranked up. The station was always the same by unanimous consent - CKLW, a monster clear channel AM station out of Canada. It was a top 40 station ranking high all over the Great Lakes region. I spent way too many hours over 8 yrs on that bus but got one hell of a RnR education.
My school had half of it condemned and torn down after an earthquake in southeast Idaho, so for my 2nd grade year, we were bussed to another school way across town. Those old buses drove so slowly that it took 3x as long back then to drive, so we had a 45 minute ride each direction. There was nothing to do but listen to the radio, and the pop music at the time was awesome. So I completely sympathize with your story! Thanks for sharing!
Its saddening to see how far standards have fallen in popular music.
So true.
There are no standards now.
WAP is brilliant. lmfao
Making fast bucks off of a dumbed down society.
All the shit floats to the surface so now you have to dig and mine
In 1967 for me Light My Fire stands on its own. Jim Morrison’s haunting hypnotic voice resonates thru and through. ❤🎼🎹🎵🌟
As far as albums the Beatles St. Pepper and Abbey Road stand out for me. 🌹🎸🎼🎹
"California Dreaming" is, in my opinion, one of the twenty greatest pop songs ever recorded.
Mamas and Papas were soooo under appreciated.
I always loved their harmonies. Mama Cass had such a great voice, always able to sing anything. Denny and John held up their vocal half reliably. Michelle Philips was, well, um, well…. really good on Star Trek The Next Generation.
I sing this a lot, living in Michigan but having lived in LA for 10 years. I rewrote the lyrics at the end of last fall to bemoan that it was still ugly and brown when it should have been snowing.
It’s a straight up 60s classic.
I was singing it just yesterday.
Good old WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-82), maybe the best US sitcom of all time or one of them anyway and certainly a must view for fans of popular music. R.I.P. Dr. Fever.
Imagine a world with no auto-tune, it's easy if you try. You may say I'm a dreamer but I am not the only one.
Ha ha ha! Good play on John’s song.
In the late 80s, my best friend and I were cruising around town on hot summer evenings, with the windows down and the radio turned up. Happy Together by The Turtles came on, and we sang along, and to each other. We had been best friends since 1975, and still are to this day. This song takes us both back to a time that was simple, and we were free, and every time I hear it, I smile and think of her.
These old songs are timeless! What passes for music today can't compare! Thanks for continuing to showcase the best music!
I remember all of these songs, I was eight that year. A super blast from the past. I was very fortunate to have lived in the Age of Aquarius. A wonderful time to be young. These memories will last a lifetime!!! California Dreamin' is my absolute favorite of this band. I have read the history of this band and it is incredible!🎉❤
The music industry has been infiltrated like public schools. It’s no longer about genuine talent. Nothing organic. There are musicians and there are musicians musicians. Then there are automatically keyed computers vomiting todays hits. Sad era. Great channel!
@The Vinyl Music Life This 100%. There is plenty of great music being made today. I love this channel, but the title cards of "today's music sucks!" are such a shallow, "get offa my lawn" take. I get it - it's eye catching and generates clicks. But it's just so crass.
@The Vinyl Music Life quite right you are. And I would add "Starcrawler" and "Millie Mossiae" to that list, of newer artists.
I was born the week before this top 10.....what a way to enter the world.
Motown's impact on the music of the '60s was remarkable. It put black artists in the mainstream. Maxine Powell's finishing school groomed them to be dignified and graceful. In my opinion this was a big step forward in changing white perspective and eroding the racial divide.
Mama Cass & Danny Doherty were quite exceptional vocalists a deep dive into the Mama & Poppas is definitely a worthy venture IMO Professor
Professor needs to do “Monday Monday”. And the only one alive right now is Michelle Phillips, which is so sad because none of the other members were able to reach 70 years of age.
I agree. Deep dive would be great.
Dive deep, my musical amigo! Michelle still is kicking it quietly in SoCal!
Thanks for the tip of the hat, Adam! I remember '67 as a transitional year before seismic shifts occurred in music that reflected broader societal change, ushered in by the Summer of Love and anti-war protests. You could feel that change was in the air. Great segment!
Thanks for the awesome comment robster. It makes me think of the song in a whole new way.
I totally agree! Wasn’t around in 1967 but remember that it was a great year for hippies!
"For what it's worth" sometimes gets credit for bringing songwriters into politics.
I remember the first time I heard 'For What It's Worth.' It is one of those songs that totally commands your attention. Plus, I think it is one of the songs that is perfect to listen to on a blazing hot summer day.
I'm so glad I grew up with these great songs (I was born in 1955). There is absolutely NO comparison to the music of today. Apart from a few select artists, music went into a spiral, starting in the '80's. "Smooth Jazz" and Classical Music save me from the horrors of '80's music. Thanks for all you do, Adam! Take care!
I was 4 that year, but I well remember "For What It's Worth" playing on the radio. Once I asked my dad what it meant, and he tried his best to explain it in a way I would understand. We had a lot of conversations like that, about the hippie movement, the drug culture, the Space Race and so much more. Those were golden years, before my parents' marriage and my relationship with my dad fell apart, and I've never forgotten them. Now that he's passed on, I treasure those memories even more.
I was 7 then. Can’t remember much of that year but have been listening to these songs forever ✌🏼
"Happy Together" is also in my top twenty. What a great tune!
So good.
That song is hauntingly genius and deserves to be in that top 20.
It’s one of my favorites for sure! It always brightens me up every time the chorus hits.
I actually preferred the 🐢 turtles "" You showed me"" as their best song easily
I'm partial to _Elenore. Happy Together_ is wonderful, but _Elenore_ is just performed so passionately.
Keep covering 60s music! I’m an 80s girl, but my heart lies IN THE 1960s!
I graduated from high school in 67. Just in time for Vietnam. My entire childhood was filled with great music.
I was just going to say this yesterday: While I share your special appreciation for 1984, which WAS the best year for DANCE-POP tunes, it's hard to beat 1967. There was so much good music coming out so fast, that you can't properly appreciate the year just by looking at the top 100; You have to go back and check the weekly surveys. WMCA's Dan Daniel counted down the top 25 every week, and I never missed it. It was amazing.
I agree 💯🎶🙏🏻❤️💪🏻⚡️👏🏻💯
Totally agree! 1967 had so much good stuff going on beyond just the Summer of Love.
I'm sorry, 1984 is the *best*! Any year that has Van Halen, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Madonna, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Yes, Pointer Sisters, and Cyndi Lauper -- amongst many others -- can NOT be reduced as being just about "dance music". 1984 ran the gamut of MANY genres, from country to R&B, from dance to rock to hip-hop. Listen to any '80s oldies station today and within an hour you WILL hear a couple of 1984 songs. Not so any other year since or before. In 2015 by contrast there were very few radio stations playing 1967 music. In so many ways the 1980s, esp. 1984, never left!
Oh my GAWD! The comparison of top tunes is embarrassingly mismatched! The talent and creativity of 1967’s artists renders today’s ultra-sophomoric by comparison. Thanks for a great show. The love for great music your Dad instilled in you is a tribute to the love of a Father and Son. You’re fortunate He was yours and we are all the happier you share it.
The Mama & The Papas should be reviewed by you. They deserve a biopic as well. They had some of the best harmonies in the business. Loved listening to Cass sing on TV by herself as well. Denny had a wonderful voice.
They don't want to do a bio picture because John's story is so tragic.....
Only surviving member is Michelle Phillip so he hast to get her on tape for an interview amazingly soon
Cass and Denny had THE best vocals :)
There was a good documentary made about them, "California Dreamin' ". Check it out if you haven't already.
@@serendipityshopnyc thank you
The Mamas and the Papas and The Turtles (later Flo & Eddie), are two of my top favorites of that time...great music. As far as the comparison of top 10 of that year and this year, you know there is NO competition, yesteryear is SO much better, and always will be.
Turtles are so underrated.
The music of the ‘60s and ‘70s is SUCH a vast plethora of great artists in SO MANY genres! You have a job for life covering these, as well as the ‘80s! We really took it for granted back then, never imagining the vast wasteland that music is now!
Today's music is so far down the toilet that it doesn't even register as music anymore. Thank you for spotlighting this great music from the year I was born!
Anyone listening to a great 1967 song today in 2022 can only hear the music. When I listen to a great song from 1967 I not only hear it, I also was alive in 1967 to experience the era and music together, something a younger listener can never experience since they can only listen to the song. Music is as close as I can get to taking a trip back in time. If I could leave 2022 and go back to 1967 I'd leave in a heartbeat.
Thanks, Professor, for the insight into the history of rock, especially your interviews. Favorite 1967 album, Sergeant Pepper or Pet Sounds (depending on the day). How fortunate that we have so many vibrant rock performances captured to unleash at will. PS--enjoyed and learned much from your recent interview with Neal Schon of Journey. His performances have always sizzled, still do. And the Perry vocals--incomparable.
"For What it's Worth" is definitely my favorite out of this top 10. I still have it in my rotation today. Every time you do these I hear today's top 10 and today's music makes me want to vomit not to mention these artists today would never be able to do it without todays polishing technology. Bring me back to simpler times and great music.
I was only three at the time but with siblings that were much older than me this era of music became my listening standard to this day. Thanks for the great memories.
I work in a convalescent hospital. Most of the residents there are in their 50's through to their late 80's. In the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's they were the teenagers that most this music was targeted towards. Some of them have had strokes or other maladies that caused them to lose the ability to speak to one degree or another. But when I play this era's music for them the just beam. they smile. Their eyes brighten. And sometimes they even sing. Folks that haven't spoken three words in the last six months will start singing along with the music. and they remember the lyrics. Even when they can't remember their own names. they can remember their favorite songs. And you can see the joyfulness return to their faces. In my mind, that will always be the real power of music.
In 67 there was a song by a group the soul survivors called expressway to your heart that was big in the Philly area .... at least with the teens... as well as a song called everlasting love by Robert knight. Both were played constantly.
I was born in Nov. '67. So my existence begins with a lot of these songs playing around Valentines Day 1967! :)
Something that always occurs to me whenever I watch these videos about things in the past is how much slower life was when I was younger even though my life seems to have passed in the blink of an eye lol. Long before cell phones and computers in the home with the internet life moved at a slower pace. Everything seemed less hurried and we had more time to just hang out and life had more meaning. Just like photos used to be special because you had only so many you could take on one roll of film and then you had to pay to have them developed. Now you just hold up your phone and snap a hundred photos in a few minutes or take a video so the “specialness” is gone. Just like I remember hearing music on the radio and then going to the store usually Tower Records and purchasing an album. You then took it home and unwrapped it placed it on your turntable and listened to the entire album. You didn’t have a cell phone constantly begging for your attention with texts and tweets etc. There’s a great video on Veritasium channel about the benefits of being bored that sums up a lot of what I’m saying. As much as I like RUclips I long for those days with only 3 or 4 tv stations to choose from and just listening to the radio while drawing or reading a book lol. Remember those? Cheers
The entirety of the 20th century for music is definitely one for the books. Music would never be the same as the decades went on, and each decade was unique in their own right! Great work and analysis.
No doubt!
Totally agree!
I remember being very excited on Feb 12, 1967 when I heard that The Beatles would be on Ed Sullivan - well, almost. We were treated instead to them on film doing "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever". I didn't realize it at the time, but these were the first 'music videos' I ever saw! :)
Not Hard Day’s Night?
. . . unless you saw "A Hard Day's Night", which really was partly music videos, straight up. Go watch the "Can't Buy Me Love" clip and tell me that isn't Richard Lester making a classic music video in 1964 before anyone even suggested the idea.
One of the best 2-sided singles ever!
The very first song I ever learned in its entirety was There's a Kind of Hush by Herman's Hermits! I was 6 years old! My family and I were in the car going somewhere when the song came on the radio. My mom and dad were in the front seat while my younger siblings and I were in the back. My mom always had the radio on when she drove, but my siblings and I rarely paid attention. When that song came on, my ears perked up, and I got my mom to turn it up a bit so I could hear it over my siblings. I fell in love with it, and by the end of the song, I knew all the words as if I had heard it before! It was an awesome experience! Herman's Hermits put out a lot of great songs back then.
I wondered how "How is the weather" was part of the song I never really understood it being part of the song. It just didn't seemed to really fit in. It was just weird, which is probably why I really liked it. Now it makes a lot of sense.
In the 90s, there was a commercial with an NFL player sitting in a whirlpool tub after a game singing that song. Eventually it faded into the Turtles singing the song. One of my sons, a totally obnoxious teenager, who claimed old man music was a bane to happiness, heard the song and fell in love with it. He'd tell me this type of music was so much better. A while later while he and some friends were singing the song, I "sadly" told him "So Happy Together" was old man music. He still loves it and so do I. Just fun music.
When I was a teen, my bandmates and myself were going through 60's albums to do covers that were popular with our generation. And we are going through the list like Black Sabbath, The Doors, CCR, Steppenwolf, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix, etc. My dad hovering around us commented "Boy I did not pick what was going to be a timeless classic. I thought for sure it was going to be the Beatles." Me and a close friend and fellow bandmember, for my dad, learned and added "Day Tripper" to our playlist. :)
I think the 60's is the decade with the most timeless classics that were buried from top 10 lists that in later years became the popular music from the era. Iron Butterfly for better or for worst is a prime example. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida only made it to #30 on the charts but is now a considered an icon of the late 60's.
This list is amazing. I started high school in September 1967, and the music at that time meant everything. Every single song on this list was on my life's soundtrack. I loved the Turtles.
In Kansas City, Mo, there used to be a place called The Starlight Theater. I haven't been back so I don't know if it's still there or not. This theater had plays, I saw West Side Story for the first time there, it also had rock and roll groups come in I remember I saw Paul Revere and the Raiders there. What I remember the best about Ed Ames is when he played in one of my favorite plays Man of La Mancha and he sang Impossible Dream. That man had a wonderful voice; however I was surprised to see him in this list.
This video conjured up some fantastic memories of 1967 and beyond. 😊 Thank you.
Being born in '67 I was so glad to hear all these songs. Grew up listening to all of them. Still have most of my parents old albums and listen to them often. Especially CKLW Solid Gold Hits, Vol I and Vol II. My dad will come over and we'll play pool have a few drinks and listen to the oldies. LOL.
Great memories being made, still! Thanks for the 67 shout out!!
I love the Redux! Born in 67 . Started listening to my own music in 76. Influenced by my older sister Terri. I love Big Band, crooners and ladies of jazz. Lost interest in current music around 1990. Prof your vids bring so many good memories back. And you are breath of freshness in these crazy times! Thanks!!
Something that I always took for granted until I started spending time with my grandson is that being from the U.K. originally but going to high school in America was that I had one parent, my dad, who introduced me to the American song book and the other parent, my mum, who filled my head with all the British greats. So I had everyone from Bo Didley and the Big Booper to the Beatles, Stones and many more. This all coalesced as I was 13 in 1980 just as the music charts were flooded with the British re-invasion with artists like Human League, Adam Ant, Soft Cell and many others. It was a great time to be in America with a British accent lol. As my mum says half the people lived my accent and their boyfriends didn’t lol.
1967 top ten wipes the floor with mainstream music today imho
I was seven in 1967. You have taken me down memory lane. We had just moved from my parents hometown & where my grandparents were. For many years we would visit during the summer & wheat harvest. Our new hometown radio station KOMA-AM could be heard from hundreds & hundreds of miles away, including my grandparents farm. KOMA boosted their signal every night so we could listen at my grandparents farm. I had forgotten about a couple of these songs. Thank you guys!
I wasn’t surprised - I was 12 and devouring EVERYTHING on the radio! There wasn’t a guitar lick on the air that I couldn’t play. I used to sing “Happy Together” with a friend who later became the drummer for a Big Band that I was lucky enough to play in. Then after high school, I went on the radio in a place up the West Coast, and he became a Police Officer in the city where we grew up.
But here’s a story Michelle Philips of The Mamas and Papas told about what happened one night when she was still married to John Philips. Michelle was sound asleep, and John was awake in bed writing songs. He had just finished one and was quite excited about it, and he woke Michelle from that sound sleep. He told her, “You’ve GOTTA HEAR THIS! I just finished it!”. He played the song for her, and she told him, “Congratulations. You just wrote “Stardust”. (That was a hit song written in the 1940’s by Hoagy Carmichael). Michelle just rolled over in bed and went back to sleep.
I was three, but already listening to pop music, absorbed in the tastes of my much older siblings (10 & 13). But my favorite memory of a great song from this top 10 list? Watching Ernest Goes To Camp. I saw it by myself, and just didn't get into the humor. Everyone else was laughing, parents with their kids, but I was pretty bored at the time. Except for one scene. Ernest's nose had been gripped by a snapping turtle and in order to get it to let go, the camp kids decided to sing it to sleep. "Imagine me and you..." I literally fell out of my theater seat, I was laughing so hard at the musical joke.
I was the only one in the audience who laughed, and I was in absolute hysterics. I love The Turtles.
Such a great episode. Thank you, Professor.
I was ten years old in 1967 and mostly listened to country music because that's what my dad liked. That and Frank Sinatra. I started delving into these songs and grew to love them more than anything. The Beatles have always been my favorite male musical group. "Penny Lane" was my favorite but "Strawberry Fields" fell in line next to it. I'm old enough to remember when The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan the first time. My folks, along my aunt and uncle, made us come into the room to listen to that broadcast. Although my father never grew to admire them, he and my mother, my aunt, and uncle wanted us to experience their first American television appearance. I loved my folks, Professor, but yours sound way cooler than mine ever were. You are a lucky man and I love your program.
I was born in ‘72 and remember quite a few of these. I was so lucky to have a mother that listened to so much music but by the time I was four I was living with grandparents. My grandfather listened to AM but mostly country. The good news is I like all music but rock is my favorite.
I do have one interesting story though, my son’s German teacher in high school is the cousin of Steve McQueen. I never talked to her about it but I wonder sometimes what it was like to grow up with him.
By the way, I had to bring a song to school in my Creative Writing class. I brought in Stairway to Heaven.
Thanks so much for your videos. They bring back so many wonderful memories.
These chart redux are my favorite episodes of POR. So much great info. Cheers
wow! what a video Professor! I'm 60 and remember so much of this time. we lived in southern cal and my Grampa worked on both the Sand Pebbles where they had to live on set in Hong Kong for 9 months but he also worked on the Batman set. he took me to work one day and I got to meet Adam West! the songs here were all over the radio and I remember For What It's Worth especially. I still listen to it every day, it never gets old. and my mom loved Ed Ames lol! The Beatles! Were everywhere! and at number one Happy Together. wow. dang. I remember so well riding around in my Mom's VW bug in Costa Mesa listening to this song on KHJ with the windows down and the radio up. you have a time machine Professor. thanks for the trip.
Boss Radio 96 KHJ FM. Home of the Real Don Steele.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
The great Casey Kasem & Dr. Johnny Fever…both great role models Professor!!!
"BOOOOGER!"
R.I.P. Johnny Fever.
THANK YOU for including my musing, Adam!!!!!!
Ideally, the Mamas and the Papas should have an episode dedicated to their top 5 best-known hits.
Mainstream music (if not today then in the immediate future) definitely can stand to improve, and I am refusing to give up hope that it will.
This was great, I had never heard several of these songs. Please keep doing these, I learn and get to experience so much.
This must be the soundtrack I was conceived to according to my bday. I love this era of music 🎶
Hit song redux is my personal favorite of all the great topics you cover professor!!! I cant get enough of it....the songs of the great rock n roll age cant come close to today's junk music!!! I'm a big, big johhy rivers fan, think hes so under appreciated, I'd love for you to do a top 5 of his songs someday, thank u again for keeping this great music alive man, ur the best!!!
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, Adam...Geez, I’m feeling old.
Yes, please do a segment on the Mamas and Papas. They're awesome and so interesting.
1967 -- one of the absolute best years in music. Thanks for this review, and YES, please do a Mamas and Papas episode!
What happened to music ? The industry is being told what to release and radio stations what to play by corporate executives. There's no dj picking the music they want. It's run by executives who think every rock bank has to be like Nirvana.
The relevance of the music you create is how playable it is decades later. Today's music is like bad underware you just want to change it to something more comfortable that doesn't chafe!!
Hey professor, right on you've done it again, great show best band of the 1960s for me will be the Guess who with their song Time, and the zombies time of the season, but there were so many great bands The Supremes the Rolling Stones the Birds, cream The Beatles, OMG you literally could go on for hours bur Buffalo Springfield, For what I its worth. I was only two the summer of 1967, I'm telling you every time I hear that song it grabs me, pulls me in I feel a hundred emotions at once,, , I Thank God I grew up with rock and roll on the radio all the time.
Another stellar job,Professor!
I was eight years old that year. I listened to all of these then...and now. Starting with the Beatles to the early '70 is my favorite period.
Professor of Rock, YOU ROCK! Love your videos!
One reason why For What it's Worth gets so many streams today is because it is one of the first songs a guitar student learns and I for one streamed it over and over to play along. E - A - E - A over and over. Brilliant in its simplicity and great for learning ones first open chords.
This is especially meaningful to me, as I was born this same week. Now I know what music was popular at that time. So cool.
67 is the year my wife and I were born so thank you for that for starters, I love trying to guess when it comes to the redux part of the show and this time I actually had the top to right.
I was born in '70. Had three older brothers, '58, '59, '63 and a sister, '61, that were all into different bands. I got a wonderful music education growing up. Throw in my parents, both '37, and ya go back to music they grew up with. I mean, I was quite lucky in the timeline. Couldn't have been much better. Music is essential to life.
The week and year I was born! 03/13/67 Love it.
Love listening to your insights. The greatest Era of music 60's 70's and 80's
Love this channel, and great songs. Thank you! Ummm, one word, Recess. The best!
I wasn't born yet in 1967, but 3 of these songs are my favorite:
1. Ruby Tuesday is my favorite Rolling Stones song. It's a sing along tune.
2. Penny Lane is my favorite Beatles song. As a child I could imagine all the people described in the lyrics. I have the 45 and Magical Mystery Tour
3. Happy Together is such a feel good song. I have this 45 also.
I think it would be great if you did a video about the Mamas and the Papas.
(P.S. Always so touching when you mention your Dad and how much you miss him. My Mother has Alzheimers and is not doing well. I haven't lost her yet, but I know that day will come. Watching your videos is a positive highlight to my day.💕
I so sorry to hear that Catherine. Truly. Hang in there!
Agreed, sadly. Today's music is no longer music, it's a business.
Most songs are over compressed, bereft of dynamics, use AI to determine what sounds best, and homogenized to the point that differentiation between artists is impossible.
In short... it sucks.
You are quite right. I cannot tell one artist from another. Good thing you wrote "most", because despite the output being overall painful to listen to, there are still bands and solo artists today that turn out great music. Sadly, they are few and far between.
Magical Mystery Tour is, and forever will be, my favorite Beatles album. It's rarely mentioned as a favorite, but for me - it was sheer brilliance from start to finish.
I was born in March 67 but i love the music from that era absolutely timeless classics will never see this again
Love these hit song reduxes! Keep ‘‘em coming. Can you do a show about the end credits song on WKRP?
I'd love a deep dive into the Mamas And Papas. Fantastic vocals with many great songs, California Dreamin' being one of the best songs ever and one of my favourites. Like, Penny Lane from this chart, it paints such a wonderful picture in your mind.
I grew up listening to the New Vaudeville Band's version of "There's a Kind of Hush". My parents had the Winchester Cathedral album. When my Dad died, I looked for the album in their collection and could not find it! I did not know the name, just remembered the cover on the album! Thanks for bringing back memories from my childhood.
Goosebumps. All the way through.
Winter Dreaming is an amazing message of a song - it's stuck with me around the world...
Great pick for the year of this week! It's perfect because you can hear the changing of the music from the 50s and early 60s crooners to what was to come in the summer of love in 67. This very week in 67 maybe the changing of music to what the next generation would bring. Fantastic redux professor really enjoyed this one, excellent!! The only year that can match it is 72 IMHO
Thank you!!!
1967 is one of the greatest years in music!
Great channel! You brought me back to my childhood. The music industry is in a sad,sad situation today.
Love the Redux ! ...
I was 6-years-old the year of this Top 10. Johnny Rivers was pretty huge in our house. My Dad was mainly a Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin man, while my Mom had a more open mind to the music my siblings and I loved. But Secret Agent Man was huge with my Dad and me and was a great connection for us. We would watch the British show Secret Agent (Danger Man in Britain) and we made sure to catch the beginning just for the song!
My sister is 10-years-older than me and I'd go into her room and listen to her radio or record player to hear whatever was current, which was pretty much the rest of the songs on this Top 10. I was only aware of Ed Ames at the time for his playing Mingo, whom I dug more than Daniel Boone. It was only in the 70s that I happened to catch "My Cup Runneth Over" on the radio and realized that he was a singer! Culture shock! Great video, Adam.
Great show, man!
Adam I always get touched sometimes nearly to tears when you mention your father.
The Beatles red 2001 studio CD 💿 album “1” is still a masterpiece ! I enjoy it on RUclips today
Thank you Professor!
Howard kaylan and mark Colman also did backing vocals on some of Marc bolan's songs when his band T. Rex was at its height. This video brought back some memories.
This top ten was five months before I was born. So cool!
My high school physics teacher had us bring in our favorite song to play for the class. Then, a short discussion of the group. Amazing concept, teach kids to think for themselves.
I was in college in 1967. I think this is one of the best years in rock and roll history.