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Michaelangelo Matos — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:19:37 EDT

@buzbeech: ack! you are correct. thanks.

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chaircrusher — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:38:41 EDT

I'm 50, and got my first transistor radio August 13th, 1966 (my birthday). I listened every night when I was supposed to be asleep to the San Francisco and San Jose AM stations, so those late 60s charts are my roots music. The Beatles were everyone's #1 in my neighborhood; their singles post '66 were always the standouts in my mind, followed closely by anything Motown.

As regards Johnny Rivers, he was always a weird sort of demi-Superstar -- he always (and still does) was best known as a performer rather than composer. His albums were full of covers of other people's songs. And of course he did the track no one mentions here "Secret Agent Man," theme song of Patrick McGoohan's pre-Prisoner TV Series.

chaircrusher

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buzbeech — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:12:55 EDT

Worse top 10 May 2, 1960. If you are going to post something please get the facts correct. Sixteen Reasons was Connie Stevens (the Connie who cannot sing). Not the great Connie Francis (the queen of rock and roll).

buzbeech

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katieee — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:53:53 EDT

@Chris N.: Johnny Rivers is a second-tier player worth investigating. He borders on corny, but I do love Poor Side Of Town, Memphis, and even Mountain Of Love (in which he rhymes "love" with... "love"). Is he on the casino circuit now?

katieee

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Chris N. — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:43:27 EDT

I saw Johnny Rivers live a couple of years ago, and the dude rocked pretty hard.

Chris N.

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Michaelangelo Matos — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:19:04 EDT

@CaligulaHamSandwich: here you go:

July 9, 1966
1. The Beatles, "Paperback Writer" (Capitol)
2. The Cyrkle, "Red Rubber Ball" (Columbia)
3. Frank Sinatra, "Strangers in the Night" (Reprise)
4. Tommy James & the Shondells, "Hanky Panky" (Roulette)
5. Dusty Springfield, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Phillips)
6. The Troggs, "Wild Thing" (Atco)
7. The Capitols, "Cool Jerk" (Karen)
8. Syndicate of Sound, "Little Girl" (Bell)
9. The Rolling Stones, "Paint It, Black" (London)
10. The Association, "Along Comes Mary" (Valiant)

Michaelangelo Matos

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Michaelangelo Matos — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:50:19 EDT

@CaligulaHamSandwich: As you wish. It's only three, actually; I miscounted:

September 3, 1966
1. Donovan, "Sunshine Superman" (Epic)
2. The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City" (Kama Sutra)
3. The Happenings, "See You in September" (B.T. Puppy)
4. The Supremes, "You Can't Hurry Love" (Motown)
5. The Beatles, "Yellow Submarine" (Capitol)
6. Bobby Hebb, "Sunny" (Phillips)
7. Wilson Pickett, "Land of 1,000 Dances" (Atlantic)
8. Lee Dorsey, "Working in the Coal Mine" (Amy)
9. Stevie Wonder, "Blowin' in the Wind" (Tamla)
10. Billy Stewart, "Summertime" (Chess)

February 6, 1965
1. The Righteous Brothers, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (Philles)
2. Petula Clark, "Downtown" (Warner Bros.)
3. Shirley Ellis, "The Name Game" (Congress)
4. Gary Lewis & the Playboys, "This Diamond Ring" (Liberty)
5. Joe Tex, "Hold What You've Got" (Dial)
6. The Searchers, "Love Potion Number Nine" (Kapp)
7. The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" (Reprise)
8. The Temptations, "My Girl" (Gordy)
9. Marvin Gaye, "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" (Tamla)
10. Sam Cooke, "Shake" (RCA)

Michaelangelo Matos

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Lucas Jensen — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:43 EDT

"In The Year 2525" is my least favorite song ever. Really. I hate it so much.

Lucas Jensen

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natepatrin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:40:47 EDT

1) I still find it kinda hard to believe that a song as demented and scuzzy and as emblematic of the regional, satellite-scene garage rock movement as "Psychotic Reaction" made it to #5 pop. Then again, I'm guessing it's that success that helped spur the gigantic '66 garage rock boom in the first place.

2) Johnnie Taylor's inexplicably underrated these days -- "Who's Making Love" is, for my money, easily one of the three best songs on that chart. Fun fact: Taylor has as many top ten R&B singles -- 11 -- in a four-year span (1969-1973) as Otis Redding did (1965-1969).

3) Wasn't the theme from Dr. Kildare the music they used to play all the time on The Simpsons when they had a hospital scene?

natepatrin

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CaligulaHamSandwich — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:40:13 EDT

I'm definitely interested in seeing the remaining four top-ten lists. And to me, there's really no such thing as a list with too much Motown.

CaligulaHamSandwich

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Rob Murphy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:23:41 EDT

@bcapirigi: "96 Tears" is easily in my Top 50 Best Pop Songs Ever list. Maybe even higher than "top 50", but I haven't actually bothered to make the list yet, so I don't know.

Rob Murphy

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bcapirigi — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:16:41 EDT

thanks, jupiter8. i really don't get why everybody hates In The Year 2525 so much. it's awesome. and so is the artwork on that album. and even some of the rest of that album....

also, i think your #5 list might be my favorite.... walk away renee AND 96 tears AND you can't hurry love? that's pretty frickin good.

bcapirigi

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The Illiterate — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:03:29 EDT

Though I like the Marcels, who go "Bom bomba bom bom bom babom bom bom, bomba bom babom ba-danga dang dang, da-dinga dong ding", I've always preferred the Corvairs' "True True Love", from which the Marcels "adapted" their arrangement. The Corvairs go "Yip yip yip yip, bom ba-bom bom bom, moo papa cow wow, ring-a-ding a-ding ding". I think it's the "moo papa cow wow" that does it for me.

The Illiterate

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Jupiter8 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:45:42 EDT

Maybe it's an unfortunate side effect of living in NJ and listening to too much WCBS-FM in the 90s, but the 4 Seasons make my skin crawl (especially their take on "I've Got You Under My Skin"). And I'd take "Spinning Wheel", "In the Year 2525" and "Good Morning Starshine", all sublimely weirder than anything you hear today, over "The Ballad of John & Yoko", easily the Beatles worst single and yes that includes the ones where John's vocals were recorded into a dictaphone in the mid-70s....

Jupiter8