Now this is quality. Grab a few beers, get comfortable on the couch and float off into a suberb nostalgia trip. The 60’s are my time, lets have every top 20 hit from that decade. Only kidding.......no i'm not, i've got the beer if you've got the songs. ✌🏻😎
One of the best internet radio stations is on Live 365 called ‘ Chart Toppers ‘ where most of the week they would play in order the top 5 tunes of the 60s starting from January 1960 to December 1969 Don’t know if it’s still on they went to pay only and I quit listening
@@bluewaters3100 Debbie I was born in 1954 and feel 1964 started a special period too. At the ripe old age of 10 my mom and I (and little brother) went to a Beach Boys concert. My first album was one of theirs. I think my first single was Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. I was a Beatles fan too BTW.
For me 1965 - 1974 (completes ten years)is the ten year period I would pick,...in that time you had what are considered the five best Beatles albums beginning with 'Rubber Soul' (1965) and ending with 'Abbey Road' (1969). Dylan had albums like' Highway 61' and 'Blonde on Blonde' in the second half of the 60's...Creedence came along around '67 or '68 and finished up in that period of time, likewise Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Doors. Led Zeppelin had three or four of their best albums in that time. Santana had their best couple of albums in that time. Classic albums like 'Tubular Bells', 'Who's Next', 'Crosby, Stills & Nash', 'Tapestry', Exile on Main Street', 'Music From Big Pink' came out in that time. David Bowie started his career in that time as did Black Sabbath, T Rex and Deep Purple...Stevie Wonder was at the top of his game in that time. So called one hit wonders like Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky), Shocking Blue (Venus), Peter Sarstedt (Where do you go to My Lovely) had their hits in that time, the best solo years of the Beatles were in that time, they all had # 1 hits and hugely succesful albums ('Band on the Run', 'Imagine', 'All Thimgs Must Pass')...the list goes on and on and there's plenty I have left out....it was an incredibly fertile ten years in music.....There is no ten year period since the end of the 70's that has come close....2000 to 2009, 2011 to 2019....a depressing musical desert.
I was born in 1959. But my favorite music is the rock from the 60's and 70's. When I was playing guitar I knew many songs. I should really spend less time on the internet and more time practicing again!
@tom the cat123 Lots! Here's one: I left home in 1966, met a long haired girl who worked in a care home school on the edge of Dartmoor, UK, we were only able to meet up at the weekend. The song 'Friday On My Mind' by The Easybeats had just entered the charts. I used to wait for her when her bus pulled into Bretonside bus depot in Plymouth, we would spend most of the weekend together, consequently I looked forward to every Friday, I was only 18/19, by the summer of next year, she returned home to her family in the Midlands of England, I chose to remain in the West country, mostly happy memories though, I still love 'Friday On My Mind', it is still a great feelgood record.
This brings back so many Memory's, I was in a band in the 60's & we played most of the songs here, , I remember when we got a new record & we were playing it that weekend, I'm 72 now & it was great to be alive then, kids don't know what it was like then.
It is a miracle the kinks still achieved quite a lot. Nobody has been banned to get into the US, that is something unheard of. The media were making lot of free pubblicity to the like of beatles, rolling stones and who arguing who was more shocking and trangressive and in the meantime very quietly the kinks were silenced and put in a corner. No wonder the Kinks have been one of the few band respected and taken as inspiration from ealy punk band in the 70
I was ten and living in England for a year in 1960 then we moved back to the U.S. .... many fond memories of the wide-eyed sweet time of being excited about everything in the world ( way before I had to be responsible and pay bills and develop a career ) ... this also brings a bit of a tear remembering my folks who are now long gone.
I can remember where I was , what I was doing and where I was working during all these song, happy memories of the finest decade for music there will ever be
We will never have a time like the “60’s” again! When music was written for the soul from the heart, from the heart for the soul! Today, as has been for way too long, music comes from ......well, I think you don’t have to use much imagination to guess where it’s from.
@@rjjcms1 That, Ralph, is because the Beatles were pioneers and paved the way for groups. The others saw that what the Beatles could do, so could they.
well there were a few groups...but this was in the UK lists...some here in the States like the Kingsman, Beach Boys, Soul Groups like the Platters etc...had #2's...one lyric I'll always remember is...hey baby do you wanna dance...left my rubber in my other pants...still lingers
Very good. Takes me back. I was born in 64 and I remember many of these songs, especially Hole in my shoe and Grocer Jack -still two of my favourites to this day
What a good idea, all the number 2's! I was born in 1956, and watching this video felt like magical (or sci-fi?) time travelling to past periods of my life that I'd forgotten about. What marvellous music has been made in the course of my lifetime!
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that there's going to be a lot more videos coming out soon. I have decided to do "Every Number 1 of The 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's (USA Edition). I think it would be good to compare what was number one here in the UK and what was number one over the pond. Is this a good idea? Also, suggestions would be appreciated on what you guys would like to see. Thanks for all the comments and feedback.
Would love to see one for the Australian charts for these years as they tend to be a mix of brit, usa and australian music. It would be a great comparison.
Looking forward to the videos - and yes - the comparison will be good. Can I ask what program you use to make the vids. I want to make a couple - but have no idea which to use - thanks
Great music! I was born in early '64 & remember the music from the late sixties onwards. Lovely early musical memories for me to treasure for always. 😍
It was Number 1 in pretty much every chart apart from Record Retailer, which is where Guinness and 'the official UK charts' retroactively get their information.
Jesusa De Leon ....1968, i had long hair, looked cool, dressed cool and listened to the coolest music. Now, i'm bald, a bit sore about the joints, still love 60’s music and i'm not cool. The thing is, i still think i'm cool, i now know everything and i know how to chill. If we ever meet Jesusa, the beers are on me. ✌🏻😎🍺
It's hard to accept that a decrepit 90 year old man was once a 20 year old man who used to have sex. But evolution doesn't care about you, me or anyone else. You're put on this Earth for one purpose: the probability that you may procreate, so that someone else can be born, die and do the same. You think _you are 'you'_ and you're living _'your' life,_ but it's the DNA inside you - that's the controlling form of life - which is using 'you' as a means to _it's end._ Or imagine if you were somehow immortal - could you psychologically take living for 2000 years - while everyone else you loved dies around you? Imagine the number of heart wrenching losses you'd have to endure throughout time. Not to mention how increasingly difficult it would become to hide your immortality from the authorities -as society records everyone's historical presence with an ever increasing efficiency. It can only end in one of three ways: you either degenerate, decay and die slowly, you die early by accident or illness - or you end it all yourself.
@charlie cheeseface: Thank you, I did. My interests lie in philosophy, genetics, evolution, genocide, totalitarianism, space exploration, time travel and the essential pointlessness of society and consumerism. People have told me all my life that I should write a book. If I do - it'll probably be about the need for us all to develop some form of warp capability to get off this rock - before our sun ends up going supernova. Assuming we aren't all wiped out by an giant asteroid, bacteriological virus or a genetic race war - it's the essential problem that's facing the human race. And it can only end in one of two ways: either we all stay and get incinerated, or we all manage to get away and find _Omicron Ceti III_ in the _Delta Quadrant….._
We are unlikely to ever hear such a rich vein of pop songs like those in this snapshot of the 60s. Hard to believe it was normal even then to see the great Dean Martin in the charts the same month as Lulu with her joint winning song in the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest. "Gentle on my mind" always reminds me of the underground Bier- Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street Liverpool, were it was always on the Juke Box. Lulu is said not to have liked Boom Bang a Bang, but with her performance, orchestration, and Tambourine, she makes it a classic 60s song.
How could most of these only have reached 2? They are ALL absolute classics. "God only knows" Beach Boys Kinks, "All of the day" Mamma's and the Papas etcetceyc
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. I have a book somewhere that lists the US and British top 10s every week from about 1960-1985 or thereabouts side by side. Interesting to compare the differences and the similarities. It struck me that multiple artists would have hits of the same song somewhat contemporaneously.
Well done! A wonderful piece of history. Amazing that you managed to get all those contemporary photos. Just a small point - Manfred Mann's hit of 1966 featured Mike D'abo as Paul Jones had left the group.
When you consider some of the rubbish which has made it to the top over the years, and then you find out that "Save the last dance for me", "Hello Mary Lou", "Stranger on the Shore", "Do you wanna dance", "The Locomotion", "Please Please Me" (I was sure that got to the top!), "Then he kissed me", "Hippy hippy shake", "Just one look", "Lollipop", "All day and all of the night", "Downtown", "Here comes the night", "We gotta get out of this place", "My generation" (WTF?), "19th nervous breakdown", "Groovy kind of love", "I can't let go", "Daydream", "Wild thing", "Black is black", "God only knows", "Stop stop stop", "Gimme some lovin'", "Sunshine superman", "Matthew and son", "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields forever", "Waterloo sunset", "Flowers in the rain", "Delilah", "Eloise", "Oh, happy days", "In the ghetto", "Give peace a chance", "Yester-me, yester-you, yester-day", "Ruby don't take your love to town"... never made it there...
Thanks for doing this research. Enjoyed revisiting these classic songs. Hard to believe though that three of the greatest singles from the 60s - Waterloo Sunset-The Kinks, God Only Knows-The Beach Boys & Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields-The Beatles never made No 1 in the UK!
I know, some fantastic songs on here, it's more intriguing to see what stopped it being No 1, in most cases it was not justified. Thanks for the comment!
It's funny how many No. 1's The Beatles had, but the one with probably the strongest combination of A-side and B-side, the one that would possibly the most deserved of them all, didn't make it because of fucking Engelbert Humperdink. God only knows what the British record buyers were thinking...
@@jefdarcy Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, a perfect single that gives me something new and makes me glad to be alive every time I hear it. The whole concept of the charts was debased for me after that moment. I realised it was just a marketing tool and subject to manipulation by interested parties. Also the sheep-like general public cannot be relied upon to spot a classic when it hears one. Check out Howard Goodall's excellent video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZQS91wVdvYc.html
I've enjoyed this immensely! No #1 hits, just the number twos. The best songs - minus some - that never made it to the top, but should have. It was such a thrill to see and hear some of those bands again. Well composed, great photos, wonderful job!
Hell yes. That decade sounded like 1950s-early 70s. Incredible. RU-vid will bring it to all back to the youth. The youth will be in awe of those who lived through it. Quite a few cranky ones on here tonight if I might add.
I was ten yes old in 1965 Now going to be 65yrs old at the end of May. Sixty's & early seventies ,Motown. How about the song Sugar Surgar .my real favorite was The love Affair, & Dave Clark Five ,. God l feel old now.
I like it! I'd forgotten how many great songs came from then. Apart from 1963. My parents had a tape (their only tape, apart from Queen's Greatest Hits) of 1963, and for innumerable holidays in France as a girl it came out again for the long evenings in the gite. So I know the hippy hippy shake and Shirley Bassey. But otherwise - fantastic and thank you.
You’ve just taken me on a journey though my childhood from 8 years of age, through school and up to a move to Ireland where I met the lady I married around about ‘Oh Well’ - Oh well, that only lasted 26 years but I wouldn’t change a thing. I’d guess, without researching, that this makes a far more interesting and diverse collection than the number ones. Thanks for the upload.
Its unlikely we will ever hear these type of songs again. And that all time great singers like Dean Martin were in the charts with Lulu with such a difference in music. "Gentle on My Mind" always reminds me of the Underground Bier Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street, Liverpool. It was a regular play on its Juke - Box in 1969. It was said Lulu disliked Boom Bang a Bang, despite it being a joint winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, though the orchestration, tambourine and Lulu's professionalism made it a classic 60s hit. And plenty of royalties for its writers given how widely it was later recorded in Europe. This is a great selection from that wonderful decade
When the UK was a great place to live unlike now. Glad I was there to appreciate the 60's and 70's music (it wasn't all good but more so than the rubbish of today). At 73 I'm still rocking and murdering my guitars :-)
Theme From A Summer Place is still with Albatross by Fleetwood Mac ( 1969 ) my faboUrite record of all-time. For me it is sentimental as I have always lived amongst 8 million people in London, England and in The 1960's many Londoners had caravans in The English Countryside and we did in Kent and this song evokes wonderful memories of an idyllic time with my Late Parents. We went for 7 weeks during the school summer holidays and every weekend from May to September, as well. It was one hour from London and now I moved to the edge of London and Kent because of that marvellous era...
So many good songs in the 60s i love that decade my childhood and i became teenager in 1966 what a time to grow up im glad that i grew up in the 60s and not now♥️♥️
There was more than one chart. I remember Melody Maker and The New Musical Express. Their charts were often different. That's why I think some of these made number one - I used to see the NME charts each week. As they got sales figures from a sample, maybe the samples were from very different sources. (The BBC also had a chart - sunday radio with Alan Freeman!)
Surprising that The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset' only reached number two. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most achingly poignant and poetic songs in British pop history.
Absolutely. As a native South East Londoner born and raised just 2 miles from there for my first 29 years until 1983 I can relate. My first job was at Somerset House and I used to hop off the bus ( you could then ) climb the middle of Waterloo Bridge ( you could then ) Enter The Tax Office Building on The West Wing , where I did not work without showing any Security ( you could then ) and cut through the square to my building overlooking The Thames. It was 1971-73...
Are you kidding? Every day in the 1960s I would hear a new song and every day it would be wonderful, whoever performed it. We didn't take much to Freddie and the Dreamers or Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, because we were snobs. We preferred The Kinks or The Who. Yeah, tough guys we were at 13-14. Oh, well, baby, look at you now. (That's a song from the swing era.)
To be No1 is wonderful. But no2 songs are not inferior to the No1 at all. You show me that by your works.Thank you for your great work. You took me back to my teenage days.
@@toothpick4649 Yeah..me too. Same ilk and I left Melbourne and moved to country NSW. To be frank, I really like our own people and see no reason to have neighbors with opposite values that do not speak my language
Quarantine has forced me into looking at a ton of these thematically connected collections of tunes. They are all so entertaining and wonderful. Like time machines, every one.
Many, many classics....that deserved to be number one! For some of them I was only four....but still somehow know them! Ours was a house full of music as I grew up. Just the radio on.
A lot of Brits never heard them back in the day either, if Auntie didn't think they ought to. You had to listen to Radio Caroline for good music in those days.
BRILLIANT upload thanks..Funny I can remember every word of all these Classics and yet can't remember what I went into the kitchen for an hour ago LOL!! 😊
Wow, what a difference an ocean makes. . . As an American approaching age 55, I’ve only heard of less that 10% of these songs. - I head that Cliff Richard had 45 “Top 10” hits in the U.K., but only one “top 10” hit in America “Devil Women” (which I actually bought, & I still have the 45 RPM & record sleeve of this”) & I heard Cliff is almost “Elvis” like popularity in England. I can easily say that probably 99% of Americans under the age of 55 (or possibly under 60) have Never heard of Cliff Richard. - So Many Great bands & songs from England. But these were mostly unheard of by me (even some of the #2’s from the American groups here, I’ve never heard of) - Can any other Americans, backup my observations on this?
He had a few more U.S. hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with "We don't talk anymore." and "Dreamin" being the biggest. He also had a #25 BB-HOT-100 his in 1963 with his version of "It's all in the game." But he definitely have fewer hits here than in the UK, Australia or even Canada.
The same with US hits of the era (though UK artists dominated the US charts in 1964!) Groups like Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, meant nothing here in the UK
