1 1 TASTE OF HONEY - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass 2 4 TURN! TURN! TURN! (To Everything There Is A Season) - The Byrds 3 3 I GOT YOU (I Feel Good) - James Brown & The Famous Flames 4 6 DON’T THINK TWICE - The Wonder Who? 5 SS WE CAN WORK IT OUT / DAY TRIPPER - The Beatles 6 2 I HEAR A SYMPHONY - The Supremes 7 8 1-2-3 - Len Barry 8 7 YOU’VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY - The Silkie 9 11 OVER AND OVER - The Dave Clark Five 10 10 LET’S HANG ON! - The 4 Seasons
SS is Sure Shot. Obviously, We Can Work It Out was going straight to the top.
Other than that no song jumped more than a dozen spots. Two did, both to the mid-20s: The Sounds of Silence and Gary Lewis & The Playboys, with She's Just My Style.
I definitely miss those old days, at least musically. Personally, not so much.
I try to listen to some contemporary stuff all the time, but I usually don't get it. I'm clearly too old for what passes for popular music now. Every generation has its own music, I guess, and I'll always think mine is better than theirs.
How can songs like "Get Off My Cloud" and "Turn Turn Turn" be 50 years old??
/I generally find the only new music I like is something that I first heard in a commercial or while I was walking around a store. Then I'll look it up and ask one of my girls to download it do me. When I get enough downloaded, I'll burn them to a cd. I don't have an iPod.
And so on to the Billboard list (Jeff, I would keep off your lawn if I were anywhere near it):
Turn, Turn, Turn, The Byrds I Hear a Symphony, The Supremes 1-2-3, Len Barry Let's Hang On, The Four Seasons (Featuring the Sound of Frankie Valli) (I'm still trying to figure out what that means--he wasn't really on the recording, but someone is singing like him?) I Got You (I Feel Good), James Brown and the Famous Flames Rescue Me, Fontella Bass A Taste of Honey, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Ain't That Peculiar, Marvin Gaye I Can Never Go Home Anymore, The Shangri-Las Over and Over, The Dave Clark 5
I've tried fairly hard to be fair to popular music, but it lost me somewhere in the 1990s. For example, here's the top 10 from this week in 1995:
One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men Exhale (Shoop, Shoop) (from the movie "Waiting to Exhale"), Whitney Houston Hey Lover, LL Cool J Fantasy, Mariah Carey Gangsta's Paradise (from the movie "Dangerous Minds), Coolio featuring LV You Remind Me of Something, R Kelly Runaway, Janet Jackson Diggin' On You, TLC Name, The Goo Goo Dolls (whom I happen to like, but this isn't even on their greatest hits CD) Tell Me, Groove Theory
I think it partly that the radio stations I have listened to since the mid 1980s don't play current hit songs, so I have no frame of reference and no familiarity with them. Or something.
When I saw today that Kendrick Lamar was nominated for a large number of Grammys, I tried to listen to a couple of his numbers. Couldn't get through them. My lawn is well guarded.
Deb, we bought Iris Dement's first album (originally 1992), INFAMOUS ANGEL, because we liked her "Let the Mystery Be" as the theme song of season 2 of THE LEFTOVERS.
That's how I discovered Andrea Bocelli: when the Bellagio first opened in Vegas, they used "Con te partiro" ("Time to Say Goodbye") and I loved it so much, I went looking for it. My husband actually called the Bellagio (pre-internet) days to find out about the song. Apparently we weren't the only ones--the rep immediately knew why he was calling and gave him the info.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kendrick Lamar is the king of the Grammys: The rapper is the leading nominee for the 2016 awards with 11, including album of the year for "To Pimp a Butterfly" and song of the year for "Alright."
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Here's the New York top 10 from 12/8/65:
1 1 TASTE OF HONEY - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
2 4 TURN! TURN! TURN! (To Everything There Is A Season) - The Byrds
3 3 I GOT YOU (I Feel Good) - James Brown & The Famous Flames
4 6 DON’T THINK TWICE - The Wonder Who?
5 SS WE CAN WORK IT OUT / DAY TRIPPER - The Beatles
6 2 I HEAR A SYMPHONY - The Supremes
7 8 1-2-3 - Len Barry
8 7 YOU’VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY - The Silkie
9 11 OVER AND OVER - The Dave Clark Five
10 10 LET’S HANG ON! - The 4 Seasons
SS is Sure Shot. Obviously, We Can Work It Out was going straight to the top.
Other than that no song jumped more than a dozen spots. Two did, both to the mid-20s: The Sounds of Silence and Gary Lewis & The Playboys, with She's Just My Style.
I definitely miss those old days, at least musically. Personally, not so much.
I try to listen to some contemporary stuff all the time, but I usually don't get it. I'm clearly too old for what passes for popular music now. Every generation has its own music, I guess, and I'll always think mine is better than theirs.
It was!
And they can keep off my lawn!
How can songs like "Get Off My Cloud" and "Turn Turn Turn" be 50 years old??
/I generally find the only new music I like is something that I first heard in a commercial or while I was walking around a store. Then I'll look it up and ask one of my girls to download it do me. When I get enough downloaded, I'll burn them to a cd. I don't have an iPod.
And so on to the Billboard list (Jeff, I would keep off your lawn if I were anywhere near it):
Turn, Turn, Turn, The Byrds
I Hear a Symphony, The Supremes
1-2-3, Len Barry
Let's Hang On, The Four Seasons (Featuring the Sound of Frankie Valli) (I'm still trying to figure out what that means--he wasn't really on the recording, but someone is singing like him?)
I Got You (I Feel Good), James Brown and the Famous Flames
Rescue Me, Fontella Bass
A Taste of Honey, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Ain't That Peculiar, Marvin Gaye
I Can Never Go Home Anymore, The Shangri-Las
Over and Over, The Dave Clark 5
I've tried fairly hard to be fair to popular music, but it lost me somewhere in the 1990s. For example, here's the top 10 from this week in 1995:
One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
Exhale (Shoop, Shoop) (from the movie "Waiting to Exhale"), Whitney Houston
Hey Lover, LL Cool J
Fantasy, Mariah Carey
Gangsta's Paradise (from the movie "Dangerous Minds), Coolio featuring LV
You Remind Me of Something, R Kelly
Runaway, Janet Jackson
Diggin' On You, TLC
Name, The Goo Goo Dolls (whom I happen to like, but this isn't even on their greatest hits CD)
Tell Me, Groove Theory
I think it partly that the radio stations I have listened to since the mid 1980s don't play current hit songs, so I have no frame of reference and no familiarity with them. Or something.
When I saw today that Kendrick Lamar was nominated for a large number of Grammys, I tried to listen to a couple of his numbers. Couldn't get through them. My lawn is well guarded.
Who's Kendrick Lamar?
Don, if I had a lawn I'd keep off it myself.
Deb, we bought Iris Dement's first album (originally 1992), INFAMOUS ANGEL, because we liked her "Let the Mystery Be" as the theme song of season 2 of THE LEFTOVERS.
That's how I discovered Andrea Bocelli: when the Bellagio first opened in Vegas, they used "Con te partiro" ("Time to Say Goodbye") and I loved it so much, I went looking for it. My husband actually called the Bellagio (pre-internet) days to find out about the song. Apparently we weren't the only ones--the rep immediately knew why he was calling and gave him the info.
Also: I thought Kendrick Lamar was a basketball player.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kendrick Lamar is the king of the Grammys: The rapper is the leading nominee for the 2016 awards with 11, including album of the year for "To Pimp a Butterfly" and song of the year for "Alright."
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