Top Forty Tunes From The Mid-to-Late 60's...

my favorite tune from the Summer of '66...

pretty much wore out the 45 playin' it over and over on my cheap-ass Silvertone record player...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apEctKwiD8&noredirect=1]The Standells - Dirty Water - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Don't know if this has been posted here previously, apologies if so.

The Letter by the Box Tops, 1967

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bDJwfdqavI]The Box Tops - The letter - YouTube[/ame]
 
the last Stones tune I liked...

after that, I woulda been perfectly satisfied if they all died in a plane crash...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwtiPwW3npo]The Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff - YouTube[/ame]
 
There is a common theme here: after the early 70s - popular music started to get bad.

Disco in the mid to -late 70s, lack-of- idenity MTV music in the 80s, grunge-garbage in the early 90s etc up to today.

All blows compared to the 60s - and 30s, 40s and50s for that matter.
 
There is a common theme here: after the early 70s - popular music started to get bad.

Disco in the mid to -late 70s, lack-of- idenity MTV music in the 80s, grunge-garbage in the early 90s etc up to today.

All blows compared to the 60s - and 30s, 40s and50s for that matter.

meh... as far as new music goes, there's always been sumpin' worth listening to...

you jes' sometimes gotta get off yer fat ass and go find it...
 
There is a common theme here: after the early 70s - popular music started to get bad.

Disco in the mid to -late 70s, lack-of- idenity MTV music in the 80s, grunge-garbage in the early 90s etc up to today.

All blows compared to the 60s - and 30s, 40s and50s for that matter.

meh... as far as new music goes, there's always been sumpin' worth listening to...

you jes' sometimes gotta get off yer fat ass and go find it...

Not the point. You didn't have to do digging for it in the decades he's referring to. You couldn't turn around without hearing an amazing song. Now? Not so much.
 
Pop music took a big hit when the Beatles disbanded, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jpolin, Jim Morrison died in 1970.
 
The mid to late 60s music world definitely had its lighter moments with the one, the only:


 
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Of course, at Woodstock in 1969, they all came to look for America... and were pleased by giving Bert Sommer who sang Simon and Garfunkel's "America" the only standing ovation of that celebrated love-in ..


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-NPCq_Jd8]BERT SOMMER - AMERICA - WOODSTOCK 69 - YouTube[/ame]

 

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