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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 29, 2022 8:44:47 GMT -5
Please list your absolute one favorite Summer song for each year of the 1960s:
Here are mine:
1960 Image of A Girl Safaris
1961 Quarter To Three Gary U.S. Bonds
1962 Twist and Shout Isley Brothers
1963 Candy Girl Four Seasons
1964 Mixed Up Shook Up Girl (how is that for obscure)? Patti and the Emblems
1965 Nothing But Heartaches Supremes
1966 Along Comes Mary Association
1967 Light My Fire (album version please) Doors
1968 Never Give You Up Jerry Butler
1969 Working On A Groovy Thing Fifth Dimension
I doubt if anyone else's would match mine. Very eclectic taste here.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 30, 2022 15:53:03 GMT -5
Please list your absolute one favorite Summer song for each year of the 1960s: Here are mine: 1960 Image of A Girl Safaris 1961 Quarter To Three Gary U.S. Bonds 1962 Twist and Shout Isley Brothers 1963 Candy Girl Four Seasons 1964 Mixed Up Shook Up Girl (how is that for obscure)? Patti and the Emblems 1965 Nothing But Heartaches Supremes 1966 Along Comes Mary Association 1967 Light My Fire (album version please) Doors 1968 Never Give You Up Jerry Butler 1969 Working On A Groovy Thing Fifth Dimension I doubt if anyone else's would match mine. Very eclectic taste here. First one that comes to mind is Save Your Heart For Me for 1965. I will ponder. Okay 1960 Greenfields Brothers Four (edging out Brian Hyland) 1961 Raindrops Dee Clark 1962 Sealed With A Kiss Brian Hyland 1963 Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer Nat King Cole 1964 The Girl From Ipanema Getz and Gilberto 1965 Save Your Heart For Me Gary Lewis and the Playboys 1966 I Saw Her Again Mamas and the Papas 1967 Heroes and Villains Beach Boys (edging out Petula Clark) 1968 Turn Around Look At Me Vogues 1969 Good Morning Starshine Oliver So a lot of Brian Hyland there, as he recorded the original version of Save Your Heart For Me, too. Itsy Bitsy is a near-perfect pop record, so it's a tough decision to not have it up there for 1960. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 30, 2022 16:22:12 GMT -5
Good selection Chris. Thanks for response.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 30, 2022 17:08:22 GMT -5
Good selection Chris. Thanks for response. Thank you too. Filled in the list now. |
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 30, 2022 19:18:07 GMT -5
1960 Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison
1961 You Don't Know What You Got ('Til You Lose It) - Ral Donner
1962 "Route 66" Theme - Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra
1963 Surf City - Jan & Dean
1964 Because - Dave Clark Five
1965 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
1966 Hanky Panky - Tommy James & The Shondells (actually recorded in 1963)
1967 It Could Be We're In Love - Cryan Shames (#1 on Chicago's WLS Silver Dollar Survey for 4 weeks in August)
1968 I Need Love - Third Booth (Peaked at #2 on WLS in July 1968)
1969 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) - Jr. Walker & The All-Stars
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Post by jgve1952 on Jul 31, 2022 11:17:52 GMT -5
Great choices 1finemrg!
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Post by chrislc on Aug 3, 2022 18:04:36 GMT -5
Good selection Chris. Thanks for response. I'm ready for the 70s version whenever you are! |
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Post by jgve1952 on Aug 4, 2022 10:47:41 GMT -5
Ready, get set, go:
1970 Hand Me Down World Guess Who
1971 Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Dramatics
1972 Goodbye To Love Carpenters
1973 Ghetto Child Spinners
1974 One Hell Of A Woman Mac Davis
1975 The Hustle Van McCoy
1976 Let Em In Paul McCartney and Wings
1977 I Just Want To Be Your Everything Andy Gibb
1978 The Groove Line Heatwave (album version please)
1979 Good Times Chic (album version please)
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Post by chrislc on Aug 4, 2022 17:08:56 GMT -5
Ready, get set, go: 1970 Hand Me Down World Guess Who 1971 Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Dramatics 1972 Goodbye To Love Carpenters 1973 Ghetto Child Spinners 1974 One Hell Of A Woman Mac Davis 1975 The Hustle Van McCoy 1976 Let Em In Paul McCartney and Wings 1977 I Just Want To Be Your Everything Andy Gibb 1978 The Groove Line Heatwave (album version please) 1979 Good Times Chic (album version please) I LOVE Let 'Em In, but I think More, More, More might edge it out, for me. We'll find out soon! |
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Post by chrislc on Aug 4, 2022 17:45:43 GMT -5
Okay here we go -
1970 Edging out what may THE quintessential summer song by Eric Burdon and War, it's CLOSE TO YOU - CARPENTERS
1971 A summer for road songs. but edging out the Doors and John Denver, it's ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO - LOBO
1972 Great summer for hits, but how can it not be ALONE AGAIN (NATURALLY) - GILBERT O'SULLIVAN
1973 I'm getting so MOR in my old age! YESTERDAY ONCE MORE - CARPENTERS
1974 Beating out the big hit, Rock Your Baby And Me Gently In The Boat, it's LET'S PUT IT ALL TOGETHER - STYLISTICS (and why wasn't it a bigger hit? Maybe it should have been called Let's Rock It All Together. But seriously, what a beautiful and well-constructed song.)
1975 What a great year and summer for Top 40 - beating out 10CC and Daisy Jane and the very late summer Helen Reddy, it's AT SEVENTEEN - JANIS IAN
1976 I thought it would be Let 'Em In or Andrea True but I almost forgot Sergei - NEVER GONNA FALL IN LOVE AGAIN - ERIC CARMEN
1977 Beating out Marvin Gaye at my #2, it's KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - ABBA
1978 Edging out FM (No Static At All), it's SONGBIRD - BARBRA STREISAND
1979 The most uptempo Top Ten in Top 40 history, I believe, but for me it's SAD EYES - ROBERT JOHN
You know, between the melodies and the arrangements and her voice, the Carpenters have become almost too painful to listen to. Those songs just ache with nostalgia.
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 5, 2022 5:14:21 GMT -5
1970 Go Back - Crabby Appleton
1971 Signs - Five Man Electrical Band (4:05 version)
1972 Take It Easy - Eagles
1973 Roll Over Beethoven - ELO
1974 Beach Baby - First Class
1975 I'm On Fire - Dwight Twilley Band
1976 Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
1977 Whatcha Gonna Do - Pablo Cruise
1978 Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
1979 Weekends - Wet Willie (album cut)
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Post by jgve1952 on Aug 5, 2022 5:15:11 GMT -5
Great choices Chris! I don't think many of our posters were either born or were very young during the 60's, but hopefully the 70's will get more responses. Thanks for responding.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 5, 2022 14:35:04 GMT -5
A little bit off topic...but I have to share this funny story. In summer of 1971, I bought Three Dog Night's #1 hit, Joy To the World, while we were visiting family in Philadelphia, and sad to say the record succumbed to the heat, getting a little warped on our trip back to suburban Detroit. I recall being a little disappointed when we got home upon trying to play the 45 and it would skip in a few places. Finally, I placed a penny on the tone arm of the record player and (what do you know)--it played.
I recall reading that AT40 in its early days also had problems with records 'melting' in the heat of LA.
Happy to say that during my countdowns I used digital files to play the 'hits' , eliminating the skipping and popping records gave us--ahh, but the memories I have of certain records (the good old days).
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 6, 2022 5:00:53 GMT -5
Good topic, combining 60s & 70s...
1965: Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
1966: Along Comes Mary - Association
1967: Windy - Association
1968: Journey To The Center Of The Mind - Amboy Dukes
1969: Birthday - Underground Sunshine
1970: Get Ready - Rare Earth (album)
1971: Beginnings - Chicago (album)
1972: Guitar Man - Bread
1973: I'll Always Love My Mama - Intruders
1974: Hang On In There Baby - Johnny Bristol
1975: I'm Not In Love - 10cc
1976: Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares
1977: Black Betty - Ram Jam
1978: Used Ta Be My Girl - O'Jays
1979: Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 6, 2022 5:37:19 GMT -5
So a lot of Brian Hyland there, as he recorded the original version of Save Your Heart For Me, too. Itsy Bitsy is a near-perfect pop record, so it's a tough decision to not have it up there for 1960. I distinctly remember watching "Rate-A-Record" on American Bandstand one Saturday morning in early 1971. The featured song was Brian's last Hot 100 single, his cover of Jackie Wilson's "Lonely Teardrops" the follow-up to "Gypsy Woman". As the song was playing, the two teens chosen were giving high marks. The average was in the 80/85 in a range from 35 to 98. At about the 2 minute mark, the tempo radically slowed for about 20 seconds. You could see the faces on the kids as if they had eaten something sour. All of them are talking to Dick Clark, who is erasing their original grades lowering the marks to the 45/50 range. Looking at the dance floor, it's as if someone had started playing the 45 at 33 1/3 RPM. Everything seemed in slow motion. Apparently at that point, the song didn't have a good beat and you couldn't dance to it. Certainly seemed to be a misstep by Brian and producer Del Shannon. Lonely Teardrops - Brian Hyland |
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