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Other music forums => Various Artists, Lyrics, Discographies => Topic started by: Wolf on February 17, 2005, 08:14:51 PM
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The 30 biggest-selling singles of the 1960s in the USA
1 I Want To Hold Your Hand, Beatles
2 The Ballad Of The Green Berets, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler
3 Hey Jude, Beatles
4 It`s Now Or Never, Elvis Presley
5 Love Is Blue, Paul Mauriat
6 Harper Valley P.T.A., Jeannie C. Riley
7 I`m A Believer, Monkees
8 I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Marvin Gaye
9 Sugar Sugar, Archies
10 Honey, Bobby Goldsboro
11 Can`t Buy Me Love, Beatles
12 She Loves You, Beatles
13 The Twist, Chubby Checker
14 Crimson And Clover, Tommy James & The Shondells
15 The Letter, Box Tops
16 Aquarias/Let The Sunshine In, Fifth Dimension
17 I Can`t Stop Loving You, Ray Charles
18 I Want You Back, Jackson 5
19 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, B.J. Thomas
20 Get Back, Beatles
21 In The Year 2525, Zager & Evans
22 Ode To Billie Joe, Bobbie Gentry
23 Are You Lonesome Tonight, Elvis Presley
24 To Sir With Love, Lulu
25 Daydream Believer, Monkees
26 Theme From A Summer Place, Percy Faith Orchestra
27 Love Child, Diana Ross & The Supremes
28 Hello Dolly, Louis Armstrong
29 Green Tambourine, Lemon Pipers
30 I Feel Fine, Beatles
While the 1950s belonged to Elvis, the 60s just as surely danced to the Beatles` tunes. The Fab Four have six out of the these 30 top sellers, including the number one I Want To Hold Your Hand, which sold 5 million copies in the USA alone. Considering that the 60s are remembered as the decade in which British artists conquered America, it`s perhaps a little surprising that apart from the Beatles` discs, the only British record showing here is Lulu`s To Sir With Love.
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The 30 biggest-selling singles of the 1960s in the USA
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Go Hey Jude! I'm listening to it on PM2 right now :)
BTW... where'd you get this? I'd like to see the best singles for the 50s and 70s as well :)
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It's easy to see that other than the Beatles no other froup had a strangle hold on the 60s!
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The 30 biggest-selling singles of the 1960s in the USA
18 I Want You Back, Jackson 5
Their debut major-label single in 1969. Michael Jackson was 11 years old...
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back - On The Ed Sullivan Show - [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnUf-xg7TSE#)
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anybody else surprised/disappointed at only 6 out of 30?
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anybody else surprised/disappointed at only 6 out of 30?
Not really. It's a great showing for The Beatles considering their years of activity during the 60s. Those other songs were tremendous hits when they were released.
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Ticket To Ride should be in there, Americans have bad taste :D
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...Americans have bad taste :D
Can't argue with you there!
#19...
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (Original 1969 Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o#)
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It seemed the whole country moved to this beat in the Fall of 1968...
#8...
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIFOzcRbiUI#ws)
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Ticket To Ride should be in there, Americans have bad taste :D
Yeah we had no clue in April of 1964! :P
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Hippies-In-Training grooved on this in late 1968...
#14...
TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS-"LONG VERSION- CRIMSON & CLOVER" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2FAJhkd4Bs#)
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...Americans have bad taste :D
Can't argue with you there...
#10...
Bobby Goldsboro - Honey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BZxgohr9g#)
A much better "dying song" from the 60s was...
The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvWodRXA7k#)
You get the picture?
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Yeah. Americans were hooked "dying songs" in the 60s...
Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her 1960 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H36EN74d9w#)
:'(
ha2ha
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#13 The Twist, Chubby Checker....the only record to hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 twice. It did that in 1960 and 1962.
Chubby Checker - The Twist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbK0C9AYMd8#)
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Yeah. Americans were hooked "dying songs" in the 60s...
:'(
ha2ha
Funny you should mention this. I was listening to Pandora tonight and "Last Kiss" played. I decided it was time to hit the skip button but it got me wondering what was up with all those depressing songs back then?
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Funny you should mention this. I was listening to Pandora tonight and "Last Kiss" played. I decided it was time to hit the skip button but it got me wondering what was up with all those depressing songs back then?
Who knows, Kelley? Here's a double suicide song from 1962 to top it all off...
Dickey Lee - "Patches" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3PL7vvWbng#)
;D
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^^^
Blech! Kind of a precursor to what we had in the '70's:
Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper + Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdMi_TW65Ho#)
Cowbell!
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Who's Blue Oyster Cult?
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#19 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, B.J. Thomas
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5l6rIUu4A#)
B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Soundtrack) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouxJ4GfC6JA#)
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Who's Blue Oyster Cult?
You're funny. But they were sort of like this:
SNL-MORE COW BELL!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjsUf_oIgp0#)
Kind of..
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B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Soundtrack)
Now that's a much nicer song to end the evening with. :)