The top 10 is wrong. I can still remember when the Rollings Stones made it to number 2 with "Paint It Black", at the same time the Beatles took number 1 with "Paperback Writer".
This was the year I was born, but I love every one of those songs, especially Paint it Black, which I feel in my soul. I've always, half jokingly 🤔, thought I was a reincarnated hippy. 🌼✌️💛
Actually pop music is making a big come back since the pandemic. There are many talented singers today (also a lot of trash) but the ones that are good, they have amazing songs that will make me say things like “music of my time was real music, back when you had to have actual talent to sing” in about 30-50 years (if I’m alive then hopefully) I can already guarantee you 😂 We all want to believe that the music we grew up with will never be surpassed, that we’ve already heard the best there could be. Nostalgia has something to do with it as well. All of that aside, the songs in this compilation are obviously all bangers and those people had some gifted musical abilities. Every era has great songs, some more than others. I guess what I’m trying to say is we can’t really compare since it’s all subjective in the end.
@@udontevenwannaknowbruv so the old foggies sitting in the old age homes 50 yrs from now are going to be remebering the great old gangsta rap , heavy metal and Taylor Swift music
If we're talking sales, acccording to the Billboard Top 100 for 1966, the Beatles had four songs in the list. We Can Work it Out was their top song coming in at #49. The other songs were Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer and Yellow Submarine.
@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020 We Can Work it Out was released in December 1965, becoming a hit in 1966. Nowhere Man was recorded in 1965, but was released in the United States in February 1966.
Jr in High School and just got my DL. Living in the SFV of LA and Paint it Black always makes me think of my ‘65 GTO driving on Lassen St, approaching Reseda Bl in Northridge
Add in Paperback Writer/Rain, Summer in the City, All Or Nothing, Substitute, Sunny Afternoon, and Eight Miles High, and you've got an amazing year of music.
My favorite music is from the 60's: The classic rock, the blues and reggae was the music ever made! How can you leave out The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Drifters & The Doors BLOWS MY MIND!!!
All great songs. Gosh we were spoilt back then for talent. Having danced to the 60s and 70s etc music, I feel a bit sorry for kids of today not knowing such great music and wonderful artists. I am a huge Motown fan. Loved all of it.
Didn't like any of those songs. The Beatles were losing the freshness they had at the start. When they all smiled and enjoyed playing together. They had energy then.
I'm 41 and remember every one of them. LOL This is the music I grew up with. I even got to see Jan and Dean and the Turtles in Concert! I can only imagine what it must have been like to live it.
AS A LITTLE BOY, MY MOTHER BOUGHT ME A TRANSISTER RADIO AND I WOULD LISTEN TO THESE SONGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I EVEN LEARNED HOW TO PLAY GUITAR AND I WOULD PLAY THESE SONGS. MEMORIES.......
My Dad passed away from a sudden heart attack in August of 1966. I was only nine. Thank you for posting this. Now, when I hear those songs, I'll remember him. ❤
I was also 11. My folks got me a transistor radio for my birthday with one ear phone AND the deluxe leatherette carrying case with handy shoulder strap! I listened to WLS and WCFL in Chicago.
I was 11. Slept with transistor radio under my pillow listening to krla los Angeles!!! Grew up to work in the industry. Worked as a backing vocalist , contractor and arranger with Stevie Wonder, the supremes, Elton John, Herbie Hancock, Colin Bluestone, Nigel Olsson, Al Jarreau, etc ... really grateful for the gift of music.
I'm right there with you guys I always loved the music I'm just curious if you guys have heard of Angelina Jordan an 18 year old singer living in LA she won Norway got talent 10 years ago check her out and tell me what you think I'd really like to know.
Killer list! I'm 38, but I know all of these songs, thanks to my parents and grandparents. I'm so grateful that they passed this incredible music on to me.
@@miguelangelrodrigorodrigo1249I'm 47 and knew every song on this list and like or love them all but I still love electronic music most and without the evolution I wouldn't have ever gotten the thousands of songs I also love, so it's just how ya look at it 🤷
Always the way. 1966 was only 10-11 years after Rock n' Roll and R & B blew up. Things were still very fresh and new ideas came out all the time. Eventually, everything got stale. Plus, the money dried up. People who might have been writing got songs in 1966 have to work a straight job to survive today.
1 "California Dreamin'" The Mamas & the Papas 2 "96 Tears" ? and the Mysterians 3 "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" Jimmy Ruffin 4 "Last Train to Clarksville" The Monkees 5 "Reach Out I'll Be There" Four Tops 6 "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Nancy Sinatra 7 "Cherish" The Association 8 "Strangers in the Night" Frank Sinatra 9 "Kicks" Paul Revere & the Raiders 10 "The Ballad of the Green Berets" SSgt Barry Sadler
Ya the 60s&70s were the best for music.. but there are some bands today that are awesome like disturbed system of a down Volbeat etc..the equipment today blows away the equipment back then.
@@anthonylove5275 Yeah but the equipment and tech is used more often to try to cover lack of talent than it is as an additional toy/possibility for talent to experiment with. It's a mix of things but profit over art and the difficulty level of struggling it out as a starving artist long enough to break out when all the revenue streams are crap for the actual artists these days are the most pressing factors, imo. If you can't be a starving artist, you can't become a rich one unless you are from money and trust fund kids make trash art.
@@anthonylove5275 They have better equipment but still end up with a worse sound. Most bands today just slap a bunch of reverb, the amount doesn't matter because again, they don't care about sound design, and they call it a day.
80s was the best decade for art, music, fashion, fads and vehicles. Been around since 1958 so Ive seen a good bit and listened to even more. Was very fortunate to see both Stevie Ray Vaughn and Harry Chapin(not together) in 1979 just a couple years before they both left us way too soon!
Was 16 yrs old and life was great! We had so many different styles of music, and not a swear word ever said! Songs were mainly about life and love, now at 74 yrs old it is hard to tell what they are trying to say!
That feeling of a invincible coat woven from youth & optimism. Like riding atop a 200 ft wave that still yet hasn't crested & feels like nothing can stop you & it from moving forward over & around anything? Any obstacles that might stand to slow you. God take me back for one more go through?🙏 That same feeling just isn't there for our youth nowadays. There's been too many lies & too much corruption & deceit exposed. Maybe ignorance is bliss bc it sure felt better B4 we knew we were all being groomed & lied to about basically everything. Now there's just a feeling of waiting for the next inevitable disappointment to show itself. No unstoppable youth fueled momentum like B4. Jaded is the new norm. No wonder today's youth are so angry. There's no president for what to expect. No moral compass that proclaims that no matter what, in the end good will win out.
you can do a top 100 for any year 1960to1975 and some one will come and say "what about "XXXXX" and you say oh god yes i wonder how many of todays songs will still be remembered 60 years from now? prob not many as we had to OWN the music growing up
Paint it Black top 3 at least, you also forgot Under my Thumb, 19th Nervous Breakdown, half of the songs of Revolver album, specially Eleanor Rigby, Paperback Writer, Sunny Afternoon, All Your Love
❤❤❤❤ I was 8yrs old and continue to love to this day all these beats. While I moved with the grooves of successive decades and still keep up to date it's the 60s - 80s music that leaves the greatest impression. Heck, I watched on Australian TV and enjoyed Woodstock as a 10yr old.
Loved this music, REAL music, in 1966 when I graduated high school in California and I love it just as much now if not more. I get chills when I hear it and still know most of the words ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I saw Percy Sledge sing "When A Man Loves A Woman" many times at the Pelican Club in Vinton, LA. He was a fabulous singer and a very nice man. Those were the days when we had some great music.
I wasn't around back then but my dad was and I grew up loving ALL these songs ♥️ I sure miss you so much Dad, I would give ANYTHING to listen to these songs with you on your huge 80's speakers 💔💔💔
This guy is not a Beatles fan. In his 1965, IIRC, list, both Yesterday and I Can't Get No Satisfaction spent 4 weeks (the most for 1965) at number one, yet he ranked Yesterday at number 7 and ICGNS at number 1.
'Think I'm going back' ( Carole King, later The Byrds ) this time I must reduce me practice electric guitar volume on the Fender Amp. Next door neighbor gave me 45 rpm of 'Good Vibrations .' Then Allman Bros. & John Mclaughlin & plenty of others' had super loud recordings and concerts. Hope my neighbor forgives my loud practice.
Funny that the top 10 included bubble gum pop like "I'm a Believer", surfer rock "Good Vibrations", rock "Paint It Black", R&B "Hold On I'm Comin" to blues "When A Man Loves A Woman." Something for every taste.
I was also born in 79 and share the same sentiment as you. My Mom, who passed this last February, loved every song on the list, but none as much as "her" Supremes.
Still listen 58 years after!meanwhile i can't find not even one song to make a top ten 58 years later from now! Nobody will remember the 2024 songs! But i'm sure they will remember the 1966 songs!! 😢
Those are all songs I love but the greatest band of all time is conspicuous by their absence!!!!! The Beatles should probably be on that list three of four times!!!
Nothing like the 60s best decade ever not now its the worse let all go back to the 60s. Nowadays isn't normal never thought it would be when l was a kid only in comics. Those 60s shall never be again, Am glad l grew up in a normal decade.
@@onetrueslaveAbout 3-4 years later drugs came into play, started in California with the Hippie movement about that time, and moved east. I was only 12 at the time, but we were aware.
Almost 60 years later and these are still staples on the radio, film soundtracks or being covered or sampled. Now lookup music from 10 years ago and see if that music holds any merit.
1. Can’t help myself The four tops 2. Will you still love me The Shirelles 3. Baby The Ronnettes 4. Somebody please The Vanguard 5. Just me and you The Dreamliners 6. Imagination The Temptations 7. Hold on me Smokey Allen and the miracles 8. Night owl by ? 9. Blue moon Richie Valens 10. Angel baby Rosie and the originals
All good songs but as far as top 10, I'm sure everyone has their own idea of which songs belong in the top 10 🤗 My #1 would be The Beatles Eleanor Rigby and my #2 would be The Beatles Yellow Submarine 🌞🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️❤
Still worth listening to
58 years later!!
Yes....👍My birth year 😁
@@luisbohorquez7096 Mine too
Yes I agree year I was born 💙
Agree !
so varied and all good. still.
1966 was one of the most amazing years ever in music. This Top Ten is a mere scratch on the surface.
The music of the 60's was transformative.
The songs of the 80's are just a good time.
The top 10 is wrong. I can still remember when the Rollings Stones made it to number 2 with "Paint It Black", at the same time the Beatles took number 1 with "Paperback Writer".
And also the year I was born!
Give it up for Percy Sledge: When A Man Loved A Woman. Rest in Peace,
Loves*
Heard him perform 2X live in 1986 ~ classic.
One of the best without question
The song owned the world lock stock and barrel
I get some tears when I sing "when a man loves a woman", at karaoke I can reproduce his voice perfectly I'm 70 now
Was 13 in 1960 so all 60's songs are clear in my mind. What a time to be alive. Am 77 now but still love them all! John, UK.
Me too. Perfect timing.
I'm 74. Yeah I agree. All good stuff.
This was the year I was born, but I love every one of those songs, especially Paint it Black, which I feel in my soul. I've always, half jokingly 🤔, thought I was a reincarnated hippy. 🌼✌️💛
I bet there was allot of racism back then
@@BMW7series251 I'm 82 and I still listen to these songs. And I still dance if there is a partner who also likes it.
I'm 64 and still loving them. The 60's and 70's were the best years of music!!
yes, but the 1980s was pretty good too.
No others come even close the era 66-77 is about the apex of American music.
@@peterbell6906 ... true, but the 1980s were pretty good too.
Great songs but there is no way to do a top ten without it being biased.
Still great stuff though.
I guess you had to be there.
Music was so good back then.
60-70s, the best
When people could actually sing !
You ain't never lie!!!!
Actually pop music is making a big come back since the pandemic. There are many talented singers today (also a lot of trash) but the ones that are good, they have amazing songs that will make me say things like “music of my time was real music, back when you had to have actual talent to sing” in about 30-50 years (if I’m alive then hopefully) I can already guarantee you 😂 We all want to believe that the music we grew up with will never be surpassed, that we’ve already heard the best there could be. Nostalgia has something to do with it as well.
All of that aside, the songs in this compilation are obviously all bangers and those people had some gifted musical abilities. Every era has great songs, some more than others.
I guess what I’m trying to say is we can’t really compare since it’s all subjective in the end.
@@udontevenwannaknowbruv so the old foggies sitting in the old age homes 50 yrs from now are going to be remebering the great old gangsta rap , heavy metal and Taylor Swift music
No beatles for the year 66? Its imposible
He doesn’t like the Beatles. He made a list of the most iconic bands of the 60s and left the Beatles out on purpose.
Because if this list was accurate, about half of it would be Beatles
If we're talking sales, acccording to the Billboard Top 100 for 1966, the Beatles had four songs in the list. We Can Work it Out was their top song coming in at #49. The other songs were Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer and Yellow Submarine.
@@timwilson9900 weird given that both- we can work it out and nowhere man are 1965 songs, i wouldn’t count them as 1966 songs.
@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020
We Can Work it Out was released in December 1965, becoming a hit in 1966.
Nowhere Man was recorded in 1965, but was released in the United States in February 1966.
My freshman year in high school, age 14, and still listening at 72. Good music triggers so many great memories. ❤❤❤❤❤
👍
Jr in High School and just got my DL. Living in the SFV of LA and Paint it Black always makes me think of my ‘65 GTO driving on Lassen St, approaching Reseda Bl in Northridge
Just finished 6th grade in 1966
@@deantait8326I still live at Lassen and Reseda!
Good music is timeless. ❤
I was 9 years old and now at 67, I still love these songs. 💕💕
Me too
@linda. I am too. Great time for music.
1966 and 1976 had the BEST music ever.
when music had heart and soul; regardless of the genre, or style...
I so agree! And Steve winwood had such a huge huge career he's still alive you know
It’s 1966 right? Where the hell are The Beatles?!
Yes the Beatles sung Elenore Rigby and we can work it out 1966, and year I was born 💙
It was a pretty damn good year!
And the Grateful Dead was just getting tuned up.
They were crap 💁🏻♂️
@@eddietasker9110exactly
England?🤷🏼♂️🇬🇧. 🤓😎✌🏼🇺🇲
Add in Paperback Writer/Rain, Summer in the City, All Or Nothing, Substitute, Sunny Afternoon, and Eight Miles High, and you've got an amazing year of music.
What a year 1966.
Yay! Lovin Spoonful ❤
Bus Stop
@@grahampaulkendrick7845 Sorry full up, another bus will be along soon.
@@CB-xr1eg More chat-up time then! 🙂
I wasn't born until 1967 but know all these songs well, was raised on them and all the good music.
Same ,born in '69
My favorite music is from the 60's:
The classic rock, the blues and reggae was the music ever made!
How can you leave out The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Drifters & The Doors BLOWS MY MIND!!!
I remember all those songs and grew up listening to them.
❤
Love 60’s music!
Always felt Good Vibrations was an absolute masterpiece.
It certainly was! If you don't already know the story of its creation you should learn it. Impressive!
Best masterpiece ever: good vibrations
Beatles must have been a bit jealous of the Beach Boys. So made Sgt Peppers Heart Club Band for the next year.
It was so unusual. It really started a new sound in music. Genius.
The royalbavarian...Me too . I've seen it performed live 20 times between the BEACH BOYS and Brian Wilson's band .
Great year and great music. The 60s were magical. I wish I could go back.
All great songs. Gosh we were spoilt back then for talent. Having danced to the 60s and 70s etc music, I feel a bit sorry for kids of today not knowing such great music and wonderful artists. I am a huge Motown fan. Loved all of it.
1966 was a great year for music. Name the top hits of 2023. It's almost laughable the music today.
hey, I'm not a fan either, but you never know what people will be nostalgic for in 6 decades.
I expected to see exactly this cringe boomer take when I decided to open the comments. 👍
Great songs in1966
How about the top 10 hits of the 21st Century?
@@jofelmorata so gratified you got your confirmation bias on.
I was 16. I still love every one of these songs!
I wish I was 16 again. Oh the things I would change!
I was 15. Best decade to be a teenager!
@@dalehood1846Wouldn't we all !
Where 's the Beatles Paperback Writer, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows..
Beatles suck!!
Those songs were so depressing to me as a shy 13 year old boy !
Didn't like any of those songs. The Beatles were losing the freshness they had at the start. When they all smiled and enjoyed playing together. They had energy then.
@@philmitchem-pw5lh50 something years later we still talk about em. Any1 who says they suck has mental issues.
"We Can Work it Out" #49 - 1966 Top 100
I'm 70 and remember every one of them✌️✌️✌️😍😍🎶😍🎶
I'm 41 and remember every one of them. LOL This is the music I grew up with. I even got to see Jan and Dean and the Turtles in Concert! I can only imagine what it must have been like to live it.
An incredible era for music! So glad I was a teenager then! ❤❤❤❤❤
1966 was a great year for Rock, R&B and Soul, not a stinker in the bunch!
Exactly......🎶 😎 🎶
It was just the best music and still is !
Stinker? Heck they are all the greatest songs of the 60s!
All great songs !!!
AS A LITTLE BOY, MY MOTHER BOUGHT ME A TRANSISTER RADIO AND I WOULD LISTEN TO THESE SONGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I EVEN LEARNED HOW TO PLAY GUITAR AND I WOULD PLAY THESE SONGS. MEMORIES.......
Olé, you re so lucky❤
My Dad passed away from a sudden heart attack in August of 1966. I was only nine. Thank you for posting this. Now, when I hear those songs, I'll remember him. ❤
We are exactly the same age !
I was also 9 years old in 1966, seems like it was another world 🌎 back then
@@garla5851 It was, it was the lyrics a lot more happier not so negative and violent.
My mother was just born in 1966
Sorry for your loss 🙏
I was 5. But had older brothers and remember hearing them.😂😂❤
I remember all these songs! I was 10 years old and my older brothers listened to them! It was a wonderful era - love the music! 💜
I feel like everyone who had a childhood before modern social media has heard all of these. Back when we had a cohesive culture.
I remember all of them too! 😂🎉 and start singing
Ok. Nr. 7 never heard
But all the others
Loooove it
I was 3 years old 😂😂
L❤VE ALL OF THESE🎶 SONGS❣️✌️🎶💯
A lot of awesome songs in 1966, and was the year I was born 💙❤️
I was born in 66 also😊
66 baby here.
62- baby
@@jackieprasek179 great to meet you here have a great night
@@marine4lyfe85 great to meet you here have a great night
I was 11 years old and addicted to AM radio. I lived with the transistor radio on my ears
I was also 11. My folks got me a transistor radio for my birthday with one ear phone AND the deluxe leatherette carrying case with handy shoulder strap! I listened to WLS and WCFL in Chicago.
I was 11. Slept with transistor radio under my pillow listening to krla los Angeles!!! Grew up to work in the industry. Worked as a backing vocalist , contractor and arranger with Stevie Wonder, the supremes, Elton John, Herbie Hancock, Colin Bluestone, Nigel Olsson, Al Jarreau, etc ... really grateful for the gift of music.
I'm right there with you guys I always loved the music I'm just curious if you guys have heard of Angelina Jordan an 18 year old singer living in LA she won Norway got talent 10 years ago check her out and tell me what you think I'd really like to know.
For me it was CKLW out of Detroit Michigan.
I was 13 and ditto on the AM radio. Great memories, great music.
This was my music...60 years later, still listening
I was 8, and remember (& value) these still. Interesting how the ballad boy band stuff was on the way out, as these were on the way in...
What a line-up. There will never be another burst of musical genius like the 60s
My sister and I would hurry to finish dinner dishes so we could watch the Monkees. Loved them.
Yeah we pretty much lived for Saturday morning when the Monkees show came on.
@@Mick_Ts_Chick in Chicago, it was broadcast on a weekday, about 6 p.m.
@@pettytoni1955 Probably you saw it when it originally aired. I was little then, and I was watching the re-runs in the late 60s/early 70s.
Bubblegum. 🥴🤢🤮
Im a believer should be at number one It was a huge hit. I think the minkees outsold the beatles on that one
Honorable mentions
"Eight Miles High" - the Byrds
"River Deep, Mountain High" - Tina Turner (solo debut single)
I just sent this to a buddy of mine who used to be Brian Wilson's personal assistant, he'll dig it!
Eight Miles High, one of favorites from the 60s, I was 11 years old and the music of those days was magic.
Ever heard of the Beatles, Eric B. Gordon?
The Beatles were included in the original upload of this video, @@fshoaps. Don't ask me trick questions.
Young Rascals
These songs are still popular! My 23 year and his friends knows them all to this day! Nothing like the 60s and 70s, real music!!
Killer list! I'm 38, but I know all of these songs, thanks to my parents and grandparents. I'm so grateful that they passed this incredible music on to me.
Best year of my life...I was 16....music then was everything.
Best year of my life. I was born
Every one of em a banger!
Each one different from the last.
No auto tune
En aquella época había variación.que pena de evolución.
@@miguelangelrodrigorodrigo1249I'm 47 and knew every song on this list and like or love them all but I still love electronic music most and without the evolution I wouldn't have ever gotten the thousands of songs I also love, so it's just how ya look at it 🤷
We couldn't put together a list this amazing today.
Yes I agree 💯 and was 1966,year I was born
NO WAY!
So true and so sad🎉
Always the way. 1966 was only 10-11 years after Rock n' Roll and R & B blew up. Things were still very fresh and new ideas came out all the time. Eventually, everything got stale. Plus, the money dried up. People who might have been writing got songs in 1966 have to work a straight job to survive today.
True , most are used in uk commercial ,or in the cult films or series of the 1980s rolling stones was in tour of duty series.
1 "California Dreamin'" The Mamas & the Papas
2 "96 Tears" ? and the Mysterians
3 "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" Jimmy Ruffin
4 "Last Train to Clarksville" The Monkees
5 "Reach Out I'll Be There" Four Tops
6 "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Nancy Sinatra
7 "Cherish" The Association
8 "Strangers in the Night" Frank Sinatra
9 "Kicks" Paul Revere & the Raiders
10 "The Ballad of the Green Berets" SSgt Barry Sadler
Awesome songs 1966,year I was born 💙
this is actually the real top 10 songs from 1966.
Substitute
Unbelievable year of music!!!!!! It will go down as one of the best years ever!!!!!!!
I'm 63 and grew up listening to these great songs. So good, they stand the test of time. We had the best music ever! 🥳👏🏼
I was 5 in 1966
@@larrydixon-vi7ld So was I...born June 1961!
What a good year! 🙂
The best decade for music there's been. And I was born in the 90's.
Ya the 60s&70s were the best for music.. but there are some bands today that are awesome like disturbed system of a down Volbeat etc..the equipment today blows away the equipment back then.
@@anthonylove5275 Yeah but the equipment and tech is used more often to try to cover lack of talent than it is as an additional toy/possibility for talent to experiment with. It's a mix of things but profit over art and the difficulty level of struggling it out as a starving artist long enough to break out when all the revenue streams are crap for the actual artists these days are the most pressing factors, imo.
If you can't be a starving artist, you can't become a rich one unless you are from money and trust fund kids make trash art.
Also 70's and 80's things just started getting worse in the 90's
@@anthonylove5275 They have better equipment but still end up with a worse sound. Most bands today just slap a bunch of reverb, the amount doesn't matter because again, they don't care about sound design, and they call it a day.
80s was the best decade for art, music, fashion, fads and vehicles. Been around since 1958 so Ive seen a good bit and listened to even more. Was very fortunate to see both Stevie Ray Vaughn and Harry Chapin(not together) in 1979 just a couple years before they both left us way too soon!
Was 16 yrs old and life was great! We had so many different styles of music, and not a swear word ever said! Songs were mainly about life and love, now at 74 yrs old it is hard to tell what they are trying to say!
A lot of people thought Spencer Davis Group was a soul group. Just goes to show that good music knows no boundaries
Exactly 💯
What a year. I was 13 and was addicted to all that amazing music. We were the luckiest generation in history.
Happy 71
I’m two years younger but I remember they do well!😊
@@johnrodriguezjr3491 happy 69
I was four and dancing all over the place - I thought Sam And Dave was '67
I don't think I cared much. I was only 3.
Yep.
66 was my birth year.
My parents raised me listening to every one of these songs. I love every genre.
And the older the better❤
Me too born in August.
me too xxx
The summer of '66 I left home @ 17. Those were the days my friend. We truly thought they'd never end.
You are so right, I feel ya!
That feeling of a invincible coat woven from youth & optimism. Like riding atop a 200 ft wave that still yet hasn't crested & feels like nothing can stop you & it from moving forward over & around anything? Any obstacles that might stand to slow you. God take me back for one more go through?🙏 That same feeling just isn't there for our youth nowadays. There's been too many lies & too much corruption & deceit exposed. Maybe ignorance is bliss bc it sure felt better B4 we knew we were all being groomed & lied to about basically everything. Now there's just a feeling of waiting for the next inevitable disappointment to show itself. No unstoppable youth fueled momentum like B4. Jaded is the new norm. No wonder today's youth are so angry. There's no president for what to expect. No moral compass that proclaims that no matter what, in the end good will win out.
I remember that song!
Wow! A year of great music that has lasted and still heard today.
The song excerpts are too short! Give each one at least ten seconds.
Everyone who remembers the quality of 60/70s music has their own favorites. All of these examples can be numbered amongst the best of the period.
you can do a top 100 for any year 1960to1975 and some one will come and say "what about "XXXXX" and you say oh god yes i wonder how many of todays songs will still be remembered 60 years from now?
prob not many as we had to OWN the music growing up
EXACTLY (and let's not forget, there were some BAD ones!)
Dang, that was some great music in 66! I was only 8 years old that year and missed out. Good Vibrations is a masterpiece.
I turned 13 that year 😊
@@TheJaydonone I turned -1 and still think it's one of the best ever years for music.
I was 8 that year also and fancied Davie Jones of the Monkees! 😅
True...groundbreaking❤️♥️♥️
@TheJaydonone I was 13 also, at the time of Good Vibrations,it was the most expensive song,ever produced!
All wonderful songs ! How I love them!❤
Always say 1966 was the best for everything.❤
The amazing thing is that they are all better than the radio trash played today. 👍😎🇳🇿✨🌹🎸
True !!
Sadly they steal parts of the genuine songs. Sample them. Reverse them. Slow them down...speed them up...but they cannot match rhem at all! 😔😔😕
Paint it Black top 3 at least, you also forgot Under my Thumb, 19th Nervous Breakdown, half of the songs of Revolver album, specially Eleanor Rigby, Paperback Writer, Sunny Afternoon, All Your Love
No 👇
Every one of them was a great song!
❤❤❤❤ I was 8yrs old and continue to love to this day all these beats.
While I moved with the grooves of successive decades and still keep up to date it's the 60s - 80s music that leaves the greatest impression.
Heck, I watched on Australian TV and enjoyed Woodstock as a 10yr old.
Loved this music, REAL music, in 1966 when I graduated high school in California and I love it just as much now if not more. I get chills when I hear it and still know most of the words ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was 10 years of age
And it's just like yesterday
Bring tears to My eyes
Now still fresh in my mind
Percy Sledge....♥️♥️♥️
We are so fortunate to have been alive to hear them for the 1st time at that age, when music was Exciting!
5 - 6 in '66
Was sweet 16. Also Sounds of Silence, Summer in the City, Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine.
Not one Beatles song in the bunch. Still, what a great collection of music!
1966 and there's not one song listed by The Beatles? That's a farce!!
The Beatles are hated by rock fans.
Nah, only by the deaf @@fshoaps
60s starter pack band. The rest of us are listening to the decade.
Thanks for stroll down my senior year music......music got me to San Francisco.....what a loving time
1960-1980 is The Golden Age Of Music.
It wont happen again😢
We grew up to the greatest music. The greatest singers. Real voices. The greatest lyrics. It will never compare. 😉
@@MicheleWalkerWebb and the saddest thing that i was born in 1983😭😭😭
@@Sergio_Hattifnatt Sounds like you appreciate the older music. You're living it. Play ON. Carry it with you.
@@MicheleWalkerWebb yes it is). That old stuff is important part of my life and it's always be with me). Thank you)).
The year I graduated High school at 17..
Good tunes indeed..
I also graduated in 1966 and went right to my career job without a week’s vacation!! Loved the music that year at 17 also!!
I saw Percy Sledge sing "When A Man Loves A Woman" many times at the Pelican Club in Vinton, LA. He was a fabulous singer and a very nice man. Those were the days when we had some great music.
That is a great set of songs
I wasn't around back then but my dad was and I grew up loving ALL these songs ♥️ I sure miss you so much Dad, I would give ANYTHING to listen to these songs with you on your huge 80's speakers 💔💔💔
In my 70’s now & these were my high school songs that still bring me happiness & great memories.
The Beatles didn’t have any music out in 1966?
No massive hit singles
In your dimension,yes,they had several.In this one,they broke up after the death of Stu Sutcliffe.👽
@@matthewashman1406 Eleanor Rigby, Paperback writing, nah
@@kayalokito Not sure your meaning ?
Nothing to write home about.
Rain, Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Drive my Car, If I Needed Someone to name a few of the possibilities you have purposely omitted from the countdown
Not true. They were counting down the top few of the year.
@@pettytoni1955Don’t know their source (don’t see any) but, you tell me if Penny Lane didn’t make it to # 1 . What few?
This guy is not a Beatles fan. In his 1965, IIRC, list, both Yesterday and I Can't Get No Satisfaction spent 4 weeks (the most for 1965) at number one, yet he ranked Yesterday at number 7 and ICGNS at number 1.
@@braemtes23 that’s what I was fearing, not a Beatle keener, probably a Beatle Karen . . whatever that comes to mean . . Ha!
Este tio odia a los Beatles
Im building a time machine just to experience the music in real-time, who's with me???
'Think I'm going back' ( Carole King, later
The Byrds ) this time I must reduce me practice electric guitar volume on the Fender Amp. Next door neighbor gave
me 45 rpm of 'Good Vibrations .' Then
Allman Bros. & John Mclaughlin & plenty
of others' had super loud recordings and concerts. Hope my neighbor forgives my
loud practice.
@@robertknowles2699 Hell yeah 😁
Yes, please!!
Can I go back too?
I'm so in!
I was barely two back then but...i can't help but recognizing these tunes as EPOCAL! What happened to great pop music since then?
Wow, some great tunes!❤🎉
God bless all these great singers they have entertained me and my family for many years God bless them all
I still listen to this music and I am 71 years old and I Love it 🥰
I like this kind of music better than today’s music
Me too!
Im 41 y.o. but i can't listen music that was recorded after 1980.
Funny that the top 10 included bubble gum pop like "I'm a Believer", surfer rock "Good Vibrations", rock "Paint It Black", R&B "Hold On I'm Comin" to blues "When A Man Loves A Woman." Something for every taste.
Yes, a very eclectic period, but each “ representative “ from each category of popular music was well written, well performed & menorable.
I prefer The Byrds in 1966. And Spencer Davis had way better songs than the song showed in this video.
There is no one of these songs that I never heard. All pertinent and perfect songs! Great year for MUSIC!
I remember them all. For what its worth is revelvent today.
Wow!!! What a year for music.
It was real not automated.
I was born in 79. But thank God I grew up in a musical household,that's all I can say🙌 🙏 ❤
My dad was born '79 too!
My mom was born in 79
I was also born in 79 and share the same sentiment as you. My Mom, who passed this last February, loved every song on the list, but none as much as "her" Supremes.
@lchrissander I was born in 79 as well. My dad passed in 2021 and he loved the Motown sound.
Still listen 58 years after!meanwhile i can't find not even one song to make a top ten 58 years later from now! Nobody will remember the 2024 songs! But i'm sure they will remember the 1966 songs!! 😢
My Senior year of HS. By August of 66 off to Vietnam! Glad to still be alive @ 77. Most of my buds have passed!
So sorry for your friends.
#1 Last Train to Clarksville THE MONKEES! YES!!!
Every time I hear "Good Vibrations" I crave an orange soda.
Was that in a Sunkist commercial?
@@waltercolombe6105I seem to remember it quite a bit around 1980
No Beatles songs????
Did you hear any? There's your answer to your dumb question.
@@CB-xr1eg it was rhetorical question, don’t you get it?
@@Joe-xg3pjHe doesn’t because he’s dumb.
Elanor Rigby was released in 66,and its better than every song on that list
If your going to a funeral.
How time flies. Music rock back then. I loved it I was 13.❤😂
Those are all songs I love but the greatest band of all time is conspicuous by their absence!!!!! The Beatles should probably be on that list three of four times!!!
This can’t be correct if there are no Beatle songs
Percy Sledge was such a lovely man I had the privilege to meet him on a trip to Holland one summer
I 100% agree. I played him twice in I believe 2000 at two different venues where I was the talent buyer. Was the nicest artist I ever met.
Nothing like the 60s best decade ever not now its the worse let all go back to the 60s. Nowadays isn't normal never thought it would be when l was a kid only in comics. Those 60s shall never be again, Am glad l grew up in a normal decade.
A very creative decade, for sure. Drugs helped.
@@onetrueslaveAbout 3-4 years later drugs came into play, started in California with the Hippie movement about that time, and moved east. I was only 12 at the time, but we were aware.
Some of the very best years!❤
EVERY one of these ten songs definitely stood the test of time.
Strong year. All those songs still get play.
And the real winner is...... Paint it Black by the Stones.
beach boys, happier song
of course
Yup. Paint it Black it is 😉😎
Almost 60 years later and these are still staples on the radio, film soundtracks or being covered or sampled. Now lookup music from 10 years ago and see if that music holds any merit.
Exactly
1. Can’t help myself The four tops
2. Will you still love me The Shirelles
3. Baby The Ronnettes
4. Somebody please The Vanguard
5. Just me and you The Dreamliners
6. Imagination The Temptations
7. Hold on me Smokey Allen and the miracles
8. Night owl by ?
9. Blue moon Richie Valens
10. Angel baby Rosie and the originals
All good songs but as far as top 10, I'm sure everyone has their own idea of which songs belong in the top 10 🤗 My #1 would be The Beatles Eleanor Rigby and my #2 would be The Beatles Yellow Submarine 🌞🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️❤