OK, so what was the *best* Number 1 single of the '60s?

[NightTrain]

On a more positive note, here are my picks for the best #1 song of each year of the '60s. Vote away, y'all!

[HEyHEY]

1. I went with little eva

I like the continuous sax or somethig in the background

[alwynsw]

18. *sigh* My vote wouldn't register

Gotta go with the Beatles here. Who else had the guts to pick on the upper crust at a Command Performance for the Queen at Royal Albert hall?

[sandnsea]

2. For What It's Worth

Buffalo Springfield 1966

I'd choose What's Goin' On, but that was 1971.

[NightTrain]

3. That wasn't a Number 1 single

n/t

[mitchtv]

4. impossible to vote that fabulous decade

the BEST music (tho i don't have a list of the #1's) music is one of the few things i can remember from the sixties. It has yet to be duplicated or should I say matched.BTW, was 'dock of the bay' a number one?

[Bossy Monkey]

5. This might help

http://www.rhino.com/store/ArtistandCompilationList.lasso?Genre=rock+pop&Comp=yes

Not that it's anything like a complete list. Do you think that America boxed set is jumping off the shelves? :)


Edit: looks like pop hits aren't the same as overall topsellers. Go figure. They don't seem to have the topsellers overall before '75. Oh well

[Bossy Monkey]

6. You know, I think it might be "Ode To Billie Joe"

Of course, it helps that I only listen to the Tom Scott/LA Express version with Patti Smyth these days. Who knew that the "shooting at the walls of heartache" girl would one day out-Mississippi Bobbie Gentry?

[Iverson]

26. fine minimalist pop

But I thought that that only got as high as #2. Are you sure it made it to #1?

[DS1]

7. why did you have to pick the shittiest Beatles song possible?

:shrug:

[NightTrain]

10. "Shittiest," hell! "She Loves You" is an ass-kicking rocker!

But of course, I prefer music that I can enjoy while not stoned on hallucinogenic drugs. I'm weird that way.

[DancingBear]

20. Can you enjoy both?

I used to.

NT, how about a thread for 60's one-hit (or quasi one-hit) wonders - anything that hit the Top 40 or thereabouts.

I'm dying to work "Little Arrows" by Leapy Lee in there somehow. :)

[joeybee12]

8. These are all good, but you needed a Supremes song

Most of theirs are classics, even if "Miss" Ross is a bitch!

[NightTrain]

9. You're right, but...

...due to the space limitations of these polls, I could only pick one song from each year. And I didn't think any of the Supremes' #1 records were quite as good as the tunes I ended up choosing. But that's only my opinion.

[joeybee12]

11. I would have taken out Little Stevie Wonder's song

Never was a big fan, even after he dropped the Little.

The only song I liked was the one he sang during the credits of some Frankie and Anette movie just because those movies are so bad they're good!

[NightTrain]

12. But the Supremes didn't have their first #1 hit until 1964.

n/t

[LTR]

30. Uhhh, I believe that was "Fingertips"

Only thing memorable about those shitty movies.

[MGKrebs]

13. Louis, Louis!

OK, it was only #2, but it SHOULD have been a #1!

[NightTrain]

17. You're right -- it should've been a #1!

Especially when you consider the pair of snoozers that kept "Louie, Louie" at #2: the Singing Nun's "Dominique" and Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again." God help us!

[last_texas_dem]

14. Out of your choices...

...my favorite is the Four Tops's "Reach Out- I'll be There." I have the Joel Whitburn books that list them all and whatnot so I could check them out and examine them all, but I think it'd wreck my brain to pick a favorite out of all the #1s of the sixties- there are so many truly great ones.

[Kenneth ken]

15. Ray

Charles. I guess if I wanted to work at it, I coulda tracked down all the #1 hits by year, but I'm lazy today, so I just went off your list.

Georgia On My Mind is pretty timeless. All the others can be pegged fairly closely to their time, even if one didn't know when they were released.

[newyawker99]

16. I went with the Beatles. Without them some of the others

would never have had a chance at fame. They were imitated and they inspired others to get involved in music. They changed music forever and for this they deserve my vote.

[Terwilliger]

19. You forgot!!

All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)

And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)

I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)

On a winter's day (on a winter's day)


I'd be safe and warm (I'd be safe and warm)

If I was in L.A. (if I was in L.A.)

California dreamin' (California dreamin')

On such a winters' dayyyyyyy!


Stopped into a church

I passed along the way (...passed along the way...)

Well, I got down on my knees (...got down on my knees)

and I pretend to pray (I pretend to pray)

You know the preacher likes the cold (...preacher likes the cold)

He knows I'm gonna stay (...knows I'm gonna stay)

California dreamin' (California dreamin')

On such a winter's day!



All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)

And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)

I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)

On a winter's day (on a winter's day)

If I didn't tell her (if I didn't tell her)

I could leave today (I could leave today)

California dreamin (california dreamin')

On such a winter's dayyyyyyyyyyyyy

...california Dreamin'

On such a winter's dayyyyyyyyyyy

...california Dreamin'

On such a winter's dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

http://members.fortunecity.com/fretman/rock/mamapapa.htm#1

[NightTrain]

21. "California Dreaming" was not a #1 hit in Billboard.

It topped out at #4.

[Iverson]

27. Didn't "Monday, Monday" hit #1?

I had heard somewhere that that was The Mamas and the Papas' only #1 hit.

[NightTrain]

31. Yes, but I like at least 10 of the #1 hits of 1966 better.

Remember, however, that any comments I make about the music are strictly my own opinions. They're no more or less legitimate than anybody else's.

[mlawson]

22. For 1962 I nominate "Walk Right In" by the Rooftop Singers.

That song was a departure, IMO....

[Scree]

23. "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys

[Norbert]

28. God Only Knows was never #1

Due mainly because the bible belt felt using God in the song was blasphemous. As a result it didn't get near as popular as the flip side "Wouldn't it Be Nice" (almost as good of song).

I would have put Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys in the 1966 slot but I realize Night Train had some tough choices to make. Good to see the rockaholic in the lounge.

BTW I voted for She Loves you by the Beatles.

[Athletic Grrl]

29. I agree about Good Vibrations.

Went with Marvin.

[Catholic Sensation]

24. nm

thought this was a best song of the sixties post

[mlawson]

25. "Axis, Bold as Love" by Hendrix (1968)

was my absolute favorite of his. Most of the rest of his songs, however, have been played to death!

[dae]

32. "House of the Rising Sun" followed by The Doors"Light My Fire".

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