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Michael Guenon's avatar

I remember most, if not all of them, albeit many probably heard on oldies radio. I was in elementary school in 1960 and high school in 1969, so AM radio was my source. Whatever the shortcomings of Top 40 radio, one heard a variety that couldn’t be heard later. Had to chuckle had the contrasting juxtapositions from week to week. And definitely a lot of Beatles and Supremes. A final word: I was a military brat and I recall when we were in England, riding my bicycle to the base youth club, where one could bring 45’s to play. I distinctly remember The Peppermint Twist. I also recall being less inhibited and dancing The Twist with one of the mothers—I was 8 or 9.

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Greg Mitchell's avatar

thanks, yes I was just a little older, with transistor radio in 1960, but before that local radio and "Bandstand" Good reminder that even in the Brit invasion year of '64 there was still some dreck and novelties tunes reaching the top but I didn't quite recall how giant the early Supremes were.... but anyone looking for "Like a Rolling Stone" in '65, nope it never got above #2

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dana klein's avatar

I saw many of these performances on American Bandstand from Philly. I was surprised I recognized every single cut in a second or two.

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Michael Guenon's avatar

In high school I was a CCR fan—first album bought was Green River (K-Mart, 54th & University, San Diego)—still have it. No #1 singles apparently.

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Mike Jones's avatar

The 60s #1 survey was deliriously entertaining. It brought me way back, and remembering some of the sequencing of those hits as well. It demonstrates the sea change that happened in 1964, with "I'm Leaving It Up To You," "Dominique" and "There, I've Said It Again" giving way abruptly to "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You" and "Can't Buy Me Love." The pop music world was never the same. Thanks for sharing that - I'm going through the 40s now!

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David Stone's avatar

A decade of diversity just passed before of my eyes and ears and mouth in 40 minutes. Thanks.

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don caltvedt's avatar

Thank you so much, i was born in 50 in Iowa and from 60 on was the most influential period of my life! almost every snippet of a song took me explicitly to a point of my life and the memories just evolved from there! thanks, I have to figure out how to get this to my classmates and friends

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Mark Stricherz's avatar

True, Bob's vocals are not what they were 40 years ago, but I did see a brief youtube clip (1:59) of Bob singing the Pogues' "Rainy Night in Soho" and it is the best he and the band have sounded in a good while IMO.There's a great mood and swing to this version. And, his take on Ricky Nelson's "Garden Party" from last night in San Diego (5.15) might be even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvDGGCyQwiI (4:59)

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Greg Mitchell's avatar

yes, was already planning to do Garden Party today

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Greg Mitchell's avatar

or Sunday

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Richard's avatar

Ah, for the days of lip syncing. As Frank Zappa wrote on an early album liner, "A little nostalgia for the old folks."

More very good cartoons.

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David Getman Jr's avatar

I saw Ran at the Surf Theater in San Francisco when it was first released with an English friend

from Swaziland

The Surf was quite the place, we watched Fellini's The Clowns there and were leaving the first

showing and ran into a friend from Long Island who was a roommate when we were going

to Drake University in Des Moines

He was with a young lady who used to go horseback riding with Jerry Garcia

We all went to the Renaissance Fair in Marin County the next day

We were climbing the fence to get in free and a security guard came running over to stop

us, he said that we had to stay on the other side of the fence

My friend Ed said: That's what Hitler said, and the guard nodded and walked away

Memory Lane all over again

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dana klein's avatar

On to Ran. One of my favorite movies ever. His Films are truly legend. I’ve watched Ran and Seven Samurai without subtitles many times. He got me interested in the Drunken Samurai series.

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