Now this is quality. Grab a few beers, get comfortable on the couch and float off into a suberb nostalgia trip. The 60’s are my time, lets have every top 20 hit from that decade. Only kidding.......no i'm not, i've got the beer if you've got the songs. ✌🏻😎
One of the best internet radio stations is on Live 365 called ‘ Chart Toppers ‘ where most of the week they would play in order the top 5 tunes of the 60s starting from January 1960 to December 1969 Don’t know if it’s still on they went to pay only and I quit listening
@@bluewaters3100 Debbie I was born in 1954 and feel 1964 started a special period too. At the ripe old age of 10 my mom and I (and little brother) went to a Beach Boys concert. My first album was one of theirs. I think my first single was Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. I was a Beatles fan too BTW.
For me 1965 - 1974 (completes ten years)is the ten year period I would pick,...in that time you had what are considered the five best Beatles albums beginning with 'Rubber Soul' (1965) and ending with 'Abbey Road' (1969). Dylan had albums like' Highway 61' and 'Blonde on Blonde' in the second half of the 60's...Creedence came along around '67 or '68 and finished up in that period of time, likewise Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Doors. Led Zeppelin had three or four of their best albums in that time. Santana had their best couple of albums in that time. Classic albums like 'Tubular Bells', 'Who's Next', 'Crosby, Stills & Nash', 'Tapestry', Exile on Main Street', 'Music From Big Pink' came out in that time. David Bowie started his career in that time as did Black Sabbath, T Rex and Deep Purple...Stevie Wonder was at the top of his game in that time. So called one hit wonders like Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky), Shocking Blue (Venus), Peter Sarstedt (Where do you go to My Lovely) had their hits in that time, the best solo years of the Beatles were in that time, they all had # 1 hits and hugely succesful albums ('Band on the Run', 'Imagine', 'All Thimgs Must Pass')...the list goes on and on and there's plenty I have left out....it was an incredibly fertile ten years in music.....There is no ten year period since the end of the 70's that has come close....2000 to 2009, 2011 to 2019....a depressing musical desert.
I was born in 1959. But my favorite music is the rock from the 60's and 70's. When I was playing guitar I knew many songs. I should really spend less time on the internet and more time practicing again!
This brings back so many Memory's, I was in a band in the 60's & we played most of the songs here, , I remember when we got a new record & we were playing it that weekend, I'm 72 now & it was great to be alive then, kids don't know what it was like then.
@tom the cat123 Lots! Here's one: I left home in 1966, met a long haired girl who worked in a care home school on the edge of Dartmoor, UK, we were only able to meet up at the weekend. The song 'Friday On My Mind' by The Easybeats had just entered the charts. I used to wait for her when her bus pulled into Bretonside bus depot in Plymouth, we would spend most of the weekend together, consequently I looked forward to every Friday, I was only 18/19, by the summer of next year, she returned home to her family in the Midlands of England, I chose to remain in the West country, mostly happy memories though, I still love 'Friday On My Mind', it is still a great feelgood record.
I can remember where I was , what I was doing and where I was working during all these song, happy memories of the finest decade for music there will ever be
@@rjjcms1 That, Ralph, is because the Beatles were pioneers and paved the way for groups. The others saw that what the Beatles could do, so could they.
well there were a few groups...but this was in the UK lists...some here in the States like the Kingsman, Beach Boys, Soul Groups like the Platters etc...had #2's...one lyric I'll always remember is...hey baby do you wanna dance...left my rubber in my other pants...still lingers
It was Number 1 in pretty much every chart apart from Record Retailer, which is where Guinness and 'the official UK charts' retroactively get their information.
It is a miracle the kinks still achieved quite a lot. Nobody has been banned to get into the US, that is something unheard of. The media were making lot of free pubblicity to the like of beatles, rolling stones and who arguing who was more shocking and trangressive and in the meantime very quietly the kinks were silenced and put in a corner. No wonder the Kinks have been one of the few band respected and taken as inspiration from ealy punk band in the 70
We will never have a time like the “60’s” again! When music was written for the soul from the heart, from the heart for the soul! Today, as has been for way too long, music comes from ......well, I think you don’t have to use much imagination to guess where it’s from.
Thanks for doing this research. Enjoyed revisiting these classic songs. Hard to believe though that three of the greatest singles from the 60s - Waterloo Sunset-The Kinks, God Only Knows-The Beach Boys & Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields-The Beatles never made No 1 in the UK!
I know, some fantastic songs on here, it's more intriguing to see what stopped it being No 1, in most cases it was not justified. Thanks for the comment!
It's funny how many No. 1's The Beatles had, but the one with probably the strongest combination of A-side and B-side, the one that would possibly the most deserved of them all, didn't make it because of fucking Engelbert Humperdink. God only knows what the British record buyers were thinking...
@@jefdarcy Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, a perfect single that gives me something new and makes me glad to be alive every time I hear it. The whole concept of the charts was debased for me after that moment. I realised it was just a marketing tool and subject to manipulation by interested parties. Also the sheep-like general public cannot be relied upon to spot a classic when it hears one. Check out Howard Goodall's excellent video ua-cam.com/video/ZQS91wVdvYc/v-deo.html
What a good idea, all the number 2's! I was born in 1956, and watching this video felt like magical (or sci-fi?) time travelling to past periods of my life that I'd forgotten about. What marvellous music has been made in the course of my lifetime!
Very good. Takes me back. I was born in 64 and I remember many of these songs, especially Hole in my shoe and Grocer Jack -still two of my favourites to this day
We are unlikely to ever hear such a rich vein of pop songs like those in this snapshot of the 60s. Hard to believe it was normal even then to see the great Dean Martin in the charts the same month as Lulu with her joint winning song in the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest. "Gentle on my mind" always reminds me of the underground Bier- Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street Liverpool, were it was always on the Juke Box. Lulu is said not to have liked Boom Bang a Bang, but with her performance, orchestration, and Tambourine, she makes it a classic 60s song.
There was more than one chart. I remember Melody Maker and The New Musical Express. Their charts were often different. That's why I think some of these made number one - I used to see the NME charts each week. As they got sales figures from a sample, maybe the samples were from very different sources. (The BBC also had a chart - sunday radio with Alan Freeman!)
Hell yes. That decade sounded like 1950s-early 70s. Incredible. UA-cam will bring it to all back to the youth. The youth will be in awe of those who lived through it. Quite a few cranky ones on here tonight if I might add.
Well done! A wonderful piece of history. Amazing that you managed to get all those contemporary photos. Just a small point - Manfred Mann's hit of 1966 featured Mike D'abo as Paul Jones had left the group.
Great music! I was born in early '64 & remember the music from the late sixties onwards. Lovely early musical memories for me to treasure for always. 😍
How could most of these only have reached 2? They are ALL absolute classics. "God only knows" Beach Boys Kinks, "All of the day" Mamma's and the Papas etcetceyc
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. I have a book somewhere that lists the US and British top 10s every week from about 1960-1985 or thereabouts side by side. Interesting to compare the differences and the similarities. It struck me that multiple artists would have hits of the same song somewhat contemporaneously.
You’ve just taken me on a journey though my childhood from 8 years of age, through school and up to a move to Ireland where I met the lady I married around about ‘Oh Well’ - Oh well, that only lasted 26 years but I wouldn’t change a thing. I’d guess, without researching, that this makes a far more interesting and diverse collection than the number ones. Thanks for the upload.
When you consider some of the rubbish which has made it to the top over the years, and then you find out that "Save the last dance for me", "Hello Mary Lou", "Stranger on the Shore", "Do you wanna dance", "The Locomotion", "Please Please Me" (I was sure that got to the top!), "Then he kissed me", "Hippy hippy shake", "Just one look", "Lollipop", "All day and all of the night", "Downtown", "Here comes the night", "We gotta get out of this place", "My generation" (WTF?), "19th nervous breakdown", "Groovy kind of love", "I can't let go", "Daydream", "Wild thing", "Black is black", "God only knows", "Stop stop stop", "Gimme some lovin'", "Sunshine superman", "Matthew and son", "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields forever", "Waterloo sunset", "Flowers in the rain", "Delilah", "Eloise", "Oh, happy days", "In the ghetto", "Give peace a chance", "Yester-me, yester-you, yester-day", "Ruby don't take your love to town"... never made it there...
When the UK was a great place to live unlike now. Glad I was there to appreciate the 60's and 70's music (it wasn't all good but more so than the rubbish of today). At 73 I'm still rocking and murdering my guitars :-)
Its unlikely we will ever hear these type of songs again. And that all time great singers like Dean Martin were in the charts with Lulu with such a difference in music. "Gentle on My Mind" always reminds me of the Underground Bier Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street, Liverpool. It was a regular play on its Juke - Box in 1969. It was said Lulu disliked Boom Bang a Bang, despite it being a joint winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, though the orchestration, tambourine and Lulu's professionalism made it a classic 60s hit. And plenty of royalties for its writers given how widely it was later recorded in Europe. This is a great selection from that wonderful decade
I was ten yes old in 1965 Now going to be 65yrs old at the end of May. Sixty's & early seventies ,Motown. How about the song Sugar Surgar .my real favorite was The love Affair, & Dave Clark Five ,. God l feel old now.
That Monkees song at 15:40 has a great story. It was written by Mickey Dolenz, and in the US it's called "Randy Scouse Git" (a phrase he'd heard on British TV when they visited there), but that title was deemed too racy for the UK, so it was given the alternate title of... "Alternate Title". Excellent song, and some fun Monkees-style humor.
I've enjoyed this immensely! No #1 hits, just the number twos. The best songs - minus some - that never made it to the top, but should have. It was such a thrill to see and hear some of those bands again. Well composed, great photos, wonderful job!
So many good songs in the 60s i love that decade my childhood and i became teenager in 1966 what a time to grow up im glad that i grew up in the 60s and not now♥️♥️
@@toothpick4649 Yeah..me too. Same ilk and I left Melbourne and moved to country NSW. To be frank, I really like our own people and see no reason to have neighbors with opposite values that do not speak my language
Surprising that The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset' only reached number two. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most achingly poignant and poetic songs in British pop history.
Absolutely. As a native South East Londoner born and raised just 2 miles from there for my first 29 years until 1983 I can relate. My first job was at Somerset House and I used to hop off the bus ( you could then ) climb the middle of Waterloo Bridge ( you could then ) Enter The Tax Office Building on The West Wing , where I did not work without showing any Security ( you could then ) and cut through the square to my building overlooking The Thames. It was 1971-73...
To be No1 is wonderful. But no2 songs are not inferior to the No1 at all. You show me that by your works.Thank you for your great work. You took me back to my teenage days.
Are you kidding? Every day in the 1960s I would hear a new song and every day it would be wonderful, whoever performed it. We didn't take much to Freddie and the Dreamers or Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, because we were snobs. We preferred The Kinks or The Who. Yeah, tough guys we were at 13-14. Oh, well, baby, look at you now. (That's a song from the swing era.)
Wow, what a difference an ocean makes. . . As an American approaching age 55, I’ve only heard of less that 10% of these songs. - I head that Cliff Richard had 45 “Top 10” hits in the U.K., but only one “top 10” hit in America “Devil Women” (which I actually bought, & I still have the 45 RPM & record sleeve of this”) & I heard Cliff is almost “Elvis” like popularity in England. I can easily say that probably 99% of Americans under the age of 55 (or possibly under 60) have Never heard of Cliff Richard. - So Many Great bands & songs from England. But these were mostly unheard of by me (even some of the #2’s from the American groups here, I’ve never heard of) - Can any other Americans, backup my observations on this?
He had a few more U.S. hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with "We don't talk anymore." and "Dreamin" being the biggest. He also had a #25 BB-HOT-100 his in 1963 with his version of "It's all in the game." But he definitely have fewer hits here than in the UK, Australia or even Canada.
Theme From A Summer Place is still with Albatross by Fleetwood Mac ( 1969 ) my faboUrite record of all-time. For me it is sentimental as I have always lived amongst 8 million people in London, England and in The 1960's many Londoners had caravans in The English Countryside and we did in Kent and this song evokes wonderful memories of an idyllic time with my Late Parents. We went for 7 weeks during the school summer holidays and every weekend from May to September, as well. It was one hour from London and now I moved to the edge of London and Kent because of that marvellous era...
The same with US hits of the era (though UK artists dominated the US charts in 1964!) Groups like Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, meant nothing here in the UK
This IS refreshing. The Number 1s (both UK and US) have been worn out, dragged back out and worn out again! At that time we heard much the same songs here and in the UK on AM radio (UK were better). Thanks!
BRILLIANT upload thanks..Funny I can remember every word of all these Classics and yet can't remember what I went into the kitchen for an hour ago LOL!! 😊
As an American, it was interesting to see which songs were bigger hits in the UK than in the US and other differences. I see that "I'm Telling You Now" by Freddie and the Dreamers was a UK hit in 1963 but wasn't a hit in the US until late 1964 or early 1965. Do you have the correct "Everybody Knows" for the Dave Clark Five? They had two hits with this title, in 1964 and 1967, at least in the US. The song playing for their 1967 #2 song is the stateside hit of 1964. Thanks for posting this. I see you have ones for the 1950s and 1970s, which I'll play eventually.
Hi. Quite why The Dave Clark Five decided to bring out two singles with the same title really puzzled me as an [ English ] youngster...but the 64 song is the one played here out of sequence. This is a very minor quibble mind , as this is an inventive and painstaking compilation - thanks a lot . I am also fascinated how some songs resonated in the US but failed here - and vice versa. Some times i guess it was simply down to a shortage of radio airplay , but "Windy" by the amazing Association was played over and over in the summer of 67 and didn't even make the top 75 !!....similarly " My Heart's Symphony " was popular among DJs but not the general public it seems. Most unforgiveably " Brandy you're a fine girl " by Looking Glass [ later of course ] bombed over here. In truth , i did almost nothing else but listen to the radio as a young teenager [ tragic i know - haha ] and i cannot ever recall hearing The Cowsills , Spanky & our Gang , Peppermint Rainbow , Jay & the Americans etc. So much brilliant USA music to catch up on.....hope i live long enough :-)
A lot of Brits never heard them back in the day either, if Auntie didn't think they ought to. You had to listen to Radio Caroline for good music in those days.
What worries me is that I know every one of these songs; in many, many cases I can still name the songwriters and who had the originals if they were cover versions. I wonder if anyone will be able to do that with today's chart hits in 50 years' time?
You don't think that the generations that came after us aren't going to feel a frisson of nostalgia inside themselves when they hear the music that they grew up with? Their memories will be stitched through with the music that meant something to them, and the events that were going on around them in their youth. While I agree that the 60's and seventies had the best music...well i am biased as hell as I was born in 1961, and I even like some 80's music,because I was in uni at that point and that's what was popular then. Beatles fan through and through though :) What will be cool is if the music we love now will continue on to be loved...might even be considered classical music in a hundred years or two hundred... ;) One thing I will confess to is the belief that there are far too many people making music today that have no talent, and rely on musical trickery run through computer programs. Can't sing..auto tune, and with synthesizers who needs to be able to play an instrument. That is sad. Peace
In 1960 The Beatles performed Movin 'N' Groovin '. Regards ua-cam.com/video/JFn0B_R7Ig8/v-deo.html *MOVIN' N' GROOVIN'* Guitar Solo Version by *Duane Eddy*
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Hi! My name is CLIFF RICHARD and I used to be #2 seven times in the 60's. Thanks!
Ahhh, I was only fifteen, this has filled me with happiness and , I must admit, a little sad. Where did time go, where is that skinny, mod girl now.😂😂😂😂😂😂🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
She's still Inside you, ma'am. They're all still on the radio, anyway. I live in Belgium. We get all yours, plus all the French, Belgian and Italian oldies too. Very cosmopolitan.
The biggest stunner on this list was "Theme From a Summer Place" by Percy Faith. It not only reached #1 in America, but stayed in that position for 7 straight weeks (and was the #1 song for the entire year 1960)! This song was the "Mull of Kintyre" of England -- a huge hit there but never made #1 in America.
Theme From A Summer Place is still with Albatross by Fleetwood Mac ( 1969 ) my faboUrite record of all-time. For me it is sentimental as I have always lived amongst 8 million people in London, England and in The 1960's many Londoners had caravans in The English Countryside and we did in Kent and this song evokes wonderful memories of an idyllic time with my Late Parents. We went for 7 weeks during the school summer holidays and every weekend from May to September, as well. It was one hour from London and now I moved to the edge of London and Kent because of that era...
More than a few of these were never heard in the USA at the time..... totally strange to me.. but feel I didn't miss much... Cliff Richard was a nothing in the USA but I do like his songs some 40 yrs later... he was NEVER on the radio
It got to joint number 1 with Frank Ifield's " Wayward Wind " on the national NME charts. The Guiness charts put it at 2. but the former is generally accepted because it was the highest it achieved. Hence number 1.
@@footscorn I believe back in 1962 the UK pop charts were compiled from listings in NME, Melody Maker, Disc & Record Retailer, 3 put the Beatles 2nd so that's what is generally accepted
Now this is quality. Grab a few beers, get comfortable on the couch and float off into a suberb nostalgia trip. The 60’s are my time, lets have every top 20 hit from that decade. Only kidding.......no i'm not, i've got the beer if you've got the songs. ✌🏻😎
Number 2 on the Bill Boards but Number 1 in our memories...
Sitting next to you 🍸
One of the best internet radio stations is on Live 365 called ‘ Chart Toppers ‘ where most of the week they would play in order the top 5 tunes of the 60s starting from January 1960 to December 1969
Don’t know if it’s still on they went to pay only and I quit listening
It's only 21 minutes mate.
It's fun to recollect what I was doing, what grade I was in, who my playmates were during all of these different times.
I was born in 1956 and 1966 to 1976 was for me the greatest ten years of music ever
I was born in 1952. I would have to say that it started in 1964 for me.
@@bluewaters3100 Debbie I was born in 1954 and feel 1964 started a special period too. At the ripe old age of 10 my mom and I (and little brother) went to a Beach Boys concert. My first album was one of theirs. I think my first single was Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. I was a Beatles fan too BTW.
For me 1965 - 1974 (completes ten years)is the ten year period I would pick,...in that time you had what are considered the five best Beatles albums beginning with 'Rubber Soul' (1965) and ending with 'Abbey Road' (1969). Dylan had albums like' Highway 61' and 'Blonde on Blonde' in the second half of the 60's...Creedence came along around '67 or '68 and finished up in that period of time, likewise Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Doors. Led Zeppelin had three or four of their best albums in that time. Santana had their best couple of albums in that time. Classic albums like 'Tubular Bells', 'Who's Next', 'Crosby, Stills & Nash', 'Tapestry', Exile on Main Street', 'Music From Big Pink' came out in that time. David Bowie started his career in that time as did Black Sabbath, T Rex and Deep Purple...Stevie Wonder was at the top of his game in that time. So called one hit wonders like Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky), Shocking Blue (Venus), Peter Sarstedt (Where do you go to My Lovely) had their hits in that time, the best solo years of the Beatles were in that time, they all had # 1 hits and hugely succesful albums ('Band on the Run', 'Imagine', 'All Thimgs Must Pass')...the list goes on and on and there's plenty I have left out....it was an incredibly fertile ten years in music.....There is no ten year period since the end of the 70's that has come close....2000 to 2009, 2011 to 2019....a depressing musical desert.
That's more or less spot on, that decade there, will take some beating.
I was born in 1959. But my favorite music is the rock from the 60's and 70's. When I was playing guitar I knew many songs. I should really spend less time on the internet and more time practicing again!
This brings back so many Memory's, I was in a band in the 60's & we played most of the songs here, , I remember when we got a new record & we were playing it that weekend, I'm 72 now & it was great to be alive then, kids don't know what it was like then.
These songs represent the best decade of my life.
@tom the cat123 Lots! Here's one: I left home in 1966, met a long haired girl who worked in a care home school on the edge of Dartmoor, UK, we were only able to meet up at the weekend. The song 'Friday On My Mind' by The Easybeats had just entered the charts. I used to wait for her when her bus pulled into Bretonside bus depot in Plymouth, we would spend most of the weekend together, consequently I looked forward to every Friday, I was only 18/19, by the summer of next year, she returned home to her family in the Midlands of England, I chose to remain in the West country, mostly happy memories though, I still love 'Friday On My Mind', it is still a great feelgood record.
the 60,s was special thank God i have the great memories of when the world was good and the music was brilliant
All of these are number ones in my world, and that's the world I'm staying in! You can keep your rap and it's always misspelt without the c in front!
Garage is missing, the b in the middle.
But it should be called "crap"!
Who's the guy on Eggheads who always refers to it as the C-word - "rap"? Very succinct. Although COOLIO was rather good - "Gangsta's Paradise".
That's a beauty, pal about the rap
Common Sensibility it’s called rap crap
I miss the 60's, I would back if I could,
Crochet Fun. So would I if I could. Love 60's.
I loved the 60s miss the great music wish I was young again 😉
Just goes to show how much great music was being churned out, thousands of masterpieces not getting the number 1 spot that's how competitive it was.
I can remember where I was , what I was doing and where I was working during all these song, happy memories of the finest decade for music there will ever be
I can recall everyone of these songs and each one takes me back to a boy who was 11 years old in 1960, thank you for taking me down memory lane.
Notice that until the Beatles come along it is nearly all solo singers, and after that it's nearly all groups.
I thought that too :-)
@@rjjcms1 That, Ralph, is because the Beatles were pioneers and paved the way for groups. The others saw that what the Beatles could do, so could they.
well there were a few groups...but this was in the UK lists...some here in the States like the Kingsman, Beach Boys, Soul Groups like the Platters etc...had #2's...one lyric I'll always remember is...hey baby do you wanna dance...left my rubber in my other pants...still lingers
A great improvement after 63
i gruppi musicali esplosero con i Beatles e sopratutto con la "British invasion "... i gruppi rock invasero l'europa e fu una gioiosa invasione!!!...
BRILLIANTLY PUT TOGETHER, thank you, know them all.
takes me back to my young days
This takes me back doing my milk boy rounds 27/6d a week great days
Please Please Me was a UK number 1, forget what people say. It was number 1 on the BBc - the only chart people took any notice of.
It was Number 1 in pretty much every chart apart from Record Retailer, which is where Guinness and 'the official UK charts' retroactively get their information.
@@LordAmbrosia1 it wasnt number 1 it was number 2 i know
@@davidreed1995 It really wasn't. Find out why.
hard to believe the kinks are on this list twice every song they done should've been no 1 Ray Davis is a genius
He surely is.
It is a miracle the kinks still achieved quite a lot. Nobody has been banned to get into the US, that is something unheard of. The media were making lot of free pubblicity to the like of beatles, rolling stones and who arguing who was more shocking and trangressive and in the meantime very quietly the kinks were silenced and put in a corner. No wonder the Kinks have been one of the few band respected and taken as inspiration from ealy punk band in the 70
I Love the 60s and it brings good memories my old's school SOUNDS.
They never make our good ol sound like back then.
We will never have a time like the “60’s” again! When music was written for the soul from the heart, from the heart for the soul! Today, as has been for way too long, music comes from ......well, I think you don’t have to use much imagination to guess where it’s from.
These songs bring back my younger years,great music
I opened for Ricky Nelson in Norfolk NE in '71. Randy Meisner was his bass player! Good memories!
@TMS - THAT'S COOL. WHO ARE YOU REALLY? AND WHERE ARE YOU NOW? (NOT BEING NOSY, JUST FIND IT FASCINATING).
I loved Ricky Nelson. You lucky son! (To have those memories.)
The 60's are arguably the most fertile decade in musical history so many of these #2's are as good as # 1.
I totally agree. As someone who wasn't born then!
The best comment I've read about the 60s and so true about it being the most fertile era.
So true
After listening to all the songs before the first Beatles track it's easy to see why there was a revolution in music.
Good point !
Great video. I went through these years as a teenager in England, so many great memories of so many great songs !
Thanks for doing this research. Enjoyed revisiting these classic songs. Hard to believe though that three of the greatest singles from the 60s - Waterloo Sunset-The Kinks, God Only Knows-The Beach Boys & Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields-The Beatles never made No 1 in the UK!
I know, some fantastic songs on here, it's more intriguing to see what stopped it being No 1, in most cases it was not justified. Thanks for the comment!
It's funny how many No. 1's The Beatles had, but the one with probably the strongest combination of A-side and B-side, the one that would possibly the most deserved of them all, didn't make it because of fucking Engelbert Humperdink. God only knows what the British record buyers were thinking...
@@jefdarcy Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, a perfect single that gives me something new and makes me glad to be alive every time I hear it. The whole concept of the charts was debased for me after that moment. I realised it was just a marketing tool and subject to manipulation by interested parties. Also the sheep-like general public cannot be relied upon to spot a classic when it hears one. Check out Howard Goodall's excellent video ua-cam.com/video/ZQS91wVdvYc/v-deo.html
It all depends on which of the Charts you use. The one I followed had Beatles all #1 from Please Please Me till they slipped with Paperback Writer
What a good idea, all the number 2's! I was born in 1956, and watching this video felt like magical (or sci-fi?) time travelling to past periods of my life that I'd forgotten about. What marvellous music has been made in the course of my lifetime!
1957 me, but your comment applies
This pup born 1956, too!
@@Williamottelucas me too great times.
Very good. Takes me back. I was born in 64 and I remember many of these songs, especially Hole in my shoe and Grocer Jack -still two of my favourites to this day
What memories i was 16 in 1960 will today's music still be played in 60 years i don't think so keep rocking every one
Today's 'music' doesn't get played in my house at all
A lot of today's music will be forgotten by tomorrow.
Me too best years ever
We are unlikely to ever hear such a rich vein of pop songs like those in this snapshot of the 60s. Hard to believe it was normal even then to see the great Dean Martin in the charts the same month as Lulu with her joint winning song in the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest. "Gentle on my mind" always reminds me of the underground Bier- Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street Liverpool, were it was always on the Juke Box. Lulu is said not to have liked Boom Bang a Bang, but with her performance, orchestration, and Tambourine, she makes it a classic 60s song.
My God, these take me back!!
There was more than one chart. I remember Melody Maker and The New Musical Express. Their charts were often different. That's why I think some of these made number one - I used to see the NME charts each week. As they got sales figures from a sample, maybe the samples were from very different sources. (The BBC also had a chart - sunday radio with Alan Freeman!)
so much variation in music in the 60,s
Hell yes. That decade sounded like 1950s-early 70s. Incredible. UA-cam will bring it to all back to the youth. The youth will be in awe of those who lived through it. Quite a few cranky ones on here tonight if I might add.
Well done! A wonderful piece of history. Amazing that you managed to get all those contemporary photos. Just a small point - Manfred Mann's hit of 1966 featured Mike D'abo as Paul Jones had left the group.
Thank you so much for posting this! I remember many of the songs but some I had forgotten. I really enjoyed listening to this fantastic music.
I'm glad you enjoyed it and it was my pleasure! Make sure to check out the other decades too :)
@@UKMusicCharts-UK I certainly will!
Great music! I was born in early '64 & remember the music from the late sixties onwards. Lovely early musical memories for me to treasure for always. 😍
I remember the time very well, I bought The Beatles 'Please Please Me' & it was NUMBER ONE.
Great stuff the 60s best era ever for music
How could most of these only have reached 2? They are ALL absolute classics. "God only knows" Beach Boys
Kinks, "All of the day"
Mamma's and the Papas etcetceyc
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. I have a book somewhere that lists the US and British top 10s every week from about 1960-1985 or thereabouts side by side. Interesting to compare the differences and the similarities. It struck me that multiple artists would have hits of the same song somewhat contemporaneously.
I was 16 in 1962 and lived through all this. A happy time........shit, where's the tissues.
I was23, and all I want now is a chick to love when the music plays,
You’ve just taken me on a journey though my childhood from 8 years of age, through school and up to a move to Ireland where I met the lady I married around about ‘Oh Well’ - Oh well, that only lasted 26 years but I wouldn’t change a thing.
I’d guess, without researching, that this makes a far more interesting and diverse collection than the number ones.
Thanks for the upload.
Wow. It's so hard to believe that "Downtown" by Petula Clark only made it to # 2 in the UK. It was a smash hit in the states.
It was a smash here too. The Beatles kept it off #1
What a fantastic decade. So many classics that never quite made it to no. 1
these songs will always be numero uno!
When you consider some of the rubbish which has made it to the top over the years, and then you find out that "Save the last dance for me", "Hello Mary Lou", "Stranger on the Shore", "Do you wanna dance", "The Locomotion", "Please Please Me" (I was sure that got to the top!), "Then he kissed me", "Hippy hippy shake", "Just one look", "Lollipop", "All day and all of the night", "Downtown", "Here comes the night", "We gotta get out of this place", "My generation" (WTF?), "19th nervous breakdown", "Groovy kind of love", "I can't let go", "Daydream", "Wild thing", "Black is black", "God only knows", "Stop stop stop", "Gimme some lovin'", "Sunshine superman", "Matthew and son", "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields forever", "Waterloo sunset", "Flowers in the rain", "Delilah", "Eloise", "Oh, happy days", "In the ghetto", "Give peace a chance", "Yester-me, yester-you, yester-day", "Ruby don't take your love to town"... never made it there...
A weird combination of stone-cold classics, and songs which have been almost entirely forgotten.
Songs from those days were magical. I wish I was born some years before I did.
a groovy kind of love is my all time favourite but all the songs on this compilation are magic.thanks for posting
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it :)
Edward, I love you! Same here.
When the UK was a great place to live unlike now. Glad I was there to appreciate the 60's and 70's music (it wasn't all good but more so than the rubbish of today). At 73 I'm still rocking and murdering my guitars :-)
Nearly 69 and the same here, until the father-in-law moved in. He finds it a tad noisy.
wow brilliant, i remember them ALL. Thank you.
Its unlikely we will ever hear these type of songs again. And that all time great singers like Dean Martin were in the charts with Lulu with such a difference in music. "Gentle on My Mind" always reminds me of the Underground Bier Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street, Liverpool. It was a regular play on its Juke - Box in 1969.
It was said Lulu disliked Boom Bang a Bang, despite it being a joint winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, though the orchestration, tambourine and Lulu's professionalism made it a classic 60s hit. And plenty of royalties for its writers given how widely it was later recorded in Europe. This is a great selection from that wonderful decade
Thank you for posting. Time travel truly is possible
Didn't those boys look nice in thier suits and ties?
Bloody well done, sir/madame! This is awesome.
Absolute magic, thank you so much for uploading.
very good compilation and the photos of artists are HD. Thank you...!
I was ten yes old in 1965
Now going to be 65yrs old at the end of May.
Sixty's & early seventies ,Motown.
How about the song Sugar Surgar .my real favorite was The love Affair, & Dave Clark Five ,.
God l feel old now.
Sugar
Many of these are far better than the songs that kept them off No1. Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, Waterloo Sunset and others are absolute classics.
My thoughts exactly. I bet quite a few of the early ones were #1 across the pond.
Yeah , real Talk
Strawberry Fields Forever is the Beatles highlight and it only got to No. 2???
It's ironic that two of the best ever Beatles songs, on a double A-sided single, failed to reach No. 1. Kept out by Tom Jones' Green Green Grass.
@@garethb1961 Get ya facts straight Gaz, Jones had nothing to do with it.
traffic such a cool band , stood the test of time
That Monkees song at 15:40 has a great story. It was written by Mickey Dolenz, and in the US it's called "Randy Scouse Git" (a phrase he'd heard on British TV when they visited there), but that title was deemed too racy for the UK, so it was given the alternate title of... "Alternate Title". Excellent song, and some fun Monkees-style humor.
Time is a funny thing. What we now call the sixties did not start until 1963. Before that, it was still the fifties.
I've enjoyed this immensely! No #1 hits, just the number twos. The best songs - minus some - that never made it to the top, but should have. It was such a thrill to see and hear some of those bands again. Well composed, great photos, wonderful job!
Great compilation, thanks.
THANKS for this MARVELOUS compilation !
Hello Karin, How are you doing?
remember them all, not surprising as i was a pop mad youngster, 10 when the 6os started and 19 when they ended.
So many good songs in the 60s i love that decade my childhood and i became teenager in 1966 what a time to grow up im glad that i grew up in the 60s and not now♥️♥️
Oh my! how sad to see the England I once knew. I'm 73 now, pissed off and fed up.
Likewise, but 4 years younger.!!!
And me mate, nearly 69.
@@toothpick4649 Yeah..me too. Same ilk and I left Melbourne and moved to country NSW. To be frank, I really like our own people and see no reason to have neighbors with opposite values that do not speak my language
@@toothpick4649 Prisoner Of England. Aussie wit makes me laugh every time ;o)
Correct....
Surprising that The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset' only reached number two. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most achingly poignant and poetic songs in British pop history.
The two most beautiful rock songs: God Only Knows and Waterloo Sunset. Good on ya.💂🇬🇧
Absolutely. As a native South East Londoner born and raised just 2 miles from there for my first 29 years until 1983 I can relate.
My first job was at Somerset House and I used to hop off the bus ( you could then ) climb the middle of Waterloo Bridge ( you could then ) Enter The Tax Office Building on The West Wing , where I did not work without showing any Security ( you could then ) and cut through the square to my building overlooking The Thames. It was 1971-73...
And shockingly Lola only reached number 2 in the seventies.
I shall be on Waterloo Bridge in 3 hours time :)
Love Waterloo sunset one of my faves
really doesnt expect that the drifters were that popular in UK. Great group with great songs
this is cool...half of the songs i have never heard but you know pop culture, here today gone today. thanks for the post.
I thank this and UK Music Charts for putting an artist and title to several songs and tunes I've heard through the years but didn't know the title of.
To be No1 is wonderful. But no2 songs are not inferior to the No1 at all. You show me that by your works.Thank you for your great work. You took me back to my teenage days.
Hello
Born in 1960 and I could remember almost every word from every song!
Although they were no 2's they were great and far better than the crap today.
Most #20's were better than the crap today.
There are very few of these songs that don't hold up after all these years!
Are you kidding? Every day in the 1960s I would hear a new song and every day it would be wonderful, whoever performed it. We didn't take much to Freddie and the Dreamers or Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, because we were snobs. We preferred The Kinks or The Who. Yeah, tough guys we were at 13-14. Oh, well, baby, look at you now. (That's a song from the swing era.)
Dreams from a Summer Place , just brings back memories of my early childhood, playing amongst trees in dappled sunlight !
Wow, what a difference an ocean makes. . . As an American approaching age 55, I’ve only heard of less that 10% of these songs.
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I head that Cliff Richard had 45 “Top 10” hits in the U.K., but only one “top 10” hit in America “Devil Women” (which I actually bought, & I still have the 45 RPM & record sleeve of this”)
& I heard Cliff is almost “Elvis” like popularity in England.
I can easily say that probably 99% of Americans under the age of 55 (or possibly under 60) have Never heard of Cliff Richard.
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So Many Great bands & songs from England. But these were mostly unheard of by me (even some of the #2’s from the American groups here, I’ve never heard of)
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Can any other Americans, backup my observations on this?
He had a few more U.S. hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with "We don't talk anymore." and "Dreamin" being the biggest. He also had a #25 BB-HOT-100 his in 1963 with his version of "It's all in the game." But he definitely have fewer hits here than in the UK, Australia or even Canada.
Theme From A Summer Place is still with Albatross by Fleetwood Mac ( 1969 ) my faboUrite record of all-time.
For me it is sentimental as I have always lived amongst 8 million people in London, England and in The 1960's many Londoners had caravans in The English Countryside and we did in Kent and this song evokes wonderful memories of an idyllic time with my Late Parents. We went for 7 weeks during the school summer holidays and every weekend from May to September, as well. It was one hour from London and now I moved to the edge of London and Kent because of that marvellous era...
Interesting, some were monster hits, some never seen the light of day in local US AM stations.
The same with US hits of the era (though UK artists dominated the US charts in 1964!) Groups like Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, meant nothing here in the UK
born in australia in 1949 i remember most of these songs through my teenage years. some great memories.
This IS refreshing. The Number 1s (both UK and US) have been worn out, dragged back out and worn out again! At that time we heard much the same songs here and in the UK on AM radio (UK were better). Thanks!
Some day I'd like to see a montage of all the songs that stalled out at #91-#99. Now that's some memory-lane stuff.
What a trip down memory lane. What a great idea. I'm 64 now and the sixties were the years I started to listen to music. What a treat, thank you.
Pre-1966, this is why the Beatles rose to fame...good God.
Thanks for the memories...
Hello
BRILLIANT upload thanks..Funny I can remember every word of all these Classics and yet can't remember what I went into the kitchen for an hour ago LOL!! 😊
As an American, it was interesting to see which songs were bigger hits in the UK than in the US and other differences. I see that "I'm Telling You Now" by Freddie and the Dreamers was a UK hit in 1963 but wasn't a hit in the US until late 1964 or early 1965.
Do you have the correct "Everybody Knows" for the Dave Clark Five? They had two hits with this title, in 1964 and 1967, at least in the US. The song playing for their 1967 #2 song is the stateside hit of 1964.
Thanks for posting this. I see you have ones for the 1950s and 1970s, which I'll play eventually.
Hi. Quite why The Dave Clark Five decided to bring out two singles with the same title really puzzled me as an [ English ] youngster...but the 64 song is the one played here out of sequence. This is a very minor quibble mind , as this is an inventive and painstaking compilation - thanks a lot . I am also fascinated how some songs resonated in the US but failed here - and vice versa. Some times i guess it was simply down to a shortage of radio airplay , but "Windy" by the amazing Association was played over and over in the summer of 67 and didn't even make the top 75 !!....similarly " My Heart's Symphony " was popular among DJs but not the general public it seems. Most unforgiveably " Brandy you're a fine girl " by Looking Glass [ later of course ] bombed over here. In truth , i did almost nothing else but listen to the radio as a young teenager [ tragic i know - haha ] and i cannot ever recall hearing The Cowsills , Spanky & our Gang , Peppermint Rainbow , Jay & the Americans etc. So much brilliant USA music to catch up on.....hope i live long enough :-)
I remember every one of these songs...Thats how good they were.
This Yank never heard some of these, even some done by the US bands. Thanks for posting.
Haha no problem!
A lot of Brits never heard them back in the day either, if Auntie didn't think they ought to. You had to listen to Radio Caroline for good music in those days.
Same here. A few acts I never heard of too.
What worries me is that I know every one of these songs; in many, many cases I can still name the songwriters and who had the originals if they were cover versions. I wonder if anyone will be able to do that with today's chart hits in 50 years' time?
I very much doubt it Tony. The music now is not worth remembering.
@@UKMusicCharts-UK I think you're right. And I forgot to congratulate you on uploading the clip. Thanks for the effort
I cant even tell you what the No 1s were from about 1990 onwards.
I couldn't tell you one song in the chart now, never mind in 50 years.
You don't think that the generations that came after us aren't going to feel a frisson of nostalgia inside themselves when they hear the music that they grew up with? Their memories will be stitched through with the music that meant something to them, and the events that were going on around them in their youth.
While I agree that the 60's and seventies had the best music...well i am biased as hell as I was born in 1961, and I even like some 80's music,because I was in uni at that point and that's what was popular then. Beatles fan through and through though :) What will be cool is if the music we love now will continue on to be loved...might even be considered classical music in a hundred years or two hundred... ;) One thing I will confess to is the belief that there are far too many people making music today that have no talent, and rely on musical trickery run through computer programs. Can't sing..auto tune, and with synthesizers who needs to be able to play an instrument. That is sad. Peace
A great carousel through musical history!
The Beatles are....numbers 1,2,3 and all next.
John. Paul. George. Ringo. Four lads from Liverpool invented the 60s.
In 1960 The Beatles performed Movin 'N' Groovin '. Regards ua-cam.com/video/JFn0B_R7Ig8/v-deo.html *MOVIN' N' GROOVIN'* Guitar Solo Version by *Duane Eddy*
Hi! My name is CLIFF RICHARD and I used to be #2 seven times in the 60's.
Thanks!
Whatever you say, Martien.
Love this superb nostalgic trip,down memory lane with photos ..great stuff thanks
lots of reserch went into this....nice compilation
Geeez,, Cliff had lots of number 2's ,,,, Black is Black and Wild thing were massive songs in the the summer of 66,, I'de just got to the UK,,,
It just shows that the number 2 songs then were better than the number 1 songs of today!
Brilliant music, every one of them, all 60s songs deserved to be number 1s,great stuff
Ahhh, I was only fifteen, this has filled me with happiness and , I must admit, a little sad. Where did time go, where is that skinny, mod girl now.😂😂😂😂😂😂🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
She's still Inside you, ma'am. They're all still on the radio, anyway. I live in Belgium. We get all yours, plus all the French, Belgian and Italian oldies too. Very cosmopolitan.
Yeah Lesley, we're all grandma's and grandpa's now😢 those of us that survived anyway.
The biggest stunner on this list was "Theme From a Summer Place" by Percy Faith. It not only reached #1 in America, but stayed in that position for 7 straight weeks (and was the #1 song for the entire year 1960)!
This song was the "Mull of Kintyre" of England -- a huge hit there but never made #1 in America.
Theme From A Summer Place is still with Albatross by Fleetwood Mac ( 1969 ) my faboUrite record of all-time.
For me it is sentimental as I have always lived amongst 8 million people in London, England and in The 1960's many Londoners had caravans in The English Countryside and we did in Kent and this song evokes wonderful memories of an idyllic time with my Late Parents. We went for 7 weeks during the school summer holidays and every weekend from May to September, as well. It was one hour from London and now I moved to the edge of London and Kent because of that era...
9 weeks, actually...and edged out "Hey, Jude" as the biggest song of the decade.
Some of these reached No1
Yes I agree: the problem is which Chart? BBC, Melody Maker, Musical Express?
More than a few of these were never heard in the USA at the time..... totally strange to me.. but feel I didn't miss much... Cliff Richard was a nothing in the USA but I do like his songs some 40 yrs later... he was NEVER on the radio
Thanks for doing this list. It contains some important and influential sounds of the era, even though they didn't make number 1.
Thanks Blues fan, make sure to check out Every Number 1 if you enjoyed this :)
Yes, I've already done that, and I remembered every song from both lists. Great stuff.
Damn, Sir Cliff sure had a lot of number two's.
A lot of the songs in this video made it to number one here in the States.
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Cliff Richard is a number two.
But Please, Please Me was The Beatle's first #1 in UK.
Depends who you ask, the charts messed up that week.
Not according to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles..
It got to joint number 1 with Frank Ifield's " Wayward Wind " on the national NME charts. The Guiness charts put it at 2. but the former is generally accepted because it was the highest it achieved. Hence number 1.
It was.
@@footscorn I believe back in 1962 the UK pop charts were compiled from listings in NME, Melody Maker, Disc & Record Retailer, 3 put the Beatles 2nd so that's what is generally accepted
Penny Lane was No.1 in UK, February 1967. I was glued to my father's radio set after school while he's at work.
ZT Ying no it wasn’t
Kept off No1 by Engelbert Humperdinck.
@@williamgeorgefraser "Release Me" I really HATE this song.
I'm 71 , really enjoyed the compilation, stacked with memories, thanks for posting ( except for Cliff of course! ).