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[shadowkat]

From ladystarlightsj Go here and find the top songs the year you were born. Bold the songs you like. Strike out the ones you hate. Asterisk the ones you've never heard of.




1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
2. Respect - Aretha Franklin
3. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
4. Jimmy Mack - Martha and the Vandellas*
5. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
6. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group
7. Soul Man - Sam and Dave
8. Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley*
9. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
10. Daydream Believer - Monkees
11. The Letter - Box Tops*
12. Expressway To Your Heart - Soul Survivors*
13. Baby, I Need Your Lovin' -Johnny Rivers
14. Standing In The Shadows Of Love - Four Tops*
15. Light My Fire - Doors
16. Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones
17. Bernadette - Four Tops*
18. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - Monkees
19. Let's Live For Today - Grass Roots*
20. It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston*
21. Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock*
22. Kind Of A Drag - Buckinghams*
23. I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James and the Shondells*
24. When I Was Young - Eric Burdon and the Animals
25. Little Bit Of Soul - the Music Explosion*
26. She's My Girl - Turtles*
27. I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - the Electric Prunes*
28. Up Up and Away - the 5th Dimension
29. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkle
30. Groovin' - Young Rascals
31. The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield
32. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
33. To Sir With Love - Lulu
34. Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay & the Techniques*
35. Cold Sweat (part 1) - James Brown*
36. Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees
37. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
38. A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harum
39. Happy Together - Turtles
40. Friday On My Mind - Easybeats*

HITS THAT YEAR ACCORDING TO BILLBOARD

December 31, 1966 - February 17: I'm A Believer The Monkees
February 18 - March 3: Kind Of A Drag - The Buckinghams *
March 4 - March 10: Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
March 11 - March 17: Love is Here and Now You're Gone - The Supremes
March 18 - March 24: Penny Lane - The Beatles
March 25 - April 14: Happy Together - The Turtles *
April 15 - May 12: Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra*
May 13 - May 19: The Happening - The Supremes *
May 20 - June 2: Groovin' - The Young Rascals *
June 3 - June 30: Respect - Aretha Franklin
July 1 - July 28: Windy - The Association *
July 29 - August 28: Light My Fire - The Doors
August 19 - August 25: All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
August 26 - September 22: Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry
September 23 - October 20: The Letter - Box Tops*
October 21 - November 24: To Sir With Love - Lulu
November 25 - December 1: Incense And Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock *
December 2 - December 29: Daydream Believer - The Monkees
December 30, 1967 - January 19, 1968: Hello Goodbye - The Beatles

Comments

[fara-shimbo.livejournal.com]

Good grief, I know and can sing just about every song on that list!
Better give this meme a try.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I probably know more than I think, just have a lousy memory for song lyrics, tunes and titles. Very odd. I can remember anything I've seen, but what I've heard? Not so much. It is sort of cool. Half my flist appears to be doing it. I think it originated with someone named crossoverman.

[fara-shimbo.livejournal.com]

You're the opposite of me. I remember songs if I hear them once. But if I see you today I won't recognize you tomorrow. I'll know your voice, though.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I was never a big fan of Motown myself...
but this is a fun & unique meme, I'll have to try it.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yep, not a huge Motown fan. Although I do like Marvin Gay's "I Heard It Through The GrapeVine." Nor did I love Stevie Wonder, or Barry Manilow and Paul Williams. Sappy love songs make me cringe. Yet, I seem to love the Monkees and The Beatles, not to mention the Animals, Mamas and Papas, and Dusty Springfield. (Love Dusty Springfield - she also did "Son of a Preacher Man" which is on the Pulp Fiction album.)

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I know every one of the hits on your list, but of course I was 17 years old at the time, driving around town w/my friends and doing my homework while listening to the radio. I never bought any of that music though, I owned some classical, some folk music (Donovan and others who never hit the pop charts) and a ton of show music (I was an odd kid).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ah, so was I - odd kid that is. I owned Broadway Show Tunes, Classical, Folk Music and just a couple pop albums.

The songs I remember the most are the ones people born in the 1980s posted, so totally get what you are feeling. I vividly remember listening to and becoming obsessed with Rush's Tom Sawyer for example in 1981.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

OMG, I was partying to most of these songs the year you were born!
*checks for grey hair*

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yeah, felt exactly the same way reading buffyannatator's list.
I vividly remember dancing to The Police, Genesis, and Rush.