We're all done with the 1960's. If you missed any of the yearly lists, the decade list, or my list of personal favorite songs from that decade, check them out on the blog archive on the right. Now it's time to start with the 1970's. If you are new this week, I had a goal recently to determine what the top songs of all time were based on a formula that I came up with to keep track of the top songs on the Billboard charts each year. Here's the methodology: each year of the charts I go week by week, giving points to the songs that make the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. The #1 song gets 10 points, the #2 song gets 9 points, all the way down to the #10 song getting 1 point. I could've done the whole Hot 100 like this, but that would've been too time consuming, so I just stuck to the top 10 for now. If you are wanting to check out previous years that I've done, you can follow the links at the bottom of each list to browse through the years or you can search the blog archive on the right. It's my hope that as you scroll through this list that you take time to actually listen to the songs as you go instead of just looking at the title. This has been a great way for me to learn of new music and be reminded of songs that I may have forgotten about and I feel this can have the same effect on you, regardless of your taste in music. So without further delay, let's see what this year has to offer! 10- "We've Only Just Begun" - Carpenters
9- "Make it With You" - Bread
8- "American Woman/No Sugar Tonight" - The Guess Who
7- "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" - Three Dog Night
6- "ABC" - Jackson 5
5- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" - BJ Thomas
4- "(They Long to Be) Close to You" - Carpenters
3- "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel
I have now finished everything I have on the 1960's. I have posted the top 10 songs from each year as well as a huge list of the top 100 songs of the entire decade. I won't post links to those here, but if you want to see them, check out the blog archive on the right. Before I dive into the 1970's, though, I wanted to finish the 1960's off in a fun way. After I post a list of the most popular songs of the year or the decade, a comment question that is presented to me is what are MY favorite songs of the year or decade? So that's what I'm doing here. I gave you the popular songs of the 60's. Now I'm giving you my personal favorites. However, you'll notice the careful wording in the title. I use the wording "Top 10 FAVORITE Hits" instead of "Top 10 FAVORITE Songs." I do so because with this list, I limited myself to songs in the 60's that made it onto the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. My reasoning for this is that I did not look at every song that made it into the whole Hot 100 nor have I listened to every song that was written and released in the 1960's, so I don't consider myself a fair judge of that. Thus is why I'm sticking to the top 10 only for this list. But there were over 1,000 songs that made it into the top 10 in the 60's, so it's still a very large pool to pick from, making it so that this was really hard. I hope you enjoy it! Next week we will be looking at the top songs of 1970, so stay tuned for that. 10- "Monster Mash" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
9- "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)" - The Tokens
This is it! After counting down every individual year of the 1960's, I have spent the last 10 days counting down the songs of the entire decade as a whole and now the whole is posted, so to start at the top with #100 - 91 and to go through the entire list, click here. You'll also find a detailed description of this specific project on that first page. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Feel free to post feedback on how you would like to see this done in the future with the other decades when I get around to them. If I hear nothing, I will assume that I have done a perfect job. I hope you've enjoyed this! It will soon be time to start with the 70's, but before that, I will have something special in store, so stay tuned! 10- "I Can't Stop Loving You" - Ray Charles
9- "Are You Lonesome To-Night?" - Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires
8- "Sugar, Sugar" - The Archies
7- "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" - The 5th Dimension
6- "I'm a Believer" - The Monkees
5- "The Theme from a Summer Place" - Percy Faith and His Orchestra
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with 100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 20 - 11! 20- "Love is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)" - Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra
19- "Cathy's Clown" - The Everly Brothers
18- "He'll Have to Go" - Jim Reeves
17- "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" - Otis Redding
16- "It's Now or Never" - Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires
15- "Honky Tonk Women" - The Rolling Stones
14- "Sugar Shack" - Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs
13- "She Loves You" - The Beatles
12- "I'm Sorry" - Brenda Lee
11- "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with 100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 30 - 21! 30- "Hello, Dolly!" - Louis Armstrong and The All Stars
29- "Love Child" - Diana Ross & The Supremes
28- "Crimson and Clover" - Tommy James and The Shondells
27- "Runaround Sue" - Dion
26- "Daydream Believer" - The Monkees
25- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - The Rolling Stones
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with 100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 40 - 31! 40- "Stranger on the Shore" - Mr. Acker Bilk
39- "Happy Together" - The Turtles
38- "Peppermint Twist - Part 1" - Joey Dee & The Starliters
37- "Everyday People" - Sly & The Family Stone
36- "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" - Connie Francis
35- "Ode to Billie Joe" - Bobbie Gentry
34- "Stuck on You" - Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires
33- "Groovin'" - The Young Rascals
32- "People Got to Be Free" - The Rascals
31- "Wonderland By Night" - Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with 100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 50 - 41! 50- "Last Date" - Floyd Cramer
49- "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'" - The Righteous Brothers
48- "Running Bear" - Johnny Preston
47- "Runaway" - Del Shannon
46- "Honey" - Bobby Goldsboro
45- "Get Back" - The Beatles (with Billy Preston)
44- "In the Year 2525" - Zager & Evans
43- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" - Four Tops
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with #100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 60 - 51! 60- "Exodus" - Ferrante & Teicher
59- "Return to Sender" - Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires
58- "Leaving on a Jet Plane" - Peter, Paul & Mary
57- "Calcutta" - Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra
56- "Windy" - The Association
55- "The Ballad of the Green Berets" - SSgt Barry Sadler
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with 100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 70 - 61! 70- "Harper Valley PTA" - Jeannie C. Riley
69- "Why" - Frankie Avalon
68- "Winchester Cathedral" - The New Vaudeville Band
67- "Teen Angel" - Mark Dinning
66- "Downtown" - Petula Clark
65- "Light My Fire" - The Doors
64- "Somethin' Stupid" - Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with 100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 80 - 71! 80- "Duke of Earl" - Gene Chandler
Now that I've finished giving you all the yearly lists from the 1960's, I'm now counting down the most popular songs of the decade as a whole. To start at the top of this list with 100 - 91 as well as to get a detailed description of this specific project, click here. There will also be links at the bottom that will make it easy to navigate through this list. Here's 90 - 81! 90- "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season) - The Byrds
89- "Everybody Loves Somebody" - Dean Martin
88- "96 Tears - ? (Question Mark) & The Mysterians
87- "I Will Follow Him" - Little Peggy March
86- "There! I've Said it Again" - Bobby Vinton
85- "Baby Love" - The Supremes
84- "Mashed Potato Time" - Dee Dee Sharp
83- "Greenfields" - The Brothers Four
82- "Michael" - The Highwaymen
81- "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" - Connie Francis
Now that I've gone through every individual year of the 1960's, it's time to cap that off by seeing how all of those songs stack together in one giant list that counts down the top 100 songs of the entire decade. I will be posting this list 10 songs at a time over the course of the next 10 days, so this should be fun. If you are new this week, I describe this project and my methodology in each of my yearly top 10 lists, so make sure to check out any or all of those in the blog archive. As pertaining to this decade list, there are a lot of songs that got stuck between the years. I don't account for that on the yearly lists because I go strictly by calendar year only, but I do make up for that here and thus you'll see that some songs ended up a lot higher than certain songs that previously topped them on their corresponding yearly list. Along these lines, I am fair to the songs that get split between the decades as I have included their entire run in the decade where they made the biggest impact. Also, if you've seen every individual year before looking at this list, you should find it interesting to see how the songs from different years stack up as there were some years in the 60's that were really strong and other years that were really weak. Finally, I have provided links at the bottom that should make this easy to browse through or you can just just use the blog archive on the side. Enjoy!
100- "Alley-Oop" - Hollywood Argyles
99- "Mother-in-Law" - Ernie K-Doe
98- "Telstar" - The Tornadoes
97- "We Can Work it Out" - The Beatles
96- "I Feel Fine" - The Beatles
95- "Wild Thing" - The Troggs
94- "Stop! In the Name of Love" - The Supremes
93- "Hello Goodbye" - The Beatles
92- "My Boyfriend's Back" - The Angels
91- "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" - The Righteous Brothers
This is it. The final year of the 1960's! This means that next week will start the countdown of the top 100 songs of the 1960's, so stay tuned for that. But first we have to look at 1969. If you are new this week, I had a goal recently to determine what the top songs of all time were based on a formula that I came up with to keep track of the top songs on the Billboard charts each year. Here's the methodology: each year of the charts I go week by week, giving points to the songs that make the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. The #1 song gets 10 points, the #2 song gets 9 points, all the way down to the #10 song getting 1 point. I could've done the whole Hot 100 like this, but that would've been too time consuming, so I just stuck to the top 10 for now. If you are wanting to check out previous years that I've done, you can follow the links at the bottom of each list to browse through the years or you can search through the blog archives on the side. It's my hope that as you scroll through this list that you take time to actually listen to the songs as you go instead of just looking at the title. This has been a great way for me to learn of new music and be reminded of songs that I may have forgotten about and I feel this can have the same effect on you, regardless of your taste in music. So without further delay, let's see what this year has to offer! 10- "Crystal Blue Persuasion" - Tommy James and The Shondells
9- "I Can't Get Next to You" - The Temptations
8- "Dizzy" - Tommy Roe
7- "Get Back" - The Beatles (with Billy Preston)
6- "In the Year 2525" - Zager & Evans
5- "Everyday People" - Sly & The Family Stone
4- "Crimson and Clover" - Tommy James and The Shondells
3- "Honky Tonk Women" - The Rolling Stones
2- "Sugar, Sugar" - The Archies
1- "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" - The 5th Dimension
