Poll: Vote for your favorite (US) mega hits from 1965-1985

Mega hit = a song that was number one on the Billboard top 100 for at least 6 weeks.

A few that didn't make the poll:

Debby Boone - "You Light Up My Life"
Kenny Rogers - "Lady"
*Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder - "Ebony & Ivory"
*Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson - "Say Say Say"

* Paul & MJ are better represented elsewhere in the poll.


My top 10:
- INPO except for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" which would be my number 1.

Monkees - "I'm A Believer"
5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In"
Zager & Evans - "In The Year 2525"
Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Roberta Flack - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Alone Again (Naturally)
Bee Gees - "Night Fever"
The Knack - "My Sharona"
Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - "Endless Love"
Kim Carnes - "Bette Davis Eyes"


Limited to 10 votes

 

I like every single song on that list to varying degrees, with the possible exception of "Le Freak". Wow, how music has declined since then...

 

American Pie ! Don McLean ! Should not be overseen.

 

If you included You Light Up My Life I would have voted for that instead of Centerfold

 

Somebody voted for Physical besides me! I'm not actually that keen on the song but felt I should show support!

Others I chose were the Beatles, Bee Gees, Madonna, Irene Cara, Joan Jett, Michael Jackson and Gilbert O' Sullivan.

 

I voted mostly for the earlier stuff. "I Love Rock And Roll" was the newest song I voted for (and that probably explains why I voted like I did too!)

 

Debby Boone always gets the shaft.

 

There's some real stinkers on that list. I voted for "I Heard it from the Grapevine" and "Hey Jude." A few of the others are nice to hear when you hear them unexpectedly on the radio--mostly from '60's/'70's. I really started to hate Top 40 radio in the '80's.

 

I have less trouble picking 10 songs from 1976 than I do from this bunch.

 

"Hey Jude", of course.


Runners up:

"I'm A Believer" (#1 the day I was born)

"Joy To The World"

"Alone Again (Naturally)"

"My Sharona" (even if the hit was the lame edit)

"Every Breath You Take"

 

Hey Jude,Call Me, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Centerfold, I Love Rock & Roll
The only ones I selected. The rest range from OK to I-never-want-to-hear--again.

 

I'm A Believer - Monkees
Night Fever - Bee Gees
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

Darryl

 

i wonder what song will come in second in this poll.

 

Wow. I have always thought Hey Jude is one of the worst songs I have ever heard.

 

all of them and more!

 

OUCH! how dare you! that's expected. LOL!

 

I just picked them all as I love 'em all...no problem.

 

yes, it's cool to not like it...but, that makes no difference to those that love the song...

 

I struggled to pick more than just First Time...Aquarius, 2525, and Joy to the World barely made the cut.

 

Without the any lapse of doubt: Billie Jean. Probably my favorite single ever and the only song that I can tell had a significant impact in my life. I don't believe in life changing records, but this song showed something else: to the heart, to the mind, to the feet.

 

The only one I really like is Roberta Flack. I voted for it and, oddly enough, Madonna, which was the only other track to rise above my threshold, which was arbitrarily quite severe for this poll ...

 

Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - 5th Dimension

 

Fun (but slightly disturbing) fact - in 1987 there was a hit that dwarfed the biggest hits in this poll. The song? "Livin' On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi - number one for 14 weeks.

 

I'm A Believer - Monkees
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
My Sharona - Knack
Call Me - Blondie
I Love Rock & Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Every Breath You Take - Police

not the biggest fan of Hey Jude

 

Never thought "Grapevine" was all that. "Hey Jude" I'm sick of. I'm actually surprised a few of these ("Alone Again (Naturally)", "Centerfold ", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") were that big a hits, although I happen to like all of them (though only "Face" got a vote from me).

"Physical" was the best-selling single of the '80s, if memory serves. "Call Me" I think was #2 (or maybe it was "Bette Davis Eyes"). The early '80s was loaded with monster singles.