This Week's Top 10 Chart

This week the chart just screams SUMMER!
This has to be the most sunny, full of fun chart I think I've ever posted.
For those who weren't there or where to young to remember let me tell you,
this mid-sixties period was all about good times.
Hey Bob what were you up to?

Here's an idea, burn the songs on this chart onto a CD,
then in the middle of January when you're freezing your chestnuts off,
pop it into your car CD player.
See if you don't feel a lot warmer all of a sudden.

This week's chart is from August 27, 1966

Code:

 1. Summer In The City..................[B]The Lovin' Spoonful[/B]
 2. Sunny...............................[B]Bobby Hebb[/B]
 3. See You in September................[B]The Happenings[/B]
 4. Lil' Red Riding Hood................[B]Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs[/B]
 5. Sunshine Superman...................[B]Donovan[/B]
 6. Wild Thing..........................[B]The Troggs[/B] 	
 7. You Can't Hurry Love................[B]The Supremes[/B]
 8. Yellow Submarine....................[B]The Beatles[/B]
 9. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love...[B]Petula Clark[/B]
10. Summertime..........................[B]Billy Stewart[/B]

 

I may have been three years old but I remember that summer well! The only ones I was not familiar with back then was #3, 8, and 9.

Good chart!

 

No. It is also one of my least favorite Beatles songs.

 

Man, those are some great, fun songs! The only one that I don't remember well enough to start singing right now is the Pet Clark - but I bet that would come back to me pretty quickly.

I was four when these came out in '66 and so don't recall them specifically from that time, but all are either classics or "golden oldies" that I've heard a jillion times. It's impossible for me to come up with a favorite Beatles song, but Yellow Sub is up there among the most fun of them.

"Sky of blue!"
"Sea of green!"

Ray

 

Steve, dunno about where you lived but that song and "Eleanor Rigby" were pretty much banned on the radio then. It was right after Lennon made his Jesus remark. If you didn't own the single/LP you didn't hear those tunes on the radio.

Mud-

 

I am intimately familiar with "You Can't Hurry Love", as I had a babysitter who played that 45 and "You Keep Me Hanging On" over and over later that year.

"Sunshine Superman" was one of those songs that ran through my mind every waking minute, as was "Little Red Riding Hood". Really!

My older sister had a friend who kept the "Sunny" 45 on his turntable all the time. I can still see that blue Philips label spinning.

I heard lots of Temptations music that year, as the Greatest hits album was released on my birthday later in November. The two singles "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" shared heavy rotation in our household, as did the two Jimmy Ruffin Singles. The "Supremes-A-Go-Go" album was played a lot.

Also, it was a time that I was introduced to Wilson Pickett. The one song that stands out in my mind from the first listen is "Ninety-nine And A Half (Won't Do)".


Ahh, I could go on and on...

 

I lived near Tucson, Arizona, so I heard all kinds of Beatles music, just not "Yellow Submarine". One of the stations played "I'm Only Sleeping" a lot!

 

I spent that summer...in the city. Every time I hear the Spoonful's Summer In The City I am taken back to that time. A great summer chart!

 

I have all these songs on CD but the Pet Clark CD I have is pretty poor. Does anyone know of a good sounding Petula Clark hits disc? How about you UK members?

 

Friends,

Now this is a great chart! A great time period in popular music. I was 15 at the time...starting to look forward to the time when I could legally drive a car. In August of 1966, I saw the Beatles play at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. I was very fortunate to have a press box seat through a connection of a friend of my Father's at KMOX Radio in St. Louis.

Summer In The City is simply a summertime classic and fits so well in the time period. Sunny is a great song that has worn extremely well through the years. See You In September...well...it worked then. Sunshine Superman was such a cool track in 1966--considered very hip at the time. Wild Thing has also endured through the years on both Oldies Stations and Classic Rock Stations. I have always preferred the sound of the ATCO 45 over the sound of the Fontana--obviously a mastering difference. I still listen to the rest of the selections this chart regularly including the great sounding SH mastered version of Summertime.

Bob

 

Dave,

I recommend this one: Downtown: The Greatest Hits of Petula Clark issued in 1999 by Buddah Records (BMG). To my ears, this anthology sounds the best!

Bob

 

Good one Dave! To see where soul & rock shared the same popularity is well done. Teenage love=Summer In The City. Yes, even ten years after it came out.

 

Thanks Bob. I'll seek this one out.
The disc I have, Greatest Hits of Petula Clark on GNP/Crescendo is simply appalling. Very lo-fi.

 

I was in summer camp then as well - I refused to believe that Yellow Submarine was the Beatles (way to juvenile - even to me at 11) until I saw it listed that way on the "casino" jukebox (b/w Eleanor Rigby, if I recall). Learned to swim that summer. Took my first dive off the "springboard" - and then, before the end of the season - the (10ft? - 20ft?) high dive.

Is it this list - or the fact that I have The Byrds Greatest Hits on "shuffle" at this very moment that is making me so melancholy?

Sigh.

 

Dave,

You may want to check this one out as well. I think it sounds nice. It's a 2 CD set from HIP-O spanning her career. I believe Bradley likes this one too.

 

Thanks Pat - Now I have several choices any of which is surely better than the disc I have.