Showing my age?

[altivo]

This meme courtesy of aerofox:

Go here. In the Search box in the upper right hand corner, enter the year you graduated from high school.
The first item returned should be the 100 songs from that year. Cut and paste them into your journal.

Bold the ones you like.
Underline your favorite.
Strike through the songs you loathe.
Italicize the ones you can't remember.
Leave it untagged if you're without an opinion.


1. To Sir With Love, Lulu
2. Happy Together, The Turtles
3. Windy, Association
4. Ode To Billie Joe, Bobby Gentry
5. I'm A Believer, The Monkees
6. Light My Fire, The Doors
7. Somethin' Stupid, Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
8. The Letter, Box Tops
9. Groovin', Young Rascals
10. Kind Of A Drag, Buckinghams
11. Little Bit O' Soul, Music Explosion
12. I Think We're Alone Now, Tommy James and The Shondells
13. Respect, Aretha Franklin
14. I Was Made To Love Her, Stevie Wonder
15. Come Back When You Grow Up, Bobby Vee and The Strangers
16. Sweet Soul Music, Arthur Conley
17. Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli
18. Never My Love, Association
19. Soul Man, Sam and Dave
20. Expressway To Your Heart, Soul Survivors
21. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie, Jay and The Techniques
22. Come On Down To My Boat, Every Mothers' Son
23. Incense And Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock
24. Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones
25. It Must Be Him, Vicki Carr
27. For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield
28. Gimme Little Sign, Brenton Wood
28. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone, Supremes
29. The Happening, Supremes
30. All You Need Is Love, Beatles
31. Release Me (And Let Me Love Again), Engelbert Humperdinck
32. Your Precious Love, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
33. Somebody To Love, Jefferson Airplane
34. Get On Up, Esquires
35. Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
36. Jimmy Mack, Martha and The Vandella
37. I Got Rhythm, Happenings
38. A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum
39. Don't You Care, Buckinghams
40. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Casinos
41. Reflections, Diana Ross and The Supremes
42. On A Carousel, Hollies
43. Please Love Me Forever, Bobby Vinton
44. Alfie, Dionne Warwick
45. San Francisco, Scott Mckenzie
46. Silence Is Golden, Tremeloes
47. My Cup Runneth Over, Ed Ames
48. Up, Up And Away, Fifth Dimension
49. The Rain, The Park And Other Things, Cowsills
50. There's A Kind Of Hush, Herman's Hermits
51. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Buckinghams
52. This Is My Song, Petula Clark
53. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher, Jackie Wilson
54. I've Been Lonely Too Long, Young Rascals
55. Penny Lane, Beatles
56. You're My Everything, Temptations
57. Georgy Girl, Seekers
58. Western Union, Five Americans
59. Baby I Love You, Aretha Franklin
60. A Little Bit You, A Little Bit Me, The Monkees
61. California Nights, Lesley Gore
62. Dedicated To The One I Love, Mama's and The Papa's
63. How Can I Be Sure, Young Rascals
64. Carrie Ann, Hollies
65. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet, Blue Magoos
66. Friday On My Mind, Easy Beats
67. Soul Finger, Bar-Kays
68. Gimme Some Lovin', Spencer Davis Group
69. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out), Hombres
70. Let's Live For Today, The Grass Roots
71. Close Your Eyes, Peaches and Herb
72. Groovin', Booker T and The MG's
73. Funky Broadway, Wilson Pickett
74. Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkees
75. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You), Aretha Franklin
76. Tell It Like It Is, Aaron Neville
77. Cold Sweat, James Brown and The Famous Flames
78. She'd Rather Be With Me, The Turtles
79. 98.6, Keith
80. Here We Go Again, Ray Charles
81. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane
82. Here Comes My Baby, Tremeloes
83. The Beat Goes On, Sonny and Cher
84. Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron, Royal Guardsmen
85. Society's Child, Janis Ian
86. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon, Neil Diamond
87. I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, Electric Prunes
88. Mirage, Tommy James and The Shondells
89. Bernadette, Four Tops
90. Everlasting Love, Robert Knight
91. I Dig Rock And Roll Music, Peter, Paul and Mary
92. Litle Ole Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright), Bill Cosby
93. Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
94. Daydream Believer, The Monkees
95. Thank The Lord For The Night Time, Neil Diamond
96. I Take It Back, Sandy Posey
97. Green, Green Grass Of Home, Tom Jones
98. I Can See For Miles, The Who
99. Don't Sleep In The Subway, Petula Clark
100. Baby I Need Your Lovin', Johnny Rivers


I'm amazed at how many I remember, since I wasn't ever much of a pop music listener.

Edit: After my response to drelonek below, I went to look at the list from 1970 for my number one hated pop song of all time, Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi". It wasn't there. The song drove me crazy. I couldn't sleep after leaving work for weeks on end because of it. (It wouldn't have been a bad song otherwise, but it was played absolutely to death that summer.) Could I be wrong? No, other sources confirm: it was Mitchell's first gold album, her first big top 40 hit. And it was in 1970. Now I'm suspicious of these lists. Have they been "expurgated" for some reason?

Comments

[plushlover.livejournal.com]

'67 was a very good year for music. But which one was your favorite? Can't see any underlined here...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Because none of them would have been my favorite. As a matter of fact, at the time, that would have been a choice between "Andromache's Farewell" by Samuel Barber (which uses as lyrics an English translation of words from Euripides' play The Trojan Women, performed by Martina Arroyo) and William Schumann's Symphony no. 8. ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, I should add that I was big on protest music. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Simon & Garfunkel... But none of them made this top 100 list.

[fandt4.livejournal.com]

I was about to say, your genre preferences must be quite different from that list, age has little to do with it really. Because really, according to that list, I know more of that music than you do.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

C'mon now, I didn't italicize that many. There are a fair number of "no comments" though. See my reply to Rabscuddle above. ;)

[drelonek.livejournal.com]

Heh.

The year I was born had a lot of music I liked, but the year I would have graduated(I actually dropped out and got my GED, but its a long story) had nothing but crap, crap, crap.

Blech.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I can easily imagine reasons for that. Much of it has to do with associations. So if you heard a lot of things from the year you were born in connection with happy occasions as a child, that can make them seem good to you. The same for bad associations.

For instance, in the summer of 1970, I had a job as a busboy in a Holiday Inn restaurant. (College kids have to pay their bills somehow.) I absolutely hated it. By far, it was the worst job I have ever worked (being evening hours had a chunk to do with that, but the job itself was the pits and the pay was peanuts.) The cooks kept a pop radio station playing all night long in the kitchen, and the top 40 songs from that summer are all burned into my brain with "HATE HATE HATE" in big neon letters. :)

[drelonek.livejournal.com]

Or it could be that, i was born in the 80s and happen to really like 80s music and a lot of it came from 83.. but when i would have graduated, rap/r&b had taken over the charts and I can't stand it. :P

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there is a major genre shift in that period, and I have to agree with you. I'm just "ho hum" about 70s and 80s stuff mostly, but rap and hip-hop inspire a strong negative reaction in me.

[calydor.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting that I remember one you don't (17. Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli), and that not one of your dislikes are ones I like, while I do recognize and like some of the ones you marked as liking. Might do this one for giggles later tonight.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We actually have a fair overlap in our musical taste, as we've found in the past. We just don't share a large overlap in what we've been exposed to, I think, though we react similarly to the same kinds of things. So this isn't too surprising, actually.

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

The year I graduated from High School (91), the music was nothing but crapcrapcrapcrap!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hee-hee! Everyone hates rap but no one does anything about it?

[calydor.livejournal.com]

I'd try to insult the rappers, but I think they have experience in snappy retorts.

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

*grins* Yes, they'd exaggerate your mother's weight through the use of untruthful anecdotes. Better watch out! ;-)

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

o/` "Co-me back ba-by, when you grow up!"

*is not a Bobby Vee nerd, really*

About half of these made me think "I should download that/listen to it again from my collection". XD Squee!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. Just looking at the list was actually more than enough reminder of these. I find I have no desire to revisit any of them except possibly the Beatles tunes, which are immortal in my opinion.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I follow that "if you remember the sixties..." proverb rather too well. *g*