Songs that didn't make it to number one, some rightly so and others are questionable, what do you think?
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@68blues5 жыл бұрын
Now this is quality. Grab a few beers, get comfortable on the couch and float off into a suberb nostalgia trip. The 60’s are my time, lets have every top 20 hit from that decade. Only kidding.......no i'm not, i've got the beer if you've got the songs. ✌🏻😎
@moss84485 жыл бұрын
Number 2 on the Bill Boards but Number 1 in our memories...
@lindareynolds6594 жыл бұрын
Sitting next to you 🍸
@michaelszczys83164 жыл бұрын
One of the best internet radio stations is on Live 365 called ‘ Chart Toppers ‘ where most of the week they would play in order the top 5 tunes of the 60s starting from January 1960 to December 1969 Don’t know if it’s still on they went to pay only and I quit listening
@erepsekahs4 жыл бұрын
It's only 21 minutes mate.
@sampsonroofing31004 жыл бұрын
It's fun to recollect what I was doing, what grade I was in, who my playmates were during all of these different times.
@jimdandy20243 жыл бұрын
Time is a funny thing. What we now call the sixties did not start until 1963. Before that, it was still the fifties.
@gazac484 жыл бұрын
This brings back so many Memory's, I was in a band in the 60's & we played most of the songs here, , I remember when we got a new record & we were playing it that weekend, I'm 72 now & it was great to be alive then, kids don't know what it was like then.
@teddyboysdontknit8103 жыл бұрын
I can recall everyone of these songs and each one takes me back to a boy who was 11 years old in 1960, thank you for taking me down memory lane.
@simonholmes8915 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1956 and 1966 to 1976 was for me the greatest ten years of music ever
@bluewaters31005 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1952. I would have to say that it started in 1964 for me.
@jkprez5 жыл бұрын
@@bluewaters3100 Debbie I was born in 1954 and feel 1964 started a special period too. At the ripe old age of 10 my mom and I (and little brother) went to a Beach Boys concert. My first album was one of theirs. I think my first single was Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. I was a Beatles fan too BTW.
@terrythekittieful4 жыл бұрын
For me 1965 - 1974 (completes ten years)is the ten year period I would pick,...in that time you had what are considered the five best Beatles albums beginning with 'Rubber Soul' (1965) and ending with 'Abbey Road' (1969). Dylan had albums like' Highway 61' and 'Blonde on Blonde' in the second half of the 60's...Creedence came along around '67 or '68 and finished up in that period of time, likewise Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Doors. Led Zeppelin had three or four of their best albums in that time. Santana had their best couple of albums in that time. Classic albums like 'Tubular Bells', 'Who's Next', 'Crosby, Stills & Nash', 'Tapestry', Exile on Main Street', 'Music From Big Pink' came out in that time. David Bowie started his career in that time as did Black Sabbath, T Rex and Deep Purple...Stevie Wonder was at the top of his game in that time. So called one hit wonders like Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky), Shocking Blue (Venus), Peter Sarstedt (Where do you go to My Lovely) had their hits in that time, the best solo years of the Beatles were in that time, they all had # 1 hits and hugely succesful albums ('Band on the Run', 'Imagine', 'All Thimgs Must Pass')...the list goes on and on and there's plenty I have left out....it was an incredibly fertile ten years in music.....There is no ten year period since the end of the 70's that has come close....2000 to 2009, 2011 to 2019....a depressing musical desert.
@robharding53454 жыл бұрын
That's more or less spot on, that decade there, will take some beating.
@jackpagel17594 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1959. But my favorite music is the rock from the 60's and 70's. When I was playing guitar I knew many songs. I should really spend less time on the internet and more time practicing again!
@ianbentley72765 жыл бұрын
BRILLIANTLY PUT TOGETHER, thank you, know them all.
@simonholmes8915 жыл бұрын
Just goes to show how much great music was being churned out, thousands of masterpieces not getting the number 1 spot that's how competitive it was.
@bluesfan5826 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this list. It contains some important and influential sounds of the era, even though they didn't make number 1.
@UKMusicCharts-UK6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Blues fan, make sure to check out Every Number 1 if you enjoyed this :)
@bluesfan5826 жыл бұрын
Yes, I've already done that, and I remembered every song from both lists. Great stuff.
@tonywatson4145 жыл бұрын
Notice that until the Beatles come along it is nearly all solo singers, and after that it's nearly all groups.
@rjjcms15 жыл бұрын
I thought that too :-)
@Agnethatheredhairkid5 жыл бұрын
@@rjjcms1 That, Ralph, is because the Beatles were pioneers and paved the way for groups. The others saw that what the Beatles could do, so could they.
@moss84485 жыл бұрын
well there were a few groups...but this was in the UK lists...some here in the States like the Kingsman, Beach Boys, Soul Groups like the Platters etc...had #2's...one lyric I'll always remember is...hey baby do you wanna dance...left my rubber in my other pants...still lingers
@76Heatwave5 жыл бұрын
A great improvement after 63
@andreamasiniluccetti17934 жыл бұрын
i gruppi musicali esplosero con i Beatles e sopratutto con la "British invasion "... i gruppi rock invasero l'europa e fu una gioiosa invasione!!!...
@marymc-ginley32663 жыл бұрын
the 60,s was special thank God i have the great memories of when the world was good and the music was brilliant
@wardis83034 жыл бұрын
I can remember where I was , what I was doing and where I was working during all these song, happy memories of the finest decade for music there will ever be
@marklloyd35364 жыл бұрын
The soundtrack of my youth - and I’m grateful for it.
@commonsensibility20515 жыл бұрын
All of these are number ones in my world, and that's the world I'm staying in! You can keep your rap and it's always misspelt without the c in front!
@johnbird73575 жыл бұрын
Garage is missing, the b in the middle.
@dogie10705 жыл бұрын
But it should be called "crap"!
@alanfarr4 жыл бұрын
Who's the guy on Eggheads who always refers to it as the C-word - "rap"? Very succinct. Although COOLIO was rather good - "Gangsta's Paradise".
@markadamaszek35624 жыл бұрын
That's a beauty, pal about the rap
@jeanclarke74464 жыл бұрын
Common Sensibility it’s called rap crap
@funguy4utube4 жыл бұрын
I was ten and living in England for a year in 1960 then we moved back to the U.S. .... many fond memories of the wide-eyed sweet time of being excited about everything in the world ( way before I had to be responsible and pay bills and develop a career ) ... this also brings a bit of a tear remembering my folks who are now long gone.
@northlincsfox2435 жыл бұрын
I Love this 💕 ❤️ It’s so well put together. There are three of my favourite tunes here (Percy Faith, Mary Hopkin and Bee Gees) 😊
@longboarder7715 жыл бұрын
These songs represent the best decade of my life.
@longboarder7713 жыл бұрын
@tom the cat123 Lots! Here's one: I left home in 1966, met a long haired girl who worked in a care home school on the edge of Dartmoor, UK, we were only able to meet up at the weekend. The song 'Friday On My Mind' by The Easybeats had just entered the charts. I used to wait for her when her bus pulled into Bretonside bus depot in Plymouth, we would spend most of the weekend together, consequently I looked forward to every Friday, I was only 18/19, by the summer of next year, she returned home to her family in the Midlands of England, I chose to remain in the West country, mostly happy memories though, I still love 'Friday On My Mind', it is still a great feelgood record.
@petercraig68025 жыл бұрын
Great video. I went through these years as a teenager in England, so many great memories of so many great songs !
@irenenelson84984 жыл бұрын
I Love the 60s and it brings good memories my old's school SOUNDS. They never make our good ol sound like back then.
@blabbydog4 жыл бұрын
Very good. Takes me back. I was born in 64 and I remember many of these songs, especially Hole in my shoe and Grocer Jack -still two of my favourites to this day
@crochetfun72024 жыл бұрын
I miss the 60's, I would back if I could,
@marilenetala30503 жыл бұрын
Crochet Fun. So would I if I could. Love 60's.
@tansleypotts94863 жыл бұрын
I loved the 60s miss the great music wish I was young again 😉
@robertjordan73485 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Thanks for posting. I have a book somewhere that lists the US and British top 10s every week from about 1960-1985 or thereabouts side by side. Interesting to compare the differences and the similarities. It struck me that multiple artists would have hits of the same song somewhat contemporaneously.
@helenday50316 жыл бұрын
What a good idea, all the number 2's! I was born in 1956, and watching this video felt like magical (or sci-fi?) time travelling to past periods of my life that I'd forgotten about. What marvellous music has been made in the course of my lifetime!
@Williamottelucas5 жыл бұрын
1957 me, but your comment applies
@dogie10705 жыл бұрын
This pup born 1956, too!
@ginacable53765 жыл бұрын
@@Williamottelucas me too great times.
@robertmcintyre46535 жыл бұрын
hard to believe the kinks are on this list twice every song they done should've been no 1 Ray Davis is a genius
@schusterlehrling5 жыл бұрын
He surely is.
@nicolagianaroli20245 жыл бұрын
It is a miracle the kinks still achieved quite a lot. Nobody has been banned to get into the US, that is something unheard of. The media were making lot of free pubblicity to the like of beatles, rolling stones and who arguing who was more shocking and trangressive and in the meantime very quietly the kinks were silenced and put in a corner. No wonder the Kinks have been one of the few band respected and taken as inspiration from ealy punk band in the 70
@grahamturner975 жыл бұрын
Please Please Me was a UK number 1, forget what people say. It was number 1 on the BBc - the only chart people took any notice of.
@LordAmbrosia14 жыл бұрын
It was Number 1 in pretty much every chart apart from Record Retailer, which is where Guinness and 'the official UK charts' retroactively get their information.
@davidreed19953 жыл бұрын
@@LordAmbrosia1 it wasnt number 1 it was number 2 i know
@LordAmbrosia13 жыл бұрын
@@davidreed1995 It really wasn't. Find out why.
@mikehardwick3525 жыл бұрын
These songs bring back my younger years,great music
@arjay8tch5103 жыл бұрын
We will never have a time like the “60’s” again! When music was written for the soul from the heart, from the heart for the soul! Today, as has been for way too long, music comes from ......well, I think you don’t have to use much imagination to guess where it’s from.
@keithnaylor19815 жыл бұрын
Well done! A wonderful piece of history. Amazing that you managed to get all those contemporary photos. Just a small point - Manfred Mann's hit of 1966 featured Mike D'abo as Paul Jones had left the group.
@lesives55425 жыл бұрын
What memories i was 16 in 1960 will today's music still be played in 60 years i don't think so keep rocking every one
@johnbird73575 жыл бұрын
Today's 'music' doesn't get played in my house at all
@kurikokaleidoscope4 жыл бұрын
A lot of today's music will be forgotten by tomorrow.
@gloriasouthall95363 жыл бұрын
Me too best years ever
@humle22045 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this! I remember many of the songs but some I had forgotten. I really enjoyed listening to this fantastic music.
@UKMusicCharts-UK5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it and it was my pleasure! Make sure to check out the other decades too :)
@humle22045 жыл бұрын
@@UKMusicCharts-UK I certainly will!
@seanoneillsongs4 жыл бұрын
You’ve just taken me on a journey though my childhood from 8 years of age, through school and up to a move to Ireland where I met the lady I married around about ‘Oh Well’ - Oh well, that only lasted 26 years but I wouldn’t change a thing. I’d guess, without researching, that this makes a far more interesting and diverse collection than the number ones. Thanks for the upload.
@terrythekittieful4 жыл бұрын
The 60's are arguably the most fertile decade in musical history so many of these #2's are as good as # 1.
@FishpondsLady3 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. As someone who wasn't born then!
@anthonytindle57583 жыл бұрын
The best comment I've read about the 60s and so true about it being the most fertile era.
@anthonytindle57583 жыл бұрын
So true
@clovisdm5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this research. Enjoyed revisiting these classic songs. Hard to believe though that three of the greatest singles from the 60s - Waterloo Sunset-The Kinks, God Only Knows-The Beach Boys & Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields-The Beatles never made No 1 in the UK!
@UKMusicCharts-UK5 жыл бұрын
I know, some fantastic songs on here, it's more intriguing to see what stopped it being No 1, in most cases it was not justified. Thanks for the comment!
@jefdarcy5 жыл бұрын
It's funny how many No. 1's The Beatles had, but the one with probably the strongest combination of A-side and B-side, the one that would possibly the most deserved of them all, didn't make it because of fucking Engelbert Humperdink. God only knows what the British record buyers were thinking...
@cliffhughes60105 жыл бұрын
@@jefdarcy Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, a perfect single that gives me something new and makes me glad to be alive every time I hear it. The whole concept of the charts was debased for me after that moment. I realised it was just a marketing tool and subject to manipulation by interested parties. Also the sheep-like general public cannot be relied upon to spot a classic when it hears one. Check out Howard Goodall's excellent video kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIK2amSti8mpj8U
@geoffboxell93014 жыл бұрын
It all depends on which of the Charts you use. The one I followed had Beatles all #1 from Please Please Me till they slipped with Paperback Writer
@colinellesmere3 жыл бұрын
After listening to all the songs before the first Beatles track it's easy to see why there was a revolution in music.
@riobabic89603 жыл бұрын
Good point !
@pauldhartley5 жыл бұрын
There was more than one chart. I remember Melody Maker and The New Musical Express. Their charts were often different. That's why I think some of these made number one - I used to see the NME charts each week. As they got sales figures from a sample, maybe the samples were from very different sources. (The BBC also had a chart - sunday radio with Alan Freeman!)
@rabbit64sj914 жыл бұрын
Great music! I was born in early '64 & remember the music from the late sixties onwards. Lovely early musical memories for me to treasure for always. 😍
@fisherpeter6952 жыл бұрын
We are unlikely to ever hear such a rich vein of pop songs like those in this snapshot of the 60s. Hard to believe it was normal even then to see the great Dean Martin in the charts the same month as Lulu with her joint winning song in the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest. "Gentle on my mind" always reminds me of the underground Bier- Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street Liverpool, were it was always on the Juke Box. Lulu is said not to have liked Boom Bang a Bang, but with her performance, orchestration, and Tambourine, she makes it a classic 60s song.
@IndraSinha Жыл бұрын
It's not just the notes you play, it's the emotion you bring to them. This is very beautiful.
@jessesmith9719 Жыл бұрын
Also, the singing ability (no autotune needed), emotion was not considered uncool, andgreat orcehestra background.
@thomasmartinscott5 жыл бұрын
I opened for Ricky Nelson in Norfolk NE in '71. Randy Meisner was his bass player! Good memories!
@daschundloverable4 жыл бұрын
@TMS - THAT'S COOL. WHO ARE YOU REALLY? AND WHERE ARE YOU NOW? (NOT BEING NOSY, JUST FIND IT FASCINATING).
@muide74 жыл бұрын
I loved Ricky Nelson. You lucky son! (To have those memories.)
@Agnethatheredhairkid5 жыл бұрын
Bloody well done, sir/madame! This is awesome.
@MrBlackbamboo5 жыл бұрын
takes me back to my young days
@esteponabhoy75603 жыл бұрын
This takes me back doing my milk boy rounds 27/6d a week great days
@muide74 жыл бұрын
I've enjoyed this immensely! No #1 hits, just the number twos. The best songs - minus some - that never made it to the top, but should have. It was such a thrill to see and hear some of those bands again. Well composed, great photos, wonderful job!
@cherrygarcia15 жыл бұрын
Damn...why why why do we have to get old
@68blues5 жыл бұрын
Jesusa De Leon ....1968, i had long hair, looked cool, dressed cool and listened to the coolest music. Now, i'm bald, a bit sore about the joints, still love 60’s music and i'm not cool. The thing is, i still think i'm cool, i now know everything and i know how to chill. If we ever meet Jesusa, the beers are on me. ✌🏻😎🍺
@ginacable53765 жыл бұрын
@charlie cheeseface yes I damn well would!
@tats58805 жыл бұрын
Simpler time for sure. A little more pure. I can dig that
@CountessMaryaZaleska5 жыл бұрын
It's hard to accept that a decrepit 90 year old man was once a 20 year old man who used to have sex. But evolution doesn't care about you, me or anyone else. You're put on this Earth for one purpose: the probability that you may procreate, so that someone else can be born, die and do the same. You think _you are 'you'_ and you're living _'your' life,_ but it's the DNA inside you - that's the controlling form of life - which is using 'you' as a means to _it's end._ Or imagine if you were somehow immortal - could you psychologically take living for 2000 years - while everyone else you loved dies around you? Imagine the number of heart wrenching losses you'd have to endure throughout time. Not to mention how increasingly difficult it would become to hide your immortality from the authorities -as society records everyone's historical presence with an ever increasing efficiency. It can only end in one of three ways: you either degenerate, decay and die slowly, you die early by accident or illness - or you end it all yourself.
@CountessMaryaZaleska5 жыл бұрын
@charlie cheeseface: Thank you, I did. My interests lie in philosophy, genetics, evolution, genocide, totalitarianism, space exploration, time travel and the essential pointlessness of society and consumerism. People have told me all my life that I should write a book. If I do - it'll probably be about the need for us all to develop some form of warp capability to get off this rock - before our sun ends up going supernova. Assuming we aren't all wiped out by an giant asteroid, bacteriological virus or a genetic race war - it's the essential problem that's facing the human race. And it can only end in one of two ways: either we all stay and get incinerated, or we all manage to get away and find _Omicron Ceti III_ in the _Delta Quadrant….._
@callesierra5 жыл бұрын
Absolute magic, thank you so much for uploading.
@ianbentley72765 жыл бұрын
wow brilliant, i remember them ALL. Thank you.
@edwardpink27595 жыл бұрын
a groovy kind of love is my all time favourite but all the songs on this compilation are magic.thanks for posting
@UKMusicCharts-UK5 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it :)
@Agnethatheredhairkid5 жыл бұрын
Edward, I love you! Same here.
@jeanpierre12345 жыл бұрын
very good compilation and the photos of artists are HD. Thank you...!
@mikeshearing40624 жыл бұрын
I was ten yes old in 1965 Now going to be 65yrs old at the end of May. Sixty's & early seventies ,Motown. How about the song Sugar Surgar .my real favorite was The love Affair, & Dave Clark Five ,. God l feel old now.
@mikeshearing40624 жыл бұрын
Sugar
@velocita88425 жыл бұрын
Incredible musical competition for a #1 from both sides of the pond and the winner was........The listener!
@lsmith9925 жыл бұрын
How could most of these only have reached 2? They are ALL absolute classics. "God only knows" Beach Boys Kinks, "All of the day" Mamma's and the Papas etcetceyc
@janarnaud80586 жыл бұрын
In fact it doesn't matter if this great songs didn't reached number 1, they ard as good as n.1 or number 3. The great songs of a wonderful time.
@anthonyholmes53484 жыл бұрын
Great sixties music all different types better than the rubbish that's out now
@brianbush55395 жыл бұрын
Great compilation, thanks.
@redsquirrel10864 жыл бұрын
My God, these take me back!!
@mmbmbmbmb5 жыл бұрын
THANKS for this MARVELOUS compilation !
@aidennewell40343 жыл бұрын
Hello Karin, How are you doing?
@MrSirMrSirMr5 жыл бұрын
A weird combination of stone-cold classics, and songs which have been almost entirely forgotten.
@Bazzvideo5 жыл бұрын
When the UK was a great place to live unlike now. Glad I was there to appreciate the 60's and 70's music (it wasn't all good but more so than the rubbish of today). At 73 I'm still rocking and murdering my guitars :-)
@johnbird73575 жыл бұрын
Nearly 69 and the same here, until the father-in-law moved in. He finds it a tad noisy.
@RandyR Жыл бұрын
A trip down memory lane. Lived in 3 places, during that groovy, awakening decade..A military brat. Thanks for the trip❤
@cliffhughes60105 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic decade. So many classics that never quite made it to no. 1
@stewartmackay5395 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting. Time travel truly is possible
@dogie10705 жыл бұрын
Didn't those boys look nice in thier suits and ties?
@fisherpeter6952 жыл бұрын
Its unlikely we will ever hear these type of songs again. And that all time great singers like Dean Martin were in the charts with Lulu with such a difference in music. "Gentle on My Mind" always reminds me of the Underground Bier Keller at Rigby's pub in Dale Street, Liverpool. It was a regular play on its Juke - Box in 1969. It was said Lulu disliked Boom Bang a Bang, despite it being a joint winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, though the orchestration, tambourine and Lulu's professionalism made it a classic 60s hit. And plenty of royalties for its writers given how widely it was later recorded in Europe. This is a great selection from that wonderful decade
@Monotostereoking3 жыл бұрын
I remember the time very well, I bought The Beatles 'Please Please Me' & it was NUMBER ONE.
@michaelbarry43135 жыл бұрын
Great stuff the 60s best era ever for music
@tandjfinch55725 жыл бұрын
this is cool...half of the songs i have never heard but you know pop culture, here today gone today. thanks for the post.
@rjjcms15 жыл бұрын
I thank this and UK Music Charts for putting an artist and title to several songs and tunes I've heard through the years but didn't know the title of.
@KH6DAN5 жыл бұрын
Wow. It's so hard to believe that "Downtown" by Petula Clark only made it to # 2 in the UK. It was a smash hit in the states.
@danielward70084 жыл бұрын
It was a smash here too. The Beatles kept it off #1
@FishpondsLady3 жыл бұрын
I like it! I'd forgotten how many great songs came from then. Apart from 1963. My parents had a tape (their only tape, apart from Queen's Greatest Hits) of 1963, and for innumerable holidays in France as a girl it came out again for the long evenings in the gite. So I know the hippy hippy shake and Shirley Bassey. But otherwise - fantastic and thank you.
@williamgeorgefraser5 жыл бұрын
Many of these are far better than the songs that kept them off No1. Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, Waterloo Sunset and others are absolute classics.
@ballhawk3875 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly. I bet quite a few of the early ones were #1 across the pond.
@johna89734 жыл бұрын
Yeah , real Talk
@Neil-Aspinall4 жыл бұрын
Strawberry Fields Forever is the Beatles highlight and it only got to No. 2???
@garethb19614 жыл бұрын
It's ironic that two of the best ever Beatles songs, on a double A-sided single, failed to reach No. 1. Kept out by Tom Jones' Green Green Grass.
@Neil-Aspinall4 жыл бұрын
@@garethb1961 Get ya facts straight Gaz, Jones had nothing to do with it.
@arthurhamilton93055 жыл бұрын
so much variation in music in the 60,s
@kurikokaleidoscope4 жыл бұрын
Hell yes. That decade sounded like 1950s-early 70s. Incredible. KZbin will bring it to all back to the youth. The youth will be in awe of those who lived through it. Quite a few cranky ones on here tonight if I might add.
@MrHolzheim5 жыл бұрын
I was 16 in 1962 and lived through all this. A happy time........shit, where's the tissues.
@bwghall14 жыл бұрын
I was23, and all I want now is a chick to love when the music plays,
@jamesdignanmusic27654 жыл бұрын
When you consider some of the rubbish which has made it to the top over the years, and then you find out that "Save the last dance for me", "Hello Mary Lou", "Stranger on the Shore", "Do you wanna dance", "The Locomotion", "Please Please Me" (I was sure that got to the top!), "Then he kissed me", "Hippy hippy shake", "Just one look", "Lollipop", "All day and all of the night", "Downtown", "Here comes the night", "We gotta get out of this place", "My generation" (WTF?), "19th nervous breakdown", "Groovy kind of love", "I can't let go", "Daydream", "Wild thing", "Black is black", "God only knows", "Stop stop stop", "Gimme some lovin'", "Sunshine superman", "Matthew and son", "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields forever", "Waterloo sunset", "Flowers in the rain", "Delilah", "Eloise", "Oh, happy days", "In the ghetto", "Give peace a chance", "Yester-me, yester-you, yester-day", "Ruby don't take your love to town"... never made it there...
@ianbentley72764 жыл бұрын
remember them all, not surprising as i was a pop mad youngster, 10 when the 6os started and 19 when they ended.
@kaarhildtorset48502 жыл бұрын
So many good songs in the 60s i love that decade my childhood and i became teenager in 1966 what a time to grow up im glad that i grew up in the 60s and not now♥️♥️
@Montery125 жыл бұрын
these songs will always be numero uno!
@patrickmcevoy50802 жыл бұрын
That Monkees song at 15:40 has a great story. It was written by Mickey Dolenz, and in the US it's called "Randy Scouse Git" (a phrase he'd heard on British TV when they visited there), but that title was deemed too racy for the UK, so it was given the alternate title of... "Alternate Title". Excellent song, and some fun Monkees-style humor.
@笠武蘭香5 жыл бұрын
To be No1 is wonderful. But no2 songs are not inferior to the No1 at all. You show me that by your works.Thank you for your great work. You took me back to my teenage days.
@millerscott77003 жыл бұрын
Hello
@stevecox70755 жыл бұрын
Surprising that The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset' only reached number two. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most achingly poignant and poetic songs in British pop history.
@stevetrogner25245 жыл бұрын
The two most beautiful rock songs: God Only Knows and Waterloo Sunset. Good on ya.💂🇬🇧
@Isleofskye4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. As a native South East Londoner born and raised just 2 miles from there for my first 29 years until 1983 I can relate. My first job was at Somerset House and I used to hop off the bus ( you could then ) climb the middle of Waterloo Bridge ( you could then ) Enter The Tax Office Building on The West Wing , where I did not work without showing any Security ( you could then ) and cut through the square to my building overlooking The Thames. It was 1971-73...
@samguberman22884 жыл бұрын
And shockingly Lola only reached number 2 in the seventies.
@Isleofskye4 жыл бұрын
I shall be on Waterloo Bridge in 3 hours time :)
@dawnkeir5494 жыл бұрын
Love Waterloo sunset one of my faves
@OLDMUSICJOHNNY4 жыл бұрын
Songs from those days were magical. I wish I was born some years before I did.
@Isleofskye5 жыл бұрын
Theme From A Summer Place is still with Albatross by Fleetwood Mac ( 1969 ) my faboUrite record of all-time. For me it is sentimental as I have always lived amongst 8 million people in London, England and in The 1960's many Londoners had caravans in The English Countryside and we did in Kent and this song evokes wonderful memories of an idyllic time with my Late Parents. We went for 7 weeks during the school summer holidays and every weekend from May to September, as well. It was one hour from London and now I moved to the edge of London and Kent because of that marvellous era...
@DieHardBeatlesFan3 жыл бұрын
BRILLIANT upload thanks..Funny I can remember every word of all these Classics and yet can't remember what I went into the kitchen for an hour ago LOL!! 😊
@Thadmotor10445 жыл бұрын
traffic such a cool band , stood the test of time
@soulsmischief26265 жыл бұрын
really doesnt expect that the drifters were that popular in UK. Great group with great songs
@MrHolzheim5 жыл бұрын
Oh my! how sad to see the England I once knew. I'm 73 now, pissed off and fed up.
@Johnclewes5 жыл бұрын
Likewise, but 4 years younger.!!!
@johnbird73575 жыл бұрын
And me mate, nearly 69.
@raywhite4435 жыл бұрын
@@toothpick4649 Yeah..me too. Same ilk and I left Melbourne and moved to country NSW. To be frank, I really like our own people and see no reason to have neighbors with opposite values that do not speak my language
@dogie10705 жыл бұрын
@@toothpick4649 Prisoner Of England. Aussie wit makes me laugh every time ;o)
@jackjohnson73965 жыл бұрын
Correct....
@aragorn19594 жыл бұрын
Love this superb nostalgic trip,down memory lane with photos ..great stuff thanks
@alanread65965 жыл бұрын
Although they were no 2's they were great and far better than the crap today.
@gerfmon15 жыл бұрын
Most #20's were better than the crap today.
@ROGER20955 жыл бұрын
There are very few of these songs that don't hold up after all these years!
@muide74 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding? Every day in the 1960s I would hear a new song and every day it would be wonderful, whoever performed it. We didn't take much to Freddie and the Dreamers or Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, because we were snobs. We preferred The Kinks or The Who. Yeah, tough guys we were at 13-14. Oh, well, baby, look at you now. (That's a song from the swing era.)
@gregerlach5 жыл бұрын
What a trip down memory lane. What a great idea. I'm 64 now and the sixties were the years I started to listen to music. What a treat, thank you.
@richardlawson43175 жыл бұрын
This IS refreshing. The Number 1s (both UK and US) have been worn out, dragged back out and worn out again! At that time we heard much the same songs here and in the UK on AM radio (UK were better). Thanks!
@dadoctah5 жыл бұрын
Some day I'd like to see a montage of all the songs that stalled out at #91-#99. Now that's some memory-lane stuff.
@hjd8322 жыл бұрын
Dreams from a Summer Place , just brings back memories of my early childhood, playing amongst trees in dappled sunlight !
@PhilUKNet4 жыл бұрын
Born in 1960 and I could remember almost every word from every song!
@bobhess74344 жыл бұрын
Quarantine has forced me into looking at a ton of these thematically connected collections of tunes. They are all so entertaining and wonderful. Like time machines, every one.
@Tony-oz6xi5 жыл бұрын
What worries me is that I know every one of these songs; in many, many cases I can still name the songwriters and who had the originals if they were cover versions. I wonder if anyone will be able to do that with today's chart hits in 50 years' time?
@UKMusicCharts-UK5 жыл бұрын
I very much doubt it Tony. The music now is not worth remembering.
@Tony-oz6xi5 жыл бұрын
@@UKMusicCharts-UK I think you're right. And I forgot to congratulate you on uploading the clip. Thanks for the effort
@andrewmore87025 жыл бұрын
I cant even tell you what the No 1s were from about 1990 onwards.
@johnbird73575 жыл бұрын
I couldn't tell you one song in the chart now, never mind in 50 years.
@1984potionlover5 жыл бұрын
You don't think that the generations that came after us aren't going to feel a frisson of nostalgia inside themselves when they hear the music that they grew up with? Their memories will be stitched through with the music that meant something to them, and the events that were going on around them in their youth. While I agree that the 60's and seventies had the best music...well i am biased as hell as I was born in 1961, and I even like some 80's music,because I was in uni at that point and that's what was popular then. Beatles fan through and through though :) What will be cool is if the music we love now will continue on to be loved...might even be considered classical music in a hundred years or two hundred... ;) One thing I will confess to is the belief that there are far too many people making music today that have no talent, and rely on musical trickery run through computer programs. Can't sing..auto tune, and with synthesizers who needs to be able to play an instrument. That is sad. Peace
@petercrowl94675 жыл бұрын
So nice to hear these. What bugs me about "Oldies Radio" is that their playlist is an inch deep - only playing top 5 or 10 yet there is so much music that didn't chart high yet was dear to us. Then too their's the regional hits. IN the U.S. for example there were fabulous bands out of Chicago who had airplay but didn't chart highly across the nation.
@MikeCee74 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a difference an ocean makes. . . As an American approaching age 55, I’ve only heard of less that 10% of these songs. - I head that Cliff Richard had 45 “Top 10” hits in the U.K., but only one “top 10” hit in America “Devil Women” (which I actually bought, & I still have the 45 RPM & record sleeve of this”) & I heard Cliff is almost “Elvis” like popularity in England. I can easily say that probably 99% of Americans under the age of 55 (or possibly under 60) have Never heard of Cliff Richard. - So Many Great bands & songs from England. But these were mostly unheard of by me (even some of the #2’s from the American groups here, I’ve never heard of) - Can any other Americans, backup my observations on this?
@pcno28323 жыл бұрын
He had a few more U.S. hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with "We don't talk anymore." and "Dreamin" being the biggest. He also had a #25 BB-HOT-100 his in 1963 with his version of "It's all in the game." But he definitely have fewer hits here than in the UK, Australia or even Canada.
@gardenmom61804 жыл бұрын
Pre-1966, this is why the Beatles rose to fame...good God.
@anthonywalsh7853 жыл бұрын
born in australia in 1949 i remember most of these songs through my teenage years. some great memories.
@rslitman5 жыл бұрын
As an American, it was interesting to see which songs were bigger hits in the UK than in the US and other differences. I see that "I'm Telling You Now" by Freddie and the Dreamers was a UK hit in 1963 but wasn't a hit in the US until late 1964 or early 1965. Do you have the correct "Everybody Knows" for the Dave Clark Five? They had two hits with this title, in 1964 and 1967, at least in the US. The song playing for their 1967 #2 song is the stateside hit of 1964. Thanks for posting this. I see you have ones for the 1950s and 1970s, which I'll play eventually.
@nigelloflaveo5 жыл бұрын
Hi. Quite why The Dave Clark Five decided to bring out two singles with the same title really puzzled me as an [ English ] youngster...but the 64 song is the one played here out of sequence. This is a very minor quibble mind , as this is an inventive and painstaking compilation - thanks a lot . I am also fascinated how some songs resonated in the US but failed here - and vice versa. Some times i guess it was simply down to a shortage of radio airplay , but "Windy" by the amazing Association was played over and over in the summer of 67 and didn't even make the top 75 !!....similarly " My Heart's Symphony " was popular among DJs but not the general public it seems. Most unforgiveably " Brandy you're a fine girl " by Looking Glass [ later of course ] bombed over here. In truth , i did almost nothing else but listen to the radio as a young teenager [ tragic i know - haha ] and i cannot ever recall hearing The Cowsills , Spanky & our Gang , Peppermint Rainbow , Jay & the Americans etc. So much brilliant USA music to catch up on.....hope i live long enough :-)
@stuartpayne68874 жыл бұрын
Brilliant music, every one of them, all 60s songs deserved to be number 1s,great stuff
@zty35295 жыл бұрын
Penny Lane was No.1 in UK, February 1967. I was glued to my father's radio set after school while he's at work.
@lenmac19765 жыл бұрын
ZT Ying no it wasn’t
@williamgeorgefraser5 жыл бұрын
Kept off No1 by Engelbert Humperdinck.
@TheRunner755 жыл бұрын
@@williamgeorgefraser "Release Me" I really HATE this song.
@UKMusicCharts-UK5 жыл бұрын
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that there's going to be a lot more videos coming out soon. I have decided to do "Every Number 1 of The 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's (USA Edition). I think it would be good to compare what was number one here in the UK and what was number one over the pond. Is this a good idea? Also, suggestions would be appreciated on what you guys would like to see. Thanks for all the comments and feedback.
@Isleofskye5 жыл бұрын
Excellent. I have just subscribed. Great editing, as well, my friend :)
@bobgreen6235 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to it! Cheers.
@jazzterboi15 жыл бұрын
Subscribed. Looking forward to them!
@midnite_rambler5 жыл бұрын
Would love to see one for the Australian charts for these years as they tend to be a mix of brit, usa and australian music. It would be a great comparison.
@TedBear19545 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the videos - and yes - the comparison will be good. Can I ask what program you use to make the vids. I want to make a couple - but have no idea which to use - thanks
@kimchee941125 жыл бұрын
Interesting, some were monster hits, some never seen the light of day in local US AM stations.
@richardcleverley41073 жыл бұрын
The same with US hits of the era (though UK artists dominated the US charts in 1964!) Groups like Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, meant nothing here in the UK
@petepal555 жыл бұрын
This Yank never heard some of these, even some done by the US bands. Thanks for posting.
@UKMusicCharts-UK5 жыл бұрын
Haha no problem!
@dadoctah5 жыл бұрын
A lot of Brits never heard them back in the day either, if Auntie didn't think they ought to. You had to listen to Radio Caroline for good music in those days.
@raddmann3363 жыл бұрын
Same here. A few acts I never heard of too.
@Bashnja14 жыл бұрын
I remember every one of these songs...Thats how good they were.
@kvernon15 жыл бұрын
The biggest stunner on this list was "Theme From a Summer Place" by Percy Faith. It not only reached #1 in America, but stayed in that position for 7 straight weeks (and was the #1 song for the entire year 1960)! This song was the "Mull of Kintyre" of England -- a huge hit there but never made #1 in America.
@Isleofskye5 жыл бұрын
Theme From A Summer Place is still with Albatross by Fleetwood Mac ( 1969 ) my faboUrite record of all-time. For me it is sentimental as I have always lived amongst 8 million people in London, England and in The 1960's many Londoners had caravans in The English Countryside and we did in Kent and this song evokes wonderful memories of an idyllic time with my Late Parents. We went for 7 weeks during the school summer holidays and every weekend from May to September, as well. It was one hour from London and now I moved to the edge of London and Kent because of that era...
@tomservo569542 жыл бұрын
9 weeks, actually...and edged out "Hey, Jude" as the biggest song of the decade.
@lesleyleith44405 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, I was only fifteen, this has filled me with happiness and , I must admit, a little sad. Where did time go, where is that skinny, mod girl now.😂😂😂😂😂😂🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@alanfarr4 жыл бұрын
She's still Inside you, ma'am. They're all still on the radio, anyway. I live in Belgium. We get all yours, plus all the French, Belgian and Italian oldies too. Very cosmopolitan.
@MrHolzheim4 жыл бұрын
Yeah Lesley, we're all grandma's and grandpa's now😢 those of us that survived anyway.