Top Pop Songs USA 1964

Year-end charted and peaked songs of the American Radio Top 40 charts

[@pdizbon]

The best decade for music in the U.S.A. !!!!!!

[@kevinkranz9156]

GREATGREAT YEAR MAN WAS 14 YEARS OLD IM74 NOW SO NICE TO HEAR THEM AGAIN MEMORIES

[@rimitlgrf2452]

I’m 70 years old I love songs 1964 this is medicine

[@kevinkranz9156]

ME TOO IM 74 LISTEN FOR HOURS SO MANY MEMORIES 😂AMEN

[@stischer47]

Motown, Beach Boys, Beatles, Everly Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel, British invasion...it was great time to be a teenager.

[@lesleylesley5821]

Those Motown songs still sound great, they just had the perfect feel to them.

[@johna.4334]

1964 was a prolific year for popular hit music. I was glued to a transistor radio and couldn't put it down!

[@rabbit64sj91]

I was born on the day The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9th, 1964. ☺🎵🎶🎼🎤

[@4STEVEJOY34]

You mean YOU didn't let your pore mom watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show. Damn!

[@johnmunk5067]

@@4STEVEJOY34 And dad?

[@rpminc1974]

What ever is called music today I am so grateful I grew up with this in my youth !!

[@johna.4334]

It's not music but rather noise, distortion etc.

[@robthetindog8218]

I was 8 when the Beatles came. My parents let me stay up & watch them on the Ed Sullivan show. Usually I was in bed by then. IDK why they did, but I’m grateful to this day that they did. Fantastic memory!

[@nkley1]

My older brother told me just about the same story. He was 8 years old and our parents let him stay up just to watch them. He says he remembers staring at the TV, and when they came on, that was it for him. He has had his own bands and still plays his guitar because of that night.

[@brianherrington7226]

I was 8 in March of 64. 64 was a transitional year with some hangover of the previous 60s years . Great time to be a pre pubescent kid for sure.

[@Mike583]

I was 11 in '64, I remember well watching the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mom was laughing & shaking her head,as the cameras were showing the girls in the audience screaming & some crying, the were so emotional!

[@katherinegates1559]

💖😊💖 Great era of being a young teenager...In 1964 I was 17 yrs old and now 74 yrs young. Still listening to all of our great 60's music everyday. 💞Love and Peace always...✌️

[@utlot9785]

I was 16 in 1964. It was then that I met my first love, but never married her...my fault...horrible. We loved the songs of that year; I wish that she were still in my live.

[@mariol2116]

@@utlot9785 I would like to hear more of your story. Were there parties everywhere or was the world more innocent? And which artist was the most heard on the radio at that time?

[@utlot9785]

@@mariol2116 The party scene seemed to come with the anti-war movement, and drug scene, such as what was seen at Woodstock. In the early 60s that was not the case. It definitely was a time of innocence. The artists began to change from Johnny Rivers, Elvis, and Beach Boys, to the types of the British Invasion in 64.

[@brettsprang7991]

My ears tell me I would have loved living in 1964.... I like or love every song ❤️

[@davejodoin4424]

Motown, Rock, Folk Ruled the 1960s wasn't born in the Era appreciate their sound

[@cowboyluke1706]

The entire country tuned into Ed Sullivan to see the Fab Four change music forever . An unforgettable experience.

[@frankshuffitt3925]

Good times

[@hotrod9199]

This is the music I grew up with back in the day I'm 48 years old and still remember these songs like it was yesterday and I have some of them on record album or cd 💿😍❤

[@oranges8302]

I was 12 in 1964. There was so much great music!! The Kinks and Ray Davies!! The Animals - House of the Rising Sun! The Beatles!!! Every song on this list is great.

[@spursgog835]

I was 12 in 64 as well. What a great time to grow up🇬🇧

[@jamiedavies4545]

@@spursgog835 Its Jamie Davies I love 64 music its awesome Spurs Gog my mate.

[@ferdinandfrancis9673]

@@spursgog835 I was 17 and love every minute.

[@laurataylor8651]

Me too. Growing up in det., I was fortunate to also be influenced by motown

[@jamesstark8316]

I too was 12 in 1964. A huge Beatles fan but I had a MEGA crush on Diana Ross. Great year for music.

[@laurataylor8651]

I think all the 60's had the best music

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello Laura, How are you doing?

[@arthurgrech5049]

I was 18 years old when these great singers and top songs, the best years and no one will ever beat this era.

[@zickafoose]

Best music year ever! I was 16 and so lucky to have been a teen during this amazing year!

[@02496egod]

Gg

[@debbieframpton3857]

Makes me want to get my old music back out.

[@laurataylor8651]

The 60's had the best music

[@johna.4334]

No doubt!

[@michaelserby7697]

Absolutely the BEST 🇺🇸 🖤

[@Zebred2001]

Musicians explored such a rich palette of sounds in those days!

[@GenericUsername1388]

Absolute powerhouse year. Best year of the 60s imo

[@cherylfarless1536]

Why can't we have music like this today? Such talent

[@fredcalvello179]

The Sixties music What can you say I was lucky to be a teenager in the sixties It’s still sounds as great now as it did then. Awesome.

[@roccotracanna163]

That's the Year I got Married. I'm 78 now. Still remember them.

[@Audiea]

I was 13 and in a thrall. What a truly amazing year.

[@beatlespeterbest]

I remember The House of The Rising Sun being #1 of the top 100 back in 1964!

[@richardtater7945]

Ya beat me to it !

[@mikeweizer3149]

@@richardtater7945 My favroite of 1964 and a song I never forgot!!!.

[@Europa1749]

Baby, I need your loving.....so good...love it.

[@gregorycutrera8326]

Still plenty of old time rock and roll in 1964, even with the Beatles starting to take over. 1965 was when the rock and roll started going away and the British Invasion started coming into full swing.

[@freeguy77]

Fantastic array of songs, genres, solo artists and groups! The UK went Fab Four crazy in the previous year, but it did not explode in the U.S. until Feb. 1964 when they came on The Ed Sullivan Show that Sunday night. The surf craze, the car craze, the rockabilly (Ricky Nelson), the strong American groups with The Four Seasons, Jan & Dean, and The Beach Boys, plus the amazing Roy Orbison and Gene Pitney, the girl singers/groups with Lesley Gore, Mary Wells, The Supremes, The Dixie Cups and The Shangri-Las, the other great British groups (Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde, Peter & Gordon, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Kinks, The Animals, etc.), and in Dec. 1964, a shocking #1 hit from a TV Western star, Lorne Greene ("Bonanza") talking about "Ringo" all contributed to a boisterous, memorable, incredible, fun year in pop music that set the scene over the next 5 years. Elvis has all but disappeared, with only a #29 title hit from his movie, "Viva Las Vegas" released in April, but recorded in July 1963

[@lesleylesley5821]

Lorne Green the "Spadina Street Cowboy" from Toronto.

[@hotrod9199]

I grew up with Elvis presley the beach Boys and prince Michael Jackson the Beatles Johnny Cash 💸♥

[@robertward553]

Yep, along came the Beatles and any song they put out was a hit. My favorite was "she was just 17", I was 19 at the time so it fit right in.

[@birdgod5584]

I Saw Her Standing There, it was #95 on the YE but not on here

[@marchaney]

Nine years old in 1964. "Wannabe" goal changed from becoming a Green Bay Packer to becoming a drummer in a band like the Beatles. There are so many vivid memories from that year connected to these songs. Thanks for this video.

[@lennysmom]

Wow, what a great year for music.

[@Mike583]

I was 11 in '64,I remember listening to these great songs on the radio through the years! It's kind of sad when I think of how many of these great entertainers that are no longer with us, & we lose more of our heroes every year!❤💔

[@jamiedavies4545]

Its Jamie Davies I live in the UK 1964 had some awesome music Robert M. Trolinder.

[@Mike583]

@@jamiedavies4545 Yes sir the 60's gave us a lot of great memories!

[@jamiedavies4545]

@@Mike583 Its Jamie Davies I live in the UK I love 60s music too will you be my KZbin friend please Robert M. Trolinder please mate?

[@RogerPeet]

This is when The Sixties started. I was 7 and surrounded by great music. The radio and my brother's albums did it for me.

[@topliner9534]

My year of coming of age (puberty). 1964 was the best year for music in the history of R&R.

[@carlosangelarce9391]

ja, ja, ja....!!!! the worst

[@michaelarmstrong5065]

For you maybe, 50s and early 60s was rock and roll

[@Noah1997callahan]

That’s insane you remember the exact year

[@dougmontgomery1868]

Man, do these take me back! I turned 15 in June 1964. I regret that I had little social life as a teenager. I remember practically all of these songs, and I have most of them as 45 rpm records and have recorded them on 90-minute cassettes which I still listen to. If I were more familiar with the technology I would record them on the hard drive of my computer. "Chapel of Love" by the Dixie Cups still makes me cry...

[@truthhurts4771]

You can always type in the singer/ song on KZbin and watch them perform.

[@Europa1749]

Amazing, such talent and great songs.

[@danr1920]

This is the year music changed. Beatles and the British invasion.

[@tedcarter8074]

This is the year a small company named Motown took over

[@sanseverything900]

There's a common belief that the 60's didn't really start until after JFK was assassinated and the Beatles invaded America.

[@jeffstevens156]

Cars, surf songs, the Fab Four, the Dave Clark Five, all of it pre psychedelic era!

[@AyeCarumba221]

The Beatles showed up in February, 1964. And the Mustang was introduced in April 1964. Ahhhhhhhh!

[@lesleylesley5821]

64 1/2.

[@ernestchacon4928]

Wow the clarity of these pics are superb 👌!!!

[@MissouriOldTimer]

it kinda makes me sad to listen to music from the 60's,, those were some great days and now I am so old lol , oh well, that the way it goes.

[@MarioTrigo-xj7zs]

u were one of the fortunate ones able to enjoy this music as it happened

[@GenericUsername1388]

I was born 40 years after this time and wish I could've been there to experience it. Such great songs!!

[@MissouriOldTimer]

@@GenericUsername1388 maybe every generation feels they were born in the best but for me, back when there was virtually no drugs,, there was violence but not so much vicious murders. I guess I should say we had harder work because some of the machines of today weren't invented yet but we got by just fine,, no freaks pretending to be men when they were born female and vise versa. I guess as long as I can hear oldies,, all's well,,, lol thanks for commenting.

[@toneymullins7092]

I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!!! I COULDN'T HELP BUT BRING BACK MEMORIES OF YESTER-YEAR WHEN I LISTENED TO THIS GREAT LIST!!! KZbin!!! THANKS FOR A SITE WHERE UPLOADERS CAN GIVE US MEMORIES LIKE THIS!!! I'M IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING TOGETHER A "PLAYLIST OF ALL THE BEST GOLDEN OLDIES I CAN FIND! I'LL HAVE IT IN ABOUT A MONTH. LOVE YOU UPLOADERS!!! I'LL MAKE THE LIST "PUBLIC" TONEY M

[@peturdobrev1196]

👍 THE GOOD OLD TIME MUSIC. THERE WAS THE GOOD TIMES GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬

[@terrydouglas5008]

Roger Miller was awarded 11 Grammies over 2 years. A record that still stands.

[@michaelserby7697]

In just 2 years? 🇺🇲 🎶 Dang Me , hang me from the Highest Tree ... Woman! Would you weep for ME. ... ? ! ? 🇺🇲 🖤 🔝 🔜 💤 💤

[@vernonchadwick8679]

I was ten years old lovely music Vernon

[@pbcoop62]

Great year, the year when the British Invasion hit America, also a big year for Motown, and Southern California surfer rock. Also some Broadway, folk, country, and Spector "Wall of Sound" hits on the charts.

[@pjmoseley243]

not an obese human in sight!!! no fast food when people cooked their own food.

[@lesleylesley5821]

Something for everyone.

[@lildebra7941]

Best music ever

[@garypamatat3167]

1964 the British invasion begins and changes pop music forever. Not a bad song in the top 100. I love the 60s

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

Some great tracks there with the Beatles deservedly at No 1. A real mix of styles too.

[@richardtater7945]

They played Ed Sullivan just a month into '64 to bring us out of the doom and gloom of the Kennedy assassination and where number #1 hit makers at the start of the year so I think their songs should start off any 1964 anthology. Of course if there was a huge hit prior to that week in February I guess it should come first (Louie Louie by The Kingsmen ? It did beat them by a few weeks IIRC).

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

@@richardtater7945 Here in Britain we had been enjoying the Beatles since early 1963. Theirs is the music of my generation and at 68 I'm still listening and appreciating it. I still have all my vinyl albums.

[@margonca17]

I was born february 17 of 1964 good year

[@rabbit64sj91]

I was born 8 days before you! Great time to be born! ☺

[@margonca17]

@@rabbit64sj91 Of course, including a leap year and the arrival of the Beatles, what else? cheers

[@Darjeelingla]

Freshman in college, living in another state. Other than the Beatles, I was too busy to listen to music.

[@michaelserby7697]

American / British classic Music. 🇺🇲 ❤ 🎶🎵

[@gy3940]

this is the best 64 hits list. thank you

[@richardtater7945]

But its incomplete without The Animals, sorry to say.

[@laurataylor8651]

If you think about it, music evolves, you can hear it at the end of a decade and beginning the nexft

[@earllorentz3784]

The 60s had the best entertainers in the best music ever I really enjoyed the 60s I wish they would return

[@angelagonsowski8080]

The soundtrack of my youth!

[@judyolvera7360]

I was a Junior in high school oh this music brings back great memories. Great Songs 🎵

[@MrTrashcan1]

It's amazing how much great music there was and yet at 8 I heard so little of it. My parents listened to WIP in Philly, a middle-road station, so my favorite song that year was Everybody Loves Somebody by Dean Martin. I had a crush on a girl (actually it was mutual--me, the awkward and shy one had a girlfriend long before any of the studs) and every time I hear that song it brings tears to my eyes.

[@sarahoverdik1092]

i love the beach boys

[@jamisontrindade6439]

the best of music

[@racketman2u]

The Murmaids "Popsicles and Icicles" must be the very definition of "one hit wonder", but boy, what a great melody. Weren't the 60s wonderful?!

[@johna.4334]

The best!

[@BobSmith-hc3jv]

Pretty Woman was the number one song in 1964, I remember staying up until midnight listening to the radio to find out it did beat the Beatles.

[@marshamariner7897]

I remember staying up til after midnite on new yrs eve listening to the top 100

[@jaceylataire2511]

Aaaah soooo lovely!!! ❤️

[@mgtysonsullivan6681]

Hello

[@roseruiz4717]

Great selection!

[@earllorentz7786]

Beautiful music

[@ForeignerFan74]

Thanks For Sharing!

[@karenandrews8695]

a mighty fine year for music 😚 and for me that is when I was born.

[@969thewhip]

I love that episode of Family Guy when Peter was obsessed with the song surfin bird and Brian and Stewie destroyed the record. Peter walks into the music store like "Do you have Surfin Bird by the Trashman?" The clerk "No we don't but a dog and a baby just baught the last 63 copies." That's what got me into that song.

[@tommaddox1028]

The greatest voice coming out of all this. Gene Pitney ah the British invasion. California songs.

[@bjbell52]

IMHO (and others) Mike Smith of the DC5 was the best vocalist coming from that time. Listen to the DC5's version of Blueberry Hill and tell me Pitney could sing like that.

[@gregmoore7709]

francis pelletier ,I enjoy your time and work.Look young do you like this music?Lots of great songs here.The 60s was to me the most iconic kinds of music that went on forever.Fun listening...

[@robertmaceanruig6291]

OAP here British, wot time to live tha Music and life change , my Father was at a lost on change .🍺🇬🇧🤪😇🍺✌️

[@zigman8550]

The Dave Clark Five had some great songs.

[@richardtater7945]

Competed with The Beatles on record, live and in movies

[@coleparker]

They were pretty good, and I liked a couple of their versions of songs. The problem was that they did primarily cover versions, and were not really song writers and they ran out of material to do.

[@where2now447]

In 1964 I was eighteen years old and really believed " Time Is On My side" , here fifty-nine years later I see how wrong I was.

[@Noah1997callahan]

Love the Beatles & the beach boys

[@jonesy4588]

the no. 1 song of this time was , In the Misty Moonlight by Jerry Wallace , thank you

[@v-eye-p8444]

great songs all around

[@michaelserby7697]

'BEATLES were consistent with Hit after Hit #1 🇬🇧 💖

[@bearlyal]

"Pilot of The Airwaves" - Charley Dore One hit wonder, but really nice harmony

[@shazphantomchic1398]

Awesome channel, so glad this video was recommended in my feed. Keep them coming ... subbed 💜

[@francispelletier3647]

thanks ;)

[@Tonetwisters]

"Hand" is definitely the most important song of 1964! It was the one that really introduced us to The Beatles. But "She Loves You" might have been a better song. Wondering where is, "Satisfaction"?

[@francispelletier3647]

"Satisfaction" peaked in 1965 ;)

[@johna.4334]

@francis Keith Richards opening guitar rif in "Satisfaction" was memorable. Damn, what an incredible sound he created. Genious!

[@Gto1927]

@@francispelletier3647 Not only peaked in 1965, but was released in the summer of 65.

[@TheBeanolad]

Satisfaction is where it always was, in 1965.

[@shannahuffman4655]

There's a lot of good ones

[@mr.pastry8077]

Chuck berry had 3 great hits, in 1964 everything for everyone a pinnacle year thats for sure, 2 or 3 years later all went south never into hippie music

[@michaelserby7697]

The ' Mike Smith 5 ' 🇬🇧 💙 🎶 💯

[@johnperks8620]

Yes he was the most talented member of DC5.

[@Mike1614b]

and the Beatles arrive! and take over. lots of great songs that year

[@pjmoseley243]

no obese bodies around when people cooked their own food.

[@wesleycook7687]

The Beatles came in February. These better bands came later. The Trashmen (Surfin Bird) came out in 63, as did the 4 Seasons, Kingsmen and others.

[@bjbell52]

Which makes me wonder why they didn't have more songs on this video. I counted 3 by the Beatles but 4 by the Dave Clark Five (who also had a great year in 1964).

[@762radron]

My favorite is the Shangra-Las "Remember"

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello SARAH, How are you doing?

[@sonofvision6664]

14 yrs old then, the world in transition, the turning point. Not only music.

[@reematatum]

Perfect ❤👏

[@cherylb10]

The 60's had the best music. Today's music isn't good at all. Bring back the 60's

[@robertshaw3711]

Yes. The 60's was the best decade for music.

[@bvg83]

the roots of the best music ever. the 80s

[@BobSmith-hc3jv]

Casey Kasem did the New Years Eve top 100 songs for the year.

[@RuminatingWizard]

Cool to hear what music was big the year i was born.

[@silviomarinho6284]

Foi o maior ano para um artista de todos os tempos ,,beatles dominaram geral ...

[@fthcm101]

Most of the guys that played in a band wore a suit most of the time. Compare that to today's standard for a musical artist style of dressing.

[@lesleylesley5821]

1964 was a VERY good year. It's funny, suddenly there's the Rolling Stones, so different from everything that came before. British Invasion, The Zombies, The Kinks, The Animals, Dave Clark Five, and of course The Beatles. There was just nothing like it and never will be again. Everything changed, you can clearly see it here, with the exception of Surf and Hot Rod music, US music was dying.

[@charmainejames9539]

US music wasn’t dying in 1964, it’s when the “Motown Sound” took off with international hits ! The Supremes with “Where Did Our Go”, Mary Wells with “My Guy “, The Temptations with “”My Girl “, The Four Tops with “Ask The Lonely “ to name some examples. While there was a British Invasion in the USA in 1964, there was also an American Invasion musically in the UK in ‘64!

[@mr.pastry8077]

Also rag doll fourseasons had there biggest year of hits in 64 ,also roy orbison pretty woman,its over,girl groups the shangri las, the ronettes, dixie cups, surf music jan and dean, also the last year of doowop, bobby vinton was massive in this year, chuck berry had 3 decent size hits,the pixie three, the angels,all american, and theres more american no 1s in 64 than british oh dear i forgot del shannon ill stop there.

[@bjbell52]

The Stones only had 1 or 2 hits in the U.S. charts in 1964. The Beatles had something like 17 and the DC5 had 7. The Stones finally climbed to fame with Satisfaction.

[@sergiocastrogarrido3217]

Make America great again. Yes, we can... or not.

[@rigaudien]

And then came the Beatles !

[@johna.4334]

And the world of music, fashion and culture changed.

[@montaldofrancine8368]

Dean Martin n’est pas de ma génération , mais cette voix magnifique Waouooh !!

[@Not_Sure-2020]

Not bad, on the US scene for just a year and the Beatles had 8 songs in this top 100 list!

[@michaelserby7697]

Classic Beach Boys 🇺🇲 ❤

[@Noah1997callahan]

Love them! Pet sounds best album of all time

[@RobertJones-ux6nc]

This was the start of the Beatles in the USA, but radio DJs had been playing some of their for over a year because they were drawing the crowds in England for a while. I was in second grade when it happened.

[@silviomarinho6284]

Os beatles eram o demais né