Frisco 57
Tele-Afflicted
Mr. St. Paul, Thanks for sharing that 1967 top 100 list! I was a nice stroll down memory lane.
The Most Popular Song of 1967 (Not The Beatles)
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saltyseadog
Tele-Afflicted
To the OP: It must have been in America then because as you can see here in the UK it didn't even get a mention, in fact I think it was just an album track in the UK. Here is a link from the Independent newspaper on the 12 most played songs 1967 in the UK. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...g-stones-jimi-hendrix-the-kinks-a7740636.html If I had been asked I would have said Traffic's Hole in my Shoe but it doesn't even get a mention
Fiesta Red
Doctor of Teleocity
Two things:
(1)
I can understand musician’s frustration with some popular songs, “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Mustang Sally,”“Wagon Wheel,” “Sweet Caroline,” etc., especially after playing them ad nauseum for years…I could live for another hundred years and never hear another Texas Blues band cover “Pride and Joy”, and I’d be just fine.
But there’s a reason the audience loves such songs—they’ve attached a memory to them or they’re great singalongs or they’re danceable or…
Whatever…I don’t really like power ballads of the 80’s, but there’s one particular song that immediately puts me back in a small-town community center, slow-dancing with a girl I was infatuated with…I can still feel the stiff, starched bow on the back of her dress and smell the Aqua-net in her hair.
Be as sick of them as you like, but if your job is to get butts outta seats and onto the dance floor, sell beer or just create a good time, you’re gonna have to sacrifice your personal feelings on occasion.
Note: playing that song doesn’t bother me very much, probably because I haven’t had long-term tenure in any cover bands that have been forced to play it…but it also doesn’t bother me because:
(2)
Van Morrison did something brilliant when he wrote that song…I don’t know the ratio, but by my reckoning there are significantly more brown-eyed girls than blue-, green- or otherwise-hued-eyed girls…and every single one of those brown-eyed girls are happy hear a song about them, rather than the “five-foot-two-and-eyes-of-blue” stereotype of a lot of Western pop music.
Shoot, my wife and daughter both have very light, honey-golden-brown-with-hints-of-green-eyes, and that song makes them happy.
(1)
I can understand musician’s frustration with some popular songs, “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Mustang Sally,”“Wagon Wheel,” “Sweet Caroline,” etc., especially after playing them ad nauseum for years…I could live for another hundred years and never hear another Texas Blues band cover “Pride and Joy”, and I’d be just fine.
But there’s a reason the audience loves such songs—they’ve attached a memory to them or they’re great singalongs or they’re danceable or…
Whatever…I don’t really like power ballads of the 80’s, but there’s one particular song that immediately puts me back in a small-town community center, slow-dancing with a girl I was infatuated with…I can still feel the stiff, starched bow on the back of her dress and smell the Aqua-net in her hair.
Be as sick of them as you like, but if your job is to get butts outta seats and onto the dance floor, sell beer or just create a good time, you’re gonna have to sacrifice your personal feelings on occasion.
Note: playing that song doesn’t bother me very much, probably because I haven’t had long-term tenure in any cover bands that have been forced to play it…but it also doesn’t bother me because:
(2)
Van Morrison did something brilliant when he wrote that song…I don’t know the ratio, but by my reckoning there are significantly more brown-eyed girls than blue-, green- or otherwise-hued-eyed girls…and every single one of those brown-eyed girls are happy hear a song about them, rather than the “five-foot-two-and-eyes-of-blue” stereotype of a lot of Western pop music.
Shoot, my wife and daughter both have very light, honey-golden-brown-with-hints-of-green-eyes, and that song makes them happy.
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Fiesta Red
Doctor of Teleocity
One other thing:
Many of the most memorable songs are not the songs that hit the top ten.
Not too long ago, I went through the list of top ten songs from 1984-1988 (my high school years), and I didn’t recognize a good 40% of them…and I listened to the radio constantly in those days.
The songs I remembered best from high school?
Most weren’t even in the top fifty.
There’s a lot of crap that floated to the top of the charts…and fortunately a lot of that crap floated downstream out of immediate memory.
Many of the most memorable songs are not the songs that hit the top ten.
Not too long ago, I went through the list of top ten songs from 1984-1988 (my high school years), and I didn’t recognize a good 40% of them…and I listened to the radio constantly in those days.
The songs I remembered best from high school?
Most weren’t even in the top fifty.
There’s a lot of crap that floated to the top of the charts…and fortunately a lot of that crap floated downstream out of immediate memory.
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black_doug
Poster Extraordinaire
Imagine Van Morrison’s feelings about it, too. He signed away all royalties for Brown-eyed Girl.
KeithDavies 100
Tele-Afflicted
Beautiful!!
black_doug
Poster Extraordinaire
oldunc
Poster Extraordinaire
Actually, "Release Me" is a great song. It's been recorded by Elvis, Esther Phillips, Clifton Chenier and innumerable others.
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And "Lily the Pink" by The Scaffold, but that wasn't 'til 1969.
notmyusualuserid
Poster Extraordinaire
Belfast isn't in the US. Northern Ireland doesn't use the Billboard Hot 100
ta failte
Addnine
Tele-Afflicted
"Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs?
daddyplaysbass
Friend of Leo's
Yep, that one, Mustang Sally and Evil Ways are on our playlist every engagement - get's 'em on the dance floor !
Mr. St. Paul
Tele-Afflicted
Noted, and good point.Belfast isn't in the US. Northern Ireland doesn't use the Billboard Hot 100
ta failte
Sláinte !
2HBStrat
Poster Extraordinaire
"Hole in my Shoe" is a great song!
Did anyone read the article that was linked in the TS? It claims that Brown Eyed is the most played song of the entire 60's!
But the figures show that it is Morrison’s song about a patch of land in Belfast where he used to play as a child that is the most downloaded and most played song of the entire 1960s.
Furthermore, Brown Eyed Girl is one of the very few songs to have had over 10 million plays on radio — far ahead of Penny Lane and Waterloo — even more plays than “Yesterday” even.
But the figures show that it is Morrison’s song about a patch of land in Belfast where he used to play as a child that is the most downloaded and most played song of the entire 1960s.
Furthermore, Brown Eyed Girl is one of the very few songs to have had over 10 million plays on radio — far ahead of Penny Lane and Waterloo — even more plays than “Yesterday” even.
burntfrijoles
Doctor of Teleocity
The Spring of ‘67 was my high school senior year and the Fall was my freshman semester in college.
There are great songs in that list and real dogs as well. Overall, there are roughly 25 songs on that list which I could listen to or include on a playlist.
There are great songs in that list and real dogs as well. Overall, there are roughly 25 songs on that list which I could listen to or include on a playlist.
omahaaudio
Poster Extraordinaire
Or "Brown Eyed Girl.
According to Billboard it was "To Sir With Love" by Lulu.
"Brown Eyed Girl" doesn't show up until number 35.
41144
Friend of Leo's
Mmmm, released 1965, or at least it was over here... But... 3 great Samll Faces songs from 1967
Itchycoo Park
Tin Soldier and
Lazy Sunday
We often use Lazy Sunday as an opener... always brings a smile to folks faces, even ones that probably never heard it before.
black_doug
Poster Extraordinaire
See Post #22.
Great year for pop music!
My love affair with it began in 67.
I got “custody” of the family Grundig tube radio.
It became my first guitar amp, courtesy of a mic input on the back.
Anyway, between 67-75 I was an AM radio junkie.
My love affair with it began in 67.
I got “custody” of the family Grundig tube radio.
It became my first guitar amp, courtesy of a mic input on the back.
Anyway, between 67-75 I was an AM radio junkie.
