The best song from the year you were born.

[CamB]

Go back and find out what your favorite song was in the year of your birth and post them here. I actually really enjoyed having a look at how things have changed. It kind of cheered me up given some of the sadness that occurred here in Australia today. It looked like life was a whole lot more simple in those days and the music was awesome. So after much deliberation here is my birth year hit.

[Seriously]

Hmmmm, having looked I've never heard of half of them - tbh it's not my favourite year for music
But here you go:

What a difference a day makes - Dinah Washington

[geoffbot]

Far too many options from 1985 - Don Henly boys of summer, "Broken Wings" – Mr. Mister, "I Want to Know What Love Is" – Foreigner...; I'll be festive and list one of my favourite Christmas songs

[CamB]

Shakin Stevens- You have pulled that one from left field Geoff. I preferred Kyrie from Mister Mister.

[CamB]

I should add that I'm still working the Four Tops dance moves.

[Seriously]

I should add that I'm still working the Four Tops dance moves.

[MarkO]

Quite a few good ones here, I would pick Paint it Black from the list below.


The top 100 1966 lists the 100 most popular hits in the UK singles music charts in 1966.


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Position Artist Title
01 Jim Reeves Distant Drums
02 Frank Sinatra Strangers In The Night
03 The Beatles Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby
04 The Four Tops Reach Out I'll Be There
05 Nancy Sinatra These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
06 The Walker Brothers The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
07 Tom Jones Green Green Grass Of Home
08 The Kinks Sunny Afternoon
09 Troggs With A Girl Like You
10 Manfred Mann Pretty Flamingo
11 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Spanish Flea
12 The Beach Boys Good Vibrations
13 The Beatles Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out
14 The Beach Boys God Only Knows
15 The Spencer Davis Group Keep On Running
16 The Beatles Paperback Writer
17 The Mindbenders Groovy Kind Of Love
18 Chris Farlowe Out Of Time
19 The Small Faces All Or Nothing
20 The Beach Boys Sloop John B
21 The Spencer Davis Group Somebody Help Me
22 Dusty Springfield You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
23 The Overlanders Michelle
24 The New Vaudeville Band Winchester Cathedral
25 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Hold Tight
26 Roy Orbison Too Soon To Know
27 Los Bravos Black Is Black
28 The Who I'm A Boy
29 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Bend It!
30 The Rolling Stones Paint It, Black
31 Dave Berry Mama
32 Crispian St Peters You Were On My Mind
33 The Lovin' Spoonful Daydream
34 Troggs I Can't Control Myself
35 The Mamas & The Papas Monday Monday
36 Ike & Tina Turner River Deep, Mountain High
37 The Hollies I Can't Let Go
38 The Hollies Stop Stop Stop
39 Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames Get Away
40 Percy Sledge When A Man Loves A Woman
41 Troggs Wild Thing
42 Gene Pitney Nobody Needs Your Love
43 The Merseys Sorrow
44 Manfred Mann Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James
45 The Bachelors Sound Of Silence
46 Chris Montez The More I See You
47 Val Doonican What Would I Be
48 The Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Loving
49 The Small Faces Sha La La La Lee
50 Eddy Arnold Make The World Go Away
51 The Sandpipers Guantanamera
52 The Rolling Stones Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
53 Cher Bang Bang
54 Paul Jones High Time
55 The Supremes You Can't Hurry Love
56 Cliff Richard Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)
57 The Beach Boys Barbara Ann
58 David & Jonathan Lovers Of The World Unite
59 Crispian St Peters Pied Piper
60 Ken Dodd Promises
61 The Kinks Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
62 The Walker Brothers My Ship Is Coming In
63 The Four Seasons Let's Hang On
64 The Who Substitute
65 Val Doonican Elusive Butterfly
66 Napoleon XIV They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haa
67 The Yardbirds Shapes Of Things
68 Cliff Richard Visions
69 Sonny & Cher Little Man
70 Petula Clark I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
71 The Seekers The Carnival Is Over
72 Herman's Hermits A Must To Avoid
73 Ken Dodd The River
74 Lee Dorsey Holy Cow
75 Cilla Black Love's Just A Broken Heart
76 The Seekers Morningtown Ride
77 Dusty Springfield All I See Is You
78 Elvis Presley Love Letters
79 Cilla Black Don't Answer Me
80 Gene Pitney Backstage
81 The Easybeats Friday On My Mind
82 Roy C Shotgun Wedding
83 The Hollies Bus Stop
84 Bob Lind Elusive Butterfly
85 The Lovin' Spoonful Summer In The City
86 Simon & Garfunkel Homeward Bound
87 Bobby Darin If I Were A Carpenter
88 Petula Clark My Love
89 Herman's Hermits No Milk Today
90 The Seekers Walk With Me
91 Cilla Black Alfie
92 Alan Price Set Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
93 The Small Faces My Mind's Eye
94 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Hideaway
95 Mike Sammes Singers Somewhere My Love
96 Otis Redding My Girl
97 The Animals Don't Bring Me Down
98 Lee Dorsey Working In The Coalmine
99 The Kinks Till The End Of The Day
100 The Rolling Stones Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing In The Shadow

[MarkO]

Without too much thought I think I can sing along to about 68 of the songs above .

[Martin]

If I look at the dutch Top 100, there's only a few people here might actually know. I guess Imagine by John Lennon is one of them
From the UK list, there's a few famous options, like 'I'll be there - The Jackson 5', Your song - Elton John'' , and of course 'Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones'



I was quite curious as to what 'Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)' by Bennie Hill is. So ...

[CamB]

Without too much thought I think I can sing along to about 68 of the songs above .

Me too!