![]() This kicked off the famous British Invasion and also ended up becoming The Beatles’ best selling single worldwide – more than 12 million copies!! John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand in the basement of the home where McCartney was renting a room. This was their first #1 in America, where it stayed at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks before being replaced by another one of their singles, She Loves You. ![]() ![]() You’d catch ’em surfin’ at Del Mar/Ventura County line/Santa Cruz and Trestle/Australia’s Narabine/All over Manhattan/And down Doheney Way/Everybody’s gone surfin’/Surfin’ U.S.A.ġ964 – I Want to Hold Your Hand by The BeatlesĪs I mentioned earlier, I love The Beatles. The song initially charted at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, but ended up being named as the top selling single of 1963 and has since been covered multiple times and featured in films such as Teen Wolf (1985) and Rush Hour (1998). Wilson talked with the brother of his girlfriend at the time who was a big surfer guy to get all of the surf spots named in the song (La Jolla, Manhattan, Pacific Palisades, etc). Brian Wilson (one of The Beach Boys) wrote the lyrics to the tune of Chuck Berry’s song Sweet Little Sixteen and recorded it with the rest of the band to be released in early 1963. It’s on the universal unofficial summer playlist for good reason – you can dance to it, you can hum along easily even if you don’t know the words, and it’s all about good, clean, All-American fun. If you’ve been in America for longer than four seconds, then you’ve heard the iconic Beach Boys hit Surfin ‘ U.S.A. It’s also certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. In May 1962, this song became the first British recording to chart in Billboard in the United States, spending seven weeks at #1. Originally released in the UK and then the US in 1961, it ended up being the theme song for a BBC young adult drama also called Stranger on the Shore. What do you know, another instrumental piece! Both written and originally performed by Acker Bilk on clarinet, the piece’s original name was Jenny after his daughter, whom he composed the piece for. I couldn’t sleep at all last night/Just a’thinkin’ of you/Baby, things weren’t right/Well, I was tossin’ and turnin’, turnin’ and often/Tossin’ and turnin’ all nightġ962 – Stranger on the Shore by Acker Bilk It’s super upbeat, a fun dance track, and was even included on the soundtrack for National Lampoon’s Animal House in 1978. Bobby Lewis originally recorded this song in late 1960, and it ended up spending seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. You may recognize it from it’s many, many appearances in popular films like National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Batman (1989), Con Air (1997), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Dark Shadows (2012), and The Shape of Water (2017).ġ961 – Tossin’ and Turnin’ by Bobby LewisĪs today’s kids would say, this song is a bop for sure. It ended up spending nine weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which at the time was a record amount of time. Percy Faith covered this piece in 1959 before the premiere of the Sandra Dee film of the same name later on that year. You don’t find a lot of purely instrumental music at the tops of charts anymore, but even if you didn’t previously know this song by name, you’d know it once you heard it. Three, what an aesthetically pleasing decade both on the visual and audible side of things – hence why they’re getting a blog post dedicated to them.īillboard Magazine started their Hot 100’s list in 1958, so I will be skipping 19 just for time and space’s sake and instead will be focusing on the Year End #1’s from 1960-1969.ġ960 – Theme from A Summer Place by Percy Faith ![]() Two, my mom’s parents that I’m very close to were in their late teens and early twenties in the ’60’s, so the music my grandmother listened to and my mom grew up hearing have become very familiar to me. One, I’m a HUGE Beatles fan, and the ’60’s saw their beginnings and their American Invasion. The ’60’s have always had a special place in my heart. Music has always been important to each generation, and the 1960’s were no exception – especially to the relatively new Billboard Magazine and their Hot 100 List. As we get closer and closer every day to the end of our current decade, it’s easy to wonder what the defining features of the last ten years will be to generations to come.
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