Vietnam War Era Music
 

The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1965
1. Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
2. Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys
3. You Were On My Mind - We Five
4. The In Crowd - The Ramsey Lewis Trio
5. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
6. Help - The Beatles
7. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
8. Catch Us If You Can - The Dave Clark Five
9. Yesterday - The Beatles
10. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
11. It Ain't Me Babe - The Turtles
12. California Girls - The Beach Boys
13. Tracks of My Tears - The Miracles
14. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
15. Baby Don't Go - Sonny & Cher
16. Some Enchanted Evening - Jay & the Americans
17. Action - Freddy Cannon
18. We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals
19. You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes
20. Baby I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1966

1. Cherish - The Association
2. You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
3. Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops
4. Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
5. Sunshine Superman - Donovan
6. Black Is Black - Los Bravos
7. 96 Tears - ? (Question Mark) & the Mysterians
8. Mr. Dieingly Sad - The Critters
9. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
10. Bus Stop - The Hollies
11. I've Got You Under My Skin - The 4 Seasons
12. See You In September - The Happenings
13. Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
14. Cherry, Cherry - Neil Diamond
15. Wipe Out - The Surfaris
16. Guantanamera - The Sandpipers
17. Sunny - Bobby Hebb
18. Born Free - Roger Williams
19. Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
20. Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1967

1. The Letter - The Box Tops
2. To Sir With Love - Lulu
3. Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
4. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & the Techniques
5. Never My Love - The Association
6. How Can I Be Sure - The Young Rascals
7. Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee
8. Dandelion - The Rolling Stones
9. Reflections - Diana Ross & the Supremes
10. Expressway to Your Heart - The Soul Survivors
11. You're My Everything - The Temptations
12. Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
13. Funky Broadway - Wilson Pickett
14. (I Wanna) Testify - The Parliaments
15. People Are Strange - The Doors
16. Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood
17. I Dig Rock and Roll Music - Peter, Paul & Mary
18. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & the Animals
19. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
20. Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) - The Buckinghams


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1968

1. Hey Jude - The Beatles
2. Hush - Deep Purple
3. Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
4. 1, 2, 3, Red Light - The 1910 Fruitgum Company
5. People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
6. Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
7. The Fool On the Hill - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
8. Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
9. Girl Watcher - The O'Kaysions
10. I've Gotta Get a Message to You - The Bee Gees
11. Do It Again - The Beach Boys
12. Slip Away - Clarence Carter
13. Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud - James Brown
14. My Special Angel - The Vogues
15. You're All I Need to Get By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
16. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
17. Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
18. Revolution - The Beatles
19. Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
20. Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1969

1. Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
2. Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
3. Jean - Oliver
4. I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones
5. Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night
6. Get Together - The Youngbloods
7. I Can't Get Next to You - The Temptations
8. A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
9. Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
10. Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
11. Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & the Family Stone
12. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
13. Hurt So Bad - The Lettermen
14. Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
15. Oh, What a Night - The Dells
16. This Girl Is a Woman Now - Gary Puckett & the Union Gap
17. I'd Wait a Million Years - The Grass Roots
18. When I Die - Motherlode
19. Everybody's Talkin' - Nilsson
20. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1970

1. Patches - Clarence Carter
2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
3. Candida - Dawn
4. Julie, Do Ya Love Me - Bobby Sherman
5. Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond
6. Don't Play That Song - Aretha Franklin
7. Lookin' Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival
8. Snowbird - Anne Murray
9. War - Edwin Starr
10. I'll Be There - The Jackson 5
11. It's a Shame - The Spinners
12. Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
13. Groovy Situation - Gene Chandler
14. In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
15. (They Long to Be) Close to You - The Carpenters
16. El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
17. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rare Earth
18. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
19. Look What They've Done to My Song Ma - The New Seekers
20. All Right Now - Free


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1971

1. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney
2. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
3. Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
4. Superstar - The Carpenters
5. Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
6. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
7. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
8. Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth
9. Thin Line Between Love and Hate - The Persuaders
10. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - The Dramatics
11. If You Really Love Me - Stevie Wonder
12. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
13. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
14. I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth
15. All Day Music - War
16. So Far Away - Carole King
17. Yo-Yo - The Osmonds
18. Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
19. One Fine Morning - Lighthouse
20. Imagine - John Lennon


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1972

1. Black and White - Three Dog Night
2. Back Stabbers - The O'Jays
3. Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me - Mac Davis
4. Saturday In the Park - Chicago
5. Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
6. Go All the Way - The Raspberries
7. Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
8. Rock and Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
9. Beautiful Sunday - Daniel Boone
10. Ben - Michael Jackson
11. The Guitar Man - Bread
12. Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
13. Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
14. Run to Me - The Bee Gees
15. Use Me - Bill Withers
16. Honky Cat - Elton John
17. Burning Love - Elvis Presley
18. Popcorn - Hot Butter
19. I'll Be Around - The Spinners
20. My Ding-a-Ling - Chuck Berry


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1973

1. Brother Louie - The Stories
2. Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose - Tony Orlando
3. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
4. Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
5. We're an American Band - Grand Funk
6. Half-Breed - Cher
7. Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
8. Loves Me Like a Rock - Paul Simon
9. That Lady, Part 1 - The Isley Brothers
10. Angie - The Rolling Stones
11. Touch Me In the Morning - Diana Ross
12. Ramblin Man - The Allman Brothers Band
13. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Elton John
14. Keep On Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks
15. China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
16. My Maria - B.W. Stevenson
17. Free Ride - The Edgar Winter Group
18. Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips
19. All I Know - Garfunkel
20. Top of the World - The Carpenters


The Top 20 As Of September 20th, 1974

1. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White
2. I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
3. I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
4. (You're) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
5. Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & the Spinners
6. Nothing From Nothing - Billy Preston
7. Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
8. You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder
9. Beach Baby - First Class
10. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
11. The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
12. I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You - Donny & Marie Osmond
13. Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens
14. Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express
15. Skin Tight - The Ohio Players
16. Can't Get Enough - Bad Company
17. You Little Trustmaker - The Tymes
18. Jazzman - Carole King
19. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
20. Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion

Thanks David. Lot of great songs on those lists. Got me singing in my head and tappin my toes

Great list!

Two songs from that era that I find myself constantly humming the tunes:

Angel of the Morning - Merilee Rush

and Rocky Raccoon.

"Rocky Raccoon
Checked into his room
Only to find Gideon's bible."

Anyone remember more words? :)

Thanx David
Time to jump on Kazaa and do a little downloading (its all legal....
trust me!!!!)
Bob K

"Hope you've got your stuff together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for stormy wheather..."

"Don't go around tonight
It's bound to take your life..."

"We gotta get outta this place
If it's the last thing we ever do..."

Hard
 

It's hard to believe that Satisfaction never made the top 20. AFVN radio was always playing it.

Rigger: "Rockey had come equipped with a gun to shoot out the legs of his rival. His rival it seems, had broken his dreams by stealing the girl of his fancy. Her name was McGil and she called herself Lil but everyone knew her as Nancy". (A Nancy in the 1800s was an English nick name for a hooker.)

Stay healthy,
Andy

9/20/1965

A paradoy of Eve Of Destruction :








Americanization

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"Eve of Destruction" Based on the performance by Barry McGuire
"Americanization" Parody by Red Rebel

Uncle Sam has lost it, folks. He's rubbing his hands and snatching whatever he doesn't own.

The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'
And even the Tikri River has bodies floatin'

But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
This is
Americanization

Don't you understand what I'm tryin' to say?
Can't you feel the despair I'm feelin' today?
If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away
There'll be no way to live if the draft's what they give
Take a look around you, kid
It's bound to scare you, kid

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
This is
Americanization

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'
I'm sitting here just contemplatin'
You can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
The government prefers annihilation
And marches alone can't stop registration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
This is
Americanization

Think of all the hate there is overseas
Then take a look around in Washington, DC
You may leave your homeland for 5 days in space
But when you return, your flag's been replaced
The chatter of the guns, the pride and disgrace
You can blow out your brains, but don't leave a trace
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace

And you tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don't believe
This is
Americanization

Mm, no no, you don't believe
This is
Americanization


enough.............

Red Rebel can kiss my sweet Scot-Irish AmericanAss.

Arrow>>>>>>>

The Dawn of Correction
 

- by The Spokesmen (1965); reached #36 on the Billboard Charts

<DIV>The western world has a common dedication
To keep free people from Red domination
And maybe you can't vote, boy, but man your battle stations
Or there'll be no need for votin' in future generations

So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction

There are buttons to push in two mighty nations
But who's crazy enough to risk annihilation?
The buttons are there to ensure negotiation
So don't be afraid, boy, it's our only salvation

So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction

You tell me that marches won't bring integration
But look what it's done for the voter registration
Be thankful our country allows demonstrations
Instead of condemnin', make some recommendations
I don't understand the cause of your aggravation
You mean to tell me, boy, it's not a better situation?

So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction

You missed all the good in your evaluation
What about the things that deserve commendation?
Where there once was no cure, there's vaccination
Where there once was a desert, there's vegetation
Self-government's replacing colonization
What about the Peace Corp. organization?
Don't forget the work of the United Nations

So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction

So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction
</DIV>