
The Music of 1966
A weekly look at America’s top singles in the year that The British Invasion began to wane
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Ken F. Jarrell

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1966 is a year that the dominance of British acts in 1964/65 starts to ebb. On Billboard’s list of the top singles of 1966, the highest placing record by a British artist is ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’ by The Mindbenders and it ranks a rather lowly 20th. The 19 songs that placed higher than that were all by American acts, with ‘California Dreamin’’ by The Mamas and The Papas ranked as the Top Record of the year.
1966 is also the year that featured early psychedelic records, with guitars with feedback and distortion, reverse tapes and tape loops, like ‘Rain’ by The Beatles and ‘Eight Miles High’ by The Byrds. Novelty songs were big in 1966, none weirder than Napoleon XIV’s ‘They’re Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haa!’, but there was also ‘Snoopy Vs The Red Baron’ by The Royal Guardsmen, and ‘Lil’ Red Riding Hood’ by Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs. Artists known primarily for one song were abundant in 1966. ? and The Mysterians had the #1 hit ‘96 Tears’ but there were lots of others. Some of the biggest include Keith (‘98.6’), The Electric Prunes (‘I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)’), Count Five (‘Psychotic Reaction’), Los Bravos (‘Black Is Black’), The Shadows of Knight (‘Gloria’), The Bobby Fuller Four (‘I Fought The Law’), Bobby Hebb (‘Sunny’), Bob Lind (‘Elusive Butterfly’), and The Blues Magoos (‘(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet’). 1966 is also the year of the first Hot 100 entries by such stars as Neil Diamond, The Monkees, The Buckinghams, The Mamas and The Papas, B.J. Thomas, Percy Sledge, Tommy James and The Shondells, The Association, The Troggs and The Grass Roots.
The list of #1 hits and the year-end listing of the top records of the year show an astounding variety by artists that would appeal only to teenagers in some cases and only to parents in others. Many of the year’s top hits are iconic songs of the decade that run the spectrum from ‘The Sound Of Silence’, ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’’, ‘Paperback Writer’, ‘Good Vibrations’, and ‘When A Man Loves A Woman’ to ‘Hanky Panky’ and ‘Wild Thing’ to ‘Strangers In The Night’, ‘The Ballad Of The Green Berets’ and ‘Winchester Cathedral’. You just never knew what kind of song you would hear next on your transistor radio in 1966 and that was exciting. The song that spent the most weeks at #1 in 1966 was ‘The Ballad Of The Green Berets’, not exactly a dance favourite or a record likely to be found in the bedrooms of most teenagers.
‘The Music of 1966: A weekly look at America’s top singles in the year that The British Invasion began to wane’ is the third book in a series that looks at the top singles in America of each year from 1964 to 1970. This book will appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up, like the author, listening to a transistor radio hoping to hear the next great song from their favourite American and British groups. In the book, I examine the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts, spending a chapter on each week in 1966. I look at the #1 record that week, what is happening in the rest of the Top 10, fast-rising hits and a selection of the new entries. For each chapter, I take a closer look at certain of that week’s chart entries and present some unusual information and trivia about both well-known and more obscure songs, artists or songwriters. I think you will find that 1966 was filled with great songs that will bring back vivid memories.
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- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
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De: Ken F. Jarrell