60 years ago.
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Obviously a VERY good year…for music anyway. Not a lemon in the bunch.
True dat…soul music was hitting stride at that time.
But here we are 60 years later and this one hypnotizes me.
A unique advantage the Boomers have is a complete soundtrack accompanying memories of their youth and young adulthood. Thanks to the now deceased Top-40 radio phenomenon, every kid in the country was listening nonstop to the same tunes as their coming of age unfolded.
Hits like these instantly transport a whole generation back to a time like no other. By today’s standards some of the performances are corny, but the music still stands.
I saw a Beach Boys concert in Sacramento in 1963. They were wearing those same blue-striped shirts and it was all glorious in the Golden State.
The early days of the British Invasion were my first concert experiences … in 1964 I saw the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the Dave Clark Five … what a year.
My generation (born in ’47) has had the greatest popular music since the days of the great classical composers … and, what with Dick Clark going back to the ’50s even, we had so much to enjoy.
Thanks for the memories …
What a great song! ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0KlRpQeyvo
Missed by 2 years but this song never gets old and is appropriate for even today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEdFxUZ01s
More lies…also from 1965. The Knickerbockers sure sounded like the Beatles.
The list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1963
Lead singer was dead a year later – probable OD – at age 27.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Lewis
the first one is free
Les Baxter And His Orchestra* – The Soul Of The Drums (1963)
https://www.discogs.com/release/1862464-Les-Baxter-And-His-Orchestra-The-Soul-Of-The-Drums
More space age/exotica, bachelor pad, easy listening, lounge from that era:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=1963+space+age+bachelor+pad+exotica
https://www.youtube.com/@LittleMissLounge/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_World_of_Julie_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1963_soundtrack_albums
Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra – Cugi’s Cocktails, 1963
Rest of the tracklist:
https://www.discogs.com/master/53817-Xavier-Cugat-And-His-Orchestra-Cugis-Cocktails
Boomers sho bees recollectin dis.
What will there be to recollect from, say, 1995 onward?
Top 100 Hits of 1963/Top 100 Songs of 1963
CMA…Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart for 1963. Chart © by Billboard, a part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. All Rights Reserved. For detailed information on how Billboard compiled the charts, see the Wikipedia article “Billboard Hot 100”.
63, the year pop rock started to get really good, IMO. Heatwave, Up on the Roof (both already linked above), and several other great songs.
Admin … Did you roll with the ode to 1963 tunes due to your recent 60th birthday? If so, good reason!!
A few years younger than you (1967 YOB), but one of many bits of good fortune was to be the child of young parents (only 20 to 23 years older than me) that spun these and many other great tunes throughout my youth … I still love these tunes even though they were created before I was born …
The energy, freshness and connection with the human spirit of this music is wonderful.