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Post by Kapitan on Sept 6, 2021 21:48:30 GMT
Eek. So I'm the only one here with memories of 1963! I suppose that must make me the oldest poster here. (Thankfully, I'm nowhere near the oldest at EH!) Hold on, now. I think you're jumping to conclusions. I think you need to give people a day or so, and I suspect we've got a couple others who recall 1963.
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Post by jk on Sept 6, 2021 21:58:24 GMT
Eek. So I'm the only one here with memories of 1963! I suppose that must make me the oldest poster here. (Thankfully, I'm nowhere near the oldest at EH!) Hold on, now. I think you're jumping to conclusions. I think you need to give people a day or so, and I suspect we've got a couple others who recall 1963. You're right, Cap'n, that was a bit hasty of me. Well let's see what tomorrow brings...
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Post by carllove on Sept 7, 2021 10:16:08 GMT
Hold on, now. I think you're jumping to conclusions. I think you need to give people a day or so, and I suspect we've got a couple others who recall 1963. You're right, Cap'n, that was a bit hasty of me. Well let's see what tomorrow brings... Well, I turned one that year, so I don’t remember any of it! Looks like The Beach Boys released a lot of albums that year. Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coupe and Surfin’ USA. Wish I could remember that! Also Dionne Warwick’s first album and a couple of Beatle’s albums. Was there a buzz for the Beatles in the US, or did that have to wait until 1964, when they appeared on Ed Sullivan? I would love for someone who remembers to tell me about that!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Sept 7, 2021 11:14:37 GMT
If time went backward, I'd have just been a teenager for 1963; but as it is, I was 13 years away from birth and so I have no memories of the year. I can, however, paste a list of Billboard year-end top 20 singles from the Hot 100.
№ Title Artist(s) 1 "Surfin' U.S.A." The Beach Boys 2 "The End of the World" Skeeter Davis 3 "Rhythm of the Rain" The Cascades 4 "He's So Fine" The Chiffons 5 "Blue Velvet" Bobby Vinton 6 "Hey Paula" Paul & Paula 7 "Fingertips" Little Stevie Wonder 8 "Can't Get Used to Losing You" Andy Williams 9 "My Boyfriend's Back" The Angels 10 "Sukiyaki" Kyu Sakamoto 11 "So Much in Love" The Tymes 12 "Puff, the Magic Dragon" Peter, Paul & Mary 13 "Blowin' in the Wind" Peter, Paul & Mary 14 "Wipe Out" The Surfaris 15 "I Love You Because" Al Martino 16 "Wild Weekend" The Rebels 17 "You're the Reason I'm Living" Bobby Darin 18 "Walk Like a Man" The Four Seasons 19 "Mockingbird" Inez & Charlie Foxx 20 "I Will Follow Him" Little Peggy March I'm familiar with all of these songs, but it's probably more from hearing them on the radio AFTER 1963 than during that year. I was a little too young to appreciate them in real time in 1963; my first "exposure" to music, as I recall, was with The Beatles in 1964.
I always think of 1963 as, to steal a phrase, the end of the innocence. After the Kennedy assassination, with the advent of The Beatles/The British Invasion, the protest movement through folk music, and the civil rights movement in 1964...things would change. I might be a little strict by drawing a line at 1963 into 1964, but I think if you speak with people who lived through it, they would probably, for the most part, concur.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 7, 2021 11:59:07 GMT
Pre-Beatles (in America), this would also be right in the peak of the college folk era, wouldn't it? We see a couple of Peter, Paul & Mary songs in the charts, but I'm thinking this would have been when you'd also run across the Chad Mitchell Trio, Kingston Trio, and other lighter fare as well as the more protest-oriented Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, etc.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Sept 7, 2021 12:35:18 GMT
This photo is from the 1963 Newport Folk Festival:
Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Freedom Singers, Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 7, 2021 18:46:42 GMT
Any more takers on the music of 1963? If not, tomorrow I can move into another year--or anyone else can, if they'd prefer. Just go for it!
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Post by jk on Sept 7, 2021 19:22:55 GMT
You're right, Cap'n, that was a bit hasty of me. Well let's see what tomorrow brings... Well, I turned one that year, so I don’t remember any of it! Looks like The Beach Boys released a lot of albums that year. Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coupe and Surfin’ USA. Wish I could remember that! Also Dionne Warwick’s first album and a couple of Beatle’s albums. Was there a buzz for the Beatles in the US, or did that have to wait until 1964, when they appeared on Ed Sullivan? I would love for someone who remembers to tell me about that! Funnily, BB albums meant nothing to me in 1963. It took me another 40 years to fit them into the time frame. And of course there was Please Please Me, which I avoided like the plague at the time but now regard as a super album and one of The Beatles' best. And, probably the greatest debut album bar none. I remember when The Beatles first hit the US charts in December 1963 with "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Practically no one in America had heard of them before then. This marked the start of the British Invasion.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 8, 2021 12:32:32 GMT
Our second year was 13 years prior to our first; how about going 13 years in the other direction next?
1989
Long before it was a smash-hit album for Taylor Swift, 1989 was a year!
The late '80s are known for hard rock and heavy metal, but a look at the year-end Billboard singles shows a preponderance of RnB, if anything. Although there are a few power ballads in there, as well as some traditional pop.
No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Look Away" Chicago 2 "My Prerogative" Bobby Brown 3 "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" Poison 4 "Straight Up" Paula Abdul 5 "Miss You Much" Janet Jackson 6 "Cold Hearted" Paula Abdul 7 "Wind Beneath My Wings" Bette Midler 8 "Girl You Know It's True" Milli Vanilli 9 "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley" Will to Power 10 "Giving You the Best That I Got" Anita Baker 11 "Right Here Waiting" Richard Marx 12 "Waiting For a Star to Fall" Boy Meets Girl 13 "Lost in Your Eyes" Debbie Gibson 14 "Don't Wanna Lose You" Gloria Estefan 15 "Heaven" Warrant 16 "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" Milli Vanilli 17 "The Look" Roxette 18 "She Drives Me Crazy" Fine Young Cannibals 19 "On Our Own" Bobby Brown 20 "Two Hearts" Phil Collins
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 8, 2021 12:51:00 GMT
Those were the top singles of the year 1989. What about the top albums? These were the ones that topped the charts that year.
(7 weeks)
Fine Young Cannibals, The Raw and the Cooked
Milli Vanilli, Girl You Know It's True
(6 weeks) Bobby Brown, Don't Be Cruel (also best-selling album overall of 1989)
Madonna, Like a Prayer
Prince, Batman
(5 weeks) Debbie Gibson, Electric Youth
(4 weeks) Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation 1814
(2 weeks) Anita Baker, Giving You the Best I Got
Motley Crue, Dr Feelgood New Kids on the Block, Hangin Tough
(1 week) Paula Abdul, Forever Your Girl
Phil Collins, ...But Seriously
Guns n Roses, Appetite for Destruction Billy Joel, Storm Front
Tone Loc, Loc'd After Dark
Richard Marx, Repeat Offender
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Post by kds on Sept 8, 2021 13:40:14 GMT
Some random albums I'll cherry pick for 1989
Aerosmith - Pump - Far and away the best of the "sober / post comeback" albums for Aerosmith. I remember my mother had a cassette of Pump in the car, so I heard this album a lot.
Skid Row - Self Titled - I really think that if not for the fact that I Remember You exists, Skid Row would have a lot more "metal cred." To me, they're a heavy metal fan that gets lumped into the "hair metal" bin.
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence - With the title track and Heart of the Matter, Don scored some light rock hits, but don't sleep on the rocking I Will Not Go Quietly, featuring Axl Rose.
Black Sabbath - The Headless Cross - This album is becoming a bit of a cult favorite among Sabbath fans. Tony Iommi is the only original member, and Tony Martin provides lead vocals on this very good later era album. Queen's Brian May provides a guest solo on When Death Calls.
Queen - The Miracle - Speaking of Brian May, Queen release their Miracle album, which is probably their most consistently guitar driven album since the 1970s.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 8, 2021 13:48:41 GMT
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence - With the title track and Heart of the Matter, Don scored some light rock hits, but don't sleep on the rocking I Will Not Go Quietly, featuring Axl Rose. I completely forgot about the existence of this song! I haven't listened to it before this morning since it was a current song, so probably 1989-90 or so.
What's funny is, it sounded very "soft rock" to me at the time, with my tastes in 1989 being the heavier side of hard rock to metal. I listen now and think, damn, Henley was trying to rock a little bit...
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Post by kds on Sept 8, 2021 15:27:12 GMT
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence - With the title track and Heart of the Matter, Don scored some light rock hits, but don't sleep on the rocking I Will Not Go Quietly, featuring Axl Rose. I completely forgot about the existence of this song! I haven't listened to it before this morning since it was a current song, so probably 1989-90 or so.
What's funny is, it sounded very "soft rock" to me at the time, with my tastes in 1989 being the heavier side of hard rock to metal. I listen now and think, damn, Henley was trying to rock a little bit...
It's definitely softer than much of the hard rock of the time, but pretty heavy for Don.
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Post by jk on Sept 8, 2021 17:19:11 GMT
Hard to nail 1989 so I looked up the albums released that year. Worthy mentions besides Still Cruisin' are:
1) A New Flame ~ Simply Red 2) Raw Like Sushi ~ Neneh Cherry 3) The Stone Roses 4) The Sensual World ~ Kate Bush
Wonderful albums all.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 8, 2021 17:28:07 GMT
Worthy mentions besides Still Cruisin' are: The worthiness of Still Cruisin' is up for debate!
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