This week, the week of January 18-22, 2016, we will be looking at the year 1966!

We call it:  "50/50!"

January 21, 2016

Note:  Not all the titles will be great!  LOL!

We tend to put a lot of emphasis on random anniversary numbers over others.  The 50th anniversary of anything tends to get more attention than 48 or 49 because we like our round numbers I guess.

So let's look at the top five songs of the year 1966!

For a year that saw the Beatles in the middle of the amazing run, the birth of the Monkees, and an ever growing cross over in media from movies to music the songs that ranked the highest for the entire year might be a bit of a surprise!

Coming in at #2, this song was actually just a wee bit shorter for the radio than the album it came out on.  Cutting ONE LINE off at the end to try and keep the tune under the magical three minute mark that a lot of stations preferred at the time. (It is still over three minutes...despite saying "3:00" on the label.  Showing you just how smart radio DJs are.)

One of two number one hits for The Association its another one of those songs that has been covered by a multitude of artists from Dizzy Gillespie to David Cassidy, who also charted the song just six years later reaching number nine.

Tomorrow: The Beatles, The Monkees, Tommy James, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, Lovin' Spoonful and others all made the year end hot 100...but only one was number for the entire year of 1966!

~ Glenn