I Loved 1968. Let's do it again!

J_R, could we send the Sherminator back to 1968?

 

My old man raised me on the music from the '60s when I was growing up in the '80s.. Today's stuff doesn't hold a candle or jock to the music back then.

Stop hating on Jeannie C. Riley! Harper Valley brought us a sultry Barbara Eden and Nannette Fabray!!

"I'm just mad about Saffron,
And Saffron's mad about me..."

 

Without them, the late 60s/early 70s would have sucked.

 

There you go. Carry on....

 

I concede the point.

 

Billboard's Top 20 for the year 1968:
Some great, some good, some pathetic:

Here are the 20 biggest songs of 1968 according to Billboard Magazine.
= Song/Artist High Chart
# 1 Hey Jude - The Beatles # 1
# 2 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye # 1
# 3 Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat # 1
# 4 Honey - Bobby Goldsboro # 1
# 5 People Got To Be Free - The Rascals # 1
# 6 (Sittin' On) The Dock Of the Bay - Otis Redding # 1
# 7 This Guy's In love With you - Herb Alpert # 1
# 8 Mrs. Robinson - simon & Garfunkle # 1
# 9 Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 1
# 10 Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells # 1
# 11 Hello, I Love You - The Doors # 1
# 12 Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John fred & His Palyboy Band # 1
# 13 Grazing In the Grass - Hugh Masekela # 1
# 14 Harper valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley # 1
# 15 Green Tambourine - The Lemon pipers # 1
# 16 (Theme From) The valley of The Dolls - Dionne Warwick # 2
# 17 Young Girl - Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett # 2
# 18 Those were The days - Mary Hopkin # 2
# 19 The Horse - Cliff Nobles & Company # 2
# 20 Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf # 2

 

Eight out of twenty isn't bad.

 

Words cannot describe how much I hate Judy In Disguise.

And 1968 is BH and AMB in terms of epochs. Before "The Horse" and After Marching Bands tried to make it their own ... every single one of them.

 

You didn't like the southern frat-house band? . . . wasn't my favorite, but it was catchy.

 

If I'm going to listen to frat-house music, the Swingin' Medallions is one-stop shopping for me. Double Shot has the trashiest organ riff ever, but what a great song.

 

Those were the Days My Friend is a very haunting song .