{"id":1826,"date":"2014-10-31T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T01:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2024-11-09T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T21:29:15","slug":"music-friday-1966-billboard-hot-100-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-1966-billboard-hot-100-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; 1966 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-1966-billboard-hot-100-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; 1966 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>My quest to determine my &#8220;peak music year&#8221; continues this week. \u00a0As you may or may not recall (or care for that matter) <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I resolved to examine the BillBoard Hot 100 charts from 1965 to 1975<\/a>, see who were the groups or artists with the most #1 songs in each year, then choose \u00a0a favorite from those and then deem the year that artist or group &#8220;won&#8221; as my peak music year. \u00a0Not very scientific, but it&#8217;s the best I have for now. \u00a0Anyhoo, last week we stated with 1965, so this week it&#8217;s 1966.<\/p>\n<p><em>And the 1966 Winner is&#8230;<strong>The Beatles<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Again. \u00a0I think this may end up being a trend that will come to a halt after 1970. \u00a0However&#8230;I noticed a couple things that I hadn&#8217;t anticipated. \u00a0First is the fact that choosing a &#8220;winner&#8221; based on the quantity of #1 songs might not be fair. \u00a0For example, the Beatles had the #1 song for 4 different times for a total of 5 weeks, but with only two songs. \u00a0There was another artist who had only one #1 song that year (Sgt. Barry Sandler, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/iWjkeXKPQOI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Ballad of the Green Berets<\/em><\/a>), but it was at #1 for 5 weeks. \u00a0So, also 5 weeks at #1, but only 1 song.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I noticed that there are a lot of <em>awesome<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;one hit wonders&#8221; &#8211; songs that were at #1 a single time for one week only, some obscure and some iconic. \u00a0Case in point: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XRXt2A7inIU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wild Thing<\/em><\/a> by The Troggs;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/B0yoiBYbT2I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Good Vibrations<\/em><\/a> by The Beach Boys. \u00a0You get the idea &#8211; take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/archive\/charts\/1966\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the chart<\/a> and see for yourself. \u00a0Even The Chairman of the Board, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Sinatra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Sinatra<\/a> had a #1 that year with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fd_3EkGr0-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Strangers in the Night<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Doobie doobie doo indeed. \u00a0So I think I&#8217;ll have to give 1966 an asterisk for overall additional awesomeness. \u00a0By the way you can click on any of those song titles to listen. \u00a0And here, once again are The Beatles with their two songs that held the #1 position for a total of five weeks in 1966: \u00a0<em>We Can Work It Out<\/em> and <em>Paperback Writer<\/em>. \u00a0Enjoy! \u00a0Oh, and&#8230; comments!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qyclqo_AV2M?si=eJY22Ge6SKMn3mOm\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYvkICbTZIQ?si=-0tFQy8WJP0owUvl\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet My quest to determine my &#8220;peak music year&#8221; continues this week. \u00a0As you may or may not recall (or care for that matter) I resolved to examine the BillBoard Hot 100 charts from 1965 to 1975, see who were the groups or artists with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}