1965 to 1969 Change in Music tastes:

[Banned]

I think this is incredible.

# The best-selling album of 1965 was Mary Poppins Soundtrack.
# The best-selling album of 1966 was Whipped Cream & Other Delights, by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
# The best-selling album of 1967 was More of The Monkees, by The Monkees.
# The best-selling album of 1968 was Are You Experienced?, by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
# The best-selling album of 1969 was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly.

In 5 short years the best selling album in America went from Mary Poppins Soundtrack to Iron Butterfly. Just from 1966 to 1968 it went from Herb Alpert to the Monkees and then Hendrix. Wow, what a 3 year change. Thats like going from a cocktail to bubble gum to acid in a very short time.

Like Dylan sang, those times were sure a changin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-selli ... ted_States

[f.sciarrillo]

That is a true thing there ..

[Hawk]

Interesting Joe. Just yesterday I was looking up the hit songs in the year I was born (1953) and I found this sight. I ended up checking out all of the number one songs through 1970. It was like growing up again.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nu ... _States%29
Click on list from "The United States", then scroll down for the year you want.

Have fun!

[Banned]

Bill, Jason and I were at the same place. I always like to look up songs from your birth year (knew hardly any) and then your high school graduation year. For me it was 1972, and was impressed by how diverse it was, and no hard rock at all. I do remember all that soft rock on the radio, but I remember much more rock in 1972, like Led Zep IV for instance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ho ... %28U.S.%29

[Merge]

I looked up the top songs from 1990, I was 15 that year. It's like going back in time, lol.

[RFBuck]

And I wonder how many boys got excited over Herb Alpert's album cover in 1966...and how many mothers covered their eyes?
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[homerski]

I was in high school from 1965-1970. Wow, what a time it was!! It was a sea change of music. And I still love the soft rock of the seventies (1970 - 1976) The Carpenters, Seals and Crofts, Air Supply, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, I could go on.....
Musically, I feel this was some of the finest music ever produced.

As a young budding musician, there was literally a universe of styles, genres, and bands to get hooked on and then try to emulate. And you could find a radio station somewhere playing whatever you were interested in.

I do pity the kids growing up today. What the hell are they supposed to aspire to become as musicians?

John Homerski Jr., Drums/Vocals & Evangelist
Flood City Brass

[moxham123]

Music (rock music in particluar) as well as record production took huge creative leaps very quickly in that short timeframe that will probably never be seen again in a 5 year period. Just look at most of the acts that performed at Woodtsock in 1969 that did not exist in 1965 and what they were playing in just a few years. Even Top 40 radio at that time included everytihng from Frank Sinatra to Cream because there was so much variety in pop music and radio was not as genre segmented as we have today.