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Going back to 1966, this song made it to #11. Name the artist:

You know love makes the world go round
And love, baby makes the seesaws go up and down
And it makes trees grow tall
And the most important thing of all
It makes a boy and girl, oh
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Without love flowers wouldn't grow in the spring
And without spring, yeah the birdies just couldn't sing
Everybody needs love
[1: And 2: Just] to watch the twinkling stars above
It makes a boy and girl, [1: yeah 2: oh]
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Oh... love makes you cry, now
That goes for Billy, Sherry, Bobby and Marsha and baby you and I
Oh, I can prove to you
That these facts of love are so true
It makes a boy and girl, yeah
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Love, love, sweet love love is so good, child
Ooh, it's so fine ooh... [fade]

SportsFan68 wrote:Going back to 1966, this song made it to #11. Name the artist:

You know love makes the world go round
And love, baby makes the seesaws go up and down
And it makes trees grow tall
And the most important thing of all
It makes a boy and girl, oh
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Without love flowers wouldn't grow in the spring
And without spring, yeah the birdies just couldn't sing
Everybody needs love
[1: And 2: Just] to watch the twinkling stars above
It makes a boy and girl, [1: yeah 2: oh]
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Oh... love makes you cry, now
That goes for Billy, Sherry, Bobby and Marsha and baby you and I
Oh, I can prove to you
That these facts of love are so true
It makes a boy and girl, yeah
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Love, love, sweet love love is so good, child
Ooh, it's so fine ooh... [fade]

I believe this was his biggest hit - Deon Jackson.

Good job, Ear.

I graduated from high school in 1965 so that was my Freshman year and I have no recollection of that song. Maybe it never hit big in Ottawa or pop station WABC NY that broadcast in evenings to the area.

macrae1234 wrote:I graduated from high school in 1965 so that was my Freshman year and I have no recollection of that song. Maybe it never hit big in Ottawa or pop station WABC NY that broadcast in evenings to the area.

Same here (not same graduation year, I hasten to add), and I listened to it all the way through.

My only recollection of a lot of Top 40 songs from that era come from KOMA in Oklahoma. Everybody had a little transistor radio, and after dark you could usually pick up the signal pretty well. Still, I've never heard lots of RadioDude's Golden Moldies.

One of the local DJs played the Top Ten only because station policy required it during the evening show -- he played one right after the other, no intro, no patter, no ads, no nothing. Didn't take long back then. Then he would go back to his faves from the Big Band era, which certainly didn't kill us, although some people sure screamed as if it did. String of Pearls is still a favorite for me.

Here is a list of all the top 10 songs of 66 for your memories

19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones (#2)
96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians (#1)
98.6 - Keith (#7)
Along Comes Mary - The Association (#7)
Ballad Of the Green Berets - Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler (#1)
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Cher (#2)
Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys (#2)
Barefootin' - Robert Parker (#7)
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations (#3)
Black is Black - Los Bravos (#4)
Blowin' in the Wind - Stevie Wonder (#9)
Born Free - Roger Williams (#7)
Bus Stop - The Hollies (#5)
California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas (#4)
Cherish - The Association (#1)
Cherry, Cherry - Neil Diamond (#6)
Cool Jerk - The Capitols (#7)
Cry - Ronnie Dove (#18)
Crying Time - Ray Charles (#6)
Dandy - Herman's Hermits (#5)
Daydream - The Lovin' Spoonful (#2)
Day Tripper - The Beatles (#5)
Devil with a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#4)
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin' Spoonful (#2)
Don't Mess with Bill - The Marvelettes (#7)
Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind (#5)
Georgy Girl - The Seekers (#2)
Gloria - The Shadows of Knight (#10)
Good Lovin' - The Young Rascals (#1)
Good Thing - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#4)
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys (#1)
Green Grass - Gary Lewis & The Playboys (#8)
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders (#2)
Guantanamera - The Sandpipers (#9)
Hanky Panky - Tommy James & The Shondells (#1)
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? - The Rolling Stones (#9)
Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel (#5)
Hooray for Hazel - Tommy Roe (#6)
How Does That Grab You, Darlin'? - Nancy Sinatra (#7)
Hungry - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#6)
I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel (#3)
I Couldn't Live Without Your Love - Petula Clark (#9)
I Fought the Law - Bobby Fuller Four (#9)
(I Know) I'm Losing You - The Temptations (#8)
I Saw Her Again (Last Night) - The Mamas & The Papas (#5)
I'm A Believer - The Monkees (#1)
I'm Ready for Love - Martha & The Vandellas (#9)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - B.J. Thomas & The Triumphs (#8)
I'm Your Puppet - James & Bobby Purify (#6)
I've Got You Under My Skin - The 4 Seasons (#9)
If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin (#8)
It's a Man's Man's Man's World - James Brown (#8)
Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#4)
Lady Godiva - Peter & Gordon (#6)
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett (#6)
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees (#1)
Leaning on the Lamp Post - Herman's Hermits (#9)
Lightnin' Strikes - Lou Christie (#1)
Lil' Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs (#2)
Listen People - Herman's Hermits (#3)
Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound (#8)
Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart - The Supremes (#9)
Mellow Yellow - Donovan (#2)
The Men in My Little Girl's Life - Mike Douglas (#6)
Message to Michael - Dionne Warwick (#8)
Monday, Monday - The Mamas & The Papas (#1)
Mother's Little Helper - The Rolling Stones (#8)
A Must to Avoid - Herman's Hermits (#8)
My Love - Petula Clark (#1)
My World Is Empty Without You - The Supremes (#5)
Nowhere Man - The Beatles (#3)
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones (#1)
Paperback Writer - The Beatles (#1)
The Pied Piper - Crispian St. Peters (#4)
A Place in the Sun - Stevie Wonder (#9)
Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers (#1)
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five (#5)
Rain on the Roof - The Lovin' Spoonful (#10)
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan (#2)
Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops (#1)
Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle (#2)
Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers (#3)
See See Rider - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#10)
See You in September - The Happenings (#3)
Sloop John B - The Beach Boys (#3)
Snoopy vs. the Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen (#2)
Somewhere, My Love - Ray Conniff & The Singers (#9)
Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies (#7)
Strangers In the Night - Frank Sinatra (#1)
Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra (#5)
Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful (#1)
Sunny - Bobby Hebb (#2)
Sunshine Superman - Donovan (#1)
Sure Gonna Miss Her - Gary Lewis & The Playboys (#9)
Sweet Pea - Tommy Roe (#8)
That's Life - Frank Sinatra (#4)
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra (#1)
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV (#3)
Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders (#5)
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke (#5)
We Can Work It Out - The Beatles (#1)
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? - Jimmy Ruffin (#7)
When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge (#1)
Wild Thing - The Troggs (#1)
Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band (#1)
Words of Love - The Mamas & The Papas (#5)
Working in the Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey (#8)
Working My Way Back to You - The 4 Seasons (#9)
Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys (#8)
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles (#2)
You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes (#1)
You Didn't Have To Be So Nice - The Lovin' Spoonful (#10)
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield (#4)
You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes (#1)
(You're My) Soul and Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers (#1)

No need to double post

somehow the 8 makes a happy face

[quote="macrae1234"]Here is a list of all the top 10 songs of 66 for your memories

Cool Jerk - The Capitols (#7) -- No recollection whatsoever
Don't Mess with Bill - The Marvelettes (#7) -- None here either
Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound (#8 ) -- Nor here
Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle (#2) -- This still gets some airplay around here.
Sloop John B - The Beach Boys (#3) -- So does this.
Snoopy vs. the Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen (#2) -- So does this at Christmastime.
Strangers In the Night - Frank Sinatra (#1) -- Ol' Blue Eyes and Nancy both sound fabulous even today -- they musta done some remastering.
Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra (#5) -- Not this one though.
Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful (#1) -- This one still sounds as if it were written yesterday. They were amazing.
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra (#1) -- This one.
Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders (#5) -- I would never have given 1966 for the year on this one.
Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band (#1) -- This was a Golden Moldy earlier this week. RadioDude must have Mac's list.
Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys (#8 ) -- AfternoonRadioDude played this yesterday.

Good stuff, Mac.

SportsFan68 wrote:

macrae1234 wrote:I graduated from high school in 1965 so that was my Freshman year and I have no recollection of that song. Maybe it never hit big in Ottawa or pop station WABC NY that broadcast in evenings to the area.

Same here (not same graduation year, I hasten to add), and I listened to it all the way through.

My only recollection of a lot of Top 40 songs from that era come from KOMA in Oklahoma. Everybody had a little transistor radio, and after dark you could usually pick up the signal pretty well. Still, I've never heard lots of RadioDude's Golden Moldies.

One of the local DJs played the Top Ten only because station policy required it during the evening show -- he played one right after the other, no intro, no patter, no ads, no nothing. Didn't take long back then. Then he would go back to his faves from the Big Band era, which certainly didn't kill us, although some people sure screamed as if it did. String of Pearls is still a favorite for me.

You listened to KOMA ("1520 - K...OMA)?? That was one of the two AM rock stations that I grew up with (the other being WKY. I had no idea that KOMA's signal traveled into Colorado, although I did know that WKY's signal was supposed to reach quite a distance. (NOTE: I just did a wiki search and sure enough it mentions that because of atmospheric conditions and a favorable position on the dial it had ittle competition and its signal could be heard as far away as Salt Lake City.)

SportsFan68 wrote:

macrae1234 wrote:I graduated from high school in 1965 so that was my Freshman year and I have no recollection of that song. Maybe it never hit big in Ottawa or pop station WABC NY that broadcast in evenings to the area.

Same here (not same graduation year, I hasten to add), and I listened to it all the way through.

My only recollection of a lot of Top 40 songs from that era come from KOMA in Oklahoma. Everybody had a little transistor radio, and after dark you could usually pick up the signal pretty well. Still, I've never heard lots of RadioDude's Golden Moldies.

One of the local DJs played the Top Ten only because station policy required it during the evening show -- he played one right after the other, no intro, no patter, no ads, no nothing. Didn't take long back then. Then he would go back to his faves from the Big Band era, which certainly didn't kill us, although some people sure screamed as if it did. String of Pearls is still a favorite for me.

I used to listen to KOMA in the small hours, too! Their theme song was Handy Man.

String of Pearls is the one song I can play on the trombone. My grandfather was a trombone player (he was in the same band as Glenn Miller at one time) and my dad had his trombone and I learned on that. It got ruined in a basement flood, though. I think that was the same flood that took out my banjo.

SportsFan68 wrote: Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound (#8 ) -- Nor here

Your memory may be jogged shortly on this one.

SportsFan68 wrote:

macrae1234 wrote:I graduated from high school in 1965 so that was my Freshman year and I have no recollection of that song. Maybe it never hit big in Ottawa or pop station WABC NY that broadcast in evenings to the area.

Same here (not same graduation year, I hasten to add), and I listened to it all the way through.

My only recollection of a lot of Top 40 songs from that era come from KOMA in Oklahoma. Everybody had a little transistor radio, and after dark you could usually pick up the signal pretty well. Still, I've never heard lots of RadioDude's Golden Moldies.

One of the local DJs played the Top Ten only because station policy required it during the evening show -- he played one right after the other, no intro, no patter, no ads, no nothing. Didn't take long back then. Then he would go back to his faves from the Big Band era, which certainly didn't kill us, although some people sure screamed as if it did. String of Pearls is still a favorite for me.

This was not big in my area, either. Wonder where it WAS big. I didn't even know this song until it was on the playlist of the oldies station I worked at years later.

The Syndicate of Sound were from San Jose and their One hit wonder was mostly there although a NY recording company had them touring with the Yardbirds, Young Rascals and the Rolling Stones

macrae1234 wrote:The Syndicate of Sound were from San Jose and their One hit wonder was mostly there although a NY recording company had them touring with the Yardbirds, Young Rascals and the Rolling Stones

The Deon Jackson song was the one I was unfamiliar with. "Little Girl" was a big hit here.

T_Bone0806 wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote: Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound (#8 ) -- Nor here

Your memory may be jogged shortly on this one.

Good!

SportsFan68 wrote:

macrae1234 wrote:Here is a list of all the top 10 songs of 66 for your memories

Cool Jerk - The Capitols (#7) -- No recollection whatsoever
Don't Mess with Bill - The Marvelettes (#7) -- None here either

Definitely good stuff, mac.

The Deon Jackson song got HUGE airplay in Philadelphia. Two big stations - WFIL (the Boss Jocks) and WIBG (one of the original rock and roll stations in the US).

You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing it within the hour. The Marsha and Bobby and Sherry patter part at the end was quite catchy.

Cool Jerk -- The theme song of my eighth-grade graduation dance. Not by design.

My cousin Dennis, his buddy Jack (Jake the Fake) and a couple of other guys (but NOT Anthony Navarro who went in the priesthood), took over the record player.

They played Cool Jerk about every other song for about an hour until Father Sweeney stepped in.

Great song, great dance number. Still have my original 45 although I use the reissue in the jukebox.

Always joined in my mind with the Show Stoppers Ain't Nothin' but a House Party, which came out the next year.

Don't Mess with Bill -- We had identical twins in our class, Lana and Linda Beal. When we all hung out at Sambucca's Steak Shop, we'd play this on the jukebox and make up our own lyrics to Don't Mess with Beal.

And I can STILL do a mean line dance to You Can't Hurry Love!

Lana and Linda passed away a couple of years ago, within six months of each other. And Jake the Fake died four years ago, complications of diabetes.

Thanks for the chance to remember my old friends and summers in the rowhouse city.