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I remember many of the older hits

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Is billboard American or European?

I know about just about every song up to 1992, after that forgetaboutit....I lost the pulse of the music scene after that. Really lost the pulse after 1995.

I don't care for anything that is out now. It's all about Hip/Hop/Rap, music that I just can't get into. They can package it up and make it look all pretty but I just can't accept the pretty package. It doesn't resonate w/my being here. I must sound like a big ol'fuddy duddy.

It looks more European to me, Glo.

I think the American Charts would've been a bit different than these ones. I think the last couple of years would probably be the same as the European standings though.

Click to view attachmentGosh, I have to go back to 'What a Feeling,' before anything sounds familiar . . . and, btw: was that song, revolting, or what?

My guess is that the Billboard is American.

Yeah, Billboard is American, I forgot about that. Hmm...I wonder if they have a European counterpart of the same name or just the same thing over there. I know they have a charting system over there too. But I'm not familiar on what it is.

LOL!!! "Flashdance (What A Feeling!)"...Michael, I know, that song was so infectious and annoying it wasn't funny when it first came out. Damn, now I'm going to have that darned song stuck in my head here! AND it's all YOUR FAULT! LOL!!! Just kidding!

I know every single one of these records.... up until 1995 (same here, Mando!) Can sing most of them in their entirety. Then at 1995, I "got off the boat" in a big way. Rap and MTV and the AMERICAN IDOL approach to singing pretty much killed pop music, AFAIAC.

No, this is definitely a USA chart. If it were a UK chart, it would have artistes on it like Mr. Acker Bilk, Helen Shapiro, The Tornadoes, etc.

If it were a Continental chart, if would have quite a few Eurovision hits on it, with titles like "Shake Shake Bang Bang" and curious things like that.

Fascinating. Especially the 60s. Starts off with The Everly Brothers and Cathy's Clown and ends up with Get Back. A roller-coaster of a decade.

Was reading a review in the Times yesterday about a biography of Ed Sullivan. According to this reviewer, what really was the kiss of death to Ed Sullivan's show was rock & roll.

I would have thought that there would have been more MoTown in the 60's. Maybe that's just my own thinking.

Oy, that 'What a Feeling,' really took me back!! Glad you can't stop thinking about it, Armando! Remember those sweatshirts, worn off one shoulder?? LOL . . . LOLOL! I can't stand it . . .

Glo, I agree!! I too, thought that we'd see a LOT more of the Supremes, on that list!! Other MoTown tunes, as well . . . maybe you're right. We may have projected our favorite songs, to the number one spot.

Ed Sullivan's favorite group of all time, was The Mamas and the Papas . . . I don't blame him. They were not prolific, but oh!! OH!! Every time, I hear California Dreamin', I have to stop whatever I'm doing, and listen.

Well........let's face it ...there were your Beatles fans..........
Beach Boys........
Motown..........Temptations, 4 Tops, Martha and the Vandella's, Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett..........Diana Ross and the Supremes.....

(Since I was dancing at fraternity parties back then.........Motown was the deal. At least in the South.........)

'Love Child! Never meant, to be! Love Child! Born in poverty!' My favorite song by the Supremes . . .

Hmph. I'm born in the 70' but I actually recognice more of the 50' songs than the 2000' ones. Right, the other day a colleague asked me if I ever listened to modern music and I said "but of course", maybe I was wrong....

Do you really think so? I think Sullivan hated Rock, but he saw the potential for big ratings draws, so he booked lots of great pop/rock acts, like The Mamas and The Papas, and the Supremes, Petula Clark, the Byrds, The Friends of Distinction. He even booked "edgier" guests (read: druggy) like The Jefferson Airplane, Vanilla Fudge, Janis Joplin and The Doors.

But I think only The Smothers Brothers were willing to book your really politically explicit anti-war singers, like Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Barry McGuire and Country Joe & the Fish. [Remember seeger's "Waist Deep in Big Muddy" which LBJ himself tried to have censored on the SBCH?]

Wasn't it on Sullivan that Jim Morrison came out fairly stoned, and sang the verboten line, "Girl, we couldn't get much HIGH-er." much to Ed's chagrin?

Yes, rasputin! Ed was livid purple, after Morrison ignored Sullivan's order, NOT to use that 'Light My Fire,' lyric.

I'm so old - lol. I don't know any of the songs after 1991! I lost interest in the top 40 after 1989. The last concert I saw was BonJovi's New Jersey tour in 1989. They are one of the few groups who sound as good live as they do recorded. I remember sitting in class on the last day of school in June 1975 listening to America's Sister Golden Hair on the radio. I also remember how cute David Kinsey looked that day too! Wow, there's a memory I don't want to forget.