Part 1 of a sideways journey through the biggest hits from 1959-2024...

24/11/2024
Part 1 of a sideways journey through the biggest hits from 1959-2024...
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1959-1968 Bongo Rock to Baby Come Back...

So ... I have a delve into the top 100 biggest selling singles of every year from 1959 on, in sequence, picking one ... and then linking to 2 or 3 or more recent vintage ... Resulting in a very wide mix of music as always!
Today we journey from 1959 to 1968...
1959 PRESTON EPPS Bongo Rock INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND Apache RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Renegades of Funk
1960 ELVIS PRESLEY It’s Now or Never BARRY WHITE You're The First, The Last, My Everything (Edit) SPEAR OF DESTINY Never take Me Alive
1961 DEL SHANNON Runaway THE RUNAWAYS Cherry Bomb BON JOVI Little Runaway
1962 TOMMY ROE Sheila PJ HARVEY Sheela-Na-Gig THE SMITHS Sheila Take a Bow
1963 BEACH BOYS Surfin’ USA THE TRASHMEN Surfin’ Bird SAXON Dallas 1PM JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Surfin’ USA
1964 BEATLES I Want to Hold Your Hand BLACK CROWES Hard to Handle DAVE GAHAN Hold On
1965 SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHAROAHS Wooly Bully NAS Hate Me Now AUDIO BULLYS Shot You Down
1966 HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS Spanish Flea JIMI HENDRIX Spanish Castle Magic RHCP Fight Like a Brave
1967 BOBBIE GENTRY Ode to Billie Joe KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Me And Bobby McGee BOBBY WOMACK Across 110th Street
1968 THE EQUALS Baby Come Back PETER TOSH Equal Rights TOVE LO, DOJA CAT Equally Lost