Ranker.com's Top 50 Best Songs of All Time (2020 Edition). Ballad of the Green Berets- this is probably one of the most forgotten number one hits of all time cause I had no idea this song existed until looking at the 1966 year end list.
Rain by The Beatles
I’m Your Baby Tonight by Whitney Houston That year, 16 acts achieved their first number one song, such as Simon & Garfunkel, Lou Christie, Nancy Sinatra, SSgt.
1)Losing My Religion by R.E.M.
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And the timing of its release couldn’t be worse. Either the population is really small or that’s a big ass submarine. It’s an anti-women empowerment song in the way that Sandy presents a lot of the negative shit that women go through and in the end, is proud of it and wouldn’t change a thing. 10)The First Time by Surface
You almost want to say “Why Billboard?” There are these great songs and this is rated number one for the whole year. I’m getting into some hot water with this choice. The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 24, 1966, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 1 through December 10, 1966. The original #1 song of 1966, "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and the Papas, never reached #1 on the weekly charts. And it sounds awful. //
I Wanna Sex You Up by Color Me Badd Bus Stop by The Hollies These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1966. Well, too bad because that’s what we got with this number one hit from Johnny Rivers. Even the legends have their misfires and Yellow Submarine is one for the Beatles. and the Mysterians, The Monkees, Johnny Rivers, and The New Vaudeville Band. Can’t listen to B-A-B-Y without thinking of Baby Driver. Hey. So those were the worst songs of 1966. For the most part, it seems like another generic by-the-numbers love song, but then you get to the chorus and Lou Christie is using that screeching falsetto again. 6)O.P.P. We got into a pointless war with no clear strategy or end game besides destroy communism where we got our asses handed to us by a militia of farmers who knew the land better than us.
S/Sgt. This would have been too adult for the kids! !” This is not a good song overall and you won’t get anything out of it besides pure annoyance. Yet I guess the four seasons have stopped having any hits or they did not have any songs that were as cringeworthy as their early sixties shtick. This really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1966. The backlash towards the Vietnam War didn’t really set in until about 67 and 68. 8)Because I Love You (The Postman Song) by Stevie B Herman’s Hermit’s is another example that even the British Invasion, Rise and fall of Disco, New wave and all the other genres of music that have come, there are good songs as well as despicable songs. I haven’t seen it in a long time, but I remember enjoying it. Honorable Mentions
By the way, Michael Bolton’s cover of When A Man Loves A Woman can die in a fire, along with a lot of horrible covers he did of classic R&B/soul songs. In later years, Billboard released another list of the top Hot 100 singles of 1966, which used a different methodology to compile the year-end list.[2].
Power Of Love/Love Power by Luther Vandross Basically, it’s a world where everyone lives in a yellow submarine. Aside from it being a boring pop country song, the writing of it is wrong on so many levels. This was when the Fab Four decided…. More Than Words by Extreme Let’s just get to it.