Get to know MORE about the U.S. and UK top 20 charts from 1954 up to 'the present day' (ie. December 2000).
Here they are, the absolutely greatest hits from
the history of popular music.
The very best music.
The Year is
1966.
These are the
year's Favorites in the UK, the top 20 single
records.
The Alan Price Set - I
Put A Spell On You - 04-66
The Alan Price Set -
Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo - 08-66
Herb Alpert - Spanish Flea
- 01-66
The Animals - Inside Looking
Out - 03-66
The Animals - Don't Bring
Me Down - 06-66
Eddy Arnold - Make The
World Go Away- 03-66
The Bachelors - The Sound
Of Silence - 04-66
The Barron Knights - Merrie
Gentle Pops - 01-66
Len Barry - Like A Baby
- 02-66
Bobby Darin - If I Were
A Carpenter - 11-66
The Beach Boys - Barbara
Ann - 03-66
The Beach Boys - Sloop
John B - 05-66
The Beach Boys - God Only
Knows - 08-66
The Beach Boys - Good
Vibrations - 11-66
The Beatles - Paperback
Writer - 06-66
The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
/ Eleanor Rigby - 08-66
Cliff Bennett & The
Rebel Rousers - Got To Get You Into My Life - 09-66
Dave Berry - Mama -
08-66
Cilla Black - Love's Just
A Broken Heart - 02-66
Cilla Black - Alfie -
04-66
Cilla Black - Don't Answer
Me - 06-66
Cilla Black - A Fool Am
I - 11-66
Eric Burdon & The Animals
- Help Me Girl - 11-66
Cher - Bang Bang (My Baby
Shot Me Down) - 04-66
Lou Christie - Lightnin'
Strikes - 03-66
Petula Clark - My Love
- 02-66
Petula Clark - I Couldn't
Live Without Your Love - 07-66
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick
& Tich - Hold Tight - 04-66
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick
& Tich - Hideaway - 07-66
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick
& Tich - Bend It - 10-66
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick
& Tich - Save Me -12-66
David & Jonathan -
Michelle - 02-66
David & Jonathan -
Lovers Of The World Unite - 08-66
Ken Dodd - Promises -
05-66
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
- 12-66
Val Doonican - Elusive
Butterfly - 04-66
Val Doonican - What Would
I Be - 11-66
Lee Dorsey - Working In
The Coal Mine - 09-66
Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow -
11-66
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women
Nos. 12 & 35 - 05-66
Bob Dylan - I Want You
- 08-66
The Easy Beats - Friday
On My Mind - 12-66
Georgie Fame - Get Away
- 07-66
Georgie Fame - Sunny -
10-66
Chris Farlowe - Out Of
Time - 07-66
The Fortunes - This Golden
Ring - 03-66
The Four Seasons - I've
Got YOu Under My Skin - 11-66
The Four Tops - Reach Out
I'll Be There - 10-66
Bobby Hebb - Sunny -
10-66
Herman's Hermits - A Must
To Avoid - 01-66
Herman's Hermits - No Milk
Today - 10-66
The Hollies - I Can't Let
Go - 03-66
The Hollies - Bus Stop
- 07-66
The Hollies - Stop Stop
Stop - 10-66
Paul Jones - High Time
- 11-66
Tom Jones - Green Green
Grass Of Home - 11-66
The Kinks - Till The End
Of The Day - 01-66
The Kinks - Dedicated Follower
Of Fashion - 03-66
The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
- 06-66
The Kinks - Dead End Street
- 12-66
Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
- 03-66
LosBravos - Black Is Black - 07-66
The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
- 05-66
The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer
In The City - 08-66
The Mamas & The Papas
- Monday Monday - 05-66
The Mamas & The Papas
- I Saw Her Again - 08-66
Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo
- 04-66
Manfred Mann - Just Like
A Woman - 09-66
Manfred Mann - Semi-Detached
Suburban Mr.James - 11-66
The Mindbenders - A Groovy
Kind Of Love - 02-66
The Merseys - Sorrow -
05-66
Chris Montez - The More
I See You - 07-66
Napoleon XIV - They're
Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! - 08-66
The New Vaudeville Band
- Winchester Cathedral - 10-66
Roy Orbison - Lana -
07-66
Roy Orbison - Too Soon
To Know - 09-66
Roy Orbison - There Won't
Be Many Coming Home - 12-66
The Overlanders - Michelle
- 01-66
Pinkerton's Assorted Colours
- Mirror Mirror - 02-1966
Gene Pitney - Backstage
- 03-66
Gene Pitney - Nobody Needs
Your Love - 06-66
Gene Pitney - Just One
Smile - 12-66
Elvis Presley - Love Letters
- 07-66
Elvis Presley - If Every
Day Was Like Christmas - 12-66
Otis Redding - My Girl
- 01-66
Jim Reeves - Distant Drums
- 09-66
Cliff Richard - Visions
- 08-66
Cliff Richard - Time Drags
By - 11-66
The Rolling Stones - 19th
Nervous Breakdown -02-66
The Rolling Stones - Paint
It, Black - 05-66
The Rolling Stones - Have
You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow - 10-66
Roy 'C' - Shotgun Wedding
- 05-66
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes
Of The Brokenhearted - 12-66
The Sandpipers - Guantanamera
- 10-66
The Seekers - Someday One
Day - 04-66
The Seekers - Walk With
Me - 10-66
The Seekers - Morningtown
Ride-12-66
Peter Sellers - A Hard
Day's Night - 01-66
Sandie Shaw - Tomorrow
- 02-66
Sandie Shaw - Nothing Comes
Easy - 06-66
Simon & Garfunkel -
Homeward Bound - 05-66
Frank Sinatra - Strangers
In The Night - 05-66
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots
Are Made For Walkin' - 02-66
Percy Sledge - When A Man
Loves A Woman - 06-66
The Small Faces - Sha La
La La Lee - 02-66
The Small Faces - Hey Girl
- 05-66
The Small Faces - All Or
Nothing - 08-66
The Small Faces - My Mind's
Eye - 12-66
Sonny & Cher - What
Now My Love - 03-66
Sonny & Cher - Little
Man - 09-66
The Spencer Davis Group
- Keep On Runnin' - 01-66
The Spencer Davis Group
- Somebody Help Me - 04-66
The Spencer Davis Group
- When I Come Home - 09-66
The Spencer Davis Group
- Gimme Some Loving - 11-66
Dusty Springfield - You
Don't Have To Say You Love Me - 04-66
Dusty Springfield - Goin'
Back - 07-66
Dusty Springfield - All
I See Is You - 10-66
The St. Louis Union - Girl
- 02-66
Crispian St. Peters - You
Were On My Mind - 02-66
Crispian St. Peters - Pied
Piper - 04-66
The Supremes - You Can't
Hurry Love - 09-66
The Supremes - You Keep
Me Hangin' On - 12-66
The Troggs - Wild Thing
- 05-66
The Troggs - With A Girl
Like You - 07-66
The Troggs - I Can't Control
Myself - 10-66
Ike & Tina Turner -
River Deep Mountain High - 06-66
The Walker Brothers - The
Sun AIn't Gonna Shine Anymore - 03-66
The Walker Brothers - Another
Tear Falls - 10-66
The Who - Substitute -
04-66
The Who - I'm A Boy -
09-66
The Yardbirds - Shapes
Of Things - 03-66
The Yardbirds - Over Under
Sideways Down -
06-66