What song was popular the year you graduated from high school?

[In_The_Wind]

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[elleng]

1. This

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[In_The_Wind]

2. I remember all 3. Thanks for posting them.

Stranger on the shore was hauntingly beautiful.

[elleng]

3. Yes, it was,

and I've forgotten the name too many times. Thanks for the opportunity to 'archive' it!

[yellowdogintexas]

91. 1966

Summer In the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
Devil With the Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels
Barbara Ann, The Beach Boys

I had to cheat to try to figure out what was popular near graduation time. Songs still popular when I was in summer school were easier to remember.

[elleng]

92. Graduated from COLLEGE then,

1. The Ballad of the Green Berets, Sgt. Barry Sadler
2. Cherish, The Association
3. You're My Soul and Inspiration, The Righteous Brothers
4. Reach Out I'll Be There, The Four Tops
5. 96 Tears, ? and The Mysterians
6. Last Train to Clarksville, The Monkees
7. Monday, Monday, The Mama's and The Papa's
8. You Can't Hurry Love, The Supremes
9. The Poor Side of Town, Johnny Rivers
10. California Dreamin', The Mama's and The Papa's
11. Summer In the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
12. Born Free, Roger Williams
13. These Boots Are Made for Walkin', Nancy Sinatra
14. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, Jimmy Ruffin
15. Strangers In the Night, Frank Sinatra

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[In_The_Wind]

4. Love Letters ~ Elvis Presley

He was the #1 heartthrob at my high school.

[Kaleva]

5. Rod Stewart had a major hit the year I graduated back in '77

Hard to believe he's 71 now.

[In_The_Wind]

6. He was also singing this one in '77.

That was the year I earned my BA degree.


I try not to think about the age of singers I loved from way back then.

[malthaussen]

7. I didn't graduate.

But "Walk on the Wild Side" was #1 during the Prom that year.

-- Mal

[hobbit709]

8. There was a bunch of stuff in 1968.

[Art_from_Ark]

73. That was the best year for all sorts of music genres

The Beatles released their White Album

Lots of instrumentals made the Top 100, too--

Love Is Blue
Time Is Tight
Classical Gas
Theme from Romeo and Juliet
Grazin' in the Grass

A few Bubblegum songs even made it to the Top 100

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (Yeah, I actually liked to skate to that song)
Simple Simon Says
1-2-3 Red Light

And then there was that long song (sung by a future Dumbledore) that people love to hate (although I love it):

MacArthur Park!

[pink-o]

9. This one!

The first line was what we sang thru the halls in 1973

[rurallib]

10. geez, I googled my year and I got "To Sir Wiyh Love"

but who remembers that?
So I am going with Album of the year (and all time I believe)

Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
which appears to be blocked on youtube.

So most of you can probably play it in your head.

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[Glorfindel]

11. I agree with you totally. It came out when I was in Vietnam.

We wore out two LP's listening to it. I still love it.

[seaglass]

37. To Sir With Love is the best! I hear it all the time on Sirius 60s radio station. n/t

[KentuckyWoman]

12. Anything by KC and the Sunshine Band

They were Yuuuuuugggge.
Although my personal fav was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. I still have Night at the Opera and listen to (and worship) it regularly. Thankfully it's easier to find needles these days.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

76. I love KC and Queen. Both great. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

13. It would be "Love Me Do" by the Beatles

the week I graduated.

[Glorfindel]

14. "It's My Party," by Lesley Gore

[UTUSN]

15. The link says 1961, but this was our graduation song in '65

[KMOD]

16. Simple Minds

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[Mendocino]

17. Tangled Up In Blue

[struggle4progress]

18. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

[trof]

40. Um...how old are you?

If you don't mind me asking.

[struggle4progress]

41. Not that old. But I first heard that song the year that I would have graduated

from high school, if I hadn't dropped out --- and it was popular with me and the young lady who introduced me to it

[kentauros]

19. I doubt it's anything I liked

[Tripper11]

20. 1983 for me....

[Number9Dream]

21. What we were listening to (doubt they were popular)...

And many others.

[Aristus]

22. "Life In One Day" by Howard Jones.

[Doc_Technical]

23. Time is Tight

[femmocrat]

24. It was a good one, "I Can't Help Myself" by The Four Tops.

[bigwillq]

25. Crossroads by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

We wanted it to be our graduation song but the school said no

[progressoid]

26. Most of it was crap.

But there were songs that weren't necessarily mainstream popular

[mackerel]

61. Those are all great songs and they made '81 a stand out

year. Unfortunately none of them were on Billboards Top 100. So you can imagine Grad Nite parties were
all REO Speedwagon and Hall & Oates and the like.

[progressoid]

67. Or Air Supply!

I was somewhat saved by a foreign exchange student. He had access to all sorts of great music that didn't play in my podunk little town. (he even had a Walkman!). When Devo and The Police started playing on the radio, they were perplexed to say the least.

[mackerel]

71. Talk about it! LOL

[madamesilverspurs]

27. Monday, Monday

[MattSh]

28. Actually had to do some research... (1974)

[mac56]

29. Ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga, ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga..

[azurnoir]

30. Cosmic Debris

[cpwm17]

31. Blondie - Call Me

[Callmecrazy]

32. Cyndi Lauper...

Summer of !984.

[Arugula Latte]

82. Same. And also "The Reflex" by Duran Duran.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

33. We're going back a bit

The years still had 3 digits:

[sakabatou]

34. Here you go

http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/top-100-songs-of-the-year/?year=2006

[steve2470]

35. Al Stewart, Year of the Cat, I heard this constantly, I'm glad I liked it

[Manifestor_of_Light]

36. Imagine - John Lennon 1972.

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[Paladin]

38. "Hey Jude"

1968 was a great year for music.

[trof]

39. Mack the Knife - Louis Armstrong - 1959

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[Tobin S.]

42. 1991- Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

[OxQQme]

43. Sheb Wooley

[OxQQme]

44. Bobby Freeman

[OxQQme]

45. The Stroll

Thanks for this thread I_T_W

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[ArnoldLayne]

46. 1974-75 Kiss -Rock and Roll All Night and Party Everyday

Queen-Killer Queen, Pilot - Magic and of course my favorites were Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Karn Evil 9 1st 2nd and 3rd Impression Robin Trower - The Day of the Eagle and Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.

[kwassa]

47. Get Up ( I Feel Like Being) A Sex Machine.

[Xipe Totec]

48. American Pie (The Day the Music Died) 1972

[jpak]

49. umung mii tribe

[Ino]

50. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

#1 song on Billboard's 1970 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

[warrprayer]

51. Walk This Way

Aerosmith, 1975

[Capt.Rocky300]

52. "Born to be Wild"

Steppenwolf

[liberalfromaustin21]

53. 1991. Smells Like Teen Spirit

Awesome song. RIP Kurt.

[Recursion]

54. Billboard says the #1 song the week I graduated was...

"I Swear" by All-4-One

[Duckfan]

55. Marvin

I could probably post other tunes, but Marvin is what stands out in my mind. American Pie was another too.

[pokerfan]

56. On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

57. 1964. Louie Louie

[Coventina]

58. "That's What Friends are For" by Dionne Warwick and Friends.

[3catwoman3]

59. The infamous "Class of '69."

Oh, the jokes. My last name being Ball didn't help.

According to the link in post #34 above, the number 1 song that year was Sugar, Sugar, by the Archies. How lame! How embarrassing! How pedestrian! Especially when preceded by Hey, Jude for 1968, and followed by Bridge Over Troubled Water for 1970.

Yuck! What were we thinking?

[In_The_Wind]

60. Dear Miss Ball

Indeed For a lot of us ... it was drugs, sex and rock n roll.

What were We Thinking?

[lastlib]

62. At Seventeen:

(I was seventeen when this song hit the radio, and boy, was it on the mark in my town!)

[In_The_Wind]

63. It was a great song.

[mythology]

64. I was supposed to graduate in 1999

The Billboard Music's top song of the year was Believe by Cher. But I sort of graduated in 1998 and that year was Too Close by Next.

In other words, absolute dreck.

[Iggo]

65. Without looking it up, I do remember the song that was played the most in the quad that year was...

[kairos12]

66. Radar Love.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

68. Let's see, I remember hearing "Hey Jude," "Piece of My Heart" and

"I Say a Little Prayer for You" on the radio that year.

[shanti]

69. Crocodile rock, smoke on the water, 1973

i loved me some elton john. first concert ever was 9/73, hollywood bowl.

[Auggie]

70. "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" by John Denver was Billboard's #1 the week I graduated

"Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tennille was Billboard's #1 single of 1975.

Yuck!

[Special Prosciuto]

72. It was something from The Carpenters.

We've only just begun? My school pumped us up with that bullshit.

[Ahpook]

74. Never cared to look

And wish I didn't MIlli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice are among the top 100.

Although Faith No More was on there.

[KamaAina]

75. The 1812 Overture

[KentuckyWoman]

78. Made me click.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

77. The most popular for the year was "Candle in the Wind"

but that didn't come out until later in the year when Princess Diana died. I had already started first semester of college then.

Mmmbop was the most popular song the week I graduated.

[pscot]

79. It's All in the Game

Great thread.

[dixiegrrrrl]

86. That song holds up so well even now...

I had just started Jr. high when that came out, and had my first boyfriend crush.....

'58 was year of some good music...

"At the Hop"
Danny & the Juniors

"It's Only Make Believe"
Conway Twitty


of course, that was the year of "The Purple People Eater"
Sheb Wooley

[pscot]

87. I was in love that year

and in the fall we both headed out to different schools. It was very sad and exhilarating.

[El Supremo]

80. Sugar sugar???

[ghostsinthemachine]

81. The music I was listening to in 1973 was

Edgar Winter, Frankenstein. Grateful Dead, Trucking. Marvin Gaye, Let's get it on. Allman Bros ,Rambling Man. Sophie Bros, Long Train Running and Focus, Hocus Pocus.
Here are the top hits from that yearhttp://www.bobborst.com/popculture/top-100-songs-of-the-year/?year=1973

[TBF]

83. Borderline

[LWolf]

84. Top ten the year I graduated:

1. Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees
2. We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions - Queen
3. Heroes - David Bowie
4. Best of My Love - The Emotions
5. God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols
6. Brick House - The Commodores
7. Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
8. Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
9. I Feel Love - Donna Summer
10. Jamming - Bob Marley and the Wailers

[justhanginon]

85. I believe it was "Only You" by the Platters. Yeaah, I'm that old!

[dixiegrrrrl]

89. Classic song by now....

I remember listening to it, in Ellensberg Wa. when I was 8-9.

We moved so damn often that sometimes it is only the songs that help me remember where I was at the time.

[Arkansas Granny]

88. When I graduated, May, 1964, "My Guy" by Mary Wells topped the chart.

http://tunecaster.com/charts/60/week6421.html

The Beatles had four songs in the top 20 that week. Unfortunately, I didn't like the Beatles.

[Ike Y]

90. I Hated (and still hate) This Song, but Everyone Else Seemed to Love It