Top Ten?

Another meme is going around the blogging community. From A Small Victory:

a. Go to musicoutfitters.com.
b. Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
c. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don’t remember (or don’t care about).

Nah, that’s too much work. But I did go to musicoutfitters.com, and I did look at the top 100 list for 1964, the year I graduated. Surprises (to me, anyway):

6. Everybody Loves Somebody, Dean Martin (Dino, you old smoothie)
8. People, Barbara Streissand (I’m 58 . . . shit, she must be in her 70s!)
28. Dead Man’s Curve, Jan and Dean (okay, now I’m officially embarrassed)
38. The House Of The Rising Sun, Animals (little less embarrassed now . . .)
44. The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss), Betty Everett (I still like that song)
46. My Boy Lollipop, Millie Small (damn, now I’m all embarrassed again)
47. Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Major Lance (at the time, that was my best line with the girls)
61. Little Honda, Hondells (oh my God, I had one . . . 50 CCs!)
75. Surfin’ Bird, Trashmen (I’m still trying to teach my parrot to say “bird is the word”)
95. Louie Louie, The Kingsmen (which proves my class was the coolest class ever!)

Another surprise: among all the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Dave Clark Five hits, there’s not one Rolling Stones song. Guess they’re not quite as old as they look.