Think back to the day you graduated from high school. What music was hot back then?

[Denninmi]

Billboard top ten for the week of June 5, 1983:

http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1983-06-05

Lets Dance, She Blinded Me With Science, Little Red Corvette, Beat It, Straight From The Heart all in the mix.

80's awesomeness. Gotta love it.

You?

[pinboy3niner]

1. #1 Billboard single on the day I was graduated:

"Paint It, Black" - The Rolling Stones


Top 10 Hits of 1966:

I'm a Believer
Winchester Cathedral
The Ballad of the Green Berets
96 Tears
Good Vibrations
Devil with the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly
Last Train to Clarksville
Reach out I'll be There
You're My Soul and My Inspiration
You Can't Hurry Love

[Art_from_Ark]

2. My personal Top 10 from 1966 differs a little from that

A Taste of Honey
River Deep, Mountain High
Winchester Cathedral
Secret Agent Man
Hanky Panky
A Well-Respected Man
These Boots Are Made for Walking
Last Train to Clarksville
Flowers on the Wall
Yellow Submarine

[pinboy3niner]

7. Yeah, my personal list would be different, too

For one thing, it definitely would not include 'The Ballad of the Green Berets,' lol!

[Art_from_Ark]

24. Our elementary school music teacher tried to get us to sing that song back in the day

It was pretty depressing, almost no one wanted to sing it, so she gave up on it.

And to be honest, there were lots of songs in my Top Ten back then that would never make Billboard's list, including

Gilligan's Island theme song
The Beverly Hillbillies theme song
It's About Time theme song
The Avengers theme song
Lost In Space theme song
Batman theme song
I Dream of Jeannie theme song
Hogan's Heroes theme song
Astro Boy theme song
The Bullwinkle Show theme song

[HopeHoops]

3. ZZ Top, Styx, Heart, Devo, Benetar, Bowie, Genesis, Bad Company, Rush, Yes, etc.

[Denninmi]

4. So this would be late 70s, around 1980?

?

[HopeHoops]

11. Yep.

[Kali]

5. none of the shit that came up for june of 78

guess that is why I never listened to popular radio


my personal list would be closer to hopehoops - minus rush and styx add some more country rock, sabbath, deep purple, zep etc etc

[HopeHoops]

12. We had that in there too. I just posted the short list.

[ButterflyBlood]

6. Top 10 for May 25, 2002

1-Ashanti - Foolish
2-P. Diddy - I Need A Girl (Part One)
3-Fat Joe Featuring Ashanti - What's Luv?
4-Usher - U Don't Have To Call
5-Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
6-Michelle Branch - All You Wanted
7-Puddle of Mudd - Blurry
8-Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
9-Eminem - Without Me
10-Pink - Don't Let Me Get Me

[hobbit709]

8. Unfortunately, one of them was MacArthur Park.

[RebelOne]

9. I graduated in 1956.

These were the top 10 hits.

[Arugula Latte]

10. Similar era as you ...

"Hello" - Lionel Richie, "Let's Hear It for the Boy" - Deniece Williams, "Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper, "The Reflex" - Duran Duran

Also "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins, my class's theme.

[Archae]

13. Wings, "With A Little Luck"

Well, I like it...

[Arkansas Granny]

14. For the week of May 30, 1964, the top five were:

"Love Me Do" - The Beatles
"Chapel of Love" - The Dixie Cups
"My Guy" - Mary Wells
"Love Me With All Your Heart" - The Ray Charles Singers
"Hello Dolly" - Louis Armstrong

[Populist_Prole]

15. Mostly crap in 1980: Radio was pretty much schlocky garbage, especially in the NYC area

Disco, though beginning to wane, still had a significant influence on music and pop-culture. There was good hard rock/metal and punk released around that time, but even the FM "album oriented" radio stations wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole, and so the best stuff was heard in someone's house or the cassette deck in their cars. Having to listen to mainstream FM stations ( not to mention AM radio ) was brutal torture session of soft, banal "corporate rock".

Music definitely got better as the 80's picked up.

[pink-o]

16. Our choir begged to sing Paul Simon's "Kodachrome"

For our graduation in 1973.

"When I think back to all the crap I learned in High School/It's a wonder I can think at all..."

Or else Alice Cooper's "School's Out", which was popular the year before.

Albeit, my fave LP from my graduating year was "Goodbye, Yellowbrick Road. Still sounds good almost 40 years later!

[CTyankee]

17. So long ago...

it was this: http://www.allmusic.com/album/your-hit-parade-1957-mw0000884963

"Fascination" was the top song. Ugh...but I was a Fine Arts major so I was "above it all."

[sakabatou]

18. Awful things

http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=2006-06-13

[GoCubsGo]

19. Hot hot hot stuff stuff stuff...

Hot hot stuff stuff. And, lots of other Disco crap.

Also, The Logical Song and McCartney's Goodnight Tonight, so 1979 was not completely crappy.

http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1979-06-08

[LWolf]

20. #1: I'm Your Boogie Man

The rest of the top ten that week:

2. Dreams
3. Got To Give It Up
4. Gonna Fly Now
5. Feels Like The First Time
6. Lucille
7. Lonely Boy
8. Undercover Angel
9. Sir Duke
10. Couldn't Get It Right

http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1977-06-11

[Bertha Venation]

23. Thanks, LWolf!

[sinkingfeeling]

21. 'Monday, Monday' by the Mamas and the Papas, 'You're My Soul & Inspiration' by the Righteous

Brothers, 'Barbara Ann' by the Beach Boys, 'As Tears Go By' by the Stones, and 'Nowhere Man' by the Beatles.

[Bertha Venation]

22. Blondie!

The Tide Is High
Rapture (my fave)
Heart of Glass


Also Pat Benatar, Genesis, DEVO . . . that's all I can remember.