BEST NUMBER 1 HIT of the MIDDLE 1960s? (Part 2)

[NightTrain]

Coming up in Part 3: The Four Tops, Byrds, Rolling Stones, and more!

[blondeatlast]

1. Leader of the Pack. The Shangri-La's ruled!

I was only about 6 but I loved that album; and their fashion sense influences me to this day!

[donco6]

2. Can't stand HOTRS

Probably the most overplayed tune behind Stairway to Heaven.

[Catch22Dem]

3. Shit, I change my vote!

I voted for "I Feel Fine" before noticing "Ticket to Ride" which is a superior song.

[Wickerman]

4. Any poll with Manfred Mann

gets my vote. I love MM - all the way through to post earthband. :loveya:

[Kahuna]

5. Tough tough list. I had to go with, do wah diddy.

:7

[starroute]

6. All of them!

There isn't a song on that list that isn't superior to anything I've heard on the radio in the last 20 years.

And no, this isn't nostalgia speaking. My kids agree with me that most current music sucks -- and that the stuff that doesn't suck never gets on the air.

I love almost everything on that list with a deep and abiding passion (even "Leader of the Pack," which I found tacky at the time but eventually came to respect), and I refuse to choose among them.

Get the picture?

[NightTrain]

7. Had to go for the Righteous Brothers myself

Greatest white R&B record ever made!

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. "Ticket to Ride" in a squeaker over The Big O.

Part of me wanted to vote for the Shangri-Las, but their best song -- "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" -- never made #1. :(

[Faygo Kid]

9. What, no "Satisfaction?"

Tough, I know, but should have been listed. You could have done virtually all Beatles and Motown from that era, and good stuff it surely was.

[NightTrain]

10. It'll be in the pext poll.

Promise! :headbang:

[MrSlayer]

11. I Feel Fine. One of the Beatles' best.

Nice little distortion on the guitar in the beginning, nice unconventional drum pattern, great harmonizing and some real feeling in the verses.