The Top Songs from 1966
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Rank | All Time
Rank | Artist | Song | Sample |
| 1 |
4 | The Beach Boys
| Good Vibrations
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| 2 |
22 | Ike and Tina Turner
| River Deep - Mountain High
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| 3 |
43 | The Beach Boys
| God Only Knows
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| 4 |
45 | Four Tops
| Reach Out I'll Be There
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| 5 |
83 | Percy Sledge
| When a Man Loves a Woman
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| 6 |
107 | The Byrds
| Eight Miles High
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| 7 |
111 | Buffalo Springfield
| For What It's Worth
| Listen
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| 8 |
183 | The Troggs
| Wild Thing
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| 9 |
197 | The Rolling Stones
| Paint It, Black
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| 10 |
209 | The Lovin' Spoonful
| Summer in the City
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| 11 |
213 | Jimi Hendrix
| Hey Joe
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| 12 |
218 | Spencer Davis Group
| Gimme Some Lovin'
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| 13 |
221 | Question Mark and the Mysterians
| 96 Tears
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| 14 |
222 | James Brown
| It's a Man's Man's Man's World
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| 15 |
250 | The Beatles
| Tomorrow Never Knows
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| 16 |
299 | Otis Redding
| Try a Little Tenderness
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| 17 |
301 | The Beatles
| Paperback Writer
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| 18 |
341 | The Beatles
| Eleanor Rigby
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| 19 |
351 | The Supremes
| You Can't Hurry Love
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| 20 |
461 | Bob Dylan
| Visions of Johanna
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| 21 |
464 | The Easybeats
| Friday on My Mind
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| 22 |
484 | Bobby Fuller Four
| I Fought the Law
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| 23 |
485 | Bob Dylan
| Just Like a Woman
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| 24 |
507 | The Monkees
| I'm a Believer
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| 25 |
558 | The Left Banke
| Walk Away Renée
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| 26 |
583 | James Carr
| The Dark End of the Street
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| 27 |
615 | The Walker Brothers
| The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
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| 28 |
655 | Sam & Dave
| Hold On! I'm a Comin'
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| 29 |
696 | The Young Rascals
| Good Lovin'
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| 30 |
727 | The Beatles
| Rain
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| 31 |
754 | 13th Floor Elevators
| You're Gonna Miss Me
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| 32 |
762 | The Supremes
| You Keep Me Hangin' On
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| 33 |
800 | The Monkees
| Last Train to Clarksville
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| 34 |
837 | The Who
| Substitute
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| 35 |
933 | Dusty Springfield
| You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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| 36 |
951 | Nancy Sinatra
| These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
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| 37 | 994
| Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels
| Devil with a Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly
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| 38 |
999 | Aaron Neville
| Tell It Like It Is
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| 39 |
1063 | The Beach Boys
| Wouldn't It Be Nice
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| 40 |
1094 | Bob Dylan
| I Want You
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| 41 |
1098 | The Count Five
| Psychotic Reaction
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| 42 |
1130 | Jimmy Ruffin
| What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
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| 43 |
1188 | The Rolling Stones
| 19th Nervous Breakdown
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| 44 |
1244 | Bob Dylan
| Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
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| 45 |
1276 | The Temptations
| Ain't Too Proud to Beg
| Listen
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| 46 |
1293 | The Velvet Underground & Nico
| All Tomorrow's Parties
| Listen
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| 47 |
1332 | The Velvet Underground
| Sunday Morning
| Listen
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| 48 |
1392 | Eddie Floyd
| Knock on Wood
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| 49 |
1537 | The Velvet Underground & Nico
| Femme Fatale
| Listen
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| 50 |
1594 | The Beatles
| And Your Bird Can Sing
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| 51 |
1620 | Fred Neil
| Everybody's Talkin'
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| 52 |
1630 | The Isley Brothers
| This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
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| 53 |
1725 | Wilson Pickett
| Land of 1000 Dances
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| 54 |
1743 | Cream
| I Feel Free
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| 55 |
1744 | Four Tops
| Standing in the Shadows of Love
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| 56 |
1782 | The Kinks
| Dead End Street
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| 57 |
1792 | The Beatles
| Here, There and Everywhere
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| 58 |
1795 | The Seeds
| Pushin' Too Hard
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| 59 |
1825 | Wilson Pickett
| Mustang Sally
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| 60 |
1869 | Donovan
| Sunshine Superman
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Listen
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| 61 |
1909 | The Beatles
| She Said She Said
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| 62 |
1947 | Donovan
| Season of the Witch
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Listen
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| 63 |
1991 | Small Faces
| All or Nothing
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| 64 |
2008 | Loretta Lynn
| Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)
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| 65 |
2017 | Loretta Lynn
| You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
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| 66 |
2025 | Yardbirds
| Shapes of Things
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| 67 |
2056 | Frank Sinatra
| Strangers in the Night
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| 68 |
2069 | The Kinks
| Sunny Afternoon
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| 69 |
2076 | The Rolling Stones
| Under My Thumb
| Listen
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| 70 |
2098 | The Beach Boys
| Caroline, No
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Listen
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| 71 |
2121 | The Beatles
| I'm Only Sleeping
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| 72 |
2126 | The Hollies
| Bus Stop
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| 73 |
2237 | Cat Stevens
| Matthew & Son
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| 74 |
2444 | The Standells
| Dirty Water
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| 75 |
2465 | Jr. Walker & The All Stars
| (I'm a) Road Runner
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| 76 |
2488 | Tommy James and The Shondells
| Hanky Panky
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| 77 |
2560 | Lee Dorsey
| Get Out of My Life, Woman
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| 78 |
2591 | The Temptations
| Get Ready
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| 79 |
2782 | The Beach Boys
| Sloop John B.
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Listen
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| 80 |
2925 | The Creation
| Making Time
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| 81 |
2931 | James & Bobby Purify
| I'm Your Puppet
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| The Swingin' Medallions
| Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
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| The Barbarians
| Moulty
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| Love
| Seven and Seven Is
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| Slim Harpo
| Baby Scratch My Back
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| Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: |
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| Manfred Mann
| Pretty Flamingo
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| The Rolling Stones
| Stupid Girl
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| The Mothers of Invention
| Trouble Comin’ Every Day
| Listen
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| The Loved Ones
| The Loved One
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| Michel Polnareff
| Love Me, Please Love Me
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| Lee Dorsey
| Working in the Coal Mine
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| Paul Revere & The Raiders
| Hungry
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| Billy Stewart
| Summertime
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| Todd Rundgren
| Hello It's Me
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| Johnny Rivers
| Secret Agent Man
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| Merle Haggard
| Swinging Doors
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| Bobby Fuller Four
| Let Her Dance
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| The Music Machine
| Talk Talk
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| Dusty Springfield
| Goin' Back
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| Phil Ochs
| Love Me, I'm a Liberal
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| Cannonball Adderley
| Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
| Listen
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| John Mayall
| Have You Heard
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Listen
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| The Beatles
| Taxman
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| The Rolling Stones
| Out of Time
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| Jacques Dutronc
| Les Playboys
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| The Shadows of Knight
| Gloria
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| Tim Hardin
| Reason to Believe
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| Bob Dylan
| Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
| Listen
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| Paul Revere & The Raiders
| Kicks
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| Lee Dorsey
| Holy Cow
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| The Leaves
| Hey Joe
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| The Beatles
| For No One
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| The Rolling Stones
| Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
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| Ray Charles
| Let's Go Get Stoned
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| The Mamas and the Papas
| Monday, Monday
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| Bob Dylan
| Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
| Listen
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| Otis Redding
| Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
| Listen
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| The Beach Boys
| Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
| Listen
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| Wilson Pickett
| Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)
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| Bob Dylan
| One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
| Listen
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| The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
| East-West
| Listen
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| The Temptations
| (I Know) I'm Losing You
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| Otis Redding
| I Can't Turn You Loose
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| Sam & Dave
| You Don't Know Like I Know
| Listen
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| The Temptations
| Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
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| The Mamas and the Papas
| I Saw Her Again
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| The Who
| I'm a Boy
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| Simon and Garfunkel
| A Hazy Shade of Winter
| Listen
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