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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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
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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
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| 46 |
1293 | The Velvet Underground & Nico | All Tomorrow's Parties
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| 47 |
1332 | The Velvet Underground | Sunday Morning
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| 48 |
1392 | Eddie Floyd | Knock on Wood |
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| 49 |
1537 | The Velvet Underground & Nico | Femme Fatale
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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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| 61 |
1909 | The Beatles | She Said She Said |
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| 62 |
1947 | Donovan | Season of the Witch |
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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
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| 70 |
2098 | The Beach Boys | Caroline, No |
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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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| 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
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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
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| John Mayall | Have You Heard |
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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)
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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
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| Otis Redding | Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
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| The Beach Boys | Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
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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)
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| The Paul Butterfield Blues Band | East-West
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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
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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
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