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Sunday, May 9, 2021

British Invasion: Top 100 Songs

British Invasion, 1962-1967:

Top 100 Songs

The British Invasion was marked by the infiltration of the United States pop charts by a slew of British artists in the mid-‘60s. The most prominent acts were the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and the Kinks.

This list was compiled by aggregating multiple lists. Those songs which made 3 or more lists were then ranked based on their overall status in Dave’s Music Database.

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1. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
2. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
3. The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
4. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
5. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
6. The Who “My Generation” (1965)
7. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
8. The Beatles “She Loves You” (1963)
9. The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (1967)
10. The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)

11. The Beatles “Help!” (1965)
12. The Beatles “Twist and Shout” (1963)
13. The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” (1964)
14. The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964)
15. The Beatles “Penny Lane” (1967)
16. The Beatles “All You Need Is Love” (1967)
17. The Troggs “Wild Thing” (1966)
18. Petula Clark “Downtown” (1964)
19. The Beatles “I Feel Fine” (1964)
20. The Beatles “We Can Work It Out” (1965)

21. Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Lovin’” (1966)
22. The Beatles “Ticket to Ride” (1965)
23. The Rolling Stones “Get Off of My Cloud” (1965)
24. The Beatles “Day Tripper” (1965)
25. Manfred Mann “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” (1964)
26. The Beatles Paperback Writer” (1966)
27. The Beatles “I Saw Her Standing There” (1963)
28. The Rolling Stones “Ruby Tuesday” (167)
29. Them “Gloria” (1965)
30. The Who “I Can See for Miles” (1967)

31. The Tornadoes “Telstar” (1962)
32. The Beatles “Hello Goodbye” (1967)
33. The Beatles “Love Me Do” (1962)
34. Lulu “To Sir with Love” (1967)
35. The Zombies “She’s Not There” (1964)
36. Donovan “Sunshine Superman” (1966)
37. The Yardbirds “For Your Love” (1965)
38. The Who “I Can’t Explain” (1965)
39. The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night” (1964)
40. Engelbert Humperdinck “Release Me” (1967)

41. The Small Faces “Itchycoo Park” (1967)
42. The Easybeats “Friday on My Mind” (1966)
43. The Beatles “Please Please Me” (1963)
44. The Beatles “Yellow Submarine” (1966)
45. The Searchers “Needles and Pins” (1964)
46. The Animals “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (1965)
47. Dave Clark Five “Glad All Over” (1963)
48. The Beatles “Eight Days a Week” (1964)
49. Donovan “Mellow Yellow” (1966)
50. The Beatles “Nowhere Man” (1965)

51. Donovan “Catch the Wind” (1965)
52. The Animals “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (1965)
53. Peter & Gordon “World Without Love” (1964)
54. The Yardbirds “Heart Full of Soul” (1965)
55. The Rolling Stones “19th Nervous Breakdown” (1966)
56. The Yardbirds “Shapes of Things” (1966)
57. Herman’s Hermits “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” (1965)
58. The Hollies “Bus Stop” (1966)
59. Tom Jones “It’s Not Unsual” (1965)
60. The Rolling Stones “Mother’s Little Helper” (1966)

61. The Rolling Stones “The Last Time” (1965)
62. The Beatles “Do You Want to Know a Secret” (1963)
63. The Rolling Stones “Time Is on My Side” (1964)
64. The Moody Blues “Go Now” (1964)
65. The Rolling Stones “As Tears Go By” (1965)
66. The Hollies “Carrie Anne” (1967)
67. Dusty Springfield “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” (1966)
68. The Mindbenders “A Groovy Kind of Love” (1966)
69. The Kinks “Tired of Waiting for You” (1965)
70. The Kinks “Sunny Afternoon” (1966)

71. The Zombies “Tell Her No” (1965)
72. Gerry & the Pacemakers “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (1963)
73. Herman’s Hermits “I’m into Something Good” (1964)
74. The Mindbenders “Game of Love” (1964)
75. Freddie & the Dreamers “I’m Telling You Now” (1963)
76. Gerry & the Pacemakers “Ferry Cross the Mersey” (1964)
77. Spencer Davis Group “I’m a Man” (1967)
78. The Kinks “A Well Respected Man” (1965)
79. Herman’s Hermits “I’m Henry VIII, I Am” (1965)
80. Dave Clark Five “Bits and Pieces” (1964)

81. Petula Clark “My Love” (1965)
82. Spencer Davis Group “Keep on Runnin’” (1965)
83. Them “Here Comes the Night” (1965)
84. Shirley Bassey “Goldfinger” (1964)
85. Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas “Bad to Me” (1963)
86. Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas “Little Children” (1964)
87. The Swinging Blue Jeans “Hippy Hippy Shake” (1963)
88. Dave Clark Five “Catch Us if You Can” (1965)
89. Dave Clark Five “Over and Over” (1965)
90. Dave Clark Five “Because” (1964)

91. The Beatles “She’s a Woman” (1964)
92. Dusty Springfield “I Only Want to Be with You” (1963)
93. Gerry & the Pacemakers “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying” (1964)
94. The Hollies “Stop Stop Stop” (1966)
95. The Searchers “Love Potion No. 9” (1964)
96. Chad & Jeremy “A Summer Song” (1964)
97. The Honeycombs “Have I the Right?” (1964)
98. Dusty Springfield “Wishin’ and Hopin’” (1964)
99. The Bachelors “Diane” (1964)
100. Dave Clark Five “Can’t You See That She’s Mine” (1964)

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First posted 4/17/2020; last updated 5/9/2021.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame

Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame:

2013-2015

According to the Ultimate Classic Rock, their Hall of Fame “is 100 percent fan-voted. Every artist who makes it into our hallowed hall has earned his or her spot there. We started this in March 2013. Since then, many of rock’s biggest names have been voted to victory. Take a look at some of the legends who have made it into the Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame.” The Hall appears to have been discontinued in 2015.

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First posted 3/4/2015; last updated 7/12/2025.
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Friday, October 19, 1973

David Bowie Pin-Ups released

Pin-Ups

David Bowie

Released: October 19, 1973

Peak: 23 US, 15 UK, -- CN, 4 AU

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.1 UK, 3.5 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: glam rock/classic rock

Tracks:

Song Title (Writers) [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. Rosalyn (Duncan/Farley) [2:21]
  2. Here Comes the Night (Berns) [3:09]
  3. I Wish You Would (Arnold) [2:49]
  4. See Emily Play (Barrett) [4:11]
  5. Everything’s Alright (Crouch/Konrad/Stavely/James/Karlson) [2:28]
  6. I Can’t Explain (Townshend) [2:11]
  7. Friday on My Mind (Young/Vanda) [2:56] (21 CL, 36 CO)
  8. Sorrow (Feldman/Goldstein/Gottehrer) [2:53] (9/28/73, 69 CB, 18 CL, 6 CO, 3 UK, 1 AU)
  9. Don’t Bring Me Down (Dee) [2:06]
  10. Shapes of Things (Samwell-Smith/McCarty/Relf) [2:53]
  11. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Townshend/Daltrey) [3:07]
  12. Where Have All the Good Times Gone? (Davies) [2:41]

Total Running Time: 40:30

The Players:

  • David Bowie (vocals, guitar, saxophone, harmonica, Moog synthesizer)
  • Mick Ronson (guitar, piano)
  • Trevor Bolder (bass)
  • Mike Garson (keyboards)
  • Aynsley Dunbar (drums)
  • Ken Fordham (baritone saxophone)
  • G.A. MacCormack (backing vocals)

Rating:

3.283 out of 5.00 (average of 23 ratings)

About the Album:

After establishing himself as a glam-rock superstar with Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, David Bowie wanted his next project to be an adaptation of George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984. Under pressure from his record company to get new product out quicker, he released this stopgap covers album. WK

Over time, the album has been frowned on by critics who echo the sentiment of Rolling Stone’s Greg Shaw: “Although many of the tracks are excellent, none stand up to the originals.” WK As All Music Guide’s Bruce Eder said, “Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane had established Bowie as perhaps the most fiercely original of all England’s glam rockers…so an album of covers didn't make any sense.” AMG

The original idea was to release two albums. The first would focus on 1960s’ British hits and the second would focus on American hits. The second project never surfaced. WK Of the songs that made the cut, Bowie said “these songs are among my favourites from the ’64-’67 period of London.” WK The lead single, Sorrow, was a cover of a song first recorded by the McCoys in 1965. ‘Sorrow,’ which benefited from a new saxophone break, was actually a distinct improvement over the original, managing to be edgier and more elegant all at once.” AMG

“Aside from the Easybeats’ Friday on My Mind and the Yardbirds’Shapes of Things, little here was among the biggest hits of their respective artists’ careers.” AMG “The Who’s I Can't Explain and Anyway Anyhow Anywhere were the only ones whose original versions were easily available or played very often on the radio.” AMG

The album opens with the Pretty Things’ high-energy Bo Diddley homage Rosalyn” AMG followed by “a hard, surging rendition of Them’s version of Bert Berns’ Here Comes the Night, filled with crunchy guitars.” AMG “I Wish You Would and ‘Shapes of Things’ were both showcases for Bowie’s and Mick Ronson’s guitars” AMG while Pink Floyd’s See Emily Play “emphasized the punkish (as opposed to the psychedelic) side of the song.” AMG

While Pin-Ups was dismissed as “a quick album of oldies covers to buy some time,” AMG it served its purpose. It “was an artistic statement, of sorts, with some thought behind it” AMG and “marked the swan song for the Spiders From Mars” AMG who’d been so instrumental in establishing Bowie’s sound on Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. This served as “something of an interlude between the first and second phases of his international career; the next, beginning with Diamond Dogs, would be a break from his glam rock phase, going off in new directions. It's not a bad bridge between the two, and it has endured across the decades.” AMG

Notes: Bonus tracks on the 1990 Rykodisc reissue included covers of “Port of Amsterdam” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Growin’ Up.”

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First posted 2/20/2008; last updated 7/30/2021.

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