Do You Remember?

#SaturdayNightGenealogyFun

This week’s assignment:

1)  Do you remember your favorite songs in your high school graduation year?  Please tell us all about it.  [Note:  Wikipedia has the Billboard Hot 100 list for each year; Billboard has weekly Hot 100 lists for every year since 1946.]

Since it is reunion weekend for my class, I’m going to broaden the scope of this task just a little bit. Below are events from my senior year:

• Charles Manson’s cult murders Sharon Tate
• Woodstock
• Lt. William Calley is charged with premeditated murder for role in My Lai Massacre
• Butch Cassiday and Sundance Kid opens
• Chicago Eight trial
• Brady Bunch premieres
• NY Mets win World series
• Wal-Mart incorporates
• President Richard Nixon asks ‘silent majority’ for support in Vietnam War
• Apollo 12 launched
• First episode of All My Children airs
• Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl
• Chicago Seven found not guilty
• First Earth Day proclaimed
• Midnight Cowboy wins Best Picture
• Break-up of Beatles is announced
• Apollo 13
• US Invades Cambodia
• Kent State

Have you guessed the year?

How about a few more hints?

Top Movies

• Love Story
• Airport
• M*A*S*H
• Patton
• The Aristocats
• Woodstock
• Little Big Man
• Ryan’s Daughter
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Catch-22

Top Singles (based on weeks as #1 on Billboard’s Hot Singles

• Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon & Garfunkel
• I’ll Be There by The Jackson 5
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head by B. J. Thomas
• My Sweet Lord / Isn’t It a Pity by George Harrison
• (They Long to Be) Close to You by The Carpenters
• American Woman / No Sugar Tonight by The Guess Who
• War by Edwin Starr
• Aint’ No Mountain High Enough by Diana Ross
• I Think I Love You by The Partridge Family