HEY DJ 4Uheydj4u.com“Poor Side Of Town” by Johnny Rivers
“Poor Side Of Town” by Johnny Rivers finished No. 9 on the year-end Top 100 of 1966, the chart of the songs that did best over the whole year, making it one of the ten biggest hits of the year.
Year-end peakNo. 91966
Year-end charts11966
ArtistJohnny Rivers7 year-end hits
Decade1960ssee the decade’s Top 100
The No. 1 song of 1966 was “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” by Sgt. Barry Sadler. Johnny Rivers had 7 different songs on the year-end charts (see them all).
Play “Poor Side Of Town”. Hear it on the Hey DJ 4U decks, then mix it with the rest of the 1966 chart.
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Source: Billboard’s year-end singles chart, as compiled on Wikipedia. Hey DJ 4U is an independent site, not affiliated with Billboard. Spotted an error? Tell us.