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[W: #135] The 1960's --- Hope, Prosperity, and then COUNTER CULTURE

Next come HELP ME, RHONDA by the Beach boys. Two versions were actually cut. The first featuring a ukulele and appeared on an album. Brian Wilson saw commercial potential in HELP ME, RHONDA and would decide on a more punchier lead guitar.
Released as a single in March 1965, the "Help Me, Rhonda" rerecording was a commercial smash hit, reaching number one in the US and knocking the Beatles' TICKET TO RIDE out from the top spot.
Originally Brian Wilson was to sing lead, but he liked the quality of Al Jardine's voice. Cash Box described it as "a power-packed hard-driving romantic surfin’-rocker with an extremely infectious danceable back-beat.
 
Number 12 for 1965 was Rodger Miller's KING OF THE ROAD. The SMASH Record reached number one on the Billboard US Country chart, number four on the Billboard Hot 100, and number one on the Easy Listening surveys. It was also number one in the UK Singles Chart and in Norway. Miller said that the song was inspired while he was driving and saw a sign on the side of a barn that read, "Trailers for sale or rent".This would become the opening line of the song.
 
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