Your Sadie Hawkins Day Dance Playlist: The No. 1 Hits Of Leap Days Past
The chart geeks among you might be interested by the above clip, which some intrepid YouTube user put together as a salute to the last 50 years of songs that were sitting pretty on the Billboard charts come Feb. 29. While it’s making me a little wistful to think about what songs were already in the pantheon that Flo Rida’s “Low” has just been added to–“Father Figure,” “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay,” shoot, even “Theme From S.W.A.T.“!–it’s also kind of neat to watch the way this clip serves as a broad-stroke picture of what musical trends were at American culture’s forefront, from the Beatles’ early-’60s dominance to the arena-rock highs of the early ’80s to the late ’90s/early ’00s slow, slow sink into adult-contemporary treacle. (Savage Garden and Lonestar in 2000. Yipes.) [YouTube]
