953 nut 51,628 #1 Posted August 22, 2016 8-22-1969 Zager and Evans end a six-week run at #1 with their smash-hit “In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" Despite the impression one might get from movies and television, the actual soundtrack of late 1960s America was not utterly monopolized by darlings of the counterculture. Hollywood has certainly conditioned us to expect a song by Jimi Hendrix, the Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival or Buffalo Springfield every time we see footage of hippies in the Haight-Ashbury or helicopters in the skies over Vietnam. Yet a glance at the pop charts of 1969 reveals a musical landscape that was far more diverse and. In fact, when half a million kids piled into their cars for the long drive home from Woodstock, the song that was likely playing when they clicked on their AM radios wasn’t “Purple Haze,” “White Rabbit,” “Run Through The Jungle” or “For What It’s Worth.” It was probably “In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"by Zager and Evans—the monumental smash hit that ruled the charts and airwaves for nearly that entire summer before finally ending its run at #1 on August 22, 1969. Of the ponderously titled single hit that first entered the charts back in June of ’69,Time magazine said, “This futuristic ballad sounds as though it were composed by a computer at the Rand Corporation.” In fact, it was composed by Denny Zager and Rick Evans, the biggest stars ever to emerge from the Lincoln, Nebraska, motel-lounge circuit. With “In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)," Zager and Evans introduced a trippy, dystopian vision of an armless, foodless future that foretold of everything from environmental collapse to human cloning. Zager and Evans never returned to the pop charts after their triumphant debut in the summer of ’69. Nor did they ever explain what “Exordium and Terminus” meant. In their very brief career, however, they spent longer atop the pop charts (six weeks) than the aforementioned Hendrix et al. combined (0 weeks). Like so many stars whose hits have not stood the test of time, however, they have been nearly expunged from cultural memory. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 36,945 #2 Posted August 22, 2016 At the rate we're going... be lucky to make it to 2025. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C-101plowerpower 1,605 #3 Posted August 22, 2016 i've got that one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougC 2,641 #4 Posted August 22, 2016 Yeah, I haven't heard it played on any classic rock or oldies radio stations for many years around here. Back then you couldn't get away from it. It would be playing all the time. Way to much in my opinion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 51,628 #5 Posted August 22, 2016 5 hours ago, AMC RULES said: be lucky to make it to 2025. At the time it seemed so far away, now 2025 is just around the corner; some of those far fetched concepts they sang about ma be right on target. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 24,117 #6 Posted August 22, 2016 Lets see...in 2525...The average Wheel Horse will still be going strong...Might be running on something other than gas but hey...improvise...Cause you can't ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 38,902 #7 Posted August 23, 2016 In the year 2525, Craig will still be stuffing RJ's in his basement! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 36,945 #8 Posted August 23, 2016 Hardly far fetched Mike... that there's a given. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackhammer 544 #9 Posted August 24, 2016 I'd bet there is one stuffed in the washer too 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 36,945 #10 Posted August 25, 2016 Ahh yep, them hampers too. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
