My Top 100 Singles of 1969
Here's the Spotify playlist:
1. The Jackson 5 - "I Want You Back"
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival -
"Fortunate Son"
3. Isaac Hayes - "Walk On By"
4. Dusty Springfield - "Son Of A Preacher
Man"
5. Led Zeppelin - "Whole Lotta Love"
6. David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
7. Frank Sinatra – “My Way”
8. Elvis Presley - "Suspicious Minds"
9. The Who - "Pinball Wizard"
10. Crosby, Stills & Nash – “Suite: Judy
Blue Eyes”
11. The Rolling Stones – “You Can’t Always Get
What You Want”
12. Diana Ross & The Supremes -
"Someday We'll be Together"
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Proud
Mary"
14. The Zombies - "Time of the Season"
15. Stevie Wonder - "My Cherie Amour"
16. The Beatles - "Something"
17. Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"
18. The Doors - "Touch Me"
19. Bobbie Gentry – “Fancy”
20. The Foundations - "Build Me Up
Buttercup"
21. MC5 – “Kick Out The Jams (live)”
22. The Kinks - "Victoria"
23. Led Zeppelin - "Good Times Bad
Times"
24. The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk
Women"
25. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad
Moon Rising"
26. Three Dog Night – “Eli’s Coming”
27. The Delfonics – “Ready Or Not Here I Come
(Can’t Hide From Love)”
28. Joe Cocker – “Feelin’ Alright”
29. Smith – “Baby It’s You”
30. The Beatles – “Come Together”
31. Harry Nilsson – “Everybody's Talkin'”
32. Neil Young and Crazy Horse – “Everybody
Knows This Is Nowhere”
33. The Temptations – “Runaway Child, Running
Wild”
34. Merle Haggard and the Strangers – “Okie From
Muskogee”
35. The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
36. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Down On
The Corner"
37. The Band – “Up On Cripple Creek”
38. Canned Heat – “Going Up The Country”
39. The Friends of Distinction – “Going in
Circles”
40. Johnny Cash - "A Boy Named Sue"
41. The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy For The
Devil"
42. Tommy James & The Shondells -
"Crimson & Clover"
43. King Crimson – “The Court of the Crimson
King”
44. Marvin Gaye – “Too Busy Thinking About My
Baby”
45. Three Dog Night - "One"
46. Simon & Garfunkel - "The
Boxer"
47. The 5th Dimension – “Wedding Bell Blues”
48. Aretha Franklin – “I Can’t See Myself
Leaving You”
49. The Beatles - "Get Back"
50. James Brown – “Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose”
51. Bob Dylan - "Lay Lady Lay"
52. The Isley Brothers - "It's Your
Thing"
53. Peggy Lee – “Is That All There Is?”
54. The Who - "I'm Free"
55. The Guess Who – “Undun”
56. Linda Martell – “Color Him Father”
57. The Rolling Stones - "Gimme
Shelter"
58. Jackie DeShannon – “Put A Little Love In
Your Heart”
59. The Temptations - "I Can't Get Next To
You"
60. Blind Faith - "Can't Find My Way
Home"
61. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Born On
The Bayou"
62. Neil Young with Crazy Horse – “Down by the
River”
63. Elvis Presley - "In The Ghetto"
64. Isaac Hayes - "By The Time I Get To
Phoenix"
65. James Brown – “I Don’t Want Nobody To Give
Me Nothin’ (Open Up The Door, I’ll
Get It Myself)”
66. Led Zeppelin – “Living Loving Maid (She’s
Just a Woman)”
67. Sly & The Family Stone -
"Stand!"
68. Tommy James & The Shondells -
"Crystal Blue Persuasion"
69. The Stooges – “1969”
70. Aretha Franklin – “Gentle on My Mind”
71. The Beach Boys – “I Can Hear Music”
72. Mama Cass Elliot – “Make Your Own Kind Of
Music”
73. Blood, Sweat & Tears – “And When I Die”
74. Gun – “Race with the Devil”
75. The Meters – “Cissy Strut”
76. James Brown – “The Popcorn”
77. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition -
"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"
78. Johnny Cash – “See Ruby Fall”
79. The Archies - "Sugar, Sugar"
80. The 5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let The
Sunshine In"
81. Bob Seger System - "Ramblin' Gamblin'
Man"
82. Stevie Wonder – “Yester-Me, Yester-You,
Yesterday”
83. Frank Zappa – “Peaches En Regalia”
84. The Youngbloods - "Get Together"
85. Jefferson Airplane – “Volunteers”
86. The Guess Who - "These Eyes"
87. James Brown - "Mother Popcorn (You Got
To Have A Mother For Me)"
88. Aretha Franklin – “Share Your Love With Me”
89. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – “Good Lovin’
Ain’t Easy To Come By”
90. The Beatles - "The Ballad of John And
Yoko"
91. Desmond Dekker & The Aces -
"Israelites"
92. Bee Gees - "I Started A Joke"
93. The 5th Dimension – “Blowing Away”
94. George Jones – “I’ll Share My World With You”
95. Sly & The Family Stone - "Hot Fun
In The Summertime"
96. Steppenwold – “Rock Me”
97. Dyke and the Blazers – “Let A Woman Be A
Woman”
98. James Brown - "Let A Man Come In And Do
The Popcorn”
99. Cream - "Badge"
100. Steam - "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him
Goodbye"
I like to think of this list as having a subplot of James Brown going about his life and then suddenly becoming obsessed with popcorn. I was also fascinated to look up a random week in November 1969 and realize that three songs in the top 10 were Laura Nyro covers (#26, #47, and #73 on this list), she really really had a little run as a hitmaker there (#93 is also one of her songs).
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