My Top 200 of 1969

1 THE BEATLES While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2 THE FIFTH DIMENSION Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In

3 THE COWSILLS Hair

4 EDWIN STARR Twenty-Five Miles

5 FOUNDATIONS Build Me Up Buttercup

6 TOMMY ROE Dizzy

7 MAMA CASS ELLIOT It’s Getting Better

8 THREE DOG NIGHT One

9 FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION Grazing In The Grass

10 THE BEATLES Glass Onion

11 CREAM Badge

12 THE DOORS Touch Me

13 SPIRAL STAIRCASE More Today Than Yesterday

14 SUPREMES I’m Livin’ In Shame

15 THE BEATLES Birthday

16 CHICAGO Questions 67 And 68

17 YOUNG-HOLT UNLIMITED Soulful Strut

18 THE WHO Pinball Wizard

19 THE SUPREMES & THE FOUR TOPS I’m Gonna Make You Love Me

20 DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Son Of A Preacher Man

21 THE ISLEY BROTHERS It’s Your Thing

22 THE GRASS ROOTS I’d Wait A Million Years

23 THE BEATLES Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

24 THE VENTURES Hawaii Five-O

25 B.J. THOMAS Hooked On A Feeling

26 THE TURTLES Elenore

27 BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

28 MARVIN GAYE I Heard It Through The Grapevine

29 ELTON JOHN Empty Sky

30 THREE DOG NIGHT Eli’s Coming

31 ZAGER & EVANS In The Year 2525

32 CREAM White Room

33 THE BEATLES Martha My Dear

34 THE ARCHIES Sugar Sugar

35 NEIL DIAMOND Sweet Caroline

36 GLEN CAMPBELL Wichita Lineman

37 JOE SOUTH Games People Play

38 ELVIS PRESLEY Suspicious Minds

39 MARVIN GAYE Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

40 CUFF LINKS Tracy

41 GLEN CAMPBELL Galveston

42 THE TEMPTATIONS I Can’t Get Next To You

43 DION Abraham, Martin & John

44 THE BEATLES The Ballad Of John And Yoko

45 PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS Let Me

46 THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE Worst That Could Happen

47 CURTIS MAYFIELD (Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Going To Go

48 THE YOUNGBLOODS Get Together

49 BOOKER T & THE MG’S Time Is Tight

50 NEIL DIAMOND Brother Love’s Travelling Show

51 EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS Oh Happy Day

52 LED ZEPPELIN Dazed And Confused

53 JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)

54 THE WHO Go To The Mirror!

55 JACKIE DESHANNON Put A Little Love In Your Heart

56 THE FIFTH DIMENSION Wedding Bell Blues

57 ELTON JOHN Skyline Pigeon

58 SMITH Baby It’s You

59 THE ZOMBIES Time of The Season

60 THE GUESS WHO Laughing

61 THE TEMPTATIONS Cloud Nine

62 ROLLING STONES Honky Tonk Woman

63 THE GRASS ROOTS The River Is Wide

64 ANDY KIM Baby, I Love You

65 THE BEATLES Dear Prudence

66 THE FIFTH DIMENSION Workin’ On A Groovy Thing

67 CLASSICS IV Stormy

68 OTIS REDDING Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag

69 LED ZEPPELIN Communication Breakdown

70 ELTON JOHN Gulliver/It’s Hay Chewed

71 THE BEATLES Get Back

72 PEGGY LEE Is That All There Is

73 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Everyday People

74 STEVIE WONDER For Once In My Life

75 THE GUESS WHO These Eyes

76 STEPPENWOLF Magic Carpet Ride

77 PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS Mr. Sun Mr. Moon

78 LED ZEPPELIN Good Times Bad Times

79 DEEP PURPLE Hush

80 BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS Spinning Wheel

81 THE BEATLES Oh Darling

82 FRANK SINATRA My Way

83 DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES Love Child

84 STEVIE WONDER My Cherie Amour

85 CRAZY ELEPHANT Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’

86 THE BEATLES Come Together

87 PROCUL HARUM A Salty Dog

88 TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS Crimson And Clover

89 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Bad Moon Rising

90 THE GRASS ROOTS Bella Linda

91 MERCY Love (Can Make You Happy)

92 HENRY MANCINI Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet

93 THE LETTERMEN Hurt So Bad

94 THE BEATLES Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

95 SAMMY DAVIS JR. I’ve Gotta Be Me

96 THREE DOG NIGHT Try A Little Tenderness

97 JETHRO TULL Living In The Past

98 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Stand!

99 BOB SEGER Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man

100 JAY AND THE AMERICANS This Magic Moment

101 THE BEATLES Something

102 TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS Crystal Blue Persuasion

103 CLASSICS IV Traces

104 BLIND FAITH Sea Of Joy

105 THE WHO 1921

106 BLIND FAITH Can’t Find My Way Home

107 THE WHO I’m Free

108 THE FIFTH DIMENSION California Soul

109 THE BEATLES Abbey Road Medley

110 1910 FRUITGUM CO. Indian Giver

111 THE BOX TOPS Soul Deep

112 KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION But You Know I Love You

113 ELTON JOHN It’s Me That You Need

114 THE TURTLES You Showed Me

115 STEAM Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

116 KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King

117 ELTON JOHN Hymn 2000

118 THE WHO We’re Not Gonna Take It

119 STEPPENWOLF Rock Me

120 THE WHO The Acid Queen

121 MAMA CASS ELLIOT Make Your Own Kind Of Music

122 JERRY BUTLER Only The Strong Survive

123 R.B. GREAVES Take A Letter, Maria

124 MEL AND TIM Backfield in Motion

125 ELTON JOHN Valhala

126 SIMON & GARFUNKEL The Boxer

127 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Hot Fun In The Summertime

128 BILLY JOE ROYAL Cherry Hill Park

129 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Proud Mary

130 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Green River

131 THE PLASTIC ONO BAND Give Peace A Chance

132 THE BEATLES Hey Jude

133 GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP Over You

134 THE BEATLES Helter Skelter

135 GLEN CAMPBELL Try A Little Kindness

136 KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love To Town)

137 THE BEATLES Revolution

138 LOU CHRISTIE I’m Gonna Make You Mine

139 DIONNE WARWICK This Girl’s In Love With You

140 THE BEATLES Here Comes The Sun

141 THE KINKS Victoria

142 OLIVER Good Morning Starshine

143 THE GUESS WHO Undun

144 BARBRA STREISAND What About Today?

145 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Down On The Corner

146 THE FLYING MACHINE Smile A Little Smile For Me

147 MARVIN GAYE That’s The Way Love Is

148 O.C. SMITH Little Green Apples

149 GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP This Girl Is A Woman Now

150 NILSSON Everybody’s Talkin’

151 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Fortunate Son

152 RAY STEVENS Gitarzan

153 BOBBY SHERMAN Little Woman

154 B.J. THOMAS Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

155 ELTON JOHN Western Ford Gateway

156 STEPPENWOLF Move Over

157 THE JACKSON 5 I Want You Back

158 THREE DOG NIGHT Easy To Be Hard

159 TAMMY WYNETTE Stand By Your Man

160 FERRANTE & TEICHER Midnight Cowboy

161 BEE GEES I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You

162 SERGIO MENDES & BRAZIL ’66 The Fool On The Hill

163 TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS Sweet Cherry Wine

164 TOMMY JAMES Ball of Fire

165 PETER, PAUL & MARY Leaving On A Jet Plane

166 THE BEATLES Rocky Raccoon

167 TOMMY ROE Jam Up And Jelly Tight

168 ARETHA FRANKLIN Eleanor Rigby

169 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH Marrakesh Express

170 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

171 LED ZEPPELIN Whole Lotta Love

172 NEIL DIAMOND Holly Holy

173 BEE GEES I Started A Joke

174 STEVIE WONDER Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday

175 THE CARPENTERS Ticket To Ride

176 BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS And When I Die

177 THE BOX TOPS Turn On A Dream

178 LAURA NYRO Save The Country

179 JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS These Eyes

180 THE COWSILLS Silver Threads And Golden Needles

181 DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES Someday We’ll Be Together

182 GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS Friendship Train

183 TOM JONES I’ll Never Fall In Love Again

184 1910 FRUITGUM CO. 1,2,3 Red Light

185 BOBBY SHERMAN La, La, La (If I Had You)

186 THE DOORS Wishful Sinful

187 HELLO DOLLY Elegance

188 HELLO DOLLY Put On Your Sunday Clothes

189 MARK LINDSAY Arizona

190 HELLO DOLLY It Only Takes A Moment

191 BARBRA STREISAND Before The Parade Passes By

192 MARMALADE Reflections Of My Life

193 BARBRA STREISAND Just Leave Everything To Me

194 THE GRASS ROOTS Heaven Knows

195 THE BEATLES Honey Pie

196 ELVIS PRESLEY Rubberneckin’

197 JIMMY CLIFF Wonderful World, Beautiful People

198 DAVID BOWIE Space Oddity

199 ELTON JOHN Sails

200 BARBRA STREISAND & LOUIS ARMSTRONG Hello Dolly