Best singles of 1969
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Morrigu
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^ um no not really because I don't know what was released that year except for those on your list |
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Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
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According to one site ( http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/number-one-songs-by-year/?y=1969 ), these are the songs that reached number 1 in Australia in 1969 (the final number is the number of weeks they occupied that position:
October 6 1968 – January 4 1969 Beatles - Hey Jude / Revolution 13
January 5 – 18 1969 Cream - White Room / Those Were The Days 2
January 19 – February 8 1969 Barry Ryan - Eloise 3
February 9 – 22 1969 Scaffold - Lily The Pink 2
February 23 – March 8 1969 Bee Gees - I Started A Joke 2
March 9 – April 19 1969 Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da / While My Guitar Gently Weeps 6
April 20 – May 17 1969 Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely? 4
May 18 – 31 1969 Russell Morris - The Real Thing 2
June 1 – 28 1969 Beatles - Get Back / Don't Let Me Down 4
June 29 – July 12 1969 Cowsills - Hair 2
July 13 – August 9 1969 Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko 4
August 10 – September 6 1969 Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto 4
September 7 – October 11 1969 Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women 5
October 12 – November 1 1969 Russell Morris - Part Three Into Paper Walls / The Girl That I Love 3
November 2 – 15 1969 Ross D. Wylie - The Star 2
November 16 – 22 1969 Beatles - Come Together / Something 5 (1)
November 23 – 29 1969 Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade 1
November 30 – December 27 1969 Beatles - Come Together / Something 5 (4)
December 28 1969 – January 17 1970 Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds 3
I tried to do my list in the OP by release date, so some of these songs couldn't be in my list. Of those, I would add, if I could:
Revolution - The Beatles' loudest song with Nicky Hopkins soloing on electric piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=BGLGzRXY5Bw Nothing more need be said (except that they might, perhaps, have let Nicky in the film while he was playing that solo).
White Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx37aGw_Rcg Eric's gold-standard guide to how to use the wah-wah pedal. A work of genius.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8P6ZSHSvE Eric's second greatest moment (after Wheels of Fire Live at the Fillmore).
From the English number 1 list for 1969:
December 29 1968 – January 4 1969 Marmalade - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 3 (1)
January 5 – 11 1969 Scaffold - Lily The Pink 4 (1)
January 12 – 25 1969 Marmalade - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 3 (2)
January 26 – February 1 1969 Fleetwood Mac - Albatross 1
February 2 – 8 1969 Move - Blackberry Way 1
February 9 – 22 1969 Amen Corner - (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 2
February 23 – March 22 1969 Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely? 4
March 23 – April 12 1969 Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine 3
April 13 – 19 1969 Desmond Dekker and The Aces - Israelites 1
April 20 – May 31 1969 Beatles - Get Back 6
June 1 – 7 1969 Tommy Roe - Dizzy 1
June 8 – 28 1969 Beatles - The Ballad Of John & Yoko 3
June 29 – July 19 1969 Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air 3
July 20 – August 23 1969 Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women 5
August 24 – September 13 1969 Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) 3
September 14 – October 4 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising 3
October 5 – 11 1969 Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus 1
October 12 – 18 1969 Bobby Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again 1
October 19 – December 13 1969 Archies - Sugar Sugar 8
December 14 1969 – January 24 1970 Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys 6
Of those that were released in 1969 but topped the charts in 1969, I'd add, if I could:
Albatross - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QooCN5JbOkU Peter Green at his lyrical best.
Marvin Gaye's original version of Grapevine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPnZZTVp_2A It isn't a bad thing to be able to say that you had the honour of singing the second-best version of one of the greatest songs ever committed to record. What a voice and - unlike John Fogerty - he actually learnt the words before he recorded it. I absolutely love this - I just like the perfectly self-indulgent 1970 version on Cosmo's Factory better.
From the US list (which I won't copy - it's mostly more of the same) I would only add Leaving on a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul and Mary's version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-7SnMnX78 Just don't read the comments - many of them are just too tragic for words. The resonance of this song for kids who were sent to fight in Vietnam is still way too raw for many of them, even 50 years later.
The Israelites - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtfdH3-TQ4 My neighbours hate Saturday mornings because this is how I start most weekends (except I sing along - my falsetto is not, some say, quite as good as Desmond's). |
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roar
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Good call on The Israelites.
One (actually two) of my faves:
The Stooges - 1969/Wanna Be Your Dog _________________ kill for collingwood! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Nothing on either list that I would deliberately choose to listen to, sorry.
I'm missing the significance of 1969 in this, is it just because it was 50 years ago or some other reason? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: Thailand
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A lot of those tunes are still played in the bars around here. its eithrt that or awful scandanavian stuff or Ed Sheeran _________________ Annoying opposition supporters since 1967. |
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